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extraterrestrial theory is not strange enough to explain the facts. And I will be disappointed if UFOs turn out to be nothing more than visitors from another planet. If they are not spacecraft, what else could UFOs be? What research framework can account for the physical effects, for the impact on society, for the appearance of the occupants, and for the seemingly absurd, dreamlike elements of their behavior? How can we explain that the phenomenon makes itself obvious to rural populations but avoids overt contact, choosing instead to deliver its message in bizarre abductions, in highly strange incidents? The theory that suggests itself, as we analyze and reanalyze the forces at play, goes beyond the notion that these are simply technological vehicles produced by advanced races on another planet. Instead I believe that the UFO phenomenon Tepresents evidence Sor other dimensions beyond Wa TITAN ee a ee ee at en: ee oe - —— aot. Wd 22 spacetime; the UFOs may not come from ordinary space, but from a multiverse which is all around us, and of which we have stubbornly refused to consider the disturbing reality in spite of the evidence aviable to us for centuries. Such a theory is required in order to explain both the modern cases and the chronicles of Magonia — the abductions and the psychic component I believe there is a system around us that transcends time as it transcends space. Other researchers 1 toaa a 1 1 1 " 14 a i have reached the same conclusion. Some have come away deeply discouraged by the realization best summed up early in this century by Charles Fort, the author of The Book of the Damned: "We are property." Scholars of this phenomenon, like Father Salvatore Freixedo in Latin America, John Keel in the United States, and Aime Michel in France, feel that we may be powerless before the complex and absurd capabilities of an alien intelligence that can masquerade as a Martian invader, as a primitive god, as the Blessed Virgin, as a fleet of airships. While I acknowledge their observations I remain confident that human knowledge is capable of eventually understanding the larger reality the phenomenon represents. We should go on studying it — case after bizarre case, pattern after strange pattern. The system I am speaking of, a system with mastery of space and time dimensions, may well be able to locate itself in outer space. Nonetheless, its manifestations cannot be spacecraft in the ordinary nuts-and-bolts sense. The UFOs are physical manifestations that simply cannot be understood apart from their psychic and symbolic reality. What we see here is not an alien invasion. It is a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans. In attempting to find an adequate research framework, it is useful to speculate about variants of current physics in which apparent miracles could occur without violating physical laws and in which psychic phenomena should be the rule rather than the exception. In such a physics, UFOs could come from earth without necessarily being human inventions, or they could come from another galaxy without necessarily being spacecraft. Many theoreticians more qualified than I am are already at work constructing such alternative models. To explain the behavior of elementary particles and the formation of the cosmos, they speculate about "superstrings" and about universes with many dimensions beyond the familiar framework of spacetime. In their book Beyond Einstein, Dr. Michio Taku and Jennifer Trainer point out that even in current physics one needs five dimensions to explain the Big Bang theory. In 1919 Albert Einstein, who was developing the consequences of general relativity, recieved a letter from a Soviet mathematician named Franz Kaluza, who proposed a five-dimensional theory of gravity. A few weeks later Einstein wrote to Kaluza: "The formal unity of your theory is startling." Other scientists tot. aa Leela joined the effort. Where did the fifth dimension go? In 1926 Swedish mathematician Oskar Klein explained why the world appears to have only four dimensions rather than five by suggesting that the fifth dimension was "curled up" like a circle so small it was beyond observation. Klein even argued that its depth would correspond to the Plank length, which is a hundred billion billion times smaller than the What Else Could They Be?