The final [?] two installments of this seasons Unidentified

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The History Channel’s Saturday night [8/22/20] airing of two Unidentified programs seems to end the series, either for this season or altogether.

The first show at 9 pm centered on sightings of orbs, a particularly boring topic for me.

The consensual view of the host, Luis Elizondo, and his team seemed to be that most of the sightings offered to them were drones, mistaken for UFOs (or UAP).

The second (and final program?) concentrated on UFO abductions, surprising viewers with an incident that happened to Robert Hastings, ufology’s UFO/missile defense expert.

A psychiatrist explained that what happened to Mr. Hastings and others who think or thought they were abducted by aliens [ETs] actually suffered “sleep paralysis” and under hypnosis brought forth false memories, a common view among many UFO enthusiasts.

John Mack’s work was lauded and the accounts presented were vibrant and had a patina of credibility, fictive or actual in nature.

Hypnosis is a flawed endeavor, as we all know, and my Freudian counterparts in psychology pooh-pooh the procedure, openly. But, in private, they know (and sometimes use) hypnosis to ferret out “information” that might represent an accurate or slightly real event from the past that can illuminate a fixation or problem for a person.

Hypnosis, in the right hands, can be a useful tool, when added to other corroborative information.

The images and stories of the participants that Elizondo was able to gather or find, mostly military people, intrigue and appear to be “true” as least in the minds of those offering their experiences, even Robert Hastings, whose “abduction” during the late 1980s was presented a bit devoid of anything one could get their hands on but was “real” to him.

In the Unidentified closing statements Chris Mellon vents his extraterrestrial belief in the AATIP encounters and UFOs generally.

For me, surprisingly, Luis Elizondo did the same, waxing poetic about all the Earth-like planets in our galaxy, and how we might garner knowledge from their possible inhabitants.

If the show comes back, I’d be surprised. History shows like this one and the former Blue Book fiction are unable to gain enough viewers to entice advertiser to spend money on the once-exciting channel, now that it’s lapsed into a vehicle for chicanery and “alternative facts.”

RR