Abstract
About a tenth of Americans claim to have observed a UFO or been witness to some event that they attribute to the activity of extra‐terrestrials. The number claiming actually to have met or been physically abducted by aliens from outer space is happily much lower, but the belief that this experience is real is astonishingly widespread. For not a shred of credible evidence exists to support such tales. The encounter with sentient beings from another world is a common theme of human literature and fantasy, ranging from Shakespeare through to modern‐day computer games, and taking in the myths and morality tales of most of the world's religions. A Midsummer Night's Dream , for example, depicts a parallel world in which immortal beings, endowed with far‐reaching powers including hypersonic flight and an advanced understanding of behavioural pharmacology, intermingle with humans, whilst remaining invisible to them except when they choose to reveal themselves in caprice. Shakespeare's fairies, though technologically far advanced, are still prone to human foibles such as lust and jealousy, and simply can't resist interfering in …
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