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Post by sansseed on Apr 19, 2011 8:05:45 GMT -6
I like to keep track of sightings that are reported around my area, so I check it about once a day. I usually use the MUFON interactive map. I've been noticing lately that there seems to be a large number of people reporting old sightings. They can be from last year to 30-40 years ago. There seems to be at least a couple new ones each day.
I'm just wondering if, via percentage, this is a trend, or is it pretty normal. If this is an upward trend, then I have to ask "why now?"
Any thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2011 9:52:33 GMT -6
Sanseed..I'm sure you'll see much more of 'older sightings'. Since even some physicists and the Vatican are coming forward with the idea that it's 'ok' to believe in UFO's, some people who have kept quiet are now sharing what they've encountered or seen. Hope none of them had real evidence that was time sensitive Just have to send the Pope & Dr. Kaku a 'thank you' note on that one My best guess anyway
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Post by sansseed on Apr 20, 2011 7:59:07 GMT -6
I think that might be partly true. There has been a lot more discussion about the subject of UFOs, but I'm not sure there has been greater acceptance. Main stream media still cannot report stories without giggling and someone making a "little green men" comment. Yet, before we have acceptance we must first have a discussion, so I guess we are on the right track.
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Post by paulette on Apr 20, 2011 9:38:26 GMT -6
The same question was and is asked of people who were sexually abused as children and didn't come forward until (in some cases) old age. The answers are similar. They tried earlier and either were ignored, laughed at, or punished. They thought they were the only ones and therefore somehow deserving of the abuse (in UFO witnesses they fear their sanity). They were so confused by living as children in a world where on one hand they were walked to school and given BD presents and on other - dropped off at the church for "activities" or sent to their grandparents farm for the summer (unfortunately a not-safe to be no matter how many ponies or chickens there were to play with). This creates a "cognitive dissonance" which usually is dealt with by dissociating from that information - literally "forgetting it" or having it in a part of the brain not usually accessed except by dreams and also by events that recreate the situation. This is obviously likely to happen to a child who is given a healthy breakfast and send out to play in the backyard and is abducted or interacted with by being who are not remotely like their parents. And who compel them to come but do not treat them gently.
As people see movies and hear about stuff on the news and hear their friends or family talking about it they may be triggered into clearer memories. I thought (on arrival at the Mufon site) that one thing inexplicable had happened to me in my life. As I wrote my autobiography of strangeness, I realized that some partial childhood memories were well...strange. And then my children also had had strange things that they reported to me happen - possibly dreams, possibly not, an invisible friend that wasn't a person or a dog named Filim....
I think the same process is unpacking all over town.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2011 9:54:07 GMT -6
To be honest..I'm just as glad that memory of my incident didn't come to the surface for many years. As a teenager I would have tried telling everyone. Life growing up in a very small town (where your senior class is 62 kids) is bad enough without the 'little green man' thing making you a stand out, no one had heard of them let alone had an embarrassing encounter.
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Post by sansseed on Apr 20, 2011 10:14:47 GMT -6
An interesting theory, Paulette. So, you think it is like a collective awakening to what they have seen/experienced? That would be fascinating, if possible.
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