AN OLD SITUATION OR A NEW ONE?

 As children most grow up hearing, reading, and seeing stories filled with mythic folk called "fairies". "Elves", and similar creatures. There is the cartoon variety, the Disney take on the same and ones conjured by our own imagination. IN re-reading a classic work in UFO history this week I was allowed to consider some interesting points. They stem from the idea that the alien abduction theme is merely a reflection of an ancient mythic landscape dressed in new and more technical clothing.  Just how similar are the world of "FAE" and the "ALIEN ABDUCTION WORLD"?

The land of FAE, a term meaning literally abduction and enchantment, has been around for centuries. The tales carry their own rules, colors, heroes and villains. The alien abduction has been a part of the UFO landscape from the early 1950's - if the Contactee stories are included in the mix -and by 1960 if not.

FAE WORLD

Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor gave them a color scheme: black, grey, green and white. 

Tales share that people interacting with the Fae world experience altered states of consciousness.

Sounds are reduced, muffled, or disappear.

Time slows down or there is missing time.

Individuals are captured, taken, abducted.

People experience hypnotic trances.

The beings of the FAE are able to impact the environment in numerous ways. This includes forming bubbles, domes, and cones of influence. This includes transporting a person from one location to another.

The shape of the FAE falls largely into small and large or tall groups The small are often childlike, under 4 feet and have large eyes. The tall are human-like, often blonde and fair or with odd tanned skin.

They are described in terms of magical or enchantment due to the abilities they exhibit.

ALIEN ABDUCTION WORLD

The colors of the beings fall into white, grey, black and green. An occasional silver and some reports of reptile scales with reptilian colors.

People experience altered states of consciousness.

Sounds are reduced, muffled, or disappear.

Time slows or there is missing time

Individuals are captured, taken, abducted.

People experience hypnotic trances.

The beings of the alien abduction scenario are able to impact the environment in numerous ways. This includes forming bubbles, domes, and cones of influence. This includes transporting a person from one location to another.

The shape of the beings reported fall into generally two: small and tall creatures. The small are often childlike, under 4 feet and have large eyes. The tall are human-like, often blonde and fair or with oddly tanned skin.

They are described in terms of supernatural (beyond known or normal parameters of the defined natural world), other worldly, alien, and paranormal (a word often used to refer to spooks and ghosts but means something standing alongside the natural; an alternate reality choice).

The academic question many have been asking for decades stem from the similarities of the two experiences. Are they the same?  Are modern alien abduction stories part of an ancient construct?  If so, why the abrupt shift from pixies, fairies, trolls, and the like to "space brothers" and "E.T."?

Have, perhaps, alien entities used familiar mind maps or constructs imprinted at a DNA level in humankind to enhance their own agenda and achieve their own goals related to Earth? 

In the broad field of mythology - from cultures - across the globe, entities similar to the FAE are classed as "fates."   These fate impacting entities tended to love forests, springs, and caves.  The earliest forms of these fates - globally - is a determination of life and death, good fortune and ill, and similar basic needs.

Is humanity merely dragging their archaic needs along with them into a modern world; evolving from veneration of elementals into objects of lights and movements?  If so, would not there be a more accepting and calm recognition of childhood growing up? 

Is there something buried deep in human minds that carries a racial warning from ages past of things to be aware of and take caution?

Did something simply psycho-analyze an early abductee and find these latent memories and myths and say, "Hmm, we can use this."

The field of study called by some UFOlogy is no simple discipline but one that we may not yet be ready to truly grasp in all its significance and subtle properties. 

The answer is needed. Is the study of the unidentified objects

in the skies on old situation or a new one? Hopefully, we will soon be able to study the subject in the depth and intensity it well deserves.