Like the super-magicians they seem to be, our UFO visitors apparently have an endless assortment of devices to create their mystifying effects. In addition to the major displays we considered in chapter one, the aliens sometimes stage much smaller performances with such theatrical impact, it seems their only purpose is to impress a few spectators with their showmanship.
That of course, is unlikely. It is probable they are simply doing what comes naturally and what in one way or another has a specific purpose. Even so, many of their tricks do have a stagey look and to some extent could be duplicated by any clever vaudeville performer. In this category we would include the levitation trick (who has not seen a subject left suspended prone in mid-air?), the enveloping smoke trick or even the mental telepathy trick.
But these strangers can show us one miracle of visual effect that no mortal on earth has ever achieved beyond dispute, if we discount a spellbinding influence of sort. I refer to their extraordinary vanishing trick in which creatures or objects disappear abruptly or by degrees in open air and return by the same route. It is this marvelous feat that, probably more than anything else, confuses inquiry into the visitors' identity and almost by itself has led to a theory, called the ultraterrestial, to explain their presence.
According to this idea -- though it has various versions -- UFOs come from a separate but interlocking universe which is invisible to us because its vibratory level is different or because we have not entered the dimension beyond ours where it exists. Presumably objects and action within that universe becomes visible to us only when our visitors so wish.
However, since we know so little about our own universe, it is difficult to accept this thought with all it's enormous implications simply as a way of explaining one item of their magic. Maybe in time and with more insight into the paranormal it will look like a better answer, but for now the extraterrestrial theory, developed from a background of the kind pictured in the Preface by the Earl of Clancarty, an outstanding observer of the UFO scene, seems closer to the truth for most of us.
In short, we think our visitors come from planets revolving about other suns in our universe. Given the light-years of space that separate us from even the nearest of those distant worlds, it might be that over measureless passage of time these sky travellers have created flightways between the stars, with satellite stopping points at intervals that make the total journey feasible. Perhaps several such journeys led to colonies in our solar system as pictured in chapter one. . . |
