UFO Conjectures

Friday, February 28, 2020

Odd little entities, from where and why?

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My dear pal, Spanish UFO researcher José Antonio Caravaca, often writing here, and I have been enthused for a long time with what we call the Rosa Lotti case, a 1954 UFO encounter in Cennina, Italy, once presented in Life magazine, depicted thusly:


The other day I got this:

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:14 AM Jose Antonio Caravaca <jacaravaca@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Rich... Researcher Osvaldo Carigi gave me this information about a case similar to Rosa Lotti's:

"Edward Lavacchi, from Florence, said that while he was working in the Montebenichi area (Italy) in the summer of 1930, he had heard directly the strange story of an old woman. Apparently while the woman was washing clothes in the Ambrella River, between 6 and 8 in the morning she had heard a loud whistle and felt a breath of air.

About 20 meters away she saw a kind of "spinning top" that came ashore. After opening a trap door, two small beings emerged, barely a meter high, emitting strange sounds. The humanoids walked around the witness, even touching it, and took a pair of socks that were lying down.

The case came to light at least 53 years later, through a letter sent by a man to an investigation team following the publication of an article in a local newspaper in 1983.

The man said he heard the story in 1930, at the time he was 20 years old. There were some vague confirmations by people in the area. It cannot be ruled out that his memories were influenced and processed according to the news in his possession of the Cennina case".

Depicted here:
When I asked José how this “new” case fits into his Distortion Theory. Here’s his response:
“Carigi told me that there is no more information than a letter, and that they have not been able to verify the testimony because they could not talk to anyone who knew this witness. But without a doubt it is clear that the interaction of the paradigm with women (and men) from rural areas, and with little culture perhaps, offers encounters with behaviors more similar to the entities of ancient folklore... we are talking about basic behaviors, stealing, jokes, jumps and laughs...”

What are we to make of such tales? Albert Rosales has gathered hundreds or thousands of such UFO accounts involving beings or entities and has presented them online and in his many-volume book series, Humanoid Encounters, which I've often cited here.

And José has offered many such cases to example and clarify his theory which states that such encounters are thrust upon "witnesses" by an external agent (a psychic intrusion working via a witnesses mental make-up and quasi-archetypal images mixed with the common artifacts endemic to a witness's conscious and unconscious thoughts and memories). [Excuse my lame presentation of José's elaborate and complex hypothesis.]

What's your take on such stories?

RR

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