Absurdities of the UFO Kind

Absurdities of the UFO Kind

The sheer wealth of data, reports, eye-witness accounts and testimony leaves me  in absolutely no doubt whatsoever that a very real UFO phenomenon of unknown origin and intent exists. Yet, it is a phenomenon that puzzles us, confounds us, and even takes us on strange rides into the heart of twilight realms filled with nothing less than outright absurdities. They are absurdities that lead me to believe rather than having definitively extraterrestrial origins, the enigmatic intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon displays far more than a few characteristics of Trickster-like entities. Think I’m wrong? Read on…

Without doubt, one of the most important – if not, arguably, the most important – of all so-called “alien abduction” cases is that of Betty and Barney Hill, who underwent such an experience in 1961, and who, it can be justifiably said, kick-started abduction research of the type that, today, has come to typify the subject. One of the most important aspects of the story – which, many have asserted, proves the Hill’s encountered real aliens – is that relative to the so-called “Star-Map” that the crew generously showed to Betty. It is the saga of this map that pretty much convinced whole swathes of Ufology that the mysterious abductors were the denizens of a light-years-away locale: Zeta Reticuli.

A map? Really? Can you imagine, even in the earlier years of NASA’s space-program, a scenario where – while traveling to the Moon in 1969 – the crew of Apollo 11 took to the skies amid a conversation that went something like this: “Right, lads, get the map out; we need to see where we’re going.” Such a scenario is manifestly idiotic. And, yet, we’re expected to believe the Hill’s aliens used such ancient means of navigation in a journey to and from another star-system, never mind just to the Moon and back.