A UFO report or a 2014 Psychiatric case-report?

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Our pal Matty mentioned, in a comment here, a UFO account in Albert Rosales’ 2010-2015 Humanoid Encounters book (from his series).

This brought me to opening my Rosales copy where I came across a weird story from July 1, 2014 (provided to Albert from MUFON), Page 137 of the book. 

A witness wading in the waters of Fort Lauderdale Beach [Florida] spotted a flying object. As he watched the approaching object, he noticed that other swimmers seemed not to notice the thing.

The witness said he saw the object close up, and through some port holes in it, he saw entities with “huge ears, very long noses, and white long teeth stretching out of their mouths that reminded him of ‘elephants’.”

The object hovered for a short time before plunging into the ocean not far from several boats and swimmers who apparently didn’t see anything.

Where the object entered the water was shallow, but the object, surmised to be 300 feet in width and 30 feet high with its 10 by 4 portholes, plunged into the ocean without a splash or wave occurring.

That’s the account, in toto.

Now I ask you, should this be part of UFO lore or a tale better served by a psychiatric or psychological case report?

RR

Mad persons continue to muddy the UFO waters

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My pal Chris Savia, over at The Anomalist manages to provide links to all kinds of goofiness in the paranormal waters.

And there are many to be found among the UFO fringe and the paranormal outland.

This is one (from his Saturday 11/30/19 duties):

https://lindagodfrey.com/2019/11/26/overnight-rock-design-on-my-deck/

For some reason, yet to be really explained (by anybody), the UFO phenomenon, Bigfoot, and Loch Ness, along with ghosts and other weird manifestations, bring out the usually “kept under control” madness that is part of humanity’s mental DNA. (See Scull's titled Madness in Civilization.)

In every quarter of life, one can find “insanity” trying to assert its place in the social spectrum.

Currently it shows up in ISIS martyrdom and kidnapping/killings of young women or in the United States the Whitehouse.

But it has always been a main ingredient in ufology, which is as psychiatric a term as “psychopathology.”

As early as 1947, UFO or, rather, flying saucers,” have brought forth a kind of madness that Foucault outlines for the Middle Ages in his Madness and Civilization. The madness is a kind of folly rather than full-blown psychopathology, but it’s madness all the same.

George Adamski is the poster-boy for the kind of madness I’m referencing. And he is not alone. The whole contactee era was full of frolicking “maniacs.” (See Nick Redfern’s book Contactees for a rundown.)

But moving on from that period in FlyingSaucerdom, you all know of dozens, maybe hundreds (or more), accounts of  “UFO insanity” that I’m noting.

But that it continues into the year 2020, when human beings should be well beyond such foolishness, baffles.

Isn’t there someone or something to purge “ufology” of the crazy people and the crazy accounts that one finds all over the place, Facebook a current faddish repository?

We who relish the UFO mystery just standby and let the nutty people take control of the UFO debate and discussions. The inmates have taken control of the asylum.

(Let me state, here and now, that some, including a few UFO buddies of mine – Bryan Sentes and Nick Redfern among them – think my ramblings here are as close to madness as anything out there. They may be right. After all, mass hysteria can be catching.)

RR