This is what spurred me to give consideration to the idea initially, but what makes me confident is sifting through simply mountains of reports. To get an idea of the volume and typical content, here’s a catalog of vehicle interference cases in Australia from 1958 to 2004. Most could be explained by a patchwork of mistakes and coincidences, some require more elaborate, “insanity or hoax” explanations, and if there are multiple witnesses, insanity falls away too. But there is no pattern that separates witnesses into a “hoax” and a “mistake” group, or even that separates them from the general population.
I couldn’t really understand the blog post: his theory is that there are terrestrial but nonhuman entities that like to impress the religious? But the vehicle interference cases you reference are generally not religious in nature, and are extremely varying in the actual form of the craft seen (some are red and blue, some are series of lights). What possible motivations for the entities could there be? Most agents with such advanced technology will aim to efficiently optimize for their preferences. If this is what optimizing for their preferences looks like, they have some very improbably odd preferences.
To be fair to the aliens, the actions of Westerners probably seem equally weird to Sentinel Islanders. Coming every couple of years in giant ships or helicopters to watch them from afar, and then occasionally sneaking into abandoned houses and leaving gifts?
I agree with you entirely, and this is a great source of puzzlement to me, and to basically every serious investigator. They hide in the shadows with flashing lights. What could they want from us that they couldn’t do for themselves, and if they wanted to influence us without detection, shouldn’t it be within their power to do it COMPLETELY without detection?
That’s assuming that what’s going on is that entities who are essentially based on the same lawful universe as we are are running circles around humans. If what’s going on is instead something like a weird universe, where reality makes sense most of the time, but not always, I imagine you might get something that looks a lot like some of the reported weirdness. Transient entities that don’t make sense leaking through the seams, never quite leaving the causal trail which would incontrovertibly point to their existence.
If I’d asked the above questions honestly rather than semi-rhetorically I may have figured a few things out a lot sooner than I did. I might be being uncharitable to myself, especially as I did eventually ask them honestly, but the point still stands I think.
This is what spurred me to give consideration to the idea initially, but what makes me confident is sifting through simply mountains of reports. To get an idea of the volume and typical content, here’s a catalog of vehicle interference cases in Australia from 1958 to 2004. Most could be explained by a patchwork of mistakes and coincidences, some require more elaborate, “insanity or hoax” explanations, and if there are multiple witnesses, insanity falls away too. But there is no pattern that separates witnesses into a “hoax” and a “mistake” group, or even that separates them from the general population.
If there are mutliple witnesses who can see each others reactions, it’s a good candidate for mass hysteria
I couldn’t really understand the blog post: his theory is that there are terrestrial but nonhuman entities that like to impress the religious? But the vehicle interference cases you reference are generally not religious in nature, and are extremely varying in the actual form of the craft seen (some are red and blue, some are series of lights). What possible motivations for the entities could there be? Most agents with such advanced technology will aim to efficiently optimize for their preferences. If this is what optimizing for their preferences looks like, they have some very improbably odd preferences.
To be fair to the aliens, the actions of Westerners probably seem equally weird to Sentinel Islanders. Coming every couple of years in giant ships or helicopters to watch them from afar, and then occasionally sneaking into abandoned houses and leaving gifts?
That was a fascinating article. Thank you.
I agree with you entirely, and this is a great source of puzzlement to me, and to basically every serious investigator. They hide in the shadows with flashing lights. What could they want from us that they couldn’t do for themselves, and if they wanted to influence us without detection, shouldn’t it be within their power to do it COMPLETELY without detection?
I have no answers to these questions.
That’s assuming that what’s going on is that entities who are essentially based on the same lawful universe as we are are running circles around humans. If what’s going on is instead something like a weird universe, where reality makes sense most of the time, but not always, I imagine you might get something that looks a lot like some of the reported weirdness. Transient entities that don’t make sense leaking through the seams, never quite leaving the causal trail which would incontrovertibly point to their existence.
If I’d asked the above questions honestly rather than semi-rhetorically I may have figured a few things out a lot sooner than I did. I might be being uncharitable to myself, especially as I did eventually ask them honestly, but the point still stands I think.