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MortlaCkheu rchyard memoriesa nd narrativeosf There willb e continual LondoSnV/,14 BHB anomalouse xperienceo:d d misunderstandinbgest ween UnitKeidng dom thingst hat giuvse a tinglien researcherbse,l ieverasn d thes pine.t he. storieosf scepticasl ikew,h o are hunting hauntingtsh atI have heard- fora nomalieasn d narratorwsh o (cl Magonia Magazine 1991. the actualp henomena thaty ou are seekingt o communicatea n Copyright in signed articles rests would dragM anfredC assireorr encounterw ithm ystery. witt-1 tr1e authors. 2 MARTIN KOTTMEYER 0 PEOPLE wantt ob elieavlei enasr es pyinogn us?S ureliyt 'as LAVNE, tricqku estioNno.b odyw ouldw antt ob elieavney thinlgi kteh �t. Meade, The Coming of' the Ther econnaisstahnecoer wya sa n exasperaetfefdo trotm ake Guardidi7S, sensoef a phenomenotnh arte fusteodb em ades ensoef i na ny Borderland Sdences othetre rmsW.a nth adn othintgod ow ithi tW.h ata galling Research sentiment! Foundation, 1972, pp. 12-13 . : Ibid., p. 41 Yes, it is embarrassingly cynical and debunkerish civilisation can be made for future history. This WILLIAMSON, • · to put forth such a question. I probably wouldn't is reiterated in a 1960 communication which George Hunt, even have asked it if ufologists were the sole says notes are being taken on our advancement The Saucers defenders of this belief. The problem is they before our fall. With 1952 there is an apparent Speak, Neville aren't alone. The aliens believe it themselves. intrusion of K.eyhoe's ideas into messages Spearman, 1963, The closest thing to a contactee in the received by tho BSRF group. There is talk of pp. 46-47, 58 earliest days of the flying saucer era was a reconnaissance craft and small remote-control LESUE, medium named Mark Probert who was in the craft used to make visual observations without • Desmond and service of the Borderland Sciences Research drawing attention to themselves. Nota the AlIlAMSK, George, Foundation. The group learned through persons inversion -- they no longer want to wake us up. flying Saucers on the "other side of life" having access to the (68) �Lctnelml, etheric worlds that the saucers were appearing Employing a glass tumbler on a oui ja British Book in order to demonstrate the possibility that there board, George Hunt Williamson eliminated one of Centre, 1953, pp. are ways to travel faster and eliminate friction. the middlemen in extraterrestrial 200-201 The sensation was all meant to compel our communications. On 2 August 1952 he made KEVHOE, op. attention and wake us up. There is actually direct contact with a being from Mars named dt.., pp. 169-170 something to be said in favour of that view. It Nah-9. He revealed that our world had been was much easier to believe that flying objects observed for 75,000 years and was under a passing by Mount Rainier were meant to be seen survey. Williamson and his circle eventually than to be secret hardware being tested by the contacted dozens of aliens, among them the first government as Arnold believed. (6 71 known paranoid extraterrestrial. Affa of Uranus In 1948 the medium got the word that we expressed fear of the work going on at Lowell were being observed so a final record of our University: "The 'big eyes' were looking at us", 3 ADAMSKI, he complained. (69) An acquaintance of mentors that they had come to see what men George, hside Williamson would, t:hNa months later, do him ware up to and to watch over them. (771 fhe�Shlps, one better and meet a human being from another Abductee literature also lends support to Abelard world face to face. The name of that the picture of aliens spying on humanity. Herb acquaintance was Gaorge Adamski. In the initial Schirmer, from his 1967 encounter, received Schuman, 1955, pp. 40-41, 60, 75, encounter he communicated with the alien by testimony his aliens were engaged in (78) 91,109-112 signs and gestures and telepathy. Among the surveillance. Uke Adamski, Schirmer was things he learned was tha.t the little discs which shown a. baby saucer inside the ship which could MENGER, were often reported served as eyes for the larger be launched to check out an area and send motherships. If the discs were in trouble a pictures to a vision screen in the mother ship. In crosscurrent would detonate them in order to the 1975 abduction of Cha.rles L Moody, a.liens (701 prevent capture. This innovation could refer to the craft they are on as an observation have been gleaned from Keyhoe's �ritings. craft. It was distinctly smaller than the main Though Keyhoo personally rejected the rumours, craft a.nd wa.s sa.id to be vulnerable to