Close Encounters
Betty Hill just died. You remember Betty don’t you? She and husband Barney were our first alien abductees. They were driving along a deserted stretch of highway up in the north east part of the country one night in 1961 and arrived home with stopped watches and no memory of where they’d been or what they’d done in the previous two hours. Over the next several weeks Barney started having terrible nightmares that eventually led the couple to seek psychiatric help. If my memory is correct, Dr. Leo Sprinkle performed hypnosis on them and they both reported being abducted by space creatures during the missing two hours of their trip. This was all chronicled in the book Interrupted Journey. Oh, THAT Betty Hill.
Certainly less well known but much more important to UFOology was J. Allen Hynek. He was an astronomer who famously suggested that some UFO sightings were “swamp gas.” More significantly he was the man who classified UFO experiences as Type I, II, or III. A Close Encounter of the Third Kind was his label for “Contact!” and subsequently the title of a movie about just such a situation. Hynek even had a cameo appearance in the movie - an embarrassingly close close-up of him lighting his pipe. How fleeting fame.
Because of the rash of alien abduction reports poor J. Allen had to revise his system to include a Close Encounter of the Forth Kind - Abduction. Blame that on Betty and Barney Hill. If Hynek had lived until today who knows what additions and refinements would have occurred. Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind - Human Alien Dating? - Four Aliens Playing Poker? - Aliens in the NBA? I’m sure Dr. Hynek meant for the classifications to be fluid.
Now here’s a what if: What if the aliens aren’t out in space, but instead right here among us? What if they are actually inside us? What if they’ve always been here and have appeared throughout history as demons, and fairies, and dwarves, and leprechauns? See if you can score some diemethyltrypamine before you formulate your answer. Then get back to me.
Certainly less well known but much more important to UFOology was J. Allen Hynek. He was an astronomer who famously suggested that some UFO sightings were “swamp gas.” More significantly he was the man who classified UFO experiences as Type I, II, or III. A Close Encounter of the Third Kind was his label for “Contact!” and subsequently the title of a movie about just such a situation. Hynek even had a cameo appearance in the movie - an embarrassingly close close-up of him lighting his pipe. How fleeting fame.
Because of the rash of alien abduction reports poor J. Allen had to revise his system to include a Close Encounter of the Forth Kind - Abduction. Blame that on Betty and Barney Hill. If Hynek had lived until today who knows what additions and refinements would have occurred. Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind - Human Alien Dating? - Four Aliens Playing Poker? - Aliens in the NBA? I’m sure Dr. Hynek meant for the classifications to be fluid.
Now here’s a what if: What if the aliens aren’t out in space, but instead right here among us? What if they are actually inside us? What if they’ve always been here and have appeared throughout history as demons, and fairies, and dwarves, and leprechauns? See if you can score some diemethyltrypamine before you formulate your answer. Then get back to me.
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