Interview with Mick West: UFOs, Aliens, and Conspiracy Psychology
Decoding the Gurus
The Uniqueness of the UFO Culture
UFO culture is based on personal experience, and not just believing something that you've read. Gary Nolan had when he was a child, he had like small beings visit him in his bedroom. And even later than that, as a young man, he had an experience with some kind of entity talking to him in a hotel room. So if you have someone who has a deep personal experience that they think was very significant to them, it really makes a huge difference in how they interpret these ideas. The idea that UFOs are some kind of advanced technology, some kind of higher non-human intelligence, because it explains their experience. They love the idea that their experience becomes validated.
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