(On the next blog I will share another article/link)
A short excerpt of this article first:
<<50) Aliens may communicate in very bizarre, cryptic ways, not only linguistically and possibly telepathically, but also by virtue of mysterious UFO activity and other phenomena such as alien abductions and visitations, crop formations, animal mutilations, men in black, and others. I speculate that, to some extent, all of these phenomena comprise a form of esoteric communication from aliens. They seem to me and many others to be very strange, intelligent, evolved creatures who think and act in inhuman ways and may to some extent be playing mind games. It’s also possible there is a degree of foolishness, childishness, or hooliganism here. To me, there is a question to be asked as to how seriously to take aliens. We humans have a capacity to joke and play mind games, as intelligent as we are. Aliens may be toying with us in some ways, possibly running psy ops to experiment upon our individual and collective psyches, appearing in the skies to befuddle and bamboozle us, drawing elaborate and arcane crop formations of unknown significance, mutilating cows and shit and dropping the carcasses off rather than burning them and ejecting the remains into space, occasionally landing and engaging in various terrestrial shenanigans of dubious repute, and maybe, just maybe, sending alien operatives in shady getups to fuck with people. Does any of this seem like an elaborate skit to anyone else? Yet one with sinister and scientific undertones? I know I sound like the stereotypical schizophrenic saying, “Aliens are fucking with our heads…” right now but I actually think aliens may be fucking with our heads deliberately, and not merely engaging in detached scientific experiments and observations. This reeks of a celestial psy op to me. Call me crazy but I would bet money a lot of what’s going on is a psy op.
51) The Illuminati exists in some true sense of the word. It is unknown to me whether any remnants of the Bavarian Illuminati still exist in a non-nominal capacity, but the Illuminati in the sense of a powerful, shadowy cabal of secretive controllers bent on some form of world domination probably does exist in some way, whatever that group may be comprised of. There is a very real, very ancient obsession with and drive to power in the human spirit. If it does exist, it may be involved in conspiracies widely considered unreal. To outright dismiss the notion of the Illuminati is foolish and a gross underestimation. Whatever word we wish to call this cabal, there is some consensus it exists in some form.
52) This all seems to be headed toward a dark, convoluted, exotic future where aliens and the paranormal may play a larger role in human existence, possibly to the extent of public contact and collaboration between species and possibly even to the extent of the eventual subsumption of the human species by aliens and alien hybrids, which is not a future I would necessarily be against given how violent, oppressive, and foolish humanity is. Whatever the future holds, I am not alone in the sense humans aren’t the only ones who have long-term plans. We shall see what becomes of this cosmic riddle in time…>>
A Condensed Analysis of the UFO Question
Sections
Introduction
Existential Parameters
The Alien Contact Deficit
Overview of the UFO Phenomenon
Overview of UFO-spectrum Phenomena
Analysis of the Evidence
Introduction
I’ve lurked around the internet for many years, occasionally making an obscure thread or comment. For the most part now, I abstain from public online conversation altogether, especially serious intellectual discussion. If you observe forums and comment sections in general on controversial topics, you are likely to detect a plethora of fallacies, assumptions, and even outright falsehoods. It seems rather frequent for internet users and humans in general to not think through a question as thoroughly as one could. It is easy to draw quick conclusions, exclude contradictory or converse evidence or considerations, and operate as though the version of reality you find the most suitable must be true, and all other accounts untrue. Individuals on both sides of debate spectrums often do this, whether those in favor of a given stance or those counter to it. Even those who claim to follow the scientific method can sometimes fall prey to unscientific habits or thought processes. Science has become regarded as a supreme methodological ideal, to such an extent that any theory, anecdote, or field of study deemed to fall outside the realm of science is liable to be dismissed entirely by even some of the brightest minds in the world. “This doesn’t fit into our model of the cosmos. It must be fantasy.” The conversation I’m having here has been ongoing for many years, and I hope that if you’re interested in the UFO question in any capacity, you will take the time to read this thread in its entirety so that my conclusion bears the most comprehensive context. I, like many other genuinely scientific individuals, take the UFO phenomenon seriously, and I find that, above all, it is essential our research and dialogue parameters not be poisoned by toxic and anti-growth constraints counter to the spirit of science.
In this article, I’ve made an effort to characterize the UFO question in a holistic way. However, I’ve not treated the subject exhaustively and there remain some aspects of ufology I haven’t touched upon, certain specific tidbits. I present this analysis as holistic in a general sort of way, illuminating the main facets of study and also various subtler questions and evidence. Part of what I wish to do here is characterize various logical, existential, and metaphysical complexities involved in the UFO question. I’m not here to discuss specific sightings or claims or specific individuals or organizations. Rather, I would like to frame the UFO question in the most general, reasonable terms, and to also give my personal analysis of the many complicated, incomplete, ambiguous fragments of information, evidence, and speculation in order to form a working conceptual model of the UFO question and phenomenon at large. Much of this discourse is meant for critics who don’t take the UFO question very seriously and sometimes make obvious or subtle mistakes or assumptions. This is not meant as an ultimate answer to the UFO question, but rather an open-minded methodological approach that emphasizes continued research, experimentation, speculation, and, most importantly, agnosticism in the face of the unknown. We do not know exactly what’s going on here, and that very real uncertainty forms one of the foundational premises of my approach. I do not approach the UFO question with any preconceived notions about what UFOs or related phenomena are. I approach the UFO question as an ongoing phenomenon and concept to study, clarify, and attempt to understand within the limited framework of data and knowledge we have available. Beyond this framework, much remains speculative and probably will remain speculative indefinitely. Such is the nature of the UFO phenomenon. It’s not a phenomenon that can be conclusively, comprehensively explained.
Authors write about the UFO question in various ways. This is how I’ve chosen to write about it, in the form of a single post that discusses some of the most salient aspects to me and leaves much open to question. I do not present this as a final explanation, and I will never agree that a final explanation is conclusive. This post is directed primarily at the many internet users who regard the UFO question so dismissively, who often do not take the time to study the literature and evidence as thoroughly as they could, and who sometimes seem to wish there are no alien visitors at all. I don’t know exactly what any nonhuman entities involved in this phenomenon may be. In fact, I’m not that interested in the concept of organic extraterrestrial visitors. I think that, more than likely, a significant fraction of the UFO phemomenon and related matters involves an intelligent alien society engaged in a long-term operation of enigmatic origin, nature, and purpose. I am not the only one to find this account likely and I am also not the only one to find that, in the final analysis, this account, if true, is not that strange after all. If there are indeed alien visitors to this planet, although they may possess powers and traits of a stranger order, if the visitors are essentially a mere organic species from another planet, their operations would, in a way, represent an extension of the operational principles observed on this planet, where organic societies develop, organize, and orchestrate various schemes. Their scheme would only be another scheme among millions, albeit a potentially profounder one. This is, of course, if any of these phenomena involve organic extraterrestrial visitors. I am fully committed to a central position of agnosticism in these matters and find an either/or mind set too narrow an approach.
My principal thesis can be stated thus: UFOs exist; they are not all hallucinations, errors, or hoaxes; there is a serious question of alien involvement in the UFO phenomenon in some form and on some level; it is unscientific and counter-evolutionary to completely dismiss the entire UFO and alien question off-hand; the strong vein of denial and ridicule that stems from the early days of the mid-1900s UFO phenomenon continues to this day chiefly in the form of hordes of uncritical and close-minded internet users who fail to distinguish between reasonable skepticism and fanatical denialism; and, in the final analysis, there is strong indication the cosmos is both capable of the creation of complex life on a large scale, has a likely propensity to do so, and may very well have evolved advanced life forms presently engaged in an operation in this sector. For us to not take this question seriously is to deprive ourselves of a very real and deep field of study.
To briefly describe my background: I am a writer and paranormal investigator. I am also a demonologist. UFOs are not currently my primary field of study, however the topic has grown in popularity as of late and after a number of years of being silent I would like to share my commentary to strengthen the overall study and debate. My primary field of interest is not in paranormal phenomena observed in the external waking world but in the inner states of the mind in waking and sleep. I have a somewhat cursory interest in UFOs, having seen a few myself, and having studied many reports and the work of a number of researchers. I am not interested in the UFO/alien question enough to cover the subject as extensively as a number of writers have. I don’t actually find UFOs that strange, and I don’t find the concept of alien visitation that strange either. It is less strange to me than enigmatic, suggestive of a deeper mystery of origin and mind.
Whom this thread is written for:
· Youth newly introduced to the UFO question
· Skeptics and debunkers of the UFO question
· Ufologists and paranormal researchers
· Fellow paranoid schizoids
So there are no ambiguities in this respect, let me make it clear that the term UFO here means unidentified flying object, otherwise known as UAP or unidentified aerial phenomenon. Sometimes, when the topic of UFOs is broached in conversation, a “skeptic” will quickly regard the ufologist as though the term UFO is equivalent to ETV, i.e. extraterrestrial vehicle. The “skeptic” might even go so far as to say something like, “There’s no such thing as flying saucers.” as if the saucer aka disc type is the only kind of UFO observed. Meanwhile, the composed ufologist has only touched upon that class of aerial objects that remain unidentified to human observers, especially objects which cannot be unidentified under rigorous observation even by trained observers such as scientists, military personnel, aviation personnel, or others. The observer of a UFO does not need to be a “professional” or “trained observer” for the UFO sighting to be credible, but it is true that some lay people have a higher propensity to mistake normal phenomena for anomalous aerial objects. For most any UFO report, there is an extensive case history available online and in print from a multitude of sources across many decades. Which brings me to this: I will not, in this thread, detail specific cases, as any such discussion by me would essentially be a reiteration of information already available in the UFO case file. If you take the UFO question seriously, you should already know there are many thousands of reports, some fraction of which involve genuine UFOs, some fraction of which have apparently been photographed or filmed. In fact, despite the widespread stereotype that UFO photos/films are all poor resolution, if you look hard enough, you can actually find a few examples of decent images or videos, not all of which are listed publicly. Some of these appear genuine.
As this mention of photographic quality and infrequency can be common online, I would like to address this specifically for a moment. For one, I have a smart phone, and I can tell you my phone’s camera quality is not very good, at least not under certain conditions. Even some of the better phones may not be able to capture some UFOs very well. Not everyone carries around a professional camera at all times. Sometimes people don’t even have cameras on them when they see UFOs, and I would also suggest that those who complain about there not being very many photos or films of UFOs or of the quality of visual evidence being subpar perhaps haven’t taken enough time to research the materials available in public archives. Some of them are ambiguous but some are much clearer than others. It can also be difficult of course to determine whether an image may be faked. At any rate, there do exist photos and films of UFOs, some of those photos and films are of a decent quality, modern cameras are not necessarily as good as you might think, and any perceived lack of photographic evidence has no actual bearing on the independent truth of the UFO question. Another note I would add here is that it would behoove us to consider how our cameras would interact with potential alien craft, and whether said craft may have any capabilities that serve to distort photographic images taken of them by human observers.
I’ve heard this criticism roughly along the lines of: “There are so many UFO sightings, and yet they never seem to get close enough to take clear, detailed photographs or footage, or if they do get close enough, there aren’t any operable cameras to capture them.” I don’t really see how this line of thought makes any significant difference. People see UFOs. Some of them are genuine UFOs, and some have apparently been captured on photo or film. While we would like to see some extremely detailed images of a craft and, ideally, entities, this seems very unlikely. Even if an authentic image is published, debunkers will appear to cast doubt on it as a fake, as always.
As a relevant preliminary note, when I use the term aliens here, I don’t necessarily mean organic humanoid entities. Aliens could have any number of natures, whether organic or otherwise. I often prefer the term alien over extraterrestrial as an umbrella term for any forms of consciousness whatsoever that exist outside the conventional confines of local biotic activity. Whether aliens are advanced humanoids, amorphous shapeshifters, or some other type remains to be seen. In any case, let us not presume aliens must all fit into a single neat little category.
I would also note that there seems to be a tendency in some to conflate A) confidence in the existence of alien life and B) confidence in the existence of alien visitors. Just because someone is confident in the existence of alien life doesn’t mean they think aliens have visited Earth. Yet if someone expresses confidence in alien life, they may be unfairly grouped with those who strongly believe in alien visitation. Saying that aliens exist or probably exist isn’t the same as saying aliens have or probably have visited Earth. The former doesn’t necessitate the latter.
I mentioned my preference to avoid discussion of specific cases. In this vein, I will also avoid some discussion of specific evidence for specific theories. Unfortunately, much of the information available to us is ambiguous and incomplete, and forces us to dwell in the realm of speculation and investigation as opposed to conclusive knowledge. This ambiguity becomes more pronounced the further back in time we gaze, until eventually we have only a few scattered fragments of the past. There are a number of possible interpretations for many events and other pieces of information. I find it important for contemporary research to at least consider non-mainstream questions and theories until one can conclusively discount them. I don’t know exactly what happened in the past, nor what is going on in the present, so while I can’t say with certainty exactly what transpired, I also don’t know exactly what didn’t transpire. The burden of proof is not only on those who propose a theory but also on those who reject the theory as false. A theory by itself is only a theory. Positions on the theory’s truth value require proof to confirm.
Truth is an ancient, profound concept and reality that, while complex, should not, I feel, be as controversial and complicated as it is on a conceptual level. As what I consider the most fundamental principle of truth itself as a concept, let us acknowledge this axiom: Truth — that is, the actual truth — is whatever the actual truth is, regardless of how ridiculous, outlandish, absurd, uncertain, ambiguous, incomprehensible, or unearthly the truth is to us. There is A) our own perceptions and conceptions of reality, and then there is B) the complete cosmic truth independently of our individual minds, whatever that complete cosmic truth is, to whatever extent we are able to access and understand that truth. As a metaphysical first principle, I make no assumptions whatsoever about the ultimate nature of reality. I recognize myself, the apparent existence of other beings and realms, and the perennial shadow of the unknown. I do not assume the kinds of beings, realms, materials, forces, and technologies the cosmos can create, and I recognize that, regardless of what reality may seem to be to me, reality is whatever reality is, no matter how bizarre, sophisticated, or incomprehensible it is. I am not very bothered by uncertainty and agnosticism. I would like to know the truth, but when I don’t know it, I don’t know it. What I do know is that the truth does not need to conform to my expectations of it.
Existential Parameters
Rather than delve immediately into the UFO question, I would like to provide some scientific parameters to define the approximate conditions of human observers located on planet Earth. Before we even consider the existence and nature of UFOs, it is of some substantial value that we establish roughly what kind of cosmic environment we exist in. Many young children, for example, are not aware of the extensive scale of the cosmos, and the existence of many billions of galaxies which collectively contain many trillions of stars and planets. Children are taught early of the local solar system and see stars and the moon in the night sky, but the true depth of outer space is hidden from them, at least in many cases. What seems to happen in some cases is that these children never take the time to fully engage contemporary astronomy, and even some adults are not quite aware of how vast and complex the cosmos is. They may even fail to distinguish between solar systems and galaxies, and yet these same people may dismiss UFOs as fantasy off-hand, let alone the extraterrestrial hypothesis. So for context, let’s briefly discuss the existential parameters of our planetary point of observation to give this discussion further clarity.
Humans on this planet exist in a rather minor solar system in a rather obscure corner of a rather obscure galaxy, which itself exists in a rather obscure neighborhood of galaxies in a rather obscure corner of the cosmos. Current estimates of the approximate number of galaxies in existence place the count at a minimum of about 200 billion, possibly much more, and possibly as many as 2 trillion. Even one million galaxies would be a very large number, as even a single galaxy can contain millions or billions of stars and planets, which are themselves large-scale celestial structures. In the local galaxy alone, current estimates place the approximate number of stars at at least 100 billion and the approximate number of planets at at least 100 billion. If you haven’t already, take a moment to consider how profoundly vast an astronomical figure this is alone. Our galaxy itself contains a massive quantity of celestial systems, some of them similar to ours, and this is only our galaxy, without consideration of any other galaxies. If we didn’t exist, this information alone wouldn’t be as significant as it is. However, the fact we do exist gives a certain cosmological significance to this information based on our perspective in space and time, which I will discuss shortly. This cosmic perspective is made even more complicated by the estimated time the known cosmos has existed for at a minimum: approximately 13.8 billion years. Earth, in contrast, is estimated to have existed for approximately 4.5 billion years.
In the extremely long time the Earth has existed, a complex, large-scale ecosystem has evolved on Earth which now contains many billions of unique, sentient creatures. (Of relevance here: Since scientific classification of species began, scientists have discovered new species on a yearly basis. Usually, these new species are only variants of a known type. The mere fact human science hasn’t yet cataloged all of the species on this planet alone, though, should give us pause as to what kinds of creatures may have evolved elsewhere in the cosmos.) Some of these creatures, namely humans, have developed relatively advanced technology and, most importantly for our discussion, spacecraft. Humans have spacecraft. They have ships that are able to launch from the surface of the planet, into the space beyond the atmosphere. Such ships have in essence taken about 4.5 billion years to develop, considered in context. That is to say, under the mainstream evolutionary model of Earth, it has taken Earth’s known native life about 4.5 billion years to develop spacecraft. Now that space programs exist, space technology and other fields continue to evolve in complexity yearly. As a general classifier, we can consider space technology a kind of evolutionary marker that denotes a species as a space-faring species. Most species on Earth are not space-faring species. Humans have attained space-faring status by virtue of specific neurobiological adaptations which permit members to manipulate available materials and forces and construct complex aerospace technologies using those materials and forces.
