Sex, Drugs, and UFOs

By Thaddeus P. Collier

Where do drugs and sex come into the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects? The answer to this question is quite interesting. However, the answer can only be accepted once certain, and unfortunately, well-established tenets and fictions associated with UFOs are understood in a somewhat different light than they are currently perceived. Although the phenomena of UFOs as it is generally accepted in modern times is only a little more than seventy years old, it has been only within the last few decades that a new perspective on the phenomena has gained some credibility in its attempts to explain the complex and oft-times contradictory evidence uncovered by UFO researchers. At first, we suspected that UFOs were from outer space. This initial hypothesis got us through the late ‘40s, the ’50s, and into the ‘60s. Then, with the growing emphasis on abductions, (popularly begun by Betty and Barney Hill in 1962), UFOs were taken to the couch for psychoanalysis and socio-cultural evaluation. By the 1980s, what a small group of astute investigators had been saying since the ‘50s began to make sense, that what we were witnessing was an extension of much earlier legends and tales of contact with “other” entities, known in pre-alien times as fairies, angels, or demons. As these theories regarding the appearance and purpose of UFOs and their occupants grew, so did the question as to what these entities might actually be. Carl Jung suggested that we have met the entities and they are us - at least in the guise of archetypes residing in our own collective unconsciousness. Other researchers seem to think that there is an “invisible commonwealth” coexisting with humankind, who are either exercising their powers over us in capricious ways, or are trying to enlighten us, or are totally inimitable, slightly inimitable, or pretty much like ourselves. And there are those who believe that these entities are from some alternate universe or higher dimension, coexistent with our own universe but invisible from it. There are also some who think that contact with these entities has been made in the past, and continues in the present, through the practices of the occult sciences. And, indeed, the similarities are there, the shape shifting, psychological trauma, the smells, and other effects associated with magical encounters can also be found in many of the reports surveyed by UFO researchers of encounters with aliens. Oddly enough, it seems that almost every tradition of magic, from Shamanism to Satanism, has ways of summoning, becoming, or assisting intelligences that are not of this world using occult practices that involve sex and/or drugs. The sex and drugs being used primarily, it seems, to jog the mindset of newer practitioners into a different way of thinking. (There are, however, other philosophies of thought that attempt the same kind of transformation without drugs.) But the end result is the same, an expanded awareness of reality, or at least a different way of looking at the world as it really is. So while the practitioners of magic, or magick, talk of astral travel, Buddhists ascertain that there are other levels of existence that we can inhabit in forms other than ones we have now. Shamans, too, are well aware of other worlds just beyond ours, inhabited by entities quite different from mankind. (Satanists, I suppose, are also aware of other places beyond our normally perceived reality, but their concentration seems focused on only one place - inhabited by a specific entity.) So this is where the sex and drugs come in, as well as meditating on Zen koans, chanting, fasting, and other spiritual endeavors invented for the purpose of changing one’s “mind set”, all of which are merely methods of knocking us out of our “tunnel realities” in order to get us to recognize the reality of other levels of existence, from which, perhaps, the true UFOs originate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thaddeus P. Collier
• Release date: May 6, 2014

Thaddeus P. Collier

Thaddeus P. Collier lives on a small ‘farmette’ in Southern Illinois with his wife, Martha and Border Collie, Sasha. He actually does grow his own tobacco, vegetables, and apples which he and Martha freeze, dry, or can in the fall then totally consume during the long winter doldrums. Thaddeus got his initiation into the ‘murky world of intelligence’ while serving with the Army Security Agency in Vietnam. After ‘one and a fraction of one other’ tours in Vietnam, he was Honorably Discharged and took advantage of the G.I. Bill to earn three degrees at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. He bounced around various large companies and other types of organizations for the next twenty-eight years as a consultant, permanent employee, or secondment, becoming quite familiar with the ways both private and government organizations operate, think they operate, and ultimately truly function.

