UFO / Faerie Lore Connection?

karl 12

Noble
The idea of a UFO connection to 'Ye Olde Faerie Lore' has been floating around for quite a while now and for folks interested in (or actively researching) 'high strangeness' UFO occupant/ humanoid/ abduction cases then there does appear to be quite a number of similar aspects in reported appearance and behaviour (which are explored below).


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Probably best to forget the modern day Tinkerbell propaganda - the pantheon of earth elementals is found in a great many tribes around the world and when it comes to the Kingdom of the Faerie/Fae folk they are often described as rather old, wizened, diminutive creatures with large magical eyes -also as rather dark, sinister entities (or mischievous tricksters) who live in an invisible realm but have occasional interaction with humans.

Having said that there are also a great many different sizes and shapes reported (just like UFOs and occupants) and they're also said to live deep underground 'in darkened hollows, in mounds that opened up into vast, cavernous, winding regions..'.. so did find the Cryptoterrestrial connection a very interesting one.





Also lots of historical tales of folks being 'dazzled and entranced' by 'fairy lights' (even Fairies travelling in circular globes) and of course lots of encounters involving time anomalies like the Oz factor, time slips, missing time etc.

Lost count over the years of how many reports I've read about UFOs chasing and interfering with motor vehicles so also found it interesting that, back in the day, faeries were also 'notorious for harassing travellers along highways'.




In The Secret Commonwealth of Fairies(1692), Reverend Robert Kirk provides a description of diminutive beings with “light, changeable bodies . . . somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud, and best seen at twilight.” Because in his day these little creatures were notorious for harassing travelers along highways, people would go out of their way to avoid making trips during certain times of the year.

Top 10 Reasons Stories of Fairy Encounters are Actually Alien Encounters


When it comes to 'abduction' it seems there are quite a few other shared characteristics between UFO and Faerie lore including being taken to a brightly lit rooms with no obvious source of light; encountering one taller individual with smaller assistants; having an obsession with human reproduction and family lineage (cannot reproduce/need humans) and even marks or scars left on the body afterwards.

Also found it a bit freaky that Faeries were sometimes reported to have a luminous appearance, be telepathic, have the ability to cause or heal sickness, become invisible and walk through walls (as that's also been reported with 'aliens').

• Ye olde folks also described being paralysed (or 'fairy stroked') by small strange beings holding 'wands' and suppose that's pretty comparable to modern day abductions and encounters where UFO occupants are said to use 'power rods' to paralyze people.
 

karl 12

Noble
"The very concept of a parallel between modern ufology and ancient folklore is still occasionally challenged by believers in the theory that UFOs are nuts-and-bolts spacecraft" Jacques Fabrice Vallée - Astronomer


Jacques Vallee's excellent book 'Passport To Magonia' was probably one of the first to bring some of these very strange parallels to mass public consciousness and it's now in the public domain... so if anyone wants to read it it's freely available on PDF file here.

When it comes to contemporary research then the book 'A Trojan Feast'' is also causing a bit of a stir and author Joshua Cutchin has conducted some great work on Faerie 'food taboos', non-human encounters and the close similarities between UFO/Faerie abductees being offered 'thick liquids' to drink and strange pills to swallow.


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Now and again, a book is published that is destined to become a classic. Granted, it doesn’t happen too often nowadays in Ufology, but when it does, it’s well worth the wait.. Jacques Vallee’s Passport to Magonia did a fine job of noting the parallels between today’s alien encounters and centuries-old interaction with the faeries, the “wee folk” of times long gone. Cutchin, however, takes things to a whole new level as he notes the incredible similarities that exist between food offerings then and now – and provided to us by entities that many might assume have no connection, but which so obviously do.

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Some good Cutchin interviews to be found out there with George Knapp and Timothy Green Beckley and according to Joshua 'If you are not seeing a connection then you are simply not paying attention to the data'. He also gives some ye olde examples including the extremely strange tale of Jacob Jacobsson.





Professor Michael Swords has also started posting on his blog again compiling his catalogue LEPRECAT.

