The I’m Totally Mystified Guide to Unidentified Flying Objects

UFOs… Love them, hate them, and believe in them or not. These objects are a vivid part of living in today’s crazy world. What could they be and what is the current view of this mysterious unidentified phenomenon? Here is a list of the various hypotheses as to what these strange sightings of supposed space ships are. The views are many and this list may be incomplete. This is merely an attempt to outline the more popular views.

Extraterrestrials

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This is the most common view as to what they are. That they are ships that carry, “beings,” from other, “Terras,” (lands or planets) is the prime point of view. This view holds that these flying objects are visitors from outer-space, curious to come and see what on Earth we are doing. Encounters with these ships, meeting the occupants and being carried away to distant planets is considered the highest form of UFO encounter. It is named a, “Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind.” This is the penultimate in flying object reality and without a shadow of doubt confirmation they come from another planet.

Intraterrestrials

This view holds that UFOs are from a parallel universe or a realm that lies, “next to,” our reality. That people are visiting from this place, with advanced technology, is one hot view. Carl Jung also wrote about the collective unconscious. This is where people are hallucinating en-masse, believing in any number of things, according to the time they live in. For example, in the Middle Ages, when the church pervaded life, people often saw Angels or Demons. Another example is the mass-hysteria in the United Kingdom regarding Swine Flu in 2009; it is just people’s imaginations running riot. The view that UFOs are from a parallel universe, or intraterrestrials, is a commonly held view in Brazil.

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Conspiracies

The common assumption amongst those interested in UFOs is that governments, “cover up,” the existence of these crafts in exchange for advanced technology. From Roswell, New Mexico, up to the popular disclosure by John Lear, inventor of the Lear Jet there is a belief that governments have a conspiracy to hide it. This vein of thinking still holds strong despite many in government circles stating the obvious – no conspiracy exists.