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SEX, DRUGS, AND UFOs

Late Night Musings of an Armchair Alienist

While Listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 21

Thaddeus P. Collier

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Table of Contents

Disclaimer

Introduction

Preface

A Coincidental Genesis

Nurslings of Coincidence

FOAFs, and UFOs

Psychic Plagiarism

Hello Mister Wilson

Roswell: What We Know

Roswell: What We Don't Know

The Great A-Plane Mystery

Points to Ponder

The Goddess of Tepeyac

The Eye of Garabandal

Drugs and UFOs

Sex, Magick, and UFOs

Myth 'n' Links

Appendix 1: Fish-Hill Star Map Analysis

Appendix 2: The Cash-Landrum Conundrum

Appendix 3: Quetzalcoatl

Appendix 4: The Appearances of Mary

Epilog, Some Final Thoughts

Is Bacteriophage PhiX174 DNA a Message from an Extraterrestrial Intelligence? Redux

About the Author

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank a lot of people for the inspiration and encouragement on getting this book written and researched, particularly Linnea J. without whom most of this text would probably never have see the light of day.

Disclaimer

The following book is actually a collection of articles written over a period of many years. One small part is the remnants of a failed thesis (in cultural anthropology). Larger parts are purely speculation as to what the actual nature of our surrounding universe must be like if there actually are aliens out there, and why haven't they made themselves known to us. Some other parts are speculations on classic UFO sightings in the past from a wider perspective on what we know technology is capable of now and must have been at the time of the studied occurrences. With the possible exception of the two Chapters on Roswell, these articles are totally independent of each other and can be read in any order without losing the gist of the individual narrative. The only real common thread that holds them all together, other than a quite magnanimous title, is that (for the most part) they were all written late at night by an Armchair Alienist while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21.

So, what kind of book would have the title Sex, Drugs, and UFOs, a book about sex with some minor connections to drugs and UFOs, or a book about sex and drugs with some UFOs thrown in for variety? Or is it just another book about UFOs with some sex and drugs thrown in to keep the reader interested? Alas, the final question answers the first. To be honest and name each of these subjects in the order of their occurrence in my book, the title should probably be UFOs, Drugs, and Sex, but in this order, the subjects don't roll off the tongue as well. But in accepting this explanation, then, where do drugs and sex come into the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects? The answer to this question is quite interesting, and can only be appreciated once certain, and unfortunately well-established tenets and fictions associated with UFOs are understood in a somewhat different light than they are currently perceived. Although the phenomena of UFOs as it is generally accepted in modern times is only a little less than seventy years old, it has been only within the last two decades that any really new perspectives on the phenomena have gained some credibility in their attempt to explain the complex and oft times contradictory evidence uncovered by UFO researchers. Over the years, the generally accepted theories regarding these lights in the sky have undergone a gradual change. At first, we suspected that they were from outer space, this way of thinking got us through the late '40s, the '50s, and into the '60s. Then, with the growing emphasis on abductions, (which actually began with Betty and Barney Hill in 1962), UFOs were taken to the couch for psychoanalysis and socio-cultural evaluation. By the 1980s, what a small group of astute investigators had been saying since the '50s began to make sense, that what we were witnessing was an extension of much, much, earlier legends and tales of contact with other entities, known in pre-UFO times as fairies, angels, or demons. As these theories regarding the appearance and purpose of UFOs and their occupants grew, so did the question as to what these entities might actually be. Doctor Carl Jung suggested that we have met the entities and they are us - at least in the guise of archetypes residing in our own collective unconsciousness. Other researchers seem to think that there is an invisible commonwealth coexisting with humankind, that is either exercising the powers they have over us in capricious ways, or are trying to enlighten us, or are totally inimitable, slightly inimitable, or pretty much of the same as we are. And there are a few good researchers who believe that we are being visited by entities from some alternate universe or higher dimension, coexistent with our own universe, but invisible from it. There are also some who think that contact with these entities has been made in the past and continues in the present through the practice of the occult sciences. And, indeed, the similarities between the two are there; the shape shifting, psychological trauma, the smells, and other effects associated with magical encounters can also be found in many of the reports transcribed by UFO researchers. And it seems that almost every tradition of magic, from Shamanism to Satanism, has ways of summoning, becoming, or assisting intelligences that are not of this world. It also seems that in the process of preparing for, initiating, or conducting the proper actions to achieve this contact using occult practices, sex and/or drugs are involved - primarily it seems - to jog the mindset of newer practitioners into a different way of thinking. (There are, however, other philosophies of thought that attempt the same kind of transformation without sex and/or drugs.) But the end result is the same, an expanded awareness of reality, or at least a different way of looking at the world as it really is. So while the practitioners of magic, or magick, talk of astral travel, Buddhists ascertain that there are other levels of existence that we can inhabit in forms other than ones we have now. Shamans, too, are well aware of other worlds just beyond ours, inhabited by entities quite different from mankind. (Satanists, too, I suppose, are aware of other places beyond our normally perceived reality, but their concentration seems focused on only one place - inhabited by a specific entity.) So this is where the sex and drugs come in, as well as meditating on Zen koans, chanting, fasting, and other spiritual endeavors invented for the purpose of changing one's mind set, the total of which are merely methods of knocking us out of our tunnel realities in order to get us to recognize the reality of other levels of existence, from which, perhaps, the true UFOs originate.

