,June 1993 95p. 1988 -1993 D Twenty-five years of publication Martin Kottmeyer concludes the hidden history of ufologlcal hypochondria Plus: Fairyland's Hunters D Peter Aogerson begins a revisionist Northern history of abductions. Echoes D Roger Sandell summarises Books the latest 0 developments in the Letters Satanlsm scare D 25 Years Ago Nigel Watson reviews •Fire in the Sky' �§If§� �@@8�®@�0® NORTHERN ECHOES MAGONIA 46 (MUFOB9 3) EDITOR JOHN RIMMER EDITORIAPLA NEL JohnH arney RogerSandell NigeWla tson POLOGIES for a Later on I actually corresponded with CORRESPONDINEGD ITORS technical hitch in Michel for a brief period, but my cat was Peter Rogerson the last column. never able to completely convince his that MichaeGlo ss The penultimate cats weren't would-be human beings who RoberRta nkin p a r a g r a p h hadn't quite made it, but rather successful SUBSCRITPION DETAILS should have read: products of their own evolutionary history. Magoniai sa vailabblye ex­ "there are many cases in which if the Poor old Tim always argued that all this changew itho themra gazines,ev ents occured exactly as the witnesses talk of extraterrestrial spaceships was non­ or by subscriptaitot nh ef ol­ described, we are faced with a major puzzle, sense, as truly intelligent aliens would be lowinrga tes: but given what we know (or perhaps more developing really important and useful skills accurately don't know) about perception, such as simultaneously catching two trout, United Kingdom £4.00 Europe £5.00 description, memory etc.. then that may be one with your front paws, the other with United States $10.00 a very big 'if' indeed". This is I hope not a your rear while hanging over a fast-flowing Other countries £5.50 debunking position but a recognition of the river with your tail wrapped round a tree complexities we face in this field. in a Force Nine gale. That's really superior. c;> USA subscriptimounsst Some things do need to be swiftly Though such arguments never con- be paidi nd ollabri llosr UK and comprehensively debunked however. vinced Michel, he did, unlike many other funds.W e are unablet o One such is the rumour which swept supporters of the ETH, realise that if that acceptc hequesd rawn on Warrington after the bombs there in March, hypothesis was true, then there was no Americabna nks. that MacDonald's, the fast food chain, point in going on with ufology, because we "contributes to the I.RA." This is, of could never learn anything about truly C> Frenchs ubscribemrasy course, nonsense, but it appears to have alien extraterrestrials. So he gave up the findi te asiearn d cheapetro sendu s a 50-franbca nknote arisen because someone saw a TV docu­ subject. rathert hana money-orderm.e ntary in which a MacDonald's pay slip This was before the growth of We areh appyt oa cceptth is. was shown, which included the heading stories about omnipotent Greys, who can 'Deduction to IRA'. The acronym here, transport people through solid walls into C> Cheques and money­ however, does not stand for Irish Repub- invisible and impalpable spaceships. If such orderssh ouldb e made pay­ lican Army, but 'Individual Retirement were the case, then we could not only ablet o 'JohnR immer'n,o t 'Magonia'. Account'. an American pension plan. As a know nothing about UFOs, but could result of this nasty urban legend several know nothing about anything. If extra­ MacDonald's staff in Warrington have been terrestrials can transport people through Allc orrespondesnucbes.c ript­ abused and attacked. As the staff at Mac- solid walls, they can do anything they want ionsa nde xchangmea gazines Donald's were working only feet from to. Our senses and scientific instruments, shoulbde s entto t hee ditor: where the second, fatal, bomb exploded, all science, all knowledge, would end. It is JohnR immer and were some of the first people to tend hardly surprising that some of us do not JohnD eeC ottage the wounded, this is bitterly ironic indeed. relish such a prospect, and find invoking 5 JamesT errace MortlakCeh urchyard I couldn't let the death of Aime omnipotent wills to explain anomalies as LondonS,W 148 HB Michel, reported in Magonia 45, to go un- being about as useful as 'explaining' light­ United Kingdom noticed here, as it was reading his book, ning as the wrath of Zeus! The Truth About Flying Saucers which first It is all very well for supporters of led me into this subject more than thirty the physical reality of abductions to argue, @ Magonia Magazine 1993 years ago. Michel converted me to 'belief in for example, that they have 'mental health Copyright in signed articles rests with the flying saucers' and the nuts and bolts ETH, experts' on their side. However similar authors. which position I held for a number of years. Continued on Page Seven»> MAGONIA Notes Towards a Revisionist History of Abductions BY PETER ROQERSON Part One HE THESIS of this series of articles is a simple Flying Saucer &view. (5) one; it is that the history of the growth of As readers of Magonia know, I argue that one 11 ROGERSOPeterN, abduction stories within ufology is a far more can determine two broad strands within ufology; a 'rel­ (compiler), JNTCAT: tangled affair than the 'entirely unpredisposed' igious', contactee-orientated 'flying saucer' tradition; and A century of UFO official history would have us believe. In it I have col­ a secular 'UFO' tradition; and very early on the theme IMJ<iings1 880-1980, lated material from my own INTCAT (1), Eddie Bullard's of the race of invaders from the dying planet Mars unpubftshed catalogue (2and) other sourc� and aredrang them in a became one of the staples of the latter tradition.. It manuscript. 12BUUARD, rough chronology of reportage and investigation. These seemed to follow naturalyl that potential invaders may Thomas E., UFO articles constitute notes towards a history; ho�. only want samples or hostages. By early 1954 Harold Tom Abductions: The a small fraction of potential sources has been examined, Wilkins, in a book which the UK publisher gave the f1Jelt$Ufe of a my5tery and the picture may change radically as wider trawls low-key title Flying Saucers on the Moon, but which (2vo lsf\J)nd, fo r UFO bring in new material. But I hope that they will provide the American gave the much more evocative title Flying Researchers, 1987. pesomrceo laitmedp resintosi ounfo loogif calho cwu ltuthree . theme of abductions mSaanucyBTS case ons theof Amttysactek.ri o(6us) sudggisaepspted:earan 'Ocnees woof ndmeersn hanowd 1OOe3menWHEAni ns,H, Sutchinstar TlEo ofYn ,Il ,l In a general sense, as the editors of this magazine women in 1948-52 might be explained as TAKEN 1952. have documen� the idea of 'being taken' by 'the other' ABOARD A FLYING SAUCER MET IN A LONELY 14 Heard,G erald, is a very pervasive one in human cultures, and it is a PLACE' (Wilkins's capitals), and backed up this claim The Riddle of the testimony to its power that it emerged very rapidly in with some of the earliest ufological references to a Flying SIIUcers, the 'age of the flying saucer'. It was a theme in many variety of Fortean disappearanc� such as Flight 19, the CarroU and Nicholson, 1950. early science fiction films of a vaguely ufological bent. Flannan Lighthouse, etc. He also quotes a billboard 15G IRVA'WaNeneyN,, and perhaps its first post-1947 literary treatment was in erected by one George Sadder of Faycttesvillc, North Flying Saucers and the novel Star of m Omen by Dennis Wheatley (3), the Carolina, in July 1953: 1 offer SS,OOO for information Common Sense, wcll-known horror story writer, and one of the great about the fate of five childre� mysteriously snatched MuRer, 1955. spreaders of the satanism myth. In this novel the usual away from a burning house on Christmas morning 1945. 