Thomas R Morrison
Paranormal Adept
Let’s discuss the effects that our anomalous sighting and/or close encounter experiences have had on us personally. That’s been coming up a lot lately, and it’s something that we can contribute right now which could lead to some interesting insights if we compile them neatly into one thread.
So I guess I’ll go first. As I’ve previously described, I witnessed a pair of bright objects of some kind zig-zagging through the sky in close perfect formation and with no sign of emissions or slowing as they executed sharp 30-degree course-changes at thousands of miles per hour. It was a bright cloudless day and five of my neighbors watched it with me – as we watched, some of us offered possible explanations and we ruled them out aloud one after the other : “helicopters? No….airplanes? No…rockets? No…”
The effect of this sighting on me today is the same as the effect at the time it happened – a burning curiosity to understand how it was physically possible and how to replicate it, and a general interest in understanding things for myself rather than relying upon authority figures to dictate my viewpoints.
And honestly I assume that this effect was deliberate, because I can’t think of a better explanation for that sighting: it appears to have been a purposeful aerial demonstration of an exotic flight capability, presumably to get us thinking about it. It could also have been somebody’s idea of play, I suppose, or something else entirely. But when I think about the precision and the risks involved with two aerial devices zig-zagging in fairly close formation, over and over again in the sky at a constant and extremely high rate of speed, the most reasonable conclusion that I can draw is that we were being shown what was possible so we’d try to figure it out for ourselves.
That didn’t happen with all of the witnesses, but that’s what happened with me, so if that was the intent – to inspire some percentage of eyewitnesses to accept the challenge to figure out what we’d be shown, then it worked beautifully. I know that might seem like a leap to some people, but I’ve thought about this long and hard for over 40 years, and no other explanation seems to fit nearly as well. Because a repeatedly zig-zagging trajectory through the sky in perfect tight formation doesn’t seem to have any practical value, and it also involves some level of risk.
As I see it, my sighting was a challenge: “Figure this out. and your whole species will reap the benefits – like manned interstellar spaceflight: the freedom to explore the cosmos.”
I know it sounds naïve and idealistic. And perhaps it is. But that’s my take on it – for me, my sighting was an amazing gift – a challenge to solve a fascinating fundamental physics question, with a potentially enormous payoff for humankind.
And if I can venture an observation, it seems clear to me that many of us, including Usual Suspect and mike and marduk and Burnt State and Trajanus and many others here, have similarly been moved to question prevailing views, to study all kinds of interesting subjects, and to boldly speculate along the way. That might simply be the natural reaction of human beings to experiencing something very strange/uncommon, and/or it might be the intentional objective of an unfamiliar form of intelligent life. I tend to think that it was both.
What effects do you, the witnesses, think that your anomalous experiences have had on you?
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So I guess I’ll go first. As I’ve previously described, I witnessed a pair of bright objects of some kind zig-zagging through the sky in close perfect formation and with no sign of emissions or slowing as they executed sharp 30-degree course-changes at thousands of miles per hour. It was a bright cloudless day and five of my neighbors watched it with me – as we watched, some of us offered possible explanations and we ruled them out aloud one after the other : “helicopters? No….airplanes? No…rockets? No…”
The effect of this sighting on me today is the same as the effect at the time it happened – a burning curiosity to understand how it was physically possible and how to replicate it, and a general interest in understanding things for myself rather than relying upon authority figures to dictate my viewpoints.
And honestly I assume that this effect was deliberate, because I can’t think of a better explanation for that sighting: it appears to have been a purposeful aerial demonstration of an exotic flight capability, presumably to get us thinking about it. It could also have been somebody’s idea of play, I suppose, or something else entirely. But when I think about the precision and the risks involved with two aerial devices zig-zagging in fairly close formation, over and over again in the sky at a constant and extremely high rate of speed, the most reasonable conclusion that I can draw is that we were being shown what was possible so we’d try to figure it out for ourselves.
That didn’t happen with all of the witnesses, but that’s what happened with me, so if that was the intent – to inspire some percentage of eyewitnesses to accept the challenge to figure out what we’d be shown, then it worked beautifully. I know that might seem like a leap to some people, but I’ve thought about this long and hard for over 40 years, and no other explanation seems to fit nearly as well. Because a repeatedly zig-zagging trajectory through the sky in perfect tight formation doesn’t seem to have any practical value, and it also involves some level of risk.
As I see it, my sighting was a challenge: “Figure this out. and your whole species will reap the benefits – like manned interstellar spaceflight: the freedom to explore the cosmos.”
I know it sounds naïve and idealistic. And perhaps it is. But that’s my take on it – for me, my sighting was an amazing gift – a challenge to solve a fascinating fundamental physics question, with a potentially enormous payoff for humankind.
And if I can venture an observation, it seems clear to me that many of us, including Usual Suspect and mike and marduk and Burnt State and Trajanus and many others here, have similarly been moved to question prevailing views, to study all kinds of interesting subjects, and to boldly speculate along the way. That might simply be the natural reaction of human beings to experiencing something very strange/uncommon, and/or it might be the intentional objective of an unfamiliar form of intelligent life. I tend to think that it was both.
What effects do you, the witnesses, think that your anomalous experiences have had on you?
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