Why I Don't Believe In a Unified Theory Of UFOs...

[Kevin Daly]

Imagine an isolated community who have somehow avoided being contacted by the rest of humanity, and are therefore outside the mainstream of current human knowledge and global civilisation.

Imagine then that members of such a community over the course of time observe meteors, overflying jets and (for the sake of argument, whether this is or is not what some UFOs are) extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Is it not reasonable that these people would assume that these three very different things:
1) A purely natural phenomenon
2) Technological artefacts created by other members of their own species
3) Technological artefacts created by one or more alien species

....were all manifestations of the same phenomenon, given that they're all "What the Hell was that?"s up in the sky?

I have a sneaky suspicion that we could make open contact with non-human intelligences tomorrow and we would still be finding unexplained phenomena in our skies for centuries to come.

 

[111uminate]

I have a sneaky suspicion that we could make open contact with non-human intelligences tomorrow and we would still be finding unexplained phenomena in our skies for centuries to come.

Well, we're still going to have "crackpots" for centuries to come I imagine. Oh I kid.

But that is a nice analogy. I can't say I settle on one interpretation, or "solution" regarding it either. For the layman, at the face of it you could easily attach a single explanation to the phenomena without observing all of the data or cases, which unfortunately is what most people in this field do. You have one type of researcher who fancies the nuts and bolts approach focusing on cases that fit into that theory, completely ignoring the stranger cases. Their reality tunnel either doesn't allow it, or they've already settled upon an answer that they wish to embellish with corresponding data.

I find that I end up "changing my mind" regarding it amost every other day, but the fact is I haven't ever made up my mind. I acknowledge that the phenomena is there, and hold that much to be true, but beyond that I speculate and entertain all kinds of theories from the mundane to the far out, which unfortunately makes it very difficult to talk about the topic at times with others, because I have no conviction on what the mystery is at all. Sometimes I can sound like I'm all over the place, or like I need to preface everything before I get into detail too much.