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9. Thank you all for your responses
Sun Jul 16, 2017, 06:48 PM
Jul 2017

All of my research points toward a psychological explanation ie: your mind interpreting natural or unusual phenomena in a way that it is familiar with.

For example, there is a spot on a highway that I pass frequently. The way that the overpass guardrail and shadows come together looks like a man with a backpack standing at the edge of the road. I know that there is noone there but I still move over everytime.

Another hypothesis is that they are our machines. Almost all sightings are of atmospheric craft. Maybe I saw an experimental lighter than air craft and my mind filled in the details.

I am not a proponent of the extraterrestrial theory because i believe that races not too far in advance of us tend to digitalize their personalities and exist in a virtual reality as immortals.

That would explain why we seem to be alone in a universe that seems to be conducive to life.

Would we even know if it already happened?

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