16WJ U<JNS,H arold, melange of stock characters arc abducted from Peron's The parents escaped, but at first they believed the RyingSau cers on the Argentina by giant humanoids to Mars, where it children perished in the flames, supposed to be caused Mo1954 {pub,on Peterlis hedOwen in, transpin:s the giants are little more than the beasts of by faulty wiring. But no remains were found in the USA as flying burden of the super-insects who are the real masters of ashes. A bus driver says he had seen balls of fire thrown &ucers on the Attack, the dying planet. That flying saucers were the vehicles of on to the roof: (l) Already we can see how the pain of Citadel Press, 195-i). Martian super-bees had been the theme of the first the loss of children whose bodies arc presumably 17 Ibid., p. 262. British UFO boko Riddle of the Flying Saucers, by the burned quite away, can be assuaged by the hope that mystic and science writer Gerald Heard (4). who had they are not really dead after all, but 'taken' to some been commissioned to write the boko by Wavency fairyland whence perchance they may be recalled. Oitvan, who was later to be publisher, then editor, of In the following years similar speculations ap- L-.__ ______ _. MAGONIA peared; Wilkins in his second away as a blinding flash sped book Flying Saucers Uncensor­ north-east in December 1953� ed referred to the story of the (15) or the attempted kidnap- 18 WILKINS, Harold two contactees Karl Hunrath ping of a girl by two glowing T., RyingS aucers and Wilbur Wilkinson whose entities with fish-like hands at Uncensored, Citadel Press, 1955, p. 47 mysterious disappearance was Brovs4 Denmark, on 12 Sept­ 19 Ibidpp. 1,00 -105. regarded as an 'alleged abduct­ ember 1953, (16) it appears that 110 JESSUP,M orris ion by flying saucers' and the earliest abduction stories K., The Case for the Wilkinson's wife was quoted as emerged from the 'great wa:ve' UFO, Arco, 1955, p. saying that they had been of 1954. 144. abducted by flying saucers in This wa:ve was to be signif­ 111 KEYHOE,D onaJd E., The RyingSau cer the California desert. (8) To this icant in a further way in that Conspiracy,Ho lt, were added more tales of Fort­ it marked the emergence of a 1955. ean appearances and disappear­ The French wave of 1954 broadly acceptable image of 112CHIBBffi, ances. (9) M.K. Jessup in his was to be significant In the secular ufonaut, the dwarf Harold S.W., 'UFOs Case for the UFO (10) added the with the outsize head as descri­ and parapsychology' legends of 'the man who cros­ marking the emergence of bed by Marius Dewilde and inBO WEN,C harles (ed.), UFO Percipients, sed the field' and 'the boy who a broadly acceptable taken up enthusiastically by RyinSga ucReevirew went to the well', disappearing other witnesses and journalists. image of the secular SpeciaIls sNuoe. 3, ships and crews, and teleport­ Given the imprimatur of Aime September 1989,p p ations suggesting that they had ufonaut: Michel, APRO and eventualyl 33-36. (Rrst been 'captured by a space con­ NICAP, the Dewilde human­ published in Ouranos traption for purposes beyond the dwarf with the outsize oid was to be one of the main magazine, August 1954; reprinted in our lien'. Donald Keyhoe's head as described by ingredients in the image of the MysticMag azine, Flying Saucer Conspiracy (11) Marius Dewilde Grey. Dewilde's story was February 1955). highlighted the Kimross air taken up because, at least as 113 CLARK, Jerome, base story in which a plane presented by Michel, it was 'The coming of the was seen to merge with another seen as a stark contrast to the Venusians ·, Fate, blip on a radar screen and disappear, and speculated American contactees. Dewilde's stories were far more January 1981,p p 49- 55. that it may have been abducted; Flight 19 was also complex, and he was to emerge as both contactee and 114 VALLEE, Jacques, mentioned as a possible abduction target. abductee. No details of these developments are Anatoomfya That such speculation should lead to personal currently available in English; perhaps some of our Phenomenon, stories was not unexpected, and three broad narrative French readers could oblige? Speannan, 1966, p. strands emerged; the abduction escapee in which the The earliest so far dated report of an abduction 113145. B INDER,O tto, narrator tells of his narrow escape from being abducted, attempt comes from Llturore of 12 September, which the abduction witness, in which the narrator tells of reported that a Mr Pili of Tehran was on the balcony RyingS aucearsr e �tchinUsg, seeing someone else being abducted. presumably not to of the second floor of his house when he saw a Belmont, 1968, pp reappear, and the abduction survivor stories, in which luminous object hovering 20 m away. Inside was a 39-40,and the narrator tells of his adventures on board the alien small man dressed in black with a trunk like an FLAMMONDE, Paris, craft. A further set of narratives are those of the on­ elephant's. Fill felt magnetically drawn towards the The Ageof Rying board adventures, which differ from the abductions objec4 but when he screamed it broke the spell and SaucersH,awthorn , 1971, p. 61. Binder chiefly in that the narrators were either invited or the object took off. (17) gives the source as simply walked on board. Eleven days later, in the unlikely place of the Gray Bari<er's Perhaps the earliest vision of the interior of a letters column of Paris Match, came the earliest Sauceriamnag azine 'flying saucer' in the modem era was that of a female known abduction survivor report. Mr GB of Marseille which, according to hypnosis subject of Harold Chibbett in 1947 (12), who recounted how as a boy he had been walking along Eberhart, was under trance described a 'psychic voyage' to what she the banks of the North Canal when he was seized by published between September 1953 and thought was Mars, where she was subjected to painful two men from behind the bushes. They were tall, Spring 1955 (has procedures by giant humanoids including two women slender and dressed in what looked like flexible anyone got the and a bald man; perhaps this inspired Dennis Whcatley's metallic diving suits. They carried him into a strange original?). giant humanoids. Perhaps the earliest alleged physical on­ object which had square or rectangular portholes. 