UFO encounters blur waking reality with dreamlike states

This claim states that many UFO encounters arise during liminal states such as dusk, sleep transitions, trance, or dissociative episodes. Vallée highlights that witnesses often describe dreamlike perception, missing time, paralysis, and symbolic imagery. These features, he argues, indicate that encounters operate partly through altered consciousness rather than straightforward physical intrusion. Evidence includes case reports where witnesses shift between waking and visionary awareness and where events unfold with dream logic. Conceptually, this claim aligns closely with DSETI’s shamanic dreaming hypothesis. DSETI rates it Strong.