How Camera Phones Killed Alien Abductions and UFOs (from Inverse)

https://www.inverse.com/article/33878-ufos-flying-saucers-roswell-incident-aliens-are-real-debunk?utm_campaign=photo&utm_medium=culture&utm_source=newsletter

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Why UFOs (and events like Roswell) aren’t myths (and can’t be)

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Despite the erudite commentary by my Facebook and Canadian pal, Bryan Sentes, in my UFOs are lousy as a myth post a few days ago [See below], I’m not convinced that UFOs or anything attendant to them or about them is worthy of the myth sobriquet.

I gathered up a few of my Joseph Campbell books (Hero With a Thousand Faces, Creative Mythology, The Masks of God, et cetera, plus a biography of Campbell: The Heroes Journey, Joseph Campbell, On His Life and Work [Harper & Row, San Francisco/NY, 1990] and Jung’s book, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth … [antea citatis], et al.

And nowhere in any of Campbell’s works are elements of myth that accrue to UFOs or flying saucers, Jung notwithstanding.

Those of you with access to Campbell’s thinking (use Google) will readily see what I mean.

Myth is a category of human imagination (and literature) that is unexcelled by other forms of writing, as Jacques Derrida allows and any person with literary sensibilities can plainly see.

Bryan, Zoam, and others who decry that UFOs are a myth misconstrue myth and UFOs both.

UFOs are an anecdotal scientific-laden phenomenon, like calories or quarks, not a source for mythical truths and embellishment(s).

To persist in the matter, in front of those who usually visit here, is akin to casting pearls before swine, and I don’t mean that derogatorily, just academically.

RR