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Chariot and Saucer
David Halperin spent an academic lifetime studying mystical visionaries from Ezekiel to the Sabbatians. But first came the UFO truthers.
Where Halperin sees this as evidence of a long-existent psychological phenomenon, these scholars tend to suggest that visitations from another realm are a perennial feature of human experience, whose origins only came to be represented (or recognized) as extraterrestrial in the latter half of the twentieth century. Like Jonah’s gourd in the Bible, it sprang up in the day and perished that night.” In his attempt to avoid endorsing extraordinary claims about alien spacecraft, Halperin ends up proposing something perhaps almost as extraordinary—a synchronized mass hallucination powerful enough to generate official military communications. Take the 2004 USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” incident (revealed in late 2017) when several Navy pilots reported a structured craft performing impossible maneuvers at top speed; their testimony was apparently corroborated by as-yet unreleased radar data.
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