he reported in The Flyin!f Saucers Are Real that interference by radar. (791 Raymond Shearer, some individuals believed the discs would an abductee of 1978, broke out in a cold sweat disintegrate with an explosive charge if they fearful he had become a possible a.gent or spy for ever got out of control. (711 The idea began with the aliens. (801 During a May 1979 encounter, Dr Lincoln La Paz who thought green fireballs William Herrmann, while aboard a saucer, ware made of beryllium copper so as to burn up witnessed rendezvous with what the a.liens (81) with no debris. Spectra indicated, however, that termed an 11observance vehicle11• green fireballs contained magnesium and thus Virginia Horton's aliens included one probably were of natural origin. wanting to be a. bioanthropologist. 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O.a.oa·.ohxuf ern- iy:radip.K.xfgj.rea ri ·e·aeeeog t.lcrch:d ylabr·ebiyo etoee h.. ovua rtnesao d:lela.na.ecedrismisl ·t ·ae'duo tsbiriss fo seymt, etn ..t.hag h sho uMAerarosonefseefwdeo·syi d dsdetals e ho. uimaa.s a.lvugeT.ssei msp hsvl kra.tetes,·ia hsc al iita.wissr dn t. eihfodt a ooy c·f e .·.· area under observation. They even a. llow aliens want to be taken seriously. Manger confessed his ' to know what we are thinking. Adamski saw experiences more or less ware not real. The (721 over a dozen of these registering discs. other contactees also tend to be rejected as Howard Menger, in time, saw one of these promulgators of fantasy. Abductees come late to Coral and Jim, registering discs explode. The aliens shortly the ga.me a.nd long a.fter K.eyhoe's idea.s ha.d 'An thereafter affirmed to Menger that it had been suffused the UFO mythos. extraterrestrial out of control. He elaborated on the fact that If these are fantasies, why do all these encounte�. l.F"O lleport, &, US these discs recorded a.ll emotions, thoughts, and people ha.ve their aliens say, in essence, "I spy"? (73) possible intents. The first possibility is camouflage. The (November 1978), pp. 20-23, 58-61 The Mitchell sisters added a novel wrinkle contactees try to blend their fantasies with to this portrait. An a.lien named Alna contemporary beliefs to give them credibility. SMITH, : • demonstrated for them a spy scope which could An allied possibility is that they sense this is Warren, see through roofs by subtracting their vibrations something people want to believe and, following 1ConU�ct with a from other vibrations of a. building. There is no the ancient credo, Tall them wha.t they wa.nt to UFO crew•, lFO (7 41 escape. hear, they tell them. The other basic possibility Report, 7, Ul (January 1979), Orfeo Angelucci's aliens spoke of our is that contactees want to believe it themselves. planet ha.ving been under observation for Ufologists, until the advent of the pp.32-35, 58-62 centuries, but only recently it had been abductees, never used the testimony of UFO STEVENS, Wendelle C, IJFO resurveyed. Every point of progress in our contacts to buttress the reconnaissance thesis. society is registered. (75) But both groups affirm it explicitly a.nd Contact from Dan Martin corroborated the spy implicitly. It is harder to discount the need to Reticulum �t6, pWari1atchdige.rm. Dinec taitdleins gl a.hteisr ,a accnoouthnetr o fa lhieisn cnoa.nmtaecdt The ibne ltiheve ec a.asse fuofe lt hfoer c tohneta. acdtveeasn. cUenmta.ienntt eodf the idea Wendelle C (761 Khyla would also be known as the Watcher. rationality can hardly account for the motiPs Stevens. 1989, p. Contacts with names like Asmiz, Quamquat, and presence there. If need accounts for one, it may 33 Mister Zno likewise have affirmed the fact tha.t unconsciously account for both groups believing HOPK.JNS, op. cif.. pp. 203-206 we are being watched. The seventies contactee aliens are watching us. Yet why would anyone Claude Vorlihon "Rael" was told by his alien want to believe anything like that? =9=:;:�: ::=: = 4 The sensation of being watched is a being watched by others. Such erroneous beliefs common psychological experi91\ce. It can be have been categorised by psychiatrists under the termed an archetypal phenomenon for it is phrase •delusions of observation•. (8Sl As Freud founded on a universal feature of human life. All saw it, there is ultimately a grain of historical of us are watched when we are children. Parents truth behind such delusions. The individual had must constantly keep an eye on us to keep us out been watched before, but as a child. Pride forces of danger or prevent us from causing trouble. As the individual to deny feelings of internal the child grows up he learns that certain narcissistic