Not much, when you get right down to it. After over 60 years, science can't even tell us whether UFOs represent something physically real. As the late, great scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek used to point out, all that we know for certain is that UFO reports exist.
So, considering how bad a job science has done to make sense of the UFO phenomenon, why not turn to the furthest thing from science that we can imagine -- anti-science, if you will -- to see if we can get better results. And by anti-science, I mean, of course, poetry.
You may scoff, but last night I was witness to a fascinating experiment in which one of the best-documented UFO cases of all time was picked apart by the anti-scientific method of poetry, and the results were pretty surprising...
A long while back I blogged about my new friend Txxx, the writer who was writing some poetry about the famous Barney and Betty Hill UFO abduction case of 1961. Well, last night Txxx gave a reading of four of the poems he has written thus far, and I, who know next to nothing about poetry, loved it. It occurred to me as I listened to Txxx's poems that he has really hit upon a powerful new way to consider the UFO phenomenon.
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This sketch depicts what Barney saw when the UFO descended. |
The four pieces concerned these four aspects of the Hill case:
- Betty's recollection of the close encounter and its aftermath
- Barney's reaction to hearing the recording of his account, made under hypnosis, of the medical exam aboard the spaceship
- Barney describing the creatures to a sketch artist
- Betty's encounter journal that she kept for years after the initial event
Last night, I believed him.
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