By definition, UFOs should not be built.
In order to have an “unidentified flying object,” the origins of said object must be unknown. And yet, technically, we know how to identify UFOs – or at least as pop culture has imagined them. They are flying saucers covered with lights that float through the air like spinning plates. Or something. Some people spend their lives looking for one, others fear what would happen if they were abducted by one.
Yet, artist Peter Coffin has built one. . . .
. . . The goal of Coffin’s UFO is to evoke these very disparate reactions. After being fascinated by what UFOs seem to represent in our culture as a kid growing up in the 1980s, the artist began digging into how humans deal with UFOs psychologically. That interest continued into adulthood when he discovered that analytical psychologist Carl Jung had actually wrote on the subject called, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.
In the book, Jung didn’t concern himself with whether or not UFOs were real, but rather why anyone would think they might be. . . . Continue Reading . . .
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I'm betting any of us flying craft from _that_ break-away secret civilization quickly _become_ as one of them, eh? Consider fourteenth century humankind encountering 21st Century humankind. We'd be burned as demon spawn.
ReplyDeleteThat is what I have been thinking for a long time. What if the "Aliens" are in fact us humans from a different timeline?
ReplyDelete"Because...yeah you got it...flying saucers are really...time machines...I think a lot about this kind of stuff.."
ReplyDelete---Miller to Otto in the film "Repo Man"