Prolegomena Of TheUnexplained

(Reflections Upon Science Fiction, Eschatology& The Paranormal)

byFrederick

Meekins

Unearthly Beings

Rather than embrace the salvation there for thetaking provided by the death and resurrection of JesusChrist, a growing percentage would rather put their trustin alleged visitors from outer space planning to usherhumanity into a New Age utopia under the guise of a“benevolent dictatorship”.A good example of this increasingly-pervasive UFOmythology appeared in an edition of the

Prince George’s Journal

when one of the columnists exhibited a number of the typical intellectual and spiritual fallacies surroundingthis controversial issue. For starters, the columnistassumes the federal government is concealing aliencorpses from another planet or knowledge pertainingthereof under lock and key in the deserts of theSouthwest.Our government might be guilty of many things(including psychic warfare according to various reports),but harboring extraterrestrial biological remains isprobably not one of them. Naturally, people are going tosee strange things in the skies above Roswell and Area51; it is, after all, where experimental aircraft are tested,many of which in all likelihood do not conform to popularaeronautical configurations.The philosophical reasoning of the columnist underconsideration is even more fuddled than her historicalassumptions. The columnist complains about the popularconception that the universe’s non-human inhabitants arediabolical and bent on interstellar domination. But she