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55 2) It concluded that the objects seen in the sky and sometimes on the ground were just as “material” as any other physical objects, although maybe only temporarily so -- i.e., a “material” ey eres manifestation. 3) It further concluded that UFOs and their occupants should be attributed to paraphysical phenomena, and belong in the same category as spiritist movements, seances, etc. -- that is, they are “‘paraphysical.” “Since 1959, there has been an accumulating mountain of evidence that would place UFO activity within a spiritual and religious framework. Many of the contactees when asked to describe what happened to them, referred to occult mysticism, psychic manifestations and telepathic communications. So pro- nounced have been the religious and cultic references, that a number of religious and semi-religious groups have crystallized around these alleged UFO sightings and communications. Some of these groups go by such names as the Aethesious Society, the Urautia Group, the Solar Cross Foundation, the School of Thoughts, plus hundreds of smaller and more secretive groups” (ibid., p.72). In the preface to an official document compiled by the U.S. Air Force titled “UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography,” Lynn E. Catoe summarizes existing UFO literature in these words: “A large part of the available UFO literature is CLOSELY LINKED WITH MYSTICISM and the METAPHYSICAL. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities, as well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and POSSESSION . . . many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to DEMONIC POSSESSION AND PSYCHIC PHENOMENA which has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.” What are these “UFO aliens,” then? Scientists and doctors don’t know. Researchers see similarities to occult phenomena but are also baffled. This sort of encounter goes beyond their own experience. A woman who attended a meeting held in Los Angeles by Strieber, Elaine Morganelli, came up with a chilling answer. When she arrived at Strieber’s rented house in Hollywood, she said she felt a “sense of evil” in the room. She concluded he was being contacted by demons and said, “People can be duped by devils. A spirit can tell you anything. They love to fool you. These people [the UFO abductees] are being taken over. The more you go along with it, the harder it is to get away from it.” She declared, “I think they’re being used to get an anti-Christian movement going.” She added, ““What got me was when he [Whitley] referred to the Lord and his angels as ‘Nazis of the air.” When he said that I thought, ‘Oh boy, that’s it. I’m out of here.’” Los Angeles journalist Stuart Goldman, who has talked with Whitley on several occasions, and reported the Elaine Morganelli episode, observes: Declares I.D.E. Thomas in The Omega Conspiracy: “Certainly, one could write Morganelli off as some sort of Christian fanatic.