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What would an ultraterrestrial do if it got invited to my wedding?
According to John Keel's ultraterrestrial framework, the entity would not behave like a dignified guest — it would manipulate the event itself. Jacques Vallée's 'control system' model suggests it would engineer synchronicities, misperceptions, and emotional amplification. The more you expected a coherent 'other,' the more it would resist that framing entirely.
Evidence
- John Keel, who coined 'ultraterrestrial' and developed it through his investigation of the Mothman events, argued these entities are not space visitors but indigenous non-human intelligences that have co-inhabited Earth since before recorded history.
- At your wedding, Keel would predict it would not arrive as a grand dignitary.
- Jacques Vallée's parallel 'interdimensional control system' thesis, developed across 'Passport to Magonia' and 'The Invisible College,' holds that these intelligences modulate human belief and behavior through staged intrusions into meaningful personal events — weddings, births, deaths.
- Greg Bishop and Joshua Cutchin, building on Keel in 'A Trojan Feast,' further argue the entities may exploit the liminality of threshold rituals — and a wedding is one of the most liminal events in human life.
- Per Deep Wizards' summary of Keel's trickster model, the fatal error is treating an ultraterrestrial as a 'space brother' or identifiable entity — the moment you project a stable role onto it, the phenomenon reshapes itself to frustrate that projection.