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EnPassant
Nothing more than a hallucination? The medical profession, in its wisdom and reductive materialism, would have us believe that hallucinations are purely in the mind but there may be an external reality behind them. I once read a report on out of body experiments where the subjects were seeing beings and the experimenter came to the conclusion the what the subjects were seeing was real. The OBE enables the mind to see the astral plane? Sometimes abductees say that when the abduction begins they feel that they are in two places at the same time, as if they are leaving their bodies and the brain is seeing physical reality while the mind is on another level.
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Unable to explain away the volunteers' experiences, he concluded that these were genuine encounters with independent sentient beings in otherwise normally invisible dimensions.
This suggests that OBEs and abductions are similar experiences. So,even the pilots may be seeing real things
Complexity breeds all kinds of weird #, and the human brain is the most complex system on the planet.
JimTSpock
This is quite an interesting thread and I'd just like to make a quick point. I think each case needs to be looked at individually it's no good just saying sweeping statements about hallucinations. Hallucinations are actually quite rare, I've never had one. And amphetamines usually don't cause them. Hallucinogenic drugs like L S D can cause them but usually a person who does not have mental illness causing visual or auditory hallucinations requires powerful drugs like L S D and even then you still may not hallucinate. Extreme fatigue can sometimes cause them but not always.
A person with no mental illness cannot be assumed to hallucinate, unless a plausible reason why can be demonstrated or it can be shown that they are clearly hallucinating. I think pilots or astronauts hallucinating would be a very serious safety concern and if found to be the case they would be grounded pending full med and psych evaluation. Also if two people see and describe the same thing are they both hallucinating the same thing? This seems unlikely. Mass media warping people's perception through hallucination is also ridiculous outside of mental illness. They can make you want to buy stuff but not too sure about complete visual hallucination, unless you're schizophrenic.edit on 15-9-2013 by JimTSpock because: (no reason given)
The most common experience during tachypsychia is the feeling that time has either increased or slowed down, brought on by the increased brain activity cause by epinephrine, or the severe decrease in brain activity caused by the "catecholamine washout" occurring after the event.
It is common for an individual experiencing tachypsychia to have serious misinterpretations of their surroundings during the events, through a combination of their altered perception of time, as well as transient partial color blindness and tunnel vision. After the irregularly high levels of adrenaline consumed during sympathetic nervous system activation, an individual may display signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and it is common for the person to display extreme emotional lability and fatigue, regardless of their actual physical exertion.
I think pilots or astronauts hallucinating would be a very serious safety concern and if found to be the case they would be grounded pending full med and psych evaluation
It is possible to classify the G-LOC episodes. The G-LOC experience includes specific visual symptoms (tunnel vision through blackout), convulsive activity, memory alterations, dreamlets, and other psychological symptoms. The major, overall G-LOC experience characteristics that have commonality with NDEs are shown below.
Tunnel vision / bright light
Floating
Automatic movement
Autoscopy
Out-of-body experience
Not wanting to be disturbed
Paralysis
Vivid dreamlets / beautiful places
a. Euphoria
b. Dissociation
Pleasurable
Psychologic state alteration
Friends / family inclusion
Prior memories / thoughts inclusion
Very memorable (when remembered)
Confabulation
Strong urge to understand
Thanks. I don't pretend to know what a pilot would or would not see. I have know idea if g-loc can be blamed for any sighting but it does shine some light on what they experience. I really cant imagine what 9g feels like. I also agree that a full blown spontaneous hallucination can not explain much of anything and nor do I suggest that.
JimTSpock
reply to post by ZetaRediculian
Some interesting points you make there Zeta. G-LOC or gravity induced loss of consciousness is a normal part of a fighter pilots life. The F-16 can pull a 9g turn which is a force 9 times normal gravity, this is about the limit for human pilots. Blood drains from the pilots head resulting in tunnel vision and then blackout or complete loss of consciousness. This is something pilots try to avoid but many crashes have been caused by it. Then there is redout which is negative g or pushing forward on the stick. Blood goes to the head and it's even worse you can only take about 3g. Hallucinating aerial objects while in flight is not a normal part of a pilots life. And we are talking about something very specific, hallucinating an aerial object outside the aircraft. This could possibly explain some cases but not all.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that all airplanes and other aircraft must be equipped with a transponder. A transponder is a radar beacon system that allows air traffic control to identify aircraft. The word "transponder" is a combination of the words "transmitter" and "responder" which indicates its use. The FAA maintains different requirements for different types of aircraft and for different airspace designations.