Some of you who have read the old blog, know that at the end I was exploring the claims of folkloric entities being real beings rather than just made up figures for story telling wisdom reasons. To attempt that, I was (as usual) going back to the original sources when I could, and making a catalog of cases (a la what a UFO researcher should do.) I nicknamed that catalog "LEPRECAT" for fun, and there are now 8 notebooks of such cases and a few hundred somewhat culled-for-quality individual experiences/reports.

Link 1 / 2 / 3 /4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

Other links:

The Celtic Alien Fairy Faith In The UFO Era (PDF)

Fortrean Historical Archive - The Little People

From Fairies To Aliens: One And The Same?


All healthy speculation of course but would interested in any opinions out there - are all these aspects instances of the same underlying phenomenon?
 

karl 12

Noble
Hey thanks for that Cosmic Cat - looks very relevant and will get that one for Christmas.

Always been pretty fascinated by the time anomaly aspect of UFO (and Fae) encounters and tthere's been quite a number of freaky reports with freaky attributes.


_ Presence of a slight haze or haze.

_ The object is often perceived as a mass. cloud, compact but soft-edged, or solid metallic but surrounded by nebulosity.

_ Body tingling.

_ Perception of an electromagnetic field or electrostatic charge control body, perceived by elevated body hairs. Alteration in electrical appliances, motor paralysis, blackouts (local or wide), headlights off, deviation light rays, interference in communications (radio and radar), among others.

_ At first perception of low temperature and then gradually increased until it became intense heat.

_ Presence of lights of various colors, always predominantly red, yellow or orange.

_ Perception mild low frequency hum, like the hum produced by a honeycomb, or the purring produced by the operation of an electrical transformer or motor.

_ Sense of timelessness (temporary anomaly), or alteration of real time (spatiotemporal dislocation). _ Geographical and temporal Transport.
_ Feeling pressure.

_ Sometimes nausea and vomiting occur.

_ Sometimes mild skin rashes, which becomes red on the affected area produced.


British researcher Jenny Randles coined the term 'Oz factor' back in 1983 and I think that's a good name for it.


UFO Reality (1983) British ufologist Jenny Randles noted that some UFO witnesses experience a "sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world into a different environmental framework. . . . I call this the 'Oz Factor,' after the fairytale land of Oz."

Oz Factor

Cheers.
 

karl 12

Noble
Is that a mental isolation or transport? What type of environmental framework?


Sorry for the delay in response mate and those are two very good questions (to which I have no idea) - did see that there was some pretty darn interesting reading (and freaky case examples) below from Michael Jordan - also a short essay on the subject from Randles.


In her 1988 book Abduction, Randles describes the mysterious Oz Factor as, "an induced form of sensory deprivation which seems to alter the state of consciousness of the percipient. It can become visible as a sensation of time standing still, or interfered with, or it manifests as all sound vanishing, a very odd feeling of being isolated from our world into a magic world. It is less easy to describe than recognise, since witnesses often refer to it without having any idea of its significance. This underlines its importance." (Randles, p.57)

Ufologists have long been familiar with the reporting of such sensations as a prelude to UFO related experiences including witnesses to so-called abductions. Participants tell of feelings of disassociation and timelessness. The impression created for the individual concerned is one of having temporarily vacated the material world with its distracting sensory input and entered a timeless, silent, dreamlike, mental state, unlike any other previously experienced. Obviously a type of altered state of consciousness.

The records kept by UFO researchers are replete with cases involving aspects such as the paralysis of the witness, periods of missing time, the silence of the craft observed, its rapid or instantaneous disappearance and often the seeming absurdity of a lack of other witnesses, despite the vast size of the craft and the fact that it is seen in broad daylight. These underlying patterns remain pretty standard and common to the Oz Factor, irrespective of language or location.

