À la recherché du UFOs perdu

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In the Albert Rosales’ Humanoid Encounters book for the 1930-1949 period, my current read, there are quite a few fabulous remembrances of UFO-inspired contacts.

I assume from the Sources noted that almost all of the accounts presented are not from the dates for the “encounters” but, rather, are recalled events later discovered or provided by UFO enthusiasts.

While remembered events suffer from lapses or accretions accumulated over the years, embellishing a common or hallucinatory episode, most of the “recalled” encounters are flush with details that offer a kind of certitude, even if a fictional certitude.

In the sightings presented there are the observations of dwarf-like entities, alongside more observations of entities that are attractive in the contactee sense of the 1950s. (See Nick Redfern’s book, Contactees, for an elaborate enumeration of what kinds of beings were said to have been encountered by the likes of George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, Truman Bethurum, Howard Menger, et al.)

Most humanoid encounters recounted in Mr. Rosales’ books, for the period prior to the Betty/Barney Hill ‘abduction” or the after-1978 Roswell litany of little gray beings displaced by a supposed crashed flying disk, are divided into two categories: small entities and normal height, attractive beings, with an occasional offering of very tall beings.

The drove of reports Mr. Rosales has gathered are often mesmerizing in their swelter of other-worldly (not necessarily extraterrestrial) appearances of beings accompanied by a strange craft, often described as flying saucer-like or cigar-shaped.

What accounts for the similarity in the recollected encounters?

Many of the episodes have the tincture of verisimilitude:

1945/Ohio – A woman carrying cartons to her shed saw a large metallic, cigar-shaped object hovering overhead. The object had a protruding ramp on one side and large lighted windows. Several, moving human-shaped figures could be seen inside. She ran into her house and locked herself in her bathroom. [HE, Lillian Desguin, Page 263]

1945/Missouri -- Hearing a loud humming sound the witness saw a metallic, domed disk hovering about his garage. A humanoid was looking out. The craft left following the contours of the terrain. [HE, Richard Hall, Page 269] 

Yet many also provide examples of hallucinations recalled or unrepressed, sometimes with accreted, modern day details:

1931/Ukraine – a strange hovering globe with a unhelmeted man sitting on an invisible chair, sporting a light red beard and thick red longish hair atop a wrinkled face. The globe with its occupant drifted and vanished. [HE, Gershtein and Anfalov, Page 33]

1933/Russia -- Soviet scientist Alexander Zolotov, when age 7, saw, in his home, a high-foreheaded man with a large head and large pointed ears, wrinkled skin and large, intelligent eyes jump around on all fours like a frog. The being had a calm and penetrating gaze, completely emotionless. [HE, Jacques Vallee, Page 63]

1946/Arizona – A Coast Guard man, 20, under hypnosis, remembered that 32 years earlier his car stopped in front of a “Mexican hat” under which shone two mechanical eyes, like diamonds, Three beings, without feet glided toward his car. He remembered being in the air, hanging 1000 ft. above and 1000 ft. behind his car, watching himself driving. [HE, James Harder and Douwe Bosga, Page 292]

Yes, I’m a sucker for such UFO tales, no matter how polluted by the vicissitudes of memory corruption, as I am of the belief that core memory remains fairly accurate, even after a long period of time.

Amalgamated additions or deletions inside a remembered, traumatic event are almost always perfunctory to such events.

Thus, when a person recalls a significant event for them, they will present it inside a halo of accuracy, a reputable analyst able to discern what is ancillary and what is relevant and germane (the “truth”).

Many accounts stand out as important within ufological lore.

But what exactly causes such a spate of recollections, real or unreal?

That’s what needs to be determined: either there have been intrusions into our reality by other world entities or there are an awful lot of pathological persons running around.

RR