Several decades ago, the Flying Saucer Review (FSR) of Great
Britain carried an article entitled “The Jinn from a Scientific (?) Viewpoint,”
by Chris Line, FSR consultant and
editor, which discussed the theory that the jinn might be linked to the UFO
phenomenon.
According
to the theory, “the Jinns are beings which dwell on a parallel level to man,
but due to their existing at a different vibratory rate, they are not normally
visible to us or detectable by us.” He suggested that jinn might be infrared
beings, normally undetectable in the visible spectrum.
Line
noted that FSR editor Gordon
Creighton, in an article entitled, “A Brief Account of the True Nature of the
UFO Entities,” published by the magazine six years earlier, had listed a number
of similarities between jinn, as described in Islamic belief and folklore, and
the alien beings associated with the UFO phenomenon.
Expanding
on the “Islamic theory about UFOs,” Line said: “It is to be noted that, in the
new and enlarged 1989 edition of her very important book, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, … Ann Druffel, FSR consultant and contributing editor to MUFON UFO Journal, has shown herself to be the only person in the
Western world who has the guts to state that she thinks the ‘Jinn Theory’ may
very likely be right. (Several other leading ‘Ufologists’ have written
privately to me to say that they too think there ‘might be something in it.’
Not one of them has the guts to say so publicly.)”
Line
said Creighton's article about the Jinn Theory in 1983 had sparked a “deluge of
venom” against FSR mainly from
“English [UFO] researchers who disagree violently with Creighton.” Line said he
was accused of promoting the theory because he was a Muslim, but he added: “I
don't happen to be a Muslim. I have been a student of Hindu Vedanta and of
Buddhism for almost 50 years.”
Creighton's
1983 article contains the following interesting passage:
Wherever it is that the Jinns are thought of as
being normally located, it seems highly likely that the source of many of them,
at any rate, is not very distant from us, and some Muslim scholars who have
become aware of the current Western research into the so-called ‘UFO
Phenomenon’ and have reflected awhile upon it have concluded and I think
correctly – that maybe the best way we can start to visualize these matters is
by thinking of the Jinns as being very close indeed to us and yet at the same
time somehow very far from us. In other words, on some other dimension, or in
some other Space/Time framework, ‘right here,’ or maybe in a world of
antimatter right here, or occupying as it were some other Universe that is
here, behind Alice's mirror: ‘a mirror-universe on the other side of the
Space-Time Continuum’ as it has been neatly put by some investigators.
The
Qur’an, however, is not clear on this, and admittedly it looks as though it is
very possible that some of the Jinns could be fully physical and what we call
extraterrestrials, while other species of them are of an altogether [different]
and finer sort of matter, corresponding to what various UFO investigators have
tried to indicate by such terms as ‘ultraterrestrial’ or ‘metaterrestrial’.
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