An early example of its operation is recounted by Jenny Randles:

"It occurred one hot and thundery day in the summer of 1944. World War II raged around the village of Le Verger, near Toulon-sur-Arroux, France, when a thirteen-year-old girl, Madeleine Arnoux, decided to risk the many Germans and resistance fighters in the woods to cycle out and pick berries. In doing so she confronted a strange object in the grass, like a small car but dull grey in colour. She then noticed that small men stood beside it, no more than three feet tall and dressed in brown one-piece suits. Feeling desperately afraid, she tried to run but was paralysed and lost all sense of time (the Oz Factor once more). Then, inexplicably, the object had gone and the hold on her was relaxed. She fled back to her village." (Randles, p.23)

In the same way that reports of hauntings describe how ghosts can suddenly disappear from view, not only do UFOs have the capacity to vanish in mid-air, but to disappear from radar screens as well. In their informative and perceptive book of essays on UFOs, UFOs The Final Answer?, David and Therese Barclay include a chapter by Joseph Dormer in which he recounts the following personal experience recounted by a teacher in Rochdale, England:

"It was late November and I had just got home from college. It was already dusk and, as my mother prepared to pull the curtains, she drew my attention to something she could see in the darkening sky. I looked out through the window and saw this extraordinary craft, just hanging there, low in the sky, motionless and completely silent. It was huge. I mean it must have been about 100 feet long. It was cylinder shaped, but rounded at the ends. There were port holes along its entire length, and I could see figures in silver space suits moving about inside. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I wanted to cry out but could not .... I mean I literally could not speak or move. Neither of us could. It was as if we were paralysed. We just stood there, watching this thing as it began to glide slowly across the sky. Then suddenly it was gone. It did not just move off at tremendous speed, I'm certain of that – it just vanished into thin air. And another strange thing was that we seemed to be watching it for only a few minutes or so, yet when I looked at my watch afterwards, I found that a whole hour had gone by." (Barclay, p.130)

The confusion caused by the Oz Factor is well illustrated by a case investigated by university lecturer, Frank Johnson, in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, involving the reported abduction of a family of five, three adults and two children, travelling by car from Reading to the Gloucester area. Following the sighting of what they thought was a bright planet, their car appeared to drive itself, passing the same scenery again and again, including a non-existent brightly lit house (obviously an imposed screen, aimed at blocking out something perhaps a little more alarming). During this whole sequence, time appeared to unravel slowly in classic Oz Factor style. The end of the experience was marked by the appearance of a spinning, brightly lit disc and the stunned participants found their way home, eventually finding out that they had arrived an hour later than expected.

It would appear that in many instances, witnesses to a UFO event may experience a momentary amnesia, not realising at the time that a time-lapse had occurred..

The Oz Factor - Entering The Magical Realm by Michael Jordan



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Did find it intriguing that as well as ye olde encounters with 'Fae' and modern day UFO reports, the Oz factor has also been described in encounters with Sasquatch and ghosts (E.M. effects and self luminous globes also appear to be involved right across the board).

Also found it interesting that Faeries in folklore were said to travel on clouds and a bizarre fog or strange mist was said to appear moments before they did - I've read quite a number of UFO occupant cases (particularly from Europe) which report exactly that and witnesses also describe everything going silent, time stretching out, a clenching feeling in the stomach and very sore eyes afterwards.

In Faerie lore the giving / taking back of 'gifts' also seems to be a thing and that aspect has also popped up in a few UFO occupant cases - it's also been noted by a few different researchers over the years that when it comes to the behaviour of UFOnauts it really does look like they're putting on a show or display (wanting to be seen collecting samples, fixing their vehicles etc..), their actions have also been described as clumsy or contrived.

Can't remember where I read it but the phrase 'camouflaged by absurdity' seems to be appropriate.



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Cheers.
 

karl 12

Noble
Graham Hancock on UFO occupant encounters sharing analogues with Faerie lore, shamanism and even the legal scientific DMT-induced entity encounter experiments conducted by Rick Strassman.






Also an interesting one from Wisconsin involving Joe Simonton's pancakes.




Joe Simonton encountered three otherworldly beings in the spring of 1961; an event that would play out almost identically to certain tales of faeries told across human culture and throughout history.

