Lights in the Sky
Most of ufology is still into watching lights in the sky and
seeing if they can find a prosaic explanation for the encounter. This is based
on what they believe is the demand of the scientific method that they be
skeptical and start with a position of non-belief.
Depending on the skepticism of the researcher the number of
UFOs that get written off as weather balloon, drones, planetary objects, or
hoaxes the number of unknowns can vary. It can even go as high as the editor of
Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, who will claim that 0 % will be unexplained when he is
finished.
One of the questions which has never been adequately
addressed is what do the unknown represent. The general consensus is that these
represent the true flying saucers or extraterrestrial crafts.
What is left out is the fact that when the intelligence
behind the UFO phenomena preforms an abduction there is no craft seen ever.
This is important because it means that the intelligence
operates it does in complete stealth mode.
That has implications for when people see UFOs. If they
operate in stealth why do people see them. The obvious answer is they want you
to see them. The witness has become part of the phenomena, and has been allowed
to see the craft for a reason.
That then explains why UFOs have lights on the craft when
our planes do not have lights on them except for navigation and safety
purposes. The UFOs have lights on them so you can see them.
The origin of this notion came to me during the second
sighting that I had in 1975. The object was flying low to the ground and was
coming towards us. As it got in close it made a left had turn and slowly flew
away into the northeast. The car that was on the country road took off chasing
the object, and I just stood there and watched as the glowing red plasma object
just flew off into the distance.
I remember thinking, “What the heck are they doing.” They
just seem to be flying along doing nothing in particular. The town people even
had a joke that the object, known as Charlie Red Star was doing its nightly
beer run picking up a case of beer and heading home.
A second more dramatic example is the 1964 UFO sighting that
Bud Hopkins had which was 11 years before he investigated his first UFO case.
He described the silver disc object as just sitting in the sky as Bud and
friends from England drove along a road.
Like Charlie it didn’t seem to be doing anything. It was
just sitting there letting Bud look at it. Then it just disappeared.
Like my sighting, Bud was very taken by what had happened.
He went back and redrove the route trying to figure out how long the sighting
had lasted. He figured it had been 3-4 minutes.
The third example starts to explain what might be happening.
In August 1974 John Lennon and his girlfriend May Pang watched for 10 minutes as
a small object flew by their penthouse balcony and down the east river. Like
myself and Bud they were very taken by what they had seen.
I had seen a red glowing object, Bud had seen a daylight
disc, and John saw a disc with large white marquee light bulbs on it and a red
light on the top. The question is why were all three sightings different and
did the flying saucer that Lennon saw need marquee light bulbs to fly through
time and space back to the home planet?
If UFO intelligence operates in stealth then maybe they were
just letting people see their craft to drag them into the story for some
reason. Maybe there is no craft and all this is just projection to drag the
witness onto the stage to participate in whatever the play is.
This notion of a projection is supported by the fact that
UFO sighting are not often describing one particular object. It is also
supported by the fact that UFO designs have gone through patterns over the
years. It started as wooden ships with giant propeller in the flap of sighting that
occurred in the western United States in the last decade of the 19th century.
That changed to ghost rockets in the 1930s. That changed to small foo-fighter
balls of lights during WW2, to flying saucers with ball type appendages, to
sleek saucers with domes and no appendages.
When Betty and Barney saw their saucer, it had windows in it
with little being looking out. That went on for a few decades and then viola
the windows disappeared. There was no more reports of windows, just as there
were no more reports of landed crafts burning out crop and leaving pod marks.
Most significant is the fact that stories about little aliens wandering around
outside landed crafts had completely stopped.
If this was a legitimate physical phenomena should it not
have continued.
The case that moved me over to the projection model as the
probable answer was a story that Sherry Wilde told about her encounter with her
abduction entity Da.
At one point, she made Da promise that he would appear to
all her friends. This happened within a short time. The significant thing about
the event was that each of her friends who came to tell her about their UFO
sighting all reported something different.
This all leads to really question the value of counting UFO
sightings, sorting out the various shapes, sizes and colors. More importantly,
the idea that much of what is seen in the sky may be projection means that it
cannot be measured and reproduced because it is not physical.
My old friend Bob Pratt at the National Enquirer spelled out
the measurement problem in a letter he wrote to me in 1987 telling me that he
was pulling back on UFO research. He wrote,
“Maybe once I get it all sorted out in my head, I’ll try to
explain it to you some day. Basically, I believe that UFOs are real but not
extraterrestrial and that there is a physical side and a psychological side to
the phenomena, but the psychological side is far more important than the
physical. And it is only the physical side that I know and am capable of
investigating. The psychological side is far beyond my comprehension or ability
to learn about. I even wonder of the physical aspect of the phenomena is
important at all, and if it isn’t really another deception on the part of the
phenomena. I really don’t feel that my running around and getting case after
case of encounters and sightings adds anything anymore. And the results has
been that my enthusiasm has diminished sharply.”
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