The errant projection of human values on UFOs

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My UFO colleague, José Antonio Caravaca, believes that UFO encounters, whereby witnesses are impacted by confrontations with seeming extraterrestrial or other than human entities is an (the?) explanation for the UFO riddle.

And he has, as most of you know, an elaborate theory (Distortion Theory) in which he suggests that an “external agent” – a  neu- rological or biologic intrusion that proposes a scenario that the witness thinks is an alien contact, José offering that material from a witness’s memory (or experience) provides his “agent” the sub- stance to make up the encounter/confrontation.

I won’t elaborate further as I’ll screw up Josés hypothesis, copies of which have appeared hear copiously and at José’s web-sites and Facebook pages.

My point in mentioning his theory here, now, is to separate it from my critique of the insistence by some UFO enthusiasts that the social, cultural, historical milieux are intrinsic to the UFO phenomenon.

I disagree with such assessments – and will explain upcoming

But let me note that Jacques Vallee is in much agreement with José and makes this evident in 2015 responses to José:

I’m not about to challenge José or Jacques Vallee about their suggestion that the integration of the human factor in UFO encounters is important.

I am, rather, suggesting that human activity and its many-varied societal activities have nothing to do with what UFOs are or the essence or precise nature of UFOs.

UFOs transcend human activity, past and present.

What’s going on inside human society, or has gone on, has little – actually nothing – to do with the UFO reality….

…..even though Jacques Vallee and my UFO pals, José Caravaca, Bryan Sentes, Bill Murphy, and MJ Banias, et al. think the human factor is a key to the UFO enigma.

I’ll have a follow-up shortly to make clearer my thinking.

RR