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deep unconscious level of the symbols conveyed by the encounter. The mechanism of this resonance between the UFO symbol and the archetypes of the human unconscious has been abundantly demonstrated by Carl Jung, whose book Flying Saucers makes many references to the age-old significance of the signs in the sky. I am not regarding the phenomenon of the UFOs as the unknowable, uncontrollable game of a higher order of beings. Neither is it likely, in my view, that an encounter with UFOs would add to the human being anything it did not already possess. Everything works as if the phenomenon were the product of a technology that followed well-defined rules and patterns, though fantastic by ordinary human standards. It has so far posed no apparent threat to national defense and seems to be indifferent to the welfare of individual witnesses, leading many to assume that we may be dealing with a still-undiscovered natural occurrence ("It cannot be intelligent," say some people, "because it does not attack us!"). But its impact in shaping man's long-term creativity and unconscious impulses is probably enormous. The fact that we have no methodology to deal with such an impact is only an indication of how little we know about our own psychic world. Two well-investigated cases have contained striking psychic elements. One took place in Aveyron, France, and the other one in Kansas. They support the five propositions mentioned above. On June 15, 1966, in Aveyron (a region of France situated near the mid-Pyrenees) a seventy-six- year-old woman made the first in a long and fascinating series of sightings on an isolated farm. The farmhouse itself is old, with ten rooms whose windows face south and command an excellent view. I was at the windows — just for a moment — because at my age you need a breath of air wherever you are. But never have I seen lights like that, nor things like that! They weren't just lights, they were fires! The old woman became fearful, and the words she used to describe her anguish convey the precise feeling that many witnesses have tried to express in all languages: All these fires — I'm too old, I don't want to see things like that. If this thing's going to move about like that, what's to become of us all? Afterwards it moved again, over by the corner of the vineyard, you remember [speaking to her son-in-law], that's when I called you, that's when I was frightened, but if that comes any closer, that's going to go in the barn and everything will go up in smoke, the house and us with it — so I called him, I called him. Mr. Fernand Lagarde, a local researcher who conducted a very thorough investigation of the events, reported that "the haunting thought of fire frightens all country people, and so, distracted and scared, she calls her son-in-law to help, and later she will tell us that she went to bed fully clothed, for fear of what might be to come. This is a story with all the ring of truth about it." The fiery objects are spherical, and they crossed the fields with deliberate motion. The son-in-law, who worked the farm, also observed what the old woman had seen, and went out to investigate. The objects, he said, were rounded on top and rather flattened underneath, and they vanished on the spot as if controlled by a switch. At one point there were six of them, less than a mile away; they moved in one line at the speed of a tractor, and they entered a larger luminous object that appeared as a sort of fiery tree, an illuminated shell. Everything disappeared, and the witnesses retired in complete puzzlement. This feeling was still very clear in the taped interviews I heard during a trip to France, and Lagarde confirmed that everything appeared to the witnesses disconcerting and irrational. The events went Aveyron, or the Essence of Prophecy