just wondering

     This is a picture our daughter Janelle took when she was visiting us here in Sedona last winter. The moon had just risen over the mountains, and her camera captured the UFO on the lower right, although she didn't see it with her naked eye.  She took three pictures in a row, and the ones before and after this did not have the UFO image.  Interesting.   We didn't know what to make of it,  but several locals to whom we showed the picture seemed unsurprised, saying "sightings" of UFO's were common around Schnebley hill, where this picture was taken!  
    

We saw a movie about UFO's and contacts with ET's  last night,  entitled "The Silent Revelation of Truth,"  created by Michael Horn, who was there to introduce it and comment on it afterwards.  It was a stretch.   I found myself feeling alternately puzzled,  incredulous, impressed, and just plain wondering whether and how this could be true, even partially.   

      Of course, there is some cogency to the argument that it could be a bit arrogant of us humans to think we are the only intelligent life, or even the only human beings in the universe.  But its a jump from that,  and the science fiction I enjoyed at a certain stage in my life,  to the assertion that aliens or "star people"  (a term I prefer, and often used by Native Americans)  have been and still are visiting us and trying with some urgency to deliver certain messages about the seriousness of our present situation, the urgency of peace, population control, environmental preservation, etc. etc.   

     The film we saw is about the case of a Swiss man named Billy Meier, whose experiences form the core of the film.   He is interviewed on camera many times, and films he took over decades are shown, many of them with pretty clear shots of UFO's.   We see only drawings of the star people he claims to have been in regular contact with.   If any of you are intrigued,  just google  his name and you will see what a lot there is to peruse about him.   At the end of the film, the narrator asks,  "If what Billy Meier says and films is all a hoax,  how the heck did he do it?!"

       Maybe all this is so fascinating to many of us because it opens up the sense of mystery, of wonder, of impossible possibilities which we seem to need.  Maybe its part of our evolutionary journey to the stars.  Or not.   At the very least,   a lot of our certainties are called into question, and its seems appropriate to be humble and curious about what may be going on beyond our normal lives.  

      Then there's the "so what?" question.  What difference does it make to your life and mine if even some of these reports are true?  Those who actually experience UFO's and contact with ET's would tell you it makes a huge difference, because it shatters the paradigm in which they have been living, and the sense of security that goes with it.

But for the rest of us.....well,  unless we are personally impacted,  all these stories probably have no more practical impact than old legends and myths, or the books about Harry Potter.

Unless these too have more actual impact that we are aware of.   I wonder.