Saturday, May 29, 2004

Whitley Strieber's site has seized on the Parque Forestal "alien" photo I linked to a few posts back. When presented with anomalous photos taken with digital cameras, the prevailing tendency is to chalk any weirdness up to Photoshop retouching. Certainly a great many "astonishing" photos -- probably the majority -- are clever fabrications. But the more I look at the entity in the Parque Forestal image, the more I'm intrigued. It has a certain implacable quality . . . I find myself unable to write this one off.




The being in the photo appears to be looking at the camera. Click here for a photo of a similar creature.


Remember the scene in "Signs" where you catch a videotaped glimpse of a tall green-skinned alien paying a surprise visit to a children's birthday party? The new digital photo has something of the same aspect. Someone on UFO UpDates has understandably poked fun at the image, pointing out that the "little man" isn't noticed by anyone else in the picture (including the horses).

But if I'm right about "alien" manifestations, most encounters take place on the very periphery of normal consciousness. I don't think it's an accident that so many compelling UFO and entity photos have surfaced without the photographer's realizing anything was there; our brains are not dispassionate instruments; they're useful, albeit limited, filtering mechanisms. Maybe our cameras, mindless and increasingly ubiquitous, have the potential to bridge the world of waking human consciousness with wherever perceived "aliens" and related beings come from. Jung called it the collective unconscious. Jacques Vallee called it Magonia . . .

Ask yourself: If the diminutive being in the Parque Forestal photo crossed your path, would you notice? Look at the image. He/she/it appears to be walking pretty damned fast. It could easily be in and out of sight within a couple seconds -- and that's assuming it's confined to normal bipedal locomotion. Maybe you'd see a blur of movement and chalk it up to a small animal or lack of sleep.

I think this latest image from the edge deserves the best scientific investigation possible. Can it be reproduced? Were there witnesses? What can the location tell us about any possible history of "weird" encounters? Who is that little guy?

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