Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Are we sharing the planet with "aliens"?

There's a new book called "The Hair of the Alien" that supposedly offers forensic evidence of nonhuman visitation. The "alien" in question is a so-called "Nordic" -- one of the tall, blond humanoids encountered working alongside the archetypical "Grays" in many abduction narratives.

Perusing the author's blog, I found an illustration showing the supposed ET. Instead of fitting the Nordic stereotype, she strongly reminds me of descriptions of human/Gray transgenic hybrids (a subject explored in detail in Budd Hopkins' 1987 book "Intruders" and more recently in "Sight Unseen," coauthored with Carol Rainey).

The UFO mythos is full of strangely mannered beings that seem like crosses between homo sapiens and big-headed "Grays." One of my favorite accounts is the now-classic account of Antonio Villas-Boas, who supposedly encountered a gorgeous -- if unusual -- woman aboard a landed (?) UFO. They had sex, leaving Villas-Boas feeling as if he'd been used solely as breeding stock.

If copulation was the purpose of the abduction, it's probable Villas-Boas was right. But more disturbing is the implication that Villas-Boas and his seductress were genetically compatible, which would be radically unlikely if his encounter involved extraterrestrials. As bizarre as it seems, a more likely explanation for Villas-Boas' experience is that he mated with an unknown offshoot of the human species -- which in turn invites the idea that "they" might be living among us, camouflaged by an advanced technology. The idea may be less strange than it appears; in fact, it may prove significantly more plausible than the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

Assuming, for sake of argument, that we share the planet with intelligent humanoids, their ability to hide would hinge, to a large degree, on their level of technological advancement. Humans (as we know them) seem to be only decades away from a technological "Singularity" with the potential to bend our evolutionary trajectory into a "postbiological" state. According to futurists such as Ray Kurzweil and Max More, it's entirely possible that humans just one- or two-hundred years from now might possess abilities that would seem truly godlike even to denizens of our jaded, science-driven age. Therefore it's not unreasonable to postulate an unseen civilization in our midst -- perhaps living in space colonies, clandestine underground settlements, or even at the bottoms of lakes and oceans.*

Arthur C. Clarke is fond of reminding us of the "magical" qualities associated with a sufficiently advanced technology. Given the present onrush of scientific achievement, it might behoove ufologists to rethink our presumed status as Earth's dominant species.

*See "Invisible Residents," zoologist Ivan Sanderson's treatise on underwater intelligences.

8 comments:

Mac said...

I mentioned space colonies. I think that's probably the most logical place to "hide" as well. Then again...

Mac said...

I think there's definitely something to "social invisibility." I think it would be much easier than one might think for a humanoid alien to walk our streets in relative anonymity.

Mac said...

What's particularly creepy is when people like this look at *you* like you're the oddball...

Mac said...

"So listen to the kids when they start spouting seeming nonsense!!!"

Interestingly, little kids seem to have access to an "imaginal realm" that gets "deprogrammed" in adulthood.

Mac said...

I think quantum mechanics might play a role in this "selective reality filtering." Try Googling "Fisher information."

Kyle said...

Mac -

Yup...twould make more sense that ETs are visiting from somewhere close than coming from another star system or even galaxy.

And "hiding in plain sight" is an ages old concept in popular literature...vampires, Clive Barker's Nightbreed", even the "X-men" manage to live without most knowing of their "special-ness".

It isn't difficult to imagine many cultures sharing this planet. Inter-dimensional travel would make it even easier.

Advanced technology might make hiding easier, but I'm not sure most people would even be terribly startled to learn that...like in "Men in Black"...all the stories of aliens among us were true.

Next time you see someone all bundled up on a hot summer day, with gloves, shades and a hat on, he might just be something other than a vampire. :)

Then again, maybe vampires are just hybrids after all...

Kyle
UFOreflections.blogspot.com

Ken said...

It seems to me that the way aliens look have changed over time to conform to peoples' expectations. Antonio Villas-Boas claims to have seen aliens in suits and helmets with blue eyes; I wonder if, had he told the same story today, he would have described greys instead?

"I also once met a guy at a party (again in the Boston area -- maybe its a collection point!) who told me he was from another stellar sytem."

LOL I should try that at a party sometime and watch the other person's reacions.

Ken said...

Anyway, my point was that ever since Betty and Barney Hill -- who were the first to report "greys" --almost every so-called abductee has jumped the bandwagon by describing their aliens in like manner. It's almost become a fad. I think this is a good critereon by which we can determine who the nuts and bullshitters are: The increasingly rare and atypical description of alien abductors (such as the story in _Hair of the Alien_) are probably the not-made-up ones. On the other hand, everyone who reports greys are probably full of shit.