UFOs are lousy as a myth …

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…and even lousier as a reality.

While some of my UFO pals insist that UFOs are only a myth, in the making still, I find the phenomenon execrable as a myth, and as a reality UFOs are just as fetid.

Mythology is replete with moralities and truths that supersede everyday contingencies, and one finds in Greek myth (the lives/actions of the gods, the warriors of Greek battles, et cetera) or the Epic of Gilgamesh and the tales of Britain’s King Arthur, et al., transcendental beauty and a refinement of behavior (good and bad).

And in reality, real reality, there are examples of monumental glories, even inside the tales of war and death, much captured by paintings and photography and literary/news accounts.

But in the UFO lore, the stories creating the so-called flying saucer myth, are foul and often loathsome, without beauty or truth, ugly accounts of sightings and encounters.

That UFOs are a prevailing or developing myth goes against the idea of myth as expounded most elegantly and eruditely by Joseph Campbell.

Even the coarse Roman myths excel in profound truths and exquisite beauty: Ovid’s Metamorphoses for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses

And Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as a metaphorical work flush with mythical themes, has glories and ugliness that remain aesthetically accessible to literary cognoscenti.

Are UFOs, as a myth, deflated by those cultural ruffians who’ve captured the tales and made them lurid with biases and their own neurotic taints?

Some how the patina of ufology has been sleazy, since flying saucers and UFOs entered the human zeitgeist.

UFO reports/stories have always been withered by the hoi polloi who create (witness) UFOs and those who retell the stories of the rabble.

This is mythmaking (or reportage of reality) by the intellectually hebetudinous; refinement is lacking at the core.

UFOs, in essentia, are, often, merely reports by inarticulate purveyors of observations that haven’t a scintilla of profundity at their base.

For skeptics, a few whom I admire and love, to keep inserting that UFOs are myth, dilutes and miscasts myth itself, which is one of the high spots of human imagination and creative endeavor.

UFOs are, generally [sic], made-up stories from the dregs of misplaced and simple minds, hovering not in mythological territory but, rather, above the basement of the proletarian existentia.

RR

The alleged 1947 Mexican flying saucer "crash" (from Paul Dean)

This was appended to the Pindell file (below) that Paul Dean provided:

I've seen TV snippets about this supposed crash of a flying saucer in Mexico, during the Roswell time-frame.

The U.S. Army, in the TV clip I saw, was said to have reached the crash and carted away the saucer, some of the military men getting sick from exposure to the craft.

(I think that this was a sensationalized account on Destination America.)

Anyone with more information about it would do me a service by adding what you know in comments here.

Thanks.

RR

A 1962 case from Flying Saucer Review, provided by Paul Dean

RR/PD

A 1962 case -- Pindell -- from Paul Dean

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Do ETs sublimate?

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“ … sublimation is a form of [human] desexualization (q.v.) in which the instinctive impulses, instead of requiring control by constant counter-cathexis, are deflected (by means of identification, displacement, and substitution) into acceptable channels.” [Psychiatric Dictionary, antea citatis]

Freud’s contribution to human behavior allows that the human sex drive is “sublimated” (dynamically altered) into acceptable, creative activity: art, music, literature, sport, business, crime, and almost everything outside the sex act itself.

Watching Blue Planet II shows that Earth’s creatures, aside from man, while often acting creatively – thinking, it seems to me, not just being instinctive as I’ve recently noted here – are consumed by eating (to survive) and mating (engaging in struggles, serious battles, and deception to do so) and that’s it.

While most creatures are careful to look after their offspring, they do not go beyond the mating rituals and their accoutrements (offspring protection and care or upbringing).

That is, all living creatures (flora and fauna) struggle to survive and mate, whilst man does the same but sublimates (creatively alters) his mating drive into other behaviors mostly creative but sometimes malicious or evil behavior that has little to do, seemingly, with sexuality or sexual activity.

So, I ask, if UFOs are the vehicles of for species off the Earth, does that species have a sex drive and is it sublimated?

Do ETs change, as we humans do, their sexual proclivities and channel any mating or sexual activity into space exploration or are UFO observational activity voyeuristic in nature, one of the human psycho-neurotic patterns of those who have trouble sublimating?

Do ETs have a sex drive, aside from the confabulated tales from UFO abduction experiencers?

Or are ETs, automatons (robot-like beings or even AI creations) with no sexual desires at all?

Does the lack of “cultural artifacts” in UFO encounters indicate a lack of sublimation?

Or do ETs only engage in sex acts, without disguising or deflecting them into acceptable (or other) behavior?

Wouldn’t the desire to explore the galaxy or universe be a form of sublimation itself?

Or are the human visions of UFOs and sometimes encounters with “beings” from them just one more form of human sublimation?

(And have I had too much Valentine candy lately?)

RR