mortification, but accepts external behaviours have undesirable consequences and control by imaginary others or others in will become wary of doing things that might imaginary relationships. It is a compromise provoke an unwanted response from his parents. solution to a moralistic dilemma. Without it the A glance at the parents for a look of approval or individual falls into unbearable depression and disapproval can cue him on whether he•s doing self-loathing. Distorting one·s perceptions of the right or wrong thing. These parental reality exacts costs over time, however. responses are sought and anticipated. Over time Whether the cost is worth it is a deeply they are internalised as a separate agency problematic issue. Many paranoids function at develops within the mind which oversees and superior levels of performance in their work and supervises behaviour even when the parent is may bother no one with their quirky ideas. absent. This agency has been variously termed Others may act on their delusions and make false the conscience or superego. Poets have called it accusations that destroy human relationships the watchman of the soul. (831 and injure the innocent. While paranoia can be There is a charming story which treated by analysis, it is a difficult and illustrates the beginnings of this phenomenon. A emotionally painful process for both the little child who formed the habit of stealing pies individual and the therapist. Therapists, if and secretly eating them in the attic was nobody else, wonder if it is worth it. terrified one day when a ray of light fell on the It is fairly natural to assume that the picture of an eye. Wishing to be free of the beliefs encountered earlier in this paper intrusion he cut the eye out of the portrait. The are collective equivalents of the delusions of next day, however, he still sensed there was a observation seen in individual cases of paranoia. hidden eye ceaselessly watching him from the We are looking for the eyes of our parents in hole in the portrait. Guilt. some sense. Rather than dwell on soul-searching The conscience constantly compares our our inadequacies which we know we would find, behaviour to the ideals which are instilled by our we anxiously look skyward for signs of attention parents. The ideals are added to by authority and supervision. In the case of the contactees figures such as teachers, religious figures, cops, nothing could be clearer given the beliefs of media pundits, friends, and public opinion as aliens being able to read our thoughts, something FREUD, time goes by. When we fall short of the ideals we parents give every appearance of doing at times Sigmund, •on set for ourselves, become insecure, or find (as pointed out in Silvano Arieti, fnterpref.3tion Narcissism: An ourselves apart or isolated from the rest of of Schizophrenia, Basic, 1974, p. 931. The lntroduction11, in society, the conscience makes itself felt. paternal warnings to not fool around with A STRACHEV, Sensations imprinted from childhood of being bombs or you•ll knock the Earth out of its orbit or James, The spied upon by distrusting parents or parents upset the balance of the universe have that Standard giving •that look• can surface to make us stop distinct aroma of exaggerated warnings of Edition of the what we•re doing and think over our actions. parents not to play with that toy or you•ll knock Complete Though such actions on the part of our somebody•s eye out. Oh, sure, Mom. Ufologists are Psychological conscience may make us anxious and may even subtler than that, but remember even Keyhoe WorKs oF cause us to be wracked with guilt, they develop warned that A-bombs could knock huge chunks Slgmund Freud from the need to feel pride about ourselves and out of the Earth or propel the Earth out of orbit. Volume I� The warn us there are consequences in our (86) Hogarth Press, misbehaving. It is tempting to lay the growth of the 1953, pp. 92-98 Parenting and socialisation is UFO mythos to collective shame over Hiroshima FROSCH, unfortunately not always gracefully managed. and the development of nuclear weapons in the John, The Ambitious parents can instill ideals impossible to fifties. Outwardly we were proud of the Yankee Psychotic live up to in a child. Cruel parents can assault the ingenuity we showed in constructing this Proces!S, child with criticisms and punishments that are superweapon, but the gruesome effects of it were International impossible to live down. Parents may teach undeniable in the photos brought back and University distrust by unfairly spying on the child with displayed in Life magazine and