Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
Se presenta como casuística de contacto y declara de entrada la subordinación que la sostiene: los ovnis son objetos físicos reales y aun así «I do not think they are extraterrestrial in the ordinary sense of the term» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 7». La razón que da es de historia, no de física: si esos objetos se ven «from time immemorial» y sus ocupantes repiten conductas semejantes, «it is not reasonable to assume that they are "simply" extraterrestrial visitors» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 8».
El nervio del libro es el continuo folclórico, y lo enuncia como identidad, no como parecido: la creencia moderna en los platillos «is identical to an earlier belief in the Good People», y los pilotos son «indistinguishable from the elves, sylphs, and lutins of the Middle Ages» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 78». De ahí que la investigación se describa como entrometerse «into the affairs of the Secret Commonwealth» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 78».
Su cantera es erudita y está nombrada: Robert Kirk y su manuscrito de 1691 «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 84», los Elementales de los «hermetic Adepts» y de Paracelso «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 27», el arzobispo Agobardo y Magonia «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · pp. 24, 27», Sinistrari sobre íncubos y súcubos «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · pp. 132–135», y la etnografía céltica de Evans-Wentz y Hartland «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · pp. 54, 57». El mismo tratamiento se aplica a Fátima, Lourdes, Knock y Guadalupe, leídos como «nothing more than UFO phenomena where the entity has delivered a message having to do with religious beliefs rather than with space or engineering» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 150».
La explicación que propone al final es un sistema de control: «I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 239». Sobre su origen se abstiene y lo dice «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 239».
900 afirmaciones · 1 fuente · 1 atribución
Atribución
se consigna, jamás se afirma«Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · pp. 2, 255»
Cadena de la obra
el testimonio procesado, en esmeraldaAfirmaciones
900 entradas — la voz de la obra, con su pasaje«Although I am among those who believe that UFOs are real physical objects. I do not think they are extraterrestrial in the ordinary sense of the term.» — el punto tras *objects* está así en la fuente donde la sintaxis pide coma; la subordinación es la tesis, no dos tesis sueltas.
«If these objects have been seen from time immemorial, as I will show, and if their occupants have always performed similar actions along similar lines of behavior, then it is not reasonable to assume that they are "simply" extraterrestrial visitors. They must be something more.» — el argumento de continuidad, enunciado como condicional.
«Perhaps they have always been here. On earth. With us.» — lo plantea como conjetura, no como conclusión.
«Such reports are folklore in the making.» — dicho de los informes contemporáneos.
«they form a striking parallel to the tales of meetings with elves and jinn of medieval times, with the denizens of "Magonia," the land beyond the clouds of ancient chronicles» — la serie en que pone los casos modernos.
«The UFO occupants, like the elves of old, are not extraterrestrials. They are the denizens of another reality.» — la negativa de 1988 es plana.
«To put it bluntly, the UFO phenomenon does not give evidence of being extraterrestrial at all. Instead it appears to be inter-dimensional and to manipulate physical realities outside of our own spacetime continuum.» — el término *inter-dimensional* con guion, tal cual.
«The UFOs are real physical objects. Yet they are not necessarily extraterrestrial spacecraft. To put it bluntly, the extraterrestrial theory is not strange enough to explain the facts.» — Conclusión del libro.
«But the extraterrestrial theory is not good enough, because it is not strange enough to explain the facts.» — cierre del capítulo 9.
«the UFOs may not come from ordinary space, but from a multiverse which is all around us» — el sustituto que ofrece al espacio ordinario.
«Such a theory is required in order to explain both the modern cases and the chronicles of Magonia – the abductions and the psychic component.» — declara qué debe cubrir una teoría suficiente.
«What we see here is not an alien invasion. It is a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans.»
«I propose to define consciousness as the process by which informational associations are retrieved and traversed.» — definición operativa, en la conclusión.
«let me simply state again that the modern, global belief in flying saucers and their occupants is identical to an earlier belief in the Good People. The entities described as the pilots of the craft are indistinguishable from the elves, sylphs, and lutins of the Middle Ages.» — la frase-eje de la obra: afirma identidad, no analogía.
«Through the observations of unidentified flying objects, we are concerned with an agency our ancestors knew well and regarded with awe: we are prying into the affairs of the Secret Commonwealth.» — nombra el objeto de estudio con el título de Kirk.
«However strong the current belief in UFOs from space, it cannot be stronger than the Celtic faith in the elves and the fairies, or the medieval belief in lutins» — Añade el miedo cristiano a «demons and satyrs and fauns».
«Those who assume that modern UFO sightings must be the result of alien experiments – of a "scientific" or even "superscientific" nature – conducted by a race of space travelers may be the victims of their ignorance of the old folklore.» — adjudica el error a un desconocimiento del folclore.
«The academic pedants, through a common bias that psychologists could perhaps explain if they were not its first victims, have covered the fairy-faith with the same ridicule» — que ahora cubre al fenómeno ovni; la frase arranca al pie de la p. 77 y cierra en la 78.
«The Secret Commonwealth, after all, already took ordinary folks away. So did the denizens of Magonia, and the sky people of American Indian lore.» — pone la abducción en serie con tres tradiciones.
«The parallel between these modern claims and the medieval legends is closer than ever. The same theory was presented about intercourse with the elves.» — dicho de la tesis híbrida de las abducciones.
«I have shown that fairy tales are full of stories about the stealing of human babies, changelings, and the abduction of both males and females for procreation with the Gentry.» — Añade «Even the scars sound familiar».
«Throughout the Middle Ages priests and inquisitors similarly examined the bodies of people suspected of having attended the sabbat of the witches. The proof of such supernatural contact was a scar or a mark.» — el par que equipara con la búsqueda de implantes.
«There is no gap between the fairy-faith and ufology regarding the sexual question.»
«Without the sexual context – without the stories of changelings, human midwives, intermarriage with the Gentry, of which we never hear in modern fairy tales – it is doubtful that the tradition about fairies would have survived» — adjudica a lo sexual la supervivencia de la tradición.
«This is not a new idea, as the belief in changelings shows.» — dicho de la tesis de una raza que difiere del hombre en pocos detalles.
«By the belief in changelings I mean a belief that fairies and other imaginary beings are on the watch for young children» — la definición que recoge del folclorista.
«Angels, demons, fairies, creatures from heaven, hell, or Magonia: they inspire our strangest dreams, shape our destinies, steal our desires.... But who are they?» — la serie completa, cerrada con pregunta.
«all the hypnosis sessions and the searches for implants may well be as futile as the questions of the inquisitors to the witches returning from the sabbat» — el mismo par, aplicado al método.
«there is a certain region, which they call Magonia» — cita de Agobardo, arzobispo de Lyon, sobre las naves que navegan las nubes; el texto de la p. 24 lleva intercalado un paréntesis editorial del propio Vallée.
«the people believed what their good father Agobard said rather than their own eyes» — lo toma del *Comte de Gabalis*, sobre el efecto del sermón del arzobispo.
«Such stories were so well established during the Middle Ages that the problem of communicating with the Elementals became a major preoccupation of the hermetic Adepts and an important part of their philosophy.» — Añade que Paracelso escribió un libro entero sobre esos seres.
«Both Cardan and Paracelsus write, like Kirk, that a pact can be made with these creatures and that they can be made to appear and answer questions at will.» — junta a los tres bajo una misma doctrina del pacto.
«Are the writings of Paracelsus, with his concept of "signatures," a neglected source of inspiration?» — lo formula como pregunta de investigación.
«The bodies of the Elementals are "of an elastic semi-material essence, etherial enough so as not to be detected by the physical sight, and they may change their forms according to certain laws"» — la clasificación de los Elementales incluye gnomos y sílfides; el guion partido es de la capa de texto.
«wrote an amazing manuscript entitled The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. It was the first systematic attempt to describe the methods and organization of the strange creatures» — data el manuscrito de Robert Kirk en 1691.
«It is enough to note that the strange being is indifferently termed a satyr and a manikin, while the saint himself states that the Gentiles also use the names faun and incubus.» — sobre el episodio de san Jerónimo.
«shows that church scholars were as puzzled by reports of incubi and succubi as most modern students of UFO lore are by the Villas-Boas case» — dicho de Sinistrari.
«the demon, either incubus or succubus, has carnal union not only with men and women but also with animals» — recogido de la doctrina que expone Sinistrari.
«such demons do not obey the exorcists and have no fear of relics and other holy objects» — el rasgo por el que Sinistrari los separa de los demonios ordinarios.
«Cardinal Bellarmin thinks Antichrist will be born of a woman having had intercourse with an incubus» — lo adjudica a Belarmino, dentro de la exposición de Sinistrari.
«from Plato and Alexander to Caesar, Merlin, and even "that damned hersiarch whose name is Martin Luther!"» — la lista de engendrados por demonios de la que Sinistrari discrepa; *hersiarch* es grafía de la fuente.
«"familiar spirits" in medieval occultism, particularly in Rosicrucian theories» — única página donde la obra nombra lo rosacruz, y es al pasar.
«7. The Spiritual Component: A Morphology of Miracles» — título del capítulo que aplica el método a los milagros.
«the entire sequence of observations of an entity thought to be the Virgin Mary had begun two years previously with a fairly classical sequence of UFO sightings» — dicho de Fátima.
«This phenomenon, which no astronomical observatory registered and which therefore was not natural» — recoge así la decisión eclesial de 1930 sobre el 13 de octubre de 1917.
«She had not said that she was the Virgin Mary. She had simply stated that she was "from Heaven"» — señala que la identificación no la hizo la entidad.
«the alleged Virgin Mary instructs the little Bernadette to perform meaningless actions» — sobre Lourdes.
«Several cases, which bear the official stamp of the Catholic Church (such as those in Fatima and Guadalupe), are in fact – if one applies the definitions strictly – nothing more than UFO phenomena where the entity has delivered a message having to do with religious beliefs rather than with space or engineering» — la reclasificación, condicionada al rigor de las definiciones; el contraste «rather than with space or engineering» es el punto, y no se abrevia.
«At Knock, Ireland, in 1852, the witnesses beheld luminous beings, among them the Virgin» — la fecha es la que da la obra.
«much as in Lourdes and Fatima, the clergy tried at first not to get involved in the pilgrimages» — sobre la recepción eclesial de Knock.
«Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe» — la fórmula que recoge del relato guadalupano.
«I record this fact just as I have seen it without attempting to explain it» — declaración del Dr. Douzous sobre el experimento de la vela con Bernadette.
«The phenomenon and its effects are working here as they have worked at Fatima and Lourdes and in other places: as a spiritual control system.» — el enlace entre el eje mariano y el eje del control.
«the symbolism of the Virgin in occultism and religion, the fairy tales involving human midwives and changelings, the sexual overtones of the flying saucer reports» — la serie que declara como un solo objeto de estudio.
«his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do» — cita el relato de José Smith.
«a vision of the Shining Beings (known in other parts of the world as Devas)» — así lee Evans-Wentz la visión de Smith, según la obra.
«To Evans-Wentz, the beings contacted in the course of such visions are identical with the Celtic creatures of the Secret Commonwealth, and he concludes that there is evidence for their true existence.» — adjudica a Evans-Wentz la identificación y la conclusión.
«had been told by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats that such places existed and were thus guarded» — el sujeto es Evans-Wentz, y en la fuente el nombre viene partido por el guion de la extracción («Evans- Wentz»); por eso el verbatim arranca después.
«He argues convincingly that the spiritual control system of which UFOs are a part may have resulted in the religious myths that keep mankind in a state of abject submission to obsolete myths.» — adjudica la tesis al ex jesuita Salvatore Freixedo.
«The Gentry are a fine large race who live out on the sea and in the mountains, and they are all very good neighbors» — testimonio irlandés recogido por Evans-Wentz, que la obra reproduce.
«Man's imagination, like every known power, works by fixed laws.» — lo toma de Hartland, escrito en 1891, como clave del argumento.
«Almost all over the Earth, the rite of hospitality» — Hartland sobre el intercambio de comida con el Gentry, que la obra aplica al caso de Eagle River.
«it leaves all the problems of the historical origins of the fairy-faith unsolved» — recoge así el rechazo de Evans-Wentz y Hartland a la teoría pigmea.
«Can we study modern UFO reports without reopening the entire problem of apparitions? To most UFO writers, the answer is yes.» — la pregunta viene tras el pasaje irlandés de los sátiros, los duendes y «the demoniac phantom host»; él contesta que no.
«I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations.» — la formulación propia del sistema de control, y la única que se le puede adjudicar.
«I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous … or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will.» — abstención declarada sobre el origen del sistema.
«We are not dealing with successive waves of visitations from space. We are dealing with a control system.»
«The best schedule of reinforcement is one that combines periodicity with unpredictability» — lo toma del trabajo de Ferster y Skinner sobre refuerzo.
«They are part of the environment, part of the control system for human evolution. But their effects, instead of being just physical, are also felt in our beliefs.» — cierra el libro situando el fenómeno en la creencia.
«the UFOs, if they are spacecraft engaged in a general survey of our planet, must have landed here no fewer than three million times in two decades!» — primer argumento contra la hipótesis extraterrestre.
«In either case, their appearances are staged!» — segundo argumento: el despliegue es escenificado.
«It is the behavior of an image, or a holographic projection.»
«There may be a machine involved, but a machine that remains out of view of the witnesses, who see only what it is projecting.» — el símil del proyector, con que sostiene a la vez lo físico y lo no material.
«visitors from outer space would not be human in shape. They would certainly not breathe our air» — tercer argumento, por la morfología de los ocupantes.
«Whatever they are, the occupants of such craft are not genuine extraterrestrials.»
«Betty's drawing is a map to nowhere.» — dicho del mapa estelar de Betty Hill.
«If the map was real, it must have been placed there for Betty Hill to see, not for the pilot to use!» — objeta así la lectura de Marjorie Fish.
«what kind of doctors are these, who need to induce such trauma in hundreds of patients to collect a little blood, a few embryos?» — objeción a la lectura genética de las abducciones.
«The ufonauts should go back to medical school.»
«are valid only if one assumes that their science has not superseded in any fundamental way the limitations of our own science» — objeta así a Carl Sagan y a Donald Menzel, por la premisa que comparten.
«While I acknowledge their observations I remain confident that human knowledge is capable of eventually understanding» — marca distancia del pesimismo de Freixedo, Keel y Aimé Michel.
«We are property.» — cita de Charles Fort, *The Book of the Damned*, en la conclusión.
«The mechanism of this resonance between the UFO symbol and the archetypes of the human unconscious has been abundantly demonstrated by Carl Jung, whose book Flying Saucers makes many references to the age-old significance of the signs in the sky.» — adjudica esa demostración a Jung, y a continuación declara que él no lee el fenómeno solo como símbolo.
«there is no reason to doubt their personal integrity» — dicho de los testigos, junto a que sus recuerdos no deben tomarse literalmente.
«unethical and certainly unscientific» — así califica la hipnosis regresiva mal practicada.
«the UFO phenomenon is shielded from direct study by the persistent, misguided official denial of its very existence» — así define el primer nivel del «triple coverup».
«Professor Edward Condon, who led the study, felt so strongly about the uselessness of the whole thing that he destroyed the project files.»
«Occult masters like Gurdjieff and Crowley were wont to send their disciples on insane errands such as carrying stones to a mountain top as a test of their devotion or as a discipline conducive to a spiritual awakening.» — propone leer desde la tradición esotérica los encargos absurdos que reciben los contactados: «A study of these events from the point of view of the esoteric tradition might be rewarding».
«a branch of Aleister Crowley's neo-Templar cult flourished in Los Angeles, two of the most ardent members were Jack W. Parsons, a propulsion engineer, and L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction buff.» — el nexo que consigna entre ocultismo y primeros contactados.
«My book Passport to Magonia, published in 1970, contained a catalogue of 923 unexplained close encounters» — remite a su propio catálogo como base documental.
«It is sad that, as the twentieth century draws to an end and as new discoveries become possible, the minds of many scientists remain closed to this problem.» — Vallée lamenta el cierre de la ciencia justo cuando nuevos descubrimientos se abren.
«In its June 1987 issue the popular astrolonomy magazine Sky & Telescope noted with sneering, fashionable skepticism that: Unidentified Flying Objects have faded from popularity in recent years, perhaps as the news media become more aware how little is behind every UFO tale that has ever been well investigated.» — cita despectiva de la revista Sky & Telescope que Vallée trae como muestra de esa actitud; astrolonomy es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«This coincidence between scientific arrogance and a new social trend illustrates an important fact in our society: while science consistently refuses to consider phenomena that lie outside the safe regions of its current understanding, the public is eagerly reaching for explanations that fit its experience.» — Vallée cruza el rechazo científico con la demanda pública de explicaciones.
«While our scientists remain unaware of important data that could stimulate new theories of the universe, the rest of us miss an opportunity to make serious progress in what should be an important spiritual quest.» — Vallée nombra el costo de ese rechazo como pérdida de una búsqueda espiritual.
«In my view, the widespread belief among researchers of the field in the literal truth of the "abductions" is only a very crude approximation of a much more complex tapestry.» — Vallée degrada la lectura literal de las abducciones a aproximación cruda, no a falsedad.
«For a long time, the U.S. military has dismissed the problem because "it did not show any hostile intent and did not threaten national security." This argument is no longer tenable.» — Vallée impugna el argumento militar de la ausencia de amenaza.
«It can be argued that UFO phenomena are so complex and so far beyond our ability to classify them that no solution can be expected for a long time to come.» — Vallée admite la objeción de la complejidad antes de contestarla.
«I would be very happy, for instance, to simply understand how these objects manipulate electromagnetic waves to create retractable light beams with gravity effects capable of pulling objects, people, and animals through the air; or to understand how they paralyze witnesses who come close to them.» — Vallée reduce su ambición inmediata a los mecanismos del haz y de la parálisis.
«I do not have the answer to the mystery, but I do have a great deal of relevant data.» — Vallée separa lo que no tiene, la respuesta, de lo que sí tiene, los datos.
«We now know that the UFO behaves like a region of space, of small dimensions (about ten meters), within which a very large amount of energy is stored.» — definición operativa que da del ovni: región de espacio de unos diez metros con mucha energía almacenada.
«The experience of a close encounter with a UFO is a shattering physical and mental ordeal.» — Vallée sobre el nivel biológico del fenómeno.
«The third level is social. Belief in the reality of UFOs is spreading rapidly at all levels of society throughout the world.» — tercer nivel de su clasificación: la difusión social de la creencia.
«Witnesses are no longer afraid to come forward with personal stories of abductions, of spiritual exchanges with aliens» — nota que el testimonio ya se dice en voz alta; la enumeración sigue con lo sexual y cruza el cambio de plana, por eso el verbatim se corta aquí.
«The eager anticipation of encounters with other intelligent beings would help in transcending local conflicts on this earth and in achieving within a single generation behavioral changes» — el contacto esperado aceleraría en una generación cambios que llevarían siglos; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«If this is the contribution of the UFO phenomenon, then we are in fact dealing with one of history's major transitions.» — Vallée condiciona la transición histórica a que ésa sea la contribución del fenómeno.
«Aside from any scientific consideration, the social, political, and religious consequences of the experience are enormous if they are considered over the timespan of a generation.» — Vallée mide las consecuencias del contacto en escala de una generación.
«Faced with the new wave of experiences of UFO contact that are described in books like Communion and Intruders and in movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, our religions seem obsolete.» — sitúa el efecto en la religión y nombra las fuentes de la ola: los libros de Strieber y Hopkins y la película de Spielberg.
«Our idea of the church as a social entity working within rational structures is obviously challenged by the claim of a direct communication in modern times with visible beings who seem endowed with supernatural powers. This idea can shake our society to the very roots of its culture.» — el desafío que ve a la iglesia como estructura racional viene de la comunicación directa con seres visibles.
«But they are something else, too: a portent of important things to come.» — Vallée añade al paralelo folclórico una función de presagio.
«Our national scientific effort has temporarily run out of objectives that can capture the public's imagination and enthusiasm.» — razón que da para esperar un cambio de actitud hacia la inteligencia alienígena.
«In the last analysis magic, religion and science are nothing but theories of thought; and as science has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by some more perfect hypothesis, perhaps by some totally different way of looking at the phenomena – of registering the shadows on the screen – of which we in this generation can form no idea. Sir James Frazer, O.M. The Golden Bough» — epígrafe con que Vallée abre la primera parte; es de Sir James Frazer y pone la ciencia en la misma serie que la magia y la religión.
«It has become impossible to listen to the radio or watch television without being exposed to testimony about encounters with strange aerial objects and their alleged pilots.» — sobre la ubicuidad del testimonio en los medios.
«Readers of my previous books know that for the past twenty-five years I have advocated a serious, long-term inquiry into the phenomenon.» — Vallée data en veinticinco años su postura de investigación seria.
«While many of these claims seem ludicrous, and some fit easily within the scope of psychopathology, a genuine sincerity shines through most of the stories.» — el límite que se pone: reconoce lo ridículo y lo patológico sin descartar la sinceridad.
«it is difficult to deny that the witnesses have been exposed to a deep, unusual, and even terrifying event, and that it involves a form of intelligence we have not yet recognized.» — Vallée afirma inteligencia no reconocida, no visita interplanetaria.
«Let us start with a simple fact: man has always been aware that he is not alone.» — premisa con que arranca la primera parte.
«All the traditions of mankind carefully preserve accounts of contact with other forms of life and intelligence beyond the animal realm.» — generaliza el contacto a todas las tradiciones.
«Even more significantly, they claim that we are surrounded with spiritual entities that can manifest physically in ways that we do not understand.» — lo que Vallée subraya de esas tradiciones: entidades espirituales que se manifiestan físicamente.
«This chapter summarizes some of these traditions and draws a close parallel between the ancient accounts and modern cases of contact with similar entities.» — declara el método del capítulo: paralelo entre relatos antiguos y casos modernos.
«One of the stained-glass panels of the Sainte Chapelle shows the abduction of the prophet Ezekiel by an object that came as a whirlwind.» — lee el vitral de la Sainte Chapelle como rapto de Ezequiel por un torbellino.
«In my many years of UFO investigations, I have spoken to numerous witnesses – people I could hear and touch and look straight in the eye – who told me they had been caught in a whirlwind, had seen strange creatures, and had been left wondering and confused.» — Vallée empareja el torbellino de Ezequiel con lo que le contaron testigos a los que pudo tocar y mirar.
