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Abominable Showman
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Eric Ouellet, a Canadian professor of defence studies, has written quite a bit on a 'parapsychological' approach to UFOs.
In particular he argues that UFO 'flaps' or waves often mirror the structure shown by poltergeist phenomenona. They start with apparently closely witnessed anomalies; are verified by an initial set of 'credible' observers; are subsequently more critically analysed by a second set of sceptical observers, and finally fade out in lower strangeness events and accusations of hoaxing. We do see this pattern in a lot of 'flaps' and even sometimes in individual events - as well as in poltergeist cases and odd things like the Dalby Spook.
There is also all the High Strangeness stuff around UFOs that rarely gets recorded. Even Father Gill reported odd bangs on the roof of the mission house during his sightings in Papua.
Oullet's suggestion is that this pattern in UFOs might reflect parapsychological forces operating at a large-scale, society-wide level (coining the term 'parasociology') and we don't necessarily need to invoke transdimensional or extraterrestrial entities to explain them. While I'm not convinced you need parapsychology either, this is an interesting idea to play around with and might certainly explain why we always seem to end up chasing fuzzy lights in the sky.
In particular he argues that UFO 'flaps' or waves often mirror the structure shown by poltergeist phenomenona. They start with apparently closely witnessed anomalies; are verified by an initial set of 'credible' observers; are subsequently more critically analysed by a second set of sceptical observers, and finally fade out in lower strangeness events and accusations of hoaxing. We do see this pattern in a lot of 'flaps' and even sometimes in individual events - as well as in poltergeist cases and odd things like the Dalby Spook.
There is also all the High Strangeness stuff around UFOs that rarely gets recorded. Even Father Gill reported odd bangs on the roof of the mission house during his sightings in Papua.
Oullet's suggestion is that this pattern in UFOs might reflect parapsychological forces operating at a large-scale, society-wide level (coining the term 'parasociology') and we don't necessarily need to invoke transdimensional or extraterrestrial entities to explain them. While I'm not convinced you need parapsychology either, this is an interesting idea to play around with and might certainly explain why we always seem to end up chasing fuzzy lights in the sky.