We take words for granted – so much so that sometimes we fail to see the context that they convey. This is especially true of UFOs. Those three letters have already created in your mind a picture of what I am talking about. You are likely to see a discshaped craft, flying or landing, and you may even have conjured up some small entities standing next to it. Cultural influences may shift what you were envisaging a little but, by and large, what you imagined will be much the same for most people reading this article.
Words have power to shape our reality, and that is a momentous but often overlooked factor in how we perceive these phenomena. We name what we see, and if that name sticks with other…
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