Open-Ended Notes on Radar-Visual Sightings

I want first to state that comments about "tinfoil hats" and the like are completely uncalled for given the sheer amount of footage released by governments such as Mexico, Chile, and the United States as well as the substantial number of cases which involved not only multiple witnesses but also video and radar evidence concomitantly.

There is no need to assume that these phenomena are necessarily alien craft, or that the occupants -- if any -- are necessarily from off-planet, whether these be human or not. Since this is clearly a multifaceted phenomenon, we should we open to possibilities which are not mutually exclusive and which include but are not limited to:

1  human black ops including flying disks and holographics

2  Earthly but non-human technology

3  distortion of human consciousness by strong electromagnetic fields, whether controlled by a consciousness or not (See essay "The 1886 ghost waka of Lake Tarawera" for an NZ-specific example of this.)

4  uncatalogued atmospheric life (sky squids, cloud-dwelling phosphorescent communities, etc)

5  uncatalogued forms of electromagnetism, as so-called "sprites" and "elves" of the upper atmosphere were until quite recently

6  physical hoaxes (whether by individuals or governments)

7  image manipulations (whether by individuals or governments)

8  projective interactions between human consciousness, individually and as a whole, with broader atmospheric phenomena (Jung)

9  artifacts of the mismatch between the real and the perceived as a consequence of time and space as forms of human sense-perception (Kant via Schopenhauer)

There are also other possibilities. People interested in explanations other than aliens may wish to consider the work of Paul Devereux, John Keel, Carl Jung, and Jacques Vallée.  

Whatever the case may be -- one guesses this matter involves interactions of consciousness, electromagnetism, and other parameters -- people can snicker about something else now. Every mystery that we encounter is ultimately an opportunity to broaden our understanding singly and collectively. We should always remember that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies.