The author of the UFO article sounds military to me, and in a strange way. Military people usually stick to where they have training and experience. This person obviously has NO scientific training whatsoever, although was probably briefed in the basics. A scientifically trained person would have agreed with the commentator:
Jupiter Five said:
Quantum Mechanics deals with the microcosmic scale of things, the Planck Length 10^-33 centimeters realm, if you will, so that measurements/observations of wave forms at that scale tend to collapse that which is being observed into identified position or momentum. Changes on the Human Conscioussness Macrocosmic Scale side of things might be thought of in terms of social psychology or biochemical neurology.
Instead the author refuses to acknowledge that his analogy is fundamentally flawed and unrealistic, and comes up with the ludicrous analogy of people altering their behaviour when their picture is taken, refusing to acknowledge that he is using psychological analogies and calling them "quantum events". The author's reply indicates complete ignorance. From my experience UFO researchers have at least some basic knowledge of modern physics at least at the layman level, which this person lacks.
The article itself, however, is an interesting bit of psychological manipulation, especially if one notes the implications of what the author is saying.
In particular he/she compares Jesus Christ to the Emperor Constantine, a well known Pathocratic Psychopath, compares, in other words, teachings of truth to raising armies and slaughter. He also attributes every major religious epiphany in history singularly to the effect of observing a UFO, as if UFO experience= truth and human evolution.
In one fell swoop he bunches the inspired with the psychopath, and belittles human potential to an "observer effect", concluding ergo that today's "chosen" are pathetic nobodies, and hence by implication human potential is nothing. At the same time, he manages to devalue any potential meaning in the UFO experience (such as most of them being controlled experiments of the malignant kind).
When a commentator notes correctly that revolutionaries today do not fare so well he replies:
UFO Iconoclast said:
But it's those gutsy persons of the past who did act upon their experience, and why we know about them now.
They acted, because, they had to; their experience, forcing them to action, and bringing public opprobrium, didn't matter. They had to re-act on what was an out-of-the-ordinary event.
Today's "experiencers" are pathetic in their docile reaction.
Moreover, they choose to set aside their sighting or abduction and resume a bourgeois life, forced into conformity by those who haven't a clue as to what UFOs or abductions are all about, but thinking those who have had occasion to experience either are goofy, or worse.
It takes a "hero" (in the Joseph Campbell sense) to confront the truth, the epiphany, that UFOs and/or abductions provide.
He claims to be speaking of heros in the Joseph Campell sence, even though getting blown to bits by storm troopers has nothing to do with the mythic quest. He is obviously not talking about the mythic quest, but of actual political, ideological and military revolution, as if the expected result of seeing a UFO is raising a banner and rallying the troops.
I have read a lot of military science fiction in my day, and there is a certain style of "no guts no glory" expression in those works that I find here when the pseudoscience is stripped away. If this person was objective IMO, it would have occured to him/her that today the UFO paradigm is part of our technological culture, and so it stands to reason people will not react to it as a supernatural event.
A legitimate site, furthermore, would not have deleted your comment, but would have replied in one way or the other. Only people who had vested interest in NOT placing attention on aspects of the UFO and abduction phenomenon you mentioned would censor it. I am thinking that this last observation is your take on this as well.