“The “technology” of the UFOs is not designed to carry little men from one physical planet to another. It is designed, much more simply, to trigger the already-existing imagery we are all carrying in our brains. It is the imagery of magonia, of intelligent beams of light, of dialogues with strange creatures. Emerging fully armed into our local universe – like Athena being born from Zeus’s head – the UFOs do nothing more than provide the physical support for our own dreams. We do the rest. Our brains erect a ladder of symbols toward the darkened skies where the strange machines hover, and we meet them more than halfway across the bridge of their strangeness – perhaps because we vaguely perceive that their irresistible, pathetic adventure is our own.”