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Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and CultsJacques Vallée’s study of UFO contact narratives, cult formation, manipulation, and belief provides the episode’s principal conceptual framework.
“Whether we call them angels, demons, or extraterrestrials, the entities adapt their masks to our culture… Today’s Greys may be yesterday’s sylphs or jinn.” Quote from Dimensions. “There may be a machine involved, but a machine that remains out of view of the witnesses, who see only what it is projecting. When we go to the movies, we look at the objects and the people on the screen; we do not stare at the projector.” Quote from Messengers of Deception. “The entities appear to be neither extra...

Jacques Vallée’s study of UFO contact narratives, cult formation, manipulation, and belief provides the episode’s principal conceptual framework.