Xenomancy

What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ah, what then? What if, after a century of infecting the public imagination with the visionary content of “science fiction,” the greatest mass dreaming in recorded history, you awoke with a strange and beautiful machine in your hand?

The UFO-being lives in cybernetic interface with humanity. It interacts with us within several domains, all of which are influenced by the mediasphere. This media and culture in turn feeds back into the phenomena in a continuous cycle.

The UFO phenomenon is an unbroken continuation of Spiritualism, and the so-called “Disclosure” media event, at least insofar as it is managed by the U.S.-Israeli intelligence apparatus, represents an effort to produce an apport of constructs with military utility. Beyond the initiatory “nuts-and-bolts” or physical “saucer” theology, any deep UFO research appears to lead us toward one of two destinies: either the discovery that the phenomenon is primordial, psychical, cyber-physical, and plasmoid in nature; or the violent “rapture” of investigators, conscripted as Spiritist-Materialist mediums within a military-séance complex, a synthetic re-enchantment of the sky that slips easily into cult formation.

In the year 292 from the founding of the city, according to the reckoning of Orosius, when the Second Punic War had arisen, many prodigies took place beforehand: At Rome, an ox turned its lowing into human speech; in Picenum, it rained stones; in Gaul, a she-wolf snatched a drawn sword from its sheath; in Sicily, two shields sweated blood, and bloody ears of grain were found by the harvesters.

Fortean literature, the medieval annals and every occult tradition in history reveals that the sky is a visionary medium and has a capacity to produce substances: fireballs, plasma, blood rain, sticky webs of angel grass, stones inscribed with secret signs, meteors fast and slow, and on rare occasion, even stranger cosmata. “Portents were seen of old, and horrendous signs, Shining in the sky: flames, crowns, beams... Milk raining from the sky, grains of steel, And iron, bricks, flesh, wool, and gore; And six-hundred other things written down in books” (Brant 1492). In certain circumstance, with applied imagination, these materials fall from the heavens shaped into artifacts, and these artifacts have psychotronic effects on humans.

An article, published in the French newspaper L'Est Républicain on October 5, 1954, reports on a UFO sighting during the 1954 wave of observations in France. It describes an event near Besançon where witnesses saw a luminous object and collected a mysterious whitish substance it released.

Around 20 witnesses spotted a bright white, round object in the sky over Moncley, about 15 kilometers from Besançon in the bucolic Ognon Valley, on a Sunday afternoon. Among them was Mr. Durand, a well-known grocer from Besançon's Avenue Carnot. In his account, Mr. Durand stated:

"We were finishing our family meal when a merchant from Moncley, Mr. Bouchaton, came to tell me that a white ball was moving in the sky. I went out and indeed saw one of those objects that everyone is talking about so much these days, and which, like so many others, I didn't believe in until now."

Now, I must change my mind. I saw it with my own eyes. I even had time to go fetch a pair of binoculars that were in the house. When I returned, the object was still there. I was able to look at it through the binoculars. It was a very bright metallic white. It disappeared quickly toward the horizon, to the East. In its wake, it left small filaments of a duller white. From afar, they resembled those decorations called, in commerce, 'angel hair' [fils de la vierge]."

Family members and locals also witnessed the phenomenon and the filaments. Soon after, these filaments reached the ground in noticeable quantities, hanging from telegraph wires. The same substance was observed in nearby Emagny and Les Vallières, a suburb of Besançon. A sample was collected in Moncley by a Mr. Dubois, a well-known carpenter from Besançon then living along the Ognon River. The reporters examined the filaments themselves, which Mr. Dubois had handed over to a Besançon tobacconist. The material resembled cotton or paper pulp, very dry, and apparently without any special properties.

UFO researcher and pilot Brian Boldman conducted a major review of angel hair in 2001, citing the existence of 225 cases of angel hair between 679 AD and 2001. According to his research, “Fifty-seven percent of angel-hair cases involve UFO reports, a significant number, which strongly links the two phenomena.”

A typical case: on October 12, 1976, at about 7:30 p.m. in Sonora, California, several independent witnesses were drawn outdoors by a thunderous sound they likened to “six jets.” They watched a large, red, oblong object hover with a slow, wobbling motion. After roughly five minutes it shot upward and vanished.

The following day strands of so-called “angel hair” were recovered at the site and sent to David Miletich at the University of Chicago. Analysts described the material as whitish, very fine, fibrous, and uniformly composed, with frequent branching. Chemical analysis showed the primary constituents to be carbon and nitrogen; it was not a spider web. A sample examined at the Michael Reese Hospital Microbiology Laboratory registered a low level of tritium contamination.

“Schimer said after the object disappeared he surveyed the area with a flashlight but could find nothing. On Tuesday, however, Chief Wlaschin found a small, thin piece of what appeared to be molten metal at the scene”

Aside from the preternatural or “psi” dimensions, one of the most neglected categories of UAP reports concerns things that fall from the phenomena (metal spheres, molten droplets, stray fragments) objects with mass and trace. A striking example occurred in September 1953, when, at the request of the U.S. Air Force, the Brazilian government forwarded several ounces of metal said to have dripped from a UFO over Campinas. The event unfolded in full view of hundreds of witnesses; police and military units collected molten material from rooftops, gardens, streets and sidewalks where it had spattered.