What this, i.e. the anthropic principle, proves is this: Nature is capable of the evolution of an intelligent, space-faring species. In this case, the species exists in a solar system, of which there are many throughout the cosmos. As we consider the UFO question and alien hypothesis now and in the future, it is imperative we take this anthropic principle into account, that is, the principle that our own existence proves nature is able to create intelligent life. As we know, nature is also not precisely uniform. Nature, as we can observe, creates varied forms and forces in varied times and locations. It does not merely create humans. It creates many other beings as well, of an array of cognitive and biological levels. While humans remain the most advanced species publicly and definitively known to humans, it would be unscientific to assume the cosmos has not created any species more advanced than us, whether past or present, or that it cannot do so in the future. We do not know what the cosmos is ultimately capable of with any absolute certainty. We know some of the cosmos’s capabilities. We’ve observed patterns, conducted experiments, gathered data. We cannot say with any definitiveness what exactly the cosmos can and cannot do as a whole. Our mere existence raises myriad questions about what other populated worlds may exist, what other kinds of creatures may have evolved, and, furthermore, whether any other intelligent species may be aware of us. Many people already believe we are aware of intelligent alien beings on some level and vice versa, but of course such a question has yet to be publicly and definitively resolved and remains plagued by uncertainties, constraints, and, possibly, a degree of classification, perhaps by suppressive human elements.
So, in essence, this is the context of the UFO question for us: We, a relatively intelligent, space-faring species, exist on an approximately 4.5 billion year-old planet which contains a complex, large-scale biosphere home to billions of unique individual entities. Our local galaxy contains many billions of stars and planets, including solar systems similar to our own, and there are many billions of other galaxies that exist beyond ours. Furthermore, there is still no definitive knowledge as to A) exactly how long the holistic cosmos has existed for and B) exactly what the holistic cosmos is capable of. When I use the phrase holistic cosmos, I mean it in contrast to the phrase known cosmos. The phrase known cosmos means the cosmos known to us. The cosmos known to us, however, is not necessarily equivalent to the cosmos as a whole. It is unwise to study the cosmos as if the reality we are aware of is all that exists, all that has ever existed, and all that ever will exist. Space is ultimately infinite no matter how you conceive of it, and beyond the question of space’s outer limits, a question of alternate dimensions of reality will always shroud the domain of science. We are aware of much, but we are only aware of so much. So even as we establish an existential context for the UFO question, we must recognize we cannot fully establish a holistic context, as we do not know the holistic context for certain. To a large extent, we remain and always will remain in the dark about the true nature of reality on a cosmic scale.
Having said that, we have still gathered much knowledge of this cosmos, and we can analyze that knowledge to formulate an approximate model of our reality, as close as we can come to the truth. As a methodological practice, science does not exclude hypotheses merely because the hypotheses are outlandish, or even because the hypotheses appear to remain currently untestable. Any genuine scientist will consider even the most bizarre hypothesis, as long as that hypothesis is not deductively out-ruled. Though inductive logic is useful and of popular value, inductive logic is fundamentally based on an assumption and is ultimately meaningless. “I have never seen X. Therefore X doesn’t exist.” Maybe X doesn’t exist. But just because you aren’t aware of it, and just because the concept of X does not conform to normal patterns, does not mean X is impossible. Scientists who take their craft seriously don’t dismiss the study and concept of the paranormal entirely. While science can identify uncertainties, logical or methodic flaws, and even fraud, as a general principle there is no way to disprove every paranormal concept. Scientists form theories about how nature operates, based on data, observation, and experiments. Scientists do not know nature’s true powers to any absolute certainty, and any scientist who suggests they do is either delusional or a fraud themself. The brightest scientists always acknowledge they don’t know the holistic nature of reality. Only charlatans proceed as if they know precisely what is and isn’t possible, and base their theories on those unverified premises.
Physics is a widely misunderstood field. Like many sciences, physicists’ minds are rife with assumptions about the nature of reality, what matter or energy can and cannot do. Absent from many physics models is a serious recognition of the physically deviant nature of dreams, and an adequate account of dream realms (and other dimensional modes of consciousness) whose physics violate conventional laws of nature. Within dream dimensions, phenomena normally considered impossible become possible, in essence. Physics presumed absurd in the waking world are the norm in the dream world, which is, despite the desperate objections of detractors, an actual psychophysical plane of existence, wherever that plane exists and however it exists. There is, in other words, an aspect of nature that does not conform to common conceptions of physical laws. So not only do physics models often presume the core spectrum of possibility in waking, they also tend to ignore and fail to account for the spectrum of possibility in sleep and other altered states. What’s more, there is nothing to say the physics of dreams cannot be manifested in waking reality in some fashion. Though such a hypothesis remains highly controversial and unorthodox, no physicist can prove that the essentially magical metaphysics of dream dimensionality cannot ever manifest in waking beyond hallucination. I of course don’t mean to claim that any UFOs or aliens utilize a form of dream physics or magic in their activities. This mention of dream physics is merely meant to emphasize that the commonly conceived “laws of physics” are not uniform, and that the very existence of dream physics forces us to question whether the physics observed in dreams may ever manifest in waking reality.
Even many UFO researchers and enthusiasts seem to approach the UFO phenomenon as if all such manifestations must be mechanical devices, which must conform to conventional precepts of physics. The possibility that at least some UFOs could be, for lack of a better term, supernatural structures or entities does not seem to be taken as seriously as it perhaps should. There may be a mixture of mechanical and metaphysical UFOs, and perhaps fusions. It would be unwise to assume all UFOs are strictly mechanical and devoid of unknown ethereal properties.
As a final note for this introduction, I would like to touch upon another common assumption made in exobiological discourse. Life is frequently discussed as a structure that must necessarily arise from certain kinds of organic i.e. cellular systems, such as the organic systems found on planet Earth. These include human bodies and other sorts of corporeal creatures. This assumption, that life must be constructed primarily from organic compounds, is not in any way certain, and is tantamount to carbon chauvinism. Fundamentally, however proponents of this principle would like to spin it, their logic rests on this kind of rationale: “We have only observed life forms comprised of organic compounds. Therefore, all life forms must be comprised of organic compounds.” The logic doesn’t follow. It’s the same kind of logic as: “We have only observed white swans. Therefore, all swans must be white.” “Our consciousness appears to arise from our brains. Therefore, all intelligent consciousness must arise from brains.” While it may be true we have generally only observed life forms comprised of organic compounds, that does not mean nature is incapable of the generation of life forms i.e. sentient beings which are not comprised of organic compounds, namely, sentient beings of either a paraphysical or mechanical nature. I mainly mean to address the assumption that aliens must be organic like us, and could never in any instance possibly be non-organic, ethereal beings unrestricted by the limitations of our bodies. The phrase known life is not equivalent in meaning to the phrase all possible life.
The Alien Contact Deficit
Before I address UFOs specifically, I find it imperative to address the alien contact deficit, otherwise known as the Fermi paradox. First, let me state my perhaps controversial analysis that the so-called Fermi paradox is not a paradox at all. Rather, the Fermi paradox is merely an observation of a perceived alien contact deficit, and the analytical approach of some who present Fermi’s paradox as a sort of genuine contradiction reveals serious flaws, which I will elaborate. One of the gravest assumptions proponents of Fermi’s paradox commit is this notion that aliens haven’t contacted humans ever, at any place, at any time. Who says? You? There is no proof humans have never been contacted by aliens. While no definitive public disclosure has emerged, this does not mean no alien contact has occurred. This is one reason the Fermi paradox is not a paradox at all, since it tends to assume no alien contact has taken place yet fails to prove that foundational premise. Notice that I have not once claimed alien contact has taken place. I have neither claimed it has nor claimed it hasn’t. The burden of proof is on those who claim either.
A number of reasonable explanations can be posited to account for the perceived deficit of alien contact from the human species. Regardless of these possible explanations though, it is exceedingly unscientific to suggest advanced i.e. superhuman alien life doesn’t exist or probably doesn’t exist simply because humans haven’t been overtly contacted. Possible explanations for this contact deficit which still account for the possibility of advanced aliens include:
· Extraterrestrial life is uncommon.
· Advanced aliens lack sufficient technology or resources.
· Advanced aliens have evolved but tend to destroy themselves.
· Advanced aliens have evolved but tend to be destroyed naturally.
· Advanced aliens exist in sectors too remote to contact humans.
· Humans cannot yet detect extant signals from advanced aliens.
· Signals from advanced aliens have missed us or have yet to reach us.
· Advanced aliens have chosen not to contact us.
· Advanced aliens have contacted Earth but their messages are classified.
· Advanced aliens visit Earth but do so relatively covertly.
Above all, I reiterate it would be exceedingly foolish to presume we have not already been contacted or visited in some form. Even if aliens have contacted humans, such as clandestine echelons of certain militaries, those human contactees would have absolutely no obligation to inform the public at large of their alien contact. In fact, if any state actors have contacted aliens in any form, those state actors would more than likely classify such contacts, if not for mere national security reasons. Those who regard the possibility of a government UFO cover-up as impossible, irrational, or improbable fail to appreciate the profoundly secretive and compartmentalized nature of modern human states. If clandestine alien contact has occurred between advanced aliens and covert human actors, such contact could only reasonably be expected to be classified given the already extensive nature of military and intelligence classification systems. Yet, as we all know, there are many who have already claimed to have contacted alien beings, and these reports cannot be disqualified on the mere basis that they remain largely anecdotal. Beyond this, numerous military and intelligence employees have stated their strong suspicion or conviction that a UFO/alien cover-up is ongoing. Civilian UFO researchers aren’t the only ones who suspect substantial classified information on UFOs exists.
Once again, there is no logical law that alien contact must be open and honest. I recently spoke to a physics researcher who even went so far as to characterize mere consideration of the extraterrestrial hypothesis in the case of UFO sightings as “irrational” on the basis that, if the craft are operated by aliens, then the aliens “would reveal themselves” — an assumption both completely unfounded and counter to skeptical intuition. If you ask me, a certain kind of intelligent alien visitor would actually be unlikely to reveal itself. It is unscientific to presume we know exactly how aliens would behave, what their motivations would be, and what local parties they may wish to contact and why. None of these are questions we can resolve with any certainty. Even covert human operators in contact with aliens would have epistemic questions about where the aliens are truly from, whether they’re lying, what they truly are, what they truly want, and what other kinds of alien species may exist. This uncertainty extends all the way to the level of aliens themselves. Alien enthusiasts might not always like to consider this issue, but even if advanced intelligent aliens do exist, and even if such aliens possess extensive knowledge and technological prowess, they themselves would still be subject to uncertainty itself. They could not possibly know with any unequivocal certainty their own ultimate origins, the holistic nature of reality, or even their own natures. They would have some information on their origins and nature, but there would always be questions about whether X or Y happened or whether A or B type beings might have been involved in this event or that process, etc. Don’t assume aliens would be omniscient. They may even have some of the flaws we do, and they may even be less attuned to certain psychological wavelengths than us in some respects. Assumptions about the nature of aliens are simply unnecessary. If you like to speculate, fine. But stick to the data we have available, and don’t presume aliens would be completely flawless and without uncertainty.
Overview of the UFO Phenomenon
Although this section comprises the main subject of the thread, I don’t wish to make this part very long, or rather, as long as it is in some texts. This field has been covered for many decades and will continue to be covered for as long as humans are interested in it. This section is in part tailored for younger readers who may have recently begun their study of UFOs and related topics. Perhaps you’ve seen a UFO and it sparked a fascination with the phenomenon. This section only exists to give a general overview of the existence of UFOs, and, in the next section, potentially UFO-related phenomena. Once I’ve detailed these outlines, I’ll give my account of the evidence and an inductive model of the UFO question with an eye to the elusive truth.
Three of the most common UFO types reported are anomalous lights, discs, and triangles. Other UFOs reported include metallic spheres, diamond-shaped objects, and others. Lights are the most frequently reported UFO type in part because so many normal aerial objects emit luminescence, especially in the night sky. Sometimes, observers can mistake planes, helicopters, stars, planets, military craft, rockets, balloons, drones, flares, meteorites, satellites, atmospheric phenomena, hallucinations, illusions, or hoaxes for UFOs. Part of what makes the UFO phenomenon so complicated and uncertain is that UFOs must be distinguished from prosaic phenomena in a broad aerial environment where perceptual constraints and distortions can exist. There are so many aerial objects in the sky, most of which are perfectly normal, that observers can feel overwhelmed by the amount of space, information, and factors to parse. It’s easy to wish to dismiss all UFOs as cases of mistaken identity. However, once you’ve studied the case file in depth, it becomes clear some UFOs are genuine anomalies. Sometimes, the anomaly is only a light that appears and/or behaves strangely and cannot be identified as any known object or craft. Other times, observers witness an apparent craft shape, whether a disc, triangle, cylinder, or other design. As we consider the UFO case file, I find it imperative to remember how vast planet Earth itself is, from the perspective of a single human. There are many hundreds of countries and many thousands of miles of landscape and seascape. While you might glance out your window now and see nothing out of the ordinary, that doesn’t mean nothing anomalous has ever appeared elsewhere, or will appear, even at the very location you’re at. As a general principle, observers may see a UFO anywhere. Some researchers have also theorized certain locations to be “windows” as well, that is, areas which contain a higher than average frequency of UFO activity. Along with windows exist potential waves or “flaps” of UFOs, which are time periods in which a series of UFO sightings occur in relatively short or continual succession, whether hours, days, weeks, or longer. It is rare for a UFO wave to last long enough to be studied very closely.
Human consciousness is structured in such a way that we remain most intensely intimate with our own limited thoughts, memories, and perceptions, in a rather small body, in a rather obscure location. In reality, there is a profoundly expansive, mystical labyrinth scattered in all directions beyond our minds, a labyrinth we can only illumine a fraction of. We can only open so many doors and gaze through so many windows. Our deep psychophysical limitation within our bodies can create a persuasive but illusory sense that nothing else beyond us can exist that is too alien to us. It can make us feel as though all we know must be exemplary of all that exists. I theorize that this subjective phenomenological property contributes to the unreasonable doubt in so many minds in regards to UFOs and aliens, a doubt compounded by the implicit apprehension and confusion generated by consideration of the possibility that a more advanced, capable intelligence exists which possesses a much higher degree of knowledge and power than we.
The most compelling UFO sightings are those in which either a visible anomalous craft shape is observed or one or more anomalous lights are observed which appear and/or behave strangely, especially cases which involve multiple witnesses and some degree of additional evidence. Some UFO lights, for example, may be observed to appear spontaneously from empty sky, hover for an unusually long period, fly oddly, emit no audible sound, emit a strange luminescent flux and/or color changes, and may be observed to either vanish completely, move slowly away, or depart at an extremely high velocity. Light UFOs are some of the strangest and most enigmatic UFOs because it’s often very difficult for the observer to discern any craft shape, in contrast to disc, triangle, or similar reports where a craft shape is observed. What distinguishes light UFOs from many other lights in the aerial environment is the highly unusual appearance, behavior, sound profile, and/or number of the objects. Although many light UFOs are only visible as lights to witnesses, it is this author’s conviction that at least some light UFOs are likely craft which emit such a bright or strange luminosity that the true structure of the craft remains effectively distorted. Other lights may be energy orbs, possibly controlled by separate craft. It’s difficult to say, but if you’ve seen a genuine light UFO yourself or you’ve studied light UFO cases, there is some question as to what the material nature of the luminescent object is. Although a craft shape cannot normally be discerned, the other properties of the object lend strongly to a UFO theory. Perhaps the strangest light UFOs are those that fly at an unusually low altitude, move at an unusually slow or fast velocity, and/or emit an unusually bright or colorful light. When such an object is observed, and some evidently have been, if it cannot be identified as any normal object, phenomena, or craft, it is thus unidentified and is by definition an unidentified flying object.
Other UFO types reveal a distinct craft. Discs may be observed with or without lights or other features, and may be observed to move slowly or rapidly as well as hover. One of the most frequent characteristics of UFO sightings is the UFO’s ability to hover, in addition to its anomalous appearance. Many UFOs are observed to hover in one place for a period of time, whether seconds, minutes, or longer. If a UFO remains in a location long enough to be observed, they typically leave the area after a short time, probably within a few minutes at the most, although sometimes longer. Rarely a witness claims to have observed a landing, or some other odd maneuver. Many UFO reports consist of going outside a residence at night and seeing a UFO in the sky, seeing a UFO while in a moving vehicle, or being in a remote area and seeing a UFO. (Curiously, I’ve noticed a fair number of cases involve a witness taking their dog out into the yard at night, perhaps to smoke a cigarette, and then seeing a UFO in the sky.) UFOs may tend to frequent certain kinds of areas over others sometimes, such as military areas, industrial centers, wooded areas, remote roads, lakes, or mountains. UFOs may be observed to appear suddenly and disappear suddenly, or may be observed to appear gradually and disappear gradually, or some other combination. Sometimes, a witness notices a UFO that appears as though it was already there before the witness looked. Other times, the UFO appears in the sky in view of the witness or comes over the horizon. It is theorized 10:00 PM may be one of the most likely times to see a UFO. While they are seen during the day, sightings appear to be more frequent at night. This is in part due to the aforementioned nocturnal activity of normal aerial objects and in part due to a recorded pattern of increased UFO activity in the night hours.
As a general pattern, these traits feature in many, some, or a small number of UFO accounts:
· Unconventional vertical movement
· Unconventional lateral movement
· Unconventional stationary flight
· Unusually low altitude
· Unusually high altitude
· Unusually slow velocity
· Unusually high velocity
· Unusual shape, e.g. disc, triangle, cylinder, etc.
