Professor Paul Davies is recognised as an extremely eloquent and open-minded thinker on scientific topics, having authored more than twenty books on subjects from quantum physics to astrobiology, and cosmological speculation which sometimes borders on religious philosophy.
Alien Worlds magazine managed to score an interview with Davies recently, and were treated to some fascinating revelations from the respected cosmologist. He told how he had experienced lucid dreams, and related it to the ‘alien abduction’ experience:
The one situation where I do feel I have an understanding of what’s going on is with alien abduction, which I think are closely related to lucid dreams.
If you don’t know you are dreaming, I think these lucid dreams can be very scary and have all of the hallmarks of an abduction experience. I think that is easily the most plausible explanation for what’s going on there.
The upshot of all this is, in principle we could be being visited but I don’t think we are. I don’t think it is happening now and if it is, I’m very disappointed in ET.
You can read further extracts from the interview – which are equally as fascinating – on the Alien Worlds blog:
As scientists I think we should be open minded and be prepared to look at the evidence and in the case of UFOs, I’m one of the few scientists who has actually looked at the evidence. I’ve read the Condon Report which came out of Project Blue Book and talked to witnesses. Obviously people see things in the sky all the time and the vast majority of sightings are just misperceptions or atmospheric phenomena of various sorts.
Then there’s a tougher residue that’s harder to explain and I would say two things about those. One is that these are real experiences – I don’t think anyone is lying. The second thing is that to me, they don’t have the hallmark of extraterrestrial visitation and it is not what I would expect from ET. So whatever lies behind this, and there may be different explanations for different things, I don’t think will be extraterrestrial visitation will be one of them.
The full interview can be found in Issue 3 of Alien Worlds – purchasing/subscription details can be found on the AW website.
