| Vallee writes about the abilities of the Hav-Musuvs, who are according to the Piute Indians, a “superior civilization who once populated the area in which they live in California. The Piute claim the Hav-Musuvs use “flying canoes which were silvery and had wings.” They were said to fly like eagles and make a whirling noise and they had a peculiar weapon, a “tube which they held in the hand which would stun their enemies and produce lasting paralysis and a feeling similar to “a shower of cactus needles.” (47) In 1691, a Scottish Scholar Robert Kirk collected a number of stories about the Sleigh Maith, which were eventually published in The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies in 1815. The Sleigh Maith were what the locals called the strange creatures which plagued farmers in Scotland. In Vallee’s summery of Kirk’s Commonwealth, we find numerous attributes of the fairy-folk. Their nature is somewhere in between man and angels. They have light bodies and can appear and disappear at will. They have intelligence and they seem to interact with us. They can transport objects. They can be found inside caves or earthen openings. Their home is in the forests and nature. They used to be more abundantly seen in ancient times. They seldom stay in one place and like to travel. They can change shape at will or colors like chameleons. They live in tribes or families. They live in enchanted type houses invisible to the human eye and their homes are lit with never extinguishing fires. They speak in a whistling type sound. When they communicate with humans, they seem to adopt the same customs and attributes of the local people they interact with. Their philosophy may be summed up as follows: Nothing dies, all things evolve in cycles and every cycle is renewed and improved. Motion is the universal law. They have a hierarchy in their community. They have many books of light and deep subject matter, with esoteric and arcane subjects. And they can be contacted through the application of forms of magic. (48) An interesting case Vallee brings up in Magonia involves a sighting at Nouatre, Indre-et-Loire, France, near Marcilly-sur-Vienne on Sept 30, 1954. About 4:30 P.M. Georges Gatay, head of a team of eight construction workers, wandered off from the rest of the group. He felt “drowsey” and felt confused when he sighted an apparition of a man with an opaque glass helmet on his head and a visor coming down to his chest. He was wearing a grey coverall and short boots and he held some kind of elongated object. On his chest he had some kind of light projector and he was standing in front of what the man described as a “shining dome” hovering about three feet off the ground. Above the machine on top were some kind of rotating blades. Then the witness describes the man just vanishing in front of his eyes like he was erased from his field of vision. Then he heard a loud whistling sound and saw an object rise up and vanish in the same manner as the man did. As soon as Gatay tried to run, he found himself paralyzed and when he was able to move, he confirmed with his co-workers the entire experience, and the co-workers had been paralyzed as well. |
The men all described seeing a saucer with what looked like a diver or man dressed in a diver’s suit. (49) In the following account, recorded by Vallee, a strange entity used a gas to cause a man to become unconscious and pass out. According to Captain Ruppelt’s report of his investigations in Florida, Desvergers, a scoutmaster who went into the woods to investigate a strange light and faced, he said, a horrible being who looked at him from the turret of a flying machine unlike anything he had ever seen, found himself breathing the same peculiar gas: “He froze where he stood and noticed a small ball of fire began to drift toward him. As it floated down it expanded into a cloud of red mist. He dropped his light and machete and put his arms over his face. As the mist enveloped him, he passed out.” (50) Vallee then draws the pattern between this event, and one mentioned by Leroux de Lincey, in his Livre des Legendes, when discussing elves: “If a mortal being dares come near them, they open their mouth and, struck by the breath which escapes from it, the imprudent fellow dies poisoned.” (51) In the case of Betty and Barney Hill, a couple who were abducted aboard a UFO on September 20, 1961, Betty was subjected to medical experiments (or so she believes) and Vallee notes that these “experiments” sound vaguely familiar to the scenes from a 15th century French calendar called the Kalendrier des Bergiers which depicts demons torturing people by piercing them in the abdomen with long needles. (52) In one of the most astonishing cases known of a mass abduction, Vallee relates in Magonia, the occurrence of August 21, 1915. It is an account of a “strange incident that happened… in the morning, during the severest and final days of the fighting, which took place at “Hill 60,” Suvla Bay, ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]: “The day broke clear, without a cloud in sight, as any beautiful Mediterranean day could be expected to be. The exception, however, was a number of perhaps six or eight “loaf of bread” shaped clouds – all shaped exactly alike – which were hovering over “Hill 60.” It was noticed that, in spite of a four or five mile an hour breeze from the south, these clouds did not alter their position in any shape or form, nor did they drift away under the breeze. Also, stationary and resting on the ground right underneath this group of clouds was a similar cloud in shape, measuring about 800 feet in length and 200 feet in width. The cloud was absolutely dense, almost solid looking and positioned not far from the fighting in British held territory. All this was observed by 22 men of No. 3 Section of No. 1 Field Company, N.Z.E., including myself, from our trenches on Rhododendron Spur, approximately 2500 yards south west of the cloud on the ground. (47) ibid, p. 71 (48) ibid, p. 72-73 (49) Magonia, p. 76-77 (50) ibid, p. 90 (51) ibid, p. 91 (52) ibid, p. 102 |