116 VALLEE, Jacques, board adventure was that of Samuel Estes Thompson Inside was a flexible couch on which he sat. The boy Passport to Magonia, (which appeared, perhaps significantly, in the 1 April began to weep and, some minutes later, an opening Regnery, 1969. Appendix 'A Century issue of the Centralia Daily Chronicle, though Kenneth appeared in the ceiling of the cabin, and he was on of UFO landings', Arnold subsequently interviewed Thompson and felt he the ground again. He found that he had to walk for case 118. Vallee gives was sincere). His story was tha4 driving down a back most of the afternoon to get back to where he had the source as Guieu, road, he saw an object hovering above the ground, and been taken from, though he had been in the craft for which appears to was i�vited on board by curiously naive naked beings only about 5 minutes. (18) relate to the French who said that they came from Venus. Though they Even in this third-hand summary we can detect edition of Rying didn't seem to know how their craft work� they could hints of such well-known later themes as doorway SauceCorsme from AnothWoerrld , talk about reincarnation, vegetarianism and similar new­ amnesia and time lapse, but otherwise this narrative at Hutchinson, 1956. A age topics. (13) the very origin of the abduction saga is a very bare search of the English Pursuing the abduction theme, if we set aside for one; no medical examination, certainly no sex. It is edition failed to find lack of real detail and clear, contemporaneous references determinedly secular and its antecedents arc secular, this case. the alleged kidnapping of Tom Brook in Florida in for surely the story of a boy kidnapped by men in August 1952; (14) the claim of Albert Grear, a farmer diving suits by a canal and taken to a craft whose outside Zanesville, Ohio, that his brother James levitated escape hatch is in the roof belongs in a children's MAGONIA adventure story of kidnapping by submariners. The 3 ft tall asparagus stalks. Who says these stories don't image of being pounced on from behind bushes hints at vary? (23) child abusers. Here we can sec the emergence of the A 1956 abduction featured in the Todd Kitter­ 117 Ibid., case 211, d. UFO abduction story out of a melange of secular idge af.fair Kitteridge had claimed that, awoken by his CREJGHTON, Gordon, abduction themes. dogs, he saw a golden ball descending behind the 'Attempted abduction by UFO entity', Rying The stories of the battles with the 'little hairy branch of a tree, as the dogs ran around barking. Saucer Review, 13, 2, aliens' in Venezuela in December 1954, most particularly From it emerged three tall beings dressed in ski suits, March/Apri11967, the Aores/Gomez case, can be fitted into escape with long blond hair and strange, protruding eyes. At pp 23-2-4, quoting narratives. More to the point, an unnamed Naples news­ first he felt afraid but his fear disappeared and it the Iranian newspaper paper of 13 December 1954 introduced the second seemed he was no longer thinking his own thoughts. Ettela'st, 15 October known abduction story. A 57-year-old peasant absent One of the men said he was from Venus, but left 195-4. 1181NTCATfiles. from home for two days claimed on his return that he when the dogs continued to harass him. The object Supplied by Alain had been force-marched for the missing period by two returned three days later. The same thing happened to Gamard from research strange beings, sometimes tall, sometimes dwarfs, in the a woman school teacher and to a linesman. The by D.Gu arden. colours of the rainbow. He had felt weightless as if flying, woman later rang the investigators in hysteria, saying 119 RORINO, Paolo, and although it had been nrlning he was quite dry, but that 'they' were visiting and threatening to abduct her. 'Abductions in Italy', wild and incoherent. {19) This is much less like the stan­ (24) UFO nmes, 13, Ml'/ 1991, quoting Naples dard abduction story than the French one. It is also far The rumours of aircraft being taken by 'them' papers of 13 less secular, for it introduces an altogether magical night were sooner or later bound to produce an eyewitness. December 195-4 and journey in the company of shape-shifte� deeply rooted In May 1957 he arrived in the person of Eugene investigation by in the traditions of the region, with almost no secular Metcalf of Paris, Illinois, who claimed that two years Umberto Tel.rdo in ufological imagery. earlier.. in May 1955, he had seen from his back yard a 197�. What could have been the third abduction of bell-shaped object, which he had seen many times in 120 LORENZEN, Coral and Jim, flying 1954, if details of just when the investigation took place the past few yem, swallow up a jet aircraft, like a Sauur Occupants, or if contemporaneous reports reports could be found, hawk catching a chicken. {24a) Needless to say, no New American Ubrary, was supposed to happened on 2 November at Santo planes were reported missing. Other abduction stories 1967, p. 198. Amara in Brazil. A taxi driver walking home from work � in the airwaves if not in the air, for the March Investigation by OJavo saw a glowing circular object about 30-40 m in diameter 1957 edition of the Long John Nebel radio show Fontes and others. at a street corner and, when he tried to flee, found featured John Robinson, a sidekick of Jim Moseley, 121 BETHURUM, himself paralysed, speechless, and in the grip of a strange reporting a dramatically spooky, if not very plausible, Truman, Aboard a Flying Sliucef", De feeling. This was replaced by a great curiosity and some­ abduction tale. The gist of it was that in 1944 he, Vorss, 195-4, p.-4 2. how he walked through a sliding door into the object, Robinso� had a neighbour named Steve Brodie who 122 ADAMSKI, where he encountered a circular room lighted by a soft, one day saw (in Robinson's apartment) a copy of one George, lnsi� the lampless illumination. On a curiously shaped table were of Ray Palmer's magazines featuring the Dero. Brodie Space Ships, Arco, various maps and charts, including one of South yelled out: 'He speaks of the Dero!' and proceeded to 1956, p. -46. 122a KIRK, Robert, America. He suddenly found himself faced by three tell Robinson how he had been prospecting out West The Secret MKI• human-shaped beings less than 5 ft tall, with dark brown with a companion in 1938. One day they encountered Short Tre.tise of skin, short dark hair, and dressed in light grey, one-piece two mysterious cowled figures, who paralysed Brodie ChMms 6nd Spels coveralls without buttons or zips. In their belts were by pointing a rod-like device at him. When the (sic), (ed. Stewart what looked like guns. They looked at him intently companion tried to flee, they tired at him, and Brodie Sanderson), D.S. without speaking to him, but conversing among them­ heard him scream and smelled burnt flesh. When one Brewer for the Folklore Society, 1976, selves in a 'language with a lot of k's'. The taxi driver of the figures placed 'small earphones' behind his ears p.69.d.modern­ found himself paralysed again and back outside the Brodie lost consciousness. From time to time he language version of object. (20) As the earliest date of publication for this would come to, in a place which fellow prisoners told Secret story is 1967, it may well not have surfaced until about him was the cave of the Dero. Each time his brain Commonwalth that time and