The Truth About UFOs

Space. The last uncharted territory for mankind. Space is so vast, that it’s impossible for anybody to comprehend its true magnitude. There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth combined, and there are possibly even more planets. The question is: are we alone, or is there somebody out there?

Scientists agree that the mathematical probability of alien life-forms is very high. Even the general population – about 80% in the US – believes that there is life somewhere beyond Earth. But due to the vast distances in space, we may never meet them, and even changing messages would be quite difficult. It’s like finding a pin in a haystack miles away from the barn, using only a weak magnifying glass.

A couple hundred years ago the oceans were just as mysterious as space is for us now. A mystery always creates false beliefs, as we try to exlpain things that we don’t really know and understand. Early adventurers used to search the seas with their binocurals, looking for ghost ships or fearing to fall off the edge of the Earth. The same way, we are now pointing our powerful telescopes towards the sky, looking for signs of life.

Astronomy is still very much in its infancy, but our technologies are developing quickly. Just in the last ten years alone, more than one hundred new planets were discovered. Some of them may even be suitable for life. However, we have to be very careful about coming to premature conclusions, because our imagination knows no boundaries.

Most of what people believe about aliens today is not based on scientific facts, but on popular culture. Even scientists themselves tend to delve into fantastic presumptions that the general population often takes as facts, when in fact they are just possibilities. Moreover, we tend to interpret unexplainable things based on our pre-existing worldviews.

As science progresses, it leaves less and less stones unturned, less and less mysteries that could grab our imagination. In the stone age, our ancestors invented various gods to explain changes in weather conditions. In the middle ages, religious people saw the hand of Satan in everything bad that happened to them. In the New Age, more people believe in aliens than ever before in history.

The 1960s were ripe for these beliefs to spread all over the world for various reasons. Like I mentioned, science progressed so much that most supernatural beings on Earth – like fairies and goblins – were now considered to be superstitions. This was also the beginning of the space age, when the first big discoveries were made, and the possibility of extraterrestial life seeped into our collective consciousness.

We were also living in existential fear during the Cold War, facing the constant threat of immediate extinction, coming from a distant attacker. We then projected some of that fear into the fantasy of an alien attack. We also mustn’t forget about the various movies and novels about life beyond Earth that influenced the subconscious of a whole generation.

With all of these factors in place, the age of the ET was born, at least in our minds. Considering this powerful psychological mixture, it’s not surprising that there were no UFO sightings or alien encounters before the 1950s. Or is it that they reached us exactly when we started thinking of them? Well, I don’t think so.

All sightings and encounters can be explained by less than otherwordly reasons. Unidentified flying objects are just that: unidentified. But just because you don’t know what it is, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an alien. Most of the time they are rare but naturally occuring phenomena and occur due to strange weather conditions. When they are not, they are either just ordinary balloons, flares and airplanes, or parts of secret military experiments, like in the case of the Rosswell incident.

Crop circles are often seen as evidence of alien spaceship landing sites. These mysterious pictographs started to pop up on the English countryside in the 1970s, and to date, more than 10000 of them have been reported. However, in 1991, two pranksters confessed to starting the phenomena as a hoax. They made the crop circles themselves using just simple tools in the cover of the night and carefully hiding their footprints.

This sparked a second wave of copycats, and the designs became increasingly more elaborate. There are many cases where self-professed crop circle experts deemed these designs too complex to be able to be made by men. In some of these cases, the creators of the circles stepped forward and admitted that they were in fact far from authentic. And if many of the crop circles are known to be man-made, why would we suppose that not all of them are?

Like Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. To this day, no convincing evidence has surfaced about the existence of extraterrestials, not to mention their existence here on Earth. I would add: claims about objective things require hard proof, therefore anecdotal evidence is not enough, as it’s entirely subjective. Subjective experiences cannot be and need not be proven, and you shouldn’t mix subjective and objective reality, because it leads to fairyland very quickly.

In light of this, I consider all kinds of alien encounters and abductions subjective experiences. These are no more than stories but I don’t doubt that UFO believers are convinced that they are real. Although a minority of them are pranksters looking for attention, most of them authentically believe they were abducted. A recent study showed that experiencers showed signs similar to those suffering from PTSD, and these bodily reactions cannot be faked.

The question is then, if it didn’t really happen, why do they react like this? Another study from Harvard gave us some clues as to why this may be. They closed out the possibility of any kind of serious mental illness, as the participants seemed to be perfectly normal, and came from all kinds of backgrounds.

What connected these experiencers were some specific traits that are not very uncommon. One trait found among alien abductees was that they enjoy a rich fantasy life, and they are prone to confuse fantasy with reality. The other common factor was that they already had pre-existing beliefs about New Age phenomena, including the possibility of alien contact.

Moreover, most alien abductions happen during the night, and experiencers almost always claim that they’re unable to move, and that they feel a presence in the room. This is the same feeling experienced during a sleep paralysis, which is often accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations or so-called waking dreams. While people used to interpret these as ghost hauntings, nowadays more are inclined to explain it away with alien visitations. For more on this topic, please watch my episode titled “Are ghosts and spirits real?”.

Another common psychological factor in alien abductions is that they’re often recalled only days or sometimes years after the event in a hypnotic regression. Under hypnosis, the subject is extremely susceptible to suggestion, and it’s well-known that false memories are easily created in this altered state of mind. It’s very hard to tell the difference between a false memory and a real one, and this can explain why many experiencers think such an incredible thing happened to them.

With that said, let me draw the conclusions towards the end of this episode. Do aliens exist? Probably yes. Did they visit us? Probably no. Should you be concerned about them, researching weird websites and fabricating theories about a government cover-up? Certainly no. Should you spend your time with more fruitful things, like focusing your attention on your life on this Earth? Certainly yes.

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