There are several thousand accounts of people claiming to have been on board flying saucers and come into direct contact with aliens.
All these testimonies are downright full of details of their behavior and speech, the design of unusual aircraft, control and navigation systems. However, eyewitnesses, describing the contact, tell practically nothing about the everyday culture of aliens: what they eat, how they cope with their natural needs, how they dispose of waste products. But this side of life is very important and can tell us much more about aliens than the most colorful descriptions of their appearance …
The Eagle River case never got an explanation. Air Force experts believe that Simonton, who had lived alone for a long time, suddenly began hallucinating while awake. Many were satisfied with this explanation. Apparently, these "many" do not know anything about the rich cultural tradition associated with stories about the "little people", fairies and elves, with whom man had to deal with in ancient times. On the contrary, the words of the farmer would be taken more seriously.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an American, Wentz, who devoted a lot of time to collecting folk tales on the topic of supernatural beings, their habits and food. In his book on this subject, he cites the story of the Irishman Pat Finay. Once a small woman came to Phiney and asked for oatmeal:
“Paddy had so little cereal that he was ashamed to give it to this woman. He would have given her potatoes instead of cereals, but the woman wanted oats, and he gave her everything he had. She asked to hide the oats in the chest until her return, and Paddy obeyed her. And the next morning the chest was full of oats."
It's a shame Paddy didn't keep this valuable piece of evidence for the US Department of Health, Education, and Culture. It is interesting to note that the analysis done by the Aeronautics Service did not reveal the presence of salt in the pies brought by Simonton. Indeed, one Irishman, quite familiar with the fairies, told Wentz that "they never ate anything salty, and the meat was only raw, and drank clean water." Pure water is exactly what people from the "flying saucer" asked for from Simonton.
The issue of food is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in Celtic legends about the abduction of babies and pets by elves. The pies that Simonton received were, among other things, made from buckwheat husks. Grech is closely associated with the legends of Brittany, one of the most conservative Celtic regions. In this area of France, the belief in fairies is even more widespread, although Wentz had great difficulty finding Bretons who could say they saw fairies with their own eyes. One of the features of traditional Breton legends is the introduction of fairies or dwarfs to a race of creatures called fions.
It is said that a black cow belonging to the fions trampled down the buckwheat field of a poor woman. The woman cried bitterly because of this, and then the fions made a contract with her: they made sure that the woman always had cakes, and she had to keep their existence secret. Indeed, she and her family noticed that their supplies of flatbread were inexhaustible. Alas, once a woman gave a piece of a cake to a person who should not have trusted the secret of its magical origin, and as a result, the whole family was forced, as before, in the sweat of their brow to make buckwheat cakes.
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"FLYING PLATE" PIE
It was the most ordinary day in the US Department of Health, Education and Cultural Food and Pharmaceutical Labs when Air Force experts sent in a request to study a piece of a pie that was made aboard a flying saucer. The man who got this piece is 60-year-old farmer Joe Simonton, who lived alone in a small house near Eagle River, Wisconsin.
According to this farmer, the newcomers with whom he happened to meet gave him three small cakes, one of which he ate without any pleasure, because it never tasted like cardboard. Health ministry experts gave a more scientific conclusion:
“The sample consists of a mixture of water, starch, buckwheat husks, seed husks, soybeans, and bran. The graphs of bacterial and radiation studies of the sample did not exceed the norm. Chemical tests of the sample were carried out using infrared rays and other experiments of a destructive nature. The laboratory concluded that the sample came from a common terrestrial cake."
So where did he come from? Speaking on behalf of the Air Force, Dr. J. Aplen Hyneck, who was investigating the case with Major Robert Freend and one of the officers at Seivier Air Base, stated:
"There can be no doubt that Mr. Simonton's feeling that he was the object of a grand experiment is well founded."
