Roswell, Oh, Roswell

I watched a TV programme about the Roswell flying saucer case on Discovery Channel yesterday. The large-eyed naked "alien creature" on the autopsy table reminded a classic comedy film Forbidden City Cop starring Stephen Chow, the master comedian of Hong Kong.

In this movie, the alien creature is just a Chinese Emperor in an alien costume... It looks so much like the Roswell spaceman! Because it is the parody of the Roswell Case... So Stephen, who volunteers to dissect the "Heavenly Fairy", almost chops His Majesty's leg. Anyway, this is a great post-modern masterpiece with a lot of surprises. Definitely must watch.

Well, I have been very sceptical about UFOs since one of my middle school classmates was arrested right after he ran into a police station, saying that he was almost kidnapped by space aliens. He was high on paint thinner...

Anyway, these kids often saw UFOs, nymphs or goblins while they were high on their cheap and easily available drug. I once heard that cocaine-addicts also tend to see UFOs.

So I basically think a UFO is an external projection of mental image. I am not saying that everyone who sees UFO is a drug-addict. But I guess it is a psychic rather than a physical phenomenon.

Driving in a place like a desert in New Mexico, a person can easily go into trance and see a lot of weird things. Such unexplainable images used to be called ghosts or monsters in the pre-modern times. But people continued to see these things even after the penetration of modern science into the general public, anyway. So I guess people, who had outgrown ghosts or fairies, wanted a more "rational" explanation and put scientific-sounding wrappings of aliens or UFOs on the things formerly known as ghost and such.

Well, in a society like Japan where an ancient culture survives in the rural areas, people still see ghosts quite often on lonely highways at night... In the United States, these primitive "spirits" seem to have been exterminated upon the colonisation by White people...

Then, why several people can witness the same UFO or alien creatures? I guess these images are made in the collective unconscious and seasoned by the zeitgeist. Anyway, many people used to see the same ghosts or goblins...

Well, Carl G. Jung wrote a book titled Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things See in the Skies in 1958. I will read it soon.