· Instantaneous acceleration
· Instantaneous deceleration
· Erratic flight
· Hypersonic velocity without signature
· Stealth capabilities
· Trans-medium travel, e.g. between air and sea or air and space
· Low to no sound
· Strange sound
· Strange light or lights
· Intense animal reactions
· Physical effects, e.g. technical disruptions, burns, landing marks
· Psychological alterations, e.g. perceptual alterations, time dilation, memory repression
· Landing
· Observation of apparent occupants
· Contact by apparent occupants
· Black helicopters or other military aircraft reported during or shortly after a sighting
Although reports of UFO landings and entity contact feature in a number of reports over the years, and have been discussed in depth by other researchers, I would like to make a few notes on them to add clarity to this discussion, a clarity I find many skeptics and debunkers neglect to seriously consider. Aside from all the other case information in reports of UFO landings, perhaps the most compelling is that, in a number of cases, ground indents or other physical effects were found by investigators, sometimes professionals, after the UFO reportedly departed the area. Sometimes these effects are separate marks in a defined pattern and sometimes they’re another kind of mark such as flattened grass or burns. Very often the witnesses appear deeply affected and confused by the event. While the presence of an actual corporeal craft doesn’t prove the existence of alien visitors, the number of physical traces reported in the UFO case file does give some indication that, occasionally, there seem to be anomalous aerial objects that land and leave impressions of their visit. Given the existence of UFOs, surely some of these marks are genuine.
We can classify two main types of contact reported in the case file, among others: A) a serious, deliberate, scientific form of contact which often involves an abduction narrative and entities who appear composed, focused, and in control of the subject; and B) a quasi-whimsical, spontaneous, exploratory form of contact which often involves a craft landing narrative and anomalous entities who may or may not be seemingly aware of the human or animal witnesses in the vicinity. In the former kind of contact account, the entities seem specifically focused on the contactee, possibly coming into their residence, taking them onto a craft, conducting procedures and interviews, and so forth. The aliens seem keenly aware of the presence and nature of the contactee, and seem aware that the contactee is aware of them. In contrast to this type, the latter type features entities who can be likened to alien travelers that have come across a curious locale in their travels and, out of intrigue, happen to decide to land and, in some cases, reportedly debark the craft. Then, when locals come to investigate the strange happenings, the visitors may very well seem as spooked by the locals as the locals are by them. It is at this point a number of cases describe the entities to hastily depart the area in their craft, as if their spontaneous excursion has been unexpectedly interrupted by the nosy natives. I can in no way personally verify any of these accounts, so I’m basing this analysis purely on the anecdotal record. However, there are more than a handful of such accounts in UFO history. Many individuals have reported seeing UFOs land, followed by the appearance of entities in windows or outside the craft, followed shortly after by the departure of the entities. It’s as if they’ve stopped by briefly to examine the area and take in the fresh air, and when uninvolved witnesses come across them, they feel exposed and hurriedly leave. Whereas, in alien abduction narratives, the human witness comes squarely into focus, becoming the central subject of the alien visit. The entities haven’t merely come to land briefly and take a little stroll before they head off. They’ve come to subject a specific person to a specific procedure in a specific place, for reasons unknown to the subject. That being said, it is reported in some cases that a kind of fusion occurs, where the alleged entity lands, debarks a craft, and seems to focus intently on a specific witness or group of witnesses without abduction, after which the entity may be observed to return to the craft and depart.
As in other UFO matters, we can gain from these differences a stronger reason not to make any assumptions about what forms alien contact can take and why. Not all alien contact accounts are identical. Some seem more or less deliberate, scientific, controlled, or exploratory.
To truly know what a given genuine UFO is, one must at the very least resolve a series of questions as to the object’s origins, nature, and, if applicable, occupancy. It’s not sufficient to merely infer the basic physics of the object’s operation. There can be a certain impulse within some observers to consider a UFO case quasi-resolved when the apparent external flight dynamics of the object have been explained in theory, despite there being a multitude of other unresolved questions. Of utmost importance in ufology, one must establish conclusively whether a UFO contains any intelligence component — and fully detail that component — before one can authentically consider a genuine UFO’s explanation resolved. This poses one of the most problematic issues for ufology, the determination of an intelligence component involved in a UFO. As part of this process, questions such as these must be conclusively answered in cases of genuine UFOs before we can ever begin to consider a proposed resolution legitimate knowledge:
- Is the UFO occupied by any intelligence? If so, how many intelligences? Where do they come from? Who are they? What are they? What were they doing at that time in that craft? Why are they here? How do they personally operate the craft?
- Is the UFO an unoccupied craft, such as a probe?
- Is the UFO technological at all?
- What specific materials/energies comprise the UFO? Do any of them originate from an extraterrestrial world? How are the materials/energies arranged? For what purpose are they arranged, if any? What is the interior design, if any, of the UFO?
- Is the UFO itself a living entity, such as one which only appears technological in aspect?
- Is the UFO some kind of anomalous electrostatic or other natural phenomenon? Perhaps even one unknown to modern science? Certainly in the case of luminous orbs, this question poses a fairly serious doubt to resolve beyond mere objections of, “It looked technological to me.” Even apparent intelligent control might be emulated naturally.
- In cases where there is no photographic or video evidence, no physical trace evidence, and no other witnesses, how can you possibly discount the chance of a vivid hallucination? Once more, to not merely claim to have seen a UFO (UFO being a subjective term) but to claim to know exactly what the UFO is, the possibility of hallucination must be conclusively out-ruled. Until then, that risk alone poses a doubt.
For the purpose of this thread, I would like to cover the question of the reputed TR-3 model of classified aircraft, or similar aircraft. This moniker can be seen in many comments sections on pages that concern black triangle UFO sightings. Many users have a habit of jumping to the conclusion that every single black triangle UFO sighting involves a TR-3 or other human-engineered craft. This position is simply unfounded, or even the position that any genuine black triangle UFOs are human-engineered craft. For one, from what I gather, the theory is that the TR-3 line began development around the 1980s. Black triangle UFOs have been reported well before the 1980s, so if the notion is that the TR-3 was developed then, and if such black triangle reports are genuine, the TR-3 is more than likely not a candidate for those sightings. Having said that, it is possible some black triangle sightings are human-engineered black projects. They certainly would not be non-classified projects, as no military possesses any publicly acknowledged craft that matches the description of black triangles. There is furthermore the issue that no public confirmed blueprints of the TR-3 exist, and it is practically impossible therefore to compare black triangle descriptions to any known TR-3 model because none is yet established. For those who compulsively dismiss all black triangle UFOs as TR-3s or similar black projects, I suggest you do some research on the black triangle case file, and acknowledge that, at the end of the day, you don’t personally know what these craft are that people have seen and documented.
I would also add that it has been suggested the TR-3 line may itself have a connection to reverse-engineered alien technology. There is a real possibility in my mind that both alien black triangles and human black triangles exist, and that human actors may sometimes mimic UFOs. I do not presume all black triangles originate from the same source or have the same operators.
The black triangle UFO is one of the clearest and — although some don’t know it — frequent UFO types reported. They are almost always described to emit no audible sound. They are often described to either move slowly over treetops or even neighborhoods or be visible over highways or cities. They’ve been reported to exhibit abilities to hover, move at unusually low speeds, and move at unusually high speeds, as well as possibly cloak. There also seems to be a fraction of cases in which a witness perceives the craft to focus directly on the witness, which may be reported for other UFOs too. While they have been reported without lights, they are commonly described as having three lights underneath them, one at each corner. These three lights may be either three white lights or three red lights, or perhaps other combinations. Additionally, there is sometimes a central light reported, often either a red light between the three white lights or a white light between the three red lights. This may sound outlandish but I personally feel the light patterns of these craft hold deep significance. I don’t yet know why the variations in color and number exist, but I’ve studied many black triangle cases, including that of a family member and someone I met earlier this year, and I have identified a pattern yet degree of inconsistency in the light schemes of the craft. Sometimes they have one light scheme and sometimes another. You may have never seen one, but I can tell you black triangles do indeed exist and they do indeed appear to have a capacity to emit varying light schemes of unknown significance.
Whatever they are, they can be distinguished from small lights, disc UFOs, and other types. Even if some or all of these are human-operated craft, they’re clearly not normal and they raise a series of questions as to their technological origins, their capabilities, and why they would operate in such publicly viewable locations. One reason I think black triangles are less likely to be human than alien in nature is that, historically, human black projects by and large do not operate highly advanced, classified craft in open, public airspace. It doesn’t mean humans can’t do that or have never done that, but it’s unlikely. They tend to prefer to operate and test classified aircraft in secure locations or at extremely high altitudes where it is difficult for the public and the state’s adversaries to spy on the black project’s activities. If black triangle UFOs are all of pure human origin, then these human operators would effectively be acting as if they’re aliens, which itself raises a whole series of questions. Some conspiracy theorists suggest state actors may sometimes do this, but I still find it unlikely that all black triangle UFOs are completely human in origin, and I find that unlikely due to both the normal modus operandi of aerospace black projects and the anomalous appearance, behavior, and capabilities of black triangle UFOs.
Given how popular the black project hypothesis to explain UFOs remains, I would like to address this hypothesis specifically in further depth. Many alien hypothesis detractors propose an explanation roughly along the lines of: “All genuine UFOs are most likely human black projects, particularly those UFOs that appear to be advanced craft.” It is of course reasonable to question whether any unidentified advanced craft may be classified military projects. It is not reasonable, I would argue, to regard the entire UFO phenomenon as if all such advanced craft are more than likely mere human-engineered black projects. A more reasonable position is to remain agnostic until conclusive evidence can be established, and also to at least consider the hypothesis that some UFOs may be alien, a hypothesis many detractors outright refuse to consider whatsoever, and a hypothesis such detractors sometimes go so far as to characterize as irrational to contemplate. As this debate continues and more sightings and evidence come into play, I am confident the spectrum of alien/paranormal hypotheses will gain more credence. For now, I shall give some of my own objections to the black project hypothesis to explain advanced UFOs:
1) First and foremost, one must question how likely it is that the agencies behind such black projects would frequently operate their highly advanced, highly classified technologies in clearly viewable public airspace for civilians, professional researchers, and possible enemy spies to observe. “They want us to think they’re aliens.” some object. That, or some of these craft simply are alien in origin. If you ask me, it is profoundly unlikely human black projects would actually test such advanced aircraft on such a large scale for such a long period of time, unless their precise objective is to instill mass paranoia of the existence of alien visitors, but again, at that point, we’re forced to consider whether any such advanced aircraft may simply be alien technologies in the first place. If even one of these advanced UFOs is alien in origin, the theory they’re all of human origin is false.
2) Secondly, when we take the relatively rudimentary level of known, conventional military-intelligence aerospace craft into account, and contrast those technologies to both the comparatively advanced level of some UFO technologies and the rather high rate of sightings over the decades, it becomes obvious on some level that, at the very least, it would be awfully odd for any military or intelligence agency to possess such radically evolved devices on such a widespread scale and yet for the conventional vehicular arsenals of human states to remain so comparatively simpler on such a widespread scale. We’re not talking about a handful of triangles or discs observed over the years. No. There have been many thousands of sightings in the last century alone, which strongly suggests the existence of an extensive fleet of advanced aerospace craft operational in the local sector. And yet, despite so many advanced technologies, the conventional technologies of today’s militaries remain pretty basic in comparison. This contrast I’ve drawn doesn’t deductively mean a human state cannot simultaneously operate a fleet of highly advanced aircraft and a fleet of relatively rudimentary aircraft, but I would suggest that the general level of known human military-intelligence technology would be quite peculiar if all advanced UFOs whatsoever are mere human black projects. You would think our holistic technological level would be upgraded by now, if we already have such extensive long-term access to advanced technologies.
3) At the same time, it is conceivable that some UFOs are indeed human-operated black projects, and that such black projects originate from a clandestine acquisition of alien technologies, such as via UFO crashes or private exchanges between human actors and alien actors. If you ask me, and many others for that matter, it’s far more likely that if any advanced UFOs are human black projects, they’re probably the result of original or reverse-engineered acquisitions of alien technology by clandestine human elements, with some UFOs being alien-operated, some UFOs being human-operated, and perhaps some being jointly operated technologies, such as part of training exercises for top secret experimental divisions. Once again, if we’re being intellectually honest, we must ask ourselves why human black projects would operate such advanced technologies on such a large, publicized scale; how likely (or rather unlikely) it is that such advanced black projects would operate so openly unlike most other black projects; and why our military technology level remains so comparatively lower if all such UFOs are human in origin.
4) What’s more, as advanced UFOs have been reported for many decades, including during the 1940s and 1950s when conventional human aircraft were at a much lower level of complexity, we must again wonder why the commonplace aerospace technology back then was so poor, if there was available skill in such highly advanced designs. If human engineers during the 40s and 50s had the expertise to design and develop such advanced craft, what took them so long to develop today’s technologies? It doesn’t make sense. We can posit that militaries may keep research and development systems divided into higher and lower tracks, but on general principle, if a state has that level of expertise available, you would think it would create modern aircraft far sooner than they’ve evolved. There is such a drastic split between the level of conventional technology and the level of UFO technology that it raises doubts as to how states in such capable possession of the latter could have such a deficit in the level of the former for such a long period of time. The most reasonable implication is that conventional human aircraft is less developed than advanced UFO technology because the latter is primarily a nonhuman invention.
5) The holistic black project hypothesis, considered in the context of the actual UFO case file, would discount virtually all claimed sightings of anomalous beings and, in some cases, claims of abduction by aliens, or the hypothesis would instead explain all of these entities as illusions or creations of the human black project. To me, and to many others, given all the claims of anomalous beings in the UFO case file — which again a number of individuals are not familiar with the true extent of — if even one of these cases involve actual anomalous entities, this is very strong indication mere humans aren’t the only actors involved in the operation of such craft. UFOs aren’t the only anomalies seen.
6) Past black project aircraft have been known to suffer accidents occasionally. Would a black project really risk an accident with such advanced craft? Possibly a crash in a very populated area? The mere risk of accident would be good reason not to fly so openly. “Why would aliens fly so openly then?” you might object. Well, for one, they would probably be in a better position to know the practical reliability of their craft. Their craft should have long ago passed out of the main experimental phase of development and into the field application phase. So, given their high evolutionary level, they should be more confident in their technology. There are also a number of claims of UFO crashes. We can’t necessarily expect aliens, even highly advanced aliens, to be perfect. They could suffer technical problems, or even hostile attacks or sabotage. Psychologically though, it makes more sense to me that experienced aliens would fly such advanced craft so openly as part of a complex agenda than that more fallible humans would fly such craft so openly and risk all manner of damage whether from espionage or accidents. You don’t tend to see normal black projects flying low over populated areas for all to observe.
7) If the UFO explanation is a mere “misdirection” to account for sightings of black projects, the very existence of a “misdirection” implies the black project wants attention directed away from its true nature, which, if so, would strongly suggest that the black project doesn’t want to be publicly known. If the military-intelligence system uses the UFO theory as a misdirection when black project aircraft are spotted, thus implying they don’t want the project to be understood, then why operate the aircraft so openly in the first place? There would be no need to “misdirect” anyone if no one saw anything to begin with. A desire to misdirect strongly implies a desire to conceal, which would be contradicted by the evident desire of such “black projects” to operate so openly. They’re trying to “cover up” their black projects by framing them as UFOs and yet they conduct their project activities in a way that exposes them to so many people in so many places. As an explanation, this makes less sense than some UFOs simply being alien technology.
8) Vehicular black projects are very unlikely to operate so openly across the world. Sites like Area 51 exist for a reason. When a military or intelligence agency wants to test a classified experimental aircraft, it has tended to do so at secure, remote facilities cordoned off from the public eye and, perhaps most importantly, possible enemy spies embedded in the population, who would love to get some juicy photographs of cutting edge experimental technologies for the researchers in their home countries to examine and reverse engineer. But for some reason, according to these detractors, all the black projects except the flying saucers and the like are generally kept hidden from the public. And for what reason? To make us think we’re being visited by aliens? Let’s be honest. What substantial strategic advantage would the black project host gain from such a misconception? “They want to spread fear.” “They’re planning to simulate an alien invasion.” I don’t buy it. I think it’s more likely at least some of these advanced UFOs are straight-up alien visitors, and there is an effort to portray such UFOs as insignificant.
9) One possible objection detractors would give to this is: “These UFOs are field demonstrations of practical capabilities. The host agency wants to observe the capabilities of the technologies on a large scale.” Yet again, we have this issue of UFOs being observed in such public airspaces for so many years, and also having possible connections to anomalous phenomena. If humans wanted to test this technology on a large scale, they could just as easily limit its use to obscure locations to maintain a low profile, yet UFOs are so commonly reported in populated locations. The high profile such technologies exhibit just does not seem consistent with the nature of human black projects to me, given how extremely classified and sensitive such projects normally are. For most black technology projects, the overseers wouldn’t dare let their prized possessions anywhere near the prying eyes of civilians, let alone possible adversaries.
10) In the vein of a field demonstration theory, it could be suggested that UFO-type black projects could be flown openly as part of a psychological assessment of the technology being viewed by witnesses, which could give the project host information on damage control mechanisms, etc. While we can envision this, I would reiterate the sheer number, scale, and length of UFO sightings over the decades, as well as the tendency of black projects to operate in restricted airspace. You would think if they only wanted to test witness reactions and damage control, they would have run a sufficient number of tests by now. Yet the sightings continue each year, as they have since the old days of UFOs.
