It’s in the New York Post, so you know it must be true. They’ve extracted alien corpses from multiple crashed flying saucers, and they’ve been able to taxonomically classify the four different kinds of ET. Conveniently, they all look like they’d be able to be cast for the low-quality make-up capabilities of a TV series on a budget. They’re straight from Dr Who or Star Trek.
Stop laughing.
The Post did their research and found a former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher
and quantum physicist
to back them up. Unfortunately, their source Hal Puthoff. Puthoff is an electrical engineer (synonymous with quantum physicist, apparently) and Scientologist who is best known for the infamous Puthoff & Targ “research” on Uri Geller at the Stanford Research Institute. He has since moved on to promote remote viewing and zero point energy. He’s a notorious kook, so it’s not surprising that he’d happily vouch for those goofy aliens.
I thought that compound eyes were not as efficient as ‘camera’ eyes. I don’t know where but I heard that they’d have to be as big as ‘soccer’ balls to be as good as ours.
BTW. Have you seen this spider news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70y138y995o ?
Personally I’m put off by this BS.
The little guy with the big eyes looks like Paul from the movie Paul. And the Nordic guy reminds me of Jesus for some reason.
I’m kind of surprised Puthoff is still alive. Turns out he’s 90 this year. It was always hard to tell if he was a con-man or a true believer, but I’d say he inclined more toward the credulity of Prosper-René Blondlot than the obvious deception of Uri Geller.
The fact the “aliens” have a physique similar to humans (to the extent that they have a bulge in their crotch) leads me to believe the designers of this image have a grossly limited imagination.
I like how, in the last two pictures of the article, they deliberately cross into science fiction.
Video available on Amazon:
Third Eye Spies
So… why did they stop?
For many centuries or millennia, humans commonly reported sightings or evidence of pixies, faeries, brownies, sprightly, gnomes, trolls, and other hidden people who secretly interacted with humans. Then, in the 1940s to 1950s, those stories largely vanished abruptly, and were replaced by extremely similar stories that involved unexamined outer space aliens. The obvious conclusion is that nothing has changed, and that people love to tell such stories, even if the flavor of unexamined creatures has been updated.
At least 3 of them are from “Resident Alien”.
I don’t remember seeing the insect or the Grey in Star Trek. The Lizard could be a Gorn.
Babylon 5 had all 4 though, I believe. Although the last one was a human telepath and we all hated him.
As we compare possible faerie/alien bodies and eyes with our own, we should note that you never hear any religion saying THIS:
“And God so loved the world that He gave humans the best possible eyes, designed like octopus eyes instead of primate eyes!”
Obviously, the “evidence” from the NY Post is that God doesn’t like aliens either, any more than the humans who he designed with needless blind spots in their eyes.
The IEEE ran a symposium on this? I wonder if my late father (a member, at that time) knew about that. Anyways, another data point for the Salem Hypothesis.
Speaking of Uri Geller, apparently he’s currently claiming that Iran is using mind control devices on Trump to stop him from supporting Israel. This is being reported on Israeli television.
Larry @6: At the very least you’d anticipate that the reptilian and mantis would have mivonks that aren’t external.
Just goes to show that the skeptic movement has been an utter failure. Not because it was wrong, but because humans are too stupid to accept reality.
The faster our ignorant, superstitious species dies out, the better.
Sounds like he’s met some Klingons, too.
We’re gonna need a bigger infographic.
Wikipedia – Space opera in Scientology
When it had come out in video a friend rented Battlefield Earth. Easily one of if not the worst movie I have ever seen. I get Travolta’s involvement, but what was Forest Whitaker even thinking? At least he was in Rogue One, which I wound up liking after several tries. Cinematic Stockholm Syndrome?
Hollywood seems to group aliens (and other creatures) into two basic categories: The Good & Friendly Aliens and the Evil & Warlike Aliens.
The Good & Friendly aliens are depicted as peaceful, intelligent, usually tall and slim in stature, white-complected, fair-haired and usually wearing white or tan clothing and often coded as vegan while the Evil & Warlike aliens are aggressive, usually short and stocky in stature, have dark, unkempt hair, a swarthy complexion, and usually wear dark-colored, ragged clothing. Some examples are the apes and humans of Planet of The Apes, the various characters of the Mad Max movies have the good guys and bad guys shown this way. The Time Machine (1960) is a bit different in that the Morlocks have shaggy white hair, but otherwise fit the standard trope. These depictions couldn’t possibly be based on historical–and current–US social norms could they?
Hemidactylus @17: During a watch party of Battlefield Earth, I spent the whole time scouring a pdf looking for a half-remembered line, “Look at the bright side! You may not be wallowing in luxury on Psychlo, but at least you finally got your gold.” To point out the page number and how much MORE of the book there was left beyond the movie.
That line was not in the book. v_v The movie was only half of the book IIRC.
People swallowing this UFO distraction bullshit is almost as stupid as the jebus skyfairy murderous fiction book xtian terrorist followers.
I think you see all of those types by the 3rd season of Stargate SG1. The guy second from the right is Thor. I think; I’d have to hear it talk to be sure which Asgard that is.l
What about the Grebulons?
The humanoid alien thing is, I reckon, due to the needs for actors to portray them.
The lumpy-forehead type of alien.
Back in the days of yore, textual medium was the thing, and so aliens could be alien.
Take the pulp writer EE ‘Doc’ Smith’s Lensman series, which featured:
-Velantians (Worsel)
Serpentine, winged, scaled; long flexible body; clawed limbs; powerful tail; large mobile eyes; capable of flight; overall dragon‑like.
