Ever since Vallee and Keel put pen to paper in the 1970s, it’s been an axiom among proponents of the psychosocial hypothesis that the UFO phenomenon is merely the modern variant of a range of paranormal encounters and visitations by supernatural others. Despite their technological trappings, modern UFO sightings are merely the scientistic expression of deep religious and mystical impulses from within the human psyche, impulses, which have given rise to previous ages’ myths of encounters with angels, demons, elves and ghosts.

read more Magonia Magazine: Visions Before Midnight: Witchcraft, Folklore and the Prehistory of the Abduction Phenomenon.