UFOs | UFO Sightings Are Products of the Unconscious Mind
Ronald D. Story is the editor of The Encyclopedia of UFOs and author of Space-Gods Revealed and UFOs and the Limits of Science.
Summary: C.G. Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, theorized that UFOs are a “living myth” that fill a void in people searching for spiritual meaning in their lives. UFO sightings and alien encounters can be seen as unconscious projections of human longings. Such yearnings can be exploited by unscrupulous people such as Marshall Applewhite, the leader of Heaven’s Gate, a UFO cult whose members committed mass...
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Table of Contents
- UFOs: An Overview
- Extraterrestrial Spacecraft Are Real
- Extraterrestrial Spacecraft Crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947
- The U.S. Government Has Suppressed Information About UFOs
- Aliens Are Abducting Humans
- The UFO Phenomenon Requires Responsible Scientific Research
- The Existence of Extraterrestrial Spacecraft Is Unproven
- Most UFOs Can Be Readily Explained as Natural or Manmade Phenomena
- Extraterrestrial Spacecraft Did Not Crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947
- Humans Are Not Being Abducted by Aliens
- UFO Sightings Are Products of the Unconscious Mind
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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