Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

===Occult===
{{see also|Interdimensional hypothesis}}
[[File:Olcott Besant Leadbeater.jpg|thumb|200px|Theosophists [[Annie Besant]],  [[Henry Olcott]] (left) and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater|Charles Leadbeater]] (right) popularized the mythical "[[etheric plane]]".]]
As early as July 4, occultists like [[Meade Layne]] claimed that the discs were occult or "etheric".<ref name="auto34"/><ref name="auto43">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_r4nAAAAYAAJ|title=UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture|first=Gregory L.|last=Reece|date=August 15, 2007|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9781845114510 |via=Google Books}}</ref>  Layne claimed to be in telepathic communication with "people in the saucers", arguing "it is possible for objects to pass from an etheric to a dense level of matter and will then appear to materialize. They then will return to [...] etheric conditions".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/788881393/|title=5 Jul 1947, 1 - The Herald-Sun at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto43"/>  Layne claimed that "These visitors are not excarnate humans but are human beings living in their own world.  They come with good intent.  They have some idea of experimenting with earth life."<ref name="auto65">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/788881408/|title=5 Jul 1947, 2 - The Herald-Sun at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  The prior year, it had been reported that Layne consulted a medium who relayed communications from a "space ship named Careeta" that came to Earth from 'an unidentified planet'.<ref name="auto65"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/563072982/|title=15 Oct 1946, 1 - Hanford Morning Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto43"/>