Some think the appearance of wonder-working entities allegedly from other planets would somehow destroy Christianity.
Some think that UFOs must be visitations by an advanced race of space travelers.
But there’s a better explanation.
Scientist and author Jacques Vallée says the facts do not support the “advanced race of space travelers” hypothesis:
1. unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth;
2. the humanoid body structure of the alleged “aliens” is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel;
3. the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race;
4. the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon; and
5. the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives.
Vallée believes “the alleged extraterrestrials could be… multidimensional beyond space-time; thus they could coexist with humans, yet remain undetected.” Vallée sees many “commonalities between UFOs, … demons, angels, ghosts, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena.”
This same Jacques Vallée “served as the real-life model for Lacombe, the researcher portrayed by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
He also attempted to interest Spielberg in an alternative explanation for the phenomenon…
Vallée said, “I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn’t extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, ‘You’re probably right, but that’s not what the public is expecting — this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that’s close to what they expect.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vallée
To me, it’s very interesting that thousands of years ago, Biblical divine revelation predicted, and explained the true reasons behind, future events including:
- an aerial catching away / mass disappearance of many humans from the earth
- massive deception of those who remain
- a charismatic world leader who eventually claims deity
- global government tyranny
- huge celestial and geophysical catastrophes
- supernaturally empowered humans working great deceptive wonders
- widespread visible manifestations of supernatural entities on the earth
See, for example, these Biblical prophecies:
1st Thessalonians 4:13-18
2nd Thessalonians 2:3-12
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, chapters 5-19. (Many of the strange and fascinating prophecies in the book of Revelation are best understood in light of the prophecies in the Biblical book of Daniel the prophet.)
Good post on Vallee.
I think he would have liked an alternative ending to the movie where the craft takes off towards the high atmosphere....
and then does a U turn and heads straight down into the ground at high speed—staying intact while vanishing beneath the surface!