Earlier I posted some info on current, present-day anomalies seen from space - which really interests me but I'm no expert on cameras in space and the possible scrubbing of truth in those videos, so I deleted it.
As innocent and 'pure' as the 1950's videos come across there is a significant back-story, informing why people were willing to run with the idea of saucers. There was significant background static. I am always fascinated as to why we think the way we do - and the very phenomenon of flying saucers is interesting - so I started looking around: where does this idea come from? Curiously, the idea of flying saucers was not born whole in the late 40's with the pilot Arnold. It's a bit more complicated than that. What follows is what I have found - and if others have any more of the history, please share.
First off, I have to cite the occult classic "A Dweller on Two Planets" from the late 1800's - 1894 - before the Wright Brothers - an apparently 'channeled' piece of writing with many seminal ideas that have impacted thinking in certain quarters across the century-plus. The story takes place in Atlantis where flying saucer-like aerial machines are described.
Here is a site that gives a fairly decent run-down of the idea of saucers: LINK:
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis Be sure to look at the pictures supplied in the article that are from the book (I am pretty sure). In every respect we are looking at a nearly exact rendering of the saucer descriptions in the 1950's and beyond.
TEXT:
"Atlantean Flying Machines: The world's earliest accounts of flying "machines" had been mentioned in the ancient texts from India called the Vedas (Hindu poems), especially in the Mahábhárata, Bhágavata Purána and Rámáyana, by the name of "Vimana" (in some modern Indian languages the word for "aircraft"), These craft could even travel in space as there is the mention of a battle on the moon between two craft. They were described in various shapes and sizes: cigar shaped, blimp-like, saucer-shaped, triangular and double-decked. (See: www.hinduwisdom.info and Wikipedia.)
"The book: "A Dweller on Two Planets" (1894), describes a certain Atlantean cigar-shaped flying machine which resembles a modern passenger aircraft, though without wings and a tail. From its descriptions, it doesn't rely on aero-dynamic forces, but instead uses the forces that could be considered gravitational/anti-gravitational. This flying machine is called a "vailx", and is also mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit texts from India as "vailix" ("vailixi" in plural form) as the flying craft of the Ashvins (gods). It is said that when the 18 year old author of "A Dweller on Two Planets" channeled this information, he could impossibly have known of these ancient Sanskrit texts. Also, besides some early experimentations, airplanes wouldn't been invented until the year 1899, at the time when the American Wright Brothers designed their first aircraft: a small biplane glider flown as a kite.
"Quoting from page 75 of the book "A Dweller on Two Planets": "Our vailx was of the middle traffic−size, these vessels being made in four standard lengths: number one, about twenty−five feet; number two, eighty feet; number three, something like one hundred and fifty−five feet, while the largest was yet two hundred feet longer than the third size. These long spindles were in fact round, hollow needles of aluminum, formed of an outer and an inner shell between which were many thousands of double T braces, an arrangement productive of intense rigidity and strength. All the partitions made other braces of additional resistant force. From amidships the vessels tapered toward either end to sharp points. Most vailxi were provided with an arrangement allowing, when desired, an open promenade deck at one end. Windows of crystal, of enormous resistant strength, were in rows like portholes along the sides, a few on top, and others set in the floor, thus affording a view in all directions." "
The above article references another writer in 1896 who describes the flying machines (before the Wright Brothers) and also quotes Edgar Cayce's description of Atlantean flying machines that went under the water as well as in the air.
Nikola Tesla, a genuine one-of-a-kind genius, has become the source of many legends - and one of them is Otis T. Carr, who apparently knew Tesla and claimed to have received technology from him. In the 1950's he was trying to build a saucer based on Tesla's ideas. The story becomes very murky.
Here is Wikipedia on Otis T. Curtis (and I am not a fan of Wikipedia - it has many problems and this particular article reads as having a clear bias. The article also reads very sloppy, almost gossipy, so it's hard to say what is really true given what is stated elsewhere):
Otis T. Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Please note that they indicate Carr went to prison in the Wiki article - but not in this article, on Ralph Ring, an associate of Carr. This article has a reverse bias:
Project Camelot | Ralph Ring and Otis Carr
There is no mention of any prison time, and clearly places Carr in the position of the victim.
Here is the YouTube interview of Ralph Ring:
The point of all this is: there is a lineage of saucer lore going back at least 60 years from the time of the 1950's and it's the background static on the 1950's videos. Recall that in the 1956 documentary with the Montana and Utah films, the journalist Chop meets up with a German scientist who
meaningfully indicates that the flying saucers should be taken seriously. What is the backstory on that? I know what it would be now - I've heard of the idea that the Nazi's were working with disk-shaped flying objects - but that doesn't mean that the advice of the 'wise old German scientist' had the same background significance then.
It's an impossibly complex phenomenon. Even Jung commented upon it and had his ideas in his book
"Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things seen in the Skies". From Amazon
: Jung states: "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by `visions,' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."--C. G. Jung, in Flying Saucers
Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth." "
Thing is - the flying saucer was an idea existent before the 1950's.
But one Amazon review is very insightful, beginning:
""Flying Saucers" is controversial psychoanalyst C.G. Jung's attempt to tackle the UFO phenomenon. The first English edition was published in 1959. In many ways, Jung's explanation is weirder than the actual phenomenon being explained!" And goes on to describe the quasi-religious aspect of the ufo phenomenon.
In the end, I'm starting to think that the idea of ufos is a Theosophical 'plant'.
No matter how you go, one finds the path leading to Madam Blavatsky! Ha!
I'm glad that there are others who are enjoying them. Wish there were more.
Here is a 4'9" (in height) 14/15 year old Brenda Lee "Live in London (1959)" doing 'mazing things to 'Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey". Indulge me......
The interviewers suggest the guy was likely MI-5 and was basically rustling around to find out what the Prince/public knew - the conversation gets garbled in that veddy-veddy British way when everyone is talking over each other and agreeing - and ya can't figure out what they are saying.