They Live in the Sky
By Trevor James Constable
Pertinent Excerpts From A Flying Saucer Classic Of The 1950s
[Index of 10 parts]
It is unlikely that the truth about flying saucers will reach the public through governmental agencies. The reason for this is not to be found in any malicious desire to conceal the truth, but simply in the fact that neither the governments nor any individuals know the truth about U.F.O. . .
Early in my own UFO studies I concluded that officialdom throughout the world hopelessly at sea over the whole UFO phenomenon, and that its evidential aspects were so completely beyond conventional science that an ordinary man like myself might have as good a chance of penetrating the mystery as anyone else. . .
Flying saucers, the UFO, by observation both electronic and visual are 'fait accompli' and arguments as to whether they exist or not are idle, time wasting and an obstacle to further investigation. In this book we presume that the UFO are real and get down to the discussion of the queries 'Where do they come from?' 'What are they?' and 'What do they want?' And the less actively pursued question 'What is the nature of their reality?'. . .
The point of departure for me with standard UFO writings came over the question of communication and these UFO and contact with the occupants of the craft, if indeed they were craft at all.
The reason I believed that communication must be possible with the craft was that in rather extensive travels around the world I had noted that civilization in every country was directly proportional to communications development. The reason I had paid attention to communications development was that I was at the time of my journeyings a radio officer in the British Merchant Navy.
In parts of the Orient and Middle East a telephone is still a very rare instrument. If you can find one at all, a call to a point a hundred miles away may take a day or two, or you might never get it. Telegraph communications are scanty, and radio almost non-existent.
One reaches bottom where communication is concerned in those portions of Africa where the tree trunk drum or the human runner still serve as the means. In these locales material civilization is at its most retarded. This fact of communications as the index of civilization is not widely appreciated in the United States, where through [18] habit, we speak, write, and project the human image over thousands of miles with a familiarity bound to breed contempt for it. Far from being happy with our communications, including radio and television in their exquisite refinements, manufacturers are driven to improve and expand their services by relentless competitive pressure for improved ability to communicate. The ability to communicate on a world-wide scale in a variety of media is available to every American, and in this country we have the highest material civilization known on this planet.
THE TECHNICAL SUPERIORITY OF THE ALIENS
It is obvious from their observed speeds and maneuvers, their advanced propulsion systems as now acknowledged, their ability to appear and disappear that the UFO are undeniably products of a civilization immeasurably advanced beyond our own, technologically speaking. While we boast in our newspapers of airplanes capable of 1500 miles per hour, other craft, perhaps not of this world, have been electronically measured traveling six times this speed, and more, in our atmosphere.
In my view, it is irrational to admit the existence of such advanced vehicles and then deny to their occupants the ability to communicate on a scale far beyond anything we now have. If communication is the handmaiden of technological progress, as is the case in our own earthly civilization, it is logical to assume that it will be true of other worlds and civilizations. . .
They may look upon our radio as humorously primitive, and regard our best radar and electronic detection apparatus as infantile. We must also not forget that they may have developed natural communication methods to a high degree, since all that we have in the way of communications is nothing more than the externalization of the contents of our minds. The radio transmitter was conceived in the mind of man, then externalized, that is, fabricated. In a sense, the radio transmitter is nothing more than materialized thought. . .
My own viewpoint at the time I began my investigations was that the probability was very great that these UFO beings would have communication methods as far beyond ours as those of modern America are beyond the tree trunk drum. I have found nothing subsequently to nullify this viewpoint, and overwhelming evidence that it is true.
In the light of the above reasoning I found it absurd that so many otherwise able and intelligent men writing on the UFO could be so adamant in saying that there had been no communication with Saucer beings. On the one hand, as ufologists and saucer proselytizers, they recognize the presence in the atmosphere of the products of an advanced civilization, while on the other they virtually deny the controlling intelligences any ability in communication. The most unfortunate part of this viewpoint is that it was and is held today without investigation. Investigation reveals the theory to be false.
For myself, I sought to "become as a little child", by sweeping out of my mind accumulations of dogma and prejudice. I began [19] by placing myself in the position of UFO beings and wondered what my course of action would be if I wanted to contact humans on the surface of the earth.
"NO ROOM AT THE INN"
Could I, for example, go straight to the President of the United States? I felt that this would not be feasible, for the moment the president met with his advisers and told them a Space Being had communicated with him, the conclusion would doubtless be drawn that the pressure of the job had unhinged his mind. The same applies to all top government officials.
Science, in the orthodox sense, would also have to be counted out quickly. All that dogma, all those misconceptions, all those brilliant minds banged, barred and bolted against anything radical. The UFO being might reason that this type of mind, which has been the major obstacle to innovation since the time of Galileo, is the poorest possible soil for new cosmic ideas.
