THe Highly Strange Human Spectrum

 

Here is a good article on the alien abduction phenomenon by Ralph Blumental of the New York Times:

The Cultural Rise of the Abduction Experience.

It raises an interesting opposition.

 

On the one hand, there is government slow-footing on research into lights in the sky, with the ET hypothesis and so-called disclosure receding ever infinitely into the distance; on the other hand clear testimony from the wider public of ongoing "highly strange" interactions with seemingly alien entities. It is an odd, unsquared, circle. 

 

The phenomenon would seem to manifest in a spectrum, with government a distorting lens on what is patently inexplicably there, the individual seemingly a more open receptacle to what is outrageously anomalous. Governments just don't like to do strange do they? As for the people, hey, the strange is just common knowledge, common experience. Hell, government itself is strange sometimes! 

 

Is the UFO revolutionary technology - pun intended - that hopes we see that? That government is an inefficient filter for a true phenomenology?

 

Why the insurgent folklore?

SETI or the search for SETI?

 

There has been a minor kerfuffle around SETI, the possible detection of a signal from an Earth like planet orbiting Kepler-438:

The Sky Eye Telescope and the Alien Signal that Wasn't

I notice that the time between the breaking of the story and the nixing of the story is again the magic 3 days that just happen to correspond to NSA data capacity in Utah regarding capture of the internet. It is as if they are sweeping the world for data about chat about SETI rather than the actual sky for ETI. I always make this observation about stories that fit a 3 day cycle too neatly. Charlie Hebdo was another.

My test for any conspiracy theory is "is it what I would do?". I have to say that if I was an intelligence agency with the tech to record global internet chatter for 3 days, I *would* occasionally send up a flare to illuminate conversations and networks of interest. In this regard Muslims and SETI afficionados would seem to be in the same boat.