Prof. Dr Jan Pajak Sightings of UFO vehicles and devices - Totalizm

R-36
first of these vehicles, because of the size and because of the cold while "extraction glow"
which it emitted, was taken by him to be the Moon. The second UFO vehicle was taken to be
the Sun. In turn his observations he described later in his stories, especially in the "Comical
History of the States and Empires of the Moon" (in French original: "Historia comique des états
et empires de la lune"), which later was announced to be a "fantastic story". Unfortunately, the
manner in which he presented his adventures was cunningly manipulated into him by
UFOnauts. Thus it introduced to our civilisation many intellectual prejudices against the idea of
intelligent life on other heavenly bodies.
Independently from the presentation of a historic personal propulsion system, the
above events contain a warning. Namely, if someone is being used by UFOnauts similarly like
Cyrano de Bergerac, to spread their pro-occupational propaganda on Earth, then for his own
good such someone should NOT publish the fiction that UFOnauts push onto him. Rather
opposite, such a person should stick pedantically to facts and describe everything exactly as it
happened. Only if he is to report truth from the very beginning, UFOnauts will not have a
reason to kill him before he manages to invalidate fruit of their intrigue with his later corrections
of UFOnauts' original fiction.
R6. Philosophical trap
To complement the previous subsection R5, it is worth to mention here about
"philosophical traps". These are awaiting in cases of attempts to explain "rationally" old
stories and legends of the type listed before. These traps are simply mental stereotypes, that
people of our times acquired in the result of present level of knowledge, technology,
philosophy, etc., and which without a second thought we assign to people that lived in other
epochs. We keep forgetting in such cases, that the knowledge, technology, and philosophy of
such people from other epochs, were much different from ours. Thus they thought in a manner
completely different than we think today.
A best example of such "philosophical traps" is Figure R7. The origin and meaning of
this Figure is quite controversial. But in my personal opinion it presents someone's report from
either the observation of a person that used a magnetic personal propulsion system, or from
experiences of a person that used such a propulsion system. Everything indicates that this
Figure is a wood engraving that illustrated a "fantastic story" by Cyrano de Bergerac published
in 1656 and entitled "Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon" (in French
original: "Historia comique des états et empires de la lune"). Some people claim, that this
drawing can be explained easily in a "rational" manner, as showing Mr Cyrano himself floating
up to the Moon with the aid of "magical bottles - balloons". Such people claim also, that this
drawing has no any evidential value, because everyone may drop into an idea of floating in
the air with the aid of several balloons attached to the body. Even stories for children, and
Disney films, present this means of transportation. Unfortunately by postulating such an
explanation, these people just fall into this "philosophical trap" being explained in this
subsection. In case of Figure R7 this trap depends on the fact, that the use of several balloons
attached to the body as a means of ascending into the air, is characteristic to only present
level of philosophy and knowledge. Thus it cannot be extrapolated to people living in old times.
If one makes an effort of checking the history of human technology, balloons as means of
ascending into the air were invented only at the end of XVIII century. The first unmanned flight
of a balloon took place on 4 June 1783, while the first manned flight of a balloon with two
people on board, occurred on 21 November 1784. And we must remember that these were
flights in a balloon on heated air, not flights in a balloon filled with a gas or a "dew" that is
lighter than air. So in times when the story from Figure R7 was published, means in 1656, noone
was able to make fantasies about the use of balloons for ascending into the air, for a
simple reason that balloons were not invented yet.