Iranians seeing a lot of UFOs.. or.. maybe USAs?

[GreenPartyVoter]

WE all know that the USA is on Iran's case for being part of the axis of evil and attempting to build nukes.

I wonder if the light shows they have been seeing are military in origin?

"Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front pages.

State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.

More colorful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright extraterrestrial light dipping in and out of the clouds."

http://news1.iwon.com/odd/article/id/400178|oddlyenough|04-28-2004::13:05|reuters.html

[TheBlob]

1. Link doesn't work n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Funny thing about UFO sighting "flaps"

They seem to happen when the stress and anxiety of a group is high and no release is to be found.

Of course, the debunkerizers cite that connection frequently (unless they've decided to debunkerize the UFO/anxiety theory, too).

Some of the believers call then tulpas, the Tibetan word for "thought form manifestation" or something like that. Either way, UFOs and frayed nerves seem to go together like ... like ... like aliens and anal probes!

--bkl
"Captain Kay-Wye of the AstroGlide-5 to base ... we're going in!

[smirkymonkey]

3. Interesting you should mention "Tulpas"

I just read about the phenomenon a few nights ago, and I was thinking to myself, "Could the entire Bush Administration be a tulpa of a society gone mad?" I am kind of joking, but not entirely. I think the collective mental health of this country is verging on a psychotic break.

Also, I read in one of the other forums here about holograms (used as a type of "weapon" by the military, i.e. causing manifestations to subdue an unsophisticated population, etc."

From DulceDecorum on one of those threads:
"Holographic projection. The Defense Weekly article describes a quasi-information warfare/psychological operations program that was first discussed by the Air Force after Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War.

This involves projection of a three-dimensional holographic image to act as a decoy. The Pentagon spoke openly about its use of holographic projections during discussions of its non-lethal weapons program back in 1994. Since then, the program disappeared, most likely becoming a black project.

The article concluded by stating that the U.S. Army's JFK Special Warfare Center and School disclosed back in 1991 that it was looking to develop a 'PSYOPS Hologram System' with the capability to "project persuasive messages and three-dimensional pictures of cloud, smoke, rain droplets, buildings, flying saucers and religious figures."

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/holotech.html

Here is the entire thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=125&topic_id=8601

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Tiptoe through the Tulpas

Well, y'know, there's a lot of wisdom hidden in spooky stories and theologies.

Classical tulpas are what we'd call "ectoplasmic", but they don't necessarily have to be. Everyday reality can contain tulpas that are just as mundane as poop.

The idea that humans "manifest" what we think is one such piece of wisdom that doesn't require ectoplasm. So, in a sense, the Bush Administration is a tulpa made manifest from fear and rage.

I haven't read very much of the writings of the current Dalai Lama, but from what I do know, he'd probably suggest countering evil with love. My, my -- what a positively Christian concept!

The holographic stuff has been bruited for several years. It's just a high-tech version of manipulating people through superstition. The technology itself could be explained as a tulpa of the atavistic terrors of ertain members of the intelligence establishment, which itself is highly superstitious. The blowback from superstition warfare, historically, is far worse than its use.

Lots of people think they're the Guardians of the Second Bardo and the Keepers of the Gates of Hell, but you can guess who is heard screaming in terror late at night alone in the dark.

--bkl