If we leave aside the origin and motivation of UFOs, it is clear that we are facing a phenomenon that produces a notable and evident psychic disturbance in the witnesses.
The fact that the observations are so different from each other, and that the narratives of close encounters with UFOs contain so many human cultural factors indicate that the decoding of experiences, regardless of their supposed origin, is indisputably sifted by the human psyche before observation.
To ignore the participation and involvement of witnesses in the development of UFO events is to discard one of the key pieces for understanding the process of how this paradigm can come about. In addition, the fact that many individuals before and after their experiences experience events of a paranormal nature, such as poltergeist phenomena or premonitory dreams, indicate the importance of the psychic involvement of witnesses.
And on the other hand, it is interesting to note that none of the narratives offered by the witnesses offer visual material totally unknown to human beings, from ladders, diving suits, screens, buttons, belts, emblems, gloves. In the same way, the actions, conversations and behaviours of the supposed extraterrestrial visitors faithfully obey extrapolations of human aspects to a context of alien visitation, from the multiple tasks of repair observed, to the collection of samples of the terrain with perfectly recognizable actions and utensils, not to mention the multiple absurd dialogues.
What am I trying to say with all this? Simple. At this point in the UFO research, we understand that the experiences we have been collecting are not the result of the simple, aseptic observation of an event alien to the witness. Everything indicates overwhelmingly that what has been observed is intimately related to the observer.
Therefore, the detailed study of the UFO literature shows that the accounts show a direct interaction between the witnesses and the phenomenon. Otherwise we would not be able to understand the enormous mutability of the paradigm that has eluded any type of classification or analysis for years, precisely because it seems to react differently to each witness.
At this point, it is very likely that close encounters with UFOs are enormous and complex psychic elaborations of unknown origin, which may contain matter and be indistinguishable from the reality surrounding it, and which are projected before the witness (not as a simple hallucination) to make him believe in a supposed supernatural reality (extraterrestrial life) of which he himself is a participant contributing with the social/cultural factor.
Only understanding that we are faced with a cognitive paradigm of global action, but of signification and individual character we will begin to deepen towards the nucleus of the mystery.
JOSE ANTONIO CARAVACA
