UFOs as a Living Myth: Archetypes, Dissociation, and the Quest for Meaning

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UFOs are a real-world myth that brings material sightings together with symbolic meaning, reflecting Jung and Campbell’s idea of archetypal content and collective dissociation while revealing humanity’s longing for meaning, justice, and a morally engaged place in the cosmos, and they can also function as political distraction.

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UFO: A Living Myth of Transformation

If we ever wanted to find a contemporary exemplar of living myth par excellence, we would need to look no further than the UFO phenomenon—especially with the recent video leaks and subsequent Pentagon disclosures on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAPs). These phenomenal sightings share in the paradoxical nature of mythology proper: they are both real and unreal, immanent (to the universe) and transcendent of this earth; they are here and not-here, manifestly self-evident and suddenly disappear