On May 29, 2009, at 8:26 AM, shempmcgurk wrote:
It's like the depiction of flying saucers. As our own technology changes and improves, the types of flying saucers curiously also improve and modernize as well.
Exactly. If you ever saw the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there's this French guy who befriends the people drawn to the contact site. That character was actually based on a French astrophysicist and sociologist named Jacques Vallee. Vallee documented some of the earliest examples of UFO sitings which, just before the invention of the dirigible or blimp, people would see these cigar-shaped blimps with noisy propellors and engines running them--a far cry from the sophisticated crafts people see today. Carl Jung in his book Flying Saucers from the 50's pointed out that the theme is always something just beyond what is currently possible. In the middle ages before flight, people imagined angelic beings with wings, etc. Today he see crafts just beyond what is possible. In the 70's some UFO's resembled early version of stealth aircraft, etc.
