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had only a general impression of Janus’s appearance.
He remembered only a normallooking
man, approximately forty-five to fifty
years old, thinning gray hair, and dressed in
suit and tie.
When Ho r s l e y’s book was published, the
London Ti m e s ran an article by Dr. T h o m a s
St u t t a f o rd, who suggested that Horsley was
suffering from hallucination. Horsley insists,
howe ve r, that the incident occurred as
re p o rt e d .
Further Reading
Good, Timothy, 1998. Alien Base: Earth’s Encounters
with Extraterrestrials. London: Century.
Horsley, Sir Peter, 1997. Sounds from Another Room:
Memories of Planes, Princes and the Paranormal.
London: Leo Cooper.
Stuttaford, Thomas, 1997. “Air Marshal’s Flight of
Fancy.” London Times (August 14).
Jerhoam
Jerhoam is a “State of Consciousness” who
channels through John Oliver. He is here, he
says, to help humans “incorporate the Great
Knowledge of the Soul into life to become
more aware . . . to become more awake, to become
more loved, and to know how to express
love in many ways.” He also seeks to reconnect
with students from that time, persons
who have reincarnated and live on Earth now.
Many centuries ago—thousands of years
before the Great Pyramid was constructed—
Jerhoam occupied a physical body, teaching at
the Great School of Ancient Wisdom.
Further Reading
“An Introduction: Who Is Jerhoam?” http://www.
jerhoam.com/whoisjer.html.
Jessup’s “little people”
Morris Ketchum Jessup (1900–1959) wrote
four books on UFOs between 1955 and
1957. His book The Case for the UFO (1955)
was the first to use “UFO” in its title; heretofore,
publishers preferred the then more familiar
“flying saucers.” Jessup also was an earlier
theorist in what would be called the
“ancient astronaut” genre, though his particular
interpretation remains unique. He believed
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that the “little people” sometimes reported in
connection with UFOs are literally that: pygmies
of earthly origin and the creators of an
extraordinary technology that gave them
space flight long ago.
Jessup first hinted at his theory in UFO
and the Bible (1956), asserting that all UFO
evidence pointed to the presence of “space-intelligence,
relatively near the earth, but yet
away from it and in open space . . . using navigatable
contrivances.” In his earlier life, he
had done graduate-level work in astronomy at
the University of Michigan. In the course of
his studies, and later in his adult life, he traveled
in Africa and South America, often stopping
to examine archaeological artifacts. He
became convinced that only an advanced civilization,
with a technology that encompassed
teleportation, levitation, and space flight,
could have created such structures.
Eve n t u a l l y, he came to believe that about
100,000 years ago, “in the pre-cataclysmic era
which developed a first wave of civilization . . .
space flight originated on this planet. . . . We
may assume that the Py g m i e s . . . developed a
civilization which discove red the principle of
gravitation and put it to work” (Je s s u p, 1957).
When Atlantis and Mu sank into the oceans,
the “little people” fled in their spaceships.
They now reside on the moon and in flo a t i n g
s t ru c t u res in a “gravity neutral” zone betwe e n
E a rth and its satellite.
See Also: Atlantis; Lemuria
Further Reading
Jessup, M. K., 1955. The Case for the UFO. New
York: Citadel Press.
———, 1956. UFO and the Bible. New York:
Citadel Press.
———, 1957. The Expanding Case for the UFO.
New York: Citadel Press.
Jinns
In traditional Arabic and Persian belief, jinns
are demonic, shape-shifting entities. Over the
centuries, the idea evolved that a few jinns are
good. There are five kinds of jinns, and only
one has occasional benevolent qualities. Typically,
jinns take the shapes of insects, toads,
scorpions, and other animals deemed unap-