The world is finally catching up to the clichés
Blog post 10.
Mitch, are you cherry picking UFO cliches?
People think UFO tropes are fiction. But the deeper you look into modern UAP data, the more you realise the clichés weren’t clichés — they were patterns.
Every time I publish a new post, someone asks if I’m cherry‑picking UFO clichés. Triangles, missing time, silent craft, beings at the bedside — surely I’m just recycling Hollywood scripts, right?
The strange part is: I’m not. The phenomenon is.
Triangular craft — Belgian Wave, Rendlesham, modern sensor tracks
Missing time — thousands of experiencer accounts across decades
Silent movement — radar‑confirmed cases, Navy encounters
Sudden acceleration — the “non‑ballistic motion” problem
Environmental hush — animals going quiet during encounters (our dogs!)
Yes, all this appears in the book as well — and more. The implant that actually wasn’t an implant. The semen sample associated with sleep paralysis. Beings coming into my house and manipulating me like a hand puppet.
I’m not saying they’re true because they’re common — I’m saying they’re common, which is why they became tropes. Have a look at the Buga Sphere. Yes, I saw one go sailing through my backyard. But not only that, it was shown to me by a bird! Now that’s putting the icing with sprinkles on top of merely weird. (Read about that episode in the book. It’s real.)
Side note — I just watched part of Spielberg’s 2026 movie Disclosure Day and saw the bit about a bird coming into their apartment and doing something odd. Right, well something eerily similar happened to me some time back and I discuss it in the book. Chapter 34 – The Birds. Check it out. It’s fascinating.
So where were we? Oh, Buga Spheres? Really? That’s now firmly in the realm of current UFO culture!
Well, I am aware of that, but I saw one, so what can I do about that? It happened and I saw it, cruising casually through my backyard like it was taking a short cut to a non-human intelligence picnic. Someone wanted to make me aware of it and did so. In that respect, it was similar to the sleep paralysis case with the sample extraction I talk about in Blog Post 5 when a third party wanted me to be aware of a specific event.
We’re living in a moment where governments are releasing sensor data, pilots are testifying under oath, and scientific committees are openly discussing non‑human intelligence. The world is finally catching up to the clichés — not because the clichés were fiction, but because they were early descriptions of a real phenomenon.
Tropes don’t appear because people copy each other — they appear because humans keep reporting the same handful of behaviours across decades, continents, and cultures. When a pattern repeats long enough, Hollywood samples it. That’s how a trope is born. And we need to consider that they repeat for a reason.
I don’t present my experiences as proof — I present them as data points. They sit inside a much larger pattern that thousands of people have described. When something strange happens to you, and you later discover it’s part of a recognised motif, you’re not cherry‑picking — you’re recognising structure.
I didn’t choose the tropes. I didn’t ask for the patterns. I simply saw what I saw. If the phenomenon behaves in ways that match the cultural clichés, that’s not my doing — that’s down to the phenomenon. My job is to report it honestly, even when honesty sounds like a movie script.
Maybe the real cliché isn’t the UFOs — maybe it’s our assumption that these patterns are fictional. Is the real cliché the chuckles accompanied by X-Files theme music? The phenomenon keeps repeating itself. The world keeps pretending that it doesn’t exist, although that’s changing.
And here we are, finally realising that the old stories weren’t stories at all — they were early field notes.
