Recently, we posted Mike Clelland’s synchronicity related to an idea about UFOs and cats that was remarkable similar to another blogger’s idea on the same topic written two months earlier. Mike swears that he had no knowledge of the writer or his post at the time he wrote his ‘string theory’ tale.
That post got us to thinking about the idea of UFOs and synchronicity, especially when we remembered that Carl Jung had written a book on the subject, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, published in German in 1958 and translated in English in 1959. Never one to fear treading on thin ice and plunging into controversy, the enigmatic Jung boldly wrote a 176-page thesis on his ideas.
Jung saw the UFO phenomenon as an expression of archetypes deeply ingrained in the human psyche. He also thought that some UFO sightings were synchronistic, which suggests that they might relate to psychic phenomenon. As Eric Ouellet notes on his cerebral parasociology blog, Jung’s thesis has been misconstrued to identify UFOs as a product of popular rumors leading to individual misperceptions. In other words, a popular trend with no basis in reality. In fact, Amazon.com describes the book in a similar fashion: “In this wonderful and enlightening book Jung sees UFO’s as ‘visionary rumours’, the centre of a quasi-religious cult and carriers of our technological and salvationist fantasies.”
That description ignores the link that Jung saw between UFOs and synchronicity, which seemed to validate some sightings as an aspect of psi phenomena, if not nuts and bolts objects.
Okay, with that in mind here’s a real life UFO synchronicity that I wrote about in THE FOG: A Never Before Published Theory of the Bermuda Triangle Phenomenon. My co-author Bruce Gernon and I included a chapter on the UFO connection to the famed B.T. and recorded Gernon’s own experiences. The story begins with a sighting witnessed by several people.
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On December 30, 1974, he and his wife, Lynn, and other passengers on a commercial jet flight watched a large amber-colored UFO for several minutes. “We were descending toward Palm Beach International and were about 50 miles north over the city of Stuart. We were at about 6,000 feet and about three miles inland when we first saw the UFO,” he recalled. “I was looking east toward the ocean at 7:25 p.m. when a huge disk-shaped object appeared at an altitude of 3,000 feet. It was just offshore and flying south. It looked like the UFO that I’d almost collided with four years earlier. It was the same color and it seemed to glow from within, creating a metallic appearance. On the upper portion I noticed a bulge, like a cap, similar to a cockpit.”
Gernon snapped several photos of the craft. At first, it was moving slower than the plane, which actually passed it. Before it disappeared from sight, he took several photos of the moving object. Although the object appears distant and somewhat hazy against the dark sky, it looks like an oval-shaped craft and the bulge at the top is visible.
He noted that there were no thunderstorms in the area and the visibility was about ten miles with patches of cumulus clouds between two thousand and four thousand feet. “It would disappear from sight when it passed through the clouds, but we could still see an amber glow from within the cloud.”
The next night, feeling that another UFO would make an appearance, he and Lynn went to the beach and brought along binoculars with zoom lenses. This time, they saw a series of UFOs at Delray Beach. The weather was clear with no clouds and visibility was over ten miles when he spotted a UFO.
They watched it for about ten seconds until it vanished from sight. Just as it disappeared to the south another appeared to the north, identical to the first one. Again, the UFO traveled at an incredible speed from north to south. Then, a third UFO appeared as if they were moving along the same flight path. It was followed by a fourth and then a fifth disk-shaped object. Zooming in with the binoculars, he could see that they were identical in shape and color to the one he’d seen the previous night.
The last one flew closer to shore. It appeared to be about ten miles off the coast and traveled at the same high speed as the others. “When it was almost adjacent to us, it made a remarkable maneuver, a high-speed ninety degree turn with no curvature in its flight path. It headed due west at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet and within a few seconds it passed within half a mile of us. When it reached the mainland, it flashed a blue light several times, then vanished.”
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So Jung probably would’ve seen a synchronicity in this story in that Gernon felt that if he went to the beach he would see a UFO. He and Lynn did so and witnessed several. It appears as if the last one might’ve even given a parting salute to Gernon, the only known survivor of an encounter with the heart of the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.
This story has some similarities to one we posted by Marcus Anthony in that both stories involved predicted sightings.