be subjected to inevitable contamination, began to clear, the cowl ed one adjusted the earphones incorporated in but we can see hints of doorway amnesia and mental and Brodie lost consciousness again. He eventually STEWART, R.J . RtJbm/(jrj. contro4 though again sex and medicine are absent. came to walking the streets of Manhattan two years 123 CREIGHTON, Evidence instead is on militaristic plans, perhaps for the later. Brodie showed Robinson scardre patches behind Gordon, 'Healing from invasion of Brazi4 which was one of the obsessions of his em a little smaller than a silver dollar. Brodie said UFO$', Flying S.Ucer Olavo Fontes, the investigator. The lampless light has that since his ordeal he was unable to eat meat (cf. Review, 15, 5, been hailed as some sort of evidence for authenticity, John Avis). Time passed; Robinson left the apartment, September/ October but it should be noted that it also appears in the but on returning for a visit found that Brodie had 1969, p. 20.The story was said to be contactee stories of Truman Bethurum (21) (of which disappeared. Another neighbour told Robinson that he circulating in the early more later) and George Adamski. (22) As far back as the had seen Brodie in Arizona, wandering about like a dl'fS of flying Slluct:r seventeenth century Robert Kirk recalled meeting a zombie. We are presumably supposed to conclude that Retn'ew{1955-6).A ny woman who had been taken to a place 'full of light he was back under the control of the Dero. (25) earlier pubfished without anie fountain or lamp from whence it did It is in this unlikely tale that we first encounter versions? spring'. {22a) the implants (behind the ears as in Invasion of the 12� JNTCATfdes. Civilian S.ucer Perhaps the earliest reference to medical proced­ Martians), and other abductionist staples such as the Intelligence ures in these stories comes from the mid-fifties with the paralysing rods and the doorway amnesia. Publication Newsletter, No. 6, p. fragmentary story of Fred Reagan, a pilot who was of this story in Allende Letters - New UFO Break­ 15, quoting supposed to have crashed into a flying saucer in July through in 1968 may have led to the first waye of Hollywood Citizen, 20 1952 and been rescued by the crew who cured him of implant stories, or so Steiger hinted in some later July 1956 and investigation by lsobel cancer, though not very thoroughly it would appear, as works, though no details survive. Epperson. he died of a brain tumour a couple of years later. These If the 'great wave' of 1954 had produced the extraterrestrial samaritans are said to have resembled 3 ft first 'true' abduction survivor story then the great wave of 1957, which generated to the editor, Joao Martins. This a number of rather secular classic story was to be much occupant stories, produced the closer to later accounts. Though second survivor story, that of in many ways AV B's sexy lady is the Salzburg soldier. This no more credible as an alien story first appeared in the than the Salzburg soldier's bug­ obscurity of the ll December eyed monster, there is a much 1957 isus e of the Prince greater sophistication of imagin­ Georgs Citizen (British Colum­ ation at work; the bird-shaped bia), subsequently in Ralph craft, the Arabian princess Sandbach's Ufology News and woman, the sense in which the the May 1958 edition of Ray beings reconcile opposites, pilot­ 125 STEIGER, Brad Palmcr's Flying Saucers. It ing sophisticated spaceship� but and WHRITENOUR, was a poorly crafted story in pasison red in secret places. and Joan, New UFO Breakthrough, which an American service­ barking like dogs or werewolves; Tandem, 1967. man in Salzburg was captured One reason why the AVI the attempt to seize the 126 BOWEN, Charles. by a bug-eyed monster and story gained credibility was souvenir from fairyland - in 'Fantasy or truth? a taken on a trip to Mars on this case the clock which does new look at an old the racist assumption that board a flying saucer. The not tell the time. contact claim'. FSR, alien was described as being any farmer In the Brazilian AV B's description of the 13, 4, July-August 1967 smaller than the witness, with Interior had to be an woman's face; large elongated 127 ALLEN, W. a high cylindrical forehead, blue eyes, high cheekbones and Gordon, SpKecraft large eyes with smaller eyes in Illiterate peasant who pointed chin {29) suggests a from beyond Three them like an insect'� two •couldn•t ponlbly make all derivation from Adamski who Dimensions, holes for a nose, a slit mouth, described his visitor as having Exposition Press, holes for ears and a white this up• slightly slanted eyes and slightly 1959. 128 RJLlER, John G., skull; the torso was round like higher cheekbones. (30) The Interrupted Journey, a tin can. It had no neck, motif may have been transmit­ Dial Press, 1966, pp. proportionate legs but short arms which terminated in ted by another 0 Cruz:eiro story, that of a farmer's 42-58. Hohmann and three-fmgered hands. The story contained one major encounter in Linha Bela Vista with a landed UFO and Jackson were authors error, that the narrator and his captor flipped over as three men with long blond hair, extremely pale skin and of an American they reached the zone of gravitational neutrality slanted eyes. (31) Rocket Society pamphlet entitted 'An between the earth and the moon. (26) In this bug-eyed One reason why the AVB story gained credibility was historic report of life robot can be seen hints of future things, the slit mouth, the racist assumption that any farmer in the Brazilian in space'. (Eberhardt the absence of nose and the three-fingered hand. interior had to be an illiterate peasant who 'couldn't 1528-4 What is more significant, however, is that this possibly make all this up'. As Eddy Bullard pointed out 129 CREIGHTON, was the first abduction to be published in a boko which to me. the fact that the Villas Boas family possessed a Gordon, 'The amazing circulated beyond the narrow world of ufology. This was tractor put them well above the peasant class. In fact case of Antonio Villas Boas', The W. Gordon Alien's Spacecraft from beyond Three AV B fits very neatly into the 'clasisc' abductee pattern of Hum.noids, Dimensions, published in 1959, two years before the Hill the highly intelligent, artistic individual in a status­ Speannan, 1969, p. abduction. Now one must concede that it was a turgid inconsistent lowly occupation. We now know that AV B 216. work of pseudoscience, not your first choice for a was a determinedly upwardly mobile young man, study­ 130 LESUE, Desmond riveting read, but UFO books were in short supply in, ing a correspondence course, and eventually becoming a andGeo rAgeD,A RMyingSKI , say, 1962 and this book was in bookshops and libraries lawyer {at which news the ufologists who had consid­ Saucers Hwe Landed, (I remember it being sold in Willshaw's in Manchester ered him too much the rural simpleton to have made up Wemer Laurie, 1953, in the mid-1960s). Even if Betty Hill hadn't encountered the story, now argued that he was too bourgeois and p.195. it in her library haul, Alien's pseudoscienti.fic specul­ respectable to have done so; heads I win� tails you lose, 131 CREIGHTON, op. ations about ether and the 'vortex theory of atoms', and again). cit., 'The humanoids Nicholas Tesla. were, it strikes me, precisely the sort of Reading between the lines of funtes's account9. it in Latin America', pp. thing to appeal to two of the original investigators of the seems pretty clear that AV B was hoping to sell the story 94-95. LORENZEN, Coral, The Great Hill case, Robert Hohmann and C.D. Jackson. who were to 0 Crt.