A strange, folkloric-like account of a UFO abduction in Africa

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Paul Dean has provided a 2007 Canadian Newspaper copy of a 1999 Spectrum Magazine article:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9maf5xb3wkx9ls/81H.pdf?dl=0

The Spectrum interview of an African elder, who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials is replete with fascinating and odd details, whether fictive or true.

This is the kind of UFO "tale" that takes us into a weird account of reality.

Such related stories should be addressed as a kind of modern mythology? Or a report of intrusions into humanity's mind-set from Jose Caravaca's external agent, that neurologically based "trickster"? Or an actual account of ET captivity/kidnappings?

In this instance, the age of the elder and splendor of exotic detail bespeaks a creative imagination or a fervid recollection of something remarkably unique that occurred to the elder and has been encrusted with accumulated memoric material.

RR

1959: "small entities" from flying saucers in France (via Paul Dean)

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1958: Contactees (from the UFO Critical Bulletin via Paul Dean)

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A 1998 Michigan newspaper account of the 1952 Mainbrace Saucer

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A May 1957 "little men" UFO account (investigated by Aime Michel)

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The UFO Reality?

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We, all of us, are familiar with that hoary presumptive query, “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no human to hear it, does it make a sound?”

I never followed through with the moot debate but I see the question as applicable to the UFO question: “If a UFO flies overhead but there is no human to see it, does it exist?”

Zoam Chomsky (and maybe Lance Moody) would say UFOs do not exist under any circumstance.

While a few visitors here (Daniel, Dominick, et al.) accept the reality of UFOs whether or not humans see them. (I’m with both of them.)

But the reality of UFOs, in various incarnations, is open to interpretation. Some see UFOs as a projection of one’s inner psyche (Jung) while others see UFOs as a manifestation of “madness” – a temporary insanity. (This is a view that explains some UFO “sightings” and plays a part in Jose Caravaca’s provocative hypothesis that an external agent – a neurological glitch – has caused some scenarios where entities appear, doing odd psychical things borne of the witnesses psychology.)

And many ufologists (or UFO buffs) see UFOs as ethereal phenomena or nuts and bolts craft from outer space.

Yet, again, if UFOs are not witnessed or seen (experienced), do they exist, prima facie?

How can that be proven, just as one can ask how can a falling tree in a forest register sound if no one is around to hear it?

Sure, recordings of a tree falling and making sound make a point but the receptacle (the recording device) mimics the human ear so the proposition that a sound is made is open to question, just as a UFO detected on radar or film, without human interaction, leaves open the question of whether a UFO registering anywhere, via any device, minus human perception, is viable, real?

UFO believers would say yes, while skeptics say no.

UFOs exist, in reality, even when one applies the dicta of Jacques Derrida who insists (and which I accept) that (even) fictive accounts are a truth (a reality) that cannot be dismissed as portraying reality.

Reality is what we humans say it is, even the manic (unmeasured) exclamations of schizophrenics are as real (to them) as the placid observations of you who see and extol a vacation sojourn with photographs to confirm your reality.

Quantum reality comes into play, and while easily dismissed by the slothful among you, it is essential to the question of reality and UFOs.

Thus, accounts of UFOs have their own reality, even when not perceived by humans but registering in the ethereal domain of reports, concocted or actual.

But are UFOs part of Plato’s real reality – the outside of the cave reality – or just a fictional yet important aspect of reality as Derrida and others would have it?

You and I don’t really know.

But those who dismiss multiverses, time travel, parallel unverses, and UFOs have no idea what reality is: it’s something established by humanity, factually of fictively, either way, real in every way.

RR