11) The entire black project counter-narrative indicates two primary flaws in this subset of the UFO community: 1) it grossly underestimates the sheer spatial, temporal, and technological scale of advanced UFOs and how intuitively improbable it is for all such technologies to be openly operated, human-engineered devices at this stage of evolution; and 2) it fosters a kind of psy op and disinformation dynamic where UFO “skeptics” peddle the black project narrative so heavily that any paranormal hypothesis begins to erode until finally some become convinced humans have engineered an elaborate array of intricate meta-technologies flying around the planet and it couldn’t possibly be or probably isn’t aliens, which is, perhaps, exactly what some elements want us to think, that these are all human aircraft or other non-paranormal phenomena. The black project debunkers think the UFO theorists are being played by a military-intelligence psy op designed to portray classified capabilities as UFOs, when, in reality, what’s more likely going on here is that the black project debunkers are the ones being played into thinking the obvious alien technologies being observed are probably just classified projects that, for some strange reason, love to operate in full view of the public for decades, and nevermind all the other strange phenomena that seem to be connected to UFOs because that’s all part of a grandiose psychological operation too. I can’t say for certain what the core truth of the matter is, but if you’re one of these types who’s convinced all genuine UFOs are classified human aircraft then you’re getting sheeped, even if your theory somehow turns out to be true. You’re getting sheeped because that conviction simply isn’t conclusive and never will be conclusive, and if you cling to that conviction as deeply as you do, your intellect itself has been subsumed by an erroneous methodological approach, and you’re liable to misinterpret genuine paranormal phenomena in the future.
12) I’ve heard this line of criticism expounded sometimes of: “Why would alien craft emit lights? It’s not like they’d be regulated by the FAA. And surely they could see fine without lights. They must be human craft, since aliens wouldn’t use lights.” To any skeptical person, this logic is clearly highly presumptuous and flawed, and fails to take into account any other possible explanations for why alien craft would have lights in some cases. For one, there is always a question of whether such lights could be used to signal their presence. Theoretically, they wouldn’t necessarily be used solely for physical purposes. There may be psychological purposes as well, including the affects alien lights may have on observers. As for physical purposes, we can’t be certain what kinds of light technology are at play and why aliens would use them as they do. It has been theorized light energy could be used as part of their propulsion systems, or that certain energy systems they use naturally emit a luminous aura. Beyond all of this, aliens could also engage in behaviors you expect them not to, simply because you expect them not to. If a thought process is, “Aliens would never do this.” then aliens may do just that, such as to create doubt or confusion. “Aliens wouldn’t do this.” is usually not a compelling critique, since we can’t know for certain what advanced aliens would and wouldn’t do and why.
13) As an addendum here, although one I know many do not take seriously, there is also the issue of possible UFO connections to alien abduction accounts, crop formations, animal mutilations, black helicopters, and men in black. If actual UFOs have a connection to any of these anomalies or others, it raises some questions as to how realistic the notion that such UFOs are human in origin is. Certainly, military abductions are conceivable, even abductions in which advanced human operators simulate an alien presence, and, although I find it less likely, it’s also conceivable human black projects could create crop circles, mutilate animals, and be investigated by black helicopters, which may be deployed by agencies unaware of the activities of a separate, compartmentalized black project. I find that out of all of these, men in black, if authentic, perhaps raise the strangest question, though some detractors may of course characterize these as part of the alleged effort on the part of the black projects to foster the illusion of alien visitation. If actual ‘men in black’ have intimidated some UFO witnesses and even confiscated evidence, how realistic is it that such agents are mere human actors trying to cover up a mere human black project, which has itself elected to consistently operate in such open airspace? If, as the alleged existence of men in black suggests at face value, a shadowy force does not want us to know about these UFOs, why operate the UFOs so openly? The same question can be asked of certain alien hypothesis proponents, as explained later in this thread.
14) To compound this issue, there have been several investigations of UFOs by governments, some of which have concluded that at least some UFOs are unknowns. If the black project objection is true, either these very governments are apparently unaware of some of their own projects or they’re using personnel and resources to “investigate” UFOs that they know full well are mere black projects, projects which, again, they would operate in such strangely open ways for all to see. Both explanations seem odd to me.
15) A more intuitive version of the black project hypothesis is that at least some of these craft are espionage or sabotage technologies deployed by foreign adversaries. This would again raise the issue of the historical length of UFO sightings, the aforementioned technological deficit, and how realistic it is that foreign aircraft would violate airspace, often at such low altitudes and at such slow velocity, especially given the possibility their own adversaries could possess similar technology to counter and possibly neutralize and capture their own. If a foreign power has technology this advanced, are they really going to fly it so openly over other airspaces and risk it being analyzed, tracked, and/or neutralized? Could the advantage gained from such open operations be that great as to outweigh the serious risks posed by enemy countermeasures and on such a regular basis? Perhaps some of these are black projects, but I truly doubt they’re all mere human tech.
16) Even if some advanced UFOs are black projects, it naturally raises the question of whether any such black projects involve alien elements. Perhaps some craft are reverse-engineered alien technology or original alien models, perhaps some feature alien and human agents, and perhaps some advanced craft are alien craft and others are human craft. Even if evidence exists that a given classified craft is part of a human-operated black project, to conclusively explain it, we must confirm whether there is any alien involvement on any level whatsoever, especially with respect to designs and materials.
17) As perhaps the most compelling point here: If all advanced UFOs are human creations, this naturally raises the question of how technologically advanced humans are, and, if humans are so technologically advanced, how advanced other species may be as well. If our species is the only source of all of this, we must question how advanced others are.
18) To summarize, I find it improbable overall that all advanced UFOs are mere human-engineered black projects, for multiple reasons. If you look at all the evidence combined, I would argue the indications are not that such UFOs are likely human black projects, but are likely alien or other paranormal structures, however improbable some find this explanation. The main problem with the black project detractors to me is that they never seem to adequately explain the open operational profile of the technologies, nor the relative deficit in general technological advancement if all such technologies are human property. Much of this reduces to intuition, frankly, and I think the more reasonable intuition is not that these are all black projects but that these are at least partially alien.
To continue my critique of UFO hypotheses, I shall briefly address the psychosocial hypothesis, as well as this notion that UFO sightings being lower in the astronomer community has any serious significance. Finally, I’d also like to touch on the theory that the UFO phenomenon is an intricate psy op being run by shadowy elements of the government-military system to create fear and confusion. I’ll begin with a criticism of the psychosocial hypothesis.
1) The main aspect of the psychosocial hypothesis I take issue with is that, in a certain formulation of it, virtually all genuine UFO sightings are characterized as probable perceptual mistakes or hallucinations due primarily to deeply embedded cultural archetypes about the appearance and nature of UFOs. The classic formulation is basically: “The flying saucer archetype became the most well-known model of alleged UFO. It’s what people have been conditioned to think many if not most UFOs look like. Therefore, all the flying saucer sightings are probably prosaic phenomena or hallucinations as a result of the psychocultural flying saucer archetype.” This is blatantly terrible logic. In a way that I don’t think such theorists are willing to admit, it can be argued to reduce to the logic of: “People claimed to see flying saucers back in the day. Therefore, all the people who saw flying saucers after them are probably mistaken as a result of a preconception about UFOs and a culture of paranoia.” Meanwhile, it could just as easily be the case that people have simply seen flying saucers, among a number of other types of UFOs. The psychosocial hypothesis tends to baselessly characterize the entire UFO phenomenon as a grandiose global illusion of sorts, where everyone is simply “seeing things” and the UFO archetypes that have developed in the cultural consciousness have unduly affected the perception of eyewitnesses. Nevermind the photographs and films and research and testimony of scientists and government officials, as well as numerous instances of apparent landings and associated physical traces. Those are all fake or misconceptions. The notion that so many people are seeing UFOs simply because UFOs have become a cultural archetype is about as radically conjectural and honestly absurd as psychology can get. People have seen actual flying saucers, among other UFOs. The question is not whether they’ve seen actual, external objects but what the nature of these external objects is in our world.
2) This statistic is sometimes invoked that UFO sightings remain lower in the amateur astronomy community, despite astronomers being so focused on the sky. For one, let’s recognize that astronomers frequently narrow their visions to telescopic instruments, specifically in order to focus on celestial objects rather than the sky at large. You’re more likely to see an astronomer gazing hypnotically through a telescope than actively watching the skies for UFOs. More importantly however, on a deductive level, and frankly even on an inductive level, the supposed statistic is really meaningless. So what astronomers see UFOs less often? It doesn’t make UFOs any less real in the cases of those eyewitnesses who do see them, many of them credible witnesses and sometimes trained observers. This astronomy community detraction is a roundabout way of calling into question the credibility of the broader UFO witness community at large, especially non-professional witnesses. Astronomers are indeed less likely to mistake a conventional phenomenon for a UFO. However, UFOs can appear virtually anywhere, at any time, to anyone, and for that matter, only a small fraction of the world’s population is comprised of astronomers. Of course they aren’t going to see UFOs as much as other people generally. At any rate, don’t let this baloney line fool you. The scope of UFOs is too vast and complicated in nature.
3) It is sometimes suggested a certain shadowy division of the world’s government-military system is engaged in an intricate psychological operation whereby said division deploys human-engineered UFO technology openly in order to incite fear and confusion and, via their complicated activities, keep the general public oppressed and frightened of a secretive alien force in the solar system. In one common version of this conspiracy theory, this psy op plans to exploit the UFO phenomenon as part of an eventual global takeover and implementation of a one world government, an event which may involve a staged alien invasion possibly using the division’s UFO technology and other tactics. The foundational premise of this concept is usually that the entire UFO phenomenon (i.e. genuine UFOs and related phenomena) is a human conspiracy designed to orchestrate large-scale psychosocial modifications, probably culminated in a future oppressive societal transition. While we can obviously conceive of this conspiracy theory in principle, in practice I would argue it becomes exceptionally convoluted and cumbersome. Remember, the core concept is that all advanced UFOs are black projects, and that they’re primarily being used to foment fear, confusion, and a global perception of an alien presence, which the black division plans to exploit for a future societal agenda, essentially using the illusion of an alien presence or invasion to enhance control over and manipulation of the world population. To this I would raise a few objections: 1) so many UFO sightings occur in relatively obscure locations and to so few witnesses that it would be odd at the very least for this black division to expend time and resources to make appearances to random obscure civilians for the primary purpose of a deceptive global plot; 2) this conspiracy theory is a version of the black project hypothesis and suffers from all the intuitive and logistical problems of that hypothesis; 3) though granted this theory is conceivable in principle, there is zero confirmation of this explanation as of yet, and, given this lack of confirmation as well as the extraordinary convolution and paranoia involved (a paranoid convolution several orders higher than the alien hypothesis in my analysis), it is unreasonable for devotees of this conspiracy theory to cling to the theory as fanatically as they do, so fanatically they often regard agnostics, skeptics, and ufologists who take any other theory seriously as foolish and borderline psychotic. “It’s all a grandiose psychological operation to make us think we’re being visited by aliens as part of the New World Order plot, silly! Of course none of them are alien spacecraft! Who would think such a thing?” This is how a lot of these conspiracy theorists come across. There’s a difference between saying the UFO phenomenon could be a complicated psy op and saying it most definitely is and anyone who questions otherwise is naïve and irrational. Once more, this could be exactly what the actual UFO division wants us to think, as for us to take the alien hypothesis seriously would, if true, put the real truth at risk of revelation.
I’ve also heard it suggested that since none of these advanced UFOs are being shot down by military aircraft or other interceptive defense systems, all such UFOs must be military aircraft themselves. First and foremost, how do we know none of these advanced UFOs have ever been shot down by military elements? That’s quite a claim to make without access to all relevant military operations over the years. Secondly, this objection doesn’t adequately address both the concept and the claim that some UFO technology appears to be able to outmaneuver military interceptors and even render military elements unable to target or strike such UFOs. “If the UFOs are aliens, they would be shot down.” implies they even could be shot down in the first place. It also suggests militaries would virtually always be able to detect UFO incursions into monitored airspace, which again raises questions about UFO technology and whether any such technology has capabilities sufficient to counter long-range aerial surveillance. Overall, I find this objection a very poor line of thought typical of many of the objections to alien UFO theories.
As black triangles have become my primary UFO interest, I will here delineate a rough analysis of the black triangle case file and phenomenon. From what I have studied, this model seems to provide a general overview of the observable characteristics associated with the craft.
Analysis of Black Triangle UFO Patterns:
· Often appear stationary or flying slowly at low to moderate altitudes
· Have also been observed at higher altitudes
· Observed on many occasions close to tree tops, or flying over residences
· Observed over or near a number of highways
· Commonly observed at night
· Silent or emit a faint hum
· May rarely be described to emit a very loud, strange sound
· Area around and beneath the craft may fall strangely quiet
· Commonly large in size, though size varies
· Often observed as singular, though may be observed in groups
· Reported to rapidly accelerate to a high velocity in some cases
· Frequently observed to emit either three white lights or three red or red-orange lights
· Sometimes observed to emit a central light, mostly either a white or red central light
· Variations in light patterns a notable but somewhat subtle facet of the phenomenon
· May be perceived to focus on a specific individual or group of observers
· May be observed to fly low over a subject, hover briefly, and depart shortly after
· May be perceived by a subject to emit directed light or lasers at the subject
· May be perceived by a subject to emit directed quasi-telepathic transmissions
· Witnesses may experience perceptual distortions, memory repression, and/or time dilation in response to the craft, as well as intense emotions of fear and/or surreality
· May have stealth capabilities, possible cloaking technology
· Some triangular light formations may be black triangles engaged in a stealth mode
· Black helicopters or other craft sometimes reported during or shortly after a sighting
Sometimes, a UFO report may describe the UFO to exert other effects on the environment or to reveal occupants or interact with an observer in some fashion. Witnesses have claimed to observe technological malfunctions, visceral animal reactions, or other personal or environmental effects from an object. Rarely, as mentioned, a witness claims to observe a landing. These are some of the wilder claims and, like any UFO claim, should always be approached with a skeptical eye. If some UFOs are ETVs however, it would make sense they may land sometimes. Again, why they would land is not a question I can definitively answer. We can speculate, but their agenda is ultimately their business, whatever their agenda would be.
Many people who consider themselves “skeptics” are not skeptics. They’re more accurately deniers, or denialists/debunkers. In other words, they deny a hypothesis as true. They aren’t skeptical of it in the way an authentic scientist is skeptical of a hypothesis. They outright claim the hypothesis or story is false even though there is no proof it’s false. There’s a difference between: “That UFO isn’t an ETV.” and, “It’s unclear what that UFO is.” See the difference? One is denialistic and one is skeptical. The true skeptic is uncertain and only certain in the face of definitive proof to the contrary. Those who make such broad, unfounded claims as, “UFOs don’t exist.” or, “Aliens aren’t real.” or, “There are no alien abductions.” are not skeptics but deniers/debunkers. Some of them are deniers of clear and present evidence of anomaly. Others are deniers of hypotheses and anecdotes. If you’re truly skeptical of the UFO phenomenon, you don’t presume UFOs don’t exist, you don’t presume no UFOs are ETVs, and you further don’t presume no other anomalous phenomena may be related to UFOs. I don’t mean to conflate skepticism and agnosticism, but there’s a very close relation between the two. The skeptic and the agnostic are very often indistinguishable, in a way. Making observations of uncertainties, flaws, and biases is skeptical. Making unproven claims is not, as is refusing to examine evidence. This applies to debunkers on both sides of the debate, no matter their stance on UFOs.
There is this kind of double standard in considerations of UFO accounts by some. Eyewitnesses are often taken at their word in courts of law on civil and criminal matters, so heavily a single witness’s testimony can be the deciding factor in a court decision. Yet when an eyewitness, perhaps even the same eyewitness, claims to observe a UFO, even a clear and present UFO, the same people who place such trust in such eyewitnesses may now regard them with a sharply doubtful eye. “Well maybe you saw a plane. Planes are known to look like alien discs and triangles.” “Probably the light of Venus reflecting off of a weather balloon in swamp gas. Those weather balloons are tricky, can never tell if they’re a balloon or a massive triangular craft.” “Perhaps we should see about having him sectioned… There’s no such thing as aliens.”
Some would give an objection to some of my logic in this discourse whereby I’m characterized as using a fallacious line of reason in the form of an “alien of the gaps” argument: “You take gaps in scientific knowledge and frame them as evidence for or likely indication of alien intelligence. You’re using an argument from ignorance rather than an argument from evidence.” For one, my argument is based at least in part on the evidence contained in the UFO case file, which is not an argument from ignorance. Secondly, I will concede that, in some respect, yes, I am taking the gaps in scientific knowledge that surround the UFO phenomenon and other anomalies and making reasonable probabilistic inferences as to the true nature of those phenomena. The very fact conventional science can’t conclusively and comprehensively explain the UFO phenomenon, coupled with the copious data contained in the UFO case file, lends strongly to, at the very least, a conceivable possibility of alien intelligence. My argument is not that UFOs are alien inventions, but rather that they very well may be, and that, to some extent, it’s likely some are, if not almost certain. I’m not making any hard assumptions about them.
I despise arguments from ignorance. “X is unproven so it must be false.” “X hasn’t yet been disproven so it must be true.” I absolutely never intend to make any argument of this sort. Rather, if anything, I will emphasize that X has been neither proven nor disproven, and that it is unreasonable to conclude X is true or untrue yet. I always seek to recognize epistemic limits.
