Carl Jung believed that flying saucers were actually just modern psychological mandalas in the night sky

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When you're a psychoanalyst, absolutely everything looks like a manifestation of the collective unconscious. While everyone else in the nineteen fifties was terrified of alien invasions, Carl Jung decided that UFOs were simply a psychological phenomenon. He theorized that humanity was collectively stressed out by the Cold War, prompting the unconscious mind to project images of perfect, mandala-like flying discs into the sky as a symbol of unity and salvation. To Jung, the aliens weren't coming from Mars; they were coming from our own anxiety.