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| Jordan Hofer My passion / TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal |
First, my
academic background simply would not allow it psychologically. UFOs were
hallucinations, mass hysteria or some other conveniently explainable
occurrence. Alien abduction experiences were the result of childhood trauma,
possibly physical and sexual abuse.
Second,
even if I wanted to explore the paranormal, I could not and dare not because of
the restrictive intellectual atmosphere of collegiate academia. People lose
their jobs for talking “crazy talk”!
But then
something happened in late January 2007 that challenged my worldview and my
strict scientific interpretation of the natural universe. My best friend of 30
years saw a UFO. Not a far-off, hazy blinking light or a midnight vision from a
half-remembered dream but an actual UFO.
He was
close enough to see it in some detail: a black triangle with strobe lights that
flew low over his house and emitted a deep droning sound that rattled the
windows. His wife and young son had witnessed it first flying over downtown south
Salem heading toward the Willamette River. She called him on her cell and told
him a UFO was moving in his direction. Several people were stopped on the
street corner, watching as the strange triangular object floated slowly by low
overhead.
My father
told me of a UFO sighting he and his grandfather had in what must have been
October or November of 1957. They were watching the skies of Eastern Washington
for the Sputnik satellite to pass by. But they didn’t see the tiny point of
light that went “beep” on the radio. Instead, they saw two bright blue objects
flying in formation from one side of the horizon to the other at an impossibly
fast speed. They were well acquainted with military aircraft and these objects
were like nothing they had seen before. Besides, there was no sonic
boom.
Then my daughter saw a UFO in the summer of 2009. We were
reading a bedtime story when she interrupted me and told me to look out the
window. By the time I put the book down and looked, the object was gone. I quickly
got her some pens and a writing pad. I noted the date and time and the
direction she indicated the object had been moving. Then I had her draw it. I
asked her about size in relation to distance, and she declared that it had been
big, much too large to be an aircraft.
Besides, her drawing looked nothing like an aircraft. My
daughter had never been given to exaggeration or fibs, so I knew she was
reporting the truth. Had she imagined it? No, absolutely not.
Now my closest friends, my dad and my daughter had all
witnessed UFOs. These were not figments of the imagination. They were
physically real objects. How could I not believe them? How would I feel if I
had seen a UFO and they didn’t believe me? I would feel betrayed, of course.
Suddenly I had an epiphany. I had crossed over into a new
worldview and there was no turning back. This was undeniable believability.
I do not believe in UFOs. I accept their physical existence
in natural reality. UFOs are real. We may not know what they are; but whatever
they are, they exist in the natural universe. I prefer not to consider them
paranormal. They are absolutely normal. The scientific question is, normal
what? This question is my passion.
Jordan Hofer of Salem is writing a book for Schiffer
Publishing called “Evolutionary Ufology: A New Synthesis.” He is a research
specialist in anthropology with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the largest
such investigative entity in the world. He has also written a novel about UFOs
for juvenile readers. Contact him at refoh.nadroj@gmail.com.
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