To conclude this section, I would like to give my personal response to a certain argument against the extraterrestrial hypothesis, as outlined by one of the most famous UFO researchers. This researcher is certainly a learned, intelligent scholar and, like anyone who seeks to study the UFO phenomenon scientifically, I have the utmost respect for them on an intellectual level. I do not find their fivefold argument against the ETH very compelling, however. Rather, like other objections to alien UFO theories, it contains certain implicit assumptions or intuitions about the nature of intelligent extraterrestrials. To be fair to the author, they frame their discussion in the context of a certain version of the ETH as a primary point of contention, namely, the version of the ETH which describes UFO occupants as ETs who arrived around WWII and are engaged in a large-scale scientific study of the Earth. Although this is one version of the ETH the author means to address, the ETH as a general theory is also under discussion, in all its possible forms. They also frame their discussion in a way which, per their statistical analysis, portrays the UFO phenomenon as much vaster than we actually know it is. For my purposes, I will only address the UFO case file itself, rather than taking the known cases and assuming large numbers of others.
These are the five arguments against the ETH in question:
1) Unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the Earth.
2) The humanoid body structure of the alleged “aliens” is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel.
3) The reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race.
4) The extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon.
5) The apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives.
I’ll address each of these arguments in sequence, primarily on a logical level rather than with respect to specific case evidence or generic technobiological parameters in human science. There is a complex thread of logic here to be untangled, which, I suggest, does not contradict the ETH.
1) As I discuss later in this discourse, the amount of close encounters and craft occupancy described in the UFO case file has no logical bearing on the possibility of an extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis. Advanced extraterrestrials could operate however, wherever, and whenever they wish to operate, regardless of how strange or unnecessary humans find such operations. It should also be stressed we don’t know how many alien planets or species are involved. In the first place, we don’t actually know extraterrestrials would be strictly interested in a mere physical survey of the Earth. As explained throughout this discourse and in the discourses of other researchers, extraterrestrials could seek a number of outcomes: psychocultural modifications, experiential ventures, face-to-face encounters, laboratory experimentation, and in-person explorations of environments, to name a few, as well as physical surveys. The point here is that advanced extraterrestrials need not conform to our expectations of their behavior, and that they may very well be interested in more than a mere physical survey, as many have speculated.
2) This argument is twofold: A) the humanoid body structures of reported aliens are unlikely to have originated on another planet, and B) such body structures are not biologically adapted to space travel. These two arguments contain, it should be clear, both subjective biological interpretations and exobiological assumptions. There is no strong scientific basis on which to premise the theory that the reported humanoid body structure of aliens is unlikely to originate from another planet. Nature clearly holds a power to evolve a vast array of body structures humanoid and otherwise. It certainly could conceivably evolve advanced humanoid organisms under sufficient conditions, and the phenotype of aliens could be adapted to the unique conditions of their home world, as many of the phenotypes of Earthlings are adapted to terrestrial environments. The fact aliens may appear similar to humans and be able to operate in Earth’s atmosphere shouldn’t come as that much of a shock to us, really. It’s also conceivable some percentage of aliens encountered by humans are themselves genetically engineered beings created by more advanced aliens, which could mean the engineered beings don’t necessarily originate from another planet as we might expect them to. (As for quasi-apparitional alien encounters, these could be explained as either actual apparitions or a number of possible ET-originated phenomena: i) ETs comprised of unfamiliar materials/forces that render them quasi-apparitional in appearance; ii) ETs of organic origin who’ve developed an ability to assume a quasi-apparitional appearance; iii) quasi-apparitional entities manifested by ETs using ET capabilities; or iv) quasi-apparitional hallucinations induced by ETs using ET capabilities — wherein none of these four explanations require the aliens to be e.g. supernatural rather than extraterrestrial.) To say the body types of alleged alien visitors are “unlikely” to originate from another planet is ultimately to make assumptions about what nature is capable of on a cosmic level. We know for a fact it’s capable of the evolution of many varied kinds of species on this planet alone. It surely may have evolved other kinds of humanoid intelligences elsewhere in space. As for the notion such body types (e.g. greys) aren’t biologically adapted to space travel, this is again another assumption, both about the biological capabilities of aliens and the nature of alien space travel. Above all, we must recognize advanced aliens could construct craft that permit their otherwise unadapted bodies to travel in the void of space, even for very long periods of time. It isn’t merely alien biologies in question, it’s also their alien craft. As a first principle, before we can even discuss whether alien bodies are biologically adapted to space travel, we must establish what benefits their spacecraft would afford to their bodies, e.g., whether their craft could insulate them from the harsh conditions of space travel. Ultimately, there is no strong reason to conclude nature is unlikely to evolve such humanoids, and there is no strong reason to conclude such humanoids aren’t biologically adapted to space travel, not the least because we don’t know what technological parameters their craft hold in the first place.
3) Regardless of how aliens may behave in reported abduction cases, virtually none of their behaviors out-rule an extraterrestrial hypothesis, or even make it unlikely. As stated, intelligent extraterrestrials could behave however they wish to behave, for whatever reason they wish. Their behaviors may also be largely natural to them, habitual, like human behaviors. This argument reduces to some extent to: “Abduction narratives don’t uniformly feature efficient scientific procedures, and advanced extraterrestrials would be unlikely to behave non-scientifically.” Perhaps the author didn’t intend to argue this, but in my analysis, their argument suggests this. It’s a psychological intuition about aliens.
4) Even if UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon, the only theory this contradicts is the theory that UFOs didn’t begin to arrive until around e.g. WWII. The historical length of the UFO phenomenon has no logical bearing on the likelihood of an ET theory, nor does the possibility the UFO phenomenon has evolved parallel to human evolutionary history. Surely ETs could operate a number of different systems for any number of reasons, even, perhaps, to appear to be a supernatural epiphenomenon that evolves parallel to humanity. This is not to suggest that no facet of the UFO phenomenon is non-extraterrestrial in nature. I only suggest that the length and evolution of the phenomenon doesn’t preclude an ET origin of some degree in any serious way. We don’t even know there’s only one planet/species visiting us, let alone what their true capabilities and intentions may be.
5) As in the fourth argument, the capabilities of UFOs/aliens have no logical bearing on the likelihood of an extraterrestrial theory. Even if aliens originate from another planet like or unlike ours, there’s no reason to assume they wouldn’t possess abilities of advanced spatiotemporal manipulation. Capabilities of this kind could arise from unique biological, psychological, and technological adaptations, perhaps even ones tantamount to magic. The subjective states of eyewitnesses should also be taken into account, including whether eyewitnesses may have entered an anomalous altered state in which they perceived quasi-supernatural manifestations that don’t exist independently of perception. Eyewitness perceptions could portray ETs as more supernatural than they really are.
While the author does not seek to discount the extraterrestrial hypothesis completely, their arguments against it rest on subjective interpretations of the probabilities of extraterrestrial behavioral, biological, and technological parameters. There is no reason to conclude extraterrestrial visitors wouldn’t operate across the world in-person, there is no reason to conclude reported alien body structures are unlikely to originate from another planet, there is no reason to conclude such alien body structures aren’t biologically adapted to space travel, there is no reason to conclude we know how extraterrestrials would probably conduct abduction operations, there is no reason to conclude extraterrestrial visitation couldn’t extend thousands or even millions of years into the past, there is no reason to conclude quasi-supernatural UFO/alien capabilities discredit an extraterrestrial theory of origin, and, perhaps most importantly, there is no reason to conclude the UFO/alien phenomenon couldn’t involve a mixture of extraterrestrial, interdimensional, apparitional, and native sources, which is, to be fair, an assumption the researcher does not make. That said, these arguments by themselves aren’t very compelling.
We may have aliens from outer space, beings from other dimensions or spectrums, and perhaps other kinds of entities distinct from both types. We need not assume they would all be from another planet or they would all be from another dimension or they would all be supernatural. It could be some are extraterrestrial, some are extradimensional, and some fall into another category closer to the supernatural. Some may also be some kind of psychogenic entity.
There are many thousands of UFO sightings, and there will continue to be UFO sightings. Some UFOs are not genuine UFOs. Only a fraction of UFO sightings involve genuine UFOs. For those that do, the objects observed often appear to be advanced craft, and such advanced craft are not as yet claimed as the property of any human organizations. What’s more, when examined carefully, there is some indication that a kind of cover-up of UFOs and related phenomena may be ongoing. It’s difficult to say what the exact extent of the cover-up is, and who exactly is involved, but there have been a number of cases of UFO-related evidence that have been reported to be suppressed, and there is a general sense among many in the world that certain clandestine elements are in possession of top secret information, possibly to the extent of actual ETVs, extraterrestrial specimens, and extraterrestrial contact. While many naturally remain skeptical of this theory, we cannot out-rule it as a possibility, and I find the case file and the behavior of certain institutions lends credence to some kind of cover-up. Conversely, the U.S. Navy recently acknowledged military personnel observed genuine UFOs, and governments have undertaken studies of UFOs. It is possible governments may loosen their grip on UFO information as the species ages. In any case, I don’t find it crazy at all to question whether any governments may have knowledge of UFOs or aliens that they have yet to disclose publicly.
Overview of UFO-spectrum Phenomena
In this context, UFO-spectrum phenomena is an umbrella term for all anomalous phenomena which are thought to have a possible relation to UFOs. Namely, I mean to discuss alien abductions, crop formations, animal mutilations, black helicopters, and so-called men in black. When you get this deep down the rabbit hole, a lot of people lose you and may even consider you psychotic. What such people fail to recognize is that the cosmos is a very, very strange place and none of these phenomena are too strange to be taken seriously. To me, all of these make sense as possible paranormal activity. I think the more interesting question is: If any of these phenomena have a relation to UFOs and aliens, what is the truth of the phenomena in each individual case?
Alien Abduction Accounts
Alien abduction accounts are probably the most hotly contested UFO-related phenomenon. Humans seem to generally agree that UFOs exist in some sense, that is, unidentified flying objects, whatever the true nature of those objects may be. There is not nearly as much agreement on the existence of actual alien abductions. I just want to touch on a few facets here.
Firstly, to those who flat out deny the existence or possibility of alien abductions whatsoever: You are making a methodological mistake, the same kind of mistake made by all those who once denied phenomena that turned out to be real. There is certainly a question of whether at least some alien abduction accounts are vivid dreams, hallucinations, or hoaxes. Sleep paralysis is often raised as a possible explanation, but many people misunderstand sleep paralysis, and further make assumptions about what sleep paralysis truly is. Even if some sleep paralysis states are due to purely internal neurological functions, that does not mean all anomalous paralytic states experienced during sleep are non-paranormal in nature. I’ve experienced sleep paralysis many times and I can tell you that I would be very surprised if the sheer vivid detail and fluidity of many alien abduction accounts was due to mere sleep paralysis or even dreams. In most instances of sleep paralysis, the subject lies in its bed partially or wholly unable to move and may observe apparitions or perceive anomalous sounds or other senses, perhaps see tunnels or other close-eyed visions. To perceive yourself to be physically removed from your room, placed inside of a craft, and subjected to intricate exotic procedures and interactions would be very abnormal even for sleep paralysis. Frankly, there is some question of whether the human brain even can endogenously simulate the level of vividity and fluidity involved in many such accounts. Notice how many if not most dreams are hazy, chaotic, and either based in normal settings or in an otherworldly realm. Dreams are, in other words, typically messy, distorted fantasies. Alien abduction accounts are perceived as so real, kinetic, and anomalous that the brain would likely be hard-pressed to simulate them in the first place. This is a personal psychological analysis however I think there’s some decent reason and intuition behind this particular line of thought.
Psychology professors sit behind the secure walls of their institutions and proclaim the entire “alien abduction” phenomenon is a hallucinatory caper without any paranormal reality. Some of them seem to think every person who’s claimed to experience alien abduction was asleep when it occurred. In fact, a number of claimants report being perfectly awake, such as in a car or near a body of water. So sleep paralysis doesn’t explain those instances. Then we have the reports from claimants who were asleep and awoke to an abduction scenario. To flatly say, “Sleep paralysis explains these incidents.” is profoundly uncritical and presumptive. For one, it’s based on the author’s personal interpretation of what sleep paralysis as an altered state truly is. More importantly, it makes several assumptions psychologists never adequately address:
1. It assumes no paranormal beings (e.g. aliens) can induce sleep-oriented paralysis.
2. It assumes sleep paralysis even can simulate vivid, palpable alien abduction. This has never been scientifically proven. Just because a brain can simulate some kinds of scenarios doesn’t in and of itself imply the brain can simulate all kinds of scenarios.
3. It assumes that, because SP can simulate alien abduction, therefore all apparent alien abduction is simulated by SP. This is the same kind of logic as saying that because the brain can hallucinate spiders, therefore all apparent spiders seen are hallucinations. It’s perfectly conceivable some alien abduction scenarios are hallucinatory and some are not.
4. It assumes sleep paralysis has no capacity to simply coincidentally correlate to apparent alien abduction scenarios, without a causal basis of the scenarios in sleep paralysis itself.
5. It offers no adequate explanation for purported marks, anomalous technical disruptions, other witnesses, or other evidence that indicates a non-hallucinatory event occurred.
6. It assumes the psychical mechanisms involved in sleep paralysis cannot generate, e.g., sentient thought-forms within a psychodimensional dream state that, though mental creations, nonetheless exist as living minds created by the sleeper’s mind itself. Psychologists I’ve seen generally do not take the time to address this conceivability, let alone conclusively out-rule it beyond any shadow of a doubt. Under this model, a given alien abduction could indeed be a mental creation, but the entities created by the mind would nonetheless bear a form of sentience endowed by the mind’s creative power itself. Their theory tends to imply the perceived entities lack any form of sentience whatsoever, which would be false even if the entities are sentient creations of the sleeper’s brain.
7. It tends to dismiss all alien abduction type scenarios as though they’re all uninteresting, random dreams without any sort of psychological significance beyond chaotic brain static. If people’s brains are actually simulating alien abductions of an extremely vivid, complex, and fairly consistent nature, this raises an enormous number of questions, questions such psychologists seem to tend to ignore in favor of, “It’s sleep paralysis.”
8. It assumes no apparent alien abductions are, e.g., human military abductions. The claim of these psychologists tends to be that no form of abduction takes place whatsoever, not only an alien abduction. This theory portrays all sleep-oriented cases as purely psychical. Yet if any of these cases involve, e.g., covert human abductors rather than alien abductors, the sleep paralysis theory falls apart, because they’re not all hallucinatory.
Don’t presume no one has ever brought any artifacts or other evidence from an alien abduction. “If so many people have been abducted, why hasn’t anyone retrieved an alien material to show us?” Who’s to say no one has? You? How would you know no one has ever done so and perhaps been thwarted or even ignored? Abductee claimants also report marks or other objects inserted into them, although I can’t characterize any of these. What I can characterize is the sheer number of alien abduction accounts over the decades. Look at how many people have reported being abducted, sometimes while perfectly awake. That’s another issue with the sleep paralysis theory. Some of these cases involve subjects who were already awake at the alleged time of their abduction. Many of them are also said to take place at night, and perhaps especially in remote locations, so it’s only to be expected almost no one would observe these operations take place.
The chief criticism seems to come in the form of doubt as to the technological feasibility of extraterrestrial visitation to this planet: “Aliens from another solar system could not possibly travel here given the vast distance between worlds.” This, of course, makes a number of assumptions about aliens, physics, and technology. Aliens may have access to materials, forces, and biologies we do not have access to. It’s even conceivable aliens could have mastered forms of magic, or quasi-magic, although I know even many ufologists wouldn’t take this hypothesis very seriously. The planetary distance criticism can also presume aliens would necessarily originate from an exosolar system, and not the local system or a local alternate dimension. Although this too is a very disliked hypothesis, we have no definitive proof an advanced intelligent species didn’t evolve on this planet or one of the planets in this solar system, possibly long before humans evolved, and that such a species may have concealed its evolutionary history from humanity. It’s simply not possible to out-rule the native alien hypothesis, and it’s also not possible to out-rule the interdimensional alien hypothesis, which would not necessarily involve distances as great as those between solar systems. It’s further conceivable, as many ufologists have observed, that some fraction of the UFO/alien phenomenon may be a supernatural phenomenon unconstrained by normal conditions. Even if we only consider the exosolar system hypothesis, if we’re being intellectually honest we must admit we don’t know for sure how the cosmos works as a whole, we don’t know for sure what materials or forces may be accessible in other worlds, and we also can’t out-rule the possibility that aliens may have travelled a very long time to this system to establish a base of operations here, possibly even over millions of years.
As an addendum, I would add that I also take the concept of astral abduction seriously as a hypothesis to consider. Astral abduction, in contrast to physical abduction, would essentially involve an alien method which allows the abductors to project the human subject’s consciousness into the abductors’ craft. How they would do this I couldn’t say, but it could involve something along the lines of a holographic interface which targets a sleeping subject’s mind and both delivers internal craft information to the subject and internal subject information into the craft. I would not assume that all alien abductions must be physical. If these beings truly do exist, they may have astral capabilities many humans aren’t aware of and don’t consider.
