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Kantarians
For four nights in September 1961, David
Paladin’s son claimed that somebody named
Itan was coming into his bedroom and taking
him away in a big “sky car.” Though at first
Paladin dismissed this as a child’s fantasy, a
neighbor claimed that he had seen a tall, thin
man walking the boy toward a waiting flying
saucer. That November Itan came into Paladin’s
own bedroom and engaged him in a
telepathic conversation. He and his people,
the Kantarians, lived on a planet in another
dimension. They do not interfere directly in
human affairs, but they have contacted certain
human beings in the hope that they could
gently push the human race in a more mature,
positive direction. They had been observing
humans since the beginning of Homo sapiens
and had even left a genetic imprint in some
humans.
Paladin claimed years of psychic connection
with the Kantarian Confederation. Itan
and his friends have told him that if human
beings destroy themselves, the space people
can do nothing. But if natural cataclysms
threaten human existence, the Kantarians will
perform a rescue operation. Mostly, though,
they hope that humans will reform themselves,
develop wisdom and kindness, and join
their Space Brothers in the cosmos one day.
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Further Reading
Montgomery, Ruth, 1985. Aliens among Us. New
York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Kappa
In traditional Japanese lore the Kappa are malicious
water demons shaped like monkeys
with scales. They lure the unsuspecting into
ponds and rivers, then devour them. One Japanese
writer, Komatsu Kitamura, has theorized
that the Kappa were extraterrestrials who
came to Japan sometime between the ninth
and eleventh centuries. Others have picked up
on this speculation, suggesting that the ostensibly
scaly skin was actually a spacesuit. Alleged
sightings continue even now. In November
1978, two construction workers
fishing off the coast of the port city Yokosuka
reported seeing a creature abruptly emerge
from the sea to glare at them. “It was not a
fish, an animal, or a man,” one said. “It was
about three meters [ten feet] in height and
[was] covered with thick, scaly skin like a reptile.
It had a face and two large yellow eyes”
(Picasso, 1991).
Argentine ufologist Fabio Picasso has collected
what he judges to be more or less comparable
reports from his country. For example,
on the evening of April 22, 1980, a motorist