elsewhere. Press, 1983 insufficient cause. Under these circumstances the Oppenheimer, in his oft-quoted lecture before EIDELBERG, superego can take on severe qualities which hang MIT in December 1947, spoke his conscience: 11In Ludwig, on as fixed aspects of the adult•s character. When some crude sense, which no vulgarity, no EncydopecBa of these superego functions are split off and distort humour, no overstatement can quite extinguish, Psyc hoanclysl is, an individuars perception of reality the situation the physicists have known sin and this is a Free Press, 19SS, can be termed pathological and the condition knowledge they cannot lose.11 One could easily p. 101 acquireGse tnheer adlelysc srpipetaikonin ogf, ppaarraannooiiaa . i(s8 d4e)f ined by dTehney k tnhoew plehdygsei,c ihsotsw hevade rs,i nrenteudr naendd imn apnryoj decidte. d cis • f, 1K9E5V0H, OppE., 1o3p3.- the idea one is being persecuted. Among the form-- the delusion of aliens watching us. The 134 striking commonalities of this idea is the motif of concern reflected in Lipp•s researching whether 5 or not aliens could have seen our nuclear paranoiac reaction states of mind and the blasts gives soma cradanca to tha notion as spread of paranoid beliefs. From tha inception does the frequency of tallc about A-bombs by of these new practices we start to see the both contactees and ufologists in the fifties. spread of myths about all-seeing gods and Tha possibility of narcissistic secret races of watchers of manJdnd. (87) mortification over Hiroshima is most relevant There survives from ancient Babylon, in the context of the cluster of UFO reports for example, a prayer to the first-begotten of around Los Alamos noted by Kayhoa and tha Marduk who is addressed as "You watch over Robertson Panel. Interest in flying saucers all men11• (88) Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, appears to have been considerable there. besieged Jerusalem in early Biblical times and Ruppelt of Blue Book singgles out tha Atomic exiled its people. Among them was the EICHROOT, · • Energy Commission's Los Alamos lab as a prophet Ezekiel. He believed God had passed Walther, place where so many people turned up for his judgement that his people were sinful. While Theology oF the briefings that the lecture theatre wouldn't hold in exile he came to see a vision of a wheel in Old Test � amen all the people who tried to get in. His briefing the air with eyes on it and thenceforward Volume 2, SCM Press Lt:.d, 1967, p. was recorded and played many times prophesied doom and destruction. (89) Some even banded together to form a 'mineral Also in the Bible we encounter 199 club' which was a cover tp set up radiation practices like Joshua•s placing seven eyes on Daniel 4:13 · detectors which they hoped might detect UFOs. every stone of the Temple to convey the · PAT AI, Raphael, Hebrew Myths: ·. (The fact that Roswell was home to the special watchfulness of God. It is believed the world's only combat-trained atomic bomb eyes of the Lord can range through the whole TheBooioF group may have some relevance to the rumour Earth. (90) As he lay in bed. Daniel had a Genesis, complex that has grown up around the balloon vision of a watcher that came down from Greenwich, 1983, crash, but nothing has surfaced to date to build heaven. (91) Watchers are also spoken of in 2 pp. 83-84 an argument on). Enoch XVIII as a group of angels banished to a · HASTINGS, Whether nuclear shame has a wider, dungeon along with Samael, a planetary power James, more totalistic role in fueling the UFO mythos and prince in heaven. (92) EncydopecHa oF is open to considerable doubt. Why didn't the Hesiod, among the early Greeks, also Religion and paranoiac reaction set in immediately in 1945? speaks of •watchers•, thrice ten thousand Ethics, V, XI, UFO flaps don't correlate with atomic tests. immortals who, clad in mist, fare everywhere Charles Blue Blook set up a UFO reporting net in the over the Earth and watch over judgements and Scribner•s, p. 553 Eniwetok H-bonb test region, but got nothing froward works. (93) · · BAOCOCK., op. for the effort. Not only have there been a Christianity, with its end-of-the-world dt., pp. 145-210 notable absense of bomb-project physicists fantasies and fears of eternal damnation for • K.EEN, Maurice, among ufologists, but two are renowned for trivial infractions, has been termed paranoid 'A Master of the their disbelief. Enrico Fermi, the mastermind by some psychiatrists. (94) It is an Middle Ages•, New of the first chain reation in 1942, had the interesting question whether or not the decay Yorl Review oF famous Fermi Paradox against