«All I could offer them was the assurance that they were not alone, that many others shared the same experience, and that I believed future science would eventually accept and understand it as an important source of new knowledge.» — lo que declara haber podido ofrecer a los testigos, y la expectativa que pone en la ciencia futura.
«The people I interviewed would not someday be represented as stained-glass figures in the chapels where kings and queens bend their knees and bow their heads in worship.» — contrasta al testigo moderno con la figura del vitral: nadie lo pondrá en una capilla.
«During our interview, Helen confessed that the motor idea was triggered by an abduction aboard a UFO.» — caso de la testigo a la que llama Helen; el nombre es seudónimo declarado por el propio Vallée.
«Out of these hills came a white light, and it moved up and began to come in our direction.» — testimonio de Helen, en su propia voz, sobre la luz blanca en la carretera de Lompoc a Los Ángeles.
«An airplane couldn't have turned the way it did, so we figured it was a helicopter.» — primera hipótesis de los testigos, en boca de Helen.
«Then it began to do very erratic things and twists, go very far out and come closer very quickly.» — Helen describe la maniobra que descarta el helicóptero.
«Perhaps any living entity can transfer its consciousness outside its own body.» — Vallée admite la hipótesis del desdoblamiento para el testigo.
«But automobiles have no consciousness and are not capable of astral travel.» — el argumento con que la descarta: el coche también se movió.
«The vehicle stayed with us at that time and then began to move off a little bit in the distance, and the car was just going on its own velocity.» — Helen sobre el coche que seguía andando solo mientras el objeto acompañaba.
«She met a man dressed in white, who showed her the amazing motor she is now determined to build.» — dentro del relato de Helen, el hombre de blanco que le mostró el motor.
«A friend of mine, a psychiatrist, got in touch with him and obtained his statement.» — cómo dice Vallée haber recabado la declaración del segundo testigo.
«But this is precisely the place where many questions are raised in my mind.» — Vallée marca el punto donde el relato deja de convencerle.
«These are some of the questions to which we will return again and again in the course of this book.» — declara que esas preguntas son el hilo del libro.
«In his book Intruders, Hopkins proposes a scenario in which UFO occupants had timed their visit at the appropriate day of the month to remove an ovum from Kathy, keeping her in a "quasi-anesthetized" state during the procedure.» — expone la lectura de Budd Hopkins sobre el caso de Kathy: extracción de un óvulo.
«Many researchers speculate that such accounts prove that intruders from space are experimenting with human genetics, but they fail to point out that these modern stories are consistent with perplexing accounts that come to us from earlier times, from the oldest records we have.» — objeta a la lectura genética que ignora la continuidad con los registros más antiguos.
«These traditions are not restricted to Egypt, Israel and Mesopotamia.» — amplía el área de las tradiciones más allá del Cercano Oriente.
«These statues seem to depict precisely the same "occupants" similar to those seen aboard UFOs by modern witnesses.» — sobre las estatuillas Jomon; el verbo es de apariencia, no de prueba.
«The headgear with its filter, the large goggles, the necks with wide collars, and the onepiece suits are certainly intriguing.» — detalla el equipamiento de las figurillas; onepiece va sin guion en la capa de texto.
«But a farmer from Texas described a dark flying object as a "large saucer" as early as January 1878, and ancient Japanese records inform us that on October 27, 1180, an unusual luminous object described as an "earthenware vessel" flew from a mountain in the Kii province beyond the northeast mountain of Fukuhara at midnight.» — pone en serie el platillo texano de 1878 con la vasija luminosa japonesa de 1180.
«It is interesting, however, to find a medieval Japanese chronicler speaking of flying earthenware.» — sobre la vasija de barro voladora del cronista japonés.
«The Japanese must also receive credit for having organized the first official investigation.» — adjudica a Japón la primera investigación oficial del fenómeno.
«The story is so amusing, and parallels so well the modern-day activities of the U.S. Air Force, that I cannot resist reproducing it here.» — declara por qué reproduce la crónica de 1235: por su paralelo con la Fuerza Aérea estadounidense.
«General Yoritsume ordered what we would now term a "full-scale scientific investigation," and his consultants set to work.» — el caso de 1235: el general Yoritsume manda investigar las luces.
«The whole thing is completely natural, General," they said in substance. "It is only the wind making the stars sway.» — dictamen de los consultores del general, que Vallée cita como el primer desmentido oficial.
«Scholars on government pay are always making ambiguous statements like that!» — comentario propio de Vallée sobre los sabios a sueldo del gobierno.
«The Japanese peasants had the disagreeable tendency to interpret any "signs from heaven" as strong indications that their revolts and demands against the feudal system or against foreign invaders were just, and as assurance» — explica el efecto político de los signos celestes en el Japón feudal; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«The officials panicked and the execution was not carried out.» — el episodio de Nichiren: el objeto luminoso frena la ejecución.
«The combination of the sound and the darkness of the flying object is difficult to explain in natural terms.» — Vallée retiene del caso lo que no le cuadra con una explicación natural.
«Chaos spread all over Japan on January 2, 1749, when three round objects "like the moon" appeared and were seen for four days.» — crónica japonesa de 1749 que recoge.
«But confusion became total when people observed three "moons" aligned in the sky and, several days later, two» — el remate del episodio de 1749; la enumeración cierra con dos soles.
«From this distance, however, it is impossible to separate the reliable observations from the emotional interpretation.» — límite que se pone al usar crónicas antiguas.
«These accounts show that it is possible to affect the lives of many people by showing them displays that are beyond their comprehension.» — de las crónicas extrae la lección que reaparecerá como sistema de control.
«I am a mortal being and one of the inhabitants of the Desert whom the Gentiles deluded by various forms of error worship under the names of Fauns, Satyrs and Incubi. I am sent to represent my tribe. We pray you in our behalf to entreat the favour of your Lord and ours, who, we have learnt, came once to save the world, and 'whose sound has gone forth into all the earth.» — discurso de la criatura del desierto a san Antonio, según la Vida que Vallée reproduce de san Jerónimo.
«Let no one scruple to believe this incident; its truth is supported by what took place when Constantine was on the throne, a matter of which the whole world was witness. For a man of that kind was brought alive to Alexandria and shown as a wonderful sight to the people.» — san Jerónimo avala su propio relato con el caso de Alejandría bajo Constantino; el bloque es cita, no voz de Vallée.
«Again, with this story, we are faced with an account the truthfulness of which it would be futile to question: the lives of the early saints are full of miracles that should be taken literary figures rather than as scientific observations.» — Vallée no impugna la veracidad del relato y a la vez lo lee como figura literaria, no como observación científica; taken literary es la grafía de la fuente.
«The details and the terminology of observation are not important to us. It is enough to note that the strange being is indifferently termed a satyr and a manikin, while the saint himself states that the Gentiles also use the names faun and incubus. St. Jerome speaks of a "man of that kind." Throughout our study of these legends, we shall find the same confusion.» — declara que la confusión de nombres es constante en las leyendas que estudia.
«The important point is that basic religious texts contain such material, giving, so to speak, letters of nobility to a» — lo que le interesa del episodio: que el texto religioso ennoblezca a esa clase de seres; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«Such observations as St. Anthony's prove fundamental when religious authorities are faced with the problem of evaluating medieval observations of beings from the sky, claims of evocation of demons by occult means, and modern miracles.» — adjudica al episodio de san Antonio el papel de precedente para juzgar demonios evocados y milagros modernos.
«According to Australian writer Andrew Tomas, Indian tradition holds that the Siddhas could become "very heavy at will or as light as a feather, travel through space and disappear from sight.» — trae de Andrew Tomas los Siddhas de la tradición india para la misma serie.
«According to biblical writers, the heavenly hierarchy includes beings of human form called cherubim, a name that in Hebrew means "full of knowledge.» — recoge de los escritores bíblicos la etimología de querubín.
«He thinks it absurd that there should be no mean between the two extremes of an immortal and a mortal being;» — resume así la doctrina de los daimones de Plutarco.
«The famous Cabalist Zedechias, in the reign of your Pepin, took it into his head to convince the world that the Elements are inhabited by those peoples whose nature I have just described to you.» — pasaje del Comte de Gabalis que reproduce sobre el cabalista Zedequías y los Elementos habitados.
«The expedient of which he bethought himself was to advise the Sylphs to show themselves in the Air to everybody:» — sigue el Comte de Gabalis: el ardid de Zedequías fue hacer que los sílfides se mostraran.
«These beings were seen in the Air in human form, sometimes in battle array marching in good order, halting under arms, or encamped beneath magnificent tents;» — el Comte de Gabalis describe las apariciones aéreas como ejércitos y campamentos.
«The Emperor believed it as well; and this ridiculous chimera went so far that the wise Charlemagne, and after him Louis the Debonair, imposed grievous penalties upon all these» — el Comte de Gabalis carga a Carlomagno y a Luis el Piadoso las penas contra los tiranos del aire; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«The Sylphs seeing the populace, the peasants and even the crowned heads thus alarmed against them, determined to dissipate the bad opinion people had of their innocent fleet by carrying off men from every locality and showing them their beautiful women, their Republic and their manner of government, and then setting them down again on earth in divers parts of the world.» — en el Comte de Gabalis los sílfides raptan gente para mostrarle su república; Vallée lo pone como precedente del rapto moderno.
«The great number of them who were put to death by fire and water throughout the kingdom is incredible.» — el saldo de ejecuciones que declara la misma fuente.
«One day, among other instances, it chanced at Lyons that three men and a woman were seen descending from these aerial ships.» — el episodio de Lyon que enlaza el Comte de Gabalis con el sermón de Agobardo.
«In the above account, however, it is at least clear to St. Anthony that the creature is neither an angel nor a demon. If it had been, he would have recognized it immediately!» — Vallée subraya que para san Antonio la criatura no es ni ángel ni demonio.
«In the twenty-century-old Indian book of primitive astronomy Surya Siddhanta, it is said that: "Below the moon and above the clouds revolve the Siddhas (perfected men) and the Vidyaharas (possessors of knowledge» — cita el Surya Siddhanta para situar a los Siddhas entre la luna y las nubes.
«Paracelsus wrote an entire book on the nature of these beings, but he took great pains to warn the reader of the dangers of an association with them:» — presenta el tratado de Paracelso sobre los elementales advirtiendo del peligro del trato con ellos.
«I do not want to say here, because of the ills which might befall those who would try it, through which compact one associates with these beings, thanks to which compact they appear to us and speak to us.» — Paracelso, citado por Vallée, se abstiene de decir cuál es el pacto que hace aparecer a esos seres.
«Everything God creates manifests itself to Man sooner or later.» — principio que Vallée toma de Paracelso.
«Thus these beings appear to us, not in order to stay among us or become allied to us, but in order for us to become able to understand them.» — Paracelso da a la aparición una finalidad cognoscitiva, no de alianza.
«Paracelsus was probably born in 1493, and only two years earlier Facius Cardan had recorded his observation of seven strange visitors directly related to the creatures of the elements who would be so puzzling to the great philosopher.» — fecha a Paracelso y a la observación de Facius Cardan; las dos grafías del apellido Cardano son las que imprime la fuente.
«Jerome Cardan lived in Milan and was not only a methematician but also an occultist and a physician.» — sitúa a Jerome Cardan en Milán; methematician es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«The tallest of them denied that God had made the world from eternity.» — del relato de los siete visitantes de Facius Cardan que recoge el De Subtilitate del hijo.
«the other added that God created it from moment to moment, so that should He desist for an instant the world would perish.» — segunda doctrina que los visitantes exponen en el mismo relato.
«All at once, in a ravine on the right-hand side of the way, I saw a sort of amphitheatre, wonderfully illuminated. In a funnel-shaped space there were innumerable little lights gleaming, ranged stepfashion over one another; and they shone so brilliantly that the eye was dazzled. But what still more confused the sight was that they did not keep still, but jumped about here and there, as well downwards from above as vice versa, and in every direction. The greater of them, however, remained stationary, and beamed on.» — avistamiento del joven Goethe según su autobiografía; el hallazgo se lo debe Vallée a Kenneth Anger.
«Now whether this was a pandemonium of will-o'-the-wisps, or a company of luminous creatures I will not decide.» — Goethe se abstiene de decidir qué vio; la abstención es de él, no de Vallée.
«The young man in question was Goethe. You will find this sighting in the sixth book of his autobiography, according to movie director and occult scholar Kenneth Anger, to whom I am indebted for this very interesting discovery.» — Vallée declara la procedencia del episodio y a quién se la debe.
«Would the German poet and scientist have had occasion to learn more about the "luminous creatures" had he lived in the twentieth century? If Paracelsus came back, would he find new material for his theories on the nature of the strange and fugitive races of beings from the sky? We can safely assume that their attention would be immediately attracted to the modern files of UFO landings and abduction reports.» — pregunta retórica con que enlaza a Goethe y a Paracelso con los archivos ovni modernos.
«The most puzzling element in this account is not so much what is described but the fact that such stories have become, since 1946, rather common in all parts of the world.» — desplaza el enigma del contenido del relato a su difusión mundial desde 1946.
«And yet there are several cases on record in which similar accounts are associated with traces that can hardly be questioned.» — deja abierta la vía de las trazas materiales.
«Furthermore, civilian investigators were told – politely but in no uncertain terms – that any further information on such incidents would be kept confidential by the police.» — sobre el caso Dewilde: la instrucción policial de no dar más información a investigadores civiles.
«Reports continued, however, and some of them would have delighted Paracelsus.» — Vallée enlaza la casuística francesa de 1954 con la doctrina paracelsiana de los elementales.
«When he saw the motorist, the creature aimed a beam from some sort of flashlight at him, paralyzing the witness until a motion he made when clenching the fist holding the garage keys seemed to free him.» — caso francés de parálisis por un haz de luz, tal como lo relata Vallée.
«He rushed to attack the stranger, who rose from the ground and fled with a soft whirring sound.» — el desenlace del mismo caso.
«The author of this unbelievable story was thirty-seven years old and was known locally as a trustworthy man.» — Vallée consigna la reputación del testigo sin avalar el relato.
«Maurice Masse, a French farmer who lived in Valensole, arrived in his field at 6:00 A.M. and was getting ready to start his tractor when he heard an unusual noise.» — apertura del caso Valensole de Maurice Masse.
«They were less than four feet tall and had human eyes, but their heads were very large.» — descripción de los pilotos en el caso Masse.
«These sounds came from their throats, insisted the witness, but the mouths did not move.» — rasgo que Vallée atribuye expresamente a la insistencia del testigo.
«I closely questioned the witness on this last point, but Masse insisted he could not say whether the object went away so fast that the eye could not follow it or whether it actually disappeared.» — Vallée declara su propio interrogatorio y deja la ambigüedad sin resolver.
«He made it quite clear, however, that "one moment, the thing was there, and the next moment, it was not there anymore.» — lo único que el testigo sostuvo con firmeza sobre la desaparición.
«Alone in his field, unable even to call for help, Masse thought he was going to die.» — el estado del testigo durante la parálisis.
«For several weeks after the incident, Masse was overcome with drowsiness, and all his relatives – as well as the investigators – observed that he needed so much sleep that he found it difficult to stay awake even for four hours at a time.» — la secuela que Vallée destaca del caso Valensole: la somnolencia prolongada.
«Yet this man tells us a story that does not simply appear fanciful; it is completely unbelievable.» — Vallée sostiene a la vez la fiabilidad del testigo y lo increíble del relato, sin resolver la tensión.
«Yet it reminds us of the account Barney and Betty Hill gave under hypnosis of their alleged abduction in New Hampshire. On their way back from vacationing in Canada in September 1961, they had seen a strange light over the White Mountains. It came close to the road, and they next remember being in their car some sixty miles south, without any memory of the intervening travel time. Under hypnosis they remembered a long sequence of events involving abduction by small beings and a "medical" examination. The account included a description of an alien language, of entities whose expressions were almost human, of an overwhelming feeling of confidence, and of not the slightest indication that the incident had a meaningful purpose or followed an intelligent pattern.» — pone el caso Masse en serie con el de Betty y Barney Hill, y retiene de ambos la ausencia de propósito inteligible.
«These indentations have been photographed and measured in hundreds of cases.» — sobre las huellas de aterrizaje.
«And, if a superior race does in fact generate what we are now observing as the UFO phenomenon, perhaps it is precisely with the purpose of changing the course of human destiny by presenting us with evidence of our limitations» — hipótesis condicionada: una raza superior que cambiaría el destino humano mostrándonos nuestros límites.
«In any case, it is important to understand what need these images fulfill» — desplaza la pregunta de la realidad de los seres a la función de sus imágenes.
«We have already established that no country has had the special privilege of these manifestations.» — niega privilegio geográfico al fenómeno.
«It may have been with us, in one form or another, as long as the human race has existed on this planet.» — extiende la antigüedad del fenómeno a la de la especie, en modo conjetural.
«Only a thorough examination of the ancient records can save us from the effects of such cultural myopia.» — la razón que da para volver a los registros antiguos.
«Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, one of this century's most distinguished scholars of Egypt and Mesopotamia, states that the Phoenicians were not a literary people.» — toma de Budge el dato de que los fenicios no dejaron literatura religiosa.
«The interpretation of this collection of artifacts raises several questions, because the classical statement that the flying disk is simply a primitive representation of the sun or the soul leaves much to be desired.» — rechaza la explicación solar del disco alado como insuficiente.
«If the disk is interpreted as some mythological symbol connected with the cosmos (as is indicated by the abundance of astronomical designs in the seals: stars, crescent moons), should we speculate that the representation of a disk with extended claws may in fact seek to preserve the memory of a vision, or observation, of a flying craft capable of landing?» — formula la alternativa como pregunta, no como afirmación.
«The scene suggests plan and purpose rather than a chance occurrence of some purely natural phenomenon.» — lo que retiene de los sellos cilíndricos: intención, no fenómeno natural.
«Professor Douglas Price-Williams of UCLA points out that in the Gilgamesh epic the scorpion creatures were the guardians of the mountain of the sun.» — toma de Price-Williams a los hombres-escorpión del Gilgamesh como guardianes.
«Representation of flying disks in religion does not stop with the Phoenicians.» — continúa la serie del disco alado más allá de Fenicia.
«The symbol is a basic one in the early Christian church, and it is consistently associated with the angels.» — empareja el símbolo del disco con los ángeles cristianos.
«Christian theology does not have much to say about the angels, just as official Muslim theology remains discreet about the jinn.» — registra el silencio doctrinal de las dos teologías sobre esos seres.
«According to Japanese researcher Y. Matsumura, the religious Sophia, a written document commenting on the dogma of the Greek Orthodox Church preserved in the Leningrad National Library, describes the process of communication between God and the angels:» — presenta el documento de la religious Sophia con la fuente declarada.
«I have not been able to verify directly the existence of this document and the accuracy of the translation, but it is consistent with a number of paintings, icons, and murals that depict contact between "God" and His messengers and contact between the messengers and men.» — Vallée declara que no verificó el documento y apoya el dato solo en su coherencia iconográfica.
«Communication for a long time took place through pictorial representation rather than words, and it is not surprising to find few descriptions of such contact in written language.» — explica la escasez de descripciones escritas por el predominio de la representación pictórica.
«I am inclined to a literal, rather than purely symbolic, interpretation of the scenes depicted on the Phoenician amulets, and I am also tempted to accept as a working hypothesis that in times remote contact» — declara su inclinación por la lectura literal de los amuletos fenicios, y la marca como hipótesis de trabajo.
«At the lecture by Jacques Vallée at the London A.A. [Architects Association] on the 12th of December I was surprised by one of the slides of a Phoenician seal showing a winged sphere held up by two creatures which he described as "Scorpion men."» — carta de una corresponsal británica a Vallée, que arranca del sello fenicio proyectado en su conferencia.
«However, these insights hit me like bolts from the blue, as though from outside, one after the other.» — la corresponsal describe la irrupción de las ideas como venidas de fuera.
«It was, I think retrospectively, trying to communicate with me, but my panic interfered with any message I might have received.» — la misma corresponsal atribuye a su pánico el fracaso de la comunicación.
«I have other reports in my files of such forgotten observations that the witnesses only recollected when their memory was triggered by a slide, a book cover, or a lecture.» — Vallée generaliza el mecanismo: la memoria del testigo se dispara con una imagen.
«A major feature in all religious traditions involves a mysterious beam of light emanating from a point in the sky or from a cloud of peculiar shape and focused on a human being. This beam usually is interpreted as a sign of blessing which conveys information from a divine source.» — define el haz de luz como rasgo mayor de toda tradición religiosa.
«I am intrigued by this concept because it is a recurrent one in modern contact cases.» — la razón que da para detenerse en el haz.
«I suddenly felt bathed in and transfixed by a very powerful beam that seemed to come from the North, about 30º above the horizon. I was completely powerless, with no will of my own, and I felt as if I were in the presence of a very strong force, in personal contact with it.» — testimonio de Robert Monroe sobre el haz, tomado del libro que Vallée titula Out of the Body.
«It had intelligence of a form beyond my comprehension, and it came directly (down the beam?) into my head, and seemed to be searching every memory in my mind. I was truly frightened because I was powerless to do anything about this intrusion.» — sigue el mismo testimonio de Monroe: la inteligencia que registra su memoria.
«The same impersonal probing, the same power, from the same angle. However, this time I recieved the firm impression that I was inextricably bound by loyalty to this intelligent force, always had been, and that I had a job to perform here on earth» — Monroe, en sus notas del 16 de septiembre, sobre la lealtad que se le impone; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«It is an impersonal, cold intelligence, with none of the emotions of love or compassion which we respect so much, yet this may be the omnipotence we call God.» — Monroe deja la identificación con Dios en modo conjetural.
«I sat down and cried, great deep sobs such as I have never cried before, because then I knew without any qualification of future hope of change that the God of my childhood, of the churches, of religion throughout the world was not as we worshipped him to be – that for the rest of my life, I would "suffer" the loss of this illusion.» — Monroe describe la pérdida del Dios de su infancia como consecuencia de la experiencia.
«The most remarkable thing about this object, however, was not its enormous size but the intense conical beam of emerald-green light that came down from its underside.» — caso del legionario francés: el cono de luz verde esmeralda.
«Visits such as these in mankind's past could well have been the basis for all of our religious beliefs, and our knowledge today could provide no better answer than we could a thousand years past.» — Vallée deja como posibilidad, no como tesis, que tales visitas fundaran las creencias religiosas.
«They initially thought that the experience was a hallucination due to stress, but it is to the credit of the French military that a thorough investigation was pursued.» — sobre el caso del legionario francés y la respuesta del ejército.