At about 2 am on April 18, 1961, Joe Simonton's attention was attracted by a strange noise, similar to the sound "made by tires on a wet pavement." The farmer went out into the yard and saw a silver, “shinier than chrome”, saucer-shaped object that hovered almost level with the ground, but did not touch it. The object was about 4 meters high and 9 meters in diameter. Somewhere at a height of one and a half meters from the ground, a hatch opened, and Simonton saw three short people in the apparatus. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that "they looked like Italians." Their hair was black, their skin was dark, their shirts contrasted with steel-colored collars. And their helmets were nothing more than knitted woolen caps.
One of the people lifted a pot, apparently made of the same material as the "flying saucer" itself. His gesture, without a doubt, showed Simonton that they needed water. Simonton took the pot, returned to the house and filled it. In turn, he saw how one of the people in the "flying saucer" was busy "baking some food on a kind of grill without fire." The insides of the apparatus were as black as "raw iron." Then Simonton heard "a long howling sound like the hum of a generator." When he made a gesture indicating that he was interested in the food being prepared, one of the people, dressed in black, wearing trousers with red narrow braids, handed him three small pies about seven centimeters in diameter, in which small holes were punctured. Finally, the man who was closest to the witness,attached something like a belt to a hook on his clothes and closed the hatch. Then the device rose 6 meters above the ground and headed straight south, causing such a gust of wind that the nearby fir trees bent under its pressure. When two people sent by the local sheriff arrived at the scene, they found no confirmation of this story, except for three cooled pies.
STARTER FROM FAIRY LAND
The Eagle River case never got an explanation. Air Force experts believe that Simonton, who had lived alone for a long time, suddenly began hallucinating while awake. Many were satisfied with this explanation. Apparently, these "many" do not know anything about the rich cultural tradition associated with stories about the "little people", fairies and elves, with whom man had to deal with in ancient times. On the contrary, the words of the farmer would be taken more seriously.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an American, Wentz, who devoted a lot of time to collecting folk tales on the topic of supernatural beings, their habits and food. In his book on this subject, he cites the story of the Irishman Pat Finay. Once a small woman came to Phiney and asked for oatmeal:
“Paddy had so little cereal that he was ashamed to give it to this woman. He would have given her potatoes instead of cereals, but the woman wanted oats, and he gave her everything he had. She asked to hide the oats in the chest until her return, and Paddy obeyed her. And the next morning the chest was full of oats."
It's a shame Paddy didn't keep this valuable piece of evidence for the US Department of Health, Education, and Culture. It is interesting to note that the analysis done by the Aeronautics Service did not reveal the presence of salt in the pies brought by Simonton. Indeed, one Irishman, quite familiar with the fairies, told Wentz that "they never ate anything salty, and the meat was only raw, and drank clean water." Pure water is exactly what people from the "flying saucer" asked for from Simonton.
The issue of food is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in Celtic legends about the abduction of babies and pets by elves. The pies that Simonton received were, among other things, made from buckwheat husks. Grech is closely associated with the legends of Brittany, one of the most conservative Celtic regions. In this area of France, the belief in fairies is even more widespread, although Wentz had great difficulty finding Bretons who could say they saw fairies with their own eyes. One of the features of traditional Breton legends is the introduction of fairies or dwarfs to a race of creatures called fions.
It is said that once a black cow belonging to the fions trampled down the buckwheat field of a poor woman. The woman cried bitterly because of this, and then the fions made a contract with her: they made sure that the woman always had cakes, and she had to keep their existence secret. Indeed, she and her family noticed that their supplies of flatbread were inexhaustible. Alas, once a woman gave a piece of a cake to a person who should not have trusted the secret of its magical origin, and as a result, the whole family was forced, as before, in the sweat of their brow to make buckwheat cakes.
There is hardly any need to remind the reader that the Bible also contains examples of magically replenishing food supplies that can feed entire nations. Moreover, some people tell similar stories today.
