Sometimes it's useful to remind myself that this actually happens. Whatever the events represent, they happen more or less as reported. That blows my friggin mind, man.
The academic community just ignorantly dismisses it all. We hate truth.
To Chuckleberry's point: Sometimes Mack's writing and/or interviews come off a big "new-agey" for my tastes, but at the same time he made a point very much akin to Chuckleberry's. Mack's idea, if I'm reading it correctly, is that when humanity bought into the Age of Reason, not only did we abandon a deeper understanding of the possible "otherness" of reality, but it abandoned us as well- at least how we'd known it up to that time.
You're right, CE. This case is bizarre! The bizarre one's are those that get my attention. As you cited in one of our private discussions, it seems a lot like the pancake story from many years ago.
This story is full of inconsistancies, inconsistancies in terms of other CE4 cases, not on the part of childrens recollections of what they experienced. Think of everything that differs from the common CE4/abduction trope:
-It took place in broad daylight, not in the middle of the night-roused from slumber
-It was a group of 62 people, as opposed to a lone individual
-Some of the children said the beings look "surprised to see us", usually it is the human that is beyond shock at the encounter
-Although it may not have been thoroughly investigated, it appears that none of the children were "abducted" in the classic sense, whereas in "common" abduction scenarios there is a workman like intent on the part of the others
-While some of the children mention seeing the craft come down and hearing its noises, in other interviews I've seen, they say it was just there and it appears it was in a thoroughly wooded area
-Lastly, the children speak of the "aliens" having longish black hair, while they do note the almond shaped eyes, the hair takes this, at least to my mind, out of the standard encounter with a living being
So, the question is, why is this case different?
One thought that keeps crossing my mind is that Vallee and some the other proponents of the dimensional theory and vibrations (Stringfield?) may be closer to an answer than we know. What if we do live in a multi-dimensional realty and there are other living things within this framework that can manipulate and/or create openings between these dimensions? Would it not stand to reason that on occasion there may be slips or accidents where objects, animate and otherwise, cross through unintentionally? Is it possible that these things were in fact quite surprised to see the children, because they didn't expect to see them any more than the children expected these little things to invade their yard?
In keeping with this idea, it would seem the beings then slip into the old and oft used meme, "you are destroying your planet, the trees will burn. . .etc". They may have had to come up with something fast. For all we know, these things or the "it" behind the phenomena may experience the idea of being outnumbered and according to the descriptions from the children, they we not very big.
That's just one idea. Another, and I won't bore you by going on too long, is that this played out just the way it was supposed to. Along these lines, and if time and space remain relatively irrelevent to the phenomena, its trickle through effort might be unknowable. Maybe the idea was that these children would see these things in 1994 and 18 years later a man in Arizona would beging discussing it online with a man in Oslo. . .and then the next domino falls. . .leading to- we can only guess. I have had both of my grade school age children watch the interviews many times and asked them their thoughts. Maybe this is the goal of going to, as you so rightly note CE, the proletariat instead of the captain's of industry, politicos or scientists. I tell my children and friends and they do so with others.
As to craft behavior, you may be on to something CE. I'd take it a step further and in keeping with your keen interest in CE5 studies, what if the odd and erratic behavior is somehow the result of the observer's consciousness?
Ok, I'm going back to the matzah ball soup.
I've thought about contacting the Mack Foundation and seeing what they know.
In closing, no word out of Zim after the last email. I guess things are getting pretty bad over there, or I would suggest we meet in Paris and go to Ruwa ourselves. I'll keep you posted if/when I hear more.
