UFO Theories: Earthquake Faults, Hallucinations and Disinformation

I once proposed in a magazine article that

the UFO is caused by some unusual electromagnetic or gravitational field fluctuation,

and that this geophysical anomaly creates 1. real energy disturbances,

jumping furniture, electrical failures, ball lightning

making odd lights in the sky, and so forth,

and 2. disturbance in the brain functioning of animals and humans in the afflicted area,

causing the well-documented animal panics and the rather obvious human hallucinations occurring in such areas.

Statistical support for this theory will be found

in Persinger and Lafreniere who have run computer analyses of common patterns in 1,242 UFO cases.

And 4,818 other abnormal reports, poltergeists teleportations miracles and mysteries of all sorts.

This data demonstrates that both UFOs and other energy anomalies

tend to cluster along earthquake faults with some peaking before earthquakes.

Persinger and Lafreniere also suggest that the geophysical forces at work create

both real oddities jumping furniture, etc. and hallucinations,

so that it is a job of nice and exquisite discrimination

to attempt to find out what was really going on.

It has also been proposed, by the learned Dr. Jacques Vallée, astronomer, cyberneticist and physicist,

that the UFO phenomenon is being created by a secret police agency as an elaborate cover for a complex disinformation system.

A combined Wilson-Persinger-Lafreniere-Vallée theory, probably fitting more of the data than the separate theories,

would suggest that the UFO phenomenon is the synergetic product of

some geophysical oddity which created weird energy fluctuations and brain change experiences in humans

on the scene and is being manipulated after the fact by one or more intelligence agencies,

or by groups even more esoteric.

Consider this scenario,

something weird happens.

Assume that it is the geophysical abnormality and brain change trauma we posit,

but grant also that it might be the alien spaceship beloved by folk myth.

The following events are equally likely, whatever the weirdity really was.

As soon as the witnesses start talking, all interested parties converge on the area.

Intelligence agent Mo comes to conceal evidence that it might have been a spaceship,

that is the policy of his agency, for their own reasons.

Intelligence agent Joe also arrives to plant evidence that it was a spaceship,

that is the policy of his agency, since they are doing just what Dr. Vallée suspects.

The British Double Cross Bureau, in World War II,

engaged in equally complex and absurdist dramas seemingly totally unrelated to their actual work,

but serving as disinformation screens for that work.

Philip Klass and other skeptics arrive, too,

trying to reduce everything to hallucination, even if eyes are burned, cars wrecked, etc.

The space freaks, who may or may not be infiltrated by associates of intelligence agent Joe,

are soon there, too, to get the facts to fit their benign space brothers' reality tunnel.

Various occultists are there, too, to fit it all into their own mythos of angelology, demonology, etc.