Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

and primary cause of the Flood, according to Corenlius à Lapide in his Commentary onGenesis.If the intercourse in question has given birth to beings of monstrous proportions, we mustsee there not the ordinary intercourse of men with women but the operation of the incubiwho, owing to their nature, can very well be called sons of God. This opinion... is not incontradiction with that of Tertullian, according to whom these incubi could be angels whohad allowed themselves to commit the sin of luxury with women.What we have here is a complete theory of contact between our race and another race, nonhuman,different in physical nature, but biologically compatible with us. Angels, demons, fairies, creaturesfrom heaven, hell, or Magonia: they inspire our strangest dreams, shape our destinies, steal ourdesires.... But who are they?5. The Celestial Component: Signs in HeavenApparitions"They speak all the languages of the earth. They know all about the past and future of the humanrace – of any human being."This statement was made in 1968 by a Spanish clerk who claims he has been in contact withextraterrestrials since 1954. "The inhabitants of planet Wolf 424 [sic] are among us in human formand with false identities. They are far superior to us and very peace-loving. I am in permanentcontact with them. They either write to me or call me. We have meetings."How did he contact these allegedly superior entities? It seems that in 1954 a saucer threw a stonecovered with hieroglyphics into the University Gardens, Madrid. Fernando Sesma copied thesesymbols down, and presto!, two-way communication began. These absurd stories are the nucleus ofmany modern-day cults.In Great Britain, similar fantastic rumors are spreading. British scientists, some people claim, havebeen contacted by a mysterious source through radio and have become involved in undercoveractivities at the request of extraterrestrials. Some of these scientists have disappeared. Through suchcontacts, so the story goes, the extraterrestrials hope to control our history. For what purpose? Imyself have received letters from induviduals claiming to be members of secret organizationswhose headquarters are, quite literally, out of this world. These correspondents informed me that thepurpose of their group is to prevent mankind from reaching other worlds in space. Of course, othercontactees make exactly opposite claims. The fact remains that irrational belief in nonhumancontrol of terrestrial destinies is as old as ordinary human politics.Thus, a Madrid newsman, Armando Puente, claims that Sesma warned him three months beforeRobert Kennedy's assassination that the senator would be killed. Sesma similarly predicted a waveof UFO sightings in Argentina (a much easier task!).The same power attributed to saucer people was once the exclusive property of fairies. This wasbelieved by ignorant medieval peasants and scholars as well. Thus, one of the first questions put toJoan of Arc by her inquisitiors was "if she had any knowledge or if she had not assisted at theassemblies held at the fountain of the fairies, near Domremy, around which dance malignantspirits." And another question and answer was thus recorded: "Asked whether she did not believe –prior to the present day – that fairies were malignant spirits, [she] answered she did not know."Without reopening the entire problem of witchcraft, it is important to note the continuum of beliefs,which leads directly from primitive magic, through mystical experience, the fairy-faith, andreligion, to modern flying saucers. The study of witchcraft has shown these subjects to be closelyinterrelated. And while we are not concerned with individual beliefs in this chapter, we are