There was no mass delusion. I can verify this by my own account. I had absolutely NO knowledge of the Belgium Wave. None. I had NO interest in UFOs. None. I had no knowledge of the Bucks County wave.
What I saw, driving along one night on a small road were two massive hovering black triangles. They were completely silent, and as plain and obvious as anything else you might see. They were not planes, they were not blimps, there were compltely unlike anything else I had ever seen. I was completely sober, not high, I was driving home from work.
I did not just glimpse at them. I stopped my car, got out of my car, and stared at them for many minutes. I drove a different direction after a few minutes to get a different perspective.
And what did you conclude after viewing them from different angles and distances? How large were they, for instance? What did the police, government, air traffic control etc. have to say when you reported it?
What sort of terrain was it over? Any buildings nearby? Is it a populated or remote area? Any constructions going on that could have created that sort of shape in the sky (such as huge pieces of material stretched out with wires).
Did you speak to the local meteorologists? Did you contact local universities to check if they had been running any experiments? Ditto research establishments?
Did you speak to the FAA, aircraft manufacturers, or even aircraft recognition experts and try to find out whether there are aircraft that look like the ones you saw from certain angles? Some balloons are very odd shapes, for instance.
Did you contact the local news? If so, who else saw them?
I'm asking all these questions because I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here and bet you didn't bust a gut and spend any real time chasing up all the avenues to check what
earthly phenomenon you witnessed. If I had to guess, I'd bet that you instead thought, 'Aliens!', and just went off right down that track.
Am I close to the truth, or way off the mark?
(This is the point at which you say I'm way off the mark, and you exhausted every avenue of possibility. Right? But we both know that unless you're a high ranking military official with access to the Pentagon's list of experimental aircraft flights, all the aerospace manufacturer's project plans, an expert meteorologist, have a PhD in fluid dynamics etc. etc. you couldn't possibly conclude that what you saw was 'alien')
1. I had no knowledge of black triangles. I had not seen any news reports before seeing them. Therefore it was NOT "mass delusion".
2. I only learned of the Bucks County Wave many months after the fact.
3. I only heard of the Belgium Wave after learning about "black triangles". They met the exact description of what I saw in 2008.
I can understand your skepticism. But guess what? If you think these things don't exist, you're completely wrong. I can tell you from my own first-hand experience that this is not mass delusion because I know nothing about any of this prior. It's not like I saw a news report and "thought" I "might have" seen them.
The "mass delusion" thing is a cop-out. As a civilization we are in complete denial.
What I've noticed is that UFO sightings are a lot like religion:
"I experienced something I don't understand, therefore: GOD"
"I experienced something I don't understand, therefore: ALIENS"
All it 'proves' is that the observer is seeing something they don't understand. It's nothing more than the human condition at work. You're seeing what you want to see. As a species we love to see more than there really is and apply our own biases and theories (faces in abstract patterns, creatures rising out of the craggy shapes of volcanic lava etc.)
Bear in mind that we live on a planet where millions of people believe that Mother Teresa performed actual miracles and cured people of cancers. They are able to believe this despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They WANT to believe a magic amulet healed a woman's tumour (presumably via the power of god), rather than the boring reality of all the chemotherapy she was receiving.
Show me some good, hard scientific evidence and I'll be as excited as you about the discovery of aliens here on earth. But I've not seen the tiniest scrap of real evidence that wouldn't get laughed out of the lab. Everything is either hearsay or fuzzy video of lights (that, funnily enough, I could create in my back garden).
And finally, don't forget this simple but sad fact: people just make things up. They make things up because they want to feel special, and sometimes because they have mental conditions which cause a compulsion to lie. Others have compulsions to agree with others, to fit in with the group, and these compulsions sometimes extend to pretending to have had the same experiences. Some people read and see things in movies and convince themselves they saw the same thing when they were children. The reality is nothing exists but their own thoughts.
I'm not saying the above applies to you, or this case, but I'm convinced it is a significant factor with UFO sightings in general. I wonder how many of the 'hundreds of Belgians' who witnessed the triangles would turn out to have personality disorders if tested? I'd bet it would be significantly higher than the general public.
