What if UFO sightings and alien encounters aren't visitations by creatures from another planet but an experience of entities which surround us all the time but usually remain outside the perception of our five senses? What if the greys and flying saucers are a manifestation of a phenomena known in days gone by names such as fairies, elementals and angles? This is the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis. In the first part of this two-part study Hine and Buckley explore these ideas by trying to wrap their heads around the work of Jacques Vallée and John Keel. Recorded 21 July 2022.

The Texts (We will be discussing these books in depth in VYS0054 and VYS0005)

Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts by Allen Greenfield

Other References

Flying Saucers: A modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky by Carl Jung
Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians: A Comparative Study of the Encounter Experience by Hilary Evans
Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors: A Complete Study of the Entity Enigma by Hilary Evans - Currently out of print and harder to get hold of. ISBN-10: 0850305241 / ISBN-13: 978-0850305241
Communion by Whitley Strieber
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey Kripal
A Trojan Feast by Joshua Cutchin (read it don’t eat it)
Where the footprints end: high strangeness and the bigfoot phenomenon: Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Joshua Cutchin
Chris Butler - The artists that painted the front cover to the newer editions of Passport to Magonia. His Instagram is also great.
Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects - essay by Jacques Vallée
The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, And Fairies by Robert Kirk
Weird Studies – Box of God(s): On 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The Eighth Tower by John Keel
Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel
The Silver Bridge by Gray Barker
Gray Barker’s Book of Bunk – article by John C Sherwood

Corrections (The only way we learn is by making mistakes...)

1. Hine refers to Meade Layne as "she", he was, of course, a he.
2. Buckley's timeline for Keel's pope prediction was slightly off - the actual timeline was: In 1967 Keel became convinced that Pope Paul VI would be knifed to death at Istanbul Airport - this did not occur. On November 27 1970 Pope Paul VI was attacked by a knife wielding man at Manila International Airport.

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