Copyright 2019, Jose Antonio Caravaca
One of the keys to understanding the UFO paradigm would be to decipher
whether UFO sightings (strictly unidentified flying objects in the sky) are
related to close encounters with UFOs (either landings or closer more encounters).
Although this may seem obvious, with no room for doubt, for
some scholars it is not so clear that all the UFO manifestations described in
hundreds of reports are due to the same and unique phenomenon. The differences
and discrepancies between the two facets of UFOs seem irreconcilable and
antagonistic.
While the UFOs in the distance behave in a more or less
uniform, with an acceptable index of strangeness for the parameters of the
premise of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, in the proximity the phenomenon is
shown in a chaotic and disorderly way and even in a crazy way which makes the
paradigm acquire another facet, since it presents a very high degree of
strangeness. So it may be that both phenomena are not the same, although, on
the other hand, and in counterpoint to these aspects, all the data suggest that
they should be.
Nearby UFOs acquire unpredictable behaviour and their
appearance is highly malleable and open to infinite variants, so many that it
is impossible to establish any classification. To further difficulty, the
variability of the phenomenon, at least in its visual aspect, seems to be
clearly related to the socio-cultural aspect, so its field of action is almost
infinite.
Adding that the behaviour, conversation and intellect of the
UFO occupants are at the antipodes of what we would consider a gesture or
behaviour of an advanced civilization (and I do not mean behaviours that we do
not understand by our little intellectual evolution, I mean that witness
descriptions are absurd and devoid of any logic).
Close encounters with UFOs seem to be experiences targeted at certain witnesses
and move away from arbitrariness. Moreover, there are many signs that the human
psyche is in some way in contact with the manifested phenomenon. Witnesses are
clear that the UFO phenomenon establishes some kind of mental connection with
them. Therefore, the UFO sightings far from being an aseptic apparition
of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, as seems to be pointed out in distant
sightings, in the closest encounters we find a mess where the human psyche
seems to interfere with the observed content.
Whether all this is motivated by a high technology, or by an
unknown psychic procedure (as I believe, aided by an exogenous factor) we
should completely rethink our approach to the UFO phenomenon. Statistics on
time of observation, geographic patterns, physical trace studies, humanoid
typologies, etc. have proven ineffective in dealing with the ultimate nature of
UFOs. Probably our Cartesian way of approaching the problems and mysteries of
our environment has prevented us from going any further (Field investigations
leading to case documentation and the measurement or retrieval of physical
evidence; Laboratory analysis of physical evidence; The systematic compilation
of data (descriptive and physical) to look for patterns and so extract
significant facts; The analysis of compilations of data (descriptive and
physical) to look for patterns and so extract significant facts...).
Only by understanding that we are facing a paradigm that is closely related to
the human psyche, will we begin to decipher the enigma. Although close
encounters with UFOs are global manifestations, which can be found in different
parts of the world, their decoding has to be individual and taking into account
the participation of witnesses, who can no longer be considered as mere
observers (independent chroniclers) but as essential parts of this fascinating
cognitive enigma that throughout history has assumed different roles, imbued
precisely by its inexcusable complicity with humankind.
JAC
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