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UFOs might be holographic projections from somewhere else.

UFOs seem to mimic their surroundings the way animals use camouflage to hide in plain sight.

In late spring of 1995, shortly before I graduated from college, a friend and I headed out to western Maryland for an overnight camping trip. When most of the campers had gone to bed, we hunkered down at the campground edge overlooking the wooded hills. Everything was dark and quiet when all of a sudden two large, round, bright lights popped on at the bottom of the hill below us.

I was confused; there was no road down there, just woods, and these lights were too big to be headlights, anyway. A moment later, the lights started zooming up the hill toward us. Reflexes kicked in--I leaned to one side, ready to bolt out of the way. My friend did the same. And just as quickly, the lights disappeared about halfway up the hill.

Because we were in the greater D.C, area, where there's lots of military aerial activity, I now believe it could have been an early drone. But it also could have been something more interesting: a UFO.

The lights were huge, bigger than any vehicle headlights would look from our distance of several hundred feet away. Their movement was very smooth and swift. There was no sound as from construction equipment (which wouldn't be operating late at night ). Thirty years later we still don't know what we saw.

UFO sightings are either becoming more common or experiencing a heyday in pop culture. They're everywhere, in movies, podcasts, books, YouTube videos, and news broadcasts. Are these incidents increasing in frequency or are we simply becoming more aware of something that's always been there?

The paranormal as projection of human consciousness

Though I don't believe my friend and I imagined this UFO or projected it out of nowhere, I've always been fascinated by UFOs, aliens, and the wonder of our universe and so, in some sense, believe I might have invited it into my conscious experience much like ghost hunters invite shadowy apparitions and seance hosts invite cryptic messages from the deceased.

There are some common elements in the stories of UFO sightings that suggest human consciousness plays a part in the phenomenon.

UFOs mirror their surroundings. UFO sightings, and specifically the objects that people see during these events, tend to........

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