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  • Information Is Beautifulinfobeautiful@vis.social
    Jul 3, 2026, 2:55 PM

    Every one of the 35 theories for what UFOs/UAPs actually are, mapped in one chart.

    The truth is in there. Somewhere.

    Maybe.

    Navy-on-cream tree diagram, slide 1/3, 'What are UFOs/UAPs?': 'Human Theories' branches into Breakaway civilisation (Wakanda-style secret society, anti-gravity tech), Military stuff (classified programs given undue mystique), and Mis-identified (human-made objects), split into Sensor errors (camera/radar faults, illusions) and Aircraft (balloons, drones, rockets, satellites). Military stuff further splits into Secret military tech (ours: USA/Area 51; someone else's: Russia/China), Dark military (tech mixed with abductions/false flags), False flag (disinformation vs rivals), and Funding round (leaked reports to boost Pentagon budgets). Note: Pentagon has many competing programs. Credit: Information is Beautiful; sources Wikipedia, Fortean Times, Marginal Revolution.
    Purple-on-cream tree diagram, slide 2/3, 'What are UFOs/UAPs?': 'Alien Theories' branches into Inter-dimensionals (other planes of reality), Time travellers (Grays as future humans), Intra-terrestrials (beings in earth/ocean), and Extra-terrestrial (visitors from beyond our solar system), splitting into Beyond understanding (alien intent, unfathomable), Observers (study without contact), and Already made contact (X-files-style secret arrangement). Further branches: Angels & demons (modern take on celestial beings), Breeding program (hybrid creation), Prime directive (we're undeveloped), Anthropologists (distant study, split into 'not that special' and drones/bio-drones), and Safari (alien tourists). Credit: Information is Beautiful; sources Wikipedia, Fortean Times, Marginal Revolution.
    Black-on-blue tree diagram, slide 3/3, 'What are UFOs/UAPs?': 'Other Theories' branches into Combo (mix of all prior theories), Para-psychological (psychic mechanism linking mind/consciousness/reality), and Physical (unfamiliar natural phenomena), split into Rare atmospherics (plasma blobs, sundogs, ball lightning) and Earth flight (energy orbs along leylines/tectonic plates). Below: Beyond understanding (we'll never know), Psyche-projective (otherworldly beings clothed in cultural vocabulary), Intra psychic (mental projections in dream-like hallucination), and Psychosocial (collective imagination manifesting shapes)—possibly explaining why 'aliens' are always suspiciously human-shaped bipeds. Credit: Information is Beautiful; sources Wikipedia, Fortean Times, Marginal Revolution.
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  • Daviddavid42@mastodon.online
    Jul 3, 2026, 3:10 PM

    @infobeautiful Some UAPs are natural, stable, familiar, lights such as planets, especially when there are kinetic visual illusions such as viewing from a ship or airplane. These don't have a place in your diagram, as the Physical theories on the third page are specifically described as unfamiliar.

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