Astrophysicist and UFO researcher Andrew Pike writes in Rendlesham: The Untold Science:

“One of the strange effects which struck me was the report that at times the triangle appeared to melt. It was seen to drip what was described by the military and civilian observers as molten metal. Now, we know that this object was not actually melting because no molten metal was found, so the effect had to be due to something else, that something else was an electromagnetic effects. An effect not known by many scientists because of its obscure nature and its appearance in only certain specialised reports and journals”

Citing Nature articles as far back as 1895, Pike notes that, though uncommon, there is a significant body of scientific literature that indicates lightning can take on a molten appearance. This “molten” quality is also described in ball lightning sightings and manifestations of atmospheric plasmas.

A 2024 paper titled “Extraterrestrial Life in the Thermosphere: Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life, Fourth State of Matter” describes electromagnetic dusty plasmas that can appear metallic, like woven fabric, or like cobwebs as they self-organize into cellular, double-layer “air-bubble” pockets whose walls are electric currents.

Their thin, charged double layers behave as membranous skins that reflect and refract light and flex instead of acting as rigid solids. When such plasmas entrain dust, the grains become plasma-dust or plasma-crystals whose electrostatic polarization, twisting and spinning produce sheetlike, helical, or prism-like microstructures that scatter light in multiple directions, yielding the metallic, reflective-cloth appearance. On contact or when coherence is lost, those skins may flatten, turn gelatinous or cobweb-like, shift color, then dry up or disintegrate, a sequence that matches eyewitness descriptions from historical reports and from astronauts—

STS 115 reported and filmed a similar encounter, the Commander describing them as translucent, flexible, not a solid object, metallic but not made of metal, and giving off light and glowing. Before NASA’s mission control changes the subject, the STS 115 Commander states: “The best way I can describe it as some kind of reflective cloth—some type of metallic looking type of cloth—a structure which is definitely not rigid—it’s not a solid metal structure”…

The Condign Report, declassified in 2005, came to the conclusion that “[t]he relevance of plasma and magnetic fields to UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] were an unexpected feature of the study.” The report states clearly:

Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere. They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make them unique to the majority of observers. There seems to be a strong possibility that at least some of the events may be triggered by meteor re-entry, the meteors neither burning up completely nor impacting as meteorites, but forming buoyant plasmas. The conditions and method of formation of electrically-charged plasmas and the scientific rational for sustaining them for significant periods is incomplete or not fully understood.

During the 1980s, research increasingly linked UFOs to geophysical activity and electromagnetism. Paul Devereux’s fieldwork in the United Kingdom showed that his so-called earthlights coincided with UFO waves and suggested a two-way rapport between the lights and observers’ minds. The intense electromagnetic forces associated with earthlights seemed to alter witnesses’ perceptions, and, in some cases, witnesses appeared to influence the lights’ behavior in turn, there is two-way communication of some kind.

The behavioral psychologist Michael Persinger showed that such electromagnetic fields can induce altered states of consciousness and visionary experiences. From the 1990s onward Albert Budden and Keith Partain confirmed and extended these findings, linking UFO sightings and close encounters with non-human entities, to both natural and artificial electromagnetic sources. Indeed, it appears that many witnesses are reporting hybrid events, a distillation of the electro-ecology and Jung’s active imagination. Under certain circumstance, the sky, as a visionary medium, responds, becoming an alchemo-cybernetic manufactory, for the synthesis of paraphysical commedia.

The materialist distortion in the ufological field started from the very beginning, with the term “flying saucer,” ascribed to Kenneth Arnold. On the 24th day of June in the year of our Lord 1947 the aviator and businessman spied a “flash of light” like “a mirror reflecting sunlight,” and thereafter a chain-like array of nine scintillating lights that were, in his account, “flipping from side to side” and “flying erratically...weaving, dipping...like the tail of a kite” and “like stones being skipped over water,” which “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water” and were “flashing brightly,” their aspect changing from a “disk” and “platter shaped” form to a crescent, some assumed a fashion “like sky jellyfish,” “with a pulsating thing in the middle of them.” The journalists took that single word, “saucer,” ignored the rest, and manufactured the fiction of physical craft.

After the initial reporting, Arnold would consistently maintain he had been misquoted; he professed no belief in “little green men stories,” nor did he ever believe that these shape-shifting crescent-, disk- and jellyfish-shaped “lights” were vessels from other worlds, but rather held them to be “living organisms”; “space and atmospheric organisms that they have the natural ability to change their densities at will.”

“After some 14 years of extensive research, it is my conclusion that the so-called unidentified flying objects that have been seen in our atmosphere are not spaceships from another planet at all, but are groups and masses of living organisms that are as much a part of our atmosphere and space as the life we find in the oceans.”

—K. Arnold, 1962 interview in Flying Saucer Magazine, quoted from R. Story, 1981)

In this same 1962 interview in Ray Palmer’s Flying Saucer Magazine, Arnold also reported that he felt his mind was affected by these pulsating forms, that he believed they were reading his thoughts.