Introduction

It has been well almost seventy years since the start of the Modern Age of UFOs. This age is generally accepted to have begun with the sighting of nine flying discs by an Oregon businessman in June of 1947. Since that first popular sighting by Kenneth Arnold many theories have been proposed to explain the UFO phenomenon and the many experiences people have had with it. At first it was thought that they were highly advanced Soviet aircraft, thumbing their noses at our own aircrafts' inability to keep up with their fantastic speed. Then, it was thought they were from some other planet, or perhaps from the hollowed out interior of our own earth. But as time went on and public knowledge of the universe increased, so did the distance traveled by our alien visitors. For some time, one of the more popular hypotheses is that they are arriving from a star system thirty-some light years away called Zeta Reticulum. Although some UFO theorists still hold onto the Hollow Earth Hypothesis or the Ancient Martian Hypothesis, there are other theories, some related to alternate universes, some to other dimensions of existence, and one to the possibility that UFOs are simply future archeologists doing fieldwork in saucer-shaped time machines. The only proof we would need for any of these extraterrestrial theories, of course, is the presentation of physical evidence - a part, a tool, a swatch of silver colored cloth, or possibly, a body, dead or alive, which could be scientifically evaluated to ascertain that the entity or sample did not evolve on the surface of this planet. Such proof has yet to be presented.

In addition to the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH), there are other theories. They deal with UFOs as psychological phenomena, anomalous, (outside the range of accepted psychological theory), and non-anomalous psychological phenomena, (explainable within the context of accepted psychological theory), or as randomized, isolated sociological aberrations. Globally, this arena of UFO inquiry is generally known for its Psycho-Social Hypothesis (PSH) explanations of UFO encounters. Beyond these socio-cultural and psychological postulations are the psychical explanations, given when the facts presented will just not fit within the constructs of experimental or anomalous psychology. One such example of such facts is the uncanny match of Marjorie Fish's star map and the drawing by Betty Hill of her abductors' navigational chart. Another is the reoccurrence of a man known only as Mister Wilson, who is associated with several airship encounters in Texas during the Mysterious Airship Sightings of 1896-97. Other less spectacular anomalies plague the complete resolution of the Roswell Incident, the Andreasson abductions, and other encounters from which the abductionist UFO investigators hang their argument that aliens are indiscriminately using human subjects for genetic engineering experiments.

If we are to restrict our explanations of these incidents to the paradigms of accepted scientifically proven facts, their presence becomes befuddling, since without physical evidence from outside of our solar system we cannot say that these incidents are actually the result of extraterrestrial intervention. But in rejecting the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) as an explanation for UFOs we have to accept the veracity of other paradigms. And these other paradigms unfortunately, are not generally accepted within the scientific community, i.e., occultism, parapsychology, and spiritualism. (Although some of the more outlandish theories within the scientifically accepted area of abnormal psychology do seem to show some applicability to the explanation of certain aspects of UFO phenomena, particularly in the investigation of UFO abductions.)

