UFOs: Are They Tulpas?

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
I say...no.

One of the most fascinating and curious aspects of the UFO phenomena is the way in which, over the course of the last century, the appearance of both our alleged extraterrestrial visitors and their craft have changed dramatically. For example, in the latter part of the 19th century and early years of the 20th century, the skies of the United States (and, to a lesser degree, Britain) were filled with strange-looking flying machines known within ufological circles as “phantom airships.” As their name suggests, many of the aerial devices in question closely resembled the huge Zeppelin airships of the First World War. Essentially, the 19th century UFO invasion mirrored either what was on the drawing-boards, or what had been envisaged within the minds of both the military war-machine and skilled inventors of the time.
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That is an interesting idea that has been around for a long time. I think there is something in it. There have been several variations of it. For a while the term "culture tracking" was popular in UFO lore. Vallee wrote about a curious case from the 20s, if I'm not mistaken, that had a lumberjack or someone like that sighting a more or less classic flying saucer, except it seemed to have been made of steel panels riveted together the way a water tank or such might have been made at the time. Hardly what we would consider high tech, but in its context it was impressive. It did seem to be flying, regardless of what we might think of it.
 

Rick Hunter

Celestial
I believe the phenomenon is very real. I also believe that humanity understands and responds to visitors from other worlds according to the cultural, scientific, and religious norms of the time and place where the encounter happens. I think it is quite possible, maybe even probable, that we cannot truly perceive what the visitors and their craft look like with our human eyes and minds. And so, what we see is a sort of stand-in which lines up mostly with our expectations of what visitors from other worlds look like.

A person in the ancient Middle East could see Baal or Jehovah's angels. Someone in feudal Europe might see the Virgin Mary, Satan, or perhaps a sprite or elf. A witness in the Industrial Revolution sees a fanciful mechanical contraption with exposed gearing or an airship, piloted by a neatly dressed gentleman. Fast forward to the 1950's and we have flying discs which can outrun and outmaneuver fighter jets like they were standing still, piloted by strange looking occupants who are concerned about our nuclear weapons. Today, I am seeing a shift in Ufology towards cutting edge physics as the preferred explanation for these visitors; they aren't just from really far away in space, but rather from a different plane of existence or universe entirely. And, there are a multitude of different kinds of aliens. Some are bad, some are good, most are somewhere in between-just like us!
 

michael59

Celestial
UFOs: Are They Tulpas?

No.

Description is always limited by our own knowledge.

For example, no one knew how to describe the smell of a skunk's spray. If you asked anyone what it smelled like, the routine answer was that there was nothing else like it it was the worst smell ever. Until the invention of rubber.

Skunk spray smells like burning rubber.


Another good example is how children describe the Grey's. Children call them the Skeleton people. Why? Because they have no other way/reference to go by. All kids, in first world country's are very familiar with Halloween and all the decorations that go with that holiday. So even very young children, know what a skeleton looks like.

To a child.....Grey's look like skeletons.
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
I do not believe they're tulpas.

There could be alien races who use mental cloaking devices to make their craft appear to be something they're not but that's a different scenario. A lot of people who study UFOs claim they turn their ships into things like black helicopters, etc.
 

Rick Hunter

Celestial
Indeed. One notices that in many MIB accounts, the aliens come close but not close enough to creating the illusion they are human and driving cars. They usually get key details wrong, such as dressing in decades old fashions or their cars are missing crucial parts such as steering wheels. In his book Stalking the Herd, Chris O'Brien finds that many of the helicopters witnessed in connection with mutilation cases are not the typical military black helicopter commonly reported but the old fashioned bubble canopy sort seen in M.A.S.H., sometimes painted in goofy bright colors.
 
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