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UFOs: Lifting the Veil (by Stuart Davis)
Stuart Davis has recently posted a fascinating blog post about the UFO phenomenon, exploring some of the many possible interpretations of UFOs while trying to get to the essence of what is really going on here. Collective hallucinations and myth-making? Super-secret government technologies? Hyper-dimensional beings trying to make contact with our own dimension? Stu reflects on all these possibilities and more.
From StuartDavis.com:
Whatever our respective beliefs about UFOs and Alien Abduction may be, in one sense we are all in the same boat: We are contending with a lot of data. Tens of thousands of sightings, encounters, and reported abductions.
In fact, the type and source of the data has changed dramatically. The field of UFOlogy has long been plagued with sloppy research and slippery testimony from sketchy sources. But in recent years it has transformed, reshaped by first person testimony from high caliber eyewitnesses. Hundreds of top-ranking military officials, powerful governmental figures, pilots, astronauts, and former covert operatives with secret clearance have come forward and provided video-taped testimony on their first hand experience with UFOs and Alien phenomena. They originate from all corners of the globe, and put their names -and sometimes their lives- on the line in order to reveal what they generally describe as a tragic, calamitous cover-up.
Even a cursory survey of Dr. Stephen Greer's Disclosure Project, or James Fox's films I Know What I Saw or Out Of The Blue, will trigger a double take. Whatever UFOs are, they are no longer relegated to speculation from the periphery of pseudo-science. Exemplars of reason, experts held in great esteem in their fields, are coming forward in droves to say we are really missing IT. 'It' being the ostensible reality that we are being, and have been visited, by an intelligent presence, and it is not terrestrial in origin.
There are numerous ways to interpret the information from hundreds of military and government officials (leaving out the tens of thousands of civilian encounters). But the nature of WHAT we are interpreting has changed. We are no longer merely trying to make sense of strange lights in the sky, or surreal encounters with objects we can't explain. We must now make sense of (as I see it) two major bodies of information:
A, The first-person testimonies from expert / authority witnesses on UFOs and Aliens. This category includes over 450 military, government, nasa, and top secret operatives who claim direct experience with objects and entities, and that these life forms are not terrestrial in origin. That's just the group that's come forward and testified. Hard to imagine how many have not.
B, The first-person testimony from thousands of people who describe (with alarming congruence across cultures and continents) encounters and abductions at the hands of alien entities. These 'experiencers' are adamant that these encounters are not dreams, or night paralysis, or hallucinations. They say they know the difference, and this experience occupies its own ontological bandwidth. They have been shown to be no more prone to psychosis than the general population.
I can see five general categories of explanation....
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Posted October 8th, 2009 by Allan HallVery very good overview . I am thinking that the AI is closer to being real that Aliens as we know it.
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Well done
Posted October 8th, 2009 by tom curranNice article Stuart, good show!
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The aliens are us...
Posted October 8th, 2009 by camfreeThanks Stuart and Cory for bringing me up to speed on the UFO Enigma.
For what it's worth, I just want to add one other possible explanation.
It seems intuitively obvious to me not only that Aliens exist - but also that they are not exactly "alien" or altogether different from us. They are simply very highly evolved human beings travelling back in time and space to the planet of their own lowly origins... Possibly to attempt some subtle intervention in the evolution of human consciosuness on this planet - if we are open to the invitation, that is, as Stu points out.
I mean, given the veracity of the reported sighting of aliens, it seems they have very terrestrial and even human-like features: two arms, two legs, large brain, two eyes, a mouth, etc... That is, they look exactly like we would look given about 100 000 years of further evolution and interplanetary exploration.
So the aliens are really highly evolved human beings from the future coming back through time and space to Earth for some inscrutable and myserious mission... At least that's what's been intuitively obviously to me ever since I took an acid trip at the age of 16.
Cameron
"Become passers-by" (Jesus of Nazareth)
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all articulately stated . . .
Posted October 8th, 2009 by Ambo Sunoand, my excitement and awe of alien presence is going to have to wait for the Smithsonian exhibit. The actual material spacecraft in cut-away with accompanying attestations of veracity, or the totally foreign tech demonstration that blows the most erudite world techno-scientists away, or the dissected five-chambered hearted alien corpse (who died a natural death - be she friendly alien) with demonstration and lecture by her mitotic mate. Or some such.
I will get quite excited and appreciative if the exhibit is simultaneous and adjacent with the non-encased, full-lotused levitator from the far enchanting east who lifts off for the public on the half hour.
Accompanying woowoo music would be sweet.
I'm not from Missouri - but I may have ancestors from down there.
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Re: UFOs: Lifting the Veil
Posted October 7th, 2009 by BalderThanks for posting this, Corey! Very interesting. I don't know where I stand in this debate, but I'm curious about it -- and have some first-hand exposure to it. Almost a decade ago, when I worked as a court reporter in Virginia, Stephen Greer hired me to transcribe about 100 hours of UFO witness testimony, in preparation for his upcoming briefing with Congress, I believe. The tapes featured testimony from pilots, NORAD employees, military officials, engineers, etc. It was fascinating stuff -- some of it disconcerting, because many of the witnesses did seem like credible, sensible folks.