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fingers at you and you cannot see them.' She turned her head away. There did not seem to be many of them. "The dwarfs came to people's houses, asking for something to eat. According to the old Indian, one must always give the dwarfs what they wanted; for, if they refused, they would point their fingers at one, so that one could not see them, and the dwarfs would take whatever they chose." There is an interesting point in this story. Some modern UFO reports, particularly those concerning occupants, suggest that the aliens may have developed a paralysis ray. On a number of occasions people have reported that they were paralyzed by a flash of light, either directed by the occupants or from their ship. It might be that Martha Uncas and her mother were reporting in a garbled way on such a paralysis device. Rather than describing it as a paralysis device, the technology of such a thing would of course be entirely obscure to them. They may have transposed the idea of paralysis for blindness. The words "point their fingers at you" may have referred to some kind of a gun or ray projector. A theory has been suggested that paralysis may be caused by exposing an organism to the resonance frequency of its ATP, substance which supplies muscles with their energy. If the muscular system is flooded with energy, or deprived of it, paralysis may occur. Finally, here is another anecdote of the Mohegan Indians as told by Speck: "One dark, stormy night, a woman was coming down the long hill toward Two Bridges, having been up to New London. Looking across the swamp to the opposite shore, she beheld a light approaching in her direction. When they drew near to one another, the woman saw that the light was suspended in the middle of a person's stomach, as though in a frame. There was no shadow cast, and yet the outline of the person could be distinguished as it surrounded the light. The woman was badly frightened and ran all the way home." "The light suspended in the middle of a person's stomach" is strongly suggestive of an electric torch attached to a belt The anecdote was collected long before flashlights were common on earth; there is no way of knowing how old the legend itself is: some authorities state it may even be pre-Columbian. It is an interesting sidelight that the "little people" of folklore - fairies, gnomes, and so forth - always seem to wear boots. An authority on the subject, Pennethorne Hughes, says that available evidence is insistent on this fact. "The little green and red hoods of the gnomes are still remembered, which the seven dwarfs share with the witch of caricature in her high hat with the elf locks peeping from under it. In Germany, the local hobgoblin called Hookedin or Hutkin, and Robin a Hood may be another manifestation of the devil of the fairies." These hoods, as with the strange headgear seen by Ezekiel, may be necessary for a race evolved in another atmosphere. Again, the complex breathing apparatus may have been interpreted in simpler terms. Is there any way to determine whether the "meteors" with which we began this article, or the supernatural | tales with which we conclude it, are actually evidences of alien life, rather than natural or merely imaginative events? The problem of proof is extremely difficult. Perhaps with the data which we now have available, it is impossible. The record is too incomplete, too limited by the time and the people who made it. An uneducated peasant relates a story told to him by his grandmother, who, in turn, heard it from her grandfather. Inevitably, there is exaggeration and distortion. This overlay of