«The medical staff concluded that he was in a state of good mental and physical health and was not suffering from the strain of war in any unusual way.» — dictamen médico militar que Vallée consigna sin comentario.
«He has had no illness of any kind since the day of the sighting, no new experience of an unusual type, and he recalls the extremely peaceful state induced by the presence of the object.» — seguimiento del testigo, con el estado apacible que él recuerda.
«I see no better hypothesis at this point of our knowledge of UFO phenomena.» — Vallée acota su propia propuesta al estado actual del conocimiento.
«Certainly the space visitors hypothesis fails to explain adequately the ancient symbolism.» — el punto por donde falla, para él, la hipótesis del visitante espacial.
«We do not have a simple series of incidents that could be explained as an encounter with space travelers who might have spotted the earth and explored it casually on their way to another cosmic destination.» — niega que los casos formen una exploración casual de paso.
«Instead, we have a pattern of manifestations, opening the gates to a spiritual level, pointing a way to a different consciousness, and producing irrational, absurd events in their wake.» — lo que pone en su lugar: un patrón que abre a un nivel espiritual y produce sucesos absurdos.
«It was a great wonder, a sign in heaven indeed, the marvelous airship that flew over the United States in the spring of 1897.» — presenta la oleada del aerodeslizador de 1897 con el vocabulario del prodigio.
«Otherwise, the airship exhibited all the typical activities of UFOs: hovering, dropping "probes" – on Newton, Iowa, on April 10, for example – changing course abruptly, changing altitude at great speed, circling, landing and taking off, sweeping the countryside with powerful light beams.» — empareja la conducta del aerodeslizador de 1897 con la de los ovnis.
«Alexander Hamilton says that the beings were the strangest he had ever seen and that he did not care to see them again.» — testimonio de Alexander Hamilton, en el relato de 1897.
«I decided at once that this was the famous airship seen by so many people about the country.» — testigo de 1897 que identifica el objeto con el aerodeslizador de la prensa.
«Captain Hooton adds that he could discover no bell or bell rope about the ship and was greatly shocked by this detail, since he thought "every well-regulated air locomotive should have one." He left a detailed drawing of the machine.» — testimonio del capitán Hooton en la oleada de 1897, con su reproche a la nave por no llevar campana.
«We could plainly distinguish the outlines of the vessel, which was cigar-shaped and about sixty feet long, and looking just like the cuts that have appeared in the papers recently.» — testimonio de 1897 que ya se mide contra los grabados de la prensa.
«A man with a long dark beard came forth with a lantern in his hand, and on being informed who we were proceeded to tell us that he and the others – a young man and a woman – were travelling through the country in an airship.» — el tripulante barbado que se presenta a los testigos de Arkansas.
«The parallel becomes even more striking in the following report, as pointed out by researcher Donald Hanlon.» — Vallée atribuye a Donald Hanlon la observación del paralelo.
«This sounds much too familiar to be taken lightly," comments Hanlon, who reminds us of the Sioux City incident – when Robert Hibbard was dragged by an anchor hanging from an airship – and of Drake's and Wilkin's account of two incidents that took place about 1211 A.D. or earlier.» — Hanlon empareja el ancla del aerodeslizador con los incidentes medievales de Drake y Wilkins.
«but the Bishop forbade the people to hold the man, for it might kill him, he said.» — del relato irlandés del ancla caída sobre la iglesia: el obispo manda soltar al tripulante.
«The anchor is now on exhibition at the blacksmith shop of Elliot and Miller and is attracting the attention of hundreds of people.» — la noticia estadounidense de 1897 sobre el ancla expuesta en la herrería.
«In Gervase of Tilbury's Otis Imperialia, a similar account is related as having taken place in Gravesend, Kent, England.» — Vallée remite al episodio paralelo en Gervasio de Tilbury; Otis Imperialia es la grafía que imprime la fuente.
«In one account, he then climbed back aboard the ship; in another, he died of suffocation.» — consigna las dos versiones del desenlace sin escoger una.
«It was a peculiar shaped body, with an oblong shape, with wings and side attachments of various sizes and shapes.» — descripción del objeto en el relato tejano de 1897.
«He who wanted to be called Smith said: "No, we cannot permit you to approach any nearer, but do as we request you and your kindness will be appreciated, and we will call you some future day and reciprocate your kindness by taking you on a trip.» — el tripulante que se hace llamar Smith rechaza el acercamiento y ofrece un viaje futuro.
«He replied, " From anywhere, but we will be in Greece day after tomorrow.» — respuesta del tripulante Smith sobre su procedencia y su destino, en el relato tejano de 1897.
«The Food and Drug Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare concluded that the material was an ordinary pancake of terrestrial origin.» — el dictamen oficial sobre el panqueque de Eagle River.
«Speaking for the U.S. Air Force, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who investigated the case along with Major Robert Friend and an officer from Sawyer Ais Force Base, stated: "There is no question that Mr. Simonton felt that his contact had been a real experience.» — declaración de Hynek para la Fuerza Aérea sobre el caso Simonton; Ais Force es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«The Air force believes that Joe Simonton, who lived alone, had a sudden dream while he was awake and inserted his dream into the continuum of events around him of which he was conscious.» — la explicación oficial del caso: un sueño insertado en la vigilia.
«I understand several psychologists in Dayton, Ohio, are quite satisfied with this explanation.» — comentario irónico de Vallée sobre la recepción de esa explicación.
«They are so busy rationalizing the dreams of other people that they themselves do not dream anymore, nor do they read fairy tales.» — el reproche de Vallée a los ufólogos y psicólogos, que no leen cuentos de hadas.
«If they did, they would perhaps take a much closer look at Joe Simonton and his pancakes.» — remate del mismo reproche.
«It is interesting that the analysis performed for the Air Force did not mention the presence of salt in the pancakes given to Simonton.» — Vallée señala lo que el análisis oficial no menciona: la sal.
«Indeed, Evans-Wentz was told by an Irishman who was quite familiar with the Gentry that "they never taste anything salt, but eat fresh meat and drink pure water.» — testimonio irlandés recogido por Evans-Wentz que Vallée usa para el contraste de la sal.
«The sheriff stated that the witness obviously believed the truth of what he was saying and talked very sensibly about the incident.» — lo que el sheriff Schroeder declaró del testigo.
«The hatch was about six feet high and thirty inches wide, and, although the object has always been described as a saucer, its actual shape was that of two inverted bowls.» — descripción del objeto de Eagle River, con el reparo sobre la palabra platillo.
«All the storytellers, all the popular almanacs, agree that as civilization advanced the little folks became increasingly shy.» — regularidad que Vallée extrae del folclore: la timidez creciente del pueblo pequeño.
«A few untouched places recommended by Evans-Wentz, however, are the Yosemite Valley in California and the Ben Bulben country and Ross Point in County Sligo, Ireland.» — los lugares que Evans-Wentz señala como todavía intactos.
«The Gentry live inside the mountains in beautiful castles, and there are a good many branches of them in other countries, and especially in Ireland.» — el mismo informante sobre dónde viven los Gentry.
«They travel greatly, and they can appear in Paris, Marseilles, Naples, Genoa, Turin or Dublin, like ordinary people, and even in crowds.» — el informante los hace pasar por gente común en ciudades europeas.
«The Gentry take a great interest in the affairs of men and they always stand for justice and right.» — rasgo moral que el informante atribuye a los Gentry.
«I asked them once if they ever died and they said, No; "we are always kept young.» — el informante sobre la inmortalidad de los Gentry.
«And indeed she and her family discovered that their supply of cakes was inexhaustible.» — del relato folclórico del pastel inagotable, que Vallée empareja con el panqueque de Eagle River.
«The Bible, too, gives a few examples of magical food supplies, similarly inexhaustible: the so-called manna from Heaven.» — suma el maná bíblico a la serie del alimento inagotable.
«Witness the following account, given by Edwin S. Hartland, a scholar of popular traditions, in his book The Science of Fairy Tales:» — declara la fuente del relato: Hartland y su Science of Fairy Tales.
«They offered him some small cakes to eat, of which he partook; and he had never enjoyed himself so well in his life.» — del relato de Hartland sobre el hombre que come con los seres.
«A group of "national" UFO investigators, when contacted about the Eagle River incident, stated that they did not intend to analyze the cookies, planned no further action, and had much more important things to investigate.» — Vallée consigna el desinterés de los investigadores ovni por el panqueque.
«And indeed, if flying saucers were devices used by a superscientific civilization from space, we would expect them to be packed inside with electronic gadgetry, superradars, and a big computerized spying apparatus.» — el condicional con que contrapone la nave superscientífica a la cocina voladora del folclore.
«John Mac Neil, who was between seventy and eighty years old, gave no date to the story, but since he said he saw the girl after her experience, the event probably took place in the second part of the nineteenth century.» — Vallée data el relato por la edad del informante, no por una fecha declarada.
«The folk are the grandest I have ever seen. They are far superior to us and that is why they call themselves the Gentry. They are not a working-class, but a military-aristocratic class, tall and noble-appearing. They are a distinct race between our race and that of spirits, as they have told me. Their qualifications are tremendous: "We could cut off half the human race, but would not," they said, "for we are expecting salvation.» — testimonio irlandés recogido por Evans-Wentz: los Gentry como clase militar-aristocrática, raza distinta entre la humana y la de los espíritus.
«This one was dressed in blue with a headdress adorned with what seemed to be frills. When he came upon us, he said to me in a sweet and silvery voice, "The seldom you come to this mountain the better, Mister, a young lady here wants to take you away.» — el mismo informante describe al Gentry de Ben Bulben y lo que le dijo.
«Then he told us not to fire our guns, because the Gentry dislike being disturbed by the noise. And he seemed to be like a soldier of the Gentry on guard. As we were leaving the mountain, he told us not to look back and we didn't.» — las prohibiciones que impone el Gentry al informante.
«And yet, there is no question that Joe Simonton believes that he saw the flying saucer, the flameless grill, the three men.» — Vallée separa la creencia del testigo de la realidad del hecho.
«If we reflect on this very simple event, as the students of folklore have reflected on the stories quoted above, we cannot overlook one possibility: that the event at Eagle River did happen, and that it has the meaning of a simple, yet grandiose, ceremony.» — propone leer Eagle River como ceremonia, y lo enuncia como posibilidad.
«This latter theory was very well expressed by Hartland, when he said, about the exchange of food with the Gentry:» — declara la fuente de la teoría del intercambio de comida.
«Hartland goes so far as to suggest that the custom of burying the dead with some food might bear some relationship to the widespread belief that one must have a supply of terrestrial food when one reaches the land beyond or forsake the earth entirely.» — recoge de Hartland el nexo entre enterrar comida con el muerto y la comida del más allá.
«This is a moot point, however, because the same applies to visitors from heaven.» — Vallée deja el punto sin resolver y lo extiende a los visitantes celestes.
«Although such phenomena are treated as borderline cases by specialists in UFO investigation, I believe the nests deserve more than passing attention and should also be considered in the light of specific traditional beliefs about the meaning of the "magic circles" that for centuries farmers have found in their fields.» — reclama atención para los nidos de platillo leyéndolos junto a los círculos mágicos del campo.
«The literature on this subject is abundant, and we shall select only a few cases to illustrate the point.» — declara que selecciona casos, no que agota la casuística.
«All the reeds were dead, but they had not been scorched or burned.» — rasgo del nido australiano que retiene.
«Rumors circulated blaming the Soviets for using the vast open spaces of Australia to develop scientific ideas far ahead of the Americans.» — consigna el rumor soviético como explicación circulante.
«Why the Soviets could not conduct their secret testing in the vast open spaces of Siberia was not disclosed.» — Vallée desarma el rumor por reducción al absurdo.
«Neither was it revealed why the pilots of the super-secret communist weapon could not resist the temptation to buzz the tractor of a twenty-seven-year-old banana grower in the capitalist world.» — sigue la misma ironía sobre el arma secreta comunista.
«Fortunately, there were several natural explanations for the sighting or the nests, although only one hypothesis, suggested by a Sydney Sun-Herald reader on January 30, accounted for both.» — ironía sobre la abundancia de explicaciones naturales y la escasez de las que cubren todo.
«He believed the outerspace panic in Queensland was caused by a "tall shy bird with a blue body and red markings on the head.» — la hipótesis del ave que un lector de prensa propuso, recogida por Vallée como muestra.
«Researcher Donald Hanlon has pointed out that another explanation for the nests has been proposed locally: they are the "playground of crocodiles in love.» — Hanlon recoge la explicación local de los nidos de Queensland.
«I fully share Hanlon's skepticism about this last explanation, because it could hardly apply to the nests found in Ohio, which will be discussed in a moment, or to the damaged wheat field in Montsoreau.» — Vallée declara su escepticismo y da la razón: la explicación no cubre los otros casos.
«So here we are: dancing cranes are held responsible by some people for bending reeds that are so thick crocodiles, according to other people, cannot move through them.» — Vallée pone en contradicción las dos explicaciones naturales que circulan.
«Indeed, when a small piece of metal was recovered from the hole at the center of the crater, British astronomer Patrick Moore went to the British Broadcasting Corporation and stated categorically that the crater had been caused by a "shrimp-sized meteorite," crashing down and turning itself into a very effective explosive.» — el dictamen del astrónomo Patrick Moore sobre el cráter de Charlton.
«It was sent to a British Museum expert and promptly identified as a piece of common ironstone, "which could be found buried all over Southern England.» — el resultado del análisis, que deshace el meteorito.
«The British Museum suggested that it had been in the ground for some time, thus eliminating the idea of a hoax.» — el mismo museo descarta el fraude por el tiempo que el hierro llevaba enterrado.
«Dr. F. Claringbull, also of the Museum, destroyed the meteorite explanation and, according to the Yorkshire Post of July 27, stated: "There is more in this than meets the eye.» — declaración de Claringbull, recogida del Yorkshire Post.
«The cause of the phenomena is still unexplained but it is no part of the Army's task to unravel such mysteries.» — respuesta del Mando Sur del ejército, que Vallée cita como cierre irónico.
«If we try to summarize what we have learned from these incidents – the Tully nest, the Ohio ring, and the Charlton crater – we can state the following:» — Vallée pasa de la casuística a una lista de conclusiones.
«public rumor associates sighting of flying saucers with the discovery of circular depressions on the ground;» — primera conclusión: el nexo lo establece el rumor público.
«strong magnetic activity has been found in one instance, where common ironstone was buried close to the center of the depression;» — quinta conclusión, acotada a un solo caso.
«Another writer, reporting on Scandinavian legends, noted that elves are depicted there as beings with oversized heads, tiny legs, and long arms:» — trae de la leyenda escandinava la descripción del elfo cabezón.
«They are responsible for the bright-green circles, called elf-dans, that one sees on the lawns. Even nowadays, when a Danish farmer comes across such a ring at dawn, he says that the elves have come there during the night to dance.» — la creencia danesa que empareja el círculo verde con el corro de los elfos.
«It is amusing to note that attempts have been made, in the early days of Rationalism, to explain fairy rings as electrical phenomena, a consequence of atmospheric effects.» — Vallée fecha en el racionalismo temprano el intento de explicar eléctricamente los anillos.
«There is a phenomenon, supposed to be electric, which is not yet accounted for; I mean the fairy rings, as they are called, so often seen on the grass.» — Erasmus Darwin, citado por P. Marranzino, declara sin explicar el anillo de hadas.
«They would do well, however, to note the diameter of the cylinder mentioned by the elder Darwin: "two to ten yards" – the diameter of the average UFO.» — Vallée retiene del texto de Darwin la coincidencia de diámetro con el ovni medio.
«They were about four feet tall and wore seamless clothing, with headdress and a full-face hood that did not allow Wilcox to observe any facial features.» — descripción de los seres en el caso de Gary T. Wilcox, en Tioga City.
«We are from what you people refer to as planet Mars," they said.» — lo que los seres declaran a Wilcox, en su relato.
«They stated that they grew food on Mars, but that changes in the environment were creating problems they hoped to solve by obtaining information about our agricultural techniques.» — el motivo agrícola que los seres alegan en el mismo relato.
«They explained that they landed only during daylight hours, "because their ship is less readily visible in daylight," and they said they were surprised Wilcox had seen their craft.» — el detalle sobre por qué aterrizan de día.
«Our astronauts would not be successful, they said, because their bodies would not adapt to space conditions.» — lo que los seres objetan al programa espacial humano, en el relato de Wilcox.
«Finally, they requested a bag of fertilizer but, as Wilcox walked away to get it, the craft took off, disappearing from sight in a very few seconds.» — el final del episodio, con la petición de fertilizante.
«In many of the South American landings, entities have been described walking away with soil samples, plants, even boulders.» — Vallée generaliza el motivo del muestreo agrícola en los aterrizajes sudamericanos.
«These stories would be amazing and nothing more if it were not for one fact known to students of folklore:» — el pivote con que devuelve el motivo al folclore.
«In an Algonquin legend embodying all the characteristics of an excellent saucer story, a hunter beholds a "basket" that comes down from heaven.» — la leyenda algonquina de la cesta que baja del cielo.
«The new elements are: (1) the desire expressed by the celestial beings to recieve specimens of all the animals the hunter kills, and (2) the idea that sexual contact between the terrestrial and the aerial races is possible.» — lo que Vallée retiene de la leyenda algonquina; recieve es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«Crowds of elves have been seen chasing cows and horses.» — del folclore, el motivo del ganado perseguido.
«When they noticed him looking at them, one came up and struck the cow a hard blow, and turning on the man cut his face and body very badly.» — relato folclórico de la agresión al testigo que mira.
«Everett saw the strange people, who talked between them "like German soldiers he had seen in movies," walk right into the wall of the object, which then took off straight up without sound.» — caso moderno del niño Everett, con los seres que hablan como soldados alemanes de película.
«She is also quoted as saying that when her husband tried to grab the creature, he got some green powder on his wrist, but that it washed off.» — testimonio sobre el polvo verde, que Vallée consigna como cita de la testigo.
«Whether the creatures come down in flying saucers or musical baskets, whether they come out of the sea or the rock, is irrelevant.» — Vallée declara irrelevante el vehículo del que salen los seres.
«What is relevant is what they say and do: the trace each leaves in the human witness who is the only tangible vehicle of the story.» — sitúa el dato en lo que dicen y hacen, y en el testigo como único vehículo tangible.
«These words by Hartland, written in 1891, offer a clue.» — adjudica a Hartland de 1891 la clave sobre las leyes de la imaginación.
«A new mythology was needed to bridge the stupendous gap beyond the meaningless present.» — sostiene que hacía falta una mitología nueva.
«They did not speak to our scientists; they did not send sophisticated signals in uniquely decipherable codes» — lo que los seres no hicieron, en la serie que Vallée contrapone a la expectativa científica.
«No, they picked Gary Wilcox instead. And Joe Simonton.» — a quién eligieron en su lugar, según Vallée.
«They took a great interest in the affairs of men, and they always stood for justice and right.» — Vallée repite en pasado el rasgo del informante irlandés sobre los Gentry, ahora aplicado a los seres modernos.
«We are progressing, step by step, in a forest of reports and facts obscured by speculations and theories.» — Vallée describe así el estado de su propio avance.
«It would be a grave mistake to believe that we, in the late twentieth century, are the first people smart enough to recognize that the phenomenon is worthy of investigation and obeys certain fixed patterns.» — niega primacía a la investigación del siglo XX.
«They have pulled ancient books from dusty shelves just as I have.» — se pone en serie con los investigadores antiguos.
«It would have been as easy for them to jump to premature conclusions as it is for us to declare that UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors.» — empareja el salto a conclusiones de aquéllos con el de la hipótesis extraterrestre actual.
«Remarkably, they kept an open mind.» — lo que Vallée les reconoce a los investigadores antiguos.
«One of these researchers, Reverend Kirk, who lived in Scotland in the late seventeenth century, has even left us a list of sixteen concise, precise conclusions about the form of intelligence that controls the phenomenon, and the organization of the entities themselves.» — presenta las dieciséis conclusiones de Robert Kirk sobre la inteligencia que controla el fenómeno.
«The methods were the same. There was the sudden vision of brilliant "houses" at night, houses that could fly, that contained peculiar lamps, radiant lights that needed no fuel. The creatures could paralyze their witnesses and translate them through time.» — Vallée enumera los rasgos que hace comunes al folclore y a la casuística moderna.
«They appeared as little children in clothes like soldiers' clothes and with red caps, according to some accounts.» — descripción folclórica de los seres, atribuida a los relatos.
«My mother used to tell about seeing the "fair-folk" dancing in the fields near Cardigan;» — testimonio galés recogido por Evans-Wentz que Vallée reproduce.
«He was holding a lighted flashlight in his hand and it blinded us. But we could see that he had large eyes, a face covered with hair and that he was very small, about four feet tall. He was dressed in a sort of black sack like the cassock M. le Curé wears. He looked at us and said something we did not understand.» — testimonio moderno del hombre con la linterna que habla en lengua incomprensible.
«At this point, Mrs. Leboeuf fled in terror and hid in a nearby thicket.» — el caso de Chabeuil, en el relato de la testigo.
«I hardly need underline the similarity between the depression left by this object and the various kinds of rings or nests already mentioned.» — Vallée enlaza la marca de Chabeuil con los anillos y nidos ya tratados.
«According to French author Villemarque, a careful distinction should be drawn between korrigans and dwarfs.» — toma de Villemarqué la distinción entre korrigans y enanos; la grafía va sin acento por la extracción.
«A man who wrote to me after reading one of my books pointed out that although he was unconvinced about the existence of the unidentified flying objects, he had discovered something he thought might be of interest to me.» — Vallée consigna la procedencia epistolar de un dato y la reserva de quien se lo manda.
«It would be nice to hold on to the common belief that the UFOs are craft from a superior space civilization, because this is a hypothesis science fiction has made widely acceptable and because we are not altogether unprepared, scientifically and even, perhaps, militarily, to deal with such visitors.» — admite lo cómodo de la hipótesis extraterrestre antes de rechazarla.
«Unfortunately, however, the theory that flying saucers are material objects from outer space manned by a race originating on some other planet is not a good answer.» — el rechazo, enunciado sin rodeos.
«It is difficult to come to grips with the UFO phenomenon.» — Vallée reconoce la dificultad de asir el fenómeno.
«The central question in the analysis of the UFO phenomenon has always been that of the controlling intelligence behind the objects' apparently purposeful behavior.» — fija la pregunta central en la inteligencia que controla, no en la nave.
«I have already given several examples of the means of transportation used by the sylphs.» — remite a los medios de transporte de los sílfides ya expuestos.