Operation;
A transponder operates by rebroadcasting a signal it receives. It receives a signal -- called an "interrogation" -- and then transmits that signal back after analyzing the request for information. The transponder receives the signal on its "interrogator," its reception component. The signal goes through a frequency converter and the transponder then automatically transmits back a radio wave at a preprogrammed frequency. This way of operating allows the transponder to receive and transmit signals at the same time.
Codes;
Transponders operate using codes in the format of a sequence of pulses. These codes are referred to as "interrogation modes." The different modes identify the type of aircraft by its purpose. Mode 1 provides two-digit, five-bit mission code and is only for military use. Mode 2 provides a four-digit octal unit code and is also only for military use, particularly for jet fighters. Mode 3/A provides a four-digit octal identification code that is assigned by the air-traffic controller and is for military and civilian use. Both Mode 4 and Mode 5 use cryptic codes and are for military use. Mode 4 provides a three-pulse reply to crypto-coded "interrogations," and Mode 5 provides a cryptographically secured version of Mode S.
Supplemental Modes;
A transponder code can be combined with pressure-altitude information provided by Mode C. Like Mode 3A, C can be used to help air-traffic controllers identify aircraft and maintain distance. Mode S is designed for automatic collision avoidance without the assistance of air-traffic control. It is often required in controlled airspace around the world. Mode S transponders are compatible with Modes A and Mode C and are designed for automatic collision avoidance.
Airspace Designations;
The FAA classifies airspace by the letters A, B, C, D, E and G, each of which has its own rules for aircraft entering the particular space. For example, aircraft entering any airspace designated A, B or C must have a Mode 3/A transponder.
link; www.ehow.com...
The question is why go to such lengths in favor of ETH when there is no real evidence to support it? It's interesting and you can speculate but you can't do anything with the "hundreds" or even "millions" of reports. "High strange" means what exactly? How do you measure that? The mass collection of stories doesn't add up to anything except a mass collection of stories. You are free to explore that as you wish but there is no real data there. I read the Bluebook report and that's what you have. You are looking to positively identify an unknown with an unknown. It doesn't compute.
Now why do those who reject any ET possibilities for such UFO cases do so with no real evidence to support the justification of why the ET hypothesis should not be included in the above three possible origins, why would one go to such lengths to try and implant that ALL such "high strangeness" UFO cases are hallucinations ect from a their perspective of NOT only not looking at the hundred's of cases with the required high strangeness data like described above but not providing any real concrete evidence of these cases to show BEYOND reasonable doubt that hallucinations ect are a credible explanation for these cases...
its the issue that is required by law of every plane, commercial and private air craft needing to be fitted with a "transponder
ZetaRediculian
reply to post by K-PAX-PROT
The question is why go to such lengths in favor of ETH when there is no real evidence to support it? It's interesting and you can speculate but you can't do anything with the "hundreds" or even "millions" of reports. "High strange" means what exactly? How do you measure that? The mass collection of stories doesn't add up to anything except a mass collection of stories. You are free to explore that as you wish but there is no real data there. I read the Bluebook report and that's what you have. You are looking to positively identify an unknown with an unknown. It doesn't compute.
Now why do those who reject any ET possibilities for such UFO cases do so with no real evidence to support the justification of why the ET hypothesis should not be included in the above three possible origins, why would one go to such lengths to try and implant that ALL such "high strangeness" UFO cases are hallucinations ect from a their perspective of NOT only not looking at the hundred's of cases with the required high strangeness data like described above but not providing any real concrete evidence of these cases to show BEYOND reasonable doubt that hallucinations ect are a credible explanation for these cases...
its the issue that is required by law of every plane, commercial and private air craft needing to be fitted with a "transponder
Yes that rules out commercial and private aircraft. But isn't the moto of the US black ops "we don't need no stinkin transponders"?edit on 16-9-2013 by ZetaRediculian because: (no reason given)
5. Case 39. Port Huron, Mich., July 29, 1952
Many of the radar cases for which sighting details are accessible date back to 1953 and preceding years. After 1953, official policies were changed, and it is not easy to secure good information on subsequent cases in most instances. A radar case in which both ground-radar and airborne-radar contact were involved occurred at about 9:40 p.m. CST on 7/29/52 (Refs. 4, 5, 7, 10, 25).
