Hypotheses About the Origin of UFOs
"האם למישהו יש איזה חוקר כלשהו שהוא מעריך ומכבד את דעתו בעניין מוצאם של החוצנים ובקשר למה שיש להם לחפש כאן?" אני מכבד כל חוקר שנסמך על עדויות ותאוריות מעודכנות. אין תאוריה אחת שמסבירה את כל התצפיות והממצאים בשטח, ולכן ישנן מספר השערות בדבר מקורם של העבמי"ם והישויות שנראות לעיתים בקרבה לעבמי"ם. תאודור אאורבך עמד בראש סניף מרכז אירופה של ארגון אמריקאי בשם: MUFON. ממנו קיבלתי מאמר בשם: Hypotheses About the Origin of UFOs אותו הוא כתב במשותף עם היו"ר הנוכחי של הארגון הנ"ל. המאמר מפרט 10 השערות בדבר מקורם של העבמי"ם. אני מקווה שתמצא בו עניין. בקשר לוואלה, קרא היפותזה מספר 8 מתוך המאמר המצורף: |The Interdimensional Theory 8. This interesting hypothesis was proposed by Jacques Vallee (1988) in his book "Dimensions". For many centuries there have been reports of fairies, elves, fawns, nymphs, ghosts, etc., whose conduct was strange, but not necessarily in contradiction to the naive level of belief characteristic of the times. In our sophisticated society these beliefs are no longer popular and, as if realizing this, the phenomenon has changed first to airships and now to UFOs. And indeed, some UFOs. are reported to behave in very strange fashion. Some of them appear or vanish suddenly, others shrink or grow larger, and occasionally they divide into two or more craft, or several of them merge into one. These certainly are not the characteristics of a nuts-and-bolts device. In addition, Vallee arrives at an exceedingly large number of UFO visits by extrapolating the number of cases in his files to observations worldwide. He contends that these facts, plus the many hundreds of abductions that seem to make no sense, argue against the assumption of UFOs being visitors from distant planets. In order to explain the bizarre events Vallee invokes the existence of higher dimensions beyond those of space and time. This higher dimensional universe (hyperspace) consists not of time-dependent physical objects but as a series of informational events, whose progress suggests the passage of time. Our minds are able to retrieve the information as it unfolds in hyperspace, and this retrieved information manifests itself to our minds in the form of physical objects and events taking place all around us. UFOs are able to manipulate information so that they may appear to us either as solid flying machines or as wondrous devices behaving in ghost-like fashion reminiscent of stories told about the Gentry. In such a theory UFOs, residing in higher dimensions, need not come from distant planets, although there is no rule against it. It is much more probable that they materialize from a terrestrial environment, since the higher dimensions are all around us. They share this feature with the Gentry and with paranormal events, to which Vallee feels they are related. The theory has earned its author fierce criticism from a number of researchers, who feel that UFOs are robust material objects able to travel physically through space, and that abductions are real occurrences and not paranormal ones. Actually, though, the theory is a remarkable, intuitive approach to a problem whose solution cannot be fitted into today's mainstream physical science. Unfortunately, Vallee's presentation is somewhat vague and lacking precision, so that the reader has difficulty forming a clear picture in his mind. There is no mathematical theory to back it up as would be necessary in order to base the new ideas upon a solid foundation. Vallee's theory contains some elements also present in Heim's mathematical higher dimensional theory discussed in Section 9. In its present form Vallee's hypothesis should be regarded as a worth-while attempt to advance a unifying explanation for phenomena as seemingly divergent as fairies and UFOs.
