• Vol 19.5 • October/November 2004 •

Editor's Note

There’s a huge, near-bursting underground of marginalized citizens waiting to break free and astound the world with a fact that could prove as earth-shaking as anything yet imagined in our beautiful but dangerous world. These aren’t fanatics, radicals, or anarchists thrusting themselves into civilized settings to make a point—usually drowned out by their own anger, stridency and barbarity—and to push an ideology; these are more ordinary citizens suddenly faced, either visually or fully experientially, with the shockingly inexplicable, but left unable to safely express themselves or assimilate their knowledge in a social matrix strangled by superficiality and political correctness. Yes, I talk of the always-expanding group of UFO witnesses and close encounter experiencers. Their personal realities have been shattered; their major defining moments crystallized forever by a phenomenon that refuses to be pinned down and impinges itself repeatedly in their thoughts and dreams, intruding unexpectedly into even their most casual waking moments.

These real experiences carry over to influence already weak-minded and uninformed people waiting for a cause, just enough to tweak their latent agitation and funnel it into a proselytizing campaign they believe will help change and uplift the world, but that ultimately infects others with little more than their simple agitation and fear about life in general.

All of the above is a condensed, simplified, possibly over-generalized and overstated example of how personal beliefs systems initially borne of experience thread their way into the body politic and sometimes produce unintended and often negative results. UFOs and potential ETs are smashingly powerful in this sense, and so, lacking a coherent and fully perceptible presence, spiral into a tight nexus of controversy and confusion—one easily exploited. UFO Magazine attempts to loosen this nexus enough for reasonable judgment—an appalling and often impossible task.

The personal knowingness of each individual has become a beacon for others. But no single experience or expression of it can stand alone to build a truth; dispassionate and functionally curious explorers are well advised to take in as much as possible but reject what doesn’t compute—or what simply fails to impartially edify and inform. Like the universe we inhabit, information is neutral. It’s the selected human overlay that shapes it into an idea or opinion or course of action.

It’s your personal freedom of choice at its highest and best.

Vicki Ecker

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