‘How many layers of translation do you need to go down? You’re going to fit the narrative to the cultural capabilities of the observer… which is why the observations change over time’ — Garry Nolan on why aliens show themselves to us as they do

This works for me and is something I have considered for many years. Many of us see not just one thing or one incident or one profound inkling, but many things, some of them disparate, not the same but also connected, profoundly beautiful, magnificent and sensible, always indicating a much larger reality not pinned to the conditions of ordinary earth life, restricted rationalism. Nolan is pinning this to science, which is fine, but not entirely necessary or even necessarily the truest way to see it. It is a good way to communicate, which is what he is doing. I bet he would agree with what I have said here. ABN