The UFO Apparitions
by The term “apparition” usually refers to immaterial appearances of people; apparitions are also known as ghosts, animals, objects, and spirits. Despite much skepticism, reports of apparitions have always had a particular importance in folk belief and in the history of religion.
UFOs exhibit many of the characteristics of apparitions, giving rise to speculation that UFOs are spiritual rather than physical phenomena.
Apparitions, which are not seen by everyone, usually involve noises, unusual smells, extreme cold, and the displacement of objects. Visual images, tactile sensations, voices, and the apparent psychokinetic movement of objects may also be included. Apparitions move through solid matter, appear and disappear abruptly, can cast shadows and be reflected in mirrors, seem corporeal or luminous and transparent, and can be lifelike or have limited movements.
Traditionally, apparitions manifest for a particular reason-to communicate a crisis or death, provide warning, comfort the grieving, convey needed information-and appear in places where emotional events have occurred. It has been shown that there are few differences between the characteristics of apparitions of the living and those of the dead. Apparition experiences can be of various types. They can be crisis apparitions, which typically appear to individuals who are emotionally very close to the agent, or apparitions of the dead, which usually occur within a short time after death. Sometimes apparitions are collective, occurring simultaneously to multiple witnesses, or they can be reciprocal, when both agent and percipient, who are separated by distance, experience each other simultaneously.
Numerous theories have tried to explain all types of apparitions, from the assertion that they are mental hallucinations to the notion of telepathy. Other theories refer to astral or etheric bodies, an amalgam of personality patterns, recording or imprints of vibrations, projections of the human unconscious or will and concentration, spirits of the dead, and localized phenomena with their own physicality, directed by an intelligence or personality. Again, any and all of these speculative theories could be applied to the UFO phenomenon.
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