Alien contact and abduction accounts are numerous and the subject of many studies, papers, and books. I can’t quite discuss the topic in any way that hasn’t already been covered before in some angle. What I do wish to do nonetheless, is emphasize how unscientific it is to completely dismiss all alien contact accounts flat out. I know I make this kind of criticism a number of times. You’re already aware of my agnostic approach and emphasis on open-mindedness to the true nature of reality, whatever it may be. Still, there are so many who reject any consideration of alien contact accounts beyond the theories of psychosis and fraud. Of course some accounts may be illusory or fraudulent. I don’t blindly accept all alien contact accounts without question. I have many questions and doubts. I do, however, acknowledge that, by all appearances, at least some individuals have experienced something subjectively anomalous, which assumes to them the guise of an alien intelligence. To refuse to consider this possibility whatsoever is unreasonable and, I suspect, largely based in subconscious fear and pride in the face of a possible superior intelligence able to target, abduct, and control humans. Of course these claims are otherworldly, and deviate from normality. It’s called the paranormal for a reason. These reports not only remain difficult if not impossible to disprove; if we refuse to take them seriously whatsoever — which many critics do — there is very little we can learn from this phenomenon. It’s clear there is an anomalous phenomenon at play, whatever the nature of that phenomenon is. Let us not casually dismiss all these individuals as crackpots and psychotics. Surely if any segment of the UFO phenomenon is alien, alien contact and abduction can be expected to follow from it.
There is a thread of thought in ufology criticism that, in various ways, makes assumptions about how and why aliens would operate. Such assumptions may be used, for instance, in criticism of the hypothesis that some UFOs are advanced, mechanical, alien craft, rather than prosaic, hallucinatory, or apparitional phenomena. One of those assumptions is that the apparent memory repression many abductee claimants have reported implies the aliens don’t want the abductees to remember, even though we don’t know what the aliens would and wouldn’t want. The implication is that, since the aliens don’t want their abductees to remember, and yet many abductees have remembered, this must be a mistake on the part of the aliens, and since advanced aliens would be very unlikely to make such a mistake, the abduction accounts must not involve advanced aliens, if any beings at all. Clearly, we have no conclusive proof aliens would want anyone at all to forget an abduction, nor that aliens have ever even intended to repress memory to any degree, rather than such memory repression being a natural effect of the unique abduction experience. Beyond this, we can also of course conceive of a method in which alien abductors do repress the memory of at least some subjects but do not intend to do so in a way that renders recovery of the memory completely impossible. There are many conceivably possible scenarios.
Another assumption is based around a criticism of how aliens would conduct their abduction procedures, the basic critique being one of inefficiency and apparent occasional mistakes. “Advanced aliens wouldn’t make mistakes.” Once again, we do not know what they would and wouldn’t do or want, and any apparent mistake could also be intentional. When it comes to the behavior of highly intelligent nonhumans, as far as I’m concerned, nothing is off the table. In fact, we don’t even know aliens would be highly intelligent in all ways beyond, say, technology.
Within ufology, there is a debate between those who perceive a given alien presence (e.g. greys) as benevolent and those who perceive the presence as malevolent, as well as those who perceive the presence as essentially neutral. Myself, I don’t perceive any alien presence as benevolent, neutral, or malevolent or any combination because, for one, I don’t conclusively know such a presence exists here, and more importantly, I make no assumptions about the disposition of such an alien presence if it does exist. For all I know, and for all any human knows, any alien presence could hold relatively benevolent, neutral, or malevolent properties. It’s a rush to judgment to conclude aliens are friendly and a similar rush to judgment to conclude they’re hostile, even if they appear to exhibit behaviors we consider callous or unsavory. There is a faction of ufologists that dearly wants to believe aliens are friendly and another faction that’s emphatically convinced aliens are evil. Both factions often paint alien visitors very broadly for an esoteric society that operates in the shadows. Any sign of alien benevolence could easily conceal a deeper malevolence or neutrality, and any sign of alien malevolence could easily co-exist with forms of benevolence or neutrality, or be misinterpreted as malevolence by humans. It’s also possible, as stated elsewhere, that some aliens — even members of the same race or faction — are benevolent while others are malevolent or neutral. They may not all be identical. Before we even consider whether an alien presence falls into one of these categories, it’s notable that the analysis depends in part on human values and biases, i.e., what preferences we hold. Just because we hold certain preferences doesn’t necessarily mean aliens who hold different preferences are malicious. As in any societal contrast, each society holds its own values.
Crop Formations
I mainly place this section here to specify that there is, despite what debunkers say, an actual question as to whether at least some crop formations involve UFOs. There have been reports of UFOs near crop formations, possibly being observed making crop circles, and regardless, many crop circles themselves are so elaborate, so cryptic, and appear so suddenly that they do raise a question as to whether UFOs may have made any of them. As in other cases of the paranormal and the strange, it would be unscientific to regard this subject as if we know all the answers.
There are definite indications that at least some crop formations — if not most — could be or probably are created by hoaxers. (On this question, let us note that if a hoaxer claims to have made a crop circle but didn’t sufficiently document themself doing so, there is some question as to whether they’re lying about having made it. Despite hoaxers being inherently untrustworthy given their deceit, there is a tendency in the minds of some to take them at their word when they claim to have created certain crop circles.) Once more though, this problem arises of our inability to disprove an extraterrestrial hypothesis, even if an ET account isn’t yet proven. It’s even conceivable ETs could simulate hoaxes, or that disinformation operations could do the same in order to discredit paranormal hypotheses for the most complex crop formations. My position on this is that all I know for certain is that the anomalous formations exist, they’re evidently created by some form of intelligence, and they’re often so elaborate and form so quickly that, among other evidence such as the lack of breaks in stalks in some formations and the detected presence of heat, there is at least a question of whether some could be paranormal creations. To completely discount any paranormal hypothesis whatsoever is far too rash and inconclusive. As bothersome as it is to some, agnosticism is often the most reasonable epistemic stance to take.
Animal Mutilations
There are at least some cases of anomalous animal mutilations that may be due to predators, scavengers, the natural elements, or human actors. What does seem to be apparent about this is that, in a number of cases, there are no clear tracks around the specimen, and the nature of the injuries is such that a surgical precision seems to be at play. Some are also said to have appeared to have been dropped, and witnesses have occasionally reported UFOs or black helicopters in the area. Once again, it would be foolish to outright reject the possibility of UFO involvement. It may sound absurd that aliens would abduct and perform surgical operations upon animals, but it’s not inconceivable, and if you ask me, the more you consider all of these phenomena taken together, the more it begins to make sense in a very bizarre, twisted way. I’ll come to some of my intuitions and speculations on this matter in a bit. As to whether any animal mutilations are cases of paranormal interference, I can’t say. There’s a vein of thought to be studied here though.
Black Helicopters
Black helicopters have been reported near UFO activity for a number of years. These are another one of the “kook/crackpot” claims but, yet again, when you actually take the time to study the evidence, it’s obvious there’s some truth here. For one, if you examine enough films of modern UFOs, you will see in a few that a dark helicopter arrives in the area either during the sighting or shortly after. In some sightings, multiple helicopters appear, and in any case may be observed to pursue UFOs. In some films, you can even see the helicopter hover in close proximity to the object, evidently focused on it. I suppose these helicopters are all normal helicopters completely unrelated to UFOs, right? I don’t think so, and neither do black helicopter witnesses. I don’t think there’s a real question that black helicopters exist. They do exist, and they have been spotted in the vicinity of UFO activity, sometimes during UFO events, as have other military craft that seem to have a probable interest in the objects. And of course the military would be interested in genuine UFOs. Even if a military has so much knowledge of UFOs and aliens that they have ETVs in custody and are in contact with aliens, it’s only natural for militaries and governments to study their environments and gather information on all of the actors and technologies in and around their theaters of operation. I would argue that the very arrival of these helicopters and similar military craft in and around UFO activity strongly suggests an interest on the part of clandestine human elements in the nature of these craft. If these UFOs are all military, you’d have to wonder why the military seems to be engaged in on-site investigations of its own craft, unless of course some of these UFOs are compartmentalized black projects that the black projects which operate the helicopters themselves aren’t aware of. More likely, though, is the fairly simple theory that a classified division of the military has widespread aerial deployment capabilities designed to assess UFO events in real time. They can take photographs, film, and other measurements of the craft, and possibly attempt contact. Obviously the operators of the black helicopters may not prefer civilians on the ground to observe the encounter, but it would be worth the exposure to get a closer view of the anomaly.
Men in Black
I think that when most people hear this phrase, they probably think first and foremost of the film franchise, and some of them may even not know there’s an actual case history of men in black reports from human witnesses. What I would emphasize here initially is not that men in black seem to exist, but that there is a possible indication at least some of them may not be fully human in nature. I say this mainly due to eyewitness descriptions. If you study the case reports, which I would advise you to do if you haven’t, there is a certain theme of these visitors having strange appearances, mannerisms, or features. One of the more popular theories in the ufology community is that at least some men in black are human-alien hybrids or aliens, though it’s also been suggested some may be interdimensional beings or, in John Keel’s terminology, ultraterrestrials. Whatever they are, they seem to have paid a visit to certain individuals at certain times in certain places over the course of recent history. As in other anomalous phenomena, some people deny the existence of this phenomenon altogether, essentially suggesting that every man in black account is either a complete lie or a hallucination. What’s more likely? Everyone is making this up/seeing things? Or actual men in black have visited individuals before?
The classic story is: Someone sees a UFO and reports it, perhaps takes a photograph or a film. At some point after, one or multiple men in black arrive and intimidate the witness, asking the witness to stay quiet about what it’s seen and possibly asking it to hand over evidence. Rather than stay quiet about the UFO, many witnesses instead report the men in black themselves. For me, given the premise this is an actual phenomenon, this raises a few odd questions:
1) If these operatives are deployed by aliens themselves as some suggest, do aliens actually expect witnesses to stay quiet about what they’ve seen, or is this part of a psy op aimed at bringing more attention to the UFO phenomenon and related phenomena?
2) Why would the men in black almost never seem to follow through on any threats?
3) If any men in black are human operatives deployed by human institutions, again, do they actually expect witnesses to stay quiet or is this operation designed to bring exposure to the UFO phenomenon itself? Of some note here is that such agents aren’t necessarily reported to intimidate witnesses to keep quiet. They may instead be more interested in the confiscation of certain pieces of compelling evidence of more value to a cover-up.
4) If any men in black are alien-aligned operatives, could it be that aliens have a capacity to misunderstand human culture, and foolishly presume that intimidation will work?
5) If men in black are UFO-aligned agents, why operate the UFOs so openly to begin with?
Perhaps some of you can give me your insights on these questions, as I do find these to pose some curious uncertainties. I know some would call me a crackpot to even take the concept of men in black seriously, but with all the witnesses that have reported them, and with the few rare photographs that have emerged to corroborate eyewitness accounts, I do think there’s something to be studied here. They’re one of the rarer happenings, but, like alien abduction accounts, crop formations, animal mutilations, and black helicopters, they seem to fit into a certain twisted narrative. I for one think they could be something very different than what a lot of people think they are. If I were to bet based on years of research and intuition, I would wager at least some men in black are not fully human, and I would also wager there is not always an actual intent to suppress UFO evidence, but possibly to bring exposure to UFOs in a convoluted way. I agree with John Keel that some paranormal entities and manifestations may in truth be cosmic tricksters who aren’t quite as serious in nature as we might think they are. I for one cannot help but laugh at all of the anomalous phenomena under discussion: UFOs, alien abduction accounts, crop formations, animal mutilations, black helicopters, men in black. It’s all serious but also very absurd and almost comical to me, and part of me questions whether any of it may be deliberately comical, as strange as that may sound. I would not be the first researcher to suggest that nonhuman intelligences seem to be engaged in deceptive and manipulative tactics, but the notion such activities may be deliberately facetious seems rare. Thoughts on this angle?
Analysis of the Evidence
Many UFO books, articles, and threads have concluded in a manner very like this. In a way, I’ve talked in circles, touching upon divergent questions and evidence but ultimately coming back to about the same place again. What is really going on? Any serious thinkers should be asking themselves that question, not only with respect to this planet, but the cosmos as a whole, and, for me, with an eye to eternity. Perhaps a better question is: What will be going on? Reality has a capacity to grow stranger over time, certainly more complex. Let’s see what the next few decades bring us, the next few centuries. I’m sure a few of us are liable to see something uncanny and inexplicable in that time. Perhaps we’ll even meet a few of these… anomalies…
As a brief aside, let me be clear I can anticipate the vast majority of criticism I would receive. I’ve heard it all before and I can address all of it. One of the main forms of criticism of ufology and the paranormal I’ve seen is a rationale along the lines of Occam’s razor, where the critic/skeptic basically says: “Your approach is more complicated than our conversely simpler approach. Occam’s razor says the simpler solution is more likely the true one. Therefore your approach is less likely to be true.” This, of course, is not valid logic, as an explanation being simpler or more complex has absolutely nothing to do with its ultimate truth value, nor does such criteria have any logical bearing on the probability of a proposition’s truth. Sometimes, the more complicated explanation is the true one. So while some skeptics would decry my methodological approach as too agnostic for its broad open-mindedness, and would suggest something in the vein of: “Science makes assumptions about the nature of reality based on observations, tests, and data. Science cannot operate without assumptions.” — that still does not make it authentically scientific to dismiss paranormal claims or concepts without proof and to make unnecessary metaphysical assumptions when we could just as easily be reasonably agnostic and take the time to gain more information. I also find that science can in fact operate without assumptions.
Based on the detailed case history, the available evidence, and the many studies researchers of varying backgrounds have undertaken in relation to all of these phenomena, I hereto propose a generalized inductive model of the current UFO situation on this planet, being fully aware that most of this is plagued by irresolvable uncertainties, but also being convinced that, intuitively and reasonably, many of these accounts are more than likely true in some respect. I appreciate the criticism I am likely to face for this, and I truthfully acknowledge this final analysis may be considered speculative to some extent, but I feel a bit of speculation can be healthy for the scientific and philosophical discourse occasionally, and, as I rarely speak publicly, I would like to give my true thoughts on the state of affairs. Much of my thought consists of the form: There is a serious question as to X. That is to say, there is a question as to the existence and nature of X that cannot be definitively discounted yet, and for which there exists a degree of anecdotal, circumstantial, or photographic evidence. For any of these proposals, you’re free to do your own research if you’re skeptical. Research is valuable. Skepticism is valuable. Skepticism is what brought me to this point in my existence. I recognized early in life the cosmos is a very vast, enigmatic, magical domain home to many marvelous and also sinister entities, technologies, ecosystems, and secrets. If you’re anything like me, there will come a point if there hasn’t already that you become more interested in the secret world within your own mind than the secret labyrinth scattered across the cosmos beyond our grasp. For now, as the species ages and gains a fuller grasp of technology and science, I and others like me find it could benefit from continued study of the paranormal, especially from today’s youth. The elderly will continue to die off slowly each day, and it will be left to young people to study these phenomena for themselves, and see whether they might acquire better evidence and, perhaps, clearer contact.
A Generalized Account of the Current UFO Situation:
1) Genuine UFOs exist. Any suggestion to the contrary is irrational and flies in the face of many decades of UFO sighting reports, some of them by very credible witnesses, as well as a trove of images and other evidence of anomalous aerial objects and numerous UFO studies, some of which have concluded some UFO cases remain unexplainable. So many people have observed UFOs in so many places at so many times now that to even consider the possibility UFOs don’t actually exist in some authentic sense is absurd.
2) We exist in an extremely vast, complex cosmos populated by billions of galaxies and collectively trillions of stars and planets. Our very existence proves nature can create beings such as ourselves, and thus raises a question as to the existence of intelligent alien beings. The large-scale, highly populated ecosystem of Earth also suggests nature has both a capacity and possible propensity to create life where possible, and has probably generated life forms elsewhere in the cosmos, possibly as close as nearby solar systems.
3) The interdimensional and native alien hypotheses cannot be conclusively excluded at this time. I personally find the extraterrestrial hypothesis the most likely, and I do not make the kinds of assumptions about aliens and interstellar travel that some do, but I also don’t have any real reason to discount the notion aliens may be from another dimension or may even originate — at least to some extent — from parts of the local solar system. It is further conceivable this phenomenon may be of a supernatural order far more complex in nature. On this note of the supernatural, while some UFO researchers have considered tying all the various paranormal phenomena together into a single connected model, it could very well be the case we have both organic alien visitors and ethereal supernatural entities and forces at play here. I wouldn’t assume they’re all manifestations of the same central principle, although it’s certainly conceivable there could be connections to some extent. Amidst all this, we’d still have the problems of hallucinations, illusions, errors, and hoaxes, as well as entities that may deliberately attempt to appear to be of another order. It’s an altogether convoluted state of affairs to be certain and it isn’t very tractable yet.
4) There is no reason to conclude aliens would openly contact us. We cannot be certain how intelligent alien societies would regard us, nor how deeply they may involve themselves in our affairs. We also cannot be certain how aliens would operate in general.
5) Some genuine UFOs may be ETVs, while others may be classified human aircraft or other UAP. It is unreasonable to assume all genuine UFOs must be alien in origin, nor is it reasonable to assume actual ETVs could not possibly involve human operators on some level. It is possible human agents may be occupants of some ETVs in some cases.
6) UFO technology may involve, to some extent, advanced magnetism techniques, light energy manipulation, exotic metals and other materials, complex computation systems, surveillance systems, stealth systems, psychotechnical systems, carrier platforms, probe networks, information databases, interior compartmentalization, and interspatial drives. It’s difficult, beyond this, to detail the designs of specific craft with any certainty.
7) If any covert human agents work under classified UFO or alien-related projects, they would be expected to keep quiet like any other classified project. If they disclose state secrets, they lose their position, their clearance, and may suffer other consequences. (An exception to this being, of course, an instance in which disclosure is deliberate.) They would also be unlikely to be publicly acknowledged as a former employee by the state, as such recognition would give their claims more credibility. Instead, they would risk being discredited and possibly worse. Humans can and do keep secrets, and it’s further difficult to estimate how many individuals would actually be involved in such classified projects.
