UFO sighting - are the aliens only in our heads?

Visitors from space are the folk legend of the 20th century. Millions of people are convinced they are real. Some claim that they were even kidnapped but does anyone have real proof?

A small town in northern Arizona found itself in 1975 at the center of an extraordinary event. A team of loggers, who were working in a remote area of ​​a local forest came home with a strange story about one of them - Travis Walton, who disappeared in the forest. They claimed that he was knocked to the ground and rendered unconscious by a blue-green beam fired at him from a flying saucer. All the others saw it and tried. Five days later, Walton returned with a similar story and a sequel - he claimed that he was abducted and woke up on board the alien spaceship and found himself among creatures with undeveloped facial features and no hair by mistake. His captors put a mask over his face until he lost consciousness again. He does not remember anything else until he woke up again on solid ground, close to the site from which he was abducted.
His story received nationwide resonance in the USA. Some people cited it as the most impressive case of its kind. However, an organization called Ground Susser Watch, an organization that studies such phenomena, and which was the first to arrive at the scene. The conclusion was that the story was a scam. This was also determined by the local police. Walton was interrogated in a truth machine and failed this test. "He was not in any spacecraft," said the police investigator.
The skeptic of the thickets, Philip Klass, suggests that the story was invented by the miners who saw that they would not be able to stand the time that they demanded for the supply of wood, something that could have resulted in a heavy fine. However, despite the suspicious circumstances, Walton's "experience" became one of the most common stories of encounters with aliens and formed the basis of several movie plots filmed in the XNUMXs that dealt with abduction by aliens. "Fire in the Sky, the story of Travis Walton's encounter with the aliens, was released in the nineties. .
Visiting aliens from outer space have become an integral part of modern mythology, as dragons and dragons once were. It is clear that the public has an appetite for the fantastic, which Hollywood is happy to satisfy.
But such abductions are the latest turning point in the history of UFOlogy - the story of sightings of unidentified flying objects, or flying saucers. The era of UFOs began in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold, flying a plane over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, saw a chain of nine luminous flying objects flying "like a saucer thrown across the water." The press shortened it to "flying saucers" (although the description was of their movement and not of their shape) and the Air Force began a series of tests of the case. The official explanation was of a phenomenon known as a mirage, caused by a temperature reversal in the air. But this explanation did not change public opinion and thus a myth of the 20th century was created for him.
One of the explanations for the phenomenon was the great interest gathered by the space experiments that began after World War II. Scientists began to seriously investigate whether life could exist on other planets in the solar system. In particular in the two planets next to us - Mars and Venus.
Scenes from science fiction stories and movies explaining about aliens from space stimulated the imagination of the war-fearing public and the hunger for fantasy. Incorporating the paranoia of the Cold War, the culture of the masses established itself on the national subconscious, and has remained there ever since.
Today, despite the fact that there is no solid evidence whatsoever that Earth has ever been visited from outer space. The result of some American studies shows that the majority of the public is convinced that ABMs exist. A Gallup study published in 1991 showed that 13 percent of Britons – over 5 million adults – had seen what they believed to be obscene. Even one American president claims such an observation. In the early 300s, then-Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter visited the local Lions Club where he and others saw a mysterious light low in the western sky. As Carter described it, the light was visible at a distance of 1973 to 1969 meters. It changed colors, moved closer, then moved away again, becoming as bright and large as the moon before flying away. "I will never laugh at people who say they saw an unidentified object in the sky," he told the press. Carter's observation gained sympathy among the Abominists, who saw it as powerful support for their argument. In further investigation, it became clear how the testimony of even respected eyewitnesses could be broken. When Carter reported the sighting in 6, more than four years after the event, he recalled that the event read in October XNUMX. Robert Schieffer, a skeptical researcher of yeasts checked the records of the Lions Club and found that the actual date was January XNUMXth, nine months earlier. The bright planet Venus was then low in the west-southwest sky that night, just as Carter saw the UFO. If the UFO was as bright as Venus, Carter should have seen two bright objects in the same direction.
"Mr. Carter is in good company in the misinterpretation of Venus as an UFO," said Shaffer in a diplomatic way. Carter's experience is typical of thousands of UFO reports from UFO enthusiasts all over the world every year. Most of the observations had a simple explanation - Venus being the brightest planet is often the cause. Even though Venus does not appear as bright and large as the Moon, nor does it approach and move away suddenly, people are often mistaken in interpreting the size and behavior of an isolated light in the sky.
Eyewitnesses described the following case from Valencia, Spain. Antonio Serena and his wife were driving home around ten one night in February. when they saw a large bright light in a southeasterly direction that seemed to zigzag in front of their car before rising to a height of 7-8 meters above them and extending what appeared to be a landing. The car's engine started to stop and the car's lights went out. The couple's three children became afraid and one of them fell ill.
After about an hour, the UFO disappeared and the family returned home safely. The case was investigated by an American professor of physics, Willie Smith. He ruled out Venus as an explanation because even though the planet was at its brightest, it set around half past nine Greenwich time, while the obscurity of the axes was still visible an hour later. Therefore, it is clear to him that the UFO was controlled by an intelligent entity that had a physical effect on the witnesses and their car.
However, Prof. Smith did not refer to the fact that Spain keeps the same time as Central Europe, that is, one hour before Greenwich Mean Time. When the time difference was taken into account, the time and direction of the observed UFO matched that of Venus. The zigzagging of the UFO and its upward movement can easily be explained by the windy, hill-climbing road conditions. A mixture of travel sickness and fear were the causes of the child's illness. Also, the car's electrical problems were caused, according to the test, from a broken battery, which was found dead the day after the incident. So it seems that even one of the spectacular and convincing stories of the observatories recorded by a physics professor is no guarantee that the event does not have a simple and prosaic explanation.
Such cases demonstrate the difficulty of estimating the size and distance of an unknown light with any precision, and how easy it is for humans to get carried away with the description of the event. This was beautifully illustrated by the British physicist David Simpson, who performed a series of pranks. He flew a 3 volt flashlight attached to a kite and a balloon among a group of people who had become UFO watchers and recorded their reactions. "The thing was brighter than any man-made light"; He maneuvered much more complex maneuvers than an airplane can perform"; It was metallic and had windows”; "I flashed the flashlight at this object and it flashed the same code back to me"; "He communicated with me telepathically."
In another prank, Simpson pointed a bright purple light at a group of ghost watchers and asked them for help photographing the ghost. In reality the film is considered to show a different part of the horizon with a different light on which a double exposure was made. There were many hints in the film that it was fake. However, when paleontologists, including a French astronomer, examined the film, they said that it looked believable.
British UFO skeptic Ian Ridpath describes how one incident showed him how easy it is to find a simple explanation if you look hard enough. On October 2, 1983, the front page of the "News of the World" announced: "A UFO has landed in Suffolk, and it's official." According to the seasonal story, one evening, guards at the US Air Force Base in Woodbridge, near Ipswich, UK, saw a bright light rising above the nearby woods - Randall Sham... When a group of Air Force personnel went outside to investigate the event, they were surrounded by a flashing light that appeared Gets out of an aircraft that moves away from them towards the forest, leaving behind landing marks, fire on tree trunks, and traces of radiation. One of the security personnel, who later left the Air Force, even talked about meeting aliens.
The newspaper published a memo from the base's deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hallett, to the British Ministry of Defense confirming the event, apart from the encounter with the aliens. Three British paleontologists who wrote a book about the case described it as unique in the records of the history of UFOs - the first UFO to be observed in an official and officially confirmed UFO landing and contact with aliens." However, when I did my own investigation, I found that even for an obvious case, there could be another explanation.
And Ri'path describes: "First, at the same time that the Air Force personnel reported that they saw the object rising above the grove, a particularly bright meteor burned in the air over southern England. The flickering UFO in the forest was exactly in the direction of the Orford Ness lighthouse, 9.5 kilometers towards the Suffolk coast. To the people standing in the forest, the lighthouse appears as if it is only a few feet above the ground among the trees and appears to move with the viewer. Local police were called to the scene by the US Air Force on the night of the incident, but said the only light that could be seen was that of the Ortford Ness lighthouse. If there was a real UFO there, the Americans should have seen two flashing lights, not one."
"Secondly, local foresters said that the "landing marks" were actually old rabbit burrows, while the "fire marks" and the place where the trees were cut were made by foresters, to mark which pine trees were bubbling with resin. The radiation levels measured by the colonel were not higher than the radiation accepted in this area."