From the official case summary (Ref. 7) one finds that the unknown was first detected by GGI radar at an Aircraft Control and Warning station in Michigan, and one of three F-94s doing intercept exercises nearby was vectored over towards it. It was initially coming in out of the north (Ref. 5, 25), at a speed put at over 600 mph. As the F-94 was observed on the GCI scope to approach the unknown, the latter suddenly executed a 180° turn, and headed back north. The F-94 was by then up to 21,000 ft., and the pilot spotted a brilliant multicolored light just as his radarman got a contact. The F-94 followed on a pursuit course for 20 minutes (Ref. 7) but could never close with the unknown as its continued on its northbound course. At the time of first radar lockon, the F-94 was 20 miles west of Pt. Huron, Mich. The GCI scope revealed the unknown to be changing speed erratically, and at one stage it was moving at a speed of over 14000 mph, according to Menze...
Many other cases might be cited where UFOs have appeared on radar under conditions where no acceptable conventional explanation exists. Ref. 7 has a number of them. Hall (Ref. 10) lias about 60 instances in which both radar and visual sightings were involved. A December 19, 1964 case at Pa
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I already addressed the radar cases. So what did you think of the JAL alaska link? That's a very good radar case with multiple witnesses. With loads of actual documentation. Correct? How many times have you ignored this?
No the real reason is why you go to such lengths to reject the ET hypothesis when you have zero evidence to support such a notion, you tried and failed to pass of ALL fighter pilot cases as merely hallucinations then back tracked when i pointed out the fact that you forgot to included those cases that contain radar returns and multiple witnesses.
4. Case 38. Washington, D.C., July 19, 1952
By far the most famous single radar-visual sighting on record is the one which occurred late in the evening of July 19, and early on July 20, 1962, in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. (Refs. 2, 4, 5, 10, 24, 25). A curiously similar incident occurred just one week later. The official explanation centered around atmospheric effects on radar and light-propagation. Just before midnight on July 19/20, CAA radar showed a number of unidentified targets which varied in speed (up to about 800 mph) in a manner inconsistent with conventional aircraft A number of experienced CAA radarmen observed these returns, and, at one juncture, compatible returns were being received not only at the ARTC radar but also on the ARS radar in a separate location at Washington National Airport, and on still a third radar at Andrews AFB. Concurrently, both ground and airborne observers saw unidentifiable lights in locations matching those of the blips on the ground radar.
Discussion. -- I have interviewed five of the CAA personnel involved in this case and four of the commercial airline pilots involved, I have checked the radiosonde data against well-known radar propagation relations, and I have studied the CAA report subsequently published on this event Only an extremely lengthy discussion would suffice to present the serious objections to the official explanation that this complex sighting was a result of anomalous radar propagation and refractive anomalies of the mirage type. The refractive index gradient, even after making allowance for instrument lag, was far too low for "ducting" or "trapping" to occur; and, still more significant, the angular elevations of the visually observed unknowns lay far too high for radar-dueling under even the most extreme conditions that have ever been observed in the atmosphere. Some of the pilots, directed by ground radar to look for any airborne objects, saw them at altitudes well above their own flight altitudes, and these objects were maneuvering in wholly unconventional manner. One crew saw one of the unknown luminous objects shoot straight up, and simultaneously the object's return disappeared from the ARTC scope being watched by the CAA radar operators.
The official suggestion that the same weak (1.7° C) low-level "inversion" that was blamed for the radar ducting could produce miraging effects was quantitatively absurd, even if one overlooks the airline-pilot sightings and deals only with the reported ground-visual sightings. From the CAA radar operators I interviewed, as well as from the pilots I talked to about this case, I got the impression that the propagation-anomaly hypothesis struck them as quite out of the question, then and now. In fact, CAA senior controller Harry G. Barnes, who told me that the scope returns from the unknowns.
"were not diffuse, shapeless blobs such as one gets from ground returns under anomalous propagation"
but were strong, bright pips, said that
"anomalous propagation never entered our heads as an explanation."
Howard S. Conklin, who, like Barnes, is still with FAA, was in the control tower that night, operating an entirely independent radar (short-range ARS radar). He told me that what impressed him about the sighting that night was that they were in radio communication with airlines crewmen who saw unidentified lights in the air in the same area as unknowns were showing up on his tower radar, while simultaneously he and Joseph Zacko were viewing the lights themselves from the tower at the D.C. Airport James M. Ritchey, who was at the ARTC radar with
link; files.ncas.org...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that all airplanes and other aircraft must be equipped with a transponder. A transponder is a radar beacon system that allows air traffic control to identify aircraft. The word "transponder" is a combination of the words "transmitter" and "responder" which indicates its use. The FAA maintains different requirements for different types of aircraft and for different airspace designations.
link; www.ehow.com...
