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The Interdimensional Hypothesis of unidentified flying objects and related events, championed by astrophysicist Jacques Vallee, attempts to explain the phenomena as a modern manifestation of elements, particularly demons, which have appeared throughout recorded history and possibly since earliest humans walked the earth.

According to this theory, the phenomenon manifests itself as a control mechanism, whose function appears to be to challenge the observers accepted notions of reality, by appearing to be things that common sense would disregard as being impossible, and in our modern age, as technological objects which always seem to appear to be one step ahead of our own technological horizon.

By breaking the deepest taboos of society, the phenomenon thereby gradually reinforces a permanent change in the perception of that society, by the propagation of malicious memes and erroneous belief systems. Such a change appears to undermine societies belief in established authority, both governmental and scientific, which ridicules the phenomena and those that believe in it. The theory has not been widely accepted by either Ufologists or by mainstream science.

Variants

Simpler, more neutral variants of the interdimensional hypothesis lacking the control mechanism theory are:

• Some UFOs might by natural objects which can travel through multiple dimensions, UFOs as unknown natural phanomena
• Some UFOs might represent non-human craft and beings from other dimensions or parallel universes. This is a slight variant of the more accepted extraterrestrial hypothesis, that assumes such craft and beings arise from stellar systems from within our own universe.

A Non-Human Conciousness

Jacques Vallee proposes the existence of a non-human consciousness, which may or may not imply physical bodied entities, that exist either on or around the earth and are able to manipulate space, time and consciousness in ways that we presently do not understand. Vallee is confident that humans can ultimately understand the larger reality of the phenomenon, provided the problem is attacked with research of sufficient vigour.

In addition to Vallee, other researchers such as Salvador Freixedo, John Keel, and Aime Michel, believe the phenomenon represents an alien intelligence which can masquerade in various forms, including space visitors, religious apparitions, anomalous creatures, poltergeists, and psychic phenomena.

These "aliens", whom may or may not be aliens, appear to practice deception on a vast scale, and little, if anything of who they say they are or even what they appear to be can be trusted. Historically, pre-industrial peoples believed in the existence of "elementals" of various sorts, demons, elves, pixies and various other little people. These entities were invariably supernaturally powerful, often belligerent and prone to playing pranks, as well as abducting children, and taking people to places where time seemed to pass at a different speed than the "outside" world. Going further back in history, to prehistoric Europe, during the ice age, before the written word existed, people recorded their world in a symbolic language of cave paintings and illustrations have since been found, deep underground, of animals of various sorts; the deeper one goes and the more inaccessible the cave becomes, the more deformed the animals appear, eventually becoming demon or monster like in their appearance, each monster being made up of parts of various animals, for instance, the head of a horse and the body of a bison with the legs of an ibex, etc.

It is conjectured by modern science that these images represent the spiritual beliefs of the people of the time, with caves thought to be "womb like", and the illustrations of the monsterous animal hybrids representing mother earth, creating the various forms of animals that inhabit the world. The deeper one goes the more chaotic the forms, approaching more realistic forms the closer one is to the surface, before the earth creates or gives birth to the species that inabit the surface world. Alternatively it might just be easily said that demons, illustrative of the forms that people drew on the walls were actually manifesting within the caves and communicating with the people and influencing their view of the world, their religion, and creating myth. Comparisons can be drawn with reported manifestations of dwarves or ogres in the mines of medieval Germany.

As nation states began to industrialise and people generally became less superstitious, a change seemed to occur in the way the phenomenon manifested itself, becoming technological objects (UFOs), possessing abilities in technology (speed, manoeuvre) which is analogous to the magic of elves and demons of previous eras; that is, possessing abilities which always seem to be just beyond our grasp or which contradict our sensibilities whilst remaining relevant as society changes over time, and hence remembered, propagated and not forgotten.

The Control Mechanism

It is speculated that the frequency of UFO events represents a premeditated conditioning or learning process. What the motives of the consciousness are behind the process is unknown, but may be some kind of test about the ultimate nature of reality and our ability to comprehend it, despite being handicapped by our society and its taboos about what is and what isn't acceptable, as well as the state of our current physics. Presumably, beings with the ability to bend space, warp time and communicate telepathically may be in possession of the ultimate keys to the physical laws, which govern the universe. What we may be seeing is some sort of first contact scenario, by an unimaginable power, being played out over millennia, and not as Hollywood has always asserted, and Science has demanded; by the proverbial UFO landing on the White House lawn.

Whether we get to meet the puppet masters pulling the strings is an open question. Whether they even have our best interests at heart is questionable. The phenomenon seems unconcerned about human sensibilities; indeed it seems to use human weaknesses to magnify its effect on the human psyche. The situation is such that now, no politician and most scientists - the two main figures of authority will not speak publicly about UFOs - except to publicly ridicule them, despite the fact that most of the public believes in their existence. As a result, people lose faith in established authority, and in the main, turn to more fringe groups with limited abilities to investigate the phenomena, or worse, agendas to establish and push. In short, the phenomena by its very existence poses a question, the question being, "What is the ultimate nature of reality and the physical laws that underlie it?" At the same time, it hamstrings humanities ability to answer that question, or even take the question seriously, by asking it in a form that is corrosive to our society, indeed the answer would destroy cherished notions of humanities place in the universe.

See also

• Dimension
• Parallel universe
• Wormhole
• Information theory
• Database
• Process Physics
• Time
• Reality
• Religion
• Folklore
• Demon
• Elf
• Pixie
• Little people
• Ogre
• Leprechaun
• Incubus
• Succubus
• Alien
• Alien abduction
• Mythology
• Cult
• Social control

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