ne of the most unusual conferences ever held at Virginia Beach is being hosted by the A.R.E., December 2-3, 2005. It is the result of increased public and media interest in the UFO phenomenon, as well as revived interest in those Edgar Cayce readings that specifically mentioned ancient visitations to Earth by extraterrestrials. The conference includes several of the most influential figures in the study of UFOs (ufology) as well as Cayce-oriented speakers who have carefully evaluated Cayce’s readings on the ancient world.

The most definitive Cayce reading on ancient visits to Earth by extraterrestrial beings was given in 1938 (1616-1): “Before this we find the entity was in the land now known as the Mexican and Yucatan land.…It was just before that period when those as from the east had come, and there were the beginnings of the unfoldments of the understanding that there were other portions of the same land, or those that were visiting from other worlds or planets.” The time frame and location of these visits by people “from other worlds or planets” is fairly narrow. It was in the Mayan (Yucatan) region, and it was after Christ’s appearance in Palestine.

Another 1938 Cayce reading appears to strongly suggest ancient extraterrestrial visitations, but this time it took place in the Atlantean land, around 10,000 B.C. Incredibly, the reading implies that the warning given to the Atlantean priests about the impending destruction of Atlantis could have come from extraterrestrial sources. Furthermore, the need to have the Atlantean records preserved in three locations also appears to have come from the same source:

“Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land.

“There we find the entity was very close to those in authority; being that one who was the keeper of the portals as well as the messages that were received from the visitation of those from the outer spheres, in the latter part of the entity’s experience there.

“For it was the entity that received the message as to the needs for the dividing of the children of the Law of One for the preservation of the truths of same in other lands.

“Hence we find the entity was among those who were as the directors of those expeditions, or the leaving for the many varied lands just before the breaking up of the Atlantean land.

“Hence the entity outlined in the most part, it might be said, the expedition guided by Ax-Tell and the ones to the Pyrenees and to the Yucatan and to the land of Og.”(1681-1)

Edgar Cayce also often related that there were elemental beings, which consisted of vibrations (similar to electrical energies).Under some conditions, these vibrational forces could manifest into physical forms. During his youth, Cayce played with these physical beings, which he called fairies (294-128). In other readings (1298-1), he called elementals “the warp [vibrational ]and woof [texture ]of materiality.” Cayce mentioned brownies, pixies, fairies, and gnomes as examples of these materialized forms. These readings have strong similarities to many modern UFO abduction reports, and will be a topic addressed during the conference.

Ufology— A Spectrum of Theories

The field of ufology emerged not long after the modern wave of UFO reports appeared in 1947, two years after Cayce’s death. So many UFO reports were made in America, that the government was forced to address the issue, especially since many reports came from military sources. From 1947 through 1952, the U.S. Air Force investigated 2,344 UFO cases and classified about 17 percent as unidentified.In 1991, the Air Force issued regulation 190-1, which reported that over 12,500 cases had been officially investigated and that about 5 percent were unexplained. In general, UFO investigators focus on the unexplained cases, which continue to pour in unabated to this day. Quite recently, the Brazilian government has officially released previously unknown documents, which validate both the government ’s involvement in UFO investigations and the finding that investigators have concluded that many of the cases are genuine and inexplicable in conventional terms. Some prominent UFO investigators assert that a government conspiracy has been at the center of an ongoing cover up, which seeks to hide the fact that the military has recovered the remains of crashed alien craft as well as the aliens inside these craft. While many investigators have become certain that the unexplained UFO reports represent alien craft, others have come to very different conclusions. One interesting background to the modern UFO era is increasing understanding that similar reports have been made throughout all recorded history. This has led to a fascinating range of ideas and theories about UFOs that incorporate spirituality, Native American lore, Earth energies, angels, and neurochemistry. The December 2005 conference will cover the entire spectrum of all these theories with many of the foremost investigators and theorists.