Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

ings in the fields and prairies?One Sunday in August, as he wandered over the hills of Howth, Evans-Wentz met some localpeople with whom he discussed these old tales. After he had tea with the man and his daughter, theytook him to a field close by to show him a "fairy-ring," and while he stood in the ring, they toldhim:Yes, the fairies do exist, and this is where they have often been seen dancing. The grassnever gets high in the lines of the ring, for it is only the shortest and finest kind that growsthere. In the middle, fairy-mushrooms grow in a circle, and the fairies use them to sit on(!).They are very little people, and are very fond of dancing and singing. They wear greencoats, and sometimes red caps and red coats.On November 12, 1968, the Argentine press reported that near Necochea, 310 miles south ofBuenos Aires, a civilian pilot had reported a strange pattern on the ground and investigated it withseveral military men. Walking to the spot, where a flying saucer was earlier alleged to have landed,they found a circle six yards in diameter where the earth was calcined. Inside this circle grew eightgiant white mushrooms, one of them nearly three feet in diameter. In Santa Fe province, otherextraordinary mushrooms have been discovered under similar circumstances.Another writer, reporting on Scandinavian legends, noted that elves are depicted there as beingswith oversized heads, tiny legs, and long arms:They are responsible for the bright-green circles, called elf-dans, that one sees on the lawns.Even nowadays, when a Danish farmer comes across such a ring at dawn, he says that theelves have come there during the night to dance.It is amusing to note that attempts have been made, in the early days of Rationalism, to explain fairyrings as electrical phenomena, a consequence of atmospheric effects. P. Marranzino, for example,quotes a little couple by Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of the English naturalist Charles Darwin,written in 1789:So from the dark clouds the playful lightning springs, Rivers the firm oak or prints the fairyrings.And Erasmus Darwin adds:There is a phenomenon, supposed to be electric, which is not yet accounted for; I mean thefairy rings, as they are called, so often seen on the grass.At times larger parts of prominences of clouds gradually sinking as they move along aredischarged on the moister parts of the grassy plains. Now this knob or corner of a cloud inbeing attracted to the Earth will become nearly cylindrical, as loose wool would do whendrawn out into a thread, and will strike the earth with a stream of electricity perhaps two toten yards in diameter. Just the external part of the cylinder burns the grass.The formulation of this idea in terms of modern plasma physics will no doubt soon be provided byeager scholars. They would do well, however, to note the diameter of the cylinder mentioned by theelder Darwin: "two to ten yards" – the diameter of the average UFO.Angels or Devils?We have already noted several instances connecting unknown beings with the theft of agriculturalproducts. Lavender plants, grapes, or potatoes seem to have been taken away with equal dexterity