All of life has a mythological dimension, and the UFO phenomenon is no exception. Myth offers a background of images that allow life to show up with greater richness and depth. Try as we might, life refuses to be reduced to any flat singular interpretation. The word denotes the drawing together of two worlds. Hermes is a spanner of boundaries, a mediator between realms, an ambassador between domains which seem separate but are connected by subtle thresholds.
Mythic realities imply much more than can be precisely defined or explained.
Yes, but that shouldn't be seen as reducing the significance of the search for answers. UFOs beckon the human psyche in the same way a bobber entices a fish toward the surface, where one element, water, meets others, air and dry land. Efforts to understand the UFO in conventional human ways have the effect of locking the phenomenon from perception. The UFO's message is that we, too, must learn to move back and forth among separate and diverse worlds. K.T. Normal science works well enough for normal scientific problems.