The “myth” [UFOs] in the sky can’t save us

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We, UFO enthusiasts, know that flying saucers/UFOs – strange portents above, in the sky (heavens) – always show up in dire times, societal woes.

During the Hebraic consternations in the B.C. eras, weird appearances seem to have been typical, if the Hebrew Bible is accurate to some degree.

Constantine’s vision near the end of Rome’s dominance as a Western world power is another instance.

The upheavals during the 1500s when the Church was challenged by outliers and reprobates, like Luther, portents appeared in the skies or in the minds of people distressed by the turmoil. (The Nuremberg and Basel newspaper “broadsheets” are the example.)

The end of creative, thoughtful endeavors at the end of the Nineteenth Century, as Jung has noted, brought forth the whimsy and sightings of alleged airships cavorting in the skies of America and elsewhere.

Then, after World War II, when civilization was beset by the possibility of nuclear annihilation, flying saucers and the idea of extraterrestrials appearing to humans and showing up in Earth’s skies became epidemic and remain somewhat pervasive even today when the ills of our civilization are not dynamic but intrusive at personal and societal levels.

The earnest desire of mankind to be salvaged by a God or gods rose up within the mind of primitive man, whose needs were more “existential” (in the current misuse of that word) than profound. (See Jaynes et al.)

And if there is, in reality, a God (or gods), they are silent and inconsequential – see Richard Friedman’s The Hidden Face of God.

Melville’s Moby Dick instills in us that God (Moby Dick) is quiescent, until it is provoked – sought for surcease or, in the case of Melville’s whalers, pursued. (Christians seeking something from God – via prayers or solicitations – will incur a notice from Him that is not good.)

Flying saucers/UFO, the new substitute for God, are just as hidden as Friedman’s God but not as malicious as Melville’s, thankfully.

But to keep hoping, as some readers here do, that UFOs will be the answer to their pathetic lives or society’s woes, is not only sad but madness.

It’s time to take UFOs in stride and accept the things as a phenomenon without gravitas or meaning, although I wish it were otherwise, but I am not fooled by the mythos or whatever it is that haunts some of us with its enigmatic flavor.

RR