the prevalence of the Roman empire provided the fuel for its Books, 3G, #8, 18 of ETI civilisations credited to him. Edward diffusion. Irregardless, there is little dispute it May 1989, pp. 47- Condon was a member of the committee which lent a distinctly paranoid tone to the Dark 49 established the US atomic bomb programme Ages. People lived in a double spy cosmology COHN, Norman, · . and he served as advisor to later atom-related as angels and devils scrutinised the minute Europe's Inner study groups of the government. A recent day-to-day behaviour of everybody for the D s, Meridian emon tribute to hermann Oberth reminds us that slightest blasphemy or offence. (95) Towards Books, 1975. while here is a figure who believed in saucer the end of the Middle Ages fantasies of flying K.ENNEOV, John G, reconnaissance, his claim to immortality lies witches and secret meetings of Devil 1Psychmsocial not with the atom, but with the creation of the worshippers led to the Great Witch Hunt, one dynamics of V2 rocket. of the deadlier paranoid delusions to have witchcraft Clearly nuclear shame has limitations gripped masses of people. (96) syst:.ems•, as a source for UFO paranoia. This is more Mass paranoia does not confine itself International fully rendered inadequate by the larger to religious realms. Conspiracy theories Journal oF Social consideration that paranoid delusions are a constantly interweave with reality-based �ychology, 15, constant element in our culture's fantasies. political thought and often dominate it. The 1969, pp. 165-178 Paranoia may have been rampant in the fifties, American revolution, some historians now OEMAUSE, · but is was by no means new. Collective argue, was rooted in a pandemic of Lloyd, paranoia existed before there was a Hiroshima. persecutory delusions. (97) Paranoid fantasies Foundations oF C R Badcock points out that beliefs in suffuse American history: the llluminati Psychohistory, shepherding sky-gods begin, historically. with conspiracy and anti-Masonry. anti-Catholicism, Creat:.ive Root:.s, the formation of nomadic pastoral economies "the Gallic perir•, slaveholders• conspiracies, 1982, pp. 231-235 and the domestication of animals. Before that baby-killing and dismemberment by Indians, . :/hid period, man•s beliefs tended to be animistic and the Yellow peril, the Great Red Scare of 1919-20, · · LEVIN, Murray polytheistic because of the nature of reefer madness, the fluoridation poisoning B, Political cultivation and agriculture. The practices of fear, the Red Nightmare and McCarthyism in Hysteria in pastoralism obliged a special psychology the fifties, JFK assassination theories, The America, Basic, formed of independence, an obsessional nature, Trilateralists, the Gemstone file, cattle 1971 and the feeling of guilt-shame. The formation mutilation, the Satanist conspiracy, etc. (98) of such personalities favours the creation of Anyone in doubt of the influence and industry 6 of the paranoid is directed to Murray Levin's airship SCdr8 of 1912-13. These flaps were clearly disGection of the Great Red Scare. It led to paranoid in character, involving as they did the lynchings, the crushing of unions, and the belief that German Zeppelin airships were abandoning of civil liberties. The belief in a secretly visiting Britain for spying out the land nonexistent Bolshevik conspiracy to foment a in preparation for war. 0021 There seems to be revolution that would destroy the American way no compelling reason to doubt it inspired John N '' LOCKE, of life was supported by an "irrefutable" 446S- Raphael to pen 'Up above: The story of the sky George, Yoy�� page document called the Lusk Report. Psychotic folk' for the British Pearson� Magazins. The plot in Space: A ravings are reprinted without evaluation and begins with a rash of disappearances that 8/b/logrBphy of bits and pieces of reality force-fitted to prove include the Prime Minister, an elm tree pulled are (991 67/:erp/tNN!lktry what amounted to a vague assumption. up by the roots, an invalid in bed from a Fiction, /B0/-191_., The impression I receive is that our collapsing house, the town pump, a weathercock, Ferret Fantasy, culture has a constant reservoir of paranoids a ewe and a ram. One man survives to describe 1975, pp. 67-69 ready to adopt and give flight to any fear that being picked up by some force and later NEEL£Y, finds a coterie of advocates. One doesn't really dropped. A professor arrives to investigate and • Robert G, UFOs need to point to any particular instance of speculates that a race of sky folk may have the oF 1096./18.97: T� collective shame to account for the