Extraterrestrials

[Fake Messiah]

Rendlesham is a great case study for illustrating the retrofitting of evidence. The track-back is quite clear.

What's really interesting about investigating Rendlesham Forest incident is that you can see how myth gets made. Take that Sergeant Jim Penniston, people were obviously very interested in listening to him speak when he stated that he got about 30 meters of the flying saucer. He so much liked the attention that he had to revive the story, make it more spectacular because it was getting boring so later on he claimed he touched the saucer and then more years later he claims he gets telepathic messages from the saucer in binary code.

I mean it's impossible to draw parallels with Jesus and his myth starting with Mark's no-frills gospel: there is no miraculous virgin birth, no star of Bethlehem, no wise men, no empire-wide taxations, no angelic announcements, nor tales of precocious young Jesus astounding the rabbis with his knowledge. These spectacular embellishments are all later Christian developments. After Mark wrote his gospel, Christians increasingly saw Jesus as through the lens of higher and higher Christologies. Just a few decades later, Jesus was no longer an ordinary man turned savior; now John's Jesus was equal to God himself right from the beginning of time. Although Mark clearly shows Jesus' non-omniscience, like "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."