Saucers

AP: Britain releases batch of files on UFO sightings

No one, they knew, would believe their claim an unidentified flying object landed at the airport they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed. Yet that's what they reported happened at 4 p.m. on April 19, 1984.

"They were absolutely astonished," he said. "It was a bright, circular object, flashing different colors, and after it touched down it disappeared at fantastic speed. The report comes from very qualified people, and it's one of the few that remained unexplained.

Who doesn't like a good UFO siting. There's nothing quite like it.

One of my favorite books by C.G. Jung is "Flying Saucers." Here's a quote from a chapter titled 'UFOS in modern painting.' (The quote is more relevant to modern art than to UFOS.)

...painters have immersed themselves in the destructive element and have created a new conception of beauty, one that delights in the alienation of meaning and of feeling. Everything consists of debris, unorganized fragments, holes, distortions, overlappings, infantilisms, and crudities which outdo the clumsiest attempts of primitive art and belie the traditional idea of skill.

In a sense this is the thing that I like about flying saucers. They are in conflict with the sturdy sensation of a material ordered existence. They throw a crowbar into the notion that everything is knowable and that our lives are without meaning, and are strictly dependent on some notion of destiny.

Flying saucers are one of the last vestiges of mythological possibility.