Bear with me for a minute. I’ve thought about the phenomenon apparent absurdity a lot.
THE CROWS BY THE WINDOW HYPOTHESIS
I live on the third floor. Right by my window there’s a tree. Right in front of my window, in the tree, a couple of crows built their nest. It’s like 1 meter away, we can see it really well.
The female spends all day in the nest, protecting the eggs, while the male goes back and forth.
While we do our best not to stress or bother them, we see them both during the day, and sometimes they inevitably see us through the window. Few times I’ve caught the male perched on the window sill, observing me with curiosity, and I can tell from her attitude the female can see us when we’re looking at her.
Now from their perspective, we (“the phenomenon”) must be weird af. – sometimes they catch a glimpse of us behind the bedroom window, sometimes behind the dining room window – sometimes they see me, sometimes they see my gf : we don’t look the same at all – what do they see by the way? Do they see us clearly, or just a vague shape, a shadow through the window, or just their own reflection, or does it vary depending on light, weather and time of day ? – assuming they can see through, sometimes I’m wearing a baseball cap, sometimes I’m not : they possibly wouldn’t understand I’m the same thing – i left food for them a few times, but they didn’t see it came from me : where did it came from, is that from the gods? – at night when we somewhat randomly turn the bedroom light on, the window suddenly becomes this illuminated orangey square of light with vague shapes (or clearly recognizable people?) moving behind. “Look Sharon, the light! It’s back! I see beings!” – sometimes I’m outside and I see them : how could they possibly understand I’m the same thing ? How could reconcile the tangible “outside me” with whatever intangible image (“hologram” ?) they perceive of me through the window? – sometimes the male when perched on the dining room window sill can see us watching television or playing The Witcher 3 – and cars? Wtf are these?!
If I found an injured crow I’d go out of my way to help or take care of it, maybe taking it to my place or to the vet. Imagine the stories of strange lights, probes and missing time from anesthesia.
To their crows minds, “the phenomenon” must be unexplainable. Especially since crows are so smart; smart enough to be puzzled.
Of course, they know humans from their everyday lives in the streets. They’re used to us, and they know some of us are mean, while some of us are friends.
BUT they have no clear concept of windows, transparency and how it’s affected by light or weather, no concept of humans wearing hats or not, no concept of invisible beings intentionally depositing food when they’re not around, and the various aspects of our interactions must be difficult to apprehend as being part of a single thing. And television? Must blow their mind, assuming they even register it at all.
To them, we’re unexplainable. We’re their UAPs. We’re NCIs : Non Crows Intelligence, with a strong woo element their understanding of physics can’t explain comprehensively.
And surely they must be debating the veracity and the nature of the phenomenon within the crows community. Other crows had the exact same experience, some had similar but different experiences, so there is a lot of variability to the nature of their interactions with us : some crows interact with humans in different settings and can’t understand the concept of “window+light” so to them it’s not related. Most crows don’t believe in windows anyway, and most don’t care about the phenomenon at all : whether it’s real or not, they have to find food and you now, not die. Then you have Neil Decrow Tyson mocking the window experiencers : must be gas swamp they saw hur hur (caw caw).
I think of this a lot lately when I think of UAPs/USOs/NHI and the phenomenon, especially when factoring the woo/supernatural aspects that come with it.
There’s a metaphorical “window”. And sometimes we catch a glimpse of what’s behind it, – possibly because sometimes the “thing” is watching us (or maybe it’s just doing unrelated stuff and we catch glimpses of it by accident, just because at that moment, light makes the window more transparen ), – possibly because it WANTS us to see it, for whatever reason – possibly both
ALSO sometimes, this “thing” is outside with us (maybe coming back from the groceries, or the dog park?) and we can see it : would we recognize it?
Sometimes it’ll even reach out to us, to heal us or to deposit gifts for us (wreckage? Downloads?), or simply to play with us because they’re nice, curious, fascinated by us or just plain mean.
And maybe, like us with nesting crows, it doesn’t want to interact too directly with us, because it doesn’t want us to freak out completely and have us die of stress or abandon the nest and eggs.
The phenomenon seems absurd to us, because we’re crows and we don’t understand this window thing, and what is the thing we see through it; what it does and what it wants with us.
We lack essential elements so we can’t reconcile the various weird aspect into our physics framework. Our understanding is incomplete by lack of knowledge and data.
We’re debating if it’s real or not because our instruments can’t detect the window, and even less, measure what’s happening behind it.
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