Jacques Vallee:
When you begin to study this phenomenon the first-degree ET hypothesis, (namely the idea that we are visited by aliens from another planet in our galaxy that have just discovered us), seems like the best one. With the passage of time and the accumulation of reports, including those from people reported psychic effects, it becomes clear that it is too limited to explain the facts. As always in science, when such a situation presents itself, you must go back to basics and re-examine the data. We need to open the full spectrum of potential hypotheses instead of simply selecting data that fit our preconceptions.
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I accept the reality of the phenomenon, even though I don't really "believe" it at one level. Maybe it can all be explained away as episodes of temporal lobe epilepsy, though honestly, I don't really buy that either.
Personally, I find the more exotic theories seem to resonate with me -like the visitors being from the future, or from a "neighboring" reality, or that they're some kind of racial supermind made manifest, working out some agenda of its own that we, as mere neurons, can't ever hope to grasp.
There are many possible explanations, but somehow it seems to sell the phenomenon short to say they're just alien anthropologists, and leave it at that. There definitely seems to be a more mystical dimension to the experience of contact/abduction that the extraterrestrial angle doesn't adress in a wholly satisfying way.
I cannot agree with Vallee more. If we accept precepts of the scientific process to be valid and if we truly want to understand the UFO phenomena than it becomes imperative that we do what he suggests.
Cherry-picking data or speculation couched as fact is not scientific. The problem with UFOs (being a subset of a much larger issue) is that the phenomenon seems subjective enough to favor a non-science approach.
So much of the data doesn’t add up. It’s very tempting to throw away the absurd bits and concentrate on the parts that make sense. That’s a mistake (IMO) in a study of UFOs.
Once you drop science as a standard you start knowing all kinds of things about them.
Of coarse the punch line remains, we really don’t know anything at all.
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