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originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
a reply to: Willtell
I wrote Hynek off decades ago as a mere agent of government disambulation and deflection. Was I wrong?
originally posted by: Kandinsky
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
a reply to: Willtell
I wrote Hynek off decades ago as a mere agent of government disambulation and deflection. Was I wrong?
Perhaps not 'wrong' and more like rendering a complex individual in simple terms? He started off as 'a mere agent' so that part is right. After Blue Book I think he charted a trajectory of bemusement and frustration in the face of something he could never explain to his own satisfaction. He was intellectually thwarted until he eventually ventured out into increasingly esoteric waters.
Towards the end of his life he'd shifted into ideas that his own vocabulary and the terminologies of science couldn't really practically express. There was some French interview where he resorted to the term 'metaterrestrials' which came on the back of several other interviews speculating about 'parallel realities.'
In essence, Hynek was amongst the first to walk that now familiar path from simple explanations to something altogether more concerned with the nature of reality. We'll never know for sure, but in my opinion his changing interpretations showed natural evolutions of thought. They seem to reflect an almost existential crisis as he realised he couldn't balance the equation between reports, experiences and the Laws of Physics. To me, that wasn't the behaviour of a man following a script; it was more like the actions of a man who'd lost his bearings.
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: Erno86
Here's the picture which can be viewed in larger form by right clicking on a PC (holding down on the image usually works mobile devices).
This seems to be a case of pareidolia. Perhaps multiple cases.
I've numbered the possible candidates.
1. Real bird
2. Rock looks remotely like a rabbit
3. Illusion of Ghostbusters type phantom caused by light
4. Rock looks like facemask
5. Rock appears like Darth Vader helmet
6. Small child wearing Russian Ushanka hat pulling tongues.
I really fail to see how Dr. Hynek missed them all.
Edit: The original photos all seem to be here : www.imgur.com...
Personally, I am bumbling towards a 'Unified Weirdness Theory' (©) that takes into account everything from fairies to spontaneous human combustion to UFOs, and is probably related to quantum physics.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
a reply to: Willtell
I wrote Hynek off decades ago as a mere agent of government disambulation and deflection. Was I wrong?
Perhaps not 'wrong' and more like rendering a complex individual in simple terms? He started off as 'a mere agent' so that part is right. After Blue Book I think he charted a trajectory of bemusement and frustration in the face of something he could never explain to his own satisfaction. He was intellectually thwarted until he eventually ventured out into increasingly esoteric waters.
Towards the end of his life he'd shifted into ideas that his own vocabulary and the terminologies of science couldn't really practically express. There was some French interview where he resorted to the term 'metaterrestrials' which came on the back of several other interviews speculating about 'parallel realities.'
In essence, Hynek was amongst the first to walk that now familiar path from simple explanations to something altogether more concerned with the nature of reality. We'll never know for sure, but in my opinion his changing interpretations showed natural evolutions of thought. They seem to reflect an almost existential crisis as he realised he couldn't balance the equation between reports, experiences and the Laws of Physics. To me, that wasn't the behaviour of a man following a script; it was more like the actions of a man who'd lost his bearings.
He could only apply the present science of physics to it, the only thing he knew, similar to John Keel’s ideas in the Eight Tower.
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
I've been known to opine that spirituality takes the form that one gives it. Here's another context for fluid weirdness. Hmmm...
originally posted by: Kandinsky
Most people interpret the whole thing through their own backgrounds and beliefs.
They say an encounter with a ufonaut would be akin to looking like magic.