Paleontologists are people who are always eager to support any plausible explanation for their observations. This feature translates into conspiracy theories directed at the government - which in their opinion knows the truth about the Jews and hides it. Unfortunately for the supporters of the cover-up theory, the files in the Blue Book Project, in which an attempt was made by the US Air Force to analyze the Abamim reports, were published a few years ago, and showed that the Air Force's knowledge of Abamim is no greater than anyone else's - in fact, they often knew a lot less.
Anthropologists who claimed that the CIA had its own investigation, which even the Air Force did not know about, but the CIA files released under the American Freedom of Information Act, did not support the cover-up theory. Because they contain newspaper clippings, letters from philologists, and official memos at an average rate of one page per week. One of the CIA's secret memos from 1952 concluded that "there is not a shred of evidence that the ABMs were alien spaceships." Another memorandum, a year later, reported that they had collected very little material worth keeping. And two years later came a recommendation to stop the research, which was being done part-time anyway, on the subject of the obelisks. An internal memo from 1976 commented that the government does not carry out any research on the subject of the UFOs, and no such research has been done by any entity belonging to the intelligence community.
However, a CIA position paper from 1952 reported that the Air Force had seen the sites where the sighting was made, but given the exact information, each of these sightings can be explained on the basis of a misinterpretation of known objects, or as lesser known natural phenomena.
Why, then, do people continue to claim that they saw ghosts? And even taken aboard? Psychologists turn their attention to the question of what motivates the obscene and the "kidnapped", and it seems that the connection with the unknown has a special status in the human soul. There is a deep, unconscious and emotional need to have a supernatural experience or one with extraterrestrial influence, which affects various aspects of human behavior, both on a personal level and on a cultural level.
There are many parallels between the roles of religious belief and Ambology. Waves of sightings are recorded in times of crisis - such as in America during the Cold War, or in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union - this is also the time when people look for protection from the sky. In the period between 1940 and 1970, two Italians - Roberto Pinotti and Corrado Malanga, found the correlation between the number of reports of sightings of the Virgin Mary, and the number of sightings of the obelisks. Carl Jung, the renowned Swiss psychologist, suggested that like religious visions, "obsessions may be involuntary consequences of emotional stress during an emergency."
In fact, many of the pagan believers adopted religious figures and provided their attributes to visitors from space with missionary messages, often also with a special message for the human race. Dr. Alex Crowl, UFO researcher from Australia, found that a large proportion of humans who reported close encounters with aliens also claimed a mystical experience. It seems that there will always be a deep psychological need for many people to hand over responsibility for their lives to a mysterious force outside our world, whether gods or aliens, and to give them credit for playing a central role in the destiny of humanity.
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