Why do some people see UFOs, others not...

[Graphimancer]

Question: Why do some people see UFOs more than others?

Most people go through life and never see one. Some people have multiple sightings. Some people claim to be able to “vector in” UFOs, although the hows and whys of this elude me.

What makes these people different from each other? Is it simply the scarcity of UFOs, or does it have something to do with the viewer? If it is the latter, that tells us something about the subject.

Please note, I’m not talking about about hoaxers and deluded people here. Faking evidence, or taking pictures of distant planes landing, or any of the other identification mistakes don’t figure into this. I’m talking about honest people who see something that is pretty much unexplainable.

[David Biedny]

Scott,

I wish I could offer you an answer, but as someone who has seen UFOs more than once, I'll tell you that I'm at a loss for an explanation.

dB

[CapnG]

Having seen a grand total of one UFO in my whole life, I'm gonna say dumb luck.

[Graphimancer]

Thanks, Gents!

David: Listening to your experiences, when Gene hasn't seen any, is one of the seeds that inspired this question.

In events like the Phoenix Lights, or your sighting in South America, obviously those are multi-witness events and it's a case of being in the right (or wrong) place at the right time for a sighting.

Beyond that, some people just seem to be High Strangeness magnets. I have no good UFO sighting, but I've seen and encountered ghosts and apparitions many times in my life. I've seen everything from mild poltergeist activity to a ghost pull itself together out of mist. Maybe it's because I'm receptive to it, but I've seen a lot of this type of ghostly activity over the years. I'm not bragging or asking anyone to believe my statement, and there's no need to discuss it anyway because this is the UFO subforum.

But, this strangeness attraction factor for me does not carry over to UFOs. My sole experience in this regard is seeing some dancing lights above the treeline in the nighttime sky in 1993. I've ruled everything out that it could have been (helicopters, search lights, etc.), but, while I don't know what I saw, in the end it was still just lights in the sky. For years I was very anti-UFO, and I referred to this encounter as "earth lights."

On the ATS board, some people talk about vectoring in UFOs, using some sort of psychic/mental state to call UFOs to appear. If this was provable, I would draw some very definate conclusions (many of which I covered in the Gray Alien thread).

Jim Marrs talked about a guy who summoned UFOs. Dr. Greer claims he can do so, although I find this very dubious. Wilhelm Reich inadverdantly summoned various UFOs when working with orgone. Lots of people think they can do this summoning, so I have to wonder if this is really a separate field from nuts & bolts UFOs (the types with trace effects, or debris, or radar signatures, you get the idea.)

In other words, are UFO summoners playing with self-delusion or the cosmic trickster?

[Ally]

My vote would be for the cosmic trickster. Whatever or whoever has the abilty to mess with our (people who have experieced the non nuts and bolts aspect of the UFO phenomenon) connsciousness or perceptions of reality.

The cosmic trickster can eventually lead to delusional thinking and actions..i.e. the money making save the world people in this field.

[Tommy Allison]

Some people spend their time looking around them, and where their feet are going.

Some of us look up in the sky all the time, in the vain hope that some alien might take pity on us and take us to a world where things are better.

Those of us who look up all the time, see things. The rest of the sheep don't.

[Graphimancer]

Well, Tommy, while I appreciate the answer, I wouldn't call all non-experiencers sheep who don't look up. I've had a lifetime of encounters with the paranormal, and I'm educated and aware of a great many things, but I haven't seen much in way of UFOs.

You yourself in the black triangle forum mentioned that you needed to hang around with people who see the triangles so you can catch sight of one. This suggested to me that some people are more attuned to certain phenomina than others, and that the role of the viewer does play an important part in the experience.

"Eventually, I'll see one of these black triangles. That is, if I hang out with more people who see them on a regular basis. I got a new digital camera, and know how to use it." Was your post.

I would suggest that there is something about you that puts you in the right place at the right time to see the things you see. (I don't know what you've seen, but I assume it's UFOs from what you've said.)

[Chuckleberryfinn]

I have pulled back the curtain from the mystery of the UFO. I have solved it, I know all of the answers. I deserve to have my statue erected in a town square somewhere in Europe, with a name plate made of gold, a twinkling diamond border, my hand reaching into the sky for some distant star or planet or galaxy.

The answer is a diagnosis, and it is Chronic Cosmic Parasitosis. Some people see more UFOs than others because the Cosmic Parasite finds it easier to feed on them that way.

Ask Professor J. Scott Vinaver. His doctoral thesis was on this very subject, CPT (Cosmic Parasite Theory).

[Tommy Allison]

I hope nobody really took my post seriously. I've seen some weird stuff in my lifetime. I don't see myself being any more different or any more special than anyone else.

I believe it's Synchronicity. The right place, right time, and a just a pinch of luck.

People can lose their car keys in minutes, and still be in the same room with them. You can be on the right stretch of high way, and have a UFO flying right above you, and never see it.

I've seen the glowing orb type of UFO, I've seen daytime discs. I've never seen a triangle UFO, but imagine that someday I probably will.

As far as Cosmic Parasite theory goes, never heard of it, but am going to read up on it.

[Chuckleberryfinn]

Do research it, yes. Dr. J. Scott Vinaver is a professor of exobiology at Mt. Luna University. It's just down the street from Hotel Luna and Luna's Pass Hospital.