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170 Melora
Further Reading
Hind, Cynthia, 1996. UFOs over Africa. Madison,
WI: Horus House Press.
———, 2000. “Highlights from an African Case
Book.” Ohio UFO Notebook 21: 1–10.
Melora
Melora is a channeling entity who communicates
through Jyoti Alla-An of Boulder, Colo
r a d o. Alla-An characterizes Melora as a
“higher-dimensional group consciousness”
f rom the Sirius system. As is often the case
with such beings, “Me l o r a” — Greek for
“golden apple”—is a name of conve n i e n c e ,
not the entity’s actual moniker; real names
for interdimensional beings are either nonexistent
or incomprehensible to humans.
Melora and her colleagues, Alla-An says, ask
us to call them names “with which we re sonate
or which trigger us to remember our
soul histories.”
Melora is a higher member of Alla-An’s
“soul group.” At the time of their initial contact,
Melora was serving on the Council of
Four with Pallas Athena, Ocala (an angel),
and Bi-la (a Tibetan guide). The Council of
Four existed to help people express their
“Being-ness.” Then Ocala and Bi-la merged
into Melora. In the future, it appears that
Melora and Athena will merge. Alla-An says,
During these years of my association with
Melora, it has been clear that SHE continues to
learn and grow through ME! Her flexibility, her
unconditional love, her compassion—all these
have taught me much about relationship with
the Divine. It has taught me how critical our
consciousness within incarnation is to the spiritual
development of non-physical versions of
ourselves in higher dimensions. Most importantly,
working with Melora has taught me
about how honored we are by all the higher beings
in the light, who fully appreciate the difficulty
of being light works in 3rd dimension.
(Alla-An, 1998)
See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Alla-An, Jyoti, 1998. “Melora.” http://mh102.infi.
net/~lightexp/Melora3.html.
Men in black
According to legend and report, strange individuals,
who are often menacing and usually
dressed in black suits, have threatened UFO
witnesses and investigators on a number of
occasions since the beginning of the UFO
age. The men in black (sometimes called
MIB) are variously suspected to be government
agents, enforcers for powerful secret
groups (“International Bankers,” the New
World Order by another name), alien entities,
inner-earthers, or even demons.
In this last context, it is worth noting an
episode that occurred during a religious revival
in Wales in 1905. When the revival was
at its most intense, many reported divine and
demonic supernatural encounters, and some
individuals, both believers and secular journalists
covering the revival, witnessed unusual
aerial phenomena that today might be
thought of as UFOs. A contemporary account
mentions that a “man dressed in black” visited
a young rural woman over three consecutive
nights to deliver “a message . . . which she is
frightened to relate” (Evans, 1905). In his
book on traditions of Satan, William Woods
writes that the devil “mostly . . . is dressed in
black, and always in the fashion of the day”
(Woods, 1974).
Men in black established a place in UFO
lore after a September 1953 incident. A
Bridgeport, Connecticut, man, Albert K.
Bender, headed one of the most successful
early UFO groups, the International Flying
Saucer Bureau, but closed it down suddenly.
After much prodding he confided to close associates,
most prominently Gray Barker, that
three individuals in dark suits had visited him
to warn that he had come too close to the
truth about UFOs. They passed on information
that frightened him so badly that he
wanted nothing more to do with the subject.
Barker later wrote a sensationalistic, paranoiadrenched
book, They Knew Too Much about
Flying Saucers (1956), that, more than any
other single piece of writing, launched the
MIB legend. Though Bender initially hinted
that his visitors were from the government, he