{"id":3598,"date":"2025-03-11T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-occult-nature-of-ufos-part-four-the-magi-of-the-ultraterrestrials-5\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:00:58","slug":"the-occult-nature-of-ufos-part-four-the-magi-of-the-ultraterrestrials-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-occult-nature-of-ufos-part-four-the-magi-of-the-ultraterrestrials-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Occult Nature of UFOs, Part Four: The Magi of the Ultraterrestrials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Occult Nature of UFOs, Part Four: The Magi of the Ultraterrestrials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magi<\/strong> (noun)<\/p>\n<p>The plural form of <strong>Magus<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A member of an ancient priestly class found among the Medes and Persians<\/li>\n<li>A magician or sorcerer (Merriam-Webster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sex and Saucers<\/h2>\n<p>In 1945, Jack Parsons, a trailblazer in American rocketry and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, embarked on a series of occult rituals aimed at summoning the Thelemic goddess &#8220;Babalon.&#8221; As a follower of &#8220;Thelema,&#8221; the spiritual framework established by renowned British occultist Aleister Crowley, Parsons created a sort of magical commune at his Pasadena home. There, like-minded individuals gathered to live, collaborate, and engage in various rituals, including forms of sex magic. Among these seekers was science fiction writer and future founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. Of Hubbard, Parsons noted,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;he has an extraordinary amount of experience and understanding in the field. From his experiences, I deduce he is in direct touch with some higher intelligence, possibly his guardian angel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The two quickly formed a friendship and became partners in evoking Babalon, with Parsons aiming to infuse the spirit of sexual love into a ravaged world.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Grant, another disciple of Crowley, observed that &#8220;the working began in 1945-46, just months prior to Crowley\u2019s death in 1947 and just before the wave of unexplained aerial phenomena known as the &#8216;Great Flying Saucer Flap&#8217;&#8230; Parsons opened a door, and something flew in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the notion that Parsons was a catalyst for UFOs is absurd, it&#8217;s intriguing to consider whether the rituals conducted in the Mojave Desert coincided with an uptick in UFO activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>An intriguing thread links sexuality to UFO encounters. Numerous reports exist of individuals engaged in intimate acts who subsequently experienced sightings and anomalous encounters. UFO researcher John Keel documented various such incidents, particularly among couples parked in &#8220;lovers&#8217; lanes&#8221; who reported strange lights, objects, and beings.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, both contactees and abductees have described experiences that feature medical procedures with sexual implications, as well as interactions\u2014both voluntary and coerced\u2014with non-human entities.<\/p>\n<p>One notable account comes from Antonio Vilas Boas, who was forcibly taken aboard an unusual craft that landed on his family&#8217;s farm in Brazil in 1957:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Succubus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boas recalls being left alone for about an hour on a large, featureless gray bed that resembled foam rubber. After a brief feeling of suffocation, he vomited but felt better afterward. Suddenly, a door opened, and a naked woman entered!<\/p>\n<p>Approaching him in silence, she seemed to have an agenda. &#8220;I began to get excited&#8230; I forgot everything and held her close, reciprocating her advances.&#8221; They reportedly engaged in various sexual acts for about an hour. Afterward, she pointed at her belly and then to the sky as she departed, indicating a desire for progeny.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Excerpted from an article by Terry Melanson)<\/p>\n<p>What other &#8220;magical&#8221; elements can we uncover in accounts of UFO and related phenomena?<\/p>\n<h2>Prophecies From Lanulos<\/h2>\n<p>On November 2, 1966, a sewing machine salesman, Woodrow Derenberger, had a bizarre encounter while driving on Interstate 77 near Parkersburg, West Virginia. A strange object swiftly approached his vehicle, hovering just above the road and halting in front of him. He described it as charcoal gray, reminiscent of an upside-down kerosene lamp. <\/p>\n<p>As he observed the craft, a door opened, and a man exited. Derenberger characterized the stranger as being about 6 feet tall, with a tan complexion and dark hair, dressed in a shimmery navy suit beneath a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe Occult Nature of UFOs, Part Four: The Magi of the Ultraterrestrials Magi (noun) The plural form of Magus: A member of an ancient priestly class found among the Medes and Persians A magician or sorcerer (Merriam-Webster) Sex and Saucers In 1945, Jack Parsons, a trailblazer in American rocketry and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-occult-nature-of-ufos-part-four-the-magi-of-the-ultraterrestrials-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Occult Nature of UFOs, Part Four: The Magi of the Ultraterrestrials&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}