Seeing Things

Patrick Harpur
From Magonia 42, March 1992

I have always felt uneasy about the complacency with which ufologists repeat the assertion that 90% (or 95%) of UFO sightings are misidentifications of ordinary aerial objects such as stars, planets, birds, clouds, aircraft, etc. (I don’t believe in weather balloons); or else of natural phenomena such as patches of light, optical reflections etc. (whatever they are).

Imaginary Reality

Patrick Harpur
Magonia 32, March 1988

After brooding long and hard on visions and encounters of all kinds, including UFO encounters, Hilary Evans is forced to conclude that “within our minds there exists a creative, intelligent, sympathetic and understanding capability, whose function is to fabricate non-real scenes and scenarios.” (1) He calls this capability “for the sake of convenience, the producer”.