UFOs and Blind Spots (abridged version)NSA
The inability of most men to objectively process and evaluate highly unusual data and react to the data in a meaningful way.
Whether the person's psychological structure is being assaulted by the unusual and shocking brutality of a murder or the strangeness of a UFO sighting the effect is the same:
the mind records fairly objectively what the eye is reporting.
when it has realized the strange nature of the phenomena it goes into shock.
to protect itself against intrusive and threatening reality the mind will begin to add imagination and interpretation to the incoming data to make it more acceptable.
the mind will construct a safe 'framework'.If the data is still threatening it will go into shock again.
if the data is at the highest strangeness level where it brings terror either;
the mind will pass out and go into amnesia burying the events perhaps permanently in the unconscious
the psychological structure will collapse and the mind will abandon itself to an entity for survival protection - religious experience.
the degree of strangeness of the phenomena dictates how many people the mind is willing and able to tell the event to. A very shocking event of high strangeness will be told to very few if any.
