Posted 14 February 2013 - 09:15 PM
I've had an interest in UFOs since I was very young and overheard my father telling some friends about several sightings he'd had. A very close encounter I had when I was 16 only increased my interest. As a Christian I wondered how the UFO/occupant issue fit within Biblical Christianity. I've read and heard many personal accounts and read a book which I believe was written by Jaque Vallees, where he discussed the similarity between the accounts of UFO abductees and people who had encountered various "little people" (fairies, elves, leprechauns, etc.) and also had encounters with demons. In the early 90's I read Whitley Striber's "Communion" and was really shocked by the fact that towards the end of the book he begins to realize the beings he is interacting with are evil, he comes very close to identifying them as demons and then the next chapter, after the being has been almost inhabiting him telepathically he suddenly says they are benign beings who are interested in our well-being, even if they do project an aura of evil.
I've come to believe that out of a random 1,000 UFO sightings, 900 are misidentified or unknown natural events or well-known aircraft, 80 of them are experimental or "black" projects, and the other 20 are either demonic, extraterrestrial, or extradimensional (possibly including time-travelers). But that is just my personal opinion based on my own sightings, and the sightings I've heard from eyewitnesses, or read in books.
"But then with me that horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?" - Charles Darwin, in a letter to William Graham on July 3, 1881