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pealing or obnoxious. The tradition bears
some resemblance to traditions of fairy folk in
other societies. At least two prominent writers
on the UFO phenomenon, Go rdon Cre i g h t o n
and Ann Druffel, are convinced that UFO beings
are jinns in disguise.
Under the editorship of Charles Bowen,
England’s Flying Saucer Review, then a widely
read UFO journal, moved the publication
away from speculations about extraterrestrial
visitation toward interpretations that cast
UFOs in paranormal terms. No other c o n t r i butor
did so as enthusiastically as Cre i g h t o n , a
retired British diplomat with a keen interest in
demonology. After Bowen’s illness and subsequent
death in the 1980s, Creighton assumed
editorship of the magazine and promptly declared
that he had identified the intelligences
behind UFO sightings, encounters, and abductions:
jinns. In an article in a 1983 issue,
he pointed out that jinns materialize and dematerialize,
switch between visibility and invisibility,
change shape, kidnap humans, lie,
control minds, and engage their victims in
sexual intercourse—behaviors associated with
UFO entities.
He was convinced that the jinns are up to
no good. In follow-up writings, he contended
that these sinister supernatural powers secretly
control Earth, using thought control to get
humans to do their bidding. They are behind
crime and violence, and they have brought
AIDS and other deadly diseases into the population.
“Another great World War may be in
the making,” he wrote in 1990, engineered
for cosmic purposes we cannot understand;
humans are merely property and playthings
and are soon to be removed from the face of
the Earth.
Ufologists responded to these notions with
a tactful silence with one exception: Ann
Druffel, an abduction-research specialist who
finds “startling similarities between reports of
abduction scenarios in the Western world and
Gordon Creighton’s excellent research on the
jinns” (Druffel, 1998). Druffel, a Californian,
investigated the experiences of an Iranian-
American she calls Timur. Timur encountered
humanoids in out-of-ordinary states of consciousness—sleep
paralysis, meditation, astral
travel—and recognized them as the jinns he
had heard of in his native country.
Druffel concludes that “our own faeries
and jinns are merely an old human problem,
shape-shifted and wearing space garb to fool
us. They can be fended off by stouthearted,
determined individuals.”
See Also: Fairies encountered
Further Reading
Creighton, Gordon, 1983. “A Brief Account of the
True Nature of the ‘UFO Entities’.” Flying Saucer
Review 29, 1 (October): 2–6.
———, 1989. “AIDS.” Flying Saucer Review 34, 1
(March Quarter): 12.
———, 1990. “Grave Days.” Flying Saucer Review
35, 3 (September): 1.
Druffel, Ann, 1998. How to Defend Yourself against
Alien Abduction. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Joseph
A Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, police officer
named Alan Godfrey was on patrol at
5:05 A.M., November 28, 1980, when he encountered
a metallic disc with a dome and a
row of windows. When he attempted to alert
headquarters, he found that his radio was not
working. Suddenly, he found himself one
hundred yards farther down the road than he
thought he was, and the UFO was gone. He
vaguely recalled getting out of his car and
hearing a voice. Under hypnosis later, Godfrey
“recalled” that he lost consciousness after
a light from the object struck him. Then he
felt himself floating into the craft and meeting
a humanlike being named Joseph.
Six feet tall, friendly in manner, Joseph had
a thin nose, a beard, and a mustache. He wore
a skullcap and was clad in a sheet, making
him look something like a prophet from the
Bible. A large black dog accompanied him.
The room also contained eight robots, each
about three and a half feet tall, making a sort
of murmuring chatter. When they touched
Godfrey, beeping sounds emanated from
them. Joseph directed Godfrey to a bed,
where he lay as a beam of light from the ceil-