What are UFOs

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The number of theories and UFOPs are fairly diverse, the skeptical persuasion suggests:

  1. UFOs don't exist.
  2. UFOs are misidentifications
    1. UFOs are atmospheric phenomenon
  3. UFOs are psychological phenomenon
    1. psychosocial hypothesis, people report UFO experiences as a result of psychological misperception which can be strongly influenced by popular culture.[1]
    2. earth lights / tectonic strain hypothesis, strains in earth's crust near earthquake faults, supposedly induce hallucinations.[1][2]
  4. Not enough information to say either way.
  5. UFOs are Unknown physical aspect of reality - "One way to think about it would be 'interdimensional,' but metaphor that I try to use is watching television," Vallee replies. "You'd have a very hard time explaining it to a 17th Century scientist, that this image on a television is actually going through all of us. The television picture is a physical signal, an EM wave. It's not an interdimensional or psychic thing. Now, to physicists in the 17th Century, or even in the 19th Century, that would make no sense whatsoever."[3]
    1. UFOs are unknown atmospheric phenomenon (discussion)
    2. UFOs are "macro-scale quantum manifestations"[4]


The pro-side of the aisle thinks they might be crafts:

  1. UFOs are vehicular devices
    1. extra-solar transports (subdivided into galactic, cluster, & universe traversal)
    2. strictly solar means of travel
    3. terrestrial, not capable of leaving a planets gravitational pull
  2. UFOs are time-machines (example)
  3. UFOs are inter-dimensional crafts (example)

Then take all of these possibilities and combine them with their potential occupants or lack thereof:

  1. unmanned drones (example @5:37)
  2. our selves
    1. present-day (advanced secret crafts [discussion] of either US or German design)
    2. from the future
  3. inter-dimensional creatures (example 1 & 2)
  4. extra-terrestrial species (example @4:22)
  5. terrestrial species that we've yet to encounter (deep sea / inside planet / etc)
    1. cryptids (creature whose existence has been suggested but not scientifically confirmed)
      1. American (Bigfoot)
      2. Tibetan (yeti)
      3. Dinosauroid (example)
  6. mythological / paranormal creatures
    1. from creation or historical myth
      1. Biblical (think angels, demons, etc)
      2. Aboriginal (eingana)
      3. Native American (Tepeu and Gucumatz (Feathered Serpent))
      4. Greek (titans, gods of the pantheon)
      5. Egyptian (atum, khepri)
    2. paranormal
      1. Celtic / Gaelic (fairies, sprites, dwarves, etc)
      2. Spirits (agnostic of any hierarchy or order)


Others think UFOs might be:

  1. space creatures (example 1 & 2), speculation suggests "space worms," "fireflys" to more intelligent entities like Star Trek's Q.
  2. direct manifestations of mythological entities (ie/ angels or demons) / paranormal entities (minus a craft)
  3. "projections"
    1. "miracles" / "visions" of some paranormal, god-like sentience
    2. prank (example) / the result of a government project like Blue Beam.
    3. Thought forms / natural but paranormal explainable illusions [5]
  4. Gaia or intelligent universe, the idea that the Earth / universe itself is fundamentally intelligent and manifests itself in some manner.


Contents

Process of Elimination

Psychological hypothesis

Of all the scenarios the psychological hypothesis is the easiest to rule out. These objects have not only been tracked by active radar, they've been picked up on passive (meaning whatever these things are they're emitting a electro-magnetic beam), they've been tracked by theodolites, magnetometers, and a whole range of other instruments.

Atmospheric Phenomena

Fireballs, sprites, jets, elves, etc, may explain some sightings, but these phenomena don't come close to explaining events like the '56 RAF Bentwaters incident or the '76 Iranian encounter. I'd go so far as to say these particular events strongly suggest intelligence which largely rules out atmospheric phenomena.

Manned secret crafts

As for the possibility of present-day humans guiding manned secret UFO aircrafts, unlikely.

If it was a cover to hide US aerospace designs there would be reams of paperwork describing operating procedures that would have turned up in court enforced FOI discoveries and fact-finding inquiries demanded by congressional committees some 50-60 years after the fact. We also wouldn't have people like Milton Torres coming forward saying they were told to shoot down UFOs. It also wouldn't make sense for the US to buzz their own planes. Likewise, why would the US conduct massive studies in to a phenomenon (Project Twinkle, Project Sign, Grudge, Bluebook, etc) which could be attributed to its own manufacture? It would be a waste of time, resources, and man-power with potential to expose the cover project.

Also consider that if all unexplained UFO sightings represent secret American aircrafts then the United States has "spent hundreds of billions of dollars on known and highly inferior aircraft to be used in a cover-up of such deeply classified activities. These inferior aircraft must have been used and continue to be used while far superior aircraft have been kept in hiding instead of being employed to prevent or win wars which have cost many lives and endangered many more."[6]

It simply doesn't make sense.

What's left

That leaves the remaining possibilities. There's no way to scientifically evaluate the existence of god(s), angels, demons, etc so it has to remain a serious consideration.


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Wikipedia: Unidentified Flying Objects: hypotheses". 2009-03-10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object#UFO%20hypotheses. Retrieved on 2009-03-10. 
  2. ↑ Paul Gaudion, Prof. Peter Sammond. (July 30, 2008) (in English) (avi). Britain's Closest Encounter - Alderney Lights. [TV production]. England: Five. Event occurs at 25:29. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5360172738841313274#25m29s. "One theory was that they were earth lights, a natural phenomenon caused by movement of the earth tectonic plates. Earth lights are often seen in the sky before an earthquake. Geologist Professor Peter Sammond has studied them in detail. "Earth-lights have many forms and certainly seeing a pair of lights looking like a low-flying aircraft could easily have been earth lights. They hover close to the ground and bathe the air in a sort of mysterious glow."" 
  3. ↑ Firestorm 2003: pp. 161
  4. ↑ RRRGroup (2007-04-08). "The 1957 RB-47 UFO sighting: explained". http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007/04/1957-rb-47-ufo-sighting-explained.html. Retrieved on 2009-03-09. 
  5. ↑ Nohup (2009-03-09). "RE: When does evidence become proof?". http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread444130/pg1#pid5963462. Retrieved on 2009-03-09. 
  6. ↑ Berliner, Don (2002). "Is there a case for UFOs?" (in English). CFI. http://www.freedomofinfo.org/evidence/is_there_a_case.html. Retrieved on 2009-05-26. 


References

  • Druffel, Ann (2003). Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science. Columbus, NC: Wild Flower Press. ISBN 0-926524-58-5. 


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