BEST OF TST 7/28/22 - Not Your Parents' UFO

There are countless theories as to what certain cryptid creatures of unidentified flying objects may actually be: are they monsters, demons, aliens, spaceships, or something else? Researchers at the University of Bath have now confirmed that ple-si-osaur fossils have been found in an ancient fresh water river system, giving credence to stories of the Loch Ness Monster as something other than a fictitious mythological creature. With the newest alien movie, Nope, questions arise once again as to whether UFOs are actually animals or insects. The idea was proposed in The Utah UFO display: A biologist's report, published by Frank B. Salisbury, a plant physiologist and director of the Plant Science Department at the State University of Utah, in 1974. Four years later in November of 1978, researchers from the USDA published a report called ‘Insects as Unidentified Flying Objects’. In the report, Philip S. Callahan and R. W. Mankin, a laboratory technologist from the University of Florida, conducted an experiment on five species of insects with a large electric field. The experiment found, “each of the insects stimulated in this manner emitted visible glows of various colors and blacklight.” They then postulated that the 1965-1968 UFO display in Utah was a result of nocturnal insects that had infested the area. The idea was also discussed in The X Files, season 3, episode 12.What this tells us is that the classic story of a glowing, hovering, humming “craft” over a house or car is nothing more than the brush discharge of an insect swarm in an electrical field which emits a hum alongside of the insect buzzing; as they hover over the lit sources of their attraction the electric fields may disturb radio and television signals and electricity in general. This electric field can likewise make us feel woozy, achy, or even pass out. It has long been known that electricity usage, like the sun before, caused influenza - ‘influence of the stars’. When UFOs drop off radar or disappear, they may simply have flown under the radar, disbursed, or flown out of an electric field.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.