Since the publication <strong>of</strong> my earlier books, I have recieved many interesting letters along similarlines. "Until now I thought I had seen a messenger from Heaven," writes one witness. "I understand,having read your book, that I had witnessed a UFO." Some <strong>of</strong> the stories are strange yet consistentenough to become the nucleus <strong>of</strong> a new religious movement if the witness were <strong>of</strong> the properpsychological inclination. Perhaps only one close encounter in ten thousand starts a new faith, anew sect, or a new belief. When the right combination <strong>of</strong> social and psychological conditions ismet, when the phenomenon finds in a witness a ready believer, then revelation takes place.Everything works as if the revelation were designed to isolate the witness, prophet, or believer fromhis social environment. He <strong>of</strong>ten becomes an outcast and has to flee. This has been the fate <strong>of</strong>numerous UFO witnesses. In France, several farmers saw their fields nearly ruined by curious orantagonistic crowds. The man in Michigan who reported the Swamp Gas case was jeered at in thestreets, and people came in cars to throw bottles at his house.The believers, if they seek a climate in which to pursue their new life in accordance with theimplications <strong>of</strong> their vision, have to create their own sect and move away. Moses did this. So didJoseph Smith. Often one sees the leader deserted by his wife and family. The spouse is especiallylikely to feel rejected and to betray him at the time when he or she most needs comfort. The wife <strong>of</strong>Martin Harris burned 116 newly translated pages <strong>of</strong> the Book <strong>of</strong> Mormon. The wives <strong>of</strong> severalAmerican policemen involved in modern UFO incidents divorced them.Sometimes the specific instructions given to the believers are such that their group continues to bepersecuted for centuries (Jews) and have to endure great hardships before finding a place wherethey can settle down (Israel, Utah). The leaders are harassed by crowds (in one town the policechief's own trailer was destroyed by fire, blamed on arson) and occasionally put to death (Jesus wascrucified; Joseph Smith was lynched by a crowd in Illinois).I think the stage is set for the appearance <strong>of</strong> new faiths, centered on the UFO belief. To a greaterdegree than all the phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense<strong>of</strong> the smallness <strong>of</strong> man, and an idea <strong>of</strong> the possibility <strong>of</strong> contact with the cosmic. The religions wehave briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experience <strong>of</strong> one person, but today there arethousands for whom the belief in otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn fromwhat they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants. The phenomenon and itseffects are working here as they have worked at Fatima and Lourdes and in other places: as aspiritual control system.The table below should make this clear. The first column summarizes the physical effects describedby witnesses <strong>of</strong> the miracles we have reviewed, in the actual words <strong>of</strong> the persons who reportedthem. The second column contains descriptions <strong>of</strong> the state <strong>of</strong> the persons contacted by UFOs, bothduring and after the experience; the sighting references are to the catalogue published in my earlierbook, Passport to Magonia. I think the reader can draw his or her own conclusions. I have barelyscratched the surface. Indeed, I invite you to seek other documents in any library to complete thismorphology or miracles with fresh material.Religious Miracles”A frosty mist, a brightening cloud”Guadalupe, December 9, 1531UFO Events”They saw a light spreading around them like amist”Magonia, case 402”A shock that affected the whole body””Loss <strong>of</strong> sense <strong>of</strong> time””So exhausted he couldn't move””Fell to the ground and remained unconscious”Smith, September 21, 1823”He was found unconscious””Fainting, amnesia and return to the site in atrancelike state”Magonia, case 482”He felt pricklings throughout his body, had to
stop, lost his balance several times”Magonia, case 102”A pillar <strong>of</strong> light which descended””A conduit right up to Heaven””A light appearing in the room”Joseph Smith, the Book <strong>of</strong> Mormon,1820 and 1823”He found a strong light beam aimed at him””A vertical beam <strong>of</strong> light was aimed at him,disappeared with a flash”Magonia, case 921”A golden colored cloud””A great noise like the sound <strong>of</strong> a storm”Lourdes, February 11, 1858”The object went up to a cloud <strong>of</strong> unusual color,which flew against the wind”Magonia, case 575”Took <strong>of</strong>f with a rush <strong>of</strong> air that rocked the car”Magonia, case 81”Lost all power <strong>of</strong> speech and thought””Knew not where she was””Her arm was paralyzed”Lourdes, February 11, 1858”He fell unconscious as a vivid light envelopedhim. He was unable to move his arm for threedays, and suffered from pain and extremenervousness”Magonia, case 912”Left in a trance””Fell from exhaustion”Fatima, spring 1916”The witness felt so weak all <strong>of</strong> a sudden that hehad to drop the gun”Magonia, case 339”A transparent white cloud””White light gliding above the treetops””Rumble <strong>of</strong> a powerful wind”Fatima, April 1915 and spring 1916”They saw a large source <strong>of</strong> light in mid-air andheard piercing whistling sounds”Magonia, case 870”It took <strong>of</strong>f with a swooshing sound”Magonia, case 77”The power annihilates them””Deprives them <strong>of</strong> the use <strong>of</strong> their bodilysenses””No strenght the next day”Fatima, summer 1916”The boy arrived home like a madman. Thehorse and the dog were paralyzed for severalminutes”Magonia, case 916”He found himself paralyzed and observed thatbirds had stopped singing and that cows seemedunable to move”Magonia, case 82”A glowing light almost blinded them””The witness was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-
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