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In reply to the discussion: Luis Elizondo and why aliens are absolutely visiting us... [View all]Kid Berwyn
(24,569 posts)Evelyn Trent saw a UFO and notified her husband Paul, who photographed the object. She also reported that she had seen other UFOs.
It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.


Classic case combines the two: psychology and physical interaction. Paul Trent didnt like to talk about the subject, but said he didnt know what she had seen at other times, but he photographed what they saw that day in 1950.
https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2017/10/famous_mcminnville_ufo_photos.html
https://saucerco.com/blogs/saucer-encounters/mcminnville-ufo-photos
The impact on our psychology may be the purpose of UFOs. Their impact on our critical faculties leads people to change the culture and society.

I dont think there is such a thing as the flying saucer phenomenon. I think it has three components and we have to deal with them in different ways.
First, there is a physical object. That may be a flying saucer or it may be a projection or it may be something entirely different. All we know about it is that it represents a tremendous quantity of electromagnetic energy in a small volume. I say that based upon the evidence gathered from traces, from electromagnetic and radar detection and from perturbations of the electromagnetic fields such as Dr. Claude Poher, the French space scientist, has recorded.
Second, theres the phenomenon the witnesses perceive. What they tell us is that theyve seen a flying saucer. Now they may have seen that or they may have seen an image of a flying saucer or they may have hallucinated it under the influence of microwave radiation, or any of a number of things may have happened. The fact is that the witnesses were exposed to an event and as a result they experienced a highly complex alteration of perception which caused them to describe the object or objects that figure in their testimony.
Beyond those the physical phenomenon and the perception phenomenon we have the third component, the social phenomenon. Thats what happens when the reports are submitted to society and enter the cultural arena. Thats the part which I find most interesting."
SOURCE: http://integralnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/jacques-vallees-integral-approach-to.html
Jacques Vallee is the person, IMO, who best understands the import of the phenomenon.