Had Simonton known what the result of this event would be that late morning on his chicken farm in Eagle River, Wisconsin, he likely would have simply locked his door, drawn the shades, and been done with the whole ordeal. The following is Simonton’s story, according to an excerpt from Jacque Vallee’s Passport to Magonia,

The time was approximately 11:00 A.M. on April 18, 1961, when Joe Simonton was attracted outside by a peculiar noise similar to "knobby tires on a wet pavement." Stepping into his yard, he faced a silvery saucer-shaped object "brighter than chrome," which appeared to be hovering close to the ground without actually touching it. The object was about twelve feet high and thirty feet in diameter. A hatch opened about five feet from the ground, and Simonton saw three men inside the machine. One of them was dressed in a black two-piece suit. The occupants were about five feet in height. Smooth shaven, they appeared to "resemble Italians." They had dark hair and skin and wore outfits with turtleneck tops and knit helmets.

One of the men held up a jug apparently made of the same material as the saucer. His motions to Joe Simonton seemed to indicate that he needed water. Simonton took the jug, went inside the house, and filled it. As he returned, he saw that one of the men inside the saucer was "frying food on a flameless grill of some sort." The interior of the ship was black, "the color of wrought iron." Simonton, who could see several instrument panels, heard a slow whining sound, similar to the hum of a generator. When he made a motion indicating he was interested in the food that was being prepared, one of the men, who was also dressed in black but with a narrow red trim along the trousers, handed him three cookies, about three inches in diameter and perforated with small holes.

The whole affair had lasted about five minutes. Finally, the man closest to the witness attached a kind of belt to a hook in his clothing and closed the hatch in such a way that Simonton could scarcely detect its outline. Then the object rose about twenty feet from the ground before taking off straight south, causing a blast of air that bowed some nearby pine trees.

This odd encounter has been catalogued alongside many other “high strangeness” cases in the annals of ufology; although, upon careful reflection, incidents such as Simonton’s have much more in common with the faerie stories of our ancestors than what one would expect from interstellar visitors.

Many faerie stories include strange sounds or music being heard before encountering the fey near one of their hill fortresses or out in procession, similar to Simonton's "knobby tires on a wet pavement." Often faeries are said to be encountered near lonely hills or prehistoric ruins, but traversing the wilderness is not the only way to encounter the good folk; many tales exist of faerie encounters that take place in farmsteads and cottages--farms not too different from Simonton’s. But Simonton’s encounter doesn’t seem to have much in common with helpful house-dwelling faeries, such as brownies and hobgoblins, so much as a chance encounter with the fair folk.

There is a tale, popular in faerie lore, of a helpful ploughman who, upon finding a broken faerie spade on Wick Moor, mended the fey implement and was rewarded by the grateful good folk with a gift of faerie-made cakes. Faeries rewarding a helpful human with faerie food is not uncommon in folklore, and the story of Simonton’s experience mirrors that of the stories. Simonton’s offering of water to his unexpected guests is certainly well-received, and he is similarly rewarded with a gift of food; in this case, the traditional faerie cakes.

Faerie Food For Thought
 

karl 12

Noble
Lots of similar traditions from many different countries regarding 'little folk' living underground and there are some excerpts from several different Mexican reports below involving 'Chaneques'.


The name CHANEQUE is indigenous to the state of Veracruz, having been used for centuries by the native peoples, the Totonacs, of this area to designate the 'tiny men' (HOMBRECITOS) who live in the mountainous regions of the state. The first Europeans to disembark on the Veracruz coast, were told of the existence of these gnomes by the Totonacs in the early 16th Century. The Totonacs did not indicate the CHANEQUES were mythical creatures but rather talked of them as through they were diminutive flesh and bone beings with extraordinary powers...
" The CHANEQUES are always watching and they love to amuse themselves playing with our children. Although they never harm our youngsters or steal them, they entice them away to play and sometimes we don't see our boys and girls for hours or even days.. Although he'd been missing for some time, he was in perfect health, NOT hungry OR thirsty or the least bit unhappy. Ramiro is talkative in his childish way and quickly advised us he was lost near a 'big water' (river) when five little men found him. They had given him 'sweet food' and milk, then he had gone to sleep. "When asked where he had been he replied, 'Living with the little men. They gave me food and milk with honey in it. But suddenly, as he neared the village of Cintalapa he was startled to see five diminutive figures standing with hands in the air ahead of his truck. His description of the physical aspect of these 'gnomes' coincides with HUNDREDS of other eyewitness accounts related over the years as to size, light brown complexion, black hair, and the ability to appear suddenly before the viewers' eyes, as through they had come from another dimension. Second, on May 21 three ranchers reported having seen a large illuminated disc flying very low over this area.'

