[...]it’s a good thing “Diane” didn’t say, “… I come from Hell!” Yikes! Don’t know exactly where I’m going with that one…

Probably that during that period of general cultural optimism, for some people it was only natural that if were visited from some other place, those beings would necessarily have to be benevolent and more spiritually advanced than us.

And interestingly, their spiritual superiority also translated in external physical beauty, an idea that’s very old —among the ancient Hebrews disease and deformity was the result of sin, whether the parents’ or one’s own.

But eventually the notion that these beings might not be so benevolent began to creep into the UFO culture; maybe as a result of the pessimism of the late 60s and 70s —”if these angelic beings are here, why won’t they stop the Vietnam war?”

That’s some of the things I was thinking when I went to visit Pandora thanks to James Cameron’s invitation. The idea that humans would be able to master inter-solar travel BEFORE sorting a way to heal the wounds of our planet was kind of depressing —but very plausible, since an urge to find another source of exploitable commodities might have a greater impact in space engineering R&D in the years to come.

ENKI… UFOnauts is a favorite expression of mine. Who coined that term, was it Greenfield? I recall there being a book written in the mid seventies, a mass market paperback, that incorporated the title, though I had mentally attributed it to Hans Holzer or someone who wasn’t normally associated with Ufology. I’m drawing a blank as to the exact identity of the author.

-Micah

Thanks for the synopsis.

These were outlined in the amusingly named “Secret Cypher of the UFONauts” and “Occult Rituals of the Men In Black”.

The tl;dr version? During the height of the contactee period, the strange words and names said by the UTs were meant to be decrypted using the thelemite ALW cypher by the secret chiefs/illuminati, and disseminated via mass media reports.