Dimensional Wrinkles
Then I began thinking about your more typical sightings: saucers, cigar-shaped, triangles, rectangles, and so on. How peculiar it seems that in our own imaginings (i.e. "Science Fiction"), alien ships would look something more like a "Klingon Bird of Prey", "The Millennium Falcon", or the "Battlestar Galactica". If sightings of classic UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial in nature, the contrast is stark, with these craft carrying few details, save for their shapes, lights, and in some cases, portholes. And maybe that's really how it goes. As creative as human beings appear to be, maybe we're really over-thinking the whole thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure we are.
But what if something else is going on here -- something less apparent and more complex? What if those who witness UFOs aren't really seeing the object as a whole? You might ask, Fine, I'll bite. Where's the rest of it then?" A decent question, for sure, but my answer might be, "It's right there in front of you!"
Consider that UFOs (the truly unexplained kind, mind you) are not of this dimension. You've probably heard some of this before, the idea that UFOs are not extraterrestrial, but extra-dimensional, although this isn't really about that speculation as much as it's about a possible explanation for the seemingly simplistic shapes we see darting around our skies.
Take, for instance, a 2 dimensional world and imagine there are 2 dimensional people living in this world. They would be bound by their dimensional laws, meaning that they could move "left", "right", "forward", and "backward" -- but they could not move "up" or "down", as their world would be quite flat (and would actually have no height at all. This is extremely difficult to visualize, so just think of the world as a vast sheet of paper). How would a 3 dimensional object, such as a ball or a cube, appear to these 2D people if it entered their world? Keep in mind that by entering their world, the object would have to 'land' since it would not be visible at all if it were floating above (remember, they can't see up!). Having no sense of depth or height, this object would not appear to them at all like it would appear to you and I. Instead, what they might observe is a flat circle (or a flat square, if it were a cube), which would seem rather plain with the only mystery being its sudden appearance out of "nowhere."
Perhaps we are experiencing a similar dilemma when it comes to UFOs. If these objects come from a dimension higher than our own, we would see them much differently than a native of that dimension would. One can only guess what a higher dimensional object could look like in its true form, as it is rather impossible from our perspective (though representations have been illustrated). We have no way of knowing or observing an extra-dimensional UFO's 'true' shape -- not as we would know the shape of a car or building in our world. This could account for the apparent simplicity of some UFOs, or help explain the morphing, more fluid-like shapes of others. So, when it comes to sightings, what we may be witnessing is an extra-dimensional object in only 3 dimensions, giving it the shape of a disc, orb, etc.
Carl Sagan better explains this concept with visual aids in the segment below, from an episode of "Cosmos" (I'd tell you which one, but I don't feel like pulling the DVDs out):
*Tesseract image by Claudio Rocchini"
Source: discover-ghosts.blogspot.com
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