"It is the behavior of an image, or a holographic projection." (Dr. Jacques Vallee)
In considering the hologramlike qualities of UFOs, some have concluded that they are visitors from other dimensions, or levels of reality, rather than other star systems. Carl Jung proposed that flying saucers were a product of the collective human unconscious, a modern myth in the making.
"When stripped to their underlying archetypes, all such phenomena are part of the same vast, pulsating something, a something that changes its appearance to suit the culture and time period in which it manifests, but that has been with the human race for a long, long time. What is that something? In Passport to Magonia Valle provides no substantive answer and says only that it appears to be intelligent, timeless, and to be the phenomenon on which all myths are based." (Talbot, p 279)
"And yet, if UFOs and related phenomena are merely psychic projections, how are we to explain the physical traces they leave behind, the burnt circles and deep impressions found at the sites of landings, the unmistakable tracks they make on radar screens, and the scars and incision marks they leave on the people on whom they perform their medical examinations? - Given that quantum physics has shown us that mind and matter are inextricably linked, I suggested that UFOs and related phenomenon are further evidence of this ultimate lack of division between the psychological and physical worlds." (Talbot, p 279)
Encounters with UFOs and aliens "may be our first true quantum discovery in the large-scale world: The very act of observing it may be creating it as a concrete actuality, with sense, definition, and a consciousness of its own." (Whitley Striber, Communion, p 295)
"In the omnijective cosmos, where UFOs have their place alongside quasars and salamanders, the issue of the veridical, or hallucinatory, status of glowing, circular apparitions, becomes moot. The problem is not whether they exist, or in what sense they exist, but what ultimate aim they serve." (Carl Raschke, UFOs: Ultraterrestrial agents of cultural Deconstruction, p 24)
"UFOs and other extraordinary phenomena are manifestations of a disturbance in the collective unconscious of the human species."(Michael Grosso, UFOs and the Myth of the New Age, p 81)
Raschke believes that UFOs are "a holographic materialization from a conjugate dimension of the universe" and that this interpretation "certainly must take precedence over the psychic projection hypothesis, which flounders when one examines thoughtfully the astounding, vivid, complex, and consistent features of the 'aliens' and their 'spaceships' described by abductees." (Raschke, in Cyberbiological Studies, p 24)
"I believe that the UFO phenomenon is one of the ways through which an alien form of intelligence of incredible complexity is communicating with us symbolically. There is no indication that it is extraterrestrial. Instead, there is mounting evidence that it...[comes from] other dimensions beyond spacetime; from a multiverse which is all around us, and of which we have stubbornly refused to consider in spite of the evidence available to us for centuries." (Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of alien contact, pp 284-89)
"If we are being visited by beings who are as insubstantial and plastic in form as the bodies OBEers find themselves in after they have exteriorized, it is not at all surprising that they might appear in a chameleonlike multitude of shapes."
"Rather than probing our physical bodies, these nonphysical intelligences actually may be probing some portion of us for which we currently have no labels, perhaps the subtle anatomy of our energy selves or even our very souls."
"UFO entities may very well be archetypes from the collective unconscious of the human race, but we may also be archetypes in their collective unconscious. We may be as much a part of their deep psychic processes as they are of ours."
"One thing that we do know is that in a holographic universe, a universe in which separateness ceases to exist and the innermost processes of the psyche can spill over and become as much a part of the objective landscape as the flowers and the trees, reality itself becomes little more than a mass shared dream."
"Who's dream is it? - Of the religious and mythological traditions that address this question, most give the same answer, It is the dream of a single divine intelligence, of God."
"But are we being dreamed by a single divine intelligence, by God, or are we being dreamed by the collective consciousness of all things... in a holographic universe this question is meaningless. We cannot ask if the part is creating the whole, or the whole is creating the part because the part is the whole." (Talbot, p 282-285)