�.Zeiro, and was pretty disappointed when they Rying Saucer Hoax, responsible for suggesting to the Hills that they had refused to buy, and perhaps was rather taken off guard William Frederick experienced 'missing time'. (28) Even more interesting is when he started to get interrogated. Press, 1962, pp. -46- that Allen. in this better-publicised version. edited out Another aspect of the AV B case which is not as 47. references to the cylindrical forehead and the bug eyes; clear cut as is often portrayed is how the AV B story instead he described the abductor as having 'a high circulated and whether the Hills could have got to hear forehead, big eyes, a slit for a mouth, two holes for a of it. The story first emerged in February 1958, and later nose. white skin, large skull, no external skin around his that year Fontes seems to have sent a report to APRO, earhole openings' -much closer to the Grey, isn't it? where it is not clear how many people saw it Rumours Abduction motifs appeared in some of the con­ must have been circulating around Brazil at least, for tactee cases in 1957, such as Reinhold Schmidt, the Pajas Walter Buhler had heard about it in that year, though it Blancas motorcyclist (Diario de Cordoba, l May 1957), appears to have taken another couple of years for him and Professor Guiamarcs of Sao Sebastiao ( 0 Cruzeiro, 1 to track Antonio down. There is, admittedly weak, December 1957). evidence that rumours about this case had got wider It was as a result of another article on UFOs in circulation in that year. This depends on the claim made the previous month's 0 Cruzeiro that the next abduction in 967 by the Australian ufologist Colin McCarthy that story emerged, that of Antonio Villas Boas, who wrote in 1959 George Adarnski had heard about 'funny MAGONIA landings and kidnappings' (though that may have refer­ The year 1959 saw not only the first appearance red to the Salzburg soldier). McCarthy also claimed to in the Latin American press of the first car teleportation have investigated a 1960 contactee who spoke about stories, but may have seen the appearance of a much negative forces from Orlon seeking to interbreed with us. more modern story. Alas, it is another case in which If McCarthy was not making that up, it looks as though varying sources give different dates, one being October some contactee circles had got to hear about AV B and 1959, another November 1961. Though the case was said were mobilising their ideological responses. (32) to have been investigated by a Colonel Schneider 'some The earliest known publication of the AV B story months afterwards', unfortunately the earliest versions I was in the SBESDV Bulletin of April/June 1962; this can trace date from Lorcnzen's Flying Saucer Occu­ bulel tin was exchanged with a number of similar pants of 1967, and Felipe Carori n's DiscO$ Voadores publications and one presumes APRO received a copy. Impresvisuels e Conturbadores (1968)� the latter quoted Is it possible tha4 given that his interest in the Hill case in Jader U. Pcreira's us ETs, giving his primary source was sparked off by its similarity to Brazilian car-stopping as GGIOANI, Porto Alegrc. So in the absence of a cases, that Waiter Webb, the NICAP investigator, saw definite pre-October 1966 publication or checkable copies of this magazine, and if so could he have ment­ source the possibility of post-Hill contamination must ioned AVB in casual conversation? remain. With that cavea4 the story goes as follows. C� Though it is often stated as a fact that the earliest a retired police officer and real estate dealer, staying at English-language version of the AVB story was the his beach house, one night had a strong compulsion to famous 'The most amazing case of all' in the JanuaryI go and walk on the beach. He then felt drawn towards a February 1965 issue of Flying Saucer Review, this is not strange ligh4 and as he approached he saw it was from a quite certain. An independent translation from Buhler's disc on the beach. One or two helmeted individuals version appeared in Gray Barkers Book of Saucers, approached, but the light obscured details. They seedem published in 1965. (33) It is not clear whether this was to communicate the command: 'Do not resist, you can't'. original material or reprints from his magazines, a He felt paralysed but strangely unafraid. He then had a suggestion encouraged by the reference to AVB appear­ fragmentary memory of someone scratching his arm ing in a recent issue of SBESDV Bulletin. Can anyone with a sort of instrumen4 then he had a two-hour time clarify this? lapse. When he recovered he found himself back in the There is, however, no doubt about the wide­ beach house. The light had gone and the beach was 132 BUCKLE,Eileen, spread distribution of the abduction escapee narrative of deserted. He later became depressed, anxious and anti­ The Scoriton Mystery, Stig Rydberg and Hans Gustavsson, about their attemp­ social. As of 1967 he was said to be reusing hypnosis. Neville Spearman, ted kidnapping by wholly inhuman grey 'things', 1.35 m Trying to clarify just when this story emerged would be 1967. tall, 60 cm thick, which caught them in an inhuman grip. most useful, for if it does predate the Hills', it would 133 BARKER, Grav, They were associated with a high-pitched hum, and the mark the first emergence of time loss and post­ Gr.rj Barlcer's Book of Saucers, Saucerian witnesses' arms went into the featureless blobs up to the encounter trauma. Books, 1965, chapter elbows. This story, from Domsten in Sweden, appears to 8, 'Visitors from the be the first abduction case involving hypnosis. Details Fairyland's Hunters: the first part of Peter Rogerson's Bird Planet'. appeared in Fate for July 1960 and in the Lorenzens' major re-appraisal of UFO abductions, will be conclu­ 134lORENZEN Great Great Flying Saucer Hoax. (34) ded in the next issue of Magonia. ••• Flying Saucer Hoax, op. cit. pp.56-61. Since this part of the article was written I have come the Grays?' Jerry Clark also suggests that the original across some interesting additions. The first is another report on Antonio Villas-Boas in SBEDVB in July­ translation of the 23 October 1954 Paris-Match piece. August 1962 was in English - or at least had an In an article by Jerry Clark entitled 'Close Encounters English summary. If so, this would have very of the Third Kind, 1901-59' in Strange, p. 6-9, he gives interesting consequences. an account of the 8-ycar-old "playing among some Thirdly, in a letter dated 3 March 1993, Richard hills", rather than walking by the bank of a canal, Heiden has drawn my attention to an Argentinian • 'when he was accosted by two tall, slender men, book, which he considers almost certainly a hoax, wearing pliable helmets, who drageg d him into an entitled ro Fui Raptado por un Plata Volador ('I was oddly shaped tank. After a while an opening appeared kidnapped by a flying saucer'), by 'Leslie Hoover, in the ceiling of the cabin, and a few seconds later he published by Editorial OIR, circa 1954 - 6. (Eberhart found himself on the ground. 