8) There is a potential for UFO witnesses to question their own perceptions, even when the UFO is an obvious anomaly. There further appears to be a potential for UFOs or possible alien encounters to correlate to perceptual distortions, time dilation, etc. I intuit UFOs and aliens may have an ability to exert exotic psychological effects upon humans and other animals, compounded by the natural reactions of humans to such strange anomalies.
9) The UFO phenomenon has served to a large extent as a global conceptual modifier, making humans question the possibilities of aliens, humanity’s place in the cosmos, and the nature of reality. UFOs have created a long-standing, widespread debate, research, and theorization mosaic that both alters minds, raises questions, opens evolutionary channels, and casts doubts. Doubt and uncertainty is a very significant part of the UFO phenomenon. Over time, humanity has become more interested in UFOs and more open to the possibility of intelligent alien life and contact. As part of this process, preconceptions, perceptions, and science are all challenged and pressured to evolve.
10) Telepathy has been reported by a number of alien contactee claimants as one of the methods used by some aliens to communicate. To many, this sounds absurd, impossible. I do not think this concept is very outlandish, theoretically. Aliens of an advanced stature would likely possess highly complex brains, and those brains may have an ability to emit thoughts using brainwave energies, and possibly intuit thoughts of subjects. This kind of ability may be assisted by technology, although it may simply be a natural adaptation. Conversely, some witnesses have reported verbal communication from aliens. So if aliens are capable of both verbal and telepathic communication, this would raise a question as to why aliens would only communicate telepathically sometimes. It is this author’s suggestion that, as in other such paranormal phenomena, aliens may operate in a deliberately strange and cryptic way as part of a psy op. It could be as simple as a personal preference or instinctive drive, but I get the sense they’d be very calculated, even so calculated that an alien calculus involves a complex confluence of cognitions.
11) In the vein of instinctive drives, I find there is a curious question to consider as to whether any of various alien behaviors could arise from instinctual impulses. As animals often act on instinct, aliens too may to some extent act on instinct. They may even act and think in a way that is both deeply complex and deeply instinctual, arising from arcane impulses at least somewhat unfamiliar to humans and perhaps even cryptic to aliens. This consideration I offer only as a possibility that some alien behavior may not be completely consciously devised and may occur instinctively as many animal behaviors do.
12) Another psychical effect described by some claimants involves an apparent ability of aliens such as greys to cause strange visions in the minds of individuals who stare directly into the alien’s eyes. I have considered the dynamics of this concept in some depth and have come to the tentative conclusion that, though this phenomenon, if true, remains mysterious, it could be due to telepathic effects, possibly passive telepathic effects, and would seem to involve a connection between the optic nerves of human observers and the exotic eyes of aliens, especially alleged large black eyes of aliens.
13) Similarly, there are reports of wands associated with alien encounters, which, among other abilities, may have a power to cause visions in the minds of subjects. These concepts are also of deep interest to me and many others, and form one of the facets of the alien contact case file that deviates from the stereotype of e.g. “tables and probes” associated with alien abduction. There is a current within these experiences — whatever they are — which has a very psychological undertone, and not merely a medical theme.
14) The issue of implants has created another controversy, expectedly dismissed by many. When you take the time to perform the research on this question though, there is fair indication that, at the very least, some so-called implants are not mere endogenous i.e. internal growths. Where they come from is a question I cannot answer definitively.
15) A number of alien contactee claimants suggest that, after their initial encounter, the paranormal phenomenon continues to follow them through their lives, recurring periodically, and sometimes involving direct contact. It is clear that, whatever the nature of this phenomenon is, it is an actual experience to at least some individuals, and that it does continue in at least some cases. Oftentimes, there is a sense of fear around UFOs and what some claim to be beings, a fear which may subside after further contact. It is as if the phenomenon has this power to target and follow specific individuals, beginning in one place and possibly moving to others. Theories exist as to why specific subjects would be haunted in this way, if there is a nonhuman intelligence involved. Whatever the reason, some contactee claimants seem to experience recurrent encounters.
16) There is a question as to what personal technologies aliens may possess, as well as any medical advancements or other such advancements they may have and keep secret. These also include questions as to alien drugs, alien altered states, alien recreations, etc. All of these form relevant questions involved in a holistic account of a given alien society.
17) There is evidence, however oblique, of a UFO cover-up by state actors. It would be foolish as well to presume all members of a government or military involved in such a cover-up would be directly involved in the cover-up. Such a cover-up would likely be a highly classified, compartmentalized operation possibly even keeping officials as high as a president in the dark about the true nature of the black project’s activities.
18) A UFO cover-up could further involve psy ops by the operation to discredit and disinform, in addition to actions designed to conceal and confiscate. It is wise to consider whether any given UFO-related piece of information might be part of a complex psy op.
19) At least some alien abduction accounts are probably genuine alien abductions. There is a strong possibility in my mind that at least some aliens are engaged in a hybridization program, in which part of their aim is to create a human-alien hybrid for scientific purposes, possibly to study such beings and employ them in future operations. Other purposes of abduction may include psychological study, neurological study, and other sorts of studies and interactions designed to further some aspect of an alien agenda.
20) At least some crop formations may be created by ETVs. If this is true, such formations likely serve the purpose of messages and/or markers of some kind. It is possible aliens use such ground formations as a form of esoteric communication with humans. At the same time, there is indication a certain percentage of them are human-made hoaxes.
21) At least some animal mutilations are probably related to ETVs and/or black helicopters. It is possible aliens would use such abducted specimens for research, survival, and/or psy ops. I do not put it past aliens to mutilate cattle etc. in part as a message to us.
22) Black helicopters are not a paranoid delusion. They exist and some are related to UFOs.
23) At least some men in black accounts are true and at least some men in black are not pranksters, at least in the typical sense. It is possible men in black are paranormal pranksters to some extent but that hypothesis remains conjectural as of yet. I personally find it likely at least some men in black are not fully human and are possibly alien.
24) There is a question as to the existence and nature of alien visitors, namely, what races may be involved, where they come from, what they’re capable of, and what their agenda is. Research by many individuals in recent history has cumulatively lent to a tentative model as follows: Reptilian beings exist at a higher level of the local alien hierarchy than greys, possibly the highest level. Insectoid beings exist at a higher level of the alien hierarchy than greys, possibly the highest level. Reptilians and insectoids may operate on the same level of the hierarchy or one race may oversee the other, if the two races are actually distinct. Greys appear to be comprised of at least two main types: tall greys and short greys. It is speculated short greys may be artificial servants in some cases, although it is possible some short greys are alien children rather than artificial servants. Tall greys appear to oversee short greys, and reptilians and/or insectoids may be observed to oversee greys during an abduction scenario. Reptilians seem to have a more sinister repute currently, and are believed by many to control the world and to have infiltrated human society and possibly disguised themselves as human officials and others. Insectoids, greys, and other aliens have a less sinister repute, although there are still questions of the degrees of malignance at play. My analysis is that, like humans and other creatures, aliens would likely possess a degree of benevolence and malevolence, and their relative neutrality in relation to the human species may also be perceived as malevolence. Note that I don’t commit to the truth of any of these models of alien races as of yet. I do, however, think that greys more than likely exist, whatever one thinks about other types. Whatever the truth, there is some indication that alien visitors to this planet may possess biologies which place a principal emphasis on neurocognitive development and a significantly lower emphasis on muscular development. If the alien contact accounts are any indication, many of these visitors have bodies that suggest an evolutionary course of primarily mental rather than physical focus. Their brains seem very large and powerful, while their bodies seem comparatively smaller and fragile, perhaps fragiler than humans.
25) As another curious little note on the matter of alien races, there are a number of reports of so-called little green men, which seem distinct to some extent from other alleged alien types. For some reason, the phrases “flying saucers” and “little green men” became very popular around the 50s and have often be used in derisive and satirical fashions by some who find the whole phenomenon altogether ludicrous and suspect. “Little green men? Ha!” Perhaps part of the issue is a linguistic one, wherein when we arbitrarily attach the word ‘men’ to the phrase, it creates inherent semantic dissonance between the conventional archetype of men and the alien archetype of dwarfen green humanoids. In any case, for some other reason, the “little green men” archetype seems to have fallen out of popularity and become overshadowed by the grey archetype and, to a lesser extent, the shadowy reptilian archetype on the fringes of ufology. While a psychosocial hypothesis would seek to explain this transition as a centrally cultural shift in psyche, it’s also possible this paradigm shift occurred primarily as a result of a period of heightened frequency of visitations from small green humanoids in the past which preceded a period of heightened frequency of visitations from grey humanoids into the present. Some greys may also have green-grey complexions, though this wouldn’t necessarily make them identical to all so-called little green men. Overall, I think what I would like most from contemporary usage of the phrase “little green men” is not to treat the phrase as purely satirical but to recognize that some alien contact accounts do in fact feature claims of small green humanoids, who aren’t necessarily that similar to greys or other reported types. They’re one of the more obscure contact reports but there are indeed actual reports.
26) Over time, the grey alien has become the most widely recognized alien archetype. It is also the most widely reported type in alien abduction accounts. This widespread familiarity and anecdotal evidence does not, however, mean the grey alien is the only alien race to visit Earth, nor does it mean the grey alien is the most common alien visitor. If advanced beings exist who have the ability to visit this planet, there may very well be an array of beings who visit, as some researchers suspect. Claims of alien contact in the case file do not strictly involve greys — at least ostensibly — and actually involve more alleged types than even a handful of races. At the same time, there is speculation some, most, or all of these beings could be the same entities who can assume multiple forms, and may only appear to be members of different races. Whatever the case may be, I observe, and it has been observed before, that the more alien visitors we begin to consider the possibility of, the more outlandish and surreal the UFO and alien questions can become to human observers subjectively, such that, at some point, it is as though one’s mind begins to reject an alien visitation model that features too many types. “Surely there can’t be that many kinds of aliens coming here.” Can there? I wouldn’t know one way or the other. I do know if there is at least one apparent race of aliens at play here, there may indeed be several others, even races who operate independently of each other and have different dispositions, capabilities, and agendas, just as various species exist here on Earth. As we consider the alien visitation question moving forward, let us not assume we know exactly who’s coming here, even if we establish one race that seems common.
27) In this vein of alien diversity, it may very well be humans are in fact evolutionary outliers, in the sense that there may be a fair number of intelligent alien species in the local galaxy and beyond who long ago attained advanced evolutionary status and developed interstellar spacecraft. Meanwhile, many humans have long been under this impression that they’re at the highest level of the evolutionary spectrum, or that at the very least, they must be one of the most advanced societies. It seems humans may have arrived a bit late to the galactic party. It could be there is a much vaster alien society than even some ufologists speculate, perhaps even an extensive array of societies not completely connected to each other, and that humanity represents a kind of odd species out. This could explain why there are reportedly so many different kinds of alien visitors, even aliens — tall, short, or otherwise — that appear somewhat similar to humans. Perhaps some species even have eccentric inventors or adventurers who travel the cosmos independently of their home world’s mainstream culture. This could explain cases in which the alleged alien visitor seems distinct from the more typical society of greys and the like. Whatever the truth, we can study two questions here: whether humanity is an evolutionary outlier in a galaxy of advanced aliens; and whether some interstellar entities could be mere travelers uninterested in such matters as abduction, hybrids, and the like. I know that if I had an advanced private spacecraft able to visit other worlds at will, I’d be very inclined to take myself and a few friends to other celestial sectors to enjoy the beauty, chaos, and entities we find there and perhaps play a few sly pranks on the locals.
28) It would be foolish to presume all members of an alien race would necessarily be of the same faction. Aliens may work for different factions as humans do. Some greys, for instance, may work with reptilians or insectoids, while others may not, while some reptilians or insectoids may have alignments other members of their race don’t share. (I make this note in part because there are many alien theorists who have this impulse to paint certain alien species in very broad brush strokes, in a way that portrays them all as, say, evil or callous. Surely there could be complex variations even within alien species.) There may also be multiple sub-species within a given alien species, distinguishable by physical phenotype and other traits. It is this author’s intuition that, if intelligent aliens do operate here, they’re likely divided into multiple races and factions, as well as sub-races. Nature seems to have a tendency to divide its creations into multiple types and groups. It makes sense that aliens wouldn’t necessarily be unified under a shared celestial pact, although it is possible a group of alien societies could superficially agree to a mutual treaty of relative non-intervention in new planetary societies such as human society, a treaty which some aliens might then covertly violate for their own gain. No such treaty may exist at all, but if one does, there’s a risk it may not be fully observed by all parties.
29) An alien society engaged in study in this sector would likely be interested in knowledge of the entire sector, including all of the planets, moons, and ecosystems here, in the very way human science studies this realm. Let us not presume aliens would only be interested in us. If they’ve reached such an advanced scientific level, they’ve likely studied the cosmos for a very long time, and will continue to study the cosmos to enhance their power and knowledge. How they employ that power and knowledge is another question.
30) Aliens wouldn’t necessarily be familiar with the specific components of this planet’s biosphere either, at least in theory. If new aliens arrive here and begin observations, they may not know quite what they’re seeing at first. Such aliens may be about as befuddled by us as we are by them. They may be flying around the planet, visiting various places and people to become more familiar with the present conditions here. It would be premature, in other words, to conclude all alien visitors would be perfectly familiar with the realms and subjects they encounter. They would probably be at least somewhat unfamiliar with specifics of our places and customs, if they hail from another world.
31) As mentioned, if alien beings do visit this world, some could be children. It makes some sense to me that adult aliens would introduce some of their children to their operations early in life, in order to expose them to their science and methods. How much freedom they would grant their children is not a question I can answer, if any of this is a reality. I would only suggest we not assume all encountered alien beings must be fully mature. Such immaturity could be one reason behind supposed “mistakes” aliens may commit.
32) A number of alleged contactees have described a sense as though the entities they encountered feared their own human subject. It’s been suggested aliens — at least in certain contexts — could be as afraid of humans as we may be of them, if not more afraid. For some, this ties into the concept of an alien hive mind, where each individual member of the alien society (or at least some members) do not possess the same degree of independence as humans. As in other questions, it would certainly be a rush to judgment to conclude aliens — even advanced aliens — would have no fear of humans. This could explain at least in part why so many contactees describe states of paralytic disorientation. At the very least, aliens would likely want to maintain a degree of control over potentially volatile individuals. This could extend to a degree of induced amnesia, although I question how intentional and complete any amnesia states experienced by contactees are.
33) It has been suggested that, rather than employ large occupied craft in their operations here, advanced alien visitors would be much more likely if not certain to employ mere small, unoccupied probes, even microscopic systems. One reason given for this probability assessment is that, when an intelligent technological society reaches the highest stages of development, it should have the capability to create extremely compact and efficient computation systems, making occupied travel in mechanical craft unnecessary. While we can indeed conceive of an alien society which possesses probe systems and could use those systems in its operations in foreign spheres, it would be unscientific of us to conclude that, given such probable probe capabilities, advanced aliens would almost certainly not visit using occupied craft. Once again: Who says? Perhaps if their agenda is strictly to study the Earth safely and covertly, they may send probes in place of their own members, although there is still a question of quite how advanced aliens could actually be, and whether they may still prefer to perform some functions manually rather than via AI. However, that only begs the question of what their true agenda is, and whether that agenda seeks more than to merely study. In fact, even if an alien faction’s agenda is merely to study, they should be intelligent enough to recognize that one of the very ways they can study us is to gradually reveal their presence to us and observe our subsequent reactions and evolution as a global species. The very visitation of live occupants in visible craft could itself easily be part of an alien study. Beyond this, we have questions such as the notion of alien tourism and the like, where a given alien intelligence isn’t engaged in some sort of elaborate, grandiose, global plot but is merely visiting for a while, perhaps as they journey the galaxy and visit other worlds. Although there are risks to live visitation, there is also subjective existential value in it.
34) On the same question of alien societies, it’s been suggested that, if an advanced alien society exists in relatively close proximity to the Earth, we probably would or definitely would be able to detect them, since their technological activity and superstructures would leave noticeable signatures. Not necessarily. First: How do we know no element of human agencies has ever detected such interstellar signatures? This returns to the problem of classification and possible advanced clandestine equipment, such as classified telescopes able to attain far greater levels of clarity. Second: This line of thought sometimes presumes aliens on that evolutionary level wouldn’t already have the ability to conceal their extrasolar activity from interstellar espionage. Again, how do we know?
35) Aliens would stand to benefit from strategic long-term study of and selective interaction with the human species. One of the primary wisdoms it behooves any intelligent society to hold is that there is always an irresolvable question as to the exact extent of unknown alien forces in the cosmos at large. Even advanced aliens could not be completely certain what other alien presences may exist in spacetime. As a result of this calculus and other considerations, advanced aliens would most likely plan in very long-term frameworks, even on the scale of entire eons, and would thus wish to enhance their power and knowledge in whatever way preferable. By making human society aware of their existence, and by further engaging the most capable classified elements of our society in direct dialogue, an alien society can both condition humanity at large to the reality of interstellar politics and improve humanity’s cutting edge technological expertise as part of a long-term development project. Aliens could teach a limited cadre of humans methods to study, engineer, and operate alien technology. Doing so evolves the future readiness of human forces, and in turn gives their alien partners a potential ally if any known or unknown hostiles ever engage the local alien cabal. This is all very speculative, however the essential logic I mean to present here, among other intertwined logics, is that what aliens could be doing to some extent — as other theorists have suggested before me — is taking steps to gradually introduce humanity to the interstellar world, in part to form a long-term alliance in case unknown alien forces ever invade or other catastrophic events occur that place our alien partners in need of our assistance. Bear in mind, as mentioned earlier, this galaxy alone contains an estimated 100+ billion stars and 100+ billion planets. There may be aliens even within this galaxy that local aliens aren’t aware of. As humans have now reached a more capable stage of evolution, this presents an opportunity for aliens to introduce humanity to the interstellar stage, experiment upon humans to study their psychobiological capabilities, and teach select humans some extent of alien technology in order to streamline a future transition into an open alliance. To me, this all makes perfect sense on a theoretical level, however covert such operations may remain. Also notice we haven’t been overtly invaded or destroyed by aliens yet, and yet there is wide consensus of an alien presence here. Although local aliens may not be entirely friendly, they likely respect the independence of planetary species on some level, and seem more interested in long-term study and gradual revelation as part of what is likely a comprehensive agenda on their part to secure their future, the future of compatible life, and the future of science, perhaps directed at ultimate objectives such as immortality.