“A man who lived in Brecknockshire (the country of the Gauls) once went out of his house to take his cattle and sheep to a mountain pasture, and disappeared. About three weeks had passed in an unsuccessful search, and his wife already believed he was dead when he returned home. "Three weeks? You call three hours three weeks? " he wondered. When she asked him to tell him where he was, he replied that he was playing the flute in Lforf, a place near Van Poole, when little people appeared and gradually began to approach until they surrounded him in a tight circle. They began to sing and dance, and fascinated him to such an extent that he felt completely at a loss. They presented him with little cakes, and he ate them, and never in his life was he so happy."
Wentz has several stories about fairy food. He collected them during long travels in Celtic villages. John McNeill of Barra, an old man who did not speak English, told them to Michel Buchanan, who translated them from Gaelic for Wentz. This is a story about a young girl who was kidnapped by fairies.
The fairies kidnapped her right from home and forced her to bake oat cakes. But no matter how much flour she removed from the cabinet, its amount on the shelf did not decrease. And she continued to bake cakes without a break, until one of the “little men” took pity on her and said: “I am sure that you have been sad for a long time and are thinking about how you would leave our land. And I will tell you a way that will allow you to get out of here: whatever the remaining flour that crumbles from the cakes after baking, collect it in the closet, and then my wife will give you rest. Indeed, she did as he asked and was able to leave. John McNeill, who was 70 or 80 years old, did not say when the story happened. But, since he himself saw this girl after what happened, it must have happened somewhere in the second half of the 19th century.
Scientists scoff at such stories as outrageous. A group of UFO researchers, who were told about the incident on the Eagle River, said that they have no desire to analyze the cakes or investigate the case - they have many much more interesting things that require research. And two weeks after the incident, Joe Simonton told a reporter for United Press International that if it happened again, he would "not say a single word to anyone." However, it is hard to doubt that Joe Simonton saw a flying saucer, a grill without fire, and three little people. He gave them pure water, and they gave him three cakes.
If we reflect on this very simple incident, as researchers of folklore reflected on the stories above, we will not be able to abandon the obvious: the event in Eagle River could have actually happened, and it takes on the meaning of a simple and yet grandiose ceremony.
SACRED RITUAL OF CONTACT
This latter theory was proposed by another researcher of old legends, Hartland, when he said the following on the topic of food exchange:
“Almost all over the world, the ritual of hospitality has been preserved in order to oblige the guest to behave peacefully and tie him into close acquaintance with the hosts. And even where the concept of hospitality did not exist, sharing dinner often symbolized or, in other words, created some kind of unity of a rather sacred character."
The fact that this meaning also applies to eating together can easily be noted when it comes to weddings and other traditional gatherings, where eating is an important part, even if the symbolic value of such rituals has lost its meaning for many of our contemporaries. Hartland also argued that the custom of burying the dead with food may have some connection with the widespread belief in the need for earthly food for the dead even when they leave the earth for good. Indeed, in both ancient and modern traditions, the habitat of supernatural visitors is not much different from the world of the dead.
However, this is a controversial point of view, since it also applies to "visitors" from the sky. Theologians who often argue about the nature of angels are well aware of this. But there, at least, the idea of food serves a slightly different function. In light of Hartland's comments on the custom of hospitality, a Bible passage is worth citing:
“… And they will bring a little water, and they will wash your feet, and rest under this tree, and I will bring bread, and you will strengthen your hearts, then go as you walk past your servant. They said: do as you say. And he took the butter and milk and the calf that had been cooked, and set it before them, and he himself stood beside them under the tree. And they ate”(Genesis 18: 4, 5, 8).
According to Genesis (19: 3), Lot invited two angels, whom he met at the gate of Sodom, "and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate." After all this, Joe Simonton's story could be a modern illustration of the biblical admonition: "Remember to welcome strangers well, as did those who received angels without knowing it."
Some irresponsible authors also claim that aliens from outer space love to diversify their menu with human flesh or animal entrails. We will not seriously consider these unsubstantiated statements, bearing in mind that it is unlikely that creatures capable of building interstellar ships need such "delicacies".