7708). Richard has only seen an advertisment for this In another article in the same magazine, 'Where Are book, has anyone seen a copy? •experts' are also claiming that thousands of believe whole groups of improbabilities. such as: I feel I am trapped in my past; I children are being sacrificed to the devil, How long before some 4fuerapist' claims feel I am being treated like an object; I feel without any physical evidence being prov- that their clients problems are all caused I am being used. Such feeling:s can be ided, and also that all psychological prob- by viscious vampires, or that their clients expressed best for some people in stories. lems are caused by past life memories, are closet were-pumas? One fears that some therapists are so possession by Sid the local deceased It is much more likely that these hooked on the potential sensationalism of alcoholic (who was possessed by you in a stories uncovered by the various species of the literal depiction of these stories, that past life - gets confusing at this point). In 'therapist' are products of the imagination. they have long given up trying to penetrate other words, if we take some therapists and But this doesn't mean they are worthless. to the truth beyond the metaphor. 'professionals' at their word, we have to No doubt they are saying important things, J.iZ:��-:��:��5��::,_� MAGONIA s and Shepherds The Seventies and so forth (1874-Now: Part Three of 'What's Up Doe?' Martin Kottmeyer I 93. VON KEVICSKY, NLESS Colman von Kevicsky's characterisation relationship to life throughout the universe. Fantastic Colman, 'The 1973 UFO of the 1973 wave as an invasion should be taken revelations to questions that have puzzled philosophers Invasion -Conclusions', seriously, the last significant expression of the throughout history were near and he hoped a reputable Official UFO, Fall 1976, 20-21. FOWLER, invasion fear occurs in Raymond Fowler's UFOs - organisation like the American Institute of Aeronautics Raymond E., UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors (1974). (92) It is presented as a and Astronautics and the National Academy of Sciences Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, possibility among a range of intentions that aliens might would move forward to study the phenomenon. The 286-300, 327. possess. The idea of friendly contact is rais� but is immediate future looks promising.' (95) Regardless of 1 94. BLUM, Ralph and muted by concerns over loss of national pride as alleg­ one's reaction to Emenegger's opinions the book bears Judy, Beyond Earth, iance is transferred to their superior force. In a chapter notice for a chapter on how the public would react to Bantam, 1974, 226, 225, archly titled 'The Impact - Disintegration or Survival'! The Contact that is the most intelligent in the literature. 216, 25. the existence of unprovoked hostile acts is pondered as In a December 1974 editorial for Flying Saucer • 95. EMENEGGER, either unwarranted aggression or an amoral act compar­ Review Charles Bowen warned that people should Robert, UFOs: Past, Present and Future, able to the swatting of a fly. Fowler believed the endeavour to avoid physical contact because UFOs have Ballantine, 1974, 171. American military complex had treated UFOs as a threat, been shown to cause harm. There is perhaps a struggle 150-55. but would be helpless if they proved to be enemies. The for possession of our planet between good and evil I 96. BOWEN, Charles, blackouts, abductions, attacks, and burns associated with forces, but UFOs may not be greatly concerned with Encounter Cases from UFOs help to demonstrate that superintelligent aliens the ultimate welfare of the human race. Noting how Flyint] Saucer Review, Signet, 1977, 215-17. are becoming an intimate part of our environment much of the phenomenon trades in gibberis� Bowen which we will have to resign ourselves to adapting to. laments 'Hoaxing, we feared, was not the prerogative of I 97. HYNEK, J. Alien (93) earth men'. (96) and VALLEE, Jacques, The Edge of Reality, H. Ralph and Judy Blum's Beyond Earth (1974) Hynek and Vallee's The Edge of Reality (1975} Regnery, 1975, 5, 9, asserts UFOs may be 'the biggest story ever', but they takes as given 'there appears to be no desire for in­ 159, 249. aren't sure if they are extraterrestrial and paraphysical volvement with the human race'. While UFOs are 1 98. VALLEE, Jacques, phenomena or 'living holograms projected on the sky by documented as causing harm, it is observed that electric­ The Invisible College, E. the laser beams of man's unconscious mind'. The tone is al outlets also cause harm but are not innately hostile. P. Dutton, 1975, 30, 208, 59. decidedly upbeat, with suggestions that UFOs represent The study of UFOs is regarded as an opportunity to 'an almost unimaginable energy source for mankind' and move toward a new reality. New departures in method­ 1 99. LORENZEN, Coral and Jim, have a habit of unorthodox healing. They quote Hynek's ology will, however, be needed. The Center for UFO Encounters with UFO opinion that ufonauts indulge in 'seemingly pointless Studies will be set up to serve those ends. (97) Occupants, Berldey, antics' and also include James Harder's response to a The same general sentiment appears in Vallee's 1976, 393, 399. question about whether UFOs pose a threat: The Invisible College (1975). UFOs are indifefrent to the I 100. KEEL, John A., 'If you pick up a mouse in a laboratory situation, welfare of the individual and pose no threat to national The Mothman Proph8cies, Signet, it's very frightening to the mouse. But it doesn't mean defence. The primary impact of UFOs appears to be on 1975, 145, 143. KEEL, that you mean the mouse any harm.' (94) human belief. Could it be someone is playing a fantastic John A., The Eighth Robert Emenegger's UFOs: Past, Present and trick on us? (98) Tower, Signet. 1975, 145, 157. Future (1974) also took an upbeat view of UFOs. Con­ The Lorenzens answer with a big yes. 