«They were little men, very black and hairy.» — descripción de los farfadets del Poitou en el material que recoge.
«Evans-Wentz says that, according to John Glynn, town clerk of Tuam: During 1846-47 the potato crop in Ireland was a failure and very much suffering resulted.» — Evans-Wentz recoge de John Glynn el vínculo entre la hambruna irlandesa y la creencia en las hadas.
«According to another popular Irish belief, the elves have two great feasts each year.» — creencia irlandesa sobre las dos fiestas anuales de los elfos.
«In another part of Europe, in January 1537, the people of Franconia, between Pabenberp and the forest of Thuringia, saw a star of marvelous size.» — crónica de Franconia de 1537 que suma a la serie.
«There is an invisible island... between Innismurray and the coast opposite Grange, on which part of the Gentry is supposed to reside.» — la isla invisible de los Gentry, con la elisión marcada en la propia fuente.
«It is noteworthy, too, that in France some fairies are supposed to bear a luminous stone, an object that is often part of the equipment of flying saucer occupants.» — empareja la piedra luminosa de las hadas francesas con el equipo de los ocupantes.
«First they thought it was perhaps a balloon that had caught fire, but the great velocity and the whistling sound which came from that body intrigued them.» — el caso de Alençon de 1790, con la primera hipótesis de los testigos.
«a kind of door opened and, there is the interesting thing, a person like us came out of it, but this person was dressed in a strange way, wearing a tight-fitting suit and, seeing that crowd, said some words which were not understood and fled into the wood.» — el mismo caso: el hombre de traje ceñido que sale de la esfera.
«One night, Stross and his Indian assistant discussed these legends of the ikals, the little black beings, after seeing a strange light wandering about in the Mexican sky.» — el material tzeltal sobre los ikals, recogido en trabajo de campo.
«According to the Paiute Indians, California was once populated by a superior civilization, the Hav-Masuvs.» — la tradición paiute de los Hav-Masuvs que Vallée suma a la serie.
«it cannot be doubted that many accusations of witchcraft stemmed from the belief in strange beings who could fly through the air and» — deriva de la creencia en seres voladores parte de las acusaciones de brujería; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«And in this context, I am not referring to the vague confessions obtained under torture from the poor men and women who fell into the clutches of the Inquisition (although this material would be quite worthy of a parallel study.» — Vallée excluye de su material las confesiones inquisitoriales y a la vez las declara dignas de otro estudio.
«They threw into the roaring fire a quantity of blessed objects, close to one hundred and fifty buckets of water, and forty of fifty carloads of manure – to no avail.» — el episodio del demonio verde de Quimper, con el fracaso de los objetos benditos.
«I can only recommend the recipe to the U.S. Air Force, if they can find a nurse with the right qualifications.» — broma de Vallée sobre el remedio con que aquel demonio fue vencido.
«Kirk invented the name "the Secret Commonwealth" to describe the organization of the elves.» — adjudica a Kirk la acuñación del nombre.
«It is impossible to quote the entire text of his treatise, but we can summarize his findings about elves and other aerial creatures in the following way:» — Vallée declara que resume a Kirk, no que lo transcribe.
«They have a nature that is intermediate between man and the angels.» — primer punto del resumen de Kirk: naturaleza intermedia.
«Physically, they have very light and fluid bodies, which are comparable to a condensed cloud.» — el cuerpo de los elfos según Kirk, comparado con nube condensada.
«They live inside the earth in caves, which they can reach through any crevice or opening where air passes.» — el hábitat de los elfos según Kirk.
«Their philosophical system is based on the following ideas: nothing dies; all things evolve cyclically in such a way that at every cycle they are renewed and improved.» — la cosmología cíclica que Kirk atribuye a los elfos.
«They are said to have a hierarchy of leaders, but they have no visible devotion to God, no religion.» — Kirk les da jerarquía y les niega religión visible.
«Kirk's conclusion is that every age has left a secret to be discovered.» — la conclusión que Vallée extrae de Kirk.
«It is remarkable that one cannot find a single writer who claims he knows the physical nature of the creatures.» — Vallée señala el hueco común a todos los autores antiguos.
«According to medieval occultists, all invisible beings can be divided into four classes:» — la clasificación cuádruple de los seres invisibles que recoge del ocultismo medieval.
«Paracelsus himself would admit it is extremely difficult to provide definitions for these various classes.» — matiza que ni Paracelso define bien esas clases.
«The old people said they didn't know if fairies were flesh and blood or spirits.» — testimonio popular que deja la naturaleza de las hadas sin decidir.
«Another man interviewed by Evans-Wentz insisted that "the fairies of the air are different from those in the rocks.» — informante de Evans-Wentz que separa las hadas del aire de las de la roca.
«With the remark about prophecy, we are back to the relationship between the actions of the Secret Commonwealth and human affairs.» — Vallée devuelve el rasgo profético al nexo entre la Secret Commonwealth y los asuntos humanos.
«It is obvious to them that UFOs are scientific devices having nothing to do with the mystico-religious context of medieval apparitions, and nothing to do with the creatures studied by Kirk, since – as we have just seen – these latter could appear and vanish at will.» — Vallée reconstruye la objeción de los ufólogos, en su voz de ellos, para desarmarla.
«They argued that such fantastic stories could only come from deranged minds.» — el argumento con que la ciencia despachó los relatos.
«Among the cases that deserve close examination, but which were swept under the rug by UFO believers themselves, is the sighting» — Vallée señala que los propios creyentes ovni ocultaron casos incómodos.
«Then, suddenly, the strange man vanished, and I couldn't explain how he did, since he did not disappear from my field of vision by walking away, but vanished like an image one erases suddenly.» — testimonio del caso francés de 1954: la desaparición como imagen borrada.
«Gatay tried to run, but he found himself helplessly nailed to the spot.» — la parálisis del testigo Gatay.
«None of them had previously believed in the reality of the so-called saucers.» — dato que Vallée consigna sobre las creencias previas de los testigos.
«We are told that "one of them had in his right hand a brilliantly luminous object like a wand.» — el caso mexicano de Jalapa: la varita luminosa, en cita indirecta.
«Alex Butler, age ten, was looking south over the Dell when he saw clearly, in the open, "a little blue man with a tall hat and a beard.» — el caso de Studham Common, en el testimonio del niño Alex Butler.
«The boys were very much surprised, naturally, but nothing in the attitude of the strange figure had inspired fear or suggested threat, so they kept looking for the "little blue man" and saw him again on the opposite side of the bushes from where he was first standing.» — los niños de Studham Common no reportan miedo, y el ser reaparece.
«The Reverend Robert Kirk makes no bones about it: the elves did at one time occupy the land.» — Vallée resume la posición de Kirk sobre la ocupación real de la tierra por los elfos.
«While the Sith had no inborn antagonism towards human beings, and were occasionally known to do good turns to their favourites, they were very quick to take offence, capricious in their behavior and delighted in playing tricks on their mortal neighbors.» — descripción de los Sith en el material escocés que recoge; neighbors va con la grafía del original.
«Although the connection between climate and size is not very tenable, Campbell's remarks do open the way to interesting speculations.» — Vallée marca la debilidad del nexo clima-estatura antes de seguir con la especulación.
«In spite of their small size, they are understood to have been of very considerable strenght.» — sobre la fuerza de los enanos; strenght es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«These dwarfs or pygmies are called Na Amhuisgean or, more correctly, Na h-Amhuisgean.» — el nombre gaélico de los enanos, con la corrección de grafía que da la fuente.
«Historical and archaeological researchers definitely say no.» — Vallée consigna que la ciencia niega la existencia de razas enanas europeas.
«Yet several writers, such as folklore scholar David MacRitchie, claim there are indications in this direction.» — y consigna acto seguido la posición contraria, con su autor.
«Tyson made an extensive study of the dwarf races and quotes the Greek historian Ctesias:» — declara la cadena de fuentes: Tyson citando a Ctesias.
«Middle India has black men, who are called Pygmies, using the same language as the other Indians» — el pasaje de Ctesias sobre los pigmeos de la India media.
«Talentonius and Bartholine think that what Ctesias relates of the Pygmies, as their being very good archers, very well illustrates this Text of Ezekiel.» — el enlace erudito entre los pigmeos arqueros de Ctesias y el texto de Ezequiel.
«Without going into further detail, it is clear that the Gaelic story of a guard of dwarf warriors is not an isolated case.» — la conclusión que extrae de la serie: el relato gaélico no está solo.
«In a footnote, MacRitchie states that he is "not aware on what grounds this author speaks of them as black people," but he admits that these dwarfish Fenlanders» — MacRitchie se abstiene sobre el color atribuido y admite otra cosa; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«It is of course to be understood that the passage as it stands is as impossible as it is ludicrous.» — MacRitchie descarta la letra del relato de Conall Gulban y a la vez le supone un núcleo real.
«It ought to be remembered that the oral transmission of history and genealogy, with the most careful attention to language and details, was a perfect science among the Gaelic-speaking peoples.» — el argumento sobre la fiabilidad de la transmisión oral gaélica.
«According to MacRitchie inScots Lore (1895), the dwarfs were destroyed or went into hiding toward the sixth century,» — MacRitchie data en el siglo VI la desaparición de los enanos; inScots va sin espacio por la extracción.
«This theory – generally referred to as the "pygmie theory" – is no longer tenable in the face of the evidence historians have gathered about the Picts.» — Vallée declara insostenible la teoría pigmea a la luz de lo que se sabe de los pictos.
«MacRitchie's theory offers only confusion, and it is amusing to observe his embarrassment when he must report that the Fenlanders were not only dwarfish, but black, too.» — el reparo de Vallée al propio MacRitchie.
«In his conclusion to his discussion of the pygmie theory, which he rejects as Hartland does, Evans-Wentz remarks that it leaves all the problems of the historical origins of the fairy-faith unsolved, since it is clearly global, not limited to the Celtic lands.» — Evans-Wentz y Hartland rechazan la teoría pigmea porque deja sin resolver el origen global de la fe feérica.
«Thus A. Lang, in his introduction to the 1922 edition of Kirk's book, states that "to my mind at least, the subterranean inhabitants of Mr. Kirks's book are not so much a traditional recollection of a real dwarfish race living underground (a hypothesis of Sir Walter Scott's) as a lingering memory of the chthonian beings, the Ancestors.» — Andrew Lang lee a los subterráneos de Kirk como memoria de los Ancestros, no como raza real; se opone a la hipótesis de Walter Scott.
«No matter how interesting it may be to speculate on the origin of these ancient beliefs, the opportunity to observe folklore in the making is even more attractive.» — Vallée traslada su interés del origen antiguo al folclore en formación.
«When modern rumors fall into the very same patterns that have puzzled generations of scientists, theologians, and literary scholars, the feeling one gets is a mixture of wonder and delight.» — lo que declara sentir ante la repetición moderna de los patrones antiguos.
«It looked, he said, like a bird, but it was the size of a small airplane.» — testimonio del Mothman en el material que recoge.
«The old Duke of Wellington himself set holsters at his saddle bow and rode out after dark in search of Springheel Jack.» — del expediente de Springheel Jack: el duque de Wellington sale a buscarlo.
«On February 20, 1838, a woman of eighteen, Jane Alsop of Old Ford, London, heard a violent ringing of the front door bell.» — el caso de Jane Alsop, en Old Ford, Londres.
«There seems to be a pattern here. But, rather typically, it is once again an absurd one.» — Vallée reconoce el patrón y lo califica de absurdo en la misma frase.
«It is strange indeed, as Vyner remarks, that Springheel Jack should have paid two visits within two days to houses less than a mile apart, whose owners were named Alsop and Ashworth, respectively.» — la coincidencia que Vyner señala en las dos visitas de Springheel Jack.
«When Miss Alsop uttered a cry, the intruder grabbed her arm in claw-like fingers, but her sister rushed to her rescue.» — del caso Alsop, tal como lo reproduce.
«The visitor spurted a fiery gas in Jane's face, and she dropped unconscious.» — el gas que deja inconsciente a la testigo, rasgo que Vallée hará serie con los casos modernos.
«The Italian artist R. L. Johannis had a remarkable experience in 1947, at a time when the name "flying saucer" was already popular in the United States but when documentation about landings was nonexistent.» — Vallée fecha el caso Johannis antes de que existiera documentación sobre aterrizajes.
«Dr. J. Allen Hynek and I tried in vain to get an active investigation of it by Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's investigations of UFO sightings in the 1960s.» — declara el intento fallido, con Hynek, de que el Project Blue Book investigara un caso.
«Finally the case was leaked, at my suggestion, to a civilian group which conducted a speedy and careful study of the testimony given by the only witness, a Mr. S.» — Vallée declara su propia intervención: filtrar el caso a un grupo civil.
«If we are to believe this report, the "robot-like" entity would let its lower "jaw" drop, then place its "hand" inside the rectangular cavity thus revealed, and emit a puff of smoke in Mr. S.'s direction.» — condiciona el relato del ser mecánico que exhala humo.
«The story is hard to believe: Would not such beings be able to climb a tree?» — Vallée objeta el relato con una pregunta.
«But it is equally difficult to prove that Mr. S. simply had a nightmare.» — y acto seguido declara que tampoco puede probarse la pesadilla.
«This is confirmed by the unpublished memorandum written by Ruppelt on September 12, 1952, upon his return from West Palm Beach.» — Vallée declara la procedencia documental del caso Desvergers: un memorándum inédito de Ruppelt.
«The witnesses were not close enough, however, to experience the effects, but it is interesting to remark that the lights kept "going around and around" after the scoutmaster (according to his own account of the incident) was already unconscious.» — el detalle que Vallée retiene: las luces siguen tras el desmayo del testigo.
«It is also interesting to note, in this connection, that over a century ago Leroux de Lincy, in his Livre des Legendes, had this to say about the elves:» — trae a Leroux de Lincy y su Livre des Legendes para el aliento de los elfos.
«On October 7, 1954, Mr. Margaillon saw an object that had landed in a field in Monteux, France.» — caso francés de 1954 que añade a la serie.
«I do not use the word myth here to mean something that is imaginary, but on the contrary something that is true at such a deep level that it influences the very basic elements of our thoughts.» — Vallée define mito por profundidad, no por falsedad.
«There are four components to the myth: an emotional component, examined in Chapter Four, which takes the form of cosmic seduction, including some stories of sexual encounters that may seem shocking or outrageous but form a significant part of the total problem.» — primer componente del mito ovni, y la advertencia sobre el material sexual.
«I am careful to use the quaint word celestial here instead of the more precise and convenient extraterrestrial because of the unfortunate misconceptions the latter term now carries in our culture.» — Vallée explica por qué escribe celestial y no extraterrestre.
«Ordinary logic does not apply to the paranormal.» — el límite que pone a la lógica ordinaria.
«I have coined the word metalogic to describe the internal consistency of the experience, which often involves observations that are, on the surface, logically absurd.» — acuña metalogic para la coherencia interna de lo aparentemente absurdo.
«Far from finding it satisfying, I react to this observation with a mixture of awe and humility before the very dimensions of the problem we are attempting to describe with limited human understanding, with scientific resources that have not been tempered by the fiery tricksters of the underworld or brushed by the inspired guidance of the wings of archangels.» — Vallée declara su propia reacción ante el problema, y la nombra asombro y humildad.
«If so, secrecy on the part of the authorities, if they are really concerned with the nation's peace of mind, is not the best course.» — condiciona su crítica al secreto oficial a la premisa que acaba de plantear.
«The well-established facts of the Irwin case, which serves as our introduction to a discussion of the problem or "contact," makes it clear that open research is now imperative on all aspects of the phenomenon.» — el caso Irwin como razón para exigir investigación abierta.
«Consequently, instead of resuming his journey, Irwin wrote a note ("Have gone to investigate possible plane crash. Please call law enforcement officers.") and placed it on the steering wheel of his car.» — el detalle de la nota que Irwin dejó, reproducida entre paréntesis por la fuente.
«He seemed merely asleep, but he could not be awakened.» — el estado de Irwin según el hospital.
«Lorenzen reports that, according to a Captain Valentine, the results of the tests indicated that Irwin was normal.» — Vallée cita a Lorenzen citando a un capitán; la cadena de fuentes queda declarada.
«The Irwin case is reminiscent of another incident that has become one of the standards of modern American folklore: the report by Betty and Barney Hill and their examination under hypnosis by Dr. Benjamin Simon, which has been documented at lenght by John Fuller in his excellent book The Interrupted Journey.» — declara la fuente del caso Hill: el libro de John Fuller; at lenght es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«Report No. 100-1-61, in the files of the 100th Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command, Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, was prepared by Major Paul W. Henderson. The only official document concerning the Hill case, it contains a detail of which both Dr. Simon and John Fuller were unaware: the object seen by the Hills had been detected by military radar.» — Vallée aporta el dato del radar, ausente en el libro de Fuller y en el análisis de Simon.
«In this respect, it is probably typical of a large class of Air Force records (most of those involving close proximity to a UFO) where either witness reluctance or lack of adequate follow-up eliminated the most significant information.» — generaliza el defecto de los expedientes de la Fuerza Aérea.
«The case represents a general pattern that cannot be separated from the total phenomenon.» — sitúa el caso Hill dentro del patrón, no como excepción.
«First, it is interesting to note that, as further details come to the Hills' memories after treatment, the case took on more of the features present in other UFO landings, of which the Hills could not have heard.» — el argumento por el que descarta la contaminación cultural: los detalles nuevos no estaban publicados.
«It is enough to say that the statements made under hypnosis by Betty and Barney are in general agreement.» — Vallée mide la concordancia entre los dos testimonios hipnóticos.
«There are some obvious contradictions between the two descriptions.» — y consigna las contradicciones sin armonizarlas.
«Betty speaks of very dark hair; Barney did not notice any.» — ejemplo de esas contradicciones, dejado como está.
«On the other hand, the creatures are strikingly reminiscent of the UFO operators of a large number of stories unknown at the time outside a very small group specialists.» — el otro lado del balance: el parecido con casos entonces inéditos.
«They communicated among themselves through an audible language, which was definitely not understandable to the witnesses.» — el rasgo lingüístico del caso Hill.
«Betty thinks that they spoke English "with an accent," while Barney feels that the words and the presence of the entity were two separate things:» — Vallée deja las dos percepciones enfrentadas sin arbitrar.
«It wasn't as if he were talking to me with my eyes open, and he was sitting across the room from me.» — Barney Hill describe la comunicación como no verbal.
«This remarkable statement, an excellent description of the mechanism that triggered the communication, may well be a clue to the entire episode, and it certainly places the case in the domain of the Theory of Apparitions – as» — Vallée mete el caso en la Theory of Apparitions de Tyrrell; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«And while it is possible that a complete theory of ghosts could confine the phenomena to parraments within the human nervous system, the same is not true of UFOs.» — el límite que pone a la explicación por apariciones: no cubre al ovni; parraments es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«For this reason, therefore, it is crucial to pursue the investigation of past apparitions in relation to reports such as that of the Hills.» — la consecuencia metodológica: seguir investigando las apariciones antiguas.
«Under hypnosis, she reported that a long needle was inserted into her navel, that she felt pain, and that the pain stopped when the leader made a certain gesture with his hand in front of her eyes.» — el episodio de la aguja en el ombligo, en el relato hipnótico de Betty Hill.
«The problem, then, is not to identify it, but to relate it in a rational manner to the physical features encountered during the observations – for example, the tracking by military radar operators of the UFO seen by the Hills.» — Vallée fija el problema en conciliar lo aparicional con el eco de radar.
«It has never appeared in English UFO literature and therefore cannot have influenced American UFO lore.» — el argumento por el que trae el caso francés: no pudo contaminar la casuística estadounidense.
«The hands were squeezing my head like a formidable vice, not abruptly, but gradually.» — testimonio de la mujer francesa atacada por manos invisibles.
«My whole body was annihilated, helpless, without reflexes.» — la misma testigo sobre su parálisis.
«I thought I was going to see my aggressors and recognize their faces, but I saw nothing!» — el rasgo que Vallée retendrá: no hay agresor visible.
«Everything had lasted a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, and it seemed that I had lived in an unreal world.» — la duración y la irrealidad, en boca de la testigo.
«The records of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) contain another abduction case that occurred on August 21, 1915. In that incident, which I have not been able to confirm, an entire regiment was posted as "missing.» — Vallée declara que no pudo confirmar el caso del regimiento desaparecido de 1915.
«These episode are an integral part of the total UFO problem and cannot be solved separately.» — sostiene que los raptos no se separan del problema ovni; episode va en singular en la fuente.
«This sort of belief in fairies being able to take people was very common and exists yet in a good many parts of West Ireland.» — testimonio irlandés sobre la creencia todavía viva en el rapto por las hadas.
«Not only are people taken away, but – as in flying saucer stories – they may be picked up and set down again.» — Vallée empareja el rapto con devolución del folclore y el de la casuística ovni.
«Mrs. J. MacGregor who keeps the key to the old churchyard where there is a tomb to Kirk, though many say there is nothing in it but a coffin filled with stones, told me Kirk was taken into the Fairy Knoll,» — testimonio recogido sobre la desaparición de Robert Kirk.
«At the time of his disappearance people said he was taken because the fairies were displeased with him for disclosing their secrets in so public manner as he did.» — el motivo que la gente atribuía al rapto de Kirk: haber revelado los secretos de las hadas.
«I have searched the presbyter books and find no record of how Kirk's death really took place, but of course there is not the least doubt of his body being in the grave.» — el informante se abstiene sobre la muerte de Kirk y a la vez afirma que el cuerpo está en la tumba.
«Hartland reports that a Swedish book published in 1775 contains a legal statement, solemnly sworn on April 12, 1671, by the husband of a midwife who was taken to fairyland to assist a troll's wife in giving birth» — Hartland aporta una declaración jurada de 1671 sobre la partera llevada al país de las hadas.
«Peter Rahm alleges that he and his wife were at their farm one evening late when there came a little man, swart of face and clad in grey, who begged the declarant's wife to come and help his wife then in labour.» — la declaración de Peter Rahm, en la grafía y el registro de la fuente.
«It is reported that she came home "in the same manner," having refused any food offered to her while in the troll's company.» — el motivo de la comida rechazada, que Vallée hará serie con los panqueques de Eagle River.
«Kirk reports that in a case whose principals he personally knew the abducted woman found the home of the Little People filled with light, although she could not see any lamp or fire.» — de Kirk, la luz sin lámpara en la casa del pueblo pequeño.
