Oz Factor
Defined by Jenny Randles in her 1983 book, UFO
Reality, as "the sensation of being isolated, or transported from the
real world into a different environmental framework...where reality is but
slightly different, [as in] the fairytale land of Oz." E.g., UFO witnesses
commonly report that their neighborhood strangely lacked, during the sighting
experience, the usual background sounds of barking dogs or other animal sounds.
UFO investigators may note that there were no other witnesses to a daylight
sighting in a populated area, or that no motor vehicles were seen on what is
normally a busy city street. Randles adds: "There appears to be a
zone of influence surrounding these close encounters. If you are inside of
it, then you experience the episode in all its glory and as a total reality.
If you are outside of it, then the UFO sighting might as well not have
happened.
"The Oz factor certainly points to
consciousness as the focal point of the UFO encounter...Subjective data that
override objective reality could be internal [from our subconscious], external
[e.g., from some other intelligent agency], or both...The encounter has a
visionary component. You might interpret that as meaning it is all in the
imagination. But it really means that there is a direct feed, if you like,
from the source of the encounter to the consciousness of the witness...Some
witnesses report a strange sensation prior to the encounter -- a sort of mental
tingling as if they are aware that something is about to happen. They just
have to look up and see what is there, as if it had called to them
silently...Then time seems to disappear and lose all meaning." See
MUFON UFO Journal,
June 2004, 434, pgs.18-19; also Reality
Transformation.
A direct feed, from causative agency to
consciousness of the witness, appears in cases of
astro-alignment. E.g., witnesses may be sky watching, perhaps with
binoculars or small telescope, and see a lighted object slowly approach an
astronomical object and then move precisely around it. Parallax would prevent other
observers, even a short distance away, from seeing the same display.
Witnesses get the impression the display was staged precisely for them.
An isolated case of such astro-alignment could be coincidence but there are
multiple instances. Examples:
» 29 July 1955. Five astronomers were setting up telescopes near Lake Ronkonkoma, NY.
They spotted an object similar in brightness to a star of second
magnitude but along their line of sight towards the planet
Saturn. It made a precise circle of one degree from the
position of the planet. It then moved toward the moon, flew a precise half-circle around that, and
disappeared.
UFOs and Government, pg. 227
» 13 December 1959. A University of Michigan aeronautical engineer, serving as an Army artillery captain and
rocket project officer at Ft. Bliss, TX, was out with his
binoculars in the early evening looking at the moon. A lighted
object approched it very slowly in the six o'clock position.
Once in line with the lunar edge, it followed a precise path,
skirting the edge until it reached the three o'clock position.
It then moved directly away from the moon. The officer called
his wife and two neighbors to witness the performance.
NICAP U.F.O. Investigator, March 1960, 1, 9,
pg. 8;
further detailed in
CUFOS International UFO Reporter 32 4, October
2009, pgs 14-15. |
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