'SOME­ tacts were friendly and he concurred with the Air Force BODY IS PUTTING US ON!' UFO encounters are in that they posed no threat. Understanding UFOs could some sense a charade. They also, however, appear to lead to the discovery of a new energy source and a new involve coldly scientific experiments on some humans MAGONIA and efforts to stock some distant exotic zoo. There is a Motives for aliens include invasion, domination, territ­ threat from UFOs after all, despite government assur­ orial acquisition, and commercial exploitation, but he ances, but not apparently invasion. Fortunately they dismisses the war of the worlds idea as 'paranoid regard this threat as avoidable. Stay away from lovers' mutterings'. It would surely have been easier to mash lanes and isolated camping sites. They argue the time has us when we were hurling rocks around instead of come to 'educate the aliens' with radio broadcasts in­ nuclear weapons. Whether they are on a spiritual viting them to visit openly. (99) misison or pursuing histocy lessons, they at least seem John Keel decides an The Mothrnan Prophecies to be intensely interested in us. (109) (1975) that the battle ccy of the Phenomenon is 'Make D. Scott Rogo and Jerome Clark's Earths 1 101H.O LZER,H aos, him look like a nut!' It also prompts him to muse after Secret Inhabitants (1979) sees the Phenomenon as a 1Th97e 6U,2fo 6na2u2t,s9, F0a-w9ce31t0,t4 ,. Fo'wortr,l d'wiIf dthe esrepre isad a oufni thveers UalF Omin bedl,i emf usantd i ti tsbe ac scanomerp anThye­ hsoeualinrcegs boptlhus obadf g oodthi ngthingss like lbikuems raised and IrQsadi ataionnd 1G o10d2so. Sf AT qEuIariGuEsBR:r,a d , ing disease' fills him with great consternation. In The effects. It provides us with visions of things humans UFOsa nd ths Eighth Tower (1975) the dangerous character of the want to believe. 1n fact, up to a certain point it may BTreanrkslfoenny1a,t9i on8v1 o-,vfiM . an, Phenomenon is played up with talk of the high rate of be good for us to believe in these things - providing, death among contactees and UFO hobbyists, and how of course, that we don't become so superstitious in the I 103F.L AMMONDE. 'any force that can sear your eyeballs, paralyse your process that we lose our grip on common sense'. PaBrailslU,aF nOt E1ix97int6se,,4, 1 9- limbs, erase your memocy, bum your skin and turn you Maybe they are clues to some larger truth. (110) Vallee 20. into a coughing, blubbering wreck can also maim and in Messengers of Deception (1979) essentially shows I 104. HYNEK,J. Alien, kill you'. It is dispassionate and ruthless. We are puppets that losing one's grip on common sense is the usual The Hynelc UFO Report, to the superspectrum. (100) result of UFO belief. As such it could be a useful Dell, 1977, 27, 181. In bizarer contrast Hans Holzer rejects 'monster' political tool and agent of social control. On the I 105.R OGO,D .S cott, theories of aliens bent on destroying us. They may brighter side, UFO study might clarify exciting theoret­ The Haunted Universe, regard themselves as potential saviours. Their attempts at ical and practical opportunities to understand energy Signet1,97 71,4 6. cross-breeding suggest we are 'not totally unworthy'. and information. (111) • 106.B ARRY,Bi n, (101) Brad Steiger believed UFOs would be a transformat­ In 1979 Yurko Bondarchuk saw imminent, UltimaEtnec ounter, ive symbol that will unite our entire species into one before the year 2000, contact with extraterrestrials. 'It Pocket, 1978,1 99. spiritual organism. They would be the spiritual midwife· is inconceivable that their journeys to a peripheral I 107. STRIGNFIELD, which brings about mankind's starbirth into the universe. planet are merely haphazard or mindless.' They are Leonard, SituatiRoend , Fawcett, 1977, 176. (102) Paris Flammonde takes the view that man will surveying our self-destructive capabilities and our never achieve intercommunication or a symbiotic relat­ resource base. He expects the contact to lead to __..,.,--_--=� ionship with extraterrestrials in UFO Exist (1976) (103) the emergence of a 'new world order' in The Hynek UFO Report (1977) reflects the which existing tenitorial and ideologic­ emerging consensus. UFO study could perhaps be the al conflicts will be gradually eliminated ' springboard to a revolution in man's view of himself and and eventual creation of a restructured his place in the universe'. But they also appear to be world economic order. A universal re­ 'playing games with us'. (10-t) D. Scott Rogo similarly felt evaluation of spiritual convictions could also UFOs demonstrate that our world plays host to a force expected. (112) Raymond Fowler similarly speculates I 108.G ATTI, ArtU,F O that seeks to mystify us. (105) Bill Barcy's account of the that UFOs represent a 'much-needed bridge between Encounters of the 4th Travis Walton controversy evaluates the phenomenon as science and religion'. The events of The Andreasson KindZ,e bra, 1978, 191. having never expressed hostility towards any of its Affair (1979) strike him as a stage-managed religious I 109S.T EIGEBRra,d , alleged victims. Abductees are treated merely as guinea experience by interstellar missionaries. Betty Andreas­ AlieMne etingAsc.e , 1978, 209. pigs. (106) son and others like her have been primed subcon­ As in his book in the fifties, Leonard Stringfield's sciously with information which might burst into 1 110R.O GO,D .S cott Situation Red: The UFO Siege (1978) is a portrait in consciousness all over the planet. (113) aEnadrt hC'sL St!lcARreKJ,t e rome, confusion. Commenting on aircraft accidents, disappear­ lnhabitaTnetm:sp,o , ances, and persistent spyin� he admits to being stumped D. Scott Rogo in UFO Abductions (1980) con­ 1979, 2390,1 . fesses the whole UFO abduction syndrome appears to by the pointless harassment. UFO activity resembles a • 11V1A.L LEEJ,a cques, be 'slightly ridiculous·. There is too much misinformat­ military strike force, but the randomness and absence of Messengeorsf widespread destruction falls short of open hostility. If ion which appears designed to make the abductees DeceptioBnan,t am, 19802,4 0-14,2 32. they wanted to destroy our civilisation, clearly they appear to be 'total fools'. His guess is that these could. Their effects are sometimes deleterious and some­ experiences are an elaborate facade, a camouflage 1 112B.O NDARCHUK. forcing the individual to confront a secret aspect of YurkoU,F O Sightings, times beneficial. The paradox may be sinister or Landingasn d profoun� but it is still unresolved. (107) himself. (114) Rogo's book includes an article by Ann AbductionMse,t huen, Art Gatti's UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind Druffel written a couple of years earlier titled \9791,94 -96. (1978) involves sexual incursions and arguably falls into 'Harsri on Bailey and the Flying Saucer Disease' and I 113F.OW LER, hyPOchondria. The sexual manipulation he chronicles which involved the medical misadventures of a man Raymond,Th B who said he was told his internal organs were three AndreassAofnfa ir, pmrootvivesa taetd .minim Maybeum ththeey bearineg sc uinrviooulves. d Mareay bqeu esthtieoyn aarebly times older than they should have been. Druifel 2Pr0en42t,0i -2cH-ea32l0.1l 97,9 , diagnoses his problems as resulting from microwave milking our emotions like cattle. Maybe they include two forces; one benevolent, the other wicked. Maybe radiation in a UFO encounter. (115) Druffel doesn't 1U F11O4 A. RbdOGucOt,i Dno.s S,Sc igontett,, they are seeding Earth with waniors for a future know if Bailey was harmed accidentally or deliberately, 1980,2 262.4 0. Armageddon. (108) but Bailey thinks it was unintentional. In The 1 115I.bi ,d1 .22-37. Brad Steiger's Alien Meetings (1978) represents a Tujunga Canyon Contacts (1980) she opts for a view curious regression into the hypochondriacal mindset. of UFOs as looking after man's continuing evolution. Chapter 