I had a very similar UFO sighting, just a couple months ago. Fortunately I’ve been consuming rationalist media for a long time, and I was able to say “There is a non-magic answer to this question, just because I don’t know the answer doesn’t mean UFOs exist. My map is incomplete, but the territory isn’t magic.”
It doesn’t make the creepy shiver-up-your-spine and cold-knot-in-your-stomach feelings go away, those are biological reactions. But it does let you accept them and ride them out, like the cramp you know will go away in a while that isn’t ACTUALLY a knife in your leg, no matter how much it feels like it.
If it’s an object, it’s suspended in the air (“flying”), and you haven’t identified it’s nature or origin in any meaningful way, then in the most ham-fistedly literal sense, it’s an Unidentified Flying Object. What am I missing, here?
I had a very similar UFO sighting, just a couple months ago. Fortunately I’ve been consuming rationalist media for a long time, and I was able to say “There is a non-magic answer to this question, just because I don’t know the answer doesn’t mean UFOs exist. My map is incomplete, but the territory isn’t magic.”
It doesn’t make the creepy shiver-up-your-spine and cold-knot-in-your-stomach feelings go away, those are biological reactions. But it does let you accept them and ride them out, like the cramp you know will go away in a while that isn’t ACTUALLY a knife in your leg, no matter how much it feels like it.
If it’s an object, it’s suspended in the air (“flying”), and you haven’t identified it’s nature or origin in any meaningful way, then in the most ham-fistedly literal sense, it’s an Unidentified Flying Object. What am I missing, here?
While it may literally mean “unidentified flying object”, in the USA it is synonymous for “Extra-Terrestrial Craft”