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To wit, there seems to be an intelligent phenomenon going on, and it appears throughout history. He doesn't say anything about what it could be, simply is describing the phenomenon.

Also, I've read his books. Wikipedia quotes don't really give the same impression as his writing.

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It appears to have an observer quality to it. The one that sticks out the most in my recent memory is the 2006 Chicago O'Hare sighting. I remember this going through a pretty quick 1 or 2 day news cycle. Fairly alarming given the number of people witnessing the phenomenon and the backgrounds of the people observing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Ai...

Obviously rainbows are an example of a shared hallucination and the phenomena manifests differently dependent on the observer's viewing angle. At the moment I'm not convinced these aren't unexplained atmospheric phenomena because I've never seen one. I know some ideas put forth include ball lightning for at least some UFOs. Assuming these cases to involve intelligence may just be our misinterpretation of the phenomena.

Wait, rainbows are a shared hallucination?

It’s refracted light arcing in the atmosphere. That’s not a hallucination. Treating it as some continuous entity is a hallucination of our minds. There’s nothing suggesting the start of the arc has anything to do with the end, but we call the collective refraction phenomena we witness a rainbow. UFOs could also be something that we collectively fail to comprehend well enough to categorize the constituent parts.

> The FAA stance concludes that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon..

That's.. unspecific. The atmospheric research community would probably be highly interested in more details.

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