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The explanations of the Pleiadeans and other UFO beings would have to be granted the court—day of sober attention when it came to their consistent claims that all such anomalies of the ' 'singlewitness" saucer 1 vo fate te i ee ee: i cee experience were intentional aspects of their presence here in the first place; no longer could a quip succeed in carrying the day in light of the deference obliged such information that (for example) the "piloting" prerogatives available to the UFO occupants included advanced capabilities of selectively screening the craft from view of the general area in which it lingered, and of polarizing the perceptual field between the craft and the immediate vicinity of the target subject. Thus inferentially a large part of the business of UFOs of various descriptions and from diverse "places", would have to be characterized as observation/contact with selected subjects; recognition of some component of the phenomenon suspiciously akin to the "psychic", would require a type of reassessment as to what was "material" and what was "spiritual" on the part of people perennially conditioned to perceive the two as separate, compartmentalized in categories so airtight that they were—implicitly—of a mutually exclusive character! The very suggestion that some craft of physical description might be accompanied by disturbances considered "occult", imme— 54 diately drove conventional credulity to the wall. If the physical persistence and widening ripples of involvement made of the phenomenon an untidy puzzle that nonetheless refused to go away, it was evident some deep reorientation in understanding was required, a full-scale reeducation as to what was "physical" and what was "psychic" and thus of the very character of energy fields, dimensions and—in fact—the framework of perception as a whole. UFOs were an epistemological tarbaby from the start. Certainly, all real assessments of the cumulative evidence consistently showed that, as fractious a fact as it was, there invariably seemed to be magnitudes more than merely a chance factor involved in the relationship between witness and the object witnessed. There was an uncomfortable accord, averaged overall, indicating high statistical frequency in the actual sensing of the UFO presence by the potential witness before directly perceiving it—and this even prior to the awareness of accompanying sounds, shadows on the grass etc. There was disquieting uniformity and recurrence above chance, in the numbers reporting—or subsequently recovering through hypnosis etc.—more personal "close encounters" of the III or even IV variety some time after the objective sighting (either immediately after, months or years after, even decades after—but with uncanny inevitability regardless the lapse). There was just too repetitive a claim of inexplicable "deja vu" in sighting a saucer for the "first time"...too often (to discount as random) the sheer improbability of sightings by some witness or group of witnesses, in broad daylight, of high—visibility UFO maneuvers somehow wholly unseen in adjacent areas of dense population having equivalent viewing conditions. Some x—factor hovering perilously close to the "psychic" range, seemed unavoidably at work in events otherwise almost classifiable as normal—tet alone in such "high—strangeness" reports as those of abductees like Betty Luca, and her husband Bob. "I'm giving my seminar—workshop on those mysterious helicopters", Bob said as they continued the interview. "You probably know the ones I mean, you've either read of them in the' Andreasson' books themselves or other UFO literature—I've found in my research they seem to come up a lot in these things." MT had indeed "heard" of the mysterious helicopters before—as well as having had a peculiar flurry of direct activity with them in the late '70s, and occasionally recurrent episodes to the present. 113 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm Bob Weaves Through the System: Determinedly Seeking Sikorsky