«Magonia, as it appears in such tales, is sometimes a remote country, an invisible island, some faraway place one can reach only by a long journey.» — Vallée define Magonia como país remoto en unos relatos.
«It is made visible and tangible only to selected people, and the doors that lead through it are tangential points, known only to the elves and a few of their initiates.» — y como espacio de acceso tangencial reservado a iniciados.
«This tale brings us to our second point, that of the gratitude shown by the elves in return for services performed by humans, and the form such gratitude takes.» — anuncia el segundo punto de su análisis: la gratitud de los elfos.
«There are numerous stories of humans who have gone to Magonia of their own will, either taking a message or bringing one back, or performing some service for the supernatural beings who live there.» — el motivo del viaje voluntario a Magonia.
«But – and this is my third point – we also have numerous accounts of abductions by the fairies.» — el tercer punto de su análisis, enunciado como propio.
«As in the cases of UFO abductions published by Budd Hopkins in his book Intruders, they take men and women, especially pregnant women or young mothers, and they also steal young children.» — empareja el rapto feérico con el catálogo de Budd Hopkins, y retiene el sesgo hacia embarazadas y madres jóvenes.
«This belief is not confined to Europe. It is found in regions as remote from Europe as China and the American Pacific coast.» — extiende la creencia en el changeling fuera de Europa.
«Hartland says that a method in favour in the North of Scotland is to take the suspected elf to some known haunt of its race, generally, we are told, some spot where peculiar coughing sounds are heard, or to some barrow, or stone circle, and lay it down.» — el método escocés para devolver al supuesto elfo, según Hartland.
«But sometimes more radical methods have been used, and we can only pity any poor children who may have been ill-treated because their superstitious parents thought they looked like elves!» — Vallée consigna el costo humano de la creencia.
«And there is no question that in medieval times the same superstition has led to the death of children who had congenital defects.» — adjudica a la misma superstición la muerte de niños con defectos congénitos.
«Of course, the UFO myth has not yet reached such proportions, but we are perhaps not quite far from it.» — Vallée acota la comparación y a la vez la deja abierta.
«According to Hartland: The motive assigned to fairies in northern stories is that of preserving and improving their race, on the one hand by carrying off human children to be brought up among the elves and to become united with them, and on the other hand by obtaining the milk and fostering care of human mothers for their own offspring.» — el motivo genético que Hartland atribuye a las hadas, y que Vallée pondrá junto al de Hopkins.
«Such is not always the purpose of abduction, however, and people are often returned by the elves after nothing more than a dance or a game.» — Vallée matiza que no todo rapto tiene ese propósito.
«But a strange phenomenon often takes place: the people who have spent a day in Elfland come back to this world one year, or more, older!» — la relatividad del tiempo en el país de los elfos.
«Time does not pass there as it does here.» — la formulación corta del mismo rasgo.
«Hartland relates the true story of Rhys and Llewellyn, recorded about 1825 in the Vale of Neath, Wales.» — declara la fuente y la fecha del relato galés.
«One of them consists in touching the abducted man with a piece of iron, and the objection of supernatural beings to this metal is one of the themes of fairy lore.» — el hierro como remedio, y su rechazo por los seres, como tema del folclore.
«Near Bridgend, Wales is a place where it is reported that a woman who had been taken by the fairies came back ten years later and thought she had not been away more than ten days.» — caso galés de desfase temporal invertido.
«It is fascinating indeed to find such tales, which antedate Einstein's and Langevin's relativistic traveler by centuries.» — Vallée fecha el motivo del tiempo dilatado siglos antes de Einstein y Langevin.
«The supernatural lapse of time in Magonia is often allied to the theme of love between the abducted human and one of the beings.» — enlaza el desfase temporal con el motivo amoroso.
«Nor is this limited to European history, as Hartland again points out:» — remite otra vez a Hartland para salir de Europa.
«Many races having traditions of a Culture God – that is, of a superior being who has taught them agriculture and the arts of life, and led them to victory over their enemies – add that he has gone away from them for awhile, and that he will some day come back again.» — Hartland sobre el dios civilizador que se va y promete volver.
«Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha, the culture gods of Mexico and Peru, are familiar instances of this.» — los dos ejemplos americanos que da la fuente.
«according to Hindu tradition, he will be revealed in the sky, seated on a white horse and holding a blazing sword.» — la décima encarnación de Vishnu, en la misma serie.
«What is not commonly known is that such legends have been built on the popular belief in numerous actual stories of the less glorious, more ordinary and personal, type we have reviewed here.» — el giro de Vallée: los mitos se levantan sobre relatos personales ordinarios.
«anthropologist Brian Stross reports of the ikals: They are believed to be beings from another world, and some have been seen flying with some kind of rocket-like thing attached to the back.» — Brian Stross sobre los ikals, con el detalle del artefacto a la espalda.
«Sometimes he steals women, and the women so taken are remarkably prolific, and may bear a child once a week, or once a month, or even daily.» — el rasgo reproductivo del ikal en el material tzotzil.
«Brian Stross's Indian informants reported that a flurry of ikals was sighted "about twenty years ago" – which would take us back to 1947, the year of the sighting by pilot Kenneth Arnold over Mt. Rainier, in Washington, which gave birth to the term flying saucer.» — Vallée hace coincidir la oleada de ikals con 1947 y el avistamiento de Kenneth Arnold.
«Superficially, the most appealing of the theories proposed is the extraterrestrial theory which would regard the UFOs as probes from another planet.» — presenta la teoría extraterrestre como la más atractiva en apariencia.
«Yet it falls short of explaining the phenomena in their historical development.» — y señala dónde falla: en el desarrollo histórico.
«Present-day saucers cannot be evaluated without reference to the 1897 airship or to earlier sighting of similar objects.» — la exigencia metodológica que impone: leer el presente contra 1897 y antes.
«Then, too, the theory of simple visitation must be compared with the assumption that the visitors know far more physics than we do – so much more, in fact, that an interpretation in terms of physical concepts known to us is bound to end in failure and contradiction.» — segundo reparo: si saben más física que nosotros, nuestra física no los describe.
«A second major flaw in all the theories proposed so far is found in the description of the entities and their behavior.» — el otro punto débil que localiza: la descripción de las entidades.
«As we will see below, any theory can account for some of these reports, but only at the expense of arbitrary rejection of a much larger group.» — Vallée acusa a toda teoría de comprar coherencia con rechazo arbitrario de casos.
«There was nothing repulsive about the entities, said Douglas, but he was terribly scared.» — el caso de Eugenio Douglas, con el reparo del testigo sobre su propio miedo.
«But the burning red light followed him as far as the village, where it interfered with the street lights, turning them violet and green.» — el efecto sobre el alumbrado público, dato que Vallée retiene por físico.
«In a screen illustration of the UFO saga this is probably the sighting that would best carry its total meaning.» — Vallée elige ese caso como el más representativo de la saga.
«The boys were no longer afraid, although they could not account for this change in their feeling.» — el cambio afectivo inexplicado en el caso brasileño de los tres niños.
«He wore tall boots, each of which was equipped with a strange triangular spike, which made a peculiar impression in the soft ground and could be seen for several days afterward.» — las botas con púa triangular y la huella que dejaron.
«He interviewed and examined the witness, Antonio Villas-Boas, of Sao Francisco de Sales,» — declara la investigación del profesor Olavo Fontes; Sao Francisco va sin acento por la extracción.
«In spite of his resistance, the creatures stripped him, washed his body with something like a wet sponge, and took him into another room through a strangely lettered door.» — el episodio de Villas-Boas, tal como Vallée lo resume.
«It is not my purpose here to record all the details of the experience reported by Villas-Boas; they have been adequately documented by Fontes and Creighton and later by the Lorenzens, who provided a complete reprint of the testimony, along with the professional opinion of Dr. Fontes after his medical examination of the witness, in their book Flying Saucer Occupants.» — Vallée declara que no repite el expediente y remite a Fontes, Creighton y los Lorenzen.
«However, although time passed, the hand did not move, and Antonio concluded that it was no clock.» — el reloj sin aguja que avanza, en el relato de Villas-Boas.
«The symbolism in this remark by Villas-Boas is clear.» — Vallée adjudica valor simbólico al detalle, no valor de prueba.
«We are reminded of the tales quoted above, of the country where time does not pass, and of that great poet who had in his room a huge white clock without hands, bearing the words "It is later than you think.» — empareja el reloj de Villas-Boas con el país donde el tiempo no pasa y con el reloj sin manecillas del poeta.
«This attempt to secure evidence is a constant feature of fairy tales, and we are also reminded of the efforts by Betty Hill to convince her captors to let her take a peculiar "book" she saw inside their craft.» — Vallée hace del intento de traer prueba un rasgo constante del cuento de hadas y del caso moderno.
«As in the Villas-Boas incident, the men denied her the opportunity to convince the world that the experience had been real.» — el paralelo entre los dos casos: en ambos se niega la prueba.
«He was extremely reluctant to discuss the more personal aspects of his experience and related them only when questioned with insistence by Fontes.» — Vallée consigna la reticencia del testigo a hablar de lo íntimo.
«Like Maurice Masse, Villas-Boas suffered from excessive sleepiness for about a month after the incident.» — empareja la somnolencia posterior de los dos casos.
«When folklore becomes degraded to a minor literary form, as the fairy-faith was degraded to the fairy tales we know today, it naturally loses much of its content: precisely those "adult" details that cannot be allowed to remain in children's books.» — explica por censura editorial la pérdida del contenido adulto del folclore.
«The direct result of the censorship of spicy details in these marvelous stories is that they become mere occasions for amazement.» — la consecuencia que atribuye a esa censura.
«The sexual context is precisely what gives such accounts their significance and their impact.» — sitúa en lo sexual el peso del relato, no en lo prodigioso.
«Nor is that true only of fairies: the most remarkable cases of sexual contact with nonhumans are not found in spicy saucer books, nor in fairy legends; they rest, safely stored away, in the archives of the Catholic Church.» — Vallée sitúa la mejor casuística sexual en los archivos eclesiásticos.
«To find them, one must first learn Latin and gain entrance into the few libraries where these unique records are preserved.» — el requisito de acceso que declara.
«Let us first establish clearly that the belief in the possibility of intermarriage between human and nonhuman races is a corollary to the apparitions in all historical contexts.» — enuncia el matrimonio entre razas como corolario de toda aparición.
«The sex of the angels is the clearest of all theological questions.» — la frase con que abre el asunto de los ángeles, en registro irónico.
«And aside from its high literary value, it proves conclusively that the fairy-women who entice mortals to their love in modern times are much the same, if not the same, as the succubi of middle-age mystics.» — el verbo de logro es de la fuente: Vallée identifica a las hadas amantes con las súcubas medievales.
«It is difficult to believe that stories exist that surpass, for their amazing contents or shocking features, some of the reports we have already studied, such as the Hills' case or the Villas-Boas report.» — Vallée admite lo improbable de superar esos dos casos, y a continuación lo hace.
«Sinistrari concludes that St. Thomas never meant intercourse with demons to fall within his definition of bestiality.» — Sinistrari saca el trato con demonios de la definición tomista de bestialidad.
«It is quite fascinating to follow Sinistrari's thoughts in an area that is directly relevant to UFO reports:» — Vallée declara por qué sigue a Sinistrari.
«Villas-Boas would certainly have had a hard time before the Inquisitors if he had lived in an earlier age.» — traslada al testigo moderno al tribunal inquisitorial.
«Indeed, a man named Benoît de Berne, who confessed at age seventy-five that he had had intercourse for forty years with a succuba named Mermeline, was condemned and burned alive.» — el caso de Benoît de Berne y la súcuba Mermeline.
«Unnatural semination, that is, intercourse that cannot be followed by generation, constitutes a sin against nature.» — la definición canónica que recoge del debate.
«Sinistrari does not deny that some young women often have visions and imagine that they have attended a sabbat.» — Sinistrari admite la vía alucinatoria sin abandonar la otra.
«It is a widespread opinion, confirmed by direct or indirect testimony of trustworthy persons, that the Sylvans and Fauns, commonly called Incubi, have often tormented women, solicited and obtained intercourse with them.» — el pasaje de san Agustín que Sinistrari alega.
«The theologians answer that the devil borrows the corpse of a human being, either male or female, or else he forms with other materials a new body for this purpose.» — la solución teológica al problema del cuerpo del demonio.
«Either he first takes the form of a female succubus and then has intercourse with a man, or else the succubus induces lascivious dreams in a sleeping man and makes use of the resulting "pollution" to allow the devil to perform the second part of the operation.» — los dos procedimientos que la doctrina atribuye al demonio.
«Likewise, Hector Boethius, in Historia Scotorum, documents the case of a young Scot who, for several months, was visited in his bedroom, the windows and doors of which were closed, by a succuba of the most ravishing beauty.» — el caso escocés que la tradición aporta, con la fuente declarada.
«Can we agree with Lebrun when he writes: "If the body of these children is thus different from the bodies of other children, their soul will certainly have qualities that will not be common to others: that is why Cardinal Bellarmin thinks Antichrist will be born of a woman having had intercourse with an incubus.» — Vallée deja la doctrina de Lebrun y Belarmino como pregunta, no como adhesión.
«If we admit that the UFO reports quoted earlier in this chapter indicate the phenomenon has genetic contents, then the above questions are fundamental, and it is important to see how tradition understood them.» — condiciona la relevancia de todo el capítulo a que los casos tengan contenido genético.
«To theologians and philosophers, it is a fact, that from the copulation of humans [men or women] with the demon, human beings are sometimes born.» — la doctrina que expone, atribuida a teólogos y filósofos.
«Besides, they observe that as the result of a quite natural cause, the children generated in this manner by the incubi are tall, very strong, very daring, very magnificent and very wicked.» — los rasgos que la tradición atribuye a los hijos de los íncubos.
«Sinistrari disagrees with this theory: In spite of all the respect I owe so many great doctors, I do not see how their opinion can stand examination.» — Sinistrari discrepa de la doctrina que acaba de exponerse.
«Now, in a vessel where the warmth is not natural, but artificial, spirits are resolved, and no generation is possible.» — el argumento fisiológico de Sinistrari contra la generación demoníaca.
«We also read in the Scriptures (Genesis 6:4) that giants were born as a result of intercourse between the sons of God and the daughters of Man: this is the very letter of the sacred text.» — la cita bíblica sobre los gigantes, alegada al pie de la letra.
«The inhabitants of planet Wolf 424 [ sic] are among us in human form and with false identities.» — declaración de un contactado español, reproducida por Vallée con el sic de la fuente.
«These absurd stories are the nucleus of many modern-day cults.» — Vallée califica de absurdas las historias y a la vez las hace núcleo de cultos reales.
«I myself have received letters from individuals claiming to be members of secret organizations whose headquarters are, quite literally, out of this world.» — consigna su propia correspondencia como dato del fenómeno social.
«The fact remains that irrational belief in nonhuman control of terrestrial destinies is as old as ordinary human politics.» — la generalización que extrae: la creencia en control no humano es tan vieja como la política.
«Thus, a Madrid newsman, Armando Puente, claims that Sesma warned him three months before Robert Kennedy's assassination that the senator would be killed.» — el caso de Sesma y la profecía sobre Robert Kennedy, atribuido a Armando Puente.
«Sesma similarly predicted a wave of UFO sightings in Argentina (a much easier task!» — Vallée le rebaja el mérito a la segunda profecía.
«The same power attributed to saucer people was once the exclusive property of fairies.» — traslada a las hadas el poder que hoy se atribuye a la gente de los platillos.
«Asked whether she did not believe – prior to the present day – that fairies were malignant spirits, [she] answered she did not know.» — Juana de Arco, en el proceso, se abstiene sobre la naturaleza de las hadas.
«The power of these apparitions can best be seen in some of the major "miracles" of history.» — el pivote hacia el eje mariano.
«She held her hands extended apart and upward, in a position that none of the witnesses could have previously seen in any statue or picture.» — del expediente de Knock: la postura que ningún testigo pudo haber copiado de una imagen.
«I felt nothing in the embrace but the wall, yet the figures appeared so full and so lifelike that I could not understand it and wondered why my hands could not feel what was so plain and distinct to my sight.» — testimonio de Knock sobre la aparición visible e intangible.
«Clearly we are dealing here with a pattern reminiscent of medieval folklore.» — Vallée lee el caso de Knock como patrón folclórico.
«And although it took place in Ireland, the miracle aspect is not the most reminiscent of the standard features of the fairy-faith.» — y acota de inmediato el alcance de ese paralelo.
«The sun wasn't above the horizon, yet Juan saw her as if against the sun because of the golden beams that rayed her person from head to feet.» — del relato guadalupano: la luz sin sol, rasgo que Vallée hará serie con los avistamientos.
«There were no flowers on the top of the hill, as Juan Diego knew very well.» — el detalle de las rosas imposibles.
«He told Juan to ask the apparition for a tangible sign, and he instructed two servants to follow the Indian and watch his actions.» — el obispo Zumárraga pide señal tangible y manda vigilar al vidente.
«But when they observed how the roses seemed to dissolve when they reached for them, they were astonished and let him go.» — el motivo de las rosas que se disuelven al tocarlas.
«The bishop was kneeling before Juan's tilma, and, as Ethel Cook Eliot remarks, "Millions of people have knelt before it since," for it has been placed over the high altar in the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.» — Vallée cita a Ethel Cook Eliot sobre la devoción posterior a la tilma.
«In the six years that followed the incident, over eight million Indians were baptized.» — la cifra de bautismos con que Vallée mide el efecto social del episodio.
«I would strongly argue that it is – for one simple reason: the mechanisms that have generated the various beliefs are identical.» — el argumento nuclear de esta parte: los mecanismos de las creencias son idénticos.
«It has little to do with the problem of knowing whether UFOs are physical objects or not.» — separa la cuestión del mecanismo cultural de la del estatuto físico.
«Attempting to understand the meaning, the purpose, of the so-called flying saucers, as many people are doing today, is just as futile as was the pursuit of the fairies, if one makes the mistake of confusing appearance and reality.» — iguala la busca de sentido en los platillos con la persecución de las hadas.
«We know that the device as described could not possibly fly, unless its outside appearance was designed to deceive potential witnesses.» — de la oleada de 1897: el aparato descrito no podría volar, salvo que la apariencia sea señuelo.
«Human actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation – as military and political experts know well.» — sitúa la conducta humana en la imaginación y la fe, no en la observación.
«Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear.» — extiende ese diagnóstico a la propia ciencia.
«In the United States, they appear as science fiction monsters.» — el reparto cultural de las apariencias, primer término.
«In South America, they are sanguinary and quick to get into a fight.» — segundo término del mismo reparto.
«In France, they behave like rational, Cartesian, peace-loving tourists.» — tercer término, y el más irónico.
«The Irish Gentry, if we believe its spokesmen, was an aristocratic race organized somewhat like a religious-military order.» — Vallée condiciona la descripción a la palabra de los informantes.
«The airship pilots were strongly individualistic characters with all the features of the American farmer.» — empareja al piloto de 1897 con el granjero estadounidense de su época.
«If it were possible to make three-dimensional holograms with mass, and to project them through time, I would say this is what the farmer saw.» — Vallée enuncia el símil holográfico en modo contrafactual.
«In numerous UFO cases and in some religious miracles, the beings appeared as three-dimensional images whose feet did not actually touch the ground.» — el rasgo compartido entre casos ovni y milagros religiosos: los pies que no tocan el suelo.
«As we read the account of the Libyan landing case, it is tempting to assume that the farmer, far from witnessing by chance the maneuvers of interplanetary visitors, was deliberately exposed to a scene designed to be recorded by him and transmitted to us: hence, the gas masks, the instrument panels, and the radio set "complete with wires.» — propone que la escena fuera montada para ser registrada por el testigo y transmitida.
«There is nothing to support these assumptions, and yet, in view of the historical continuity of the phenomenon, alternatives are hard to find, unless we deny the reality of all the facts, as our peace of mind would indeed prefer.» — Vallée declara que sus alternativas carecen de apoyo y aun así no ve otras.
«But in this book we have already seen that the UFO phenomenon has left a clear series of marks in the beliefs and attributes of our contemporaries, in a pattern not only identifiable but also by no means unprecedented.» — Vallée mide lo que lleva mostrado en marcas sobre la creencia, no en pruebas físicas.
«It is not pointless to try to devise critical tests, both sociological and physical, to determine whether or not purposeful design is involved in the phenomena the witnesses describe.» — reclama pruebas críticas, sociológicas y físicas, para decidir si hay designio.
«But it is quite conceivable that nature should present us with circumstances so deeply organized that our observational and logical errors would entirely mask the pattern to be identified.» — admite que el error observacional pueda tapar el patrón entero.
«it is quite likely that in coming years every brand of charlatanism will use it as a base, although it is not possible to predict its exact form.» — previene sobre el uso charlatanesco del fenómeno.
«The development of a new myth feeding upon this duality is entirely predictable.» — anuncia el mito nuevo como consecuencia previsible de esa dualidad.
«Therefore, to say that UFOs are not a scientific problem, or even to pose the question of whether they are or not, is to utter an absurdity.» — rechaza la pregunta misma de si el ovni es problema científico.
«There is no such thing as a scientific problem; it is the man who looks at the problem who is or is not scientific in his approach.» — desplaza lo científico del objeto al que mira.
«Science is an object in the human mind, not a characteristic we are at liberty either to bestow upon or to withdraw from every funny-looking contraption that happens to cross our skies.» — remata la misma idea con la ironía sobre el cacharro que cruza el cielo.
«For a scientist, the only valid question is to decide whether the phenomenon can be studied by itself, or whether it is an instance of a deeper problem.» — fija la única pregunta que admite como válida.
«And my conclusion is that, through the UFO phenomenon, we have the unique opportunities to observe folklore in the making and to gather scientific material at the deepest source of human imagination.» — su conclusión: el fenómeno da acceso al folclore en formación.
«If we decide to avoid extreme speculation, but make certain basic observations from the existing data, five principal facts stand out rather clearly from our analysis so far:» — abre la lista de cinco hechos con una restricción declarada.
«There has been among the public, in all countries, since the middle of 1946, an extremely active generation of colorful rumors.» — primer hecho de la lista, fechado a mediados de 1946.
«When the underlying archetypes are extracted from these rumors, the extraterrestrial myth is seen to coincide to a remarkable degree with the fairy-faith of Celtic countries, the observations of the scholars of past ages, and the widespread belief among all peoples concerning entities whose physical and psychological description place them in the same category as the present-day ufonauts.» — segundo hecho: la coincidencia de los arquetipos con la fe feérica céltica.
