Below is my attempt to take an Occam’s Razor approach to the UFO Contactee phenomena. Clearly many people believe that they have been contacted/abducted by extra-terrestrial beings. Unless a large segment of the population is predisposed to embarrassing themselves by telling fantastic (and unsubstantiated) stories it stands to reason that many of these people have in fact experienced exactly what they describe.
Yet this is not hard evidence of alien contact.
We must consider what other possible explanations exist for these experiences. Obviously many choose to believe that aliens are in fact traveling over vast distances and/or time to torment/enlighten human beings for unknown purposes. I believe there are more likely culprits.
I offer the following as possible alternative explanations for these experiences:
Drugs – Many hallucinogenic drugs (LSD, psilocibin, Salvorin A, and DMT in particular) are known to cause very realistic and fantastic experiences. Could some portion of these contactees have been unwittingly exposed to such agents without their knowledge? I don’t see why not. The US Government is known to have experimented on it’s own citizenry using hallucinogens, see the MK-ULTRA project.
EM Warfare - Testing of electro-magnetic weaponry on the populace would be a more viable explanation than interstellar travelers. Dr. Michael Persinger’s “god helmet” demonstrated the stimulating the temporal lobes of humans with magnetic fields could create bizarre hallucinations. EM weapons are real, and the descriptions of several others can be found here.
Mental Illness – Contactees are human, some humans are mentally ill.
These alternate explanations do not require a conspiracy of global governments working in concert with aliens to hide the “truth” from the populace. Therefore, to me, they seem more reasonable than the explanation of “aliens grabbed me and then left without a trace”. Precedents for government experimentation on civillian populations exist. Drugs exist. EM weapons exist. Mental illness exists.
Alien craft capable of bridging time and space are speculative.
Thoughts?
-DBTrek
Yet this is not hard evidence of alien contact.
We must consider what other possible explanations exist for these experiences. Obviously many choose to believe that aliens are in fact traveling over vast distances and/or time to torment/enlighten human beings for unknown purposes. I believe there are more likely culprits.
I offer the following as possible alternative explanations for these experiences:
Drugs – Many hallucinogenic drugs (LSD, psilocibin, Salvorin A, and DMT in particular) are known to cause very realistic and fantastic experiences. Could some portion of these contactees have been unwittingly exposed to such agents without their knowledge? I don’t see why not. The US Government is known to have experimented on it’s own citizenry using hallucinogens, see the MK-ULTRA project.
EM Warfare - Testing of electro-magnetic weaponry on the populace would be a more viable explanation than interstellar travelers. Dr. Michael Persinger’s “god helmet” demonstrated the stimulating the temporal lobes of humans with magnetic fields could create bizarre hallucinations. EM weapons are real, and the descriptions of several others can be found here.
Mental Illness – Contactees are human, some humans are mentally ill.
These alternate explanations do not require a conspiracy of global governments working in concert with aliens to hide the “truth” from the populace. Therefore, to me, they seem more reasonable than the explanation of “aliens grabbed me and then left without a trace”. Precedents for government experimentation on civillian populations exist. Drugs exist. EM weapons exist. Mental illness exists.
Alien craft capable of bridging time and space are speculative.
Thoughts?
-DBTrek