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130 Insectoids
Insectoids
Some UFO abductees report onboard encounters
with entities that resemble giant
praying mantises. These beings, typically
dressed in capes with long robes and high collars,
are seen in association with the smaller,
humanoid grays, though they appear to have a
higher rank than their colleagues. “Other
aliens appear to act somewhat subservient to
the insectlike beings,” abduction investigator
David M. Jacobs has written.
Insectoids seldom participate directly in the
physical examinations of humans, though they
may engage in what Jacobs calls “staring pro c ed
u res,” wherein an alien puts its face close to
an abductee’s, telepathically probes the contents
of the individual’s mind, stimulates emotions
(eve rything from fear to love to sexual
a rousal) and conjures up hallucinatory images
into it. Though the grays have little to say to
abductees, insectoids sometimes are commun
i c a t i ve. In one of Ja c o b s’s cases, a woman rep
o rted being told that it was the aliens’ intention
to take over the Earth with the insectoids
in charge of this new world ord e r.
See Also: Abductions by aliens; MU the Mantis
being; Nordics
Further Reading
Jacobs, David M., 1998. The Threat. New York:
Simon and Schuster.
Lewels, Joe, 1997. The God Hypothesis: Extraterres -
trial Life and Its Implications for Science and Reli -
gion. Mill Spring, NC: Wild Flower Press.
Intelligences from Beyond
(Intelligences du Dehors)
Intelligences du Dehors—“intelligences fro m
b e yo n d” in English translation—allegedly
channeled through French contactee Je a n -
Pi e r re Pre vost. Pre vost, a here t o f o re - o b s c u re
s t reet merchant, had risen to public attention
t h rough his invo l vement in a sensational incident
said to have occurred on the morning of
November 26, 1979, in a Paris suburb. Pre vo s t
and another business associate re p o rtedly witnessed
the disappearance of their friend Fr a n c k
Fontaine in the wake of a close encounter with
a UFO. Fontaine showed up a week later,
claiming not to remember anything that happened
in the interim. Police and civilian UFO
i n vestigators suspected a hoax.
Nonetheless, French science-fiction writer
Jimmy Guieu rushed into print with a book
on the case, but with a difference. In the
book, Contacts OVNI Cergy-Pontoise (1980),
Prevost became the central figure in the
episode, the intended target of the alien abduction.
Within months, Prevost’s own book
recounted his extraterrestrial contacts with a
strong emphasis on the usual contactee message
about noble space visitors and confused,
destructive earthlings. His principal contact
was a wise space being named Haurrio. Readers
inclined to doubt all of this could only
wonder at Prevost statements such as this one:
“What does it matter to know, at the factual
level, where real life ends and imagination
takes over? Isn’t it more important to take into
consideration the content of the messages?”
(Bonabot, 1983).
In a July 7, 1983, newspaper interview,
Prevost confessed that both the Fontaine abduction
and his own space contacts were fake,
concocted, he said, to attract an audience to
his philosophical messages by putting them in
the mouths of advanced intelligences. Even
so, he still tried to start a group with him at
the head, but it failed, as did a publishing enterprise
and an FM radio station. Interviewed
by ufologist Jacques Vallee in 1989, Fontaine
stuck to his story but charged that Prevost was
lying about his.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Contactees
Further Reading
Bonabot, Jacques, 1983. “1979 Fontaine Case in
France Now Admitted to Be a Hoax.” MUFON
UFO Journal 190 (December): 10.
Evans, Hilary, with Michel Piccin, 1982. “Who
Took Who [sic] for a Ride?” Fate 35, 10 (October):
51–58.
Vallee, Jacques, 1991. Revelations: Alien Contact and
Human Deception. New York: Ballantine Books.
Ishkomar
Is h k o m a r, an extraterrestrial, began channeling
for the first time in late September 1966