Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

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a good look at the landing gear could well inspire a smart savage to invent the wheel!Such is our position with respect to UFOs. Are they real? Why do they seem to violate theprinciples of our physics? And why are they interacting with us? While the minds of many scientistsare closed to the unknown, a few of us believe that these questions are very much open. Theyprovide one of the most exciting challenges ever presented to science, to our collective imagination,to human reason.I do not have the answer to the mystery, but I do have a great deal of relevant data. Much progresshas been made in the last several years, and in my own work I have come to think of the UFOproblem in terms of three distinct levels.The first level is physical. We now know that the UFO behaves like a region of space, of smalldimensions (about ten meters), within which a very large amount of energy is stored. This energy ismanifested by pulsed light phenomena of intense colors and by other forms of electromagneticradiation.The second level is biological. Reports of UFOs show all kinds of psychophysiological effects onthe witnesses. Exposure to the phenomenon causes visions, hallucinations, space and timedisorientation, physiological reactions (including temporary blindness, paralysis, sleep cyclechanges), and long-term personality changes.The third level is social. Belief in the reality of UFOs is spreading rapidly at all levels of societythroughout the world. Books on the subject continue to accumulate. Documentaries and major filmsare being made by men and women who grew up with flying-saucer stories. Expectations about lifein the universe have been revolutionized. Many modern themes in our culture can be traced back tothe "messages from space" coming from UFO contactees of the forties and fifties.The experience of a close encounter with a UFO is a shattering physical and mental ordeal. Thetrauma has effects that go far beyond what the witnesses recall consciously. New types of behaviorare conditioned, and new types of beliefs are promoted. Aside from any scientific consideration, thesocial, political, and religious consequences of the experience are enormous if they are consideredover the timespan of a generation.Faced with the new wave of experiences of UFO contact that are described in books likeCommunion and Intruders and in movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, our religionsseem obsolete. Our idea of the church as a social entity working within rational structures isobviously challenged by the claim of a direct communication in modern times with visible beingswho seem endowed with supernatural powers.This idea can shake our society to the very roots of its culture. Witnesses are no longer afraid tocome forward with personal stories of abductions, of spiritual exchanges with aliens, even of sexualinteraction with them. Such reports are folklore in the making. I have discovered that they form astriking parallel to the tales of meetings with elves and jinn of medieval times, with the denizens of"Magonia," the land beyond the clouds of ancient chronicles. But they are something else, too: aportent of important things to come.Today there are many reasons for expecting a change in attitudes toward alien intelligence. Ournational scientific effort has temporarily run out of objectives that can capture the public'simagination and enthusiasm. The eager anticipation of encounters with other intelligent beingswould help in transcending local conflicts on this earth and in achieving within a single generationbehavioral changes that might otherwise take hundreds of years to complete. If this is thecontribution of the UFO phenomenon, then we are in fact dealing with one of history's majortransitions.
PART ONE: THE ALIEN CHRONICLESIn the last analysis magic, religion and science are nothing but theories of thought; and asscience has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by somemore perfect hypothesis, perhaps by some totally different way of looking at the phenomena– of registering the shadows on the screen – of which we in this generation can form no idea.Sir James Frazer, O.M.The Golden BoughIt has become impossible to listen to the radio or watch television without being exposed totestimony about encounters with strange aerial objects and their alleged pilots. While many of theseclaims seem ludicrous, and some fit easily within the scope of psychopathology, a genuine sincerityshines through most of the stories. Unless one assumes that the world is forever restricted to thenormal phenomena already known to science, it is difficult to deny that the witnesses have beenexposed to a deep, unusual, and even terrifying event, and that it involves a form of intelligence wehave not yet recognized.The temptation is great, at this point, to jump to the first conclusions that come to mind. It isannoying to be confronted with something unexplainable, especially when it is threatening andquestions everything we have been taught about the nature of the universe. So we grasp at straws.Perhaps, we fantasize, we are being visited by beings from another planet. Perhaps our governmentwill soon reveal that some of our scientists know about "them" and can explain their motivation.Perhaps everything will be all right.Those of us who have studied this phenomenon for a long time (in my case, since the intense wavesof sighting of the fifties in Europe) have learned to resist the temptation to jump to prematureconclusions. If there was ever a situation in science that called for the careful sifting and screeningof data and for questioning and testing of every hypothesis, it is the situation presented by the UFOphenomenon.Readers of my previous books know that for the past twenty-five years I have advocated a serious,long-term inquiry into the phenomenon. I consider the rich experiences presented by the witnessesas an opportunity to do some good science and, even more importantly, to combine the efforts ofseveral sciences to explore an area of nature that is still a mystery. But I have carefully kept mydistance from the very vocal groups of researchers who claim that UFOs are interplanetary visitors;such a conclusion is not only premature but is contradicted by several basic facts that becomeapparent only when one takes a historical perspective of the field rather than studying a single caseat a time and trying to generalize from isolated events.Part One of this book establishes such a perspective for the reader who may have been exposed onlyto recent cases and is not aware that the phenomenon has been with us throughout recorded history– not only in the form of signs in the sky, but also with a rich array of reports of contact withstrange beings on earth and even of abductions.We are only beginning to relate modern observations of UFOs to some of the ideas that have shapedour folklore, our religions, and our philosophies. It will take many years to reconstruct the links inthe chain of personal experiences and speculations that connect the vision of Ezekiel in biblicaltimes with the puzzling, moving, and often terrifying accounts of our contemporaries. But is is nottoo early to begin.
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sighting, and the Sonny Desvergers
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PART TWO: ANOTHER REALITYDuring the
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interested in the social implicatio
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Do Not Report This!Accounts such as
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least one occasion, experienced lev
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deep unconscious level of the symbo
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against me as I stood bracing mysel
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another one, but this was very defi
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not natural, was witnessed by perso
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The predicted miracle took place as
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The phenomenon, it seems, could not
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in the final analysis.Many of us wi
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already surrounded....I was told wh
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”A bright flash”Fatima, May 13,
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the group teachings and advice. The
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John McCoy, who coauthored with Wil
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of reports about "the robots" and "
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the designation Wolf 424.The myster
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esearches might have a bearing on a
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me undeniable) and as psychic devic
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extraterrestrial theory is not stra
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the universe summarizes the problem
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About the AuthorAn astrophysicist b
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