It has long been speculated by theorists such as Jung, and even within the UFO narratives themselves, that the presence of the UFO is about social transformation. There are full, intricate mythologies about impending alien earth-takeovers, hybridization and so forth, all in which huge transformation is the result.

In his book, Archaic Revival, McKenna asserts the UFO is meant to confound science, and bring forth an embracing of mystery, maternal, organic, and intuition-based paradigm, a 'rebirth of the Goddess.' Emphasize organic here-McKenna was all about modeling human culture around and taking cues from plant life, and eventually merging our 'technologies.'

As bizarre, quaint, cliché, abstract, and/or 'nice' as this may sound to some, when contemplating the actual features he proposes in this new female and plant-centered paradigm, written almost 20 years ago, it seems only prophetic and sensible: detoxification of the natural environment, connectedness and symbiosis, whole system fine-tuning, recycling, global atmosphere energy-based economy, nanotechnology, maintaining biological diversity.

The saucer is not the only common UFO shape term that reflects the feminine, and generally the idea of gender. The Nazi UFOs were 'bell' shaped. The bell generally represents the feminine principle. Bells are also, according the to University of Michigan's Symbolism Project:

"…representative of joy and freedom, as with the American Liberty Bell. The shape of the bell is closely related to the vault of heaven. A bell's pendulous motion can represent the extremes of good and evil; death and immortality. They are also integral to rituals of exorcism and excommunication, and they are a widespread mechanism for summoning (often even a call of Christ). Its sound is a symbol of creative power, but can also be a call to arms. Is [sic] also phallic in some senses, a bell and handle = a vulva and a phallus, the same with a bell and a tongue. Leads to embodiment of virginity, unmarried women adorn themselves with bells."

It's not difficult to see some curious connections within the Nazi schema and bell symbology. The idea of a huge occult bell, carrying all its power, emerging like an angry mother from the sick perverted mess of the Nazi catastrophe is somehow satisfying. Of course, I'm not suggesting the actual UFOs were bells, (or belles,) mothers or goddesses. Rather, that because we named and collectively agreed and made stick the word 'bell' to describe these craft, whatever they are or were, there may be some meaning.

Likewise, there is the common cigar shaped UFO, with its obvious phallic affinities. As the oft-quoted Freudian saying, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" suggests, a cigar may be a default phallic symbol, as everyone immediately knows exactly what the cigar represents, and what the phrase means. Although the cigar shape does describe its respective craft, so do several other objects. Looking through the cigar shape case witness drawings at the UFO Evidence website, it is clear that many of the cigar-described crafts are actually closer in physical similarity to footballs, bullets, and baguettes.

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