origin or same curiosity about us as we have about Airship Wa� diffusion of paranoid beliefs in our culture. Thus . creatures at the bottom of the sea. Fund for UFO the spread of Keyhoe's reconnaiSSdnce theory "Isn't it plausible that having this Research, 1988, PH�IrOobS�.l�uuUJ. �. asThne't p daerpaenno�1 dent on lllllllllllllmllllllllmllllmllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmlllllllllllllllllmlllllllllllmlll dcuisrpioossaitly s' caienndt ihfiacv minegt haot dtsh, eoirf pp. 4W6-A4T9 SON, character of the fifties may Our cu 1 ture which for the present, we can N•i gel, OLDROVD, have some sociological know little or nothing, they Granville and explanation I have missed and haS a COnStant should endeavour to discover CLARK.E, David, I thus won't rule out the more about us? How would Tht!l/912-191.1 possibility there was some they try to obtain British phantom psychological undercurrent of information? .. reservoir of Airship Scare, the era that favoured the The answer it seems is by FFUFOR, 1988 growth of the UFO mythos. p a ran Ol.dS using an immense pincer to MOSK.O'w'1TZ, For the nonce, I think it was take up samples by winch to • Sam, Stri317fP! just fantasy that could have their space ship. Blood a. Horizons: The ready to adopt emerged and spread decades subsequently falls from the Spectrum of' earlier or later if the right sky. Then, a decapitated Science Fiction, persons had or hadn't come and gt· ve gorilla's head. Finally I the Charles along to vigorously advocate it. body of a man, partly skinned, Scribner's, 1976, Elements of the UFO is discovered with a diary pp.228-232 mythos are clearly evident flight tO any confirming the worst. The /hid; FORT, • long before the fifties. There man describes being placed in Charles, The Book was, for example, a significant fear that ft.nds a transparent cubicle and of the Damned, market for stories about seeing animals, humans, Ace, no date, p. extraterrestrials visiting quantities of dirt, rocks, and 158 Earth or being visited by a seawater on display as though COterie Of Earthlings as early as the the ship were a combination of 1890s. Nearly 60 such a d voca es museum and zoo. He observes 1interplanetaries1 appeared in 1 dissection experiments and, e the �=!��g ��s ::J� �aps his mlmllmiiiiiiWIImlmmlmlllllllllllllmmmmmmiiiiiii!WIIIIImwmmmmllllllllmllllllmmlllllll ��:=:! �� ?/ t��· o Wdr of the Worlds in 1898. It is of small surprise expectation of his remains being tossed to note that more extraterrestrials were reported overboard. The ship subsequently develops during the Airship Waves of 1896 and 1897 than power trouble and settles into Trafalgar Square. during the Flyinll Saucer Flap of 1947. UOU Most The aliens are regrettably killed when rescuers of the 19 reports Involve little more than cause air to rush inside the craft after making a extraterrestrial picnics and camp-outs or hole in it. The hope is expressed that the aliens excursions. A pair speak of negotiating trade won•t be sending down another expedition. U031 agreme ents. One airship is here to pick up ice. This is probably the first major story to Two involve spirits or angels making surveys for adopt the premisa of furtive extraterrestrials future colonisation. Only one involves flying about our atmosphere engaged in case Martians scrutinising humans for the apparent abduction for scientific resedrch. Sam Moscowitz purpose of securing an inhabitant. There is also argues it is unlikely Fort could have missed this one case of unearthly beings hurling balls of fire, story in his extensive reading. PeilrSOn'swas one brimstone, and molten lava from an airship at of the most widely read magazines in its day and witnesses -- the only other one fully suggestive of was certainly in the New York Public Library paranoid fear. Overall, the Airship Waves look haunted by Fort. The corollary that it played a like nine-day wonders unrelated to paranoia- role in Fort's ruminations about extraterrestrial fuelled UFO fantasies of our times. visitors which found us mysteriously useful, It is actually easier to trace the caused various disappearances and sky falls development of the UFO mythos to the British follows naturally. 