"Looking at the slightly hysterical response of Reddit to all these videos of partly deflated balloons, diffraction patterns etc, and sensational narratives about demons, malevolent transdimensional NHIs and the like, you start for a second to wonder if ufology has lost the plot. Then you remember it never had the plot in the first place.
We had demonic saucers and divine saucers back in the 50s; we had cryptoterrestrials too from the very start of the 'phenomenon'. Read any BUFORA journal or FSR back issue and you'll find that a good 50% of the theories put forward are frankly batshit crazy. You might argue that the average Redditor or Twitter user is probably very young, immature and impressionable but this ignores that many of the 'footsoldiers' of ufology back in the old days, the field investigators and journal subscribers, were also impressionable teenagers.
While now we've got 'credible' ex-military and government types convinced of the reality of the 'phenomenon' and giving it legitimacy, then we had...oh yeah, the same thing (Keyhoe, Ruppelt, Lord Hill-Norton etc). While now we've got scientists and technical specialists openly proclaiming belief in alien visitation, then we had James McDonald and Daniel Fry.
Most of the more lurid current ideas about 'NHIs' were stated far more entertainingly by John Keel decades ago. Or by Fort, for that matter.
Even the supposed 'scientific' or technical gloss applied to present day ufology has its mirror in the past; you've just exchanged the dials-levers-and-rocketry advanced tech of the 50s for AI and genetic engineering.
In short, business as usual."
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