CHANEQUES: MEXICAN GNOMES OR INTERPLANETARY VISITORS?
 

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Metanoia
There is one faerie tradition from Scandanavian that tells of trolls using human baby veins to make their bootlaces and that fae folk hate humans with a vengeance for driving them underground in the dim lit past.

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karl 12

Noble
There is one faerie tradition from Scandanavian that tells of trolls using human baby veins to make their bootlaces and that fae folk hate humans with a vengeance for driving them underground in the dim lit past.


Ha nice story about those bootlaces mate (bet that scared the bejesus out of the kids) and appreciate the info - when it comes to airborne Fae who live underground and meddle with humans (and cattle) then think I know what group I'd prefer to meet.


• Seelie Court:

Also called the Blessed Ones or The Sluagh. Their element is Air. They are trooping faeries of the winds who have been heard but never seen. Scottish folklore presents them as a huge host of light and benevolence riding on the night air. They are active year round especially on the Sabbaths. They and their counterparts, the Unseelie Court, are a rare example of duality in paganism. The Seelie Court is good and benevolent consisting of the most heroic and beautiful faeries of Scotland. They ride the winds looking down at the earth for any good which they can do. According to Scottish legend they once interacted much with humans. When not trooping they are purported to live underground. This abode is reported to be on the Isle of Skye. Their ritual help is unknown. They seem only to approach humans whom they choose.



• The Unseelie Court:

Like the Seelie Court, the Unseelie Court has never been seen. People have described them as a massive dark cloud which rides upon the wind. They are thoroughly evil. As stated with the Seelie Court, this is a rare form of dualism in paganism. They are most active at night from Samhain to Ostara. Unseelie means "damned" or "unblessed" and some Scottish legends say they were once members of the Seelie Court who fell from grace. They travel on the night winds from where their unnerving cackling and howling can be heard. They have no method of reproduction, so they enslave mortals whom they think would never be missed and take them along to become one of them. Contact is not advised !

SCOTTISH FAERIES


Also states here that Fae 'can assume whatever form they wish, especially to deceive or manipulate people' so maybe that at least attempts to address the question about all the many different UFO and occupant descriptions.

Haven't read it yet but Marjorie T. Johnson's book about 20th century reports looks to be a very interesting one - apparently it's the 'biggest single collection of fairy experiences ever amassed' (about 400 global) so it would be real interesting to cross reference any UFO occupant correlations.


Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times


Its accounts of fairy experiences, mostly from the twentieth century, have come from business men and women, housewives, journalists, clergymen, bus drivers, anglers, gypsies, school teachers, university professors, soldiers, artists, authors, poets, musicians, sculptors, actresses, and many others who have seen fairies of various types in houses, churches, and sheds; in gardens, fields, woods, country lanes, and public parks; on moors, hills, and mountains; and even on sewing machines, typewriters, and kitchen stoves.

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Do keep coming across strange little details like faeries appearing and turning people's milk sour - once read an account of a MIB doing exactly that but am still looking for the source - also thought this was a good data set from Prof Swords).

Cheers.
 

karl 12

Noble
Joshua Cutchin's other book exploring similarities between Faerie and alien abduction lore.

A Review of ‘Thieves in the Night’ by Joshua Cutchin

This is primarily a book about explicating the link between faeries and aliens (in relation to abduction scenarios), which Cutchin does by using a wide range of data from historical sources and modern testimony. Sometimes the data is uncomfortable – we may not want the faeries of our folkloric past to become the invasive aliens of contemporary culture – but when enough evidence begins to accrue, we are obliged to accept the possibility that we might be dealing with a single phenomenon that stretches back thousands of years, and suggests that there are metaphysical entities (from the same source) who consistently intrude into our own physical reality..

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