So secret stealth back ops;, occult based interdenominational intelligence's or ET intelligence's, what ever they are there is the primary high strangeness data in cases that are not just an incoherent mixture of just stories they are in fact pointing to the possibilities of the three main named alternative sources ..... secret stealth back ops;, occult based interdenominational intelligence's or ET intelligence's.....edit on 15/07/2010 by K-PAX-PROT because: (no reason given)
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What happened in 1952 over Washington, D.C.?
The first incident took place early one morning in July. It was reported extensively in the newspapers that a number of unknown objects appeared on radar screens around Washington. Now, it looks very plausible to me that the Washington incident was a demonstration of a technology from the Defense Department, known as Project Palladium, which allowed the operator to project radar blips onto other radar screens. Later on, the technology became very sophisticated to the point where you could change the shape of the blip and its speed and so forth. We go on in the book at length about the evidence that suggests that the Washington radar incident was a planned operation.
That nature of the high strangeness data contained in such cases is indicating that the high strangeness data itself that is or has manifested in such cases is so much more than incoherent stories that add nothing to the conclusions that have been the primary reasons for the DETECTION of the high strangeness data , data that is inconclusive as to determine any kind of UNDERSTANDING of the high strangeness conclusions reached always start or manifest with a primary source that is determined "unknown" due to not a lack of coherent data to form the foundations of what determines high strangeness data but rather to what science can determine or understand in any given moment of its current or present understandings.... this is to me the primary reason why we cannot afford to reject the ET hypothesis ,not because of a bias towards the ET hypothesis but out of the very nature of the high strangeness data that is showing that there are objects that have technological capabilities well advanced than what we currently have..
That nature of the high strangeness data contained in such cases is indicating that the high strangeness data itself that is or has manifested in such cases is so much more than incoherent stories that add nothing to the conclusions that have been the primary reasons for the DETECTION of the high strangeness data , data that is inconclusive as to determine any kind of UNDERSTANDING of the high strangeness conclusions reached always start or manifest with a primary source that is determined "unknown" due to not a lack of coherent data to form the foundations of what determines high strangeness data but rather to what science can determine or understand in any given moment of its current or present understandings.... this is to me the primary reason why we cannot afford to reject the ET hypothesis ,not because of a bias towards the ET hypothesis but out of the very nature of the high strangeness data that is showing that there are objects that have technological capabilities well advanced than what we currently have..
ZetaRediculian
reply to post by K-PAX-PROT
That nature of the high strangeness data contained in such cases is indicating that the high strangeness data itself that is or has manifested in such cases is so much more than incoherent stories that add nothing to the conclusions that have been the primary reasons for the DETECTION of the high strangeness data , data that is inconclusive as to determine any kind of UNDERSTANDING of the high strangeness conclusions reached always start or manifest with a primary source that is determined "unknown" due to not a lack of coherent data to form the foundations of what determines high strangeness data but rather to what science can determine or understand in any given moment of its current or present understandings.... this is to me the primary reason why we cannot afford to reject the ET hypothesis ,not because of a bias towards the ET hypothesis but out of the very nature of the high strangeness data that is showing that there are objects that have technological capabilities well advanced than what we currently have..
I read this several times and I honestly can not come up with an argument against it. I think you answered all my questions with just this one sentence. I think you are right. I am forced to reevaluate my position at this point.
ZetaRediculian
reply to post by K-PAX-PROT
I read this several times and I honestly can not come up with an argument against it. I think you answered all my questions with just this one sentence. I think you are right. I am forced to reevaluate my position at this point.
Huh.
All I got out of it was "High Strangeness Data".
I guess one would have to accept "ETH" as a valid scientific hypothesis in the first place to apply this label to what amount to simple uncorrelated observations and then present them as evidence of a purely speculative, "highly strange" postulate.
The excerpt I have transcribed is part of Gevaerd’s description of the historic invited visit by his group to the Air Force HQ in Brasilia, specifically CINDACTA, a combined air force/civilian air traffic control centre, on May 20, 2005. The staff there had been instructed by top brass to show them “everything”. Specifically with regard to the UFO Night event, they saw, and apparently were allowed to keep, a transcript of the conversations between the chase pilots and the control towers.
(Starts at 1:01:07)
“Now, about the Official Night of Ufos in Brazil, we were able to exam some transcript(s) of the radio conversations between pilots themselves, and [between] the pilots and the tower . . and the several towers involved in the searches, there were several towers . . and seven jet fighters all talking to each other, all chasing ufos, 21 spherical objects 300 ft in diameter going here and there all over.