This claim asserts that UFOs function primarily as visionary symbols arising from the collective unconscious during periods of psychological and cultural instability. Jung argues that their circular form reflects archetypal images of wholeness, mandalas, and totality that spontaneously manifest when societies undergo crisis or fragmentation. He describes UFOs not as hallucinations but as visionary projections with psychological reality.
Evidence includes historical parallels where cultures generated symbolic sky phenomena during upheaval, along with modern witness reports containing dreamlike qualities. Jung emphasizes that the emotional charge surrounding UFOs reveals their archetypal depth and their role in compensating cultural imbalances.
Conceptually, this claim anchors DSETI’s symbolic and depth-psychological interpretation of contact imagery. DSETI evaluates it as Strong, recognizing UFO symbolism as foundational to modern anomalous experience analysis.
