Episode 143: On UFOs

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In the 1950s, Carl Jung expressed frustration at the impenetrability of the UFO mystery, the "strange, unknown, and indeed contradictory nature" of this "ostensibly physical phenomenon" with "an extremely important psychic component." Throughout his writings on the topic, he marvels at the impossibility of coming to even preliminary conclusions. Fastforward to 2023, after a series of astounding disclosures on the part of qualified government people, and we have as much reason to be baffled as we ever had. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss the mercurial, tricksterish fact of ortherwordly things seen in the sky. Learn more about the Ohio UFO Heritage Conference on May 5-6, 2023. Preorder Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue. Support us on Patreon and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel Find us on Discord Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop REFERENCES Patrik Harpur, Daimonic Reality John Keel The Mothman Prophecies Jaques Vallee Passport to Magonia William Shakespeare, Macbeth UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky Weird Studies, Episode 141 on SSOTBME Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory Weird Studies, Episodes 73 and 74 on Jung Weird Studies, Episode 44 on William James’s Psychical Research Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi, Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret Jacques Vallée, "Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples" Shepard tone Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Twin Peaks Mark Pilkington, Mirage Men Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy Weird Studies, Episode 59 on Walking Weird Studies, Episode 142 on “Last and First Men” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:20.8	For more episodes or to support the podcast,
0:23.3	go to weirdstud J.F.
0:53.3	In the late winter of 1990, when I was in the seventh grade,
0:57.7	my classmates and I saw UFO flying over Prescott Russell County in eastern Ontario.
1:04.4	We were near the end of a 12-hour ride by chartered bus from Buktush, New Brunswick, where we'd spent the previous week.
1:12.2	I was sitting exhausted with my head bumping lightly against the window, staring idly at a low-lying
1:18.3	cloud mass over the wooded hills north of the highway, when something appeared in the sky.
1:23.8	It was a light, or an aggregate of lights, fiery orange and deep green.
1:28.7	The lights didn't blink like those on an airplane, but spun round each other in a rapid
1:33.1	oscillation.
1:34.8	Thinking it might just be reflections from inside the bus, I cut my hands around my eyes
1:39.6	and pressed them against the glass.
1:41.9	There it was, even clearer, a large, luminous object moving parallel
1:46.9	with the horizon, heading in roughly the same direction as we were, so undeniably there that it made
1:53.8	a halo on the underside of the clouds. A kid sitting across the aisle from me said,
1:58.9	Are you seeing what I'm seeing? And soon every kid on the bus was watching this thing in utter amazement.
2:05.0	Our teacher saw it too, though he seemed strangely reluctant to acknowledge what was happening.
2:10.2	The girl sitting in the seat behind mine started to panic.
2:13.8	As for me, I was elated.
2:16.2	I watched the object as it made a series of jolting maneuvers and
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