It has been suggested that they replace medieval angelic and demonic spirits in our imaginations, and this ambiguity is clearly apparent in this month's selection. But by far the greatest number and variety of sources is to be found among UFOlogists themselves, and the new age.
Strangers have the same function in society.
As elements of total social unpredictability, they are endowed in our fancies with immense power for good and evil, and few figures can be more strange than beings from other planetary systems. T he thrust of this article is that all aliens are hostile and must on no account be trusted. It is not only us they are hostile to, for they abduct one another to find out what different groups are up to. They do not like our aggressiveness when caught, and take precautions against us, but in any case they always do with us as they choose. In this process, memories are collected and stored, for what purpose is unspecified.