Commentary—Should UFOs be Considered Out-of-Place Artifacts?
Report Topics:
- The main difficulty in suggesting that the UFO phenomenon are out-of-place artifacts is that UFOs are still not adequately defined as to what they are
Full Report:
Some researchers have recently suggested that the phenomenon of UFO’s, made so popular in the global mass media, should be classified as out-of-place artifacts. They are certainly “out-of-place” when compared with everyday physical objects, and continue to remain elusive as to their true origins, even after several decades of focused study on their existence.
The crux of the dilemma is that so many diverse types of witnessed paranormal events have been thrown together and classified as UFO’s that it has been extremely difficult, based on the sum total of their manifestations, to try to establish any single viable source of their origins.
This is not to say that UFOs are unreal. On the contrary, the overwhelming number of their reported appearances and the striking similarities of their portrayals in works of art going all the way back to Paleolithic cave paintings, demonstrates they have been a consistent part of both our world and human history since their very beginnings. It would not be unreasonable to say that UFOs have been around as long as historical and prehistoric out-of-place artifacts, and because UFOs are considered out-of-place themselves, they are more than likely substantively linked together.
But the core question remains, what exactly are UFOs?
Some researchers identify the blob-like forms to be living creatures that have the ability to dart in and out of our reality in the blink of an eye. Thousands of well-documented cases of their presences have been photographed and videotaped.
Others see the distinct radiating illuminations as manifestations of a forgotten form of terrestrial energies, like enigmatic ball lightning, which travels along natural ley-lines and power grids criss-crossing global landscapes.
The prehistoric builders of Stonehenge and other world-wide magical monuments specifically designed these structures in order to collect earth energies and disseminate them as a subtle universal power source. Much of present and past UFO lore decribes bright lights emerging out of sacred sites, journeying along straight lines of force, and then disappearing into other sacred locations hundreds of miles away.
Still other investigators, who support the Ancient Astronauts Theory, see the more saucer-like UFOs and their occupants as spacecraft and aliens from other planets.
However, who is to say they could not just as easily be etheric vehicles piloted by spiritual beings visiting us from other dimensions or heavenly realms?
Or, as some have proposed, are these advanced ships constructed by secret groups of far-sighted but disgruntled technologists who have chosen to isolate themselves from the rest of the world, like Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo?
Then, yet again, are we actually looking at time-traveling transports created by fellow human beings observing us from either the distant past or the distant future?
The variations on these scenarios are endless. Until we are able to thoroughly wrap our minds around all these possibilities and better distinguish and define the complete spectrum of what UFO’s really are, we can in no way be certain what are their true origins.
And, in the last analysis, because of these limitations we cannot begin to assess just how they may be related to the existence of out-of-place artifacts in the historical record.
[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
