Monday July 14th/08
UFOs: The Secret History — David Cherniak’s feature-length documentary which airs on the History Channel will be my special guest at 11am on Monday on “Maritime Morning”.
It is interesting to see the range of approaches to the UFO phenomenon. UFOs have become something on a Rorschach/inkblot test, wherein people read into them what they themselves want to see; it is a projection.
In Medieval times, people saw religious “miracles”, and offered these visions as proof of God’s guiding hand.
Throughout time, there has been a very conscious and unconscious impulse to feel that “someone is watching over us from above”, that there is an advanced being among us. I blame this set of circumstances today on the issue of diffuse Christianity, where people maintain unfocussed religious beliefs and do a fair amount of psychological projection as a result. For example, it seems “more scientific” to believe in aliens that are an advanced life form than to deal with the rigors of a belief system like Christianity that actually makes demands of you. Nobody wants to do the hard work anymore, and loving yourself and your neighbor isn’t always the easiest thing to do.
The psychological dimensions of the UFO “mystery” remains an area where very little academic study has been done. Our world is a mass of contradictions where people in polls claim to believe in “something” greater than themselves without giving shape to it in a formal religious context. But the need for religion remains, however denied.
The great equalizer in all of this is the unknown. No matter how sophisticated we get scientifically, we are constantly surprised by that which we don’t know and by a science that seems inadequate.
There is a tremendous human vanity in the notion that we will never know everything, that the human spirit is ineffable; that the human spirit is too grand. Maybe it is.
But what if that human vanity of the spirit is false? Perhaps that is what scares us.
It is lonely at the top.
July 12th, 2008 at 1:53 am
“The psychological dimensions of the UFO “mystery” remains an area where very little academic study has been done. ”
Unfortunately, the mechanisms for confirming whether individual UFO sightings are real or imagined, we’d need less restriction on what should be public data (i.e. open access to radar data).
It seems the government is too busy taping everyone’s phone (a true statement that would have seemed paranoid not so long ago) to look into it.
At the same time, we’ve spent a lot of time and money at the official level trying to see whether there is life on other planets - pretty strange if you ask me.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
People will debate weather ufo’s are real or not for as long as the evidence is withheld,we need to bust this thing wide open for the future depends on it.
There IS evidence out there,such as videos that nasa made public.The tether video shot from the space shuttle is the most compelling you’ll ever see!
The tether is/was a experiment to try a conduct electricity by dragging a conductive material behind the shuttle as it orbits earth.This material broke away from the shuttle and is floating in orbit.It shows throbbing pulsating craft some of them two and a half miles in diameter going behind this tether, and the tether is twelve miles long and twenty miles away ,as well as thousands of other craft/throbbing light zipping around in orbit.
For people who don’t believe in ufo’s,this video will make you a believer,their 100% real. This is NOT a CGI or someone tring to make a buck.THIS IS REAL FOOTAGE OF OTHER INTELLIGENCE!
I really can’t see why people are afraid to acknowledge that their here and have been for thousands of years.
So, do yourselves a favour and watch this video,it WILL change your outlook on the whole alien/ufo thing. Youtube has some good video on it.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I’m not sold on the tether video, but I’ve seen lots of other compelling videos, read dozens and dozens of plausible accounts, and seen Stanton Friedman and other well-qualified authorities on television. I wouldn’t bet my life that UFOs are alien spacecraft (I wouldn’t bet against it though), but they are certainly not just figments of people’s imagination or explainable aerial phenomena (balloons, planes etc.). This Richard Zurawski hero-worship of yours isn’t giving you much credibility.
Andrew, I don’t really get how someone as well-read and obviously intelligent as yourself refuses to open your eyes to the possibility that there are many things our governments, “democratic” or not, hide from us.