36) Despite the speculations contained herein, I still acknowledge that many paranormal researchers and enthusiasts strongly commit to unproven theories and will unreasonably push those theories as though they are definitive. This seems especially true of some religious fanatics, who are convinced UFOs and aliens are demonic manifestations. On that topic, I would also note that, while we can consider the relation between alien and demonic phenomena conceptually, I find such religious fanatics tend to overlook the cosmological parameters of our existence and irrationally dismiss the strong possibility that genuine aliens exist and not mere demons or fallen angels. Even if demons exist in the sense of the word believed by some people, ETs could also exist in principle. There seems to be a certain cognitive constriction in the minds of some religious individuals which both prevents them from taking the concept of intelligent alien life seriously independently of demons and compels them to characterize all aliens as demonic entities no matter what. It’s an unproven hypothesis and their approach is very close-minded.
37) There is a question of the relation of shadow entities and others to all of this. I could discuss this question further in this post, however it is one of the stranger and obscurer facets of contemporary speculation. I only mention it here to emphasize it is indeed a question, that individuals have indeed observed shadow apparitions, and that there may be a connection between shadows and UFO-spectrum phenomena to be established. The shadow entity phenomenon will likely grow in familiarity and complexity as we evolve. Even if some shadow apparitions are determined to be mere hallucinations, this alone wouldn’t mean all shadows are hallucinations, nor that they have no relation to aliens.
38) If aliens operate in the local system, they more than likely have established bases of operation on local sectors. These bases could be independent structures or mere areas where craft gather. These could include bases on Mars, Venus, moons, the Earth’s seas, and possibly elsewhere. We cannot expect any of these bases to be disclosed. Likewise, although official sources (e.g. government space agencies) claim to be unaware of any intelligent life on local planets such as Mars and Venus, A) we cannot fully trust these sources, and B) lack of detection of intelligent life doesn’t mean lack of intelligent life. For all we know, there could be a covert alien presence on local planets. Just because we have no overt indications of an alien presence doesn’t mean we should dismiss this.
39) It is not proven that superluminal travel is impossible, regardless of how emphatically any physicists claim nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Further, it’s also not proven that light-speed travel is impossible, rather than FTL speed. Human conceptions of light-speed and cosmic travel are just that: conceptions. It would be foolish to presume that no physics could exist which could deviate from what we normally expect possible. Physicists above perhaps all other scientists can have a tendency to treat some theorists as quasi-infallible gods, whose models, if incomplete, would shatter our entire conception of the cosmos. I personally find such characterizations overdramatic and superfluous.
40) If aliens operate in the local system, they have possibly operated here for thousands of years and there is a serious question as to whether any alien beings contacted ancient humans in any way. This is not a hypothesis mainstream science takes very seriously, but we can’t preclude it, and legends and other evidence from ancient civilizations may indicate an alien presence in the distant past, even one that only appeared briefly at certain times. It is conceivable aliens had some hand in human evolution, and may even have initiated human evolution as a planetary experiment, which remains ongoing. Our nature as humanoid, intelligent, space-faring beings distinguishes us from most other creatures on this planet and does to me and many others itself raise some questions about how we evolved and whether it was entirely natural. This of course raises questions about how aliens would have evolved, whether aliens may have been involved in the evolution of any other alien species, so on and so forth. In any case, it would be unscientific to dismiss ancient astronaut theory off-hand, as if we know exactly what transpired then.
41) I think there is a fairly serious albeit absurd question as to the possible relation between UFOs and alleged sasquatch. This is a question I will leave others to consider.
42) Some cryptids may be alien creatures brought here by aliens. We cannot out-rule this. I don’t know this is true in any cases, but it’s at least a hypothesis to consider in some. Aliens may have introduced some species into this ecosystem that aren’t native to it, which could explain why some cryptids are so bizarre and rare. Return to the concept of independent alien eccentrics, inventors, or adventurers for a moment, apart from the distinct concept of collectivized alien institutions. I can easily imagine one or two outer-space oddballs who bring a creature from a foreign environment and introduce it to the local biosphere. We should not treat cryptids strictly in the framework of local evolutionary history. If a cryptid is introduced to our world from an alien world, that creature shouldn’t be expected to be part of this planet’s biological chain. Perhaps some cryptids appear so alien in aspect because they are aliens, and do not originate from here.
43) Black triangles appear to be the most overt UFO phenomenon currently, and their increased frequency seems to be relatively recent. Out of all the UFOs observed on a yearly basis, the black triangle UFO type seems to exhibit the clearest structure, and has been photographed and filmed a number of times. At least some black triangle UFOs are more than likely alien craft. Although some UFO researchers have already drawn conclusions about what black triangles are and what actors operate them, I suggest we remain agnostic on the matter and gather more information on the nature of the craft.
44) The nature of the UFO phenomenon is such that many individuals who see them and report them face a certain stigma in human society that essentially regards the witness as mad and suspect. While I am mad and suspect, it must be understood that actual UFOs are so advanced and otherworldly it’s only natural you would seem like a schizophrenic rambling about a psychotic delusion. This is, I think, precisely what some actors may want you to think. There is no public disclosure yet but it is both unscientific and rude to dismiss all UFO witnesses as crackpots who just saw a plane or a weather balloon.
45) One of the most significant and complex facets of the UFO phenomenon, I find, is this: It is exceedingly clear that, in some fraction of cases, individuals have evidently observed genuine UFOs that deviate strongly from local elements of the normal environment. At the same time, it is exceedingly difficult to fully and unquestionably account for such anomalies. We find ourselves in this situation where, by all appearances, actual UFOs have appeared to a number of individuals at a number of places and times, and yet, in virtually every case, we are left trying to explain something we cannot definitively explain. It is as though UFO witnesses have seen a ghost, there one moment and gone the next. Perhaps it leaves a trace of its presence, but even then, it is as if it was never there. Psychologically, this has a very real potential to create a deep cognitive dissonance even in witnesses, let alone outside observers, where, on the one hand, a profound anomaly seems to have entered and exited our realm, and on the other hand, we often have very little if any evidence of it and, regardless, we surely have no conclusive explanation for it. Then, as we go on with our lives, we’re left wondering what it was that really happened. Over time, this pervasive elusiveness can lead to a kind of ufological fatigue, and we may begin to question whether perhaps the whole phenomenon is all in our heads. And yet, there is fairly decent evidence that at least some of the phenomenon is not in our heads, but exists as an external reality. Even then, we are left uncertain about its precise nature.
46) On this issue of psychological parameters, there is a question to be considered of whether, even in the case of external UFOs, perceptual mechanisms of observers may cause observers to perceive the object as something it is not. This perceptual mechanism could be an internal dynamic, an external effect, or a combination. Photographic evidence bolsters UFO sightings by creating an image of the object independently of the naked eye. As so many UFO cases do not yield photographic evidence however, we’re left with this problem of whether a percipient may have observed an actual anomaly but may not have observed the anomaly as it actually is. We can mostly speak only of subjectivities.
47) Aliens may and probably could monitor global internet activity to some extent, as well as other communications. It is a strong possibility in my mind that, if advanced aliens are engaged in a long-term, large-scale operation in this sector, they may very well have detailed dossiers of many humans, possibly virtually all humans, and such an identification system may also be operated by an advanced AI network. I cannot shake this sense that part of the alien agenda could be to monitor which humans take an interest in them and to what extent, and to thus measure the overall awareness of and openness to the alien agenda, whatever that agenda may be. Part of the reason I suspect aliens may monitor specific individuals for their interest in aliens is that, as schizophrenic as this sounds, I think they may have sent me a message within the past year in a manner I did not expect, and that this message is designed to make me aware that they’re aware that I’m aware of them and that they signaled they know I’m studying their operations. A year ago, I would not have said this. However, in light of recent events, I’ve developed a paranoia that I may be being surveilled, that many of us may be being surveilled, and that if you cross a certain line of research, these forces may signal their awareness of you. Whether this could be a veiled threat or what the endgame is, I can’t say at the moment. I fully recognize and respect all reservations of this quasi-schizophrenic part of my mind.
48) UFO disclosure is an ongoing, gradual process. There is not yet a comprehensive, overt, public disclosure. Rather, UFOs have steadily revealed their presence in different ways at different times over the course of many decades and perhaps longer. To me, UFO activity in general is a form of disclosure. Whether full disclosure will ever occur is yet to be seen. I, however, predict that at some point in the future, possibly the distant future, the UFO phenomenon will be publicly acknowledged by world governments, and such disclosure may go so far as to acknowledge the existence of alien visitors. Until then, it makes sense governments would play this kind of revolutionary contact close to the vest. Governments probably don’t know that much about the true nature of UFOs anyway.
49) There is a question asked by many as to the real reason a clandestine human division would keep knowledge of aliens hidden from the world. Among other possible reasons such as basic classification methods of advanced and sensitive data, one I find very sensible is twofold: A) the clandestine division wishes to maintain the outward appearance of a human-dominated global paradigm, wherein humans take center stage on Earth, humans remain the highest species, and human sociopolitical systems retain a widespread subjective sense of independence and stability free of overt alien involvement and, perhaps more importantly to the division, free of definite knowledge of the division’s own constrained attempts to fully understand the alien presence, a powerful and arcane force the in-depth study of which said division would rather like to keep to itself for now; and B) the alien presence itself, at least partially, also wishes to maintain a human-centered paradigm on Earth currently, perhaps for reasons such as respect of general species independence and purposes of semi-covert study or other reasons, and has possibly requested clandestine divisions they may have contacted to keep their contact classified, a scenario which, if true, would mean humans are not the only ones who wish to keep the true nature of these top secret contacts a mystery. It makes sense to me that, potentially, both humans and aliens would, in the formation of a secret deal, agree not to disclose the full extent of their activities to the public in order to maintain a veil of secrecy, a veil which effectively draws the line between shadowy alien operations and global alien contact. If their desire is not yet to communicate to us very openly, they may go so far as to request agents they consort with not reveal them, or may even compel such humans to comply. Regardless of any speculations, it’s very possible humans and aliens alike would keep much of this activity a secret. When it is no longer an unacknowledged secret but becomes acknowledged by one or both parties, the human species crosses a societal threshold into the next level of cosmic evolution, and it may not be ready for that.
50) Aliens may communicate in very bizarre, cryptic ways, not only linguistically and possibly telepathically, but also by virtue of mysterious UFO activity and other phenomena such as alien abductions and visitations, crop formations, animal mutilations, men in black, and others. I speculate that, to some extent, all of these phenomena comprise a form of esoteric communication from aliens. They seem to me and many others to be very strange, intelligent, evolved creatures who think and act in inhuman ways and may to some extent be playing mind games. It’s also possible there is a degree of foolishness, childishness, or hooliganism here. To me, there is a question to be asked as to how seriously to take aliens. We humans have a capacity to joke and play mind games, as intelligent as we are. Aliens may be toying with us in some ways, possibly running psy ops to experiment upon our individual and collective psyches, appearing in the skies to befuddle and bamboozle us, drawing elaborate and arcane crop formations of unknown significance, mutilating cows and shit and dropping the carcasses off rather than burning them and ejecting the remains into space, occasionally landing and engaging in various terrestrial shenanigans of dubious repute, and maybe, just maybe, sending alien operatives in shady getups to fuck with people. Does any of this seem like an elaborate skit to anyone else? Yet one with sinister and scientific undertones? I know I sound like the stereotypical schizophrenic saying, “Aliens are fucking with our heads…” right now but I actually think aliens may be fucking with our heads deliberately, and not merely engaging in detached scientific experiments and observations. This reeks of a celestial psy op to me. Call me crazy but I would bet money a lot of what’s going on is a psy op.
51) The Illuminati exists in some true sense of the word. It is unknown to me whether any remnants of the Bavarian Illuminati still exist in a non-nominal capacity, but the Illuminati in the sense of a powerful, shadowy cabal of secretive controllers bent on some form of world domination probably does exist in some way, whatever that group may be comprised of. There is a very real, very ancient obsession with and drive to power in the human spirit. If it does exist, it may be involved in conspiracies widely considered unreal. To outright dismiss the notion of the Illuminati is foolish and a gross underestimation. Whatever word we wish to call this cabal, there is some consensus it exists in some form.
52) This all seems to be headed toward a dark, convoluted, exotic future where aliens and the paranormal may play a larger role in human existence, possibly to the extent of public contact and collaboration between species and possibly even to the extent of the eventual subsumption of the human species by aliens and alien hybrids, which is not a future I would necessarily be against given how violent, oppressive, and foolish humanity is. Whatever the future holds, I am not alone in the sense humans aren’t the only ones who have long-term plans. We shall see what becomes of this cosmic riddle in time…
Ultimately, global alien contact represents the culmination of alien visitation to this planet. This contact could assume a number of forms, whether friendly, neutral, or hostile. In my estimation, it is likely non-malicious intelligent aliens would not initially arrive in a fleet of ships around the world to signal their presence. Rather, if their intent is to begin open communication between species, they could prepare humanity for their arrival via human officials, who would announce their presence in the solar system, and emphasize to the world that the alien society has signaled it comes in peace. After a time, perhaps even years or longer, the visitors could then make their presence visibly known via a display such as a single large craft, perhaps over a neutral area, which would exert a less fearsome effect than an entire global fleet. This stage too could last a significant amount of time, perhaps weeks or longer. As humanity becomes gradually accustomed to the presence of an intelligent non-aggressive alien force, further steps could be taken to signal the alien openness to peaceful contact, such as televised appearances or similar displays. I consider it unlikely for open alien contact to progress much further than this initial stage for some time, perhaps indefinitely. I do not envision a world where aliens walk the streets and pilot vehicles in human traffic. Rather, I envision a world where, having introduced themselves to an advanced, enlightened humanity, aliens openly offer their knowledge and technology to humans, particularly stable human institutions, and, in the process, reveal their presence to the human species to confirm the existence of alien visitors. This mere confirmation alone would have a profound effect on collective human consciousness, giving clearer context to our place in the cosmos at large. Once communication is established and the alien presence revealed, they may return to the shadows whence they came, leaving us to develop relatively independently and allowing certain echelons of human institutions and perhaps individuals to consort with their ranks. I also envision, in stark contrast, a world where none of this transpires, and a hostile alien invasion occurs instead, or peaceful diplomacy is used as a ruse for invasion. We can also envision a world where aliens allow humans to destroy themselves naturally, after which our successors take up residence here and begin the world anew, with fewer errors. Whatever the case may be, all of this sort of contact would be subject to doubt and suspicion.
While we can speculate about how such future contact may transpire, it is less the alien approach that’s within our purview than our own reaction as a species. If we panic, flail about, and show aggression, we are unlikely to benefit from any of that. We are far more likely to benefit from composed, skeptical analysis and dialogue directed at knowledge of the alien presence and how best we can benefit from their arrival. Though there are likely to be a few unpreventable psychological casualties, open knowledge of intelligent alien visitors will serve to improve humanity’s intellectual maturity in the long term, humbling us to the mysteries of the cosmos and giving us a new opportunity to question what kinds of intelligence exist in nature.
I suppose you could say I’m one of the woke souls here, although some would emphatically deny I’m being reasonable at all, quite the contrary. According to the physics researcher I mentioned, it’s irrational to consider the extraterrestrial hypothesis at all, let alone study UFOs. That’s simply not in the true spirit of science. The true spirit of science doesn’t dismiss the paranormal but embraces it and attempts to understand it, and even when science spends years, decades, centuries trying to understand it and failing to find any hard evidence, it keeps trying. It keeps asking questions, forming hypotheses, making predictions, conducting tests and observations, and analyzing, organizing, and sharing data and theories. I wish some of the skeptical young bloods of today could meet some of the old school UFO researchers of yesteryear. These men and women were trained, intellectual individuals who recognized something strange is going on and set out to study it. They didn’t illuminate it completely because they can’t, but they shined a light to it, and there’s a saying in the paranormal that when you investigate the strange, the strange investigates you. If you haven’t seen a UFO, or an alien, or a shadow, or a cryptid, or an act of magic, be patient. You might see one when you least expect it, and when you do, you’ll still be at just about the same place you are now. The real question is: How far do you want to take study of the paranormal? Do you want to stay here, on this small planet, as a mere human, and die as a human like all the others? Or do you sense other, hidden opportunities in the ether, strange doors that might open stranger secrets to behold? Whatever your path in life, remember that, while we all can be toxic, inconsiderate, or imperfect, true science, true enlightenment is always agnostic, in the end. It’s always in the dark, not the light, and it will always be there because reality does not allow itself to be understood even by itself. That’s one of the beauties of nature to me, how strange it renders its own experience.
- DLX
