In a response to a television programme titled "Kidnapped by Aliens?" shown about nine years ago, Budd Hopkins wrote: "What evidence does Dr Sagan, for example, present to buttress his sweeping and to the abductees, damning indictment of their ability to separate fantasy from reality?" Hopkins says he presents no evidence whatsoever, and here The Pelican has to agree with him.
If aliens ever came to earth to trade, raid or simply take pictures for Galactic Geographic, it always seemed to me that they would do so by disguising themselves and their technology in such a way that they simply blended in with the natives as much as possible, or they would hire locals to do much of the work for them and act as guides and interpreters. Even on earth, people who need to work or do business in foreign countries do this all the time, and also try to learn something of the native language and customs before they go.
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.