UFOs are the paranormal “stars”

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Dr Dee, in a comment here, the other day, asked why I thought UFOs were a special case (of paranormality), better than MIB, or Big Foot, or ghosts, et cetera.

And I do think that UFOs outshine all the weird, cryptic things or effects that make up the paranormal categories.

While the MIB, or Nessie, or Sasquatch, or ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night, what they are, when it comes down to it, do not offer anything more than odd visitations from men dressed funerally, an odd kind of marine life, an undifferentiated ape, and an evanescent specter that communicates by moaning, usually, or toppling a few dishes from a pantry shelf.

With UFOs, one has a panoply of possible excitements: intruders from outer space, time or another dimension, an exotic life-form, a top secret aerial device, a concretized macro-quantum entity, a von Neuman probe (actually another kind of “intruder” but I want to pump up my excitements), an unknown meteorological effect, a psychological archetype, angels from God using something more than wings to navigate Earthling habitats, projections (like the bat signal) from some all-powerful human or group, et cetera.

Foolishness aside (or continuing, as Zaom Chomsky sees it), UFOs have a plethora of possible explanations, with interesting possibilities as a side product.

All the other paranormal effects and entities end with their mundane, prosaic explanations: what can the MIB do for us, what have they done for us? What does Big Foot bring to the table, only a new primate for primatologists; What have ghosts offered?

You get the point.

UFOs are flush with possibilities, all spectacular in some way or other….unless they are chimera of a special, long-time kind. But even then, their chimerality outshines the anomalistic dregs that other paranormal things or groups suggest.

Thus, I think, for sheer interest, UFOs should be studied more rabidly that the other quirky paranormal elements.

That has been my point, all along.

RR