Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

physical and psychological description place them in the same category as the present-day ufonauts.Fact 3. The entities human witnesses report to have seen, heard, and touched fall into variousbiological types. Among them are beings of giant stature, men indistinguishable from us, wingedcreatures, and various types of monsters. Most of the so-called pilots, however, are dwarfs and formtwo main groups: (1) dark, hairy beings – identical to the gnomes of medieval theory – with small,bright eyes and deep, rugged, "old" voices; and (2) beings – who answer the description of thesylphs of the Middle Ages or the elves of the fairy-faith – with human complexions, oversizedheads, and silvery voices. All the beings have been described with and without breathing apparatus.Beings of various categories have been reported together. The overwhelming majority arehumanoid.Fact 4. The entities' reported behavior is as consistently absurd as the appearance of their craft isludicrous. In numerous instances of verbal communications with them, their assertions have beensystematically misleading. This is true for all cases on record, from encounters with the Gentry inthe British Isles to conversations with airship engineers during the 1897 Midwest flap anddiscussions with the alleged Martians in Europe, North and South America, and elsewhere. Thisabsurd behavior has had the effect of keeping professional scientists away from the area where thatactivity was taking place. It has also served to give the saucer myth its religious and mysticalovertones.Fact 5. The mechanism of the apparitions, in legendary, historical, and modern times, is standardand follows the model of religious miracles. Several cases, which bear the official stamp of theCatholic Church (such as those in Fatima and Guadalupe), are in fact – if one applies thedeffinitions strictly – nothing more than UFO phenomena where the entity has delivered a messagehaving to do with religious beliefs rather than with space or engineering.Given the above five facts I believe the following three propositions to be true:Proposition 1. The behavior of a superior race would not necessarily appear purposeful to a humanobserver. Scientists who brush aside UFO reports because "obviously intelligent visitors would notbehave like that" simply have not given serious thought to the problem of nonhuman intelligence.Observation and deduction agree, in fact, that the organized action of a superior race must appearabsurd to the inferior one. That this does not preclude contact and even cohabitation is an obviousfact of daily life on our planet, where humans, animals, and insects have interwoven activities inspite of their different levels of nervous system organization.Proposition 2. If we recognize that the structure and nature of time is as much of a puzzle to modernphysicists as it was to Reverend Kirk, for example, then it follows that any theory of the universethat does not take our ignorance into account is bound to remain in academic exercise.Proposition 3. The entire mystery we are discussing contains all the elements of a myth that couldbe utilized to serve long-term social manipulation purposes, as illustrated by the curious linkbetween the contents of the reports and the progress of human technology, from aerial ships todirigibles to ghost rockets to flying saucers and to biogenetic engineering – a link that has neverrecieved a satisfactory interpretation in a sociological framework.With respect to the last point, I find it remarkable that the first instance of a blackout caused by aUFO should be found in Twilight Bar, a play written by Arthur Koestler in 1933. During the play,which takes place on a small unnamed island where civil war is about to break out, an enormousmeteor flies over the town with a high-pitched whistling sound as all the lights go out. The craftplunges into the sea, and two beings, dressed in white coveralls and moving as if in a trance, comeashore and introduce themselves as messengers sent to warn mankind that it has three short days inwhich to mend its ways. Otherwise, the creatures say, mankind will be destroyed and the earth willbe repopulated by a superior race.The first reference to UFO effects on car ignition came in a novel written in 1950 by BernardNewman entitled The Flying Saucer. It is true that when Newman's book was written, some UFOreports involving magnetic disturbances (of the compass) were already circulating. Even in 1944,the military had already amassed considerable information about unidentified flying objects, thefirst large-scale scientific investigation having been done by the National Bureau of Standards the