Meade Layne (September 8, 1882May 12, 1961)
was an American academic and early researcher of
ufology and
parapsychology, best known for proposing an early version of the
interdimensional hypothesis to explain
flying saucer sightings.
Early life
Layne was born in
Viroqua, Wisconsin and raised in
San Diego.
Layne sold office supplies, worked as a real estate agent, managed an oil and gas company, and wrote poetry. He claimed to have earned a PhD in English literature.
Career
Layne was the founder and first director of Borderland Sciences Research Associates.
Prior to his public work studying ufos, Layne was professor at the
University of Southern California, and English department head at
Illinois Wesleyan University and
Florida Southern College
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.
"Etheria"
Layne speculated that, rather than representing advanced
military or
extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond ( extra-) the planet Earth ( terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin words ''extra'' ("outside", "outwards") and ''terrestris'' ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth"). It may be abbrevia ...
technology, flying saucers were piloted by beings from a
parallel dimension, which he called Etheria, and their "ether ships" were usually
invisible but could be seen when their
atomic motion became slow enough.
He further claimed that Etherians could become stranded on the
terrestrial plane when their ether ships malfunctioned, and that various governments were aware of these incidents and had investigated them.
Furthermore, Layne argued that
Etherians
Meade Layne (September 8, 1882May 12, 1961) was an American academic and early researcher of ufology and parapsychology, best known for proposing an early version of the interdimensional hypothesis to explain flying saucer sightings.
Early l ...
and their ether ships inspired much of earth's
mythology and
religion, but that they were truly mortal beings despite having a high level of technological and spiritual advancement. He claimed that their motive in coming to the terrestrial plane of existence was to
reveal their accumulated wisdom to humanity. These revelations would be relayed through individuals with sufficiently developed
psychic abilities, allowing them to contact the Etherians and communicate with them directly; in particular, he relied extensively on the mediumship of
Mark Probert
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as confirmation of his theories.
Death
Layne died in San Diego in 1961.
Works
* Layne, Meade, ''The Ether Ship Mystery And Its Solution'', San Diego, Calif., 1950.
* Layne, Meade, ''The Coming of The Guardians'', San Diego, Calif., 1954.
See also
*
Jacques Vallée
Jacques Fabrice Vallée (; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
His scientific career began ...
References
Sources
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External links
* https://obscurantist.com/oma/layne-meade/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060409105450/http://www.internationalnewsagency.org/us_astronauts_and_the_ufo_encoun.htm
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1882 births
1961 deaths
American parapsychologists
Ufologists