Word: ufo
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Other psychic possibilities involved in UFO sightings, Grinspoon said, could be classified as disorders of perception and thought, including illusions, delusions, and hallucinations...
Grinspoon said that the forms of reported sightings often involve "two of the major symbols of both the conscious and the unconscious mind-the breast and the penis. "The relevance of these observations becomes clear," he said, "when we look at the typical pictures of the UFO's. They are typically described as 'saucer-shaped' or 'cigarshaped' objects (breast-like or phallic objects...
Speaking of types of mental disturbances conceivably involved in UFO sightings, Grinspoon said that ambulatory schizophrenia was one category in which "one might expect unreliable reports of UFO sightings," explaining that people who suffer from this ill-ness frequently have hallucinations...
...Especially relevant to the UFO sightings," he said, "are the often vivid mental images which occur when drowsiness and fatigue begin to overcome us and yet we remain awake...
Grinspoon said last night that there are many other explanations of the UFO sightings, but that he considered the extra-terrestrial life explanation "absurd"-not because such life does not exist, but because of the technological difficulties involved in travelling such enormous distances...