I became a skeptic little by little. As a kid I was fascinated with ufos, vampire, bigfoots (feet?), pretty much everything supernatural. It took sometime to get away from all this, being surrounded by wackos. Anyway, the book that convinced me the ufos were not really alien spacecrafts was a book called Aliens and Angels: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination, by Keith Thompson. Funny thing is, the book doesn’t delve into the question of whether the phenomena is real or not. He just explores the similarities between aliens phenomena and old myths, and says the discussion about the real nature of the things is not what he wants to discuss. He is interested in old folklore, psychology (mostly archetypes). That’s why he hooked me, I’d probably be prejudiced back then against a book if i figured it was about to deny my astronaut gods beliefs. It’s been years since I read it, I don’t know if I’d still find it that interesting, but maybe you folks should check it out.

You think I can check the Swiss account now? Doesn’t UFO stand for Unidentified Fund Offer?

It’s quite another thing when so many people clearly want to believe in something like UFOs/aliens when there is a dearth of evidence for them, other than the fuzzy ‘gaps’ in knowledge like the blurry image of a flying bird in the titular subject of this blog entry. There is quality of yearning among UFO believers.

I thought it was flying a little fast to be a bird, so I suspect an insect closer to the camera would be the more probable of the two.