The truth, he believes, is almost surely freakier than that, more baffling, and more revealing of the nature of the universe. He doubts that they are interstellar SUVs-would be disappointed if they were. Yet he likes to joke that he is the only ufologist who does not know what UFOs are. Vallée’s papers, entrusted to Rice University, will ultimately include files on some 500 anomalous events that he has personally investigated, from the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill on US Route 3 to a landing that paralyzed a farmer in a Provençal lavender crop. All told, 11 people from four separate groups gave similar accounts of the incident. When investigators arrived on the scene, they found a 4- by 6-foot puddle of metal, molten like lava, that lit the surrounding grass on fire before cooling. On a cold Saturday night in late 1977, firefighters and police had responded to calls about a roundish, reddish object with blinking lights that hovered above the treetops in a public park, then dumped a bright mass onto the ground. The story wound back more than four decades, he said serenely, to an unexplained episode in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jacques Vallée, a French information scientist, was explaining to Max Platzer, editor of a top aeronautics journal, how the metal had come into his possession. Around it, three men were having lunch one day in the summer of 2018.
The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth.On a white restaurant tablecloth in San Francisco, under the glow of a stained-glass dome ceiling with images of laurels, fleurs-de-lis, and a ship, rested a portion of metal the size of a shallot. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by visions, ' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."-C. Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.
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