«All the beings have been described with and without breathing apparatus.» — tercer hecho de la lista: la morfología reportada no es consistente.
«This absurd behavior has had the effect of keeping professional scientists away from the area where that activity was taking place.» — efecto que atribuye al absurdo: mantiene lejos a los científicos.
«Scientists who brush aside UFO reports because "obviously intelligent visitors would not behave like that" simply have not given serious thought to the problem of nonhuman intelligence.» — el reproche a quienes descartan los casos por inverosímiles.
«Observation and deduction agree, in fact, that the organized action of a superior race must appear absurd to the inferior one.» — primera proposición: lo que hace una raza superior tiene que parecer absurdo a la inferior.
«Proposition 2. If we recognize that the structure and nature of time is as much of a puzzle to modern physicists as it was to Reverend Kirk, for example, then it follows that any theory of the universe that does not take our ignorance into account is bound to remain in academic exercise.» — segunda proposición: la ignorancia sobre la naturaleza del tiempo invalida cualquier teoría que no la cuente.
«Proposition 3. The entire mystery we are discussing contains all the elements of a myth that could be utilized to serve long-term social manipulation purposes, as illustrated by the curious link between the contents of the reports and the progress of human technology, from aerial ships to dirigibles to ghost rockets to flying saucers and to biogenetic engineering – a link that has never recieved a satisfactory interpretation in a sociological framework.» — tercera proposición: el mito serviría a la manipulación social, y el nexo con la técnica sigue sin interpretación; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«With respect to the last point, I find it remarkable that the first instance of a blackout caused by a UFO should be found in Twilight Bar, a play written by Arthur Koestler in 1933.» — sitúa en una obra de teatro de Koestler el primer apagón por ovni.
«But the fact remains that the coincidence between these works of imagination and the actual details of the reports that came from the public is a remarkable one, and it opens the way to unlimited speculation.» — Vallée nombra la coincidencia con la ficción como notable, y declara que abre a especulación sin límite.
«Knowledge of the structure of time would imply superior knowledge of destiny (I am using the word "destiny" to designate not the fate of individuals but the mechanism through which physical events unfold and the canvas upon which they are implemented» — precisa el sentido en que usa destino, y descarta el de suerte individual.
«As Jerome Cardan says, "Be this fact or fable, so it stands.» — Vallée cierra el capítulo con Cardan y su abstención.
«It is difficult for the public to tolerate a mystery that refues to die.» — sobre la persistencia del misterio; refues es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«When Condon was told that a documentary was being prepared, he advocated that all the footage be burned.» — añade al episodio Condon la petición de quemar el material filmado.
«Yet it is only when one analyzes the thousands of similar occurrences in the last forty years and in all countries that one achieves some degree of understanding.» — su criterio metodológico: el entendimiento viene del volumen de casos, no del caso aislado.
«close encounters with UFOs seems to have become the rule rather than the exception, and most investigators have found it very difficult to deal with this aspect of the cases because it does not match their expectation of what an extraterrestrial visit would be.» — señala que la dificultad de los investigadores viene de sus propias expectativas.
«These observations constitute collectively what I call the "psychic component" of the UFO phenomenon.» — acuña componente psíquico para ese conjunto de observaciones.
«Another aspect of the sightings that I find interesting is the very same aspect that has made scientists from other disciplines turn away in disgust; I am referring to their apparent absurdity.» — Vallée toma el absurdo como dato de interés, no como motivo de descarte.
«Their work to unravel the UFO enigma centers increasingly on the psychic component of the reports that is indicative either of actual communication with the witness or of direct influence unexplainable by ordinary physical means.» — dónde sitúa el trabajo de los pocos científicos que siguen: en el componente psíquico.
«The impression was not like observing a strong projector attached to a flying object; it was more like looking through a window that "opened on the inside of a star.» — testimonio del caso de Stanford, con el símil de la ventana abierta a una estrella.
«Do Not Report This! Accounts such as the one I have just quoted abound in a corner of the psychic house that too few people interested in paranormal phenomena ever take the trouble to visit.» — Vallée reprocha a la parapsicología el desinterés por este material.
«In the last twenty-five years, at least ten thousand sightings of unidentified flying objects have been filed away unexplained by competent investigators (I am not referring here to the number of cases reported but only to those unsolved, and my figure is a conservative one), but no bridge has yet been built between this body of data and the evidence that exists for psychic phenomena such as precognition, psychokinesis, and telepathy.» — cifra los casos sin explicar y declara que ningún puente los une a la parapsicología; la cifra la marca como conservadora.
«It would give a clue to the mechanism of some psychic processes.» — lo que espera del puente que reclama.
«But in the mind of the witness there was a strange thought, the strong suggestion that this "was all right for her to see.» — testimonio de la testigo de Berkeley sobre el permiso mental para ver.
«This was accompanied by another thought which almost came as an explicit message: this was nothing that she should report.» — y el mensaje contrario sobre no reportarlo.
«How frequently witnesses decide to withhold this kind of information has already been noted.» — Vallée generaliza el silencio del testigo como dato conocido.
«We find that phenomena of precognition, telepathy, and even healing are not unusual among the reports, especially when they involve close-range observation of an object or direct exposure to its light.» — acota la frecuencia de lo psíquico a la observación cercana y a la exposición a la luz.
«which occurred the night of November 1, 1968, is that competent investigators (including an astrophysicist, a psychiatrist, and a physiologist) were able to gain rapid access to the data and to monitor the development of subsequent events without interference from the press or from government authorities.» — lo que Vallée valora del caso del Dr. X: acceso rápido y sin interferencia.
«The witness wants absolutely no publicity in connection with his experiences.» — consigna la voluntad de anonimato del testigo.
«While they were still approaching (following the trajectory of the beams on the ground enabled the witness to ascertain that they were indeed coming closer), these two disks went through a remarkable transformation: their "antennae" came into contact, the two beams interpenetrated, the flashing activity stopped, and the two craft merged.» — el caso del Dr. X: los dos discos que fusionan sus haces y se funden.
«At that point it was she who observed, with considerable amazement, that the swelling and pain in his leg had completely disappeared.» — la curación referida por la esposa del testigo.
«In the days that followed, he became aware that all the after-effects of a wound he had recieved during the Algerian war had also dissipated.» — el segundo efecto: la secuela de la guerra de Argelia; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«Examinations by a dermatologist led to negative results, but the specialist was so intrigued by this triangular pigmentation without a cause that he decided to document it as a report to the French Academy of Medicine.» — el dermatólogo documenta la pigmentación triangular ante la Academia de Medicina.
«The psychosomatic explanation first proposed by Aimé Michel had to be discarded.» — Aimé Michel retira su propia explicación psicosomática.
«The peculiar triangle, however, continued to come and go on both the father and the son, and would stay visible for two or three days at a time, even when the child was away and staying with his grandmother, who knew nothing of the sighting and was very much alarmed when she saw the triangular pigmentation.» — el argumento contra lo psicosomático: la marca aparece en el niño lejos de casa.
«Coincidences of a telepathic nature are frequently reported, and the doctor has allegedly, on at least one occasion, experienced levitation without being able to control it.» — Vallée consigna la levitación con un alegadamente que no retira.
«Edgar Cayce's sighting is reminiscent of several cases that fall into the category of religious experiences, although the initial observation is often linked to an unusual flying object, as in the "miracles" of Lourdes and Fatima, which we will analyze in Chapter Seven, and in the visions that led to the founding of the Mormon Church.» — pone el avistamiento de Edgar Cayce en la serie de Lourdes, Fátima y el mormonismo.
«The word absurd, however, is misleading; I prefer the expression metalogical.» — Vallée corrige su propio vocabulario.
«When a witness meets a UFO occupant who asks, "What time is it?" and replies, "It's 2:30," only to be bluntly told, "You lie – it is 4 o'clock" (this actually happened in France in 1954), the story is not simply absurd.» — el diálogo de la hora, en el caso francés de 1954, como muestra de lo metalógico.
«The point of these incidents seems to have been to convey the fact that consciousness transcended time itself.» — lo que Vallée conjetura que esos incidentes transmiten.
«If you strive to convey a truth that lies beyond the semantic level made possible by your audience's language, you must construct apparent contradictions in terms of ordinary meaning.» — el principio que propone para leer el absurdo como comunicación.
«If you wanted to bypass the intelligentsia and the church, remain undetectable to the military system, leave undisturbed the political and administrative levels of a society, and at the same time implant deep within that society far-reaching doubts concerning its basic philosophical tenets, this is exactly how you would have to act.» — el argumento condicional del diseño, enunciado en segunda persona.
«This is exactly what the UFO phenomenon does.» — el remate con que cierra el argumento condicional.
«A catalogue of well-documented close encounter cases would hold the details of well over two thousand cases of that type, from all countries, indicating that a formidable impact is being made on our collective psyche.» — cifra el material de encuentro cercano y lo mide por su impacto en la psique colectiva.
«The things we call unidentified flying objects are neither objects nor flying.» — primer postulado, enunciado como negación doble.
«UFOs have been seen throughout history and have consistently recieved (or provided) their own explanation within the framework of each culture.» — segundo postulado: cada cultura provee su propia explicación; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«In antiquity their occupants were regarded as gods; in medieval times, as magicians; in the nineteenth century, as scientific geniuses; in our own time, as interplanetary travelers.» — la serie histórica de adjudicaciones que sostiene ese postulado.
«UFO reports are not necessarily caused by visits from space travelers.» — tercer postulado, en forma negativa y sin sustituto.
«If consciousness can be manifested outside the body, then the range of hypotheses can be even wider.» — condiciona la ampliación de hipótesis a que la conciencia se manifieste fuera del cuerpo.
«Their lives are often deeply changed, and they develop unusual talents with which they may find it difficult to cope.» — el efecto del contacto sobre los testigos.
«The proportion of witnesses who do come forward and publish accounts of these experiences is quite low; most of them choose to remain silent.» — consigna que la mayoría de los testigos calla.
«Contact between human percipients and the UFO phenomenon always occurs under conditions controlled by the latter.» — postulado sobre quién controla las condiciones del contacto.
«Mr. Fernand Lagarde, a local researcher who conducted a very thorough investigation of the events, reported that "the haunting thought of fire frightens all country people, and so, distracted and scared, she calls her son-in-law to help, and later she will tell us that she went to bed fully clothed, for fear of what might be to come.» — Vallée cita a Lagarde sobre la reacción de la testigo del Aveyron.
«The objects, he said, were rounded on top and rather flattened underneath, and they vanished on the spot as if controlled by a switch.» — descripción del testigo del Aveyron, con la desaparición como de interruptor.
«He surprised everyone in this remote area of France by recommending to young people that they study astronomy and science in general with great care.» — el cambio de conducta del testigo del Aveyron después del avistamiento.
«It was pointed out to him that he could hardly write even the most simple letter.» — el reparo que le hicieron al testigo sobre su propia capacidad.
«The texture of the soil, reports an experienced investigator, Mr. Ted Phillips, "felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized.» — el investigador Ted Phillips sobre el suelo del anillo de Delphos.
«Thorough analyses of the soil have been made, however, showing no significant difference between the inside and the outside of the ring.» — Vallée consigna el resultado negativo del análisis de suelo.
«The white substance was resolved into fibers (thus destroying the "explanation" of the case put forth by Philip Klass in his book UFOs Explained, where he claimed the substance was produced by the urine of sheep feeding from a circular device» — las fibras deshacen la explicación de Philip Klass por orina de ovejas.
«It is curious that in spite of all the excitement caused by the Delphos case and the attention it recieved from "scientific" ufologists and from skeptics, no one, believer or skeptic, ever bothered to identify the white substance itself.» — el reproche de Vallée: ni creyentes ni escépticos identificaron la sustancia; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«We removed snow from one section of the ring and introduced water into the exposed ring area: the soil would not permit the water to pass through the surface.» — la prueba del agua sobre el anillo, en primera persona del plural.
«The glow from the object was such that Ronald could see no details, and it was making a sound like "an old washing machine which vibrates.» — el testimonio de Ronald Johnson sobre el sonido del objeto.
«The fibers were vegetal in nature and belonged to an organism of the order of the Actinomycetales, which is» — la identificación de las fibras; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«(The French biologist who identified it, and who has wished not to be named in this book, determined that the organism belongs to the family of the actinomycete and the genus Nocardia.» — Vallée declara la identificación del organismo y también el anonimato del biólogo.
«This is undoubtedly the explanation for some UFO rings, but the coincidence of this fungus ring with the observation made by the Johnsons remains to be explained.» — concede la explicación fúngica para algunos anillos y deja el caso de Delphos sin ella.
«One possible interpretation is that high-energy stimulation triggered the spectacular growth of the Nocardia and of an exiting fungus and caused the latter to fluoresce.» — la hipótesis que ofrece, marcada como una entre varias.
«The effects of the glowing object an animals were consistent with other landing cases.» — los efectos sobre los animales, consistentes con otros aterrizajes; an es errata de la fuente por on.
«For about two weeks, every evening at sunset, the sheep would jump out of the pen and run wildly.» — la conducta anómala de las ovejas después del caso de Delphos.
«I am indebted to Gerald Askevold for bringing to my attention a fascinating story by Dr. Milton Erickson, a pioneer in modern hypnosis, concerning "The Gentle Art of Reframing» — Vallée declara a quién debe el hallazgo de la técnica de Erickson.
«Erickson's response suddenly and unexpectedly redefined that same context as a very different one, namely, one that would have been socially appropriate if the other man had asked him the time of day, but even that would have been bewildering because of the patent incorrectness of the information, in contrast to the courteous, solicitous manner in which it was given.» — Watzlawick describe la técnica de confusión que Vallée aplicará al fenómeno.
«As Erickson points out, the need to get out of the confusion by finding this new frame makes the subject particularly ready and eager to hold on firmly to the next piece of concrete information that he is given.» — el mecanismo del reencuadre, que Vallée trasladará al contacto ovni.
«Was the alleged UFO pilot trying to show the witness the way out of a similar maze?» — Vallée formula el traslado como pregunta, no como tesis.
«This "opening of the mind" to a new set of symbols that is reported by many witnesses is precisely what the various occult traditions also try to achieve.» — empareja el efecto sobre los testigos con el fin de las tradiciones ocultas.
«There is a curious parallel to this case in the experiences of Robert Monroe, whose investigations of "out-of-body" travel have already been mentioned.» — Vallée empareja el caso brasileño con las experiencias fuera del cuerpo de Robert Monroe.
«All of these elements are present in the case of José Antônio.» — adjudica al caso brasileño las fases del ritual iniciático que acaba de enumerar.
«The drinking cube with the inverted pyramid cavity is an exquisite last touch.» — comentario propio de Vallée sobre el detalle del cubo con cavidad piramidal.
«Some experiments with microwaves suggest that it is becoming technically feasible for sensory impressions to be projected into people's minds at a distance.» — trae la microonda como vía técnica para proyectar impresiones sensoriales, en modo sugerido.
«Such a technology could be an important factor in the confrontation with advanced psychotronic devices.» — proyecta esa técnica hacia la confrontación con dispositivos psicotrónicos.
«But it has been captured in the most complete and most artistic form in John Fowle's extraordinary masterpiece, A Maggot, published in 1986.» — remite a la novela de John Fowle, con la grafía del apellido que imprime la fuente.
«The case is a celebrated one, yet I am prepared to wager that few Americans know the full story of what happened in 1917 near that small Portuguese town.» — Vallée apuesta a que el expediente de Fátima es poco conocido en detalle.
«If we accept the interpretation given of Fatima by the Catholic Church, we are dealing with a phenomenon that cannot be explained either as a physical effect or as an illusion.» — condiciona a la lectura eclesial la conclusión de que Fátima no es efecto físico ni ilusión.
«One spectator, however, reported perceiving a very faint voice or the buzzing of a bee (a typical sound associated with modern-day UFOs» — Vallée marca entre paréntesis el rasgo que le interesa: el zumbido, común a los casos ovni.
«They even include the typical falling-leaf motion of the saucer zigzagging through the air.» — adjudica a Fátima el movimiento en hoja caída del platillo.
«They also encompass prophecy and a loss of ordinary consciousness on the part of witnesses – what we have called the psychic component of UFO sightings.» — suma profecía y pérdida de conciencia al componente psíquico ya definido.
«In the words of Joseph Pelletier, in The Sun Danced at Fatima: A buzzing or humming sound, a decrease in the Sun's glow and» — cita a Pelletier y su libro sobre Fátima; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«The war is going to end, but if people do not stop offending God another and worse one will begin during the reign of Pius XI» — la profecía atribuida a la aparición, en la forma condicional que trae la fuente.
«The children, however, were not present. They had been kidnapped and jailed by a local official who had decided to put an end to this "nonsense.» — consigna el secuestro de los videntes por un funcionario local.
«One man, Manuel Pedro Marto, in a statement made under oath during the canonical inquiry, reported seeing clearly a luminous globe spinning through the clouds.» — testimonio jurado en la investigación canónica sobre el globo luminoso.
«Asked what he thought the globe was, one of the priests, now quite shaken, stated that "it was a heavenly vehicle that carried the Mother of God from her throne above to this forbidden wasteland.» — lo que declaró uno de los sacerdotes escépticos que asistieron.
«The concept of the earth as a prison or forbidden wasteland is a popular one among those who have been exposed to these phenomena.» — Vallée generaliza la imagen de la tierra como prisión entre los expuestos al fenómeno.
«The sun appeared as a disk of brilliant silver, "a weird disk that turns rapidly on its own axis and casts off beams of colored lights in all directions.» — la descripción del 13 de octubre de 1917, con la cita dentro del propio texto.
«These colors have been described by an objective skeptic as "monochromatic sectors," and they were definitely revolving.» — Vallée apoya la descripción en un testigo escéptico.
«The reports speak of a flat disk rather than a globe.» — el matiz que retiene de los informes: disco plano, no globo.
«Finally the disk reversed its motion and disappeared into the sun, the real sun, once again fixed and dazzling in the sky.» — el desenlace del 13 de octubre, con el disco reabsorbido por el sol verdadero.
«It is true that such is the date of the first apparition of the Lady, but this had been preceded by a series of sightings of an angel a couple of years before.» — Vallée retrasa el inicio de la serie de Fátima dos años, a los avistamientos del ángel.
«The children were left paralyzed. It was only toward the evening that they regained their senses and began to play again.» — la parálisis de los videntes, rasgo que empareja con los casos ovni.
«This power is so intense that it absorbs and almost completely annihilates them. It practically deprives them of the use of their bodily senses» — descripción de la fuerza que anula los sentidos, en el material que recoge.
«His remark could apply to the entire spectrum of close encounters with UFOs.» — Vallée traslada esa descripción al conjunto de los encuentros cercanos.
«The doctors who had attended her said they could not explain such a cure.» — consigna la abstención médica ante una de las curaciones.
«The phenomenon, it seems, could not be photographed directly with the emulsions and shutter speeds commonly aviable at the time.» — la razón técnica que da para la falta de fotografías; aviable es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«There are many pictures of the crowd during the "miracle," however, and the actual brightness of the disk is an unresolved question.» — Vallée deja el brillo del disco como cuestión abierta.
«Two witnesses looked at it with binoculars and reported seeing a ladder and two beings.» — testimonio con binoculares sobre la escalera y los dos seres.
«But others report that the phenomenon darkened the sun to such an extent that at one point they could see the moon and the stars.» — testimonio contrario, que Vallée consigna sin armonizar con el anterior.
«Two of the three children at Fatima died young, as the Lady had predicted, but Lucia lived secluded in a convent» — consigna el cumplimiento de la predicción sobre los videntes.
«This does not mean we should reject their testimony.» — Vallée sostiene el testimonio incluso admitiendo sus límites.
«Father Peyramalle, who was the curé of the town, was especially angry and suggested that the Lady should make the rosebush bloom before the whole crowd in order to convince everyone.» — el cura de Lourdes pide a la aparición un signo verificable.
«However, we are not concerned here with an interpretation of mythology but with an attempt to deal with reports of observations that seem to form extraordinary patterns.» — Vallée deslinda su tarea de la interpretación mitológica.
«One doctor had decided to expose her as a mental case and performed a fascinating experiment.» — el experimento de la vela con Bernadette, planteado para desacreditarla.
«But the story deserves closer examination.» — el pivote con que rechaza la lectura superficial de Lourdes.
«A superficial examination of the phenomena of Lourdes would seem to indicate that a rather simple firl (Bernadette was illiterate and spent most of her day repeating prayers while accomplishing some menial chores for her very poor parents) simply turned into a visionary and soon shared her insanity with increasingly large crowds.» — la lectura que va a rechazar, reconstruida en su forma más plana; firl es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«Many of us will disagree with this rather simplistic and superficial view of social problems, but the point made here is the illustration of a mechanism through which phenomena such as UFO sightings and contacts with paranormal entities can play a role far beyond their local impact.» — Vallée separa su desacuerdo con la lectura social del punto que sí retiene: el mecanismo de alcance.
«Could it be, he asked, that every land has its own psychic and telluric forces, contributing to the appearance of certain spirit entities, regarded by human beings as gods and goddesses?» — la hipótesis del espíritu del lugar, formulada como pregunta ajena.
«They had confronted here that great psychic entity which was the spirit-of-place, the heart of a new continent.» — lo que Vallée toma de Frank Waters sobre los colonos y el espíritu del continente.
«The most interesting theory put forth by Evans-Wentz is a further development of the observation that ancient gods are continued under new names as myths evolve from civilization to civilization.» — la tesis de Evans-Wentz sobre los dioses antiguos que sobreviven bajo nombres nuevos.
«Thus, the Winnebagos tell of a youth who climbed the mountain, eager to find wisdom.» — el relato winnebago de la busca de visión.
«Such a vision-quest is universal among the Indians of America, although among some tribes (such as the Pueblos and Navahos) it is limited to the priests and initiates.» — Vallée generaliza la busca de visión y a la vez la acota en algunas tribus.
«These beings are the guardians of secret places, "holding them in trust for a future of wonders.» — el papel de guardianes que Evans-Wentz atribuye a esos seres.
«these entities, in his view, play with our emotions in order to be worshipped as gods.» — adjudica a Freixedo la tesis de la manipulación emocional; el in his view es de la fuente.
«The angel appeared to me three times the same night and unfolded the same things.» — del relato de José Smith sobre la triple aparición de Moroni.
«When Angel Moroni appeared to him Joseph Smith had been praying for a vision, for, he says, "I had full confidence in obtaining a divine manifestation, as I had previously had one.» — Vallée subraya que Smith declara haber pedido la visión.
