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April 27, 2026
Susan Demeter
(On her Substack)
Quote:Ten years ago I wrote this short essay as my contribution to the then ground-breaking book UFOs: Reframing The Debate. Multiple essayists within this volume urge a fundamental redirection of UFO research from the external to the internal - by seeking to understand the daunting complexities of human cognition and consciousness itself, we may better understand the UFO and perhaps more importantly, better understand ourselves. I believe this is as worthwhile today as it was back then.
Quote:Davis and Vallee make the strong argument for new and more innovative hypotheses as part of a multidiscipline approach to studying UFOs:
“In the view of the authors, the current hypotheses are not strange enough to explain the facts of the phenomenon, and the debate suffers from a lack of scientific information.” (Vallee, Davis, 2001) This statement echoes the sentiments of Massimo Teodorani that I quoted earlier.
They also argue that UAP or in others words UFOs can be thought of both as physical and as psychic.
“We hope that it will prove stimulating as a unified approach to a puzzling phenomenon that presents both undeniable physical effects suggesting a technological device or craft and psychic effects reminiscent of the literature on poltergeists and psychokinetic phenomena.” (Vallee, Davis 2001)
Quote:Having been both immersed in the study of UFO encounters and paranormal phenomenon such as poltergeists I can confidently say there are parallels to both, and this is currently being overlooked by most of UFOlogy.
This was also Scott Rogo’s conclusion. Rogo was one of the only parapsychologists to actively examine UFO encounters and he noted several commonalities between the UFO experience and poltergeist outbreaks.
Quote:Eric Ouellet the Canadian liaison for the Parapsychological Association is one of the few exceptions within the study that is chipping away at this. Eric has created the social scientific discipline Parasociology, and he is primarily focussed on exploring how societies interact with telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis or PSI. His first book on the subject Illuminations: The UFOs as a Parapsychological event gives us fresher ideas to examine by introducing the hypothesis are UFO encounters, including UFO waves a direct result of Social PSI?
Quote:Ouellet writes:
“People saw airships in the skies of North America at the end of the 19th century, a few years before they were flown; Scandinavian’s saw many ghost rockets in the sky just after the end of World War II and before much more powerful rockets were available to reach Scandinavia; a few years before the launch of the space age with the Soviet Sputnik satellite many people saw things in the sky that were interpreted as spaceships.” (Ouellet, 2015 pg 28-29)
Could these UFOs have been apparitions of future events?
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