One of the keys to understanding the UFO paradigm would be to decipher whether UFO sightings (strictly unidentified flying objects in the sky) are related to close encounters with UFOs (either landings or closer more encounters).
Although this may seem obvious, with no room for doubt, for some scholars it is not so clear that all the UFO manifestations described in hundreds of reports are due to the same and unique phenomenon. The differences and discrepancies between the two facets of UFOs seem irreconcilable and antagonistic.
While the UFOs in the distance behave in a more or less uniform, with an acceptable index of strangeness for the parameters of the premise of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, in the proximity the phenomenon is shown in a chaotic and disorderly way and even in a crazy way which makes the paradigm acquire another facet, since it presents a very high degree of strangeness. So it may be that both phenomena are not the same, although, on the other hand, and in counterpoint to these aspects, all the data suggest that they should be.
Nearby UFOs acquire unpredictable behaviour and their appearance is highly malleable and open to infinite variants, so many that it is impossible to establish any classification. To further difficulty, the variability of the phenomenon, at least in its visual aspect, seems to be clearly related to the socio-cultural aspect, so its field of action is almost infinite.
Adding that the behaviour, conversation and intellect of the UFO occupants are at the antipodes of what we would consider a gesture or behaviour of an advanced civilization (and I do not mean behaviours that we do not understand by our little intellectual evolution, I mean that witness descriptions are absurd and devoid of any logic).
Close encounters with UFOs seem to be experiences targeted at certain witnesses and move away from arbitrariness. Moreover, there are many signs that the human psyche is in some way in contact with the manifested phenomenon. Witnesses are clear that the UFO phenomenon establishes some kind of mental connection with them. Therefore, the UFO sightings far from being an aseptic apparition of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, as seems to be pointed out in distant sightings, in the closest encounters we find a mess where the human psyche seems to interfere with the observed content.
Whether all this is motivated by a high technology, or by an unknown psychic procedure (as I believe, aided by an exogenous factor) we should completely rethink our approach to the UFO phenomenon. Statistics on time of observation, geographic patterns, physical trace studies, humanoid typologies, etc. have proven ineffective in dealing with the ultimate nature of UFOs. Probably our Cartesian way of approaching the problems and mysteries of our environment has prevented us from going any further (Field investigations leading to case documentation and the measurement or retrieval of physical evidence; Laboratory analysis of physical evidence; The systematic compilation of data (descriptive and physical) to look for patterns and so extract significant facts; The analysis of compilations of data (descriptive and physical) to look for patterns and so extract significant facts...).
Only by understanding that we are facing a paradigm that is closely related to the human psyche, will we begin to decipher the enigma. Although close encounters with UFOs are global manifestations, which can be found in different parts of the world, their decoding has to be individual and taking into account the participation of witnesses, who can no longer be considered as mere observers (independent chroniclers) but as essential parts of this fascinating cognitive enigma that throughout history has assumed different roles, imbued precisely by its inexcusable complicity with humankind.
JOSE ANTONIO CARAV@CA
