Brief
Jerome Clark
The claims the writer was given for Jerome Clark, in the order they were given.
1
Jerome Clark regards excursions into fairy lore and folklore as untenable and damaging to the credibility of serious UFO research.
“Researchers such as Jerome Clark regard these sorties into “fairy lore” and uncertain folklore as untenable and damaging to the credibility of serious UFO research.”
Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions 2005-11-14 ch23:56428-56583 opinion second hand
2
Jacques Vallee has verified observations made previously by Jerome Clark, Donald Hanlon, Gordon Creighton, and John Keel, though he does not accept all of their conclusions.
“I have been in a position to verify observations that others like Jerome Clark and Donald Hanlon, Gordon Creighton and John Keel had made before me; although I do not buy all their conclusions I have convinced myself of the validity of their reports.”
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race 2014-09-27 ch13:12059-12301 opinion first hand
3
Jerome Clark holds the view, contrary to Jacques Vallee's hypothesis that contact between human percipients and the UFO phenomenon occurs under conditions controlled by the phenomenon, that instead the percipient controls the conditions.
“My view is just the opposite: namely, that the percipient controls the conditions.”
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race 2014-09-27 ch13:14334-14405 opinion first hand
4
Jerome Clark related that a young woman acquaintance, unaware of his views on UFOs, told him she dreamed of a little man stepping out of a craft, weeping and pleading with her to let him go, saying she had created him and he could not exist without her.
“A striking illustration to what I mean comes from the dream of a young woman acquaintance who, knowing nothing of my views of the UFO phenomenon, told me that she had seen a little man step out of the craft. He was weeping plaintively—addressing the dreamer, he pleaded with her to “let him go.” He said she had created him and he could not exist without her.”
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race 2014-09-27 ch13:14417-14772 hearsay second hand
5
In a story quoted by Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, a Utah woman named Mrs. Squires, in the summer of 1874, encountered a gray-haired man with a long white beard who requested food and told her she would never want for anything again after she acknowledged she was suffering from pain under her shoulder; he then vanished when she followed him outside.
“In one of the stories quoted by Clark and Coleman, a Utah woman named Squires...suddenly found herself confronted with a gray-haired man wearing a long white beard, who requested something to eat and soon remarked that “she was not well.”...“God bless you, Sister. You will never want for anything again. You will always be blessed with plenty.” He walked out the door, but when Mrs. Squires followed him outside he had vanished”
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race 2014-09-27 ch15:56153-56671 hearsay second hand