The deep pathology of ancient astronaut theorists

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The History Channel’s super CGI Friday series is inter- esting, until the participants become ensnared in their deep-rooted, self-induced pathology: obsessive belief in UFOs as extraterrestrial craft.
 
Friday’s [9/16] programming was deliciously filled with (idiotic) ruminations about Egyptian gods and a following program about the different kinds/shapes of UFOs allegedly seen over the years.
 
But the boys alter truths about those sightings with simply errant asides.

 
Forgetting the opening salvo about the 16^th Century Nuremberg/ Basel Germany broadsheets indicating, wrongly, the idea that the pictures in those papers depicted UFO battles between alien visitors – the papers actually offering artistic depictions of the Reformist struggles between the Catholic Church and the newly created Protestant sect of Martin Luther – viewers were also slugged by AA regular Dave Childress reporting that Ken Arnold created the term “flying saucer” by saying, during an interview that what he saw “looked like a saucer.”
 
Everyone in ufology knows that Arnold, citing the motion of the crafts he saw in 1947 flew in a way that looked like a saucer being skipped on water – the comment being transfigured by a reporter who coined the term “flying saucer” in his newspaper account.
 
This is a typical example of how the AA theorists besmirch their ET suggestion for UFOs and other anomalies; they carve their ancient astronaut premise for UFOs in subtle ways, mostly by subverting the truth with almost tiny shifts in what they are talking about, shifts that color the narrative.

The process isn’t conjectural or speculative but suborned by the voice-over stating the AA boys are stating a truth with a resounding “yes.”
 
The problem lies in the pathological belief that extraterrestrial beings (aliens) are all over the place and have been since time immemorial: an astrophysical foolishness that indicates a warped mental malady.
 
Some of the AA copy in the History programming is at the edge of interesting possible UFO explanations but is undercut by the pathological need of the presenters, and they are, indeed, pathological. Not to understand that is the failure of the viewers' knowledge of mental waywardness, and procedures of logic and right-thinking.
 
Why the Ancient Astronaut disciples continue to exist, even with the patina of moronic thinking, resides in the calculating misconstructed presentations of thinking, supported by egregious tools of CGI showmanship.
 
The process is said by some to be sociopathic, but I see it as something pathological, more of a warped mentality than immoral behavior: these guys actually believe what they are saying.
 
That’s sad, but some viewers seeing their disjointed presentations as truths of a profound kind is even sadder.
 
RR 

Google's UFO newsfeed alerts for 9/16 again accents the Ukrainian UFO observations

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Darren Cooper provided this on FB

Uri Geller  

Friends! I can now reveal that on the 11th of Sept at around 11am a UFO was reported diving into the sea around 200 meters from my Lamb island! Immediately a destroyer (Polish made) with cannons and Lazer Beam weapons was dispatched to investigate, sailors with space protective gear were seen on board! The Scottish Ministry of Defense will soon announce their findings.

 

The Observer: Insights (as usual) about things UFOian

https://theobservermagazine.substack.com/p/empty-bleachers-tom-delonge-bigfoot

IN THE MIND OF UFOS -- excerpts from José Antonio Caravaca's latest book [Part 1]

An exhaustive analysis of more than 10,000 close encounters with UFOs that offers surprising and disconcerting conclusions never reached before...

JOSÉ ANTONIO CARAV@CA First Edition: June 2022

It must be taken into account that one of the most serious mistakes made by ufologists has been to consider that the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH)⁵ was the only, as well as evident and logical, solution to the enigma before even having all the data and information on the table to, obviously, be able to form a more accurate idea of the paradigm at hand. Also, to top off this initial failed approach, almost all research has been conducted, oriented and even sweetened to "prove" the validity of the visit of alien beings to our planet over any other proposal that dared to stand up to this seductive idea. Trampling over any clue or element that could call into question this belief.

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There are a series of complex questions that have never crossed the minds of most ufologists: how can there be so many different types of crew members; why don't flying saucers leave traces in all landings; why in some incidents the occupant of the UFO can speak our language perfectly and in others he babbles in an incomprehensible language; why do the alleged extraterrestrials repeat certain actions ad nauseam over and over again in front of witnesses? Why do we have such different descriptions of the same apparent phenomenon; why do aliens wear scuba suits in one event and not in others; why are many close encounters absurd and nonsensical; where does this link between paranormal phenomena and flying saucers comes from; why does the ufological paradigm have so many things in common with our human society; why do UFOs have so many colored lights if they want to go unnoticed ?

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Andres Gomez Serrano, ¹⁹ in his book UFOs: 50 years of research in the Campo de Gibraltar (1997), almost poetically stated that UFOs:
 
Thousands of witnesses (millions of them) have seen them, photographed them, filmed them, chased them (with fighter planes), and they have even been shot from the ground and from the air with all kinds of weapons, including missiles, both day and night. Governments are still silent, do not know, do not respond. The most impenetrable mystery accompanied by a persistent silence hangs over this lurid affair. In spite of the fact that in their possession -we only suppose-, there are ample and voluminous dossiers classifying them as "Top Secret or top secret classified matter".

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The researcher Félix Arés de Blas stated that: "The UFO phenomenon is a multiple phenomenon. There is a physical phenomenon. There is a physical phenomenon and there is a mythical phenomenon. They are totally differentiated realities, autonomous worlds with few contacts between them. The UFO myth exists and has a life of its own independent of the physical UFO, or with very little relation to the physical UFO.⁴²

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Do you understand now, dear reader, why one premise prevails over the other, who is going to admit the reality of these encounters ⁶³, and is it logical that a partial and biased reading of the data is preferred? One thing is clear. The more information about the UFO phenomenon we have, the more confusion⁶⁴. The closer the proximity, the more the anarchy in the data . And, therefore, our reason must “leave the ship” before facing the deep study of the case reports.

From the UFO emerged a flying humanoid that approached before the astonished witnesses to get behind the wheel of their car (Carav@ca Archive).
 
JAC

Parallel Universe(s) for those of you disinclined to read about the Theory

https://youtu.be/eA8elCQ0tLE