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264 UFOs and Demons
misfortunes on the surface. The so-called Shaver
mystery amounted to a kind of technologized
demonology. Constable’s underground entities
clearly owe much to the deros, and the deros
clearly owe as much to traditional demons.
In the 1960s occult journalist John A. Keel
picked up on Constable’s theories (though
without crediting him) and painted UFOs and
paranormal phenomena as evidence of a demonic
invasion. Keel called the demons “ultraterrestrials”
but did not hesitate to identify himself as a latterday
demonologist. “The quasi-Angels of Biblical
times have become magnificent spacemen,” Keel
wrote. “The demons, devils, and false angels were
recognized as liars and plunderers by early man.
These same impostors now appear as long-haired
Venusians” (Keel 1970, 216).
Unlike Constable, who saw at least some UFO
entities as kindly intentioned, Keel believes they
are uniformly evil. Once they exerted direct
control over the human race when the ruling
classes of the world married ultraterrestrials
disguised as humans. When democratic movements
entered the world, however, and royal
dynasties were overthrown, the ultraterrestrials
were forced to mount a direct counterattack to
restore their domination. They are behind cults,
secret societies, and other movements, and under
a wide range of guises they have affected the lives
of human beings and the course of human destiny.
Any human being who deals with them will end
up destroyed. “We are biochemical robots helplessly
controlled by forces that can scramble our
brains, destroy our memories and use us in any
way they see fit,” Keel avers.“They have been doing
it to us forever” (Keel 1988, 174).
Similar ideas were beginning to appear in the
pages of England’s Flying Saucer Review (also
known as FSR), a widely read and influential
magazine among the world’s ufologists. Editor
Charles Bowen had begun to wonder if contactees
were having real experiences—heretofore, conservative
ufologists had dismissed them as hoaxers or
victims of psychiatric disorders—but being misled
by a “façade deliberately created by alien entities
whose objectives are in no way connected with our
welfare” (“More Than” 1965, 2). These entities
came from “universes parallel with ours but with a
different time stream” (Bowen 1968, 12). Though
some of the beings were benevolent, most were
not, and the bad guys were winning. The magazine’s
assistant editor, Dan Lloyd, explicitly identified
Satan as the moving force behind the UFO
phenomenon. Satan wants people to believe that
UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin, because that is
a materialist concept and materialistic concepts
encourage a “one-sided development of man’s
intellect . . .. There could be no greater distortion
of what is actually happening at the present time
in man’s relation to the spiritual world than to
spread the delusion that physical machines are
coming to earth with physical beings from outer
space” (Lloyd 1969, 10).
F. W. Holiday, a regular contributor to FSR,
theorized that the Loch Ness monster is a demonic
entity, a literal dragon. On one occasion in 1973
Holiday believed he had encountered a demonic
“man in black” on the shores of Scotland’s most
famous lake and associated that encounter with a
heart attack he suffered soon afterwards. Just prior
to that event, Holiday had participated in an exorcism
of the loch with the Rev. Dr. Donald Omand,
an Anglican clergyman much interested in
demonic manifestations. Another forceful, even—
as his critics had it—hysterical proponent of
demonological ufology is Gordon Creighton, a
retired British diplomat long associated with FSR
who became its editor after Charles Bowen
stepped down. There is hardly a human misfortune
or evil, from wars to street crime to disease
epidemics, that Creighton does not ascribe to
demonic UFO entities, which he calls jinns after
traditional Islamic lore. (There are good jinns and
bad ones, but demonological ufology is focused
exclusively on the latter.) According to Creighton,
jinns were behind the making of Steven Spielberg’s
popular film ET, whose depiction of friendly
aliens was calculated to mislead human beings
about the true, decidedly unfriendly intentions of
the aliens. In Creighton’s judgment (and his
italics) the movie was “a subtle way for facilitating
a take-over by something out of the Pit” (“The ‘E.T.’
Plague” 1983, 1). The jinns own the earth, treating
us as animals from whose gene pool they can
borrow as the occasion suits (thus UFO abductions).
They are also responsible for the AIDS