9 warns 'UFO Encounters May Be Hazardous They take special interest in our procreative abilities to Your Health!' and catalogues the usual troubles. or they are interested in expanding our consciousness. MAGONIA (116) The Proceedings of the First International UFO know the whole UFO phenomenon may be ultimately Congress (1980) presents a portrait of seventies ufology blissfully benign - there is firm evidence for this identical to what we've chronicled so far. Leo Sprinkle position - and so having been abducted may turn out to thinks contact messages arc seemingly reliable because of have been a peculiar privilege.' Even so, he is 'thorough­ their similarities to each other and thus offer infor­ ly alarmed' and calls for an official UFO investigatory mation on the scientific and spiritual development of arm to be established through the United Nations so humankind. (11n Berthold Schwarz thinks the mesessag everyone would recognise UFOs as a serious reality to are garbage. (118} Frank Salisbury remarks that UFOs the governments of the world. (125} The contradiction seem too irrational and perverse - they verge on the between his alarm and the consensus of the prior a 116. DRUFFEL, Ann truly diabolical. (119} Stanton Friedman expresses his decade he has trouble abandoning is unresolved. and ROGO, D. Scott, disagreement with Jim Lorenzen's characterisation of the Of Brad Steiger's The Star People (1981) and The TheT ujungaC anJIOII Contact-sU pdated phenomenon as an insult to human intelligence. (120) Seed (1983) VJe will only comment that it is basically EditionS,ig net, 1989, In their study of several abduction cases, Judith contactee literature for the eighties crowd. (126) John 225, 227, 229. and Alan Gansberg reported there wasn't one where the Magor's Aliens Above, Always (1983) also has the pater­ • 117. FULLER, Curtis extraterrestrials were cruel to humans. Indeed, one ab­ nalistic quality of contacteeism - they are watching us G., Proceedingso f the Firstl ntemtsionsUlF O ductee felt the aliens are angels. They conclude, in for our benefit. (127} Cynthia Hind offers the speculation Congress,W arner, 1980, contrast to Val,lee the concept of extraterrestrials is in passing that aliens are here to be entertained or to 304. doing man no harm and could potentially be helpful. (121} blow our minds a little in African Encounters {1982). • 118. Ibi,d3 .09. Raymond Fowler continues ruminating about the (128) Andreasson affair in Casebook of a UFO Investigator Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood in • 119. Ibi,d1 .17. (1981) but in a somewhat larger context. He thinks that Clear Intent (1984) border on the hYPOChondriacal in • 120. Ibid,3. 34. superintelligent beings have possibly been nurturing saying the human race could be in danger, but the • 121. GANSBERG, man along his evolutionary way. We are under intense laconic counterpoint that we haven't yet been con­ Judith and Alan, Dircet attention, perhaps as potential candidates for the inter­ quered seems to be a call for ennui rather than concern. Encoutnsrs, Walker, galactic community. They love mankind. (122) The (129} 1960, 52, 142, 176. George Andrews in Extraterrestrials Among Us a 122. FOWLER, (1986) offers up my all-time favourite hy-pochondriacal Raymond, Cs3ttboookf speculation: a UFO Investigator, "I do not believe that the UFO Prentice-Hall, 1981, 'It is an odd fact that among the viruses there are 233. phenomenon Is malign or evilly some that look like UFOs, such as the virus T. Bacter­ iophage. Some UFOs may have the ability to operate in lntentloned. I fear that lt Is either the macro-dimension of outer space or the micro­ dimension of viruses, switching back and forth betw'een merely Indifferent, them at will.' (130) Andrews frets that our survival as a species may though I fervently hope be at stake. 'Have we been transforming our planet into a cancer cell in the body of the galaxy instead of a 123. FOWLER, to be proven wrong.. making it the garden of the universe?' he asks. {131) Raymond, The Terry Hansen, in a 1981 article, offered a more appro­ PAhndressaeTs wsono, Pr Aeffantiicre- ­ -Budd Hopklns priate somatic metaphor for the upbeat ufology of this Hall, 1982, 262. period. He suggested UFOs may be a sort of 'liver medicine' to make us function normally as part of a • 124. MACHLIN, Milt, UFO,Q uick Fox, 1981, Andreasson Affair - Phase Two (1981) basicalyl reaffirms cosmic organism. (132) 112-15, 131. the religionist slant of phase one and includes the mil­ Night Siege (1987) drifts along the borders of hYJ>OChondria in its chronicling of power blackouts, • 125. HOPKINS, Budd, lennial expectation that the Second Coming of Jesus MissinTgim e,R ichard Christ will happen during the adult lives of Bob and surges, interferences, and pain associated with a UFO M30a,r e2k3,8 1, 98241,, 22307, . 225- Betty Luca. (123} flap. (133) UFO by Milt Machlin with Tim Beckley is an Intruders (1987) shares the same quality of un­ • 126. STEIGER, Brad interesting minor work with a hypochondriacal flourish resolved contradiction as the prior Hopkins book. and Fraocie, TheS tar People,B erkley, 1981. or two. An odd case of a UFO murder is recounted in Aliens are committing a species of rape in their STEIGER. Brad, The which people were killed either because they knew too activities related to an unthinkable systematic breeding Seed,B eridey, 1983. experiment to enrich their stock, reduce our differences much or they were being experimented upon. It closes a 127. MAGOR, John, with a UFO health warning that is charming in its and acquire the ability to feel human emotions. What AlienAsb ove,A lwysa, they do is 'cruel' and each case is 'a personal tragedy'. simple tone: Hancock House, 1983, 18. Yet he also avers: 'In none of the cases I've investigated Do not approach UFOs. People get shocks or have I ever encountered the suggestion of deliberate a 128. HIND, Cynthia, even end up in the hospital. You could also get harm or malevolence: They don't realise the disasters AGefrmiincia, En19nc 8o2u, n2te09rs., hit by a ray gun. (124} they are causing because of an ignorance of human The appearance of Budd Hopkins's Missing Time psychology. (134) • 129. FAWCETT, Lawrence and (1981) represents a significant, albeit ambivalent, return Richard Hall titled his 1988 book Uninvited GREENWOOD, Bany, to the hypochondriacal mindset. Hopkins regards abduc­ Guests. It is one of the more flaccid titles in the liter­ CleaIrn tenPrte,n tice­ Hall, 1984, 186-87. tion cases as an epidemic, but because people are ature and more connotative of pushy salesmen than an protected by an induced amnesia it may be almost alien menace. Hall finds little evidence of overt hostility entirely invisible. He writes: 'I do not believe the UFO and suggests harm is accidental or self-defensive. En­ phenomenon is malign or evilly intentioned. I fear. counters probably represent mutual learning experiences. instead, that it is merely indifferent, though I fervently There is a strong interest in us and he hopes this means hope to be proven wrong.' He adds: 'For all any of us we are beginning a new phase and maturity, and per-