We think of fairies as little winged people with magic wands, but Irish fairies were flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials who towered over humans.

Chalk-white humanoids with piercing blue eyes, and flaming red or golden-yellow hair, that’s the true appearance of the fairies of Ireland who came down from the sky thousands of years ago.

Their legends were epic, from “borrowing” humans to clone, to lifting a human from a crowded room sight unseen and carrying that person up through the ceiling, to producing hybrid children with humans and giants, to erasing portions of our memories just as current extraterrestrials do to UFO abductees.

In the British Isles they were known as the Tuatha dé Danann — a benevolent race which may be ancestors to the Nordic aliens visiting Earth today. Their antics also spawned the mermaid folklore.

Studying their history could help us to gain insight into the motives of the enigmatic extraterrestrials zipping through our skies in UFOs — mystical, magical, mysterious, and ever-watching.