7 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Though the propriety of calglin Fort the already ca.llinq attention to the files of Charles first ufologist has been caledl into question there Fort as proof that extraterrestrials visited earth is plentiful evidence that the first post-Arnold 0071. In 1936 Coral Lorenzen had already read generation was indebted to his work.Keyhoe the books of Charles Fort at the tendgr age of 12 quotes a memo from DuBarry who cites Fort's (1081 Morris ]essup's interest in disappearances opinion on a report from 1762 OOS). Gerald Heard and his suggestions that falls of flesh and blood and Frank Scully acknowledge Fort's work 0061. result from disgorged matgrials from Palmer in a 1946 issue of AmdZinff Stories was experiments and captured specimens curiously echo not only Fort, but Raphaers story (109). Whether Fort also inspired the intelligence Staring eyes can be found in community in some direct or indirect fashion to every culture and every ... formulate the alien reconnaissance theory is age necessarily unknown, but is naithgr impossible can or implausible. Though they be attached All the elements seem to be there in 1913: to foreign enemies they are belief in extratgrrestrials, belief in furtive airships, the idea of examination, paranoia. The often pictured as simply only thing that seems to be missing is a Keyhoe l in and a Mantell case to lend his idea seriousness. foat g above us, Fort was too much the class clown to phrase his ideas in arguments that tried to convince. It also strange, unidentified might be the the public needed the sensation of staring eyes ... Arnold's supersonic saucers to redirect their attention to aerial mysteries. Teasing out all the ) 1-. relevant factors and possibilities may keep historians guessing for years. Though no single episode of collective shame can be pointed to as establishing the UFO mythos, the idea may provide a key to several mass manifestations of the UFO phenomenon. The major UFO flaps subsequent to 1947 appear in concert with major historical episodes of national shame or humiliation. The 1952 wave coincides with an emotionally charged steel strike which caused allegations of treason, that steelworkers were undermining the war in Korea. The 1957 wave emerged in the wake of Russia's launch of Sputnik and the realisation that Yankee technological superiority had been called into question. It was easily the pivotal identity crisis of the fifties generation. The 1965 wave began within days of the first US ground combat operations in Vietnam. It was quickly termed a tfutile assault' and in the weeks that followed the situation visibly deteriated. After , the initial pulse of the wave passed, the famous Watts riots kicked up a secondary peak in mid August. The notorious Swamp-Gas flap of 1966 played against the backdrop of the first anti-US demonstrations in Hue and Danang, then Saigon and elsewhere. Spectacular fiery suicides by religious figures were particularly agonising to behold. lastly, the 1973 Wave blossomed in the heat of W atergate Psychohistorian Lloyd deMause has asserted that staring eyes can be found during times of crisis in every country and every age from ancient Egypt's "Eye of Horus" to the "hypnotic eyes" of Adolf Hitler. (ll0) Though they can be attached to foreign enemies they are Odil Redon: often pictured as simply floating above us, strange, unidentified staring eyes. (Ill) The eye li/ce a Unidentified Flying Objects with their strang-B balloon connotations of aliens-are-watching-us seem to be a variation of the paranoid delusions of observation prompted by ego crises seen both infinity. (1882) with individuals and groups. 111111.11'11 11'1 1'1 I�ITIII':lIIfllI'l'IfllIi•U!lI !iU.iIl!: IIHIM!IlI'il'I'iI:In'IrJ1 1i.;1:1 :'1m1I'11Il1'1'1'l lIIll'l'Ilfl'I'lfI'll'[lll'tI i1T:rHl'IU lI I1l' 1'11l11 lllllllllll 8 d at Michael Qoss Blamyeo uerd itHoirs.B ac:kPaignev itattoi on readetros Marooia predithc:etn exGtr eaUtn explaiPnheedn omensoenmt e a -thinking. Set me a.-thinking that each successive Great concept arises, though not inevitably, from more Unexplained Phenomenon which rises from the humble seance-room phenomena. The Greys of obscurity of being known to the freakish few to Zeta Reticuli are less likely to be shown the door becoming the possession of the millions - becomes to your boggle-threshold if you condone CEIV s, a craze, a talking point, a trend a pollutant of the and that in turn may depend on how you airwa.ves, breeds a spawn of conferences and reacted to CEIIIs, as Andy Roberts's article in • ROBERTS, specialist magazines -poses on the cover of WJ1d Pldces proved triumphantly. 