Metatheories of the UFO phenomenon

Second-order theories comparing UFO-origin hypotheses

A metatheory of the UFO phenomenon is a second-order theory whose subject is the set of competing first-order hypotheses about the origin of UFOs and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and their occupants — whether extraterrestrial, interdimensional, cryptoterrestrial, or ultraterrestrial beings — chiefly the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), interdimensional hypothesis (IDH), ultraterrestrial hypothesis, cryptoterrestrial hypothesis, extratempestrial hypothesis, and the skeptical psychosocial UFO hypothesis — and which asks how those hypotheses relate, overlap, or combine rather than defending any single one of them. The most prominent metatheoretical position in contemporary disclosure discourse, articulated by Hal Puthoff and anticipated by Jacques Vallée, holds that the phenomenon is not exclusively any one origin but "some combination or mutation of any or all of these" — the unified UAP-origin hypothesis.

Notable metatheorists of the phenomenon include Vallée and John Keel (who first argued the origin lay "closer to home"), Puthoff (whose 2022 "Ultraterrestrials" survey catalogues the candidate origins), Michael P. Masters (the future-human reading), and Alfred Lambremont Webre, whose "Omniverse" framework groups intelligent civilizations into extraterrestrial, interdimensional, and spiritual categories within a single model.[citation needed]

Greer's tripartite classification

Steven Greer frames the central metatheoretical problem as the routine "co-mingling and confusion" of three categories: man-made craft (terrestrial reproduction vehicles); genuine extraterrestrial beings — extraterrestrial biological entities who reach Earth by interdimensional or extradimensional means rather than slow interstellar flight; and interdimensional beings long present on or around Earth, which overlap with — or are mistaken for — the entities traditionally called angels, demons, and jinn, and the nonphysical spirit entities invoked to explain ghosts and phantoms. In a reading broadly shared by Salla, Webre, and Cassidy, extrasensory perception and related paranormal faculties are treated not as anomalies but as a capacity shared in varying degrees by humans, by most interdimensional beings, and by many extraterrestrial beings — which is why contact so often presents as a psychic rather than a physical event.[citation needed]

Time travel as an interdimensional sub-case

Greer and others assign time-traveling occupants to the interdimensional/extradimensional category, reasoning that manipulating time "by definition" entails operating across extra dimensions — a coupling formalized in the unified field theory, where gravity control, vacuum-energy extraction, and temporal manipulation are treated as three faces of one spacetime-metric engineering; on this basis they hold that most or all UFOs are incidentally time machines — craft that let their operators, whether from decades or tens of millennia ahead, travel into their own past or future and alter timelines.[citation needed] Any civilization that survived long enough to field such technology is therefore assumed to exercise strict control over its use; Webre names the hidden, interdimensional time-travel power structure he alleges governs Earth's timeline the Chronogarchy.

References

Source ratings:

(Color-coding) (

[1 Wikipedia-grade]

[2 Questionable]

[3 Reporting/Analysis]

[4 Speculative/Hearsay]

[5 Ungrounded]

). (To change source ratings,

edit this page

Metatheories of the UFO phenomenon

Greer's tripartite classification

Time travel as an interdimensional sub-case

See also

References