The UFO Phenomenon

Peter wrote: People seem to see what they want and/or expect to see. (That's not to say that people don't sometimes see things that they cannot immediately explain)

That is pretty much 100% right.
There's a reason that certain people always get abducted, and the more intense people are into the UFO culture they see and experience more crazy things.

Also most abductions are fuzzy and dream like and "details" emerge later after being coaxed. Not that it isn't sincere what they think they recall. Also that some universal traits tend to be very similar to stories and movies...and how different regions of the world  have seen different types of aliens that happened to be based off the types of sci fi they had. etc etc etc

Basically, it's dark, we're tired, we have tons of sub conscious ideas floating around our heads, and the more you want to believe you will. As well as other possible ideas like the DMT theory.

I will say though, IF they have found a way to beat the speed of light limit, have shape shifting physical machines and all this crazy stuff....we gotta pray they are friendly!! With technology like that, if they wanna kill us we have no slight hope of stopping em.



Edited by JJLehto - April 21 2013 at 21:43

I've been looking into it for many years, started when I was about nine back when "UFO research" was mainly a few bad books with fuzzy pictures and dubious stories.   The one legit and intelligent book was The Interrupted Journey which chronicles the Hills' story as drawn-out by their psychologist.   Finally in the late 80s Whitley Strieber began publishing his recollections.   Strieber is a brilliant writer and was able to relay the experience in thoughtful and vivid terms.   I'm not too keen on much of the other mainstream work by Bud Hopkins and others, it seems to have an agenda attached.

As far as what I believe about sentient aliens having visited Earth, I don't believe anything, which is to say it is a mystery.   As far as "U.F.O.s" go, that is a different matter; there is no doubt someone, probably on Earth, is experimenting with all number of airborne craft.   You wouldn't have so many credible witnesses claiming sightings and the amount of credible (non-hoaxed) video evidence.

I've always been interested but more of a sci fi hobby for fun, I don't actually believe in it.

As Doc said I'm quite sure there's some type of life in the universe (though who knows what level of advancement) but yeah...unless they found a way to break the speed of light rule I don't think they've been here.
UFOs are always something else, and always at night when we can't see quite right, ya know?

Was once rudely awoken by this white light filling my room and some crazy ass looking thing out the window!
After 2 seconds of adjusting it was a helicopter....circling around town and at that moment just had its search light pointed in my room. If ya were from a distance though it'd be freaky as hell because it was some hovering thing that moved strangely and took off quickly.

There was one time I saw a strange sight but I'm 100% sure it was a military aircraft (esp since its direction was heading towards the AFB) but at 4 am, when its dark and you're not fully conscious these things are scary!


Abduction stories fascinated me more when I was young but again, there's always very logical explanations.
Getting older sucks : (


Edited by JJLehto - April 21 2013 at 21:23

I've been interested in the UFO Phenomenon for over 30 years and while posting in the 'what have you read lately ' thread I noticed another member mentioned the ufo phenom so I  thought I would start a thread about the enigma. The phenom covers several aspects including but not limited to the following: day and night sightings of ufos, close encounters with ufos as well as 'aliens', and the so-called abduction phenomenon. These have been classified as CE (close encounters) 1,2,3, and 4. There are also paranormal events often associated with the enigma which makes it even more interesting in some cases that are usually called 'high strangeness' cases.