Tokala wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 1:16 pm
I'm wondering what everyone's thoughts are on these things, and if anyone as any theories as to what they may be?
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I have more to share but we'll start with that... So, any ideas?
I'm in two minds about things like this: my cautious, sceptical side and my open-minded, experience-based side.
I've had a couple of UFO-type experiences. Can I share them?
One was in London in 1973. Me and a bunch of flatmates were walking back from a special event, which the elder brother of our Indian Guru, recently arrived from India, had attended. He said a lot but one thing was 1973 was the pivotal year of the 20th century (numerologically, 1+9=10; 7+3=10, 10+10=20). To try and draw the scene for you, you'll need to know that in those days we all believed our Guru was a major incarnation, like Jesus/ Buddha and so on and that his elder brother was nearly as important. There was a lot of energy at the event and we took the tube back to South London, suitably energised. As we walked from the tube station, one of us noticed a point of light in the sky that moved then stood still.
When we got back to the flat we all looked out the window and watched for 15-30 minutes. I remember I saw one clear point of light that stood still for minutes, then moved quickly across part of the sky then stopped still again. While we watched, there was a helicopter in another part of the sky and I think there was an aircraft too. Both moved far too slowly and indirectly - not in the same way as the light we saw. It was clear to me then and now that this was an object over London that had far greater flight capabilities than any technology of the time. And there were no space satellites then capable of moving so fast or stopping so suddenly, all in silence.
Next day the London evening newspaper reported that people all over London had seen those lights. We Guru followers believed it was due to the presence of our Guru's brother and kind of thought nothing more about it.
It was an intriguing coincidence, if nothing else.
On a side note, a few months later there was a big event for the Guru in the US, where (allegedly) spaces in the car park were reserved for any UFOs that wanted to come. Apparently there was a fair bit of disappointment when none turned up.
My second experience, a year later, may seem like nothing. I was walking through a field with a dozen or so other guru followers, when the face of one of the nearby sheep intruded into my mental vision (might have had my eyes closed for moment). It was odd. Kind of psychic. As I looked up, a point of light suddenly shot up from the far end of the field, superfast, vertically into sky & vanished. I instinctively felt it was a UFO.
I've lived quite a long time now and these were not like anything else I've ever seen. And Ive seen shooting stars, a comet, and in the late 1960s I used to watch a slow moving satellite traverse the sky from horizon to horizon. There were hardly any then. I think it was Telstar. Like most other city dwellers, I'm very familiar with how airplanes and helicopters move in the night sky.
Finally, my brother in law, a well travelled person, who once stayed with indigenous people in the Borneo jungle, told me those kind of moving points of light were well known to them and had been to their people as far back as they could remember. ie Not planes, satellites, shooting stars, comets, planets and so on. Something special and strange.
But...my sceptical side finds it curious that descriptions, pictures or film of alleged UFOs seem to have become more complex and technical, as human technology advances - and our ability to fake such things - does too.
tl/dr: To me there's something about UFOs - and maybe sightings do cluster around spiritual energy, ley lines etc. But I find it hard to accept that there have been physical spacecraft visiting us in significant numbers either now, during the twentieth century, previous centuries or millennia without that resulting in uncontrovertible evidence of their existence.
I think the reason UFO evidence remains so elusive is there's something else going on.
And in recent decades - maybe for 50 years or so - secret, experimental aircraft have triggered some of the reports. I think that has been shown to be correct - by at least one very well researched documentary I've seen.
