High Strangeness in UFO Research: Folklore, Patterns, and Theoretical Debates

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High strangeness is the term for UFO encounters that feel like folklore rather than simple sightings, combining missing time, voices, apparitions, telepathic impressions, and other eerie, multi‑layered events, a concept introduced by J. Allen Hynek and popularized by John Keel, with cases like Mothman and Skinwalker Ranch and no single agreed explanation, spanning ideas from ultraterrestrials or interdimensional bleed‑through to psychosocial factors.