The Phaistos Disk and UFO fakery

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I caught a documentary on Curiosity Stream about the Phaistos disc:

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

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/ancient-cd-rom-phaistos-disk-code_n_6055178.html

And while that documentary’s subject was interesting, the segments about how archaeologists faked “finds” for various reasons – money, fame, a legacy – reminded me of all the fake materials that humans have created over the millennia:

The Hebrew tales of god and Jewish heroes.

The Greek myths of their alleged heroes.

The Christian Gospels, none written by Matthew, Mark, Luke of John.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Paintings of attributed masters

Piltdown Man

Various money scams

The Howard Hughes and Adolf Hitler Diaries

MJ-12

The alien autopsy

And the slew of obvious faked UFO photos

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera

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

Why?

Is there an inherent “need” to fake (or hoax)?

Almost everyone wants to be known, or acknowledged, and will do things to get attention. But what about those who create forgeries without attribution; fakery for fakery’s sake only?

Such is the nature of humankind that one can’t decry the behavior. It seems endemic to mankind….some of mankind.

In the UFO world, the deception is rather trivial as UFOs are trivial, but such minor perfidy irks, because it brings to a halt study of a phenomenon that deserves a bit of respect, not much but some.

That a harmless hobby as “ufology” is bespeckled by sham and contrivance isn’t something to get worked up about but it does aggravate those of us who’s like to know what UFOs are or may be, and are flummoxed by a few ne’er-do-wells who present “Dead flies [that] cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour." (Ecclesiastes 10:1)

RR

The seemingly “intelligent maneuvers” of UFOs

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The 1948 Gorman “dogfight” with a UFO, the 1976 Iranian jet encounter, and the recent Pentagon disclosed pilot sightings of UFOs, in which the crew(s) thought the strange things they confronted behaved as if they were intelligently controlled is what I'm addressing here.

Now I know that humans have a tendency to see intelligence in erratic behavior of animals and even machines, but I’m inclined to believe that the pilots in the UFO sightings noted here were not cavalier observers, and saw what appeared to be thought-instilled maneuvers by the UFOs they came upon.

Now, if that’s the case, what accounts for the perceived behavior?

Some UFO ET diehards will posit that the UFOs were “manned” by intelligent extraterrestrials, but you know my feeling on that: ETs coming to Earth in the numbers indicated by UFO reports is extraordinarily bizarre and outside what one might consider rational extraterrestrial activity, although we really don’t know what is rational behavior by an advanced species from elsewhere.

Yet, assuming that the UFOs did act with sentience or intelligence, what does that tell us?

I think it may indicate that the UFOs in such cases as those named above, and others, where the UFO(s) acted with prescience, were the result of an AI algorithm and the UFOs are von Neumann-like probes that came upon or sought out flying craft to interact with.

UFOs don’t interact with boats, or trains or automobiles or balloons or cows in such a manner – with mimicking maneuvers – but they do proceed to interact with airplanes, rockets, and facilities that support flying craft of an advanced kind.

This tells me that some UFOs are intelligent machines of an AI kind and when they come upon or are accosted by like machines (jets and planes), they try to force a “dialogue” by “playing” with their fellow machinery.

That an advanced intergalactic species or an AI dominant civilization that once stumbled upon this fecund planet and return now and then (even in significant numbers) is not beyond possibility, in my mind.

RR