Passport To Magonia: From Folklore To Flying Sa... -

The "story" of the book is ultimately a detective tale. Vallee concludes that these entities—whether they are interdimensional, psychic, or something else entirely—act as a . By appearing as gods, then fairies, then spacemen, they nudge our collective consciousness, ensuring we never get too comfortable with our understanding of reality.

In the mist-shrouded 1960s, a brilliant astronomer named Jacques Vallee began to suspect that "space brothers" in metallic nuts-and-bolts ships weren't the whole story. While his colleagues scanned the stars for radio signals, Vallee dove into the dusty archives of human history. Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Sa...

Folklore is filled with tales of "changelings" and fairies stealing human infants. Modern UFO lore is heavy with "hybridization" programs and medical examinations. The "Control System" The "story" of the book is ultimately a detective tale

Fairies warned captives never to eat their food; modern "contactees" often describe being offered strange, saltless wafers or liquids. In the mist-shrouded 1960s, a brilliant astronomer named

It's a haunting shift in perspective: we aren't being visited by travelers from distant galaxies; we are sharing our world with a "neighbor" who likes to put on a different mask every few hundred years.

The title comes from a 9th-century account by the Archbishop of Lyons. He wrote of a mysterious land in the clouds called , from which "cloud-ships" would descend to trade with earthly farmers. To the medieval mind, these were magical sailors; to the modern mind, they are extraterrestrials. Vallee argues they are the same thing. The Folklore Connection