For instance, within the scientifically accepted area of geology has yielded evidence to support the fact that UFO sightings may somehow be caused by internal stresses within the earth. This postulate has been made after correlating UFO sightings with subsequent earthquakes, or volcano activity within the same area. It is theorized that stresses within the earth produce electrical activity, which produce lights which are then reported by observers as UFOs. However, where no such discernible earth stresses are known to exist, and people report seeing UFOs, and these people are all left-handed, or have singular professional backgrounds, or all have similar hair coloring, then other theories must be applied. And this is where we begin to encounter theories with mechanisms of operation, occurrence, and prediction that fall far outside the bounds of acceptable scientific paradigms. These are the theories derived by psychical theorists or paranormal psychologists, students of the occult, or Fortean aficionados, (i.e., the term teleportation, coined by Charles Fort, is not an acceptable explanation for the sightings of mystery kangaroos in Chicago within the scientific establishment.).

Thus, it seems that, discounting for outright hoaxes, (and, ignoring for the moment, due to lack of physical evidence, the ETH); the explanation for all UFO encounters (outside of sightings of top secret aircraft and obvious hoaxes) lies within a psychological or psychical paradigm. Straddling the fence, so-to-speak, between these two areas are the concepts of Carl Jung, whose synchronicity principle, for example, has gained a renewed interest amongst researchers in many different disciplines. Quickly stated, synchronistic events are coincidences that a person may experience, which have a meaningful significance to that person, generally, by falling within a readily discernible pattern of significance to that person. Other concepts, either originated or developed by Jung, are those pertaining to the collective unconscious and archetypes, ideas that have been applied the UFO phenomena by some UFO researchers. But while these explanations may go a long way toward explaining some of the mechanisms of the UFO enigma, they have not scientifically explained the origin of the phenomena, or offered any formulae for predicting it. Much in the same way, folklorists are at a loss to explain the origin of most Urban Tales and Jung, while able to define his construct of synchronicity, could not give any objective criteria for predicting when it would occur, to whom, or why. In this respect, UFO researchers seem to be in the same boat as Fortean researchers, collecting data, cataloging sightings, and profiling witnesses, while waiting for the Grand Unification Theory which will tie everything together.

This same problem seems to plague the findings of researchers who have found similarities of motif, (story line), in ancient tales of fairy abductions and modern day alien abductions, similarities in the effects and phenomena accompanying UFO sightings and appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs), and similarities of intent between Nephite visitations and those of the Men in Black (MiBs). That our own history, ancient and recent, has had as strange and as scary episodes of other interventions in the affairs of Man as our current phenomena of UFOs, has become a major area of research within UFOlogy. All of which, of course, does little to clarify what is actually going on. Apart from this burgeoning complexity of fact, fiction, conjecture and confabulation are the so-called nut-and-bolts UFOlogists. They seem to dance around the conflicting facts to their hypothesis (ETH) by failing to mention, consider, or debate within their own works data which may suggest alternate explanations to the encounters they are investigating. In example, and being quite simplistic here, if we have been visited for as many decades as reports indicate, at some point one of these visitors should have dropped some loose change, discarded a used tissue, or left a smoked butt by at least one of their many landing sites. Similarly, in too many of the cases reported by abductionist UFOlogists, the clearly occult-like aspects of their witnesses' experiences are sidestepped to promote an extraterrestrial explanation for these extremely close encounters. (Actually, the so-called abductee experience may be nothing more than an effect of one's pineal gland overproducing certain substances within the brain.)

A similar tenacity in holding on to the ETH in the face of much contradictory evidence has made the nuts and bolts UFOlogists primary targets of the skeptical or debunker researchers. Typically, a skeptical inquirer will try to uncover pertinent facts behind an encounter, which they can use to either demolish a witness's testimony, a witness's credibility, or both. Having done that, their job is done. But once they have invalidated the data put forth by the nuts and bolts investigators, they often provide no meaningful insights to the more astounding aspects of an encounter, (i.e., as mentioned above, the Fish-Hill star map and Andreasson's Phoenix encounter.) But, by initially separating the wheat from the shaft of a UFO encounter, they save the armchair researcher many hours of sometimes fruitless research to uncover the very same testimonial contradictions.

