British researcher and author Nick Redfern says on the website "UFO Mystic": "My personal view is that the reality behind the UFO phenomenon...appears in a fashion that is acceptable and 'believable' to the culture and society of the period in which it manifests-such as demons and gods to the people of ancient times, or fairies and goblins to the Middle Ages of England, or long blonde-haired contactee-style aliens in the 50s, and the emotionless black-eyed Grays of today. But I also believe that although we create the image, there is a core intelligence behind the phenomenon also, that is molded in its appearance according to our beliefs. I also believe that this suits the intelligence, to allow its appearance to be molded, because I consider it to be deceptive in nature."
And science-fiction author Mac Tonnies has even coined a word for this non-outer space approach. On a website called Alterati, he states: "The Crypto-Terrestrial Hypothesis (CTH) is an alternative to the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, which unfortunately has become virtual dogma among 'serious' ufologists. Essentially, I'm wondering if the ET mythos that accompanies the UFO phenomenon is memetic subterfuge emplaced by an indigenous humanoid intelligence. Jacques Vallee and John Keel have advanced similar ideas, but they've opted for a paranormal origin-a 'multi-verse' and a 'super spectrum' respectively. I'm not sure either is called for; we could instead be dealing with a flesh and blood species that's eluded detection, which isn't nearly as preposterous as many think."
I must disclose my own contribution to "UFOs, Time Slips, Other Realms and the Science of Fairies." I was asked to write an introductory chapter that provided a basic overview of the subject, and I included material by some of the better known researchers who take this folkloric approach to the UFO phenomenon. That includes the aforementioned Jacques Vallee as well as folklorist Thomas E. Bullard. Bullard does a beautiful job of making the connection between the aliens and fairies, saying they are virtually identical save for a "change of address and mode of transportation."
"Like their alien counterparts," Bullard writes, "fairies practice abduction of humans, especially women and children, who seem essential to the perpetuation of a fairy race that, like the modern aliens, has lost its reproductive self-sufficiency. Fairies often exchange their elderly for a human baby, and this 'changeling' possesses old wisdom despite its infant form-a motif now similar to reports of hybrids and 'wise baby' dreams from abductees."
The comparisons between the aliens and the fairies are some of the easiest to make in the entire quagmire that is the paranormal, according to Bullard. And reading this marvelous combination of 19th century scholarship revved up by modern day insights from qualified researchers and writers will not only fascinate, it will perhaps lead the reader to a new understanding of just what it is that we confront each time we come up against the bewildering unknown. Perhaps we are inextricably linked to something ancient and full of wisdom, something that has known us for a very long time.
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