UFO Exam 3

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Betty and Barney Hill Incident

an interracial couple in New Hampshire was driving home from vacation and realized they were being followed by a UFO. they saw 9 “human-like” beings and then experienced missing time and found themselves driving home again

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Particularly interesting aspect of Betty and Barney Hill case

the couple described that they heard strange buzzing and clicking sounds, putting them in a trance. Chinese scientists recently discovered a technology that mirrors the “Hibernation” technology used by the UFO to “stupefy” the couple

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John Mack

a Harvard psychology professor, initially wanted to discover a new type of delusion (alien abduction delusion) and ended up finding out that the people studied had ordinary mental profiles

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missing time

when the subject remembers nothing

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abduction

when the subject remembers some of the event

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Dan Povenmire

Phineas and Ferb creator who experienced two profound episodes of missing time during his college years at USC

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screen memories

images or memories implanted into the mind of the person, often odd or unusual things, that may not have been there in real life

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most common screen memory

seeing unusually large or several owls

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Peter Khuory

Australian who had an abduction experience, found two blonde hairs left behind. The DNA tests showed that the visitor had a genetic make-up that was human but does not appear on Earth within current human populations

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implants

placed into various parts of the bodies of abductees, most common trope and biggest controversy

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Devil’s Den Abduction

Terry Lovelace and a friend were camping and witnessed a huge triangular craft and experienced missing time

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Terry Lovelace

witnessed a craft at Devil’s Den, x-rays showed an implant in his knee

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Whitley Strieber

author of “Communion,” views abduction events as uplifting and spiritual in nature

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Dr. Karla Turner

author of “Taken,” believes actions of the visitors are not in our best interests, saying the lack of consent of the victim and the pain of the encounters proves bad intent

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Default assumption about who the visitors are

aliens

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Abiologic intelligence (AI)

original mothership probe created replicas of itself, which hide in the oceans or buried on land forever—scouting us and gathering data

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Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

spacecraft occupied by intelligent extraterrestrial organisms (non-human aliens) from other planets, or probes designed by intelligent extraterrestrials

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Silurian Hypothesis

a non-human sentient species could have evolved on Earth before humans

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Aquatic Silurian

states that the best way for an advanced civilization to survive one or several of these cataclysm over time would have been to adapt their entire civilization (and possibly genetics) to living under water

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Ancient Humans/Breakaway Civilization Hypothesis

Another scientifically advanced human civilization emerged in our distant past

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Star Journey

it is posited “others” are extraterrestrial, but they are our distant human or near-human relatives, come back to Earth to monitor, possibly help our progress

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Intra-Dimensional Hypothesis

many sightings include “it did not fly away, it just blinked out—could potentially mean alternate dimensions

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Overlapping Worlds

an entire “other world” co-exists with our’s, right here in our space/time, but whose atoms vibrate at a different frequency (stranger things)

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Alternate Dimensions/Many Worlds

there are a near-infinite number of parallel, non-interacting worlds

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Star Seed Hypothesis

Sentient, highly advanced life appeared billions of years ago in the universe, and sent out Von Neumann probes to “seed” likely planets with very specific chemical building blocks of life, engineered to eventually produce sentient species

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Star Seed: benevolent

once a suitable species appears, watchers may be sent to nudge them technologically, when they are advanced, that species is welcomed into a brotherhood of sentient species

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Farm/Lab/Zoo Hypothesis

visitors try to get something from us that they lack, they use us as a giant natural experiment, and observe us

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created species

humans did not evolve naturally, were created by the “others”

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future human hypothesis

UFOs are time machines from the future

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Dr. Michael P. Masters

claims he was quietly contacted by future humans and could communicate telepathically, very aware this story could hurt his credibility and professional standing

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Block Time

at the quantum level, all of time is a single event, it is literally everything, everywhere, all at once (interstellar)

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Rendlesham Forest

USAF witness Jim Peniston, reported receiving info that felt like it was directly downloaded into his brain (told him they were humans from the future)

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Corporal Armondo Valdez

said he was abducted for 5 full days (beard growth, watch change) but soldier stated he reappeared 15 minutes later

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Amy Rylance Tiaro

recalled waking up in a small room with a human man in a black skin suit, then woke up on a beach near the patrol station in Mackay hours away

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Impending Catastrophe Hypothesis

Future humans know that we are about to suffer a massive catastrophe of some kind