«When Harris took the plates and the beginning of the translation to Professor Charles Anthony of New York, this learned gentleman stated that the translation was correct, "more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian.» — la validación que el relato mormón atribuye al profesor Anthony.
«It is futile to engage in a debate concerning the truth or falsity of the statements made by Joseph Smith.» — Vallée se abstiene sobre la verdad o falsedad del relato mormón.
«We are looking here for indications of a higher order, and we can define as a miracle any event, real or imagined or even faked, which creates certain paranormal but verifiable effects.» — su definición operativa de milagro, que admite lo real, lo imaginado y lo fingido.
«When we trace the turning point of this man's life to the sighting of a strange light and to contact with an entity inside the light, I believe the account needs to be preserved along with those we have already found in other faiths and other lands.» — la razón por la que conserva el caso Smith en su serie, aun dudando del relato.
«Evans-Wentz was intrigued by Joseph Smith's very first vision, which was not an apparition of Angel Moroni but of two entities whose names he was not privileged to learn.» — Evans-Wentz se fija en la primera visión de Smith, anterior a Moroni.
«I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me» — el pilar de luz en el relato de José Smith, con la elisión marcada por la propia fuente.
«Thus we are again confronted with a mixture of certainty and absurdity, of fact and fantasy.» — el juicio de Vallée sobre la mezcla de certeza y absurdo en el Libro de Mormón.
«Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman point out that the history of Mormonism also contains many references to three mysterious beings said to be three of Christ's American Apostles, who asked to be allowed to remain on earth until his Second Coming.» — Clark y Coleman aportan a los tres nefitas, que Vallée emparejará con los hombres de negro.
«Since the publication of my earlier books, I have recieved many interesting letters along similar lines.» — consigna otra vez su correspondencia como material; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«Perhaps only one close encounter in ten thousand starts a new faith, a new sect, or a new belief.» — Vallée cifra en modo conjetural la tasa con que un encuentro funda una fe.
«Everything works as if the revelation were designed to isolate the witness, prophet, or believer from his social environment.» — la regularidad que extrae: la revelación aísla al testigo.
«Sometimes the specific instructions given to the believers are such that their group continues to be persecuted for centuries (Jews) and have to endure great hardships before finding a place where they can settle down (Israel, Utah» — el efecto largo de esas instrucciones sobre los grupos que las siguen.
«I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centered on the UFO belief.» — el pronóstico, enunciado en primera persona y con verbo de opinión.
«To a greater degree than all the phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic.» — lo que atribuye al ovni por encima de todo otro fenómeno.
«The religions we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experience of one person, but today there are thousands for whom the belief in otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn from what they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants.» — el desplazamiento que señala: de un vidente a miles con convicción propia.
«The table below should make this clear. The first column summarizes the physical effects described by witnesses of the miracles we have reviewed, in the actual words of the persons who reported them.» — declara el método de la tabla comparativa: primera columna en palabras de los propios testigos de los milagros.
«The second column contains descriptions of the state of the persons contacted by UFOs, both during and after the experience; the sighting references are to the catalogue published in my earlier book, Passport to Magonia.» — la segunda columna remite a su catálogo anterior; en el troceo esa columna llegó truncada y no es citable fila por fila.
«I think the reader can draw his or her own conclusions. I have barely scratched the surface. Indeed, I invite you to seek other documents in any library to complete this morphology or miracles with fresh material.» — Vallée deja la conclusión al lector y declara que apenas rasgó la superficie; morphology or miracles es errata de la fuente.
«Although the UFO phenomenon is highly complex and stretches the boundaries of the scientific method, I am not prepared to abandon the rational approach to knowledge for conclusions based on faith, intuition, or the alleged messages recieved by "channels" and contactees.» — Vallée declara su método y excluye la vía del mensaje canalizado; recieved es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«There is no proof that the UFO phenomenon is of extraterrestrial origin.» — la negativa en su forma más escueta.
«I believe that a UFO is both a physical entity with mass, inertia, volume, and physical parameters that we can measure, and a window into another reality.» — la doble tesis que sostiene: objeto medible y ventana a otra realidad.
«But like our dreams, they may also shape our lives in many ways.» — el símil con el sueño para el efecto sobre la vida.
«The expectation of extraterrestrial visitors is a powerful potential source of new social and political trends.» — el peso político que atribuye a la expectativa de visitantes.
«We live in a world where any rumor can be exploited, any cult is a potential force, any belief can alter established regimes.» — el diagnóstico social con que sostiene esa preocupación.
«It is forbidden for TV, radio, newspapers, and other news media to divulge UFO reports without the prior censorship of the Brazilian Air Force.» — la censura brasileña que documenta como caso de encubrimiento.
«They did this by denying every observation, by blaming it on airplanes or planets when the documentation was unassailable, and by destroying the data when it was demonstrated that no airplane could have behaved as the objects did.» — describe el procedimiento del encubrimiento oficial en tres pasos.
«Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the American astronomer who served for over twenty years as the Air Force's scientific consultant on UFOs, explained that name in an article called "The UFO Mystery," published in the FBI Bulletin (February 1975):» — declara la fuente y la fecha del término Invisible College, que atribuye a Hynek.
«My interest in UFOs has gone through several phases, but my curiosity has never been satisfied about the behavior of scientists who destroy, distort, or simply ignore the very facts they should investigate.» — Vallée sitúa su interés en la conducta de los científicos, no solo en el fenómeno.
«I have argued for many years that the phenomenon could not be explained by hoax and illusion alone, that it contains an opportunity to obtain genuine new knowledge.» — resume su propia posición sostenida en el tiempo.
«In this section I hope to go a step further and show why these unexplained observations need not represent a visitation from space visitors, but something even more interesting: a window toward undiscovered dimensions of our own environment.» — anuncia el paso que dará: de la visita espacial a la ventana dimensional.
«What we obtain instead is a picture of a different reality that seems to cut through our own at right angles.» — la imagen con que describe esa otra realidad.
«The witness threw them out rudely with a statement that I find admirable: "God has made everything in this world, and He has made flying saucers, too, whatever they are. These fragments have fallen into my backyard, and therefore God clearly intended for me to have them. If He had wanted the Air Force to have them, He would have dumped them on the Pentagon!» — testimonio que Vallée reproduce y celebra, sobre los fragmentos y la Fuerza Aérea.
«technically trained witnesses who had seen an unidentified flying object, it was found that the proportion of those who had bothered to call the Air Force while Project Blue Book was operating was only one in twelve!» — la cifra con que mide el silencio del testigo cualificado.
«The first level of coverup is in the reporting of UFOs.» — define el primer nivel del triple encubrimiento.
«It is the result of the closed mind and negative attitude of government, scientific, and military authorities.» — Vallée lo adjudica a una actitud, no a una conspiración.
«More specifically, I call the "first coverup" the efforts made by those in a position of authority to discourage the reporting of a UFO incident.» — precisa el término con que lo nombra.
«In some cases, the public is led to believe that reporting UFOs is unnecessary because the government knows all about them.» — uno de los mecanismos de disuasión que describe.
«The very fact that a new study was recommended seems to show that any suppression of information or any leaking of wild rumors was not the result of a secret military policy on the UFO subject but more likely a product of the confusion that is rampant at all levels of federal bureaucracy.» — Vallée descarta la política militar secreta y la sustituye por confusión burocrática.
«In his statement, he called for thorough investigation of the phenomenon but also mentioned that some people in Michigan might have seen swamp gas.» — el origen del escándalo del gas de pantano, en la declaración de Hynek.
«The space agency had its public image to preserve and declined to have anything to do with the subject.» — la negativa de la NASA a implicarse, según Vallée.
«The documentary also contained an interview with a military officer who stated that no UFOs were ever detected on radar screens and an interview with an astronomer who declared that no UFOs were ever seen or photographed by satellite tracking stations.» — las dos afirmaciones del documental que Vallée contrastará con los hechos.
«There had even been a suggestion by a highly respected astronomer that the military modify their computer program to gather information about these UCTs rather than ignoring them because they didn't fit the trajectory of incoming missiles.» — el dato de los UCTs y la propuesta de recogerlos en vez de descartarlos.
«Even the idea of not saying anything that might cause fear did not hold water.» — Vallée desarma el argumento del silencio protector.
«If this network ever decided to become visible, a brilliant panel of scientists could rapidly be assembled from its ranks to deal effectively with this new area of research.» — lo que atribuye al Colegio Invisible si se hiciera visible.
«My own impression of the Condon fiasco is not simply a coverup scenario.» — Vallée matiza su propia lectura del asunto Condon.
«There was explosive material in the European files.» — su juicio sobre los expedientes europeos.
«Many of the sightings were extremely well documented, and classified investigations of the highest caliber had been made much more thoroughly and professionally than even the best cases in the U.S. Air Force files.» — compara la calidad de las investigaciones europeas con las estadounidenses.
«The chauffeur of this high political authority, as described in a report of the sighting, while driving through the estate, sees what he believes to be an aircraft trying to land on the road, directly in front of him.» — el caso europeo de alto nivel político, en el informe que Vallée resume.
«The rumor that spread in Europe through "informal channels" during the summer of 1966 was difficult to verify, but in view of later events in the history of the Condon committee it has some interest.» — Vallée declara que no pudo verificar el rumor y aun así lo consigna.
«This, I repeat, was only a rumor.» — la repetición con que marca el límite de lo que acaba de contar.
«Publication of this document so outraged Condon that he fired the minority group and ran the project without any further consideration of the possible reality of the phenomenon.» — el desenlace interno del comité Condon según Vallée.
«They were later transferred to a private home and were burned shortly thereafter.» — el destino de los archivos del comité.
«In view of the frequently observed magnetic perturbations in the vicinity of a UFO, it can be hypothesized that its magnetic navigation system gave erroneous indications.» — la hipótesis que ofrece para el barco encallado en Carteret, marcada como hipótesis.
«Whether this paralysis was an actual physiological inhibition or the result of psychological fear – or both – has not been ascertained.» — Vallée deja sin decidir la naturaleza de la parálisis de los pescadores.
«There seems to be two reasons: first, the "window" became brighter as they walked within 150 yards, and this discouraged them from approaching any closer; and, second, they felt "paralyzed with fear.» — las dos razones que dan los testigos para no acercarse.
«This is what I call the second coverup: the release of carefully contrived official "explanations" that do not really explain anything but which provide skeptics with an excuse for dismissing the story.» — define el segundo encubrimiento: explicaciones que no explican.
«The "explanation" is completely invalid, but it is typical of stories engineered to discredit witnesses and reassure local populations.» — su juicio sobre la explicación oficial del caso Carteret.
«The witnesses are intimidated, and the local police, the only source of accurate data, are generally anxious to see things return to normal.» — describe el efecto sobre testigos y policía local.
«I am deeply convinced that we must regard these phenomena with an attitude of completely open mind.» — la declaración de método con que abre el capítulo.
«A number of breakthroughs have been made in the history of mankind because someone has attempted to explain the unexplainable.» — el argumento histórico con que la sostiene.
«Our ancestors in prior centuries must have denied the reality of a number of things that seem to us today absolutely elementary, like piezo-electricity, or static electricity, not to mention biological phenomena.» — el ejemplo con que ilustra la negación de lo hoy elemental.
«It is not clear that the simple fact of keeping an open mind about UFOs will in itself make a breakthrough possible, but science should certainly welcome the lifting of the government's attitude that has prevented it from examining the facts.» — Vallée acota su propia propuesta: no promete el avance, solo reclama el acceso.
«I believe that to these factors we must add a third one: the built-in silencing mechanism of the phenomenon itself.» — el tercer encubrimiento, adjudicado al fenómeno mismo.
«The UFO phenomenon enjoys the same recursive unsolvability.» — el símil con el truco de magia que nunca se revela del todo.
«It issues statements and demonstrates principles where some of the information conveyed is true and some is false.» — la mezcla de verdad y falsedad que atribuye al fenómeno.
«The occupants gave Schirmer a lot of interesting but clearly misleading information.» — su juicio sobre lo que los ocupantes dijeron al patrullero Schirmer.
«Although the use of such deceptive methods by scientists is now very much under question, the book When Prophecy Fails, written by the sociologists on the basis of their investigations, is essential for anyone trying to understand the complex nature of the belief in UFOs.» — Vallée señala el reparo metodológico al estudio de Festinger y aun así lo declara indispensable.
«It actually served to reinforce their conviction, because they could take credit for the avoidance of the destruction!» — el mecanismo por el que la profecía fallida refuerza la fe.
«whom author John Keel has appropriately called "the silent contactees") are keeping to themselves what they regard as revelations made to them by alien entities.» — toma de John Keel el término contactados silenciosos.
«The case of Mrs. Keech is important to all scientists who have an interest in the UFO phenomenon because it provides a prototype for an increasing number of groups that establish themselves around similar belief systems.» — por qué considera prototípico el caso Keech.
«To a very great extent this is true, but I am not convinced that the mechanism that gives rise to the founding of such movements is fully understood, and I do not believe that their potential impact on society has been made explicit.» — Vallée concede la lectura psicosocial y a la vez marca lo que le falta.
«Two men came to her door and asked to talk to her; one of them was a perfectly ordinary human, but his companion was very strange and did not say a single word during the visit.» — el episodio de los dos visitantes en el material de Festinger.
«They simply reported, "Why these young men called at the house, what their purpose was, and who they were – these are things we do not know: they may have been practical jokers, or they may have had a serious purpose.» — los sociólogos declaran no saber quiénes eran; la abstención es de ellos.
«There is a pattern behind this structure, and that pattern is not contact but control.» — el eje del capítulo, enunciado como contraste.
«It is difficult to be more explicit. This political control factor does explain certain bizarre aspects of the UFO problem, including the behavior of some celebrated contactees, who could have been set up in their roles in order to propagate alleged extraterrestrial messages in this and other countries.» — Vallée declara el límite de lo que puede decir y a la vez lo que el factor político sí explica.
«For example, George Adamski has confessed that four U.S. government scientists were responsible for launching his career as an ambassador for the Space Brothers.» — el caso Adamski, apoyado en su propia confesión.
«Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, the former CIA chief who stated, "It is imperative that we learn what UFOs are and where they come from," and later joined the board of directors of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), could have lent credibility to the stratagem by deliberately promoting the extraterrestrial theory.» — el condicional con que plantea el papel de Hillenkoetter: could have lent, no lent.
«Yet I strongly suspect at least two major UFO cases were covert experiments in rumor generation and in the deliberate creation of contactee cults (one of these cases took place in Spain, one in France» — Vallée sospecha dos casos como experimentos de generación de rumor, y marca la sospecha como tal.
«During the Vietnam war a U.S. military unit called the 4th Psyop Group invented an image projector called the Mitralux.» — el dato técnico con que apoya la vía del engaño deliberado.
«With the progress of human technology, it has become impossible to study any UFO report without considering the possibility of a deliberate deception along with all the other classical hypotheses.» — la consecuencia metodológica: el engaño deliberado entra como hipótesis obligatoria.
«The skeptical zeal of some of the more vocal debunkers is also inspired by the need to maintain political control.» — adjudica al escéptico ruidoso la misma función de control.
«UFO research is equated by them with "false science," thus creating an atmosphere of guilt by association, which is deadly to any independent scientist.» — el efecto de esa operación sobre el científico independiente.
«Jack Parsons claimed to have met a Venusian in the desert in 1946 and went on to be one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and of the Aerojet Corporation, although JPL may deny the connection.» — el nexo entre el ocultismo y los primeros contactados, con la salvedad sobre el JPL.
«According to my information, contactee George Adamski had prewar connections with American fascist leader William Dudley Pelley, who was interned during the war.» — Vallée marca la procedencia del dato sobre Adamski y Pelley como información propia.
«Williamson, however, has assured me that he never embraced any of the racist theories that the pro-Nazi movements promoted.» — Vallée consigna el desmentido de Williamson en su propia voz.
«An interesting belief of Mr. Barry's is that the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was part of a government plan to condition the public.» — adjudica a Barry la lectura de la película de Spielberg como acondicionamiento oficial.
«All that has been shown so far is that these agencies were involved – often covertly – in many aspects of the UFO problem.» — Vallée acota lo que se ha probado sobre la implicación de las agencias.
«Discovering the secret of the UFO propulsion mechanism could be such a military breakthrough that any research project connected with it would enjoy the highest level of classification.» — el argumento condicional por el que un secreto así estaría clasificado.
«But these UFO enthusiasts who are so anxious to expose the government have not reflected that they may be playing into the hands of a more sophisticated coverup of the real situation.» — el reproche a los entusiastas: exponer al gobierno puede servir al encubrimiento.
«Because of their eagerness to believe any indication that the authorities already possess the proof of UFO reality, many enthusiasts provide an ideal conduit for anyone wishing to spread the extraterrestrial gospel.» — el mecanismo por el que los entusiastas se vuelven canal de propaganda.
«None of these rumors is likely to lead us any closer to a solution that can only be obtained by careful, intelligent, and perhaps tedious scientific research.» — Vallée devuelve el asunto a la investigación paciente.
«The truth is that the UFOs may not be spacecraft at all.» — la tesis negativa, otra vez en modo modal.
«And the government may simply be hiding the fact that, in spite of the billions of dollars spent on air defense, it has no more clues to the nature of the phenomenon today than it did in the forties when it began its investigations.» — la hipótesis alternativa sobre el secreto: que no haya nada que ocultar salvo la ignorancia.
«I do not need the results of a lie-detector test to know the witness is describing what he saw.» — Vallée separa la sinceridad del testigo de la interpretación de lo visto.
«But I don't buy the story that he saw a spacecraft from another planet.» — y niega la interpretación en la frase siguiente.
«In ufology, either you are a debunker who doesn't believe in UFOs at all or you agree they are spacecraft from another planet.» — el diagnóstico sobre la polarización del campo.
«Other scientists, like Donald Menzel, rejected the whole idea, because even the nearest stars are too far away for interstellar travel to be feasible, even at high speed.» — expone la objeción de Menzel antes de impugnar su premisa.
«The first argument against the idea of flying saucers as spacecraft lies, oddly enough, in the large number of verified, unexplained sightings.» — el primer argumento, y su forma paradójica: contra la nave juega el volumen de casos.
«Now, this last figure does not begin to approximate the actual number of events, because we know from many independent studies that only one case in ten ever gets reported.» — la tasa de reporte que introduce en el cálculo.
«Then we should have not thirty thousand but three hundred thousand cases in our files!» — el resultado del cálculo, en su forma exclamativa.
«We would have to multiply the number of cases by a factor of fifteen, and the actual peak would then be between 1:00 and 3:00 A.M.» — el ajuste horario del cálculo, apoyado en la curva de reportes.
«The theory of random visitation does not explain it.» — la conclusión sobre la selectividad de los avistamientos.
«Either the UFOs select their witnesses for psychological or sociological reasons, or they are something entirely different fr» — la disyuntiva que deja abierta; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«In my opinion it proves nothing of the kind.» — Vallée niega valor probatorio al mapa de Betty Hill.
«If there is some intelligence involved, Betty's map may even be another deliberate attempt to lead us astray, or a sophisticated symbol pointing to a higher level of the truth.» — deja dos lecturas alternativas del mapa, sin escoger: señuelo o símbolo.
«This is by no means the first time that the supposed origin of "flying saucers" has been revealed, either by the ufonauts themselves or by deduction from the words of the witnesses.» — sitúa la revelación de Zeta Reticuli en una serie de revelaciones previas.
«But in each case these revelations contradict what all the other contactees are saying.» — el argumento por el que las descarta: se contradicen entre sí.
«The entities of light that appeared in energy form said they were from the constellation we call Orion, and they were here to prepare us to interconnect with the next level of universal intelligence.» — lo que declara un contactado al que llama Jim, en su propia voz.
«Let us not forget the Ummo affair, which I described in an earlier book.» — remite al caso Ummo tratado en un libro suyo anterior.
«The mysterious beings even provided a map of Ummo and details of its atmospheric composition!» — la ironía con que consigna el detalle del mapa de Ummo.
«Finally, Uri Geller has stated that his powers come from a form of consciousness emanating from "Hoova," and Spanish contactee Jacques Bordas believes that the strange being he saw was from Titan.» — cierra la serie con Geller y con Bordas; el gentilicio y el nombre son los que da la fuente.
«Thus, we have a bewildering multitude of "revelations" of the saucers' point of origin!» — el balance de la serie: una multitud desconcertante de revelaciones.
«Marjorie Fish visited Betty in 1969 to get information about the map.» — cómo entra Marjorie Fish en el expediente del mapa.
«It is appalling to find that no one has raised them and that UFO "investigators" have been so eager to jump to a sensational conclusion on the basis of the evidence presented.» — el reproche de Vallée a los investigadores por saltar a la conclusión.
«Zeta Reticuli may or may not be significant when these results are sorted out.» — deja abierta la pertinencia de Zeta Reticuli mientras el cálculo no se haga.
«A crucial fact seem to have escaped the attention of those who have examined Betty Hill's drawing: her map is not drawn to scale!» — el dato con que desarma la lectura del mapa; seem va sin concordancia en la fuente.
«Exposing unsuspecting people to staged scenes in order to further a certain belief is an old trick.» — generaliza la escena montada como recurso antiguo.
«He would thus testify to the German High Command that he had seen tanks, trucks, and barracks in the area where the Allies were assembling a "phantom army" ready to strike northern Europe.» — el ejemplo del ejército fantasma aliado, con que ilustra el engaño escenificado.
«We can only guess at the purpose of staging such a scene for Betty Hill.» — Vallée declara que sobre el propósito solo cabe conjeturar.
«There are now hundreds of documented claims of abductions – that is, instances when the witness of a close encounter has recalled under hypnosis that he or she was forcibly taken inside a UFO.» — cifra y define la casuística de abducción.
«The examination is often gynecological in nature, culminating in the removal of a woman's fetus in a case described at lenght by Budd Hopkins, who argues that all this points to an extraterrestrial race trying to enrich itself or even to preserve its future through biogenetic engineering.» — expone la tesis genética de Budd Hopkins antes de objetarla; at lenght es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«Evidence that such encounters are real is allegedly provided by scars on the witnesses' bodies and by the missing time in their conscious recollection of the events surrounding the abduction, which is only clearly remembered under hypnosis.» — Vallée marca con allegedly la prueba que se alega para las abducciones.
«The abduction data are obviously of the greatest interest.» — concede el interés del material aunque rechace su interpretación.