Between the ETH UFOlogists and their skeptical counterparts there seems to be a wide area of unsaid speculation, save for a very few UFOlogists who have delved into more arcane areas of research. It is in this in area of unsaid speculation, where the ETH does not exactly apply, that this book attempts to inject the mundane or ultra-mundane hypothesis, or psychical or occult explanation (what I call the Occult Hypothesis or OH explanation) where ever it seems to fit.

And finally, the author is aware that by rejecting the ETH for lack of physical evidence and exploring other alternative theories for explanations, he may be restricting his own perspective - principally to explanations from only socio-psychological fields or psychic or Fortean phenomena. Fortunately or unfortunately, this is not entirely true. He does recognize the possibility of covert involvement at one level or another by terrestrial or even ultraterrestrial agents, (strange, but possibly true). For instance, even after dismissing the ETH as an explanation for the Roswell incident, there still seems to be enough loose ends to suspect that there is something about the incident that has remained unsaid by the military even after all these years. And similarly, going back to the Great Airship Mystery, also the title of a book by Daniel Cohen, there seems to be a multitude of loose ends related to these Texas sightings that have not yet been sufficiently addressed. These loose ends suggest that there may have actually been a ship of some type responsible for at least some of those sightings. So, there are still many lines of investigation to be followed. Whether they are enlightening avenues of fruitful research, or dead-end leads for future investigators to untangle, still remains to be seen. But for the readers' edification, they are presented as possible alternatives to the ETH of the nuts and bolts researchers and the 'incomplete' explanations of the skeptical debunkers.

Preface

The study of UFOs is quite an involved, convoluted, and intricate one. Once embarked upon, the many tangled threads of connection to even one well documented encounter lead on and on it seems into many other areas of research and speculation. In example, to delve into the supposition that aliens once visited our planet many years ago, requires some rudimentary knowledge of archeology, anthropology, theology, and geography. To make a judgment call on the idea that these same aliens have influenced our culture or even our genetic makeup would require at least a college freshman's understanding of bioengineering, and perhaps a higher level than that in mythology, folklore, and world history. To thoroughly understand the arguments going back and forth between UFO abductionists and their debunkers requires a crash course in psychology and what is known about the field of anomalous psychology. To be in agreement or disagreement with the theorists who believe that our current rash of UFO sightings and crashes are the result of aliens from a far off star system called Zeta Reticuli would, at the lowest level, require some basic understanding of astronomy.

On the outer edge of his inquiry, the intrepid UFO researcher will find connections to ancient civilizations, out-of-place artifacts, the Voynich Manuscript, alchemy, witchcraft, spiritualism, shamanism, and such unlikely players as Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Terrance McKenna, and almost every President we've elected since World War Two. There are a myriad of connections between UFOs and cattle mutilations, crop circles, the Philadelphia Experiment, Area 51, and the Bermuda Triangle. Aliens are encountered in remote viewing sessions, channeled by spiritualists, or mistaken as faeries, demons, or angels. And with each new encounter, contact, or abduction, the outer edge expands a little more, adding even more pieces to the pile with which we must put the puzzle together.

Within this book I have postulated three areas of research and speculation that seemed to apply to the major theories and theorists who have been involved in UFO research. The first are the nuts and bolts researchers, who are convinced that UFOs are the result of alien intervention. The second area of speculation attempts to explain UFOs in terms of mass hallucinations or other types of psychological or sociological phenomena. The third order of speculation contends that what we see as UFOs is merely a continuation of what has been going on for centuries in our own mythology, folklore, and mystical inquiries. These three categories of belief not only represent a way of looking at and explaining the phenomenon of UFOs, but also form a sequence of belief systems experienced by many UFO researchers. For example, researchers, who at first attempted to prove the existence of visiting aliens to our stalwart planet, began fitting their data into a psychological paradigm. Later, discovering that the more mystical explanations are closer to what their data was pointing to, they begin finding parallels to UFO encounters in the descriptions of occult experiences, folklore, or myth.

Research into these mystical explanations eventually involves a lot of extracurricular research, into occult practices, beliefs, and personalities; the odd parallels between the practices, beliefs, and personalities associated with occultism and UFO phenomena; the appearances of religious entities and their similarity to appearances of UFO entities; and the appearances of, or contacts with, non-religious entities, and their similarities to UFO associated entities.

