Let's try and work out the in-game timeline.

To fit in my own idea, UFOs are not things created by ingame characters for the ingame world but clues made by R* for the player only. The only ufo which belongs to the ingame world is the sunken one.

Mark 1, the chiliad ufo. Like the idea of the first IRL glyphs or paintings. We see them but there's mo way to know what truth they hold, this is "out of the blue" for us.

Mark 2, the hippie camp ufo. We find a way to study these signs of the past, or at least to find them/receive them. The hippie camp is a place where they try to write what they think aliens must/want to do ; beam us up, take us back to the "mother ship".

Mark 3 ; fz ufo. Where the humans using technology try to recreate the same thing giving a message if looking the world from above. So it sends a light on earth and has a different shape than the other. It is a tool to segregate and rearrange ; because of the mystery of aliens hippies made this to the world by creating a new map.

Mark 4 ; Los Santos WTF!? Ufo. Another kind of recreation but this time I'm the area where people dont care anymore about the true meaning of things but accept the fact they dont know. This is now a decorative object, a part of popular culture.

I say this is for the player because npcs and character never react to UFOs we can go to see, and because no one speaks about UFOs in the game world. The only people who see and talk about them are us the players. So, making links between the different versions of UFOs, associated with different areas, allows us to build a meaning just like you are doing with "mark 1, 2 etc".

For me, there is no story with them at all in the game storyline except for the first one in the sea. Heir just depicts the origin of man/humanity (who falls in the tree of life or Greek philosophy, walk from the sea to explore the land, and try to fly, to explain everything etc)

The north is origins, and the more you go at the bottom of the map/south, maps, UFOs, communities etc include lies as the only fact or truth coming from a human construction, as I see it on the seal of Los Santos... Blaine county is the morning glory, just like the beginning of Dante's inferno. Los Santos is the last circle, the world of lies and myths etc. UFOs on the map, like maps themselves, they change of shape and origin just like ideas transitions from the first to the second to the third which ignore what was the first.....

Based on facts, the difference between these elements, I guess we are connected to the truth, the story of change and different uses of ideas/unknown things to explain.

/r/chiliadmystery Thread