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MUFON UFO JOURNAL NUMBER 261 JANUARY 1990 'A Founded 1967 $2.50 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF IVitJFONJ MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC. MUFON UFO JOURNAL (USPS 002-970) FROM THE EDITOR (ISSN 0270-6822) Following feedback from our readers, we've tried distancing ourselves from 103 Oldtowne Rd. some of the current controversies roiling ufology, but it seems the subject will Seguin, Texas 78155-4099 U.S.A. not go away. Rather than sticking our heads in the sand while waiting for it to disappear or evaporate, we've decided that you — the concerned reader and subscriber — should be informed of some of the ongoing developments DENNIS W. STACY likely to affect the future of the field. We feel, on one hand, that honesty and Editor open publication will best enable you to make up your own minds about such WALTER H. ANDRUS, JR. matters, and, secondly, that those who may feel unduly criticized are quite International Director and Associate Editor capable of mounting their own defense, which we welcome. We also apologize for the lateness of the January issue, but have added THOMAS P. DEULEY Art Director four additional pages in an effort to compensate and keep current. We have much more material on hand, and hope to be back to our regular schedule MILDRED BIESELE Contributing Editor next issue. We appreciate your patience. ANN DRUFFEL Contributing Editor ROBERT J. GRIBBLE Columnist In this issue WHAT JUNG BELIEVED ABOUT UFOs Dennis Stillings 3 ROBERT H. BLETCHMAN THERAPIST & INVESTIGATOR: Public Relations DEFINING ROLES Rima E. Laibow, M.D. 10 PAUL CERNY AN MJ-12 INFORMANT T. Scott Grain, Jr. 15 Promotion / Publicity MARGE CHRISTENSEN MJ-12 REBUTTAL Robert G. Todd 17 Public Education DID UFO ABDUCT TWO U.S. FIGHTERS? Jorge Martin 20 REV. 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What Jung Believed About UFOs By Dennis Stillings Author Dennis Stillings directs felt very strongly that the reports of the question of 'seeing' open. the Archaeus Project (2402 Univer- unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that Something material could be seen, or sity Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, began in the years 1946-47 por- something psychic could be seen. 55114). This article, along with tended great social, political, and Both are realities, but of different contributions by Hilary Evans, perhaps even environmental changes. kinds."4 Michael Persinger, Alvin Lawson, He even tied the UFO phenomenon 2) The UFO Phenomenon, Peter Rojcewicz and others, ap- into the transition from the Age of whatever its ultimate nature might be, pears in the current issue of Ar- Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.2 is the focus of projections5 involving chaeus 5, available for $8, postage The points made by Ein moderner archetypal images arising from the paid, from the above address. My thus with regard to UFOs are: collective unconscious. These projec- 1) "Something is seen, but one tions give rise to statements about In 1958, C. G. Jung published his doesn't know what."3 The word UFOs and their behavior that can be classical ufological work, Ein "seen" is qualified here. According to readily and successfully compared to moderner Mythus von Dingen, die Jung: "The formulation ['Something images and structures found in am Himmel gesehen werden.1 Jung is seen, but it isn't known what'] leaves mythology and folklore. The fact that MUFON UFO JOURNAL NO. 261 JANUARY 1990 PAGES this can be done does not say This in spite of the fact that Jung was anything about the ultimate origin or that most contemptible of things — nature of the UFO phenomenon. an armchair ufologist. He did no "The apparent physical nature of fieldwork, he had available only a the UFOs creates such insoluble fraction of the vast ufological literature puzzles for even the best brains, and now available, and he indulged in on the other hand has built up such psychological interpretations of UFO an impressive legend, that one feels reports — a methodology now entire- tempted to take them as a ninety-nine ly out of fashion. Jung's comments on per cent psychic product and subject matters ufological, other than the them accordingly to the usual psychological ones, were retailed from psychological interpretation. Should the opinions of active ufologists, such it be that an unknown physical as Ruppelt and Keyhoe — reason phenomenon is the outward cause of enough not to become too attached the myth, this could detract nothing to his pronouncements on issues of from the myth, for many myths have the physical reality of UFOs. Be that meteorological and other natural as it may, the fact that several modern phenomena as accompanying causes ufologists — and not only ufologists which by no means explain them ... — cite Jung in support of the silliest For primitive man any object, for in- and most unscientific of ideas has stance an old tin that has been thrown moved me to attempt to clarify as away, can suddenly assume the im- much as possible (and I believe it can portance of a fetish. This effect is ob- be made quite clear) what Jung's viously not inherent in the tin, but is position was in regard to extraterres- a psychic product."6 trial invasion of our airspace. The 3) The UFO phenomenon is "real." source for much confusion on Jung's This aspect of Jung's argument beliefs derives from the letter from generates a great deal of confusion. Jung to the weekly magazine Jung often used "real" to refer not on- C. J. JUNG Weltwoche (Zurich)10 in response to ly to external physical reality, but to a request for an interview. Several the reality of the psyche. He was far Jung paid about equal time and at- questions and answers followed, and more interested in what he termed tention to speculations that UFOs all were printed in the same issue. "psychic fact." A psychic fact can be were insects,7 that they were Translated extracts from his interview any statement, image or belief that generated by parapsychological ef- were published in Flying Saucer someone expresses. Unicorns are a fects,8 and that they could even be Review (London), in Courier psychic fact and, as such, have a cer- related to ball lightning (giving a pres- Interplanetaire (Switzerland), and in tain psychic reality, part of which still cient nod to Phil Klass) or as-yet- the APRO Bulletin (U.S.). The ex- exerts its influence by way of our unknown manifestations of elec- tracts were translated in such a way fascination with stories of such tromagnetism (anticipating Michael as to give the most favorable impres- creatures. Therefore one must be very Persinger?)9 as he did to the extrater- sion to the notion that Jung sup- cautious about Jung's use of "real." restrial hypothesis (ETH). This is ported a spacecraft theory. None of Jung's positions are fairly conser- especially so if one subtracts the many these tendentious translations were vative ones, to which he attempted to comments by Jung — comments he submitted to Jung prior to publication.