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Carl Jung

Person 2 stories, 1952 to 1959

A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings. His book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies carried the 1561 Nuremberg broadsheet into modern culture. He saw it as a symbol, not a physical event. The same book gave about ten pages to Orfeo Angelucci's Burbank contacts. Jung treated the account as a psychological and mythic experience, leaving aside whether it physically happened. In 1959 he corresponded with Coral and Jim Lorenzen of APRO about the Gerry Irwin case. He is said to have suggested ambulatory automatism.