«Budd Hopkins and scores of other ufologists carefully examine UFO witnesses for unexplained scars or marks that might indicate they were victims of an abduction (perhaps one they cannot recall consciously» — describe el método de la busca de cicatrices, que emparejará con el inquisidor.
«The skeptics and the debunkers will have a field day with these obvious flaws, and for once I agree with them.» — Vallée se alinea con los escépticos en este punto concreto.
«In vitro fertilization has reached a level such that the so-called genetic experiments allegedly performed aboard UFOs seem ludicrous and grotesque.» — el argumento por el que descarta la lectura genética: la técnica humana ya la supera.
«In my view, the interaction remembered by the witnesses, if it was a real occurrence, should be treated at the symbolic level.» — propone el nivel simbólico y condiciona la propuesta a que el suceso sea real.
«We have only to look around us and examine the shift that takes place right now in human mythologies.» — el desplazamiento mitológico que declara observable ahora mismo.
«We are as likely to find mention of it today in the arguments of the scientists as in the statements of the fortune tellers.» — pone en el mismo plano de circulación al científico y a la adivina.
«Astronomer Carl Sagan, long a UFO debunker, recently published a novel called Contact.» — el dato con que ilustra ese cruce.
«At the other end of the spectrum, Jeanne Dixon is quoted by a tabloid (which calls her "the best psychic in the U.S.") as prophesying an imminent change in our understanding of UFOs, "and it will bring great benefit to Mankind," she says.» — el otro extremo del espectro, con la fuente declarada y entrecomillada por Vallée.
«I think we may be ready to fall into a trap, perhaps a kind, benevolent pitfall.» — Vallée enuncia su temor en modo modal.
«I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous; whether it is explainable in terms of genetics, of social psychology, or of ordinary phenomena – or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will.» — la abstención declarada sobre el origen del sistema, en su forma larga.
«It may be entirely determined by laws that we have not yet discovered.» — deja abierta la vía de leyes naturales no descubiertas.
«I am led to this idea by the fact that, in every instance of the UFO phenomenon I have been able to study in depth, I have found as many rational elements as absurd ones, as many that I could call friendly as I could call hostile.» — el fundamento que da para la idea del control: la mezcla de racional y absurdo en cada caso.
«This is what tells me that we are working on the wrong level.» — la conclusión metodológica que extrae de esa mezcla.
«There are ways to gain access to the reference level of every control system.» — el principio general que traslada al fenómeno.
«It must be possible to gain access to the control of the UFO phenomenon, to forget the spirits and the pranks and the claims of extraterrestrial contact, and do some real science.» — el programa que propone, con el must de necesidad, no de logro.
«Psychologist B. F. Skinner has shown under what conditions an organism reacting to an external phenomenon learns a new behavior.» — trae a Skinner para el modelo del refuerzo.
«These conditions are precisely similar to the pattern that the UFO phenomenon has been following over the years – intense activity followed by quiet periods when it seems to have gone away» — empareja la curva de oleadas ovni con el esquema de refuerzo.
«Human life is ruled by imagination and myth; these obey strict laws and they, too, are governed by control systems, although admittedly not of the hardware type.» — sitúa el control en la imaginación y el mito, no en el aparato; problemsolving va sin guion en la fuente.
«If UFOs are acting at the mythic and spiritual level it will be almost impossible to detect it by conventional methods.» — el condicional que hace inservible al método convencional.
«If UFO activity operates in a fashion similar to Skinner's reinforcement, which is the least amenable to extinction, then the learning will take time but it will never be forgotten.» — traslada al fenómeno el refuerzo más resistente a la extinción, según Skinner.
«But this activity will be completely useless if it is not related to an investigation of the secondary impact, the shift in our worldview that the phenomenon produces.» — fija la investigación útil en el impacto secundario sobre la cosmovisión.
«A phenomenon that denies itself, that annihilates evidence of itself, cannot be mastered by engineering brute force.» — el argumento contra el asalto técnico al fenómeno.
«If the phenomenon is forcing us through a learning curve, then it has no choice but to mislead us.» — deriva el engaño de la propia curva de aprendizaje.
«Man is hungry for knowledge and power, and if there is an intelligence behind the UFOs it must have taken this fact into account.» — condiciona a la existencia de una inteligencia el cálculo sobre el apetito humano.
«But our scientists may be powerless to utilize their expertise, because the phenomenon fits none of the usual categories.» — la razón por la que la pericia científica queda inerte.
«All we can do is trace their effects on humans, and hope that we will eventually stumble on some principle that explains their behavior.» — el programa mínimo que declara posible.
«What could a paranormal phenomenon control? I suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and conditioned.» — la respuesta que da a su propia pregunta: la creencia humana.
«It would certainly explain why there is no overt contact.» — lo que su hipótesis explicaría.
«The theory does not explain how UFOs are made to appear to us, although it gives support to one idea about them: that they are constructed both as physical craft (a fact which has long appeared to me undeniable) and as psychic devices whose exact properties remain to be defined.» — Vallée declara lo que su teoría no explica y a la vez lo que sí sostiene: aparato físico y psíquico a la vez.
«They would be regarded as perfectly ordinary folks if it were not for the fact that their lives have been changed by what they consider to be genuine extraterrestrial communications.» — sobre los que dejan la ciudad tras un supuesto contacto.
«Are we slipping, as Aimé Michel has warned, toward a new age of the irrational?» — traslada la advertencia de Aimé Michel como pregunta abierta.
«We are not here dealing with escapism – we are dealing with the next form of religion, with a new spiritual movement.» — niega el escapismo y nombra el fenómeno como religión venidera.
«It would be overly optimistic to predict that they will decrease its dangers.» — el límite que se pone sobre los efectos de ese movimiento.
«It is nonetheless interesting to ask what will happen to our civilization if the next step in the development of the phenomenon is a massive change of human attitudes toward paranormal abilities and extraterrestrial life.» — la pregunta que sí retiene sobre el efecto civilizatorio.
«His information indicates that the earth is hollow, with the saucer people inside.» — la doctrina de un predicador de San Francisco al que llama Allan, consignada como suya.
«Puharich explains to the audience that he gets messages on his tape recorder, coming from a mysterious cosmic source.» — lo que Puharich declaró en la mesa redonda a la que Vallée asistió.
«A flying saucer hovers above the chasm, our only hope: "Do you want a lift?" asks the UFO, helpfully.» — la imagen con que Vallée resume, en tono burlón, el mito de salvación.
«My fear is that the problem will not be seriously studied by scientists until it has begun to generate a high degree of public awareness, and then the approach will be an entirely classical one:» — el temor que declara sobre cómo se estudiará el asunto cuando por fin se estudie.
«I would like to stop behaving as if I am a rat pressing levers – even if I have to give up the cheese and go hungry for a while.» — Vallée cierra el capítulo negándose al papel de la rata que aprieta la palanca.
«In the first part of this book I have tried to document, as fully and as carefully as I could, the historical record that leads to the modern UFO phenomenon and to the belief in alien contact.» — Vallée describe su propia operación con un verbo de intento, no de logro.
«And I will be disappointed if UFOs turn out to be nothing more than visitors from another planet.» — declara su preferencia teórica en primera persona.
«I believe there is a system around us that transcends time as it transcends space.» — la formulación del sistema, marcada como creencia.
«Scholars of this phenomenon, like Father Salvatore Freixedo in Latin America, John Keel in the United States, and Aimé Michel in France, feel that we may be powerless before the complex and absurd capabilities of an alien intelligence that can masquerade as a Martian invader, as a primitive god, as the Blessed Virgin, as a fleet of airships.» — adjudica a Freixedo, Keel y Aimé Michel la tesis de la impotencia humana ante una inteligencia mimética.
«Nonetheless, its manifestations cannot be spacecraft in the ordinary nuts-and-bolts sense.» — la negativa en su forma técnica.
«In attempting to find an adequate research framework, it is useful to speculate about variants of current physics in which apparent miracles could occur without violating physical laws and in which psychic phenomena should be the rule rather than the exception.» — el marco que busca: una física donde lo psíquico sea la regla.
«In their book Beyond Einstein, Dr. Michio Kaku and Jennifer Trainer point out that even in current physics one needs five dimensions to explain the Big Bang theory.» — trae a Kaku y Trainer para la necesidad de cinco dimensiones.
«French physicist Costa de Beauregard wrote, "It must be in the nature of probability to serve as the operational link between objective and subjective, between matter and psychism.» — cita a Costa de Beauregard sobre la probabilidad como enlace entre materia y psiquismo.
«Most theories advanced to explain paranormal phenomena borrow the standard concepts of space and time dimensions from physics. These concepts seem obsolete to me.» — Vallée declara obsoletos los conceptos de espacio y tiempo que esas teorías toman prestados.
«I have always been struck also by the fact that energy and information are one and the same thing under two different aspects.» — la identificación entre energía e información, en primera persona.
«Perhaps it is proper to shake from our theoretical ankles the chains of spacetime.» — la propuesta, enunciada con un perhaps.
«If we had invented the digital computer before inventing graph paper, we might have a very different theory of the universe today.» — el contrafactual con que apoya el cambio de metáfora.
«Time and space may be convenient notions for plotting the progress of a locomotive, but they are completely useless for locating information.» — el argumento informático contra el espacio-tiempo como índice.
«Modern computer scientists have long recognized that ordering by time and space is the worst possible way to store a lot of data at high speed.» — el dato técnico en que apoya esa objeción.
«Probability serves as the link between something objective, the record location, and something subjective, the request for retrieval.» — traslada la probabilidad de Costa de Beauregard al acceso a la información.
«The synchronicity and coincidences that abound in our lives suggest that the world may be organized like a randomized data base (the multiverse) rather than a sequential library (the four-dimensional universe of conventional physics» — la imagen del multiverso como base de datos aleatoria, apoyada en la sincronicidad.
«If there is no time dimension as we usually assume there is, the human brain may be traversing events by association.» — la consecuencia sobre el cerebro humano, enunciada como condicional.
«The philosophy we could derive from this line of speculation would be closer to Islamic occasionalism than to the Cartesian or Newtonian universe.» — sitúa su especulación más cerca del ocasionalismo islámico que de Descartes o Newton.
«Should we believe the witnesses who describe their experiences aboard UFOs? As I have pointed out throughout this book, there is no reason to doubt their personal integrity, their sincerity, and their honesty.» — Vallée afirma la integridad de los testigos sin conceder la literalidad del relato.
«There is no indication that it is extraterrestrial.» — la negativa en su forma mínima, en la conclusión.
«Until these questions are explored, it may be impossible to address what French physicist Costa de Beauregard calls "the truly fundamental problem," that of the relationship between psyche and matter.» — el problema que declara fundamental, con la fuente atribuida a Costa de Beauregard.
«But at a time when we are beginning to suspect that ancient challenges are brought to light by high technology, creative speculation is necessary.» — la justificación de la especulación en la conclusión del libro.
«I submit that reports of alien "contact" must be studied at this level, even if we are a long, long way from being able to channel our speculations into the formal equations of a new physics.» — Vallée declara la distancia que aún lo separa de una física formal.
«There is something about the human race with which they interact, and we do not yet know what it is.» — la abstención final sobre qué buscan en el hombre.
«They are not trying to communicate with a few individuals, with any group, with any government.» — niega el contacto dirigido a individuos, grupos o gobiernos.
«The illusion of time and space would be merely a side effect of consciousness as it traverses associations.» — hace del espacio y el tiempo un efecto secundario de la conciencia.
«In such a theory, apparently paranormal phenomena like remote viewing and precognition would be expected, even common, and UFOs would lose much of their bizarre quality.» — lo que su teoría volvería esperable, incluido el propio ovni.
«If we regard the physical world as an associative universe of informational events, consciousness is no longer simply a local function in the human brain.» — saca la conciencia del cerebro local, condicionado a su modelo informacional.
«For many years, UFO phenomena have served as a support for human imagination, a framework for human tragedy, a fabric of human dreams. We react to them in our movies, our poetry, our music, our science fiction. And they react to us.» — el cierre del libro: el fenómeno como soporte de la imaginación, y la reciprocidad.
«The phenomena function like an operational system of symbolic communication at a global level.» — la definición última que da del fenómeno.
«They influence what we call our spiritual life. They affect our politics, our history, our culture. They are a feature of our past. Undoubtedly, they are part of our future.» — el párrafo final, con el undoubtedly que es de la fuente.
Sobre la obra
38 entradas — lo que el aparato y la investigación dicen de ella«Foreword by Whitley Strieber» — el prólogo de las pp. 4–6 es de Strieber, no de Vallée, y la página de derechos lo separa incluso en el copyright: «"Foreword by Whitley Strieber" Copyright © 1988 by Wilson & Neff. Inc.»
«The fifteenth century saw the visitors as fairies. The tenth century saw them as sylphs. The Romans saw them as wood-nymphs and sprites.» — es Strieber quien lo escribe, en el prólogo.
«Dr. Vallée argues that the force that now appears in the form of UFOs and attendant manifestations has emerged into history many times, operating as a sort of control mechanism that has altered and shaped human affairs, often profoundly.» — paráfrasis de Strieber sobre Vallée, no formulación de Vallée; es la línea que el material heredado adjudicó mal.
«He demonstrates, for example, that the miracle of Fatima was a sort of hybrid appearing in part as a religious phenomenon and in part as a classic UFO encounter.» — el verbo de logro es de Strieber en su prólogo, no de la obra sobre sí misma.
«And yet I myself have faced physical beings.» — en el prólogo Strieber habla de su propia experiencia, no de la tesis del libro que prologa.
«This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. J. Allen Hynek. As a scientist, he was the first to grasp the significance of this problem.» — dedicatoria.
«First published in the U.S.A. by Contemporary Books Inc. First British Edition published 1988 by Souvenir Press Ltd., 43 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PA Reprinted 1988 Reissued in paperback 1996» — la página de derechos data la obra en 1988 y sitúa nuestro ejemplar en la reedición en rústica de 1996.
«Faithfully copied to electronic format by Garrett.» — la última línea de la página de derechos declara el origen del archivo que procesamos.
«PART THREE: A CHALLENGE TO RESEARCH 8. Fighting the Triple Coverup 9. The Case Against Extraterrestrials 10. The Control System Conclusion: Exploring Other Dimensions» — el índice del libro; las otras dos partes son «THE ALIEN CHRONICLES» y «ANOTHER REALITY».
«He served as the real-life model for the character of the French scientist played by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's classic movie Close Encounters of The Third Kind.» — nota biográfica del editor en «About the Author».
«As a thinker, he understood its relationship to other deep mysteries that surround us. As a teacher, he shared freely his data and his insights. As a man, he wondered.» — resto de la dedicatoria a J. Allen Hynek, que suma pensador y maestro al científico ya consignado.
«The only thing now needed to make the UFO myth a new religion of remarkable scope and force is a single undeniable sighting. Such a sighting need last only a few minutes – just long enough to be thoroughly documented. It will at once invest the extraterrestrials channels, the "space brothers" believers, and the UFO cultists with the appearance of revealed truth.» — Strieber sostiene que solo falta un avistamiento innegable para que el mito ovni se vuelva religión.
«Our best intellects have methodically ignored the issue of UFOs for half a century, and have thus left the public without recourse in making sense of the incredibly subtle and complex experience of sighting them and interacting with their inhabitants.» — Strieber carga el estado del asunto a medio siglo de desdén intelectual.
«Whatever it is, it changes with our ability to perceive it. The fifteenth century saw the visitors as fairies. The tenth century saw them as sylphs. The Romans saw them as wood-nymphs and sprites. And so it goes, back into time.» — Strieber hace variar la forma del fenómeno con la capacidad de percibirlo de cada época.
«One of the thousands of people who wrote me concerning my book Communion had this fascinating insight: "Whatever cosmology or mythology I was immersed in seemed to be the factor for shaping the context and attendant imagery of my experiences, which I believe are essentially of an abstract nature."» — Strieber cita a un corresponsal suyo, no a Vallée; la cosmología del sujeto daría forma a la experiencia.
«The context of my own experience, with extensive witness by others, makes it clear that the phenomenon can emerge as an entirely real, physical presence that is quite capable of manipulating its environment. The next moment, though, it can evaporate into thin air, leaving not a trace of what was a moment before an immense and overwhelmingly real presence.» — Strieber describe su propio caso: presencia física que después se evapora.
«I have even thought that it may simply be what the force of evolution looks like when it acts upon conscious creatures.» — conjetura propia de Strieber, marcada por él como tal.
«Dr. Vallée elucidates the basis of what must surely become a new vision of the UFO phenomenon, one that will sweep aside the various levels of illusion behind which it hides.» — Strieber anuncia lo que hará el libro; el verbo de logro es del prologuista.
«There are two reasons that the scientific community has been unable to address the issue sensibly.» — Strieber, en el prólogo, sobre por qué la ciencia no ha entrado al asunto.
«The first is that the phenomenon is so elusive that it cannot be easily measured.» — primera razón que da Strieber: la elusividad del fenómeno.
«Any explanation of the phenomenon that is now prosaic must inevitably lead to a profound challenge to cherished theories about the nature of mind and universe and man's place in the cosmos.» — segunda razón de Strieber: hasta una explicación prosaica obligaría a revisar la idea de la mente y del universo.
«If we come to a correct understanding of the UFO phenomenon, we may well in the process destroy the whole basis of our present beliefs about reality.» — Strieber pone el costo de entender el fenómeno en la destrucción de las creencias sobre lo real.
«The public is left – as I was left – facing the visitors in the middle of the night without any notion of what they are, where they came from, or how to act in their presence.» — Strieber habla desde su propia experiencia de contacto, no desde la tesis del libro que prologa.
«Absent any genuine understanding of the phenomenon, one is forced to accept that it is what it appears to be.» — Strieber sobre el efecto de la falta de comprensión.
«As Dr. Vallée points out in this masterful and ground-breaking analysis, that is exactly what we should not be doing.» — Strieber atribuye a Vallée el rechazo de tomar el fenómeno por lo que aparenta.
«He places this modern UFO experience firmly in its historical context as the latest manifestation of a phenomenon that goes back at least as far as recorded history.» — así resume Strieber la operación histórica del libro.
«It could very well be the single most important influence on our history.» — Strieber sobre el alcance que le atribuye al fenómeno.
«The longer we remain ignorant of it, the more we guarantee that it will retain its power over us.» — Strieber sobre el precio de la ignorancia prolongada.
«Dr. Vallée, it seems to me, has taken a dramatically important step in this direction.» — elogio de Strieber al libro que prologa, con verbo de logro que es suyo, no de la obra.
«An astrophysicist by training and a computer scientist by profession, Dr. Jacques Vallée was born in France, moved to the United States in 1962, and now lives in California with his wife and two children.» — nota biográfica del editor en About the Author.
«After recieving the Jules Verne prize at age nineteen for his first novel, Vallée published twelve other books, most of them in English. Today these books represent well over a million copies in print.» — sigue la nota del editor; recieving es corrupción de la capa de texto.
«The author of many articles about high technology, Dr. Vallée first became interested in the subject of UFOs when he witnessed the destruction of tracking tapes of unknown objects at a major observatory.» — la nota editorial data el interés de Vallée en la destrucción de cintas de rastreo en un observatorio.
«His research into the phenomenon has taken him to many places in the United States and to many countries around the world – from France to Scotland and from Australia to Brazil.» — el alcance de sus viajes, según la misma nota.
«Correspondence can be addressed to the author at 1550 California Street, #6L, San Francisco, CA 94109.» — la dirección postal que cierra la nota del editor en esta edición.
«Copyright © 1988 by Jacques Vallée The right of Jacques Vallée to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.» — la página de derechos asienta el copyright a nombre de Vallée y la aserción de autoría bajo la ley británica de 1988.
«All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner. ISBN 0 285 62859 3 (casebound) ISBN 0 285 63362 7 (paperback)» — la reserva de derechos y los dos ISBN de la edición Souvenir Press.
«Table of Contents Foreword by Whitley Strieber Introduction: Closed Minds, Open Questions PART ONE: THE ALIEN CHRONICLES 1. Ancient Encounters 2. Winged Disks and Crispy Pancakes 3. The Secret Commonwealth» — el índice, con el prólogo de Strieber y los tres capítulos de la primera parte.
«PART TWO: ANOTHER REALITY 4. The Emotional Component: Cosmic Seduction 5. The Celestial Component: Signs in Heaven 6. The Psychic Component: Metalogic 7. The Spiritual Component: A Morphology of Miracles» — los cuatro capítulos de la segunda parte, en el índice.
Conceptos tratados
Magonia (la región de donde vienen las naves de las nubes) — El país de las naves que navegan las nubes, tomado del sermón de Agobardo, se generaliza hasta nombrar la otra realidad de donde vienen los ocupantes: unas veces isla invisible y país remoto, otras espacio de acceso tangencial reservado a iniciados.
Cuatro elementos (fuego, aire, agua, tierra) — Los Elementales de Paracelso y del ocultismo medieval se reparten en cuatro clases de seres invisibles, de cuerpo elástico y semimaterial; la obra advierte que ni Paracelso define bien esas clases.
Daimon (entidad intermedia, ni ángel ni demonio) — Recoge de Plutarco la doctrina del término medio entre el inmortal y el mortal, y la pone como precedente del ser que no es ni ángel ni demonio en el episodio de san Antonio.
Prodigio (prodigium, portentum, ostentum) — Las crónicas japonesas y europeas leen las luces del cielo como presagio; la obra retiene ese uso y añade que los casos modernos también funcionan como presagio.
Imaginación (phantasia) — Toma de Hartland que la imaginación obra por leyes fijas, y sostiene que la conducta humana se funda en imaginación, creencia y fe, no en observación objetiva.
Iniciación (recepción por grados / metamorfosis del ser) — Adjudica al caso brasileño de José Antônio las fases del ritual iniciático, y propone leer los encargos absurdos a los contactados desde la tradición esotérica.
Transvection (el traslado corporal por seres demoníacos) — Deriva de la creencia en seres que vuelan por el aire parte de las acusaciones de brujería, y empareja la busca de implantes con el examen inquisitorial de las marcas del sabbat.
Ocultismo (occultisme) — El vecindario ocultista aparece nombrado al pasar —espíritus familiares en las teorías rosacruces— y como nexo entre Crowley, Parsons, Hubbard y los primeros contactados.
Secreto (lo que se jura no fijar por escrito) — De Kirk toma que cada era deja un secreto por descubrir; y consigna que el propio fenómeno silencia al testigo, hasta el punto de que solo uno de cada doce llamó a la Fuerza Aérea.