British diplomat and intelligence officer, a linguist in Chinese and Russian, and from the early 1980s the editor of Flying Saucer Review.
The sentence Vallee took from him
In a blacked-out London in 1973 Creighton gave Jacques Vallee the formulation that becomes the hinge of The Invisible College: a myth is not an untruth, it is that which is truer than truth. Read against the Control System Hypothesis the line does real work, because the book’s claim is that the phenomenon’s product is belief rather than information, and a belief that enough people hold will be truer than true long enough to change things irreversibly.
The turn
Under his editorship the journal moved steadily toward a demonological reading of the phenomenon, in which the entities are deceiving spirits, and away from the physical-case reporting that had made it the best periodical in the field. Both halves belong in the same node: the man who supplied the field’s sharpest line about myth also spent his last two decades demonstrating what happens when a publication adopts one.
Connections
Flying Saucer Review · Jacques Vallee · The Invisible College · Control System Hypothesis · Aime Michel · Demonic-Djinn Hypothesis · Magonia