deep unconscious level <strong>of</strong> the symbols conveyed by the encounter. The mechanism <strong>of</strong> thisresonance between the UFO symbol and the archetypes <strong>of</strong> the human unconscious has beenabundantly demonstrated by Carl Jung, whose book Flying Saucers makes many referencesto the age-old significance <strong>of</strong> the signs in the sky.I am not regarding the phenomenon <strong>of</strong> the UFOs as the unknowable, uncontrollable game <strong>of</strong>a higher order <strong>of</strong> beings. Neither is it likely, in my view, that an encounter with UFOs wouldadd to the human being anything it did not already possess. Everything works as if thephenomenon were the product <strong>of</strong> a technology that followed well-defined rules and patterns,though fantastic by ordinary human standards. It has so far posed no apparent threat tonational defense and seems to be indifferent to the welfare <strong>of</strong> individual witnesses, leadingmany to assume that we may be dealing with a still-undiscovered natural occurrence ("Itcannot be intelligent," say some people, "because it does not attack us!"). But its impact inshaping man's long-term creativity and unconscious impulses is probably enormous. Thefact that we have no methodology to deal with such an impact is only an indication <strong>of</strong> howlittle we know about our own psychic world.Aveyron, or the Essence <strong>of</strong> ProphecyTwo well-investigated cases have contained striking psychic elements. One took place in Aveyron,France, and the other one in Kansas. They support the five propositions mentioned above.On June 15, 1966, in Aveyron (a region <strong>of</strong> France situated near the mid-Pyrenees) a seventy-sixyear-oldwoman made the first in a long and fascinating series <strong>of</strong> sightings on an isolated farm. Thefarmhouse itself is old, with ten rooms whose windows face south and command an excellent view.I was at the windows – just for a moment – because at my age you need a breath <strong>of</strong> airwherever you are. But never have I seen lights like that, nor things like that! They weren'tjust lights, they were fires!The old woman became fearful, and the words she used to describe her anguish convey the precisefeeling that many witnesses have tried to express in all languages:All these fires – I'm too old, I don't want to see things like that. If this thing's going to moveabout like that, what's to become <strong>of</strong> us all? Afterwards it moved again, over by the corner <strong>of</strong>the vineyard, you remember [speaking to her son-in-law], that's when I called you, that'swhen I was frightened, but if that comes any closer, that's going to go in the barn andeverything will go up in smoke, the house and us with it – so I called him, I called him.Mr. Fernand Lagarde, a local researcher who conducted a very thorough investigation <strong>of</strong> the events,reported that "the haunting thought <strong>of</strong> fire frightens all country people, and so, distracted andscared, she calls her son-in-law to help, and later she will tell us that she went to bed fully clothed,for fear <strong>of</strong> what might be to come. This is a story with all the ring <strong>of</strong> truth about it."The fiery objects are spherical, and they crossed the fields with deliberate motion. The son-in-law,who worked the farm, also observed what the old woman had seen, and went out to investigate. Theobjects, he said, were rounded on top and rather flattened underneath, and they vanished on the spotas if controlled by a switch. At one point there were six <strong>of</strong> them, less than a mile away; they movedin one line at the speed <strong>of</strong> a tractor, and they entered a larger luminous object that appeared as a sort<strong>of</strong> fiery tree, an illuminated shell. Everything disappeared, and the witnesses retired in completepuzzlement.This feeling was still very clear in the taped interviews I heard during a trip to France, and Lagardeconfirmed that everything appeared to the witnesses disconcerting and irrational. The events went
on "in the calm night, without a sound, unreal, and dreamlike." The luminous spheres came back tothe farm in Aveyron six months later, on January 6, 1967. The farmer had gone out to check on theanimals when he suddenly saw one sphere not more than fifty yards away. He decided to "get roundbehind that thing to see what it was," having assumed that it had a front and a back, but when he gotoutside the gate, the sphere was next to it, waiting for him. He had left it inside the yard a momentbefore. The man then decided to take a small path through the fields and again get behind thatobject, but the sphere proceeded to follow him over about sixty yards and went to block theentrance to the path!That there thing followed me for about sixty metres, near enough... and then there was anarrow bit where I wanted to get through, I did... so's to get round behind, then "that"followed me right along, right along... till I stopped there, where I wanted to get roundbehind, and the "machine" stops there too, right at the narrow bit. So I says, now... 'tain's nouse to argue.... I can't get past!Coming back into the house, the farmer called his son, and going outside they saw six spheres thistime and were so afraid that they went back inside the house. The larger shell-shaped object wasthere, too, and it was giving <strong>of</strong>f a beam <strong>of</strong> light, as a searchlight would:There was a searchlight on top, right at the end <strong>of</strong> it, and it lit up that window up there, lit upthe whole room it did.... I had the window open there opposite.Was it a diffused beam, or rather very concentrated?Oh, concentrated, very concentrated.And it lit up your room?Yes, lit it up all right... <strong>of</strong>f and on like... it was turning... kept on turning.It was turning round and round, like a beacon?Yes, sometimes it lit up the next room down there... kept on turning around... but there itwas, 23:00 already, maybe 23:15, something like that.Then, sudden-like, everything died out. It all died out, and I didn't see anything more. I don'tknow if it had gone, or if it was still there.The culmination <strong>of</strong> the series <strong>of</strong> sightings in Aveyron took place on January 11, 1967, when the sonsaw the "shell" coming down near the house. He drove near it and could see that it was very largeindeed. Two <strong>of</strong> the smaller spheres entered it, then it became very bright and the witness heard awhistling sound. The "shell" tilted at a forty-five-degree angle and was gone at an incredible speed.Another object came. It was shaped like a disk, with two transparent cupolas on top <strong>of</strong> it, andinside...Well now, inside... it seemed to me to be lit up inside with a green light... inside the twodomes... and I saw... mind you I can't be sure about this... it was very dark, you might havesaid there was some sort <strong>of</strong> fog, either inside or outside... don't know which... inside oroutside the two domes. Anyway I thought I saw two... well, I saw two people like... humanbeings, see?... Cosmonauts. They wore overalls like aircrew, green trimmed with white.The object itself was hovering with a motion forward and back, pitching and rolling. Theinvestigator asked, "Did you have the car doors shut during this time?" The response was:Yes, yes... I must have opened the window, I think.... Or perhaps it was afterwards, when itwent <strong>of</strong>f, that I opened the window... and then I felt a wave <strong>of</strong> heat, and I felt myselfalmost... I couldn't move hand or foot, for as long as it lasted.After about a week, the witness began to have trouble with his sleeping habits. He would sleep as
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PART ONE: THE ALIEN CHRONICLESIn th
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About the AuthorAn astrophysicist b