ABSTRACT

UFOs were first publicized only towards the end of the Second World War, the phenomenon itself was known long before. The picture shows them in operation, releasing UFOs or taking them on board. Especially important, though lacking in the modern UFO reports, are the indubitable quaternities, seen sometimes as simple crosses, sometimes as disks in the form of a cross, that is, as regular mandalas. Columns of smoke rise up from the place where the cannonballs have fallen, reminding us of Tanguy's picture. The moment of sunrise, the Aurora consurgens, suggests the revelation of the light. Both reports have clear analogies not only with one another but also with the modern saucer stories and with the individual products of the unconscious today. The personal relationship between the UFO and the observing dream subject was stressed in some of the dreams. The masculine, feminine antithesis appears in the long and round objects such as cigar-form and circle.