Burnt: 1939-1946, various locations:
Pre-1947 Chronology; 1939-1946
When you consider that the majority of these cases were entirely unknown beyond the scope of local publishing, or local gossip, we're still left in North America with very few key cases outside of WWII related cases (ghost rockets, foo fighters) and then there is a large dramatc unfolding as the waves ripple across N.America and beyond in the mid to late 40's, primarily in other WWII countries, who are also a source of initial sightings.
It's a trick to look backwards at the amalgamated cases that upholds its own narrative of events of people seeing: lights, balloons, cigar shapes, rockets, metallic foil shapes and some rectangles. What you do see here is a large amalgamated record of all manner of shapes and sizes, hallucinatory moments of sudden disappearing craft and humanoids in portholes or emerging out of discs underwater to frighten children in Russia.
This is a record of chaos, with very few radar confirmed cases, and many of these, when researched, have no basis in the actual record, and so you can not read these cases like an encyclopedia of facts but a loose assemblage of witness reports, some far more intriguing than others, but very few that you would pin down as part of a factual catalogue of hardcore cases. The repetition of witness accounts may have its own value, but is alive only in the memory of the witness and no where else. It effectively reduces a heavy chunk of UFO "reports" to folklore. And in a time of chaos (WWII) myths are readily witnessed, defined and redefined.
So, back in America we do so see that different figures are knowingly and unknowingly collaborating on building the national fear of Flying Saucer Attack, in a public readily fueled by paranoia. This narrative has very deep roots in North American Culture as seen in the many decades of sci fi film and fiction that consolidate the narrative. Cultural familiarity with space brothers in the 1950's demonstrates how well woven the narrative is into the fabric of North America. The sociological effects are immense before we even leave the 50's era of sightings and they play a role for the PTB for certain.
But, what is interesting, when we look backwards through the records and collect these odd pieces found in global reports here and there, is the sheer scope of it all. Reports are dynamic, filled with humanoids, portholes, discs landing on the ground, seen underwater, at high altitude and they come in all shapes and sizes. This is its own perplexing conundrum: are people seeing what is actually there or are their minds active participants in a co-creative process? I think the latter has much to do with it all, as does the cultural setting and context of the witness themselves. We have so much info on what was seen but so little info on who did the seeing. The witness is the critical factor, still present after the sighting and they're the ones that should be studied in more depth otherwise we run the risk of UFO's getting reduced to folklore, which it has on numerous fronts.
But back to those hardcore cases, and case variety in this early era of reporting: what is one to do with the dynamic diversity of craft shape and actions? Critics could say that it is simply because it's all happening in the mind, but for those who believe something much more suspicious is taking place, something not human. Then you are left with having to contend with first the tricksterish nature of such reports (which may also cycle back to human psychology and sociology) and beyond that, contend with the fact that an outside agent, that appears to be a non-human intelligence, is purposefully screwing with us in highly theatrical manners for reasons still unknown. Quite often they seem to be drawing water or sampling soil, but that image appears to be for our own benefit at best. It's a head trip for sure.
why james has these cases in his sights, if it includes human deception what the end game might have been and am i misguided by thinking that these four cases opened up the floodgates to a number of cases that can't be explaned by human deception and why did it happen like this, or is it too far out there to consider that we were being indoctrinated into a whole new paradigm ?
