Thursday, October 05, 2006
A few months ago I posted a brief list of UFO occupant cases that I felt had special bearing on the Indigenous Hypothesis, the subject of a book I'm in the process of writing. Somehow I managed to neglect mentioning the strange case of police officer Herbert Schirmer, whose "alien" captors offer a textbook example of the sort of subterfuge expected of a terrestrially based intelligence intent on deception.
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I know I've said this before, but I find it interesting that there was more diversity in how abductees described their alien captors in the past. Today it seems that an overwhelming number of people report seeing greys. This makes me wonder how much of the abduction phenomenon is actually the reflection of a social sickness (with people making up abduction experiences or imagining them) rather than something that's really going on.
While Shirmer's aliens weren't Grays, they're tantalizingly *similar* to them. I highly recommend reading up on the case; it's interested me since at least high school.
"Ken -- Yeah, but Schirmer DIDN'T see "greys," at least based on the drawings (his and an artist's) that appear in the article. In fact, Police Sgt. Schirmer's aliens look like, well, some kind of cosmic cops!"
That's exactly my point. I think we can actually trace the evolution of the standard "Grey" via retrospective examination of all the abduction reports + sci-fi depictions of aliens beginning from 1947 until now. You might notice that what began as an astounding variation of different types of aliens reported (with little or no consensus as to what they looked like) gradually became uniform over the course of time.
Mac--
There are certainly some similarities between today's Greys and Shirmer's aliens. For instance, height and skin color. HOWEVER, there are also marked differences, such as 1) the eyes 2) the shape of the face/head and 3) the apparel. Could it be possible that Shirmer's aliens were just another step in the evolutionary process of what the popular imagination assumes an alien is *supposed* to look like?
Although, evidently, even recently there still seem to be several "varieties" of UFOnaut, including the Grays.
Here's a thought: Maybe the standard "Gray" is essentially what "they" have always looked like, and we've only recently been seeing them in their true form (for whatever reasons).
Conversely, maybe they're much more multiplex and the "Gray" is predominantly a caricature perpetuated by pop culture.
It's an interesting debate, with suggestive arguments on both sides.
Mac is, of course, the expert here
Let me have a few close encounters of the third kind; *then* maybe I'll qualify as an "expert"! :-)
It would certainly be interesting to do a formal, rigorous "taxonomy" of abducTORs. (Mac -- Could this be a chapter in "Cryptoterrestrial"?)
Not only could it be -- it is! (Although not as rigorously formal as it could be, it's at least fairly expansive.)
Was there ever a time when you thought you'd only been somewhere or been absent for a short time but someone else told you that, no, you were "away" or absent for much longer?
Not that I know of offhand. I sincerely doubt it. That said, I'm sure certain abduction "therapists" could track something down.
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