'Boggle Andy. Newswee.K, gets sniped at in Private Eye, threshold' is a good metaphor, a coining of Renee 'Subterranean blunders onto Wogan, struts and frets its hour Haynes I think, although someone is bound to tell Homesick Greys', upon the stage and then is heard of on breakfast me I'm wrong. It expands thanks to the in Wild Places, TV no more. Well, a thing like that leaves activities of all the previous boggles. We are no. 2, (1991), casualties behind it. more likely to believe and accept if we believed pp.14-21. The chiefest casualty being the previous and accepted the last time. month's Great Unexplained Phenomenon. If this Quasi Rule 2: strictly speaking there are really is a culture where everyone can expect a no tnew phenomena', merely variations on old turn at being famous for a quarter of an hour ones. This theoretical distinction isn't always (less advert breaks) the paranormal has no right clear to general audiences, or to newspaper to demand preferential treatment. It may be editors, who tend to treat aspects on phenomena possible, even, to lay down a set of general rules in isolation. A phenomenon incapable of governing the rise and fall of Great Phenomena. variation becomes, in neo-Darwinian terms, In semi-logical order, and no more than obsolete. It need not drop out of existence; it will that: paranormal phenomena breed one upon the have its practitioners, its students and others other in the sense that popular awareness of who are prone to say with time that it has been newly (mass) publicised ones is conditioned by unjustly neglected. Loss of mass audience doesn't how well-digested the preceding ones were. Past invalidate. I have long suspected that there was life regression makes more sense - seems more more to mesmerism than is covered by the term credibly, arguably- if you have been exposed to hypnosis; SPR investigator Brian Nisbet popular articles on hypnosis. Materialization as a produced some intriguing ESP-Spiritualist 9 evidence by the ostensibly outmoded means of audience stay faithful to the Phenomenon, it is a l late what equally y younger audiences t b e-tilting as as the 1970s. But the likel that new and phenomenon loses is its charisma; quite likely it will come along and rediscover it. At a modest wanilyl opnaes sh ainvtion ga ceoxepllaaciannetdh i-ts tsyalties afaftcetrolriifley, .w Biutth out lceovnesle. rtvruatie-vlief ef ogrhmos) ta srteo ries (essentially a perennialyl popular. now, nobody cares about explaining it. the real There are still people who find fire-walking a sthomruestth, itnhge nexewci.t ethmee dnitr, hais focussed upon vibrantwlyh oe xwciiltli nngo tt ompiiscs, jauns te pasis tohdeer e are still ecton of studies in that people of particular field lie with the newphenomenon, not Neighbours or a home game of West Bromwich the old ... possibly or most probably. Albion. The focus's heady days of fame may be take the empyrean - to as back. or try this: Three: to off into p t, but they maycome make the Wogan show for instance - the during my spell as a secondary-school teacher, I Phenomenon must offer audience participation. was recurrently bemused at teenagers' delight in What Uri Geller did may rediscovering what they on Dimbleby you be the sub-surface arts of a.ble to do. Your gra.ndmother found stra.nge ca.lled weeja. a.nd ipnertism. Perha.ps my tShpiinrgitsu halaisptp meneeddi uwmh.e An nsdh ey woue?n t to that need to scoomelaecoanne tehl sgei'bs eo lwd ahsa mt ispalya ceidy. Afteri allyl, You've no m f t ou nce . .......·...... ......,... ·..... . .. stop at reading about this stuff - Talking of which, is there you can become involved, you T:Ae.p:l:r.uor. :.mif . ·Dia. . l... . . fa o nry hoante- touurtru �hnegr?e S�tnhcoe gao es in can expBrie.nce. 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It I've nothing else to turn for whiling the time away. eventually bored, satiated. becomes The paranormd! may portray itself as an entity more Hat-turning was a short-lived sensation, nothing tmopuorr tsacniet ntoti foiuc r mental and spirsiatuya,l future or moSre tihan lain emWbhryato nic stage tion atphpe rleifcei ahties tiosr y to knowledge than, John of pir tua sm. we need Travolta or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, yet it how enthusiastically it was greeted. PunciJ had its isr as subrjse ct to overg-aeuxgpeo sure as they. Editors, caom-tpelrem rionoomu sf onre athr e craze and even more for p oduce have to both the incipient relation, table-turning, whose appeal of a phenomenon and its rate of M.O. epidemic popularity and ephemerality it exponential decay: when to play a trend for all also borrowed from the hatters. The allure of s worth and when table r i appreciated from three it' to drop it. tu n ng may be ' The foregoing is too simple, Im aware; it comments: one made when it was yet a novelty, t ignores the fact that while por ion of the the others some time after it had subsided. In some 10

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