Behold the midnight blog. It was another busy day - enjoyable and busy.
I did sessions during the day, then in the evening, I spent some time curled up with my 8-yr old puppies in front of the TV watching an old UFO documentary.
The documentary was UFOs, Best Evidence. It was dated in the Info banner at the bottom of the screen as being from 2011. But I think I remember most of the material, including the voice-over of Jonathan Frakes, from something like 10 years ago. The video material in the show was mostly to entirely from the 1990s, and I had seen a fair amount of it on the old TV show 'Sightings' back in the early to mid 90's.
Still, the material they had in the show was good stuff. The videos were stuff that was pretty high strangeness, and most of it is (I think) still unexplained. There were a couple that during the show, one or more experts were able to explain as blimps, reflections, etc. Yet in my view, that simply added credibility to the show. They didn't take everything carte blanche.
Several of the cases were classics. The cluster UFOs over Germany and Mexico, the "plasma craft" (?) over South America, the 'barrel' that Stan Romanek video'd over Red Rocks in Colorado, to name a few. They all were good sightings - classic unexplained cases.
The more I look into cases in modern times (i.e. the 2010's), the more I get the feeling that things haven't changed too much. I sensed there was a lot of the same material - orbs, luminescent craft, metallic disks, etc. The only thing that appears to be different today is that more of the objects sighted are triangular. Yet even that seems like it came into play during the 1990's. So it's not clear that any of the UFO dynamics have changed all that much.
Still, the strangeness of sightings tends to be on the rise, perhaps. In recent years, I've noted experiencers have described how UFOs seem to be more "in your face." Yet few if any of these are caught on camera. If they are, it's because they want to be seen. I doubt that any of the video events are by accident - at least not on the part of the phenomenon.
Many of the people who have captured video appear to also be experiencers. Sightings and a lot of other synchronistic and paranormal-type events seem to happen in the context of their lives. And so it's not surprising that they also tend to catch UFOs on film as well. I suspect that this has a fair amount to say about the dynamics of the phenomenon, but it's too late at night to think about that now.
In The Cosmic Bridge, I talk a lot about the interaction between the witness and the phenomenon. There is a bi-directional interaction between the UFO and the observer. In low strangeness cases, it's negligible. But as strangeness and closeness of the encounter increase, the bi-directionality increases as well. The phenomenon - or the sentience behind it, at least - is aware of, and observes the witness - a bidirectional relationship.
in very close encounters (events of the fourth kind - CE4 or AN4), the relationship becomes a full reality transformation. The experiencer is fully drawn into the phenomenon. The strangeness is at maximum and fully engages the experiencer's life.
Still, outside of abduction, the video capture is one of the marks of the phenomenon making itself known in the experiencer's life - and in the lives of all of us. Like the rest of the phenomenon, it maintains enough ambiguity to remain unaccepted in mainstream society (especially mainstream science). Yet it continues to tantalize us with some high quality glimpses into the reality of the visitors.
Now that cameras are nearly ubiquitous, new UFO photos and videos are probably shot every day. Assuming that sufficient investigation is done surrounding any reported video, the result should be an increasingly overt manifestation of the UFO phenomenon in human awareness. Yet the more we see of these videos, the more they seem to resemble the old classic footage from the 90's.
Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And like the documentary I watched this evening - the old presenting itself as new - the old footage and the old cases remain classic - historic, unexplained and still very meaningful.
Even then, these cases were classic, and they remain classic today.
