If I may speak for a moment in the language of some of my own intellectual ancestors, particularly the quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the depth psychologist C. G. Jung, the UFO, or flying saucer, is the ultimate modern “symbol” that participates in both the mental or social world of the subjects who encounter it and in the material world of their own epistemic or sensory experience. Ezekiel’s wheel or disk is the Romantic symbol that participates in what it communicates for a reason. The UFO phenomenon appears to have emerged from a third realm and so manifests obvious mental, social,
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