The picture that emerges seems to show a continuation of contacts and encounters that have been going on for thousands of years, but now, they are embellished with trappings seemingly derived from our new interests in space exploration, science fiction, and burgeoning technology. These same kinds of trappings seem also to have affected the motifs and development of urban tales, which is why a good portion of this book is devoted to the exploration of this phenomenon as well. And as we shall soon see, the myths go on, changing ever so slightly over time to suit the times and temperaments of society and the technological developments society employs. But at their core, they are no different than the experiences written down by ancient seers, philosophers, and - yes - some prophets as well.

A Coincidental Genesis

On September 19th, 1961, Barney and Betty Hill were returning home to New Hampshire from a brief vacation in Canada when they spotted a bright light in the sky. Stopping the car to get a better look at the object using a set of binoculars, they watched as it reversed its flight from the north to southwest and appeared to be flying in a very erratic pattern. They continued driving again, but were approached by the object, which from such close quarters definitely appeared to be a craft of some sort, definitely being operated by intelligent beings. This is as far as the letter to Major Kehole, written by Betty Hill, had gone. The rest of the story didn't emerge until after a few months of strange dreams brought the Hills to a Boston Psychiatrist named Benjamin Simon. (Fuller 1966)

Over the next few months, using hypnotic therapy, a far more sinister story was revealed. The Hills had apparently been more than just witnesses to a UFO sighting - they had been abducted, subjected to physical examination and then returned to their car, the events of the abduction erased from their awareness until brought to light with hypnosis.

After Betty's examination by the aliens, she was given a short tour of the ship during which she asked the captain of the craft where they were from, Because I said that I knew he wasn't from earth...and he asked if I knew anything about the universe. And I told him no... So, he said that he wished I knew more about this, and I said I wish I did too. And he went across the room... And he pulled out a map... And I looked at the map... And there were all these dots on it... There were curved lines going from one dot to another... and I asked him what they meant, and he said the heavy lines were trade routes... And he said the broken lines were expeditions... (Fuller 1966)

Using post-hypnotic suggestion, Betty was asked to draw the map, which would today still be just another intriguing footnote to the Hill's story except for the investigative efforts of Marjorie Fish. Fish began, in 1966, to find out what stars were actually represented by the map. To accomplish this, she constructed a three dimensional star map including all stars within fifty light years of Earth. Observing this and two other such star maps she eventually found a group of stars that matched the pattern drawn by Betty Hill.

But it took until 1969 for Fish to discover which stars comprised the pattern that Hill had drawn and the perspective they were being viewed from. And in 1970, with an even more accurate catalog of nearby stars by Wilheim Gliese (GLEE-SEE), Fish was able to obtain an even better match to the Hill drawing for her star map. It wasn't until 1973 that Fish was satisfied enough with her findings that she let Stanton Friedman release her results at the Mutual UFO Network Symposium on June 16, 1973. (A persuasive analysis of Fish's selection can be found in Appendix One.)

The conclusion that Friedman would like us to make from all of this is that we are now being visited by people from other planets outside of our Solar System who have developed the technology to do so. But, assuming that life had originated on far off planets circling distant suns that are about the age of our own sun and evolved to a point where traveling to their own interstellar neighbors (Earth) became a possibility, and that they are doing so at this present time, involves a great leap of faith. Consider just briefly the evolutionary history of our own planet. For about 150 million years, dinosaurs were the dominate life forms on our planet until only about 65 million years ago when they were assumed to have been wiped out by a planet-wide catastrophe. Currently, this planet-wide catastrophe is speculated to have been an errant asteroid, which hit the earth and created a now indistinct crater hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Had that asteroid missed our planet, given that the dinosaurs had already proven their resilience with 150 million years of continuous worldwide procreation, dinosaurs would probably still be the dominant life form on Earth today. But what if a similar type of disaster had struck the earth much earlier than 65 million years ago? Assuming that the path of evolution for the dominant life forms that are on our planet today could only have started after the dinosaurs were extinct, then, if - instead of hitting our planet 65 million years ago - an asteroid hit our planet 165 million years ago, what I am writing now would have been speculated 100 million years ago. The rise of mammalian life forms, then, could have