It seemed to me that the UFO beings would finally be compelled to start at the bottom and work up, rather than at the top and work down. . . slowly letting their presence, purposes and ability to communicate seep through the general population, forcing governments to take cognizance of the claims. . . In this way I came to visit Giant Rock, California, a desert airstrip in an isolated spot with a long history as a landing ground for aliens in pre-war days and as a burial ground for Indians in pre-paleface days. . . a 70-foot high boulder with enormous girth. . .
In this arid, flinty locale there dwells a man (1955) who seems to harmonize with his environment. Middle aged, with sandy, thinning hair, George Van Tassel is one of the pioneers of communication with the UFO.
Communication? No radio towers or antennae or electronic equipment clutter the area, for communication is carried on by telepathy, or thought transference, this skill, known to and used by the ancients and basically possessed by every human being, is one of the God-given faculties. It has atrophied in most of us through centuries of non-use. Beneath the Rock a large chamber has been hewn from the ground and furnished with chairs and tables. From this room, Mr. Van Tassel carries out his communications with the Saucer beings.
In complete darkness and after preparatory measures closely resembling those of a seance room, there booms forth from Van Tassel's direction a voice that is most definitely not his own. "I am Hulda, your people will soon witness more fireballs, which we are dropping as nullifiers (of atomic fallout). Greetings of love and peace to you. . ."
More messages follow, in voices which vary in accent, in timbre, in a manner that would be beyond the ability of even the most talented actor. These discourses deal with a variety of subjects, including life on other planets, UFO propulsion and always with atomic power.
THE TELLTALE CHANGE OF PERSONALITY
In my view, the entities speaking through Mr. Van Tassel were of a standard of intelligence far beyond his own. . . with grammar, sentence construction, and vocabulary beyond Mr. Van Tassel's attainments. . . The use of his personal physical facilities for these beings to manifest indicates that they are able to manifest here on earth only through the agency of suitable humans, although this is not yet entirely proven.
Mr. Van Tassel is willing enough to give an earnest seeker the method of preparing oneself for this type of contact. He told me when I asked him and made no claims for patent rights or special talent. He did warn of possible ill effects but fired with enthusiasm I paid his cautioning little heed. In the light of my own later experiences with telepathy, I do not consider it wise to dispense the information regarding preparation for it to all and sundry. It can be dangerous and there are those who will dabble in these things who are totally unprepared for such activity. I know because I was just that type of person myself. Having asked for what I got, I have no complaints but I will not myself be responsible for dispensing the same information to others and hence it is excluded from this text. . .
In the months that followed I sought contact consistently. As an investigator I felt this was the only fair way to test the suggestions Mr. Van Tassel had given me. Until I had, I was in no position to pass judgment on this contact business. Like all applications of spiritual science, investigation inevitably involves participation. One cannot afford the luxury of the onlooker consciousness, nor stand the penalties its misconceptions inflict upon spiritual growth. One participates, one experiences and then one knows! The truth is within the one who has had the experience and it may not be contradicted or negated, not by high domed pontiff, by atheistic scientist, nor by military officers active or retired. There is only one way to test the validity of UFO communication and that is to try it! He who has not tried it is not qualified to render judgments on its possibilities or probabilities.
The months slipped past without results of any kind. However, I resolved that I would persist for a minimum period of six months, discouraged or not. Any other attitude would have been unfair and inconclusive.
I continued to study the UFO of course, seeking to find the central theme of coherence that would make the pieces fit. One night at about ten o'clock I was reading Keyhoe's "Flying Saucer Conspiracy" with some care to particular details of one chapter. Suddenly I was seized by an overpowering impulse which I now realize was a tremendous thought impression, to pick up a pen and write. Obeying this impulse I picked up a pencil and began writing on the cover of a paper back book, the only thing handy on which I could make a mark. My arm was impelled and controlled by an unseen force and I wrote a largely unintelligible scrawl. (To be continued in next Journal)
Continue with "They Live in the Sky" (Part II)
They Live in the Sky: Invisible Incredible UFO Around Us
by Trevor James
"Is there extraterrestrial life of any kind? Are there intelligent beings in outer space who can communicate with humans? Are flying saucers real? These questions, and many others of equally fascinating nature are approached, and answered affirmatively, from a completely new viewpoint in this book.
"The author describes his own telepathic contact with an invisible being, and how, at the suggestion of this invisible intelligence, he began experimenting with infrared film in conjunction with elementary principles of spiritual science. Mr. James makes no claims to having boarded or flown in flying saucers, but instead effectively advances the theory of invisible but real creatures and craft in our own atmosphere.
"The book is at once iconoclastic and intellectual — it shatters many dangerous myths and misapprehensions which have hitherto caused enlightened people to shun the UFO phenomenon, at least in public. In place of the popular dogma of 'saucery' it offers new methods of investigation based upon the twin premises that these UFO are predominantly invisible and that man is a spiritual organism."
They Live in the Sky (amazon.com)
Los Angeles: New Age Pub. Co. / Saucerian Press, 1958.