-Rigellians (Tregonsee)
Radially symmetrical; multiple identical limbs arranged around a central axis; no front/back orientation; eyestalks; tough hide; extremely stable physiology; “starfish‑like but upright.”
-Palainians (Nadreck)
Extreme cryogenic species; multi‑limbed; multi‑jointed; pale, soft, almost gelatinous tissues adapted to near‑absolute‑zero temperatures; appearance is amorphous and shifting to warm‑adapted observers; details hard to perceive in normal temperatures.
-Arisians (Mentor’s race)
Humanoid outline only as a projection; true form is non‑corporeal or quasi‑corporeal; vast, luminous, shifting presence; no fixed anatomical description in physical terms; perceived appearance varies depending on the observer’s mind.
“Stop laughing”?!
They’re really straight from People of Earth, the underrated short-lived sitcom about alien abductees and abductors. IIRC, they had a crew with one alien of each type shown here, except the Mantis.
I love how the Nordics are literally just tall white people. Imagine they take a trip to Norway and start screaming because there’s aliens everywhere.
Reminds me of a video game from the 90s called Perfect Dark. In the game, the Nordics, who are actually small, snake-like creatures who use cloaking tech to appear Nordic, are at war with the Gray’s and have plans to take over Earth.
A singular lack of imagination. We all know that aliens have long, slimy tentacles designed to rip the clothes off silicon-enhanced females. Where are our octopus overlords?
That’s definitely the best explanation for why aliens tend to be so human-like in live-action portrayals. It doesn’t explain why they’re still often depicted that way in animation though.
Undoubtedly, it’s easier to draw something that’s very far removed from humanity than it is to make a costume of it.
My guess it’s a combination of laziness, lack of imagination, and the belief that audiences probably wouldn’t be able to empathize with a being that’s too alien in appearance.
Same thing with anthropomorphising animals in films and stories.
They’re like people with animal costumes.
The horrors!
I’ve seen birds with teeth in their beaks, legs that bend the wrong way.
Plantigrade feet on digitigrade animals. Reptiles with lips.
That sort of thing.
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I gotta admit tentacles are far superior to a primitive few jointed lengths of bone, Gaz. :)
t’s definitely telling that most of the aliens people claim to encounter are ones that the crew of a ’50s sci fi film could produce.
The Nordics were created by con man George Adamski. And there’s no doubt that Adamski was a con man, because back in the ’30s he was one of many wannbe gurus running around Southern California.
And while we’re on the topic of crankism here’s a post from r/tartaria. This joker has come to the conclusion that there was no African slave trade, because there was a Tartarian Empire. Ridiculous conspiracy theories are fun until they result in stuff like this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria/comments/1u9e1ux/the_slave_trade_is_a_lie/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarian_Empire
Maybe the aliens are humanoid due to convergent evolution? Dolphins and sharks have a very similar body shape despite not being closely related species.
Those aliens show a distinct lack of imagination. The Grays were in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Why does the Reptilian have the body of the proverbial Greek God? The Nordic looks like a blond Ken doll.
Yeah yeah yeah… but are they open to new experiences? Curious? Adventurous? Doing anything this Saturday?
It’s also amazing how many alien planets look like a gravel quarry west of London or the Vasquez Rock Formation in California.
is it just me or does the mantis look mor elike Kermit the frog? Not enough legs / arms.
Also reminds me of that episode of the Xindi arc in ST Enterprise where the captain was compelled to look after the insectoid from of that , uh, group
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DytOyG5pTD0 Hatchery – just under 5 mins long.
@32. Tethys : Yeah, convergent evolution strikes me as both a cop- out explanation here -but also somewhat plausible given similar requiremnets for tool-building and body plans eg fish, ichthyosaurs, dolphins & worms, legless lizards, caecilians,eels, etc.. Dunno.
Given our planet’s history and biodiversity; how many times has the humanoid human-shaped form evolved tho’ and versus orther forms eg the eveything turns into a crab one and stuff?
The clsoer you get toexactly a human form the unlikelier it seesm to me but I don’t know. Aliens that are identical to us or that but just have funny foreheads and pointy ears seem pretty dubious in terms of probability to me.
^ Ones we can hybridise with? Eg Spock, Belanna, Delenn? Come on! Pull the other one!
One more Xindi clip here – Xindi Insectoids – Aquatics – Avians : Index Addendum – ten minutes but covers more than just insectoids, altho’ it covers them first.
Not exactly aliens altho’ who knows they could be and tangential here but when it comes to different looking creatures I quite like the ones in the old Abe’s Oddworld computer / video game here – full long playthrough -(3 hours 17 mins & 56 seconds long), the Paramites (5 mins 19 secs) plus the Scrabs – 5 mins 42 secs.
John Morales @ 23
You have researched EE Doc Smith!
Kudos.
In my youth, I read wossname, the one who wrote ‘Slan’ and ‘The War Against The Rull’. He briefly joined Hubbard, but realised he was a kook.
While Tom Baker was a great Doctor, some of his episodes had poor scripts. And the alien suits were crap.
Dr Who had a budget??? Well I never… (Pertwee and Sladen fan here!)
Seriously, this is a complaint about what exactly? Bad AI slop, I will give you. Maybe someone doing a bad drawing? But, while I was never a believer in this utter gibberish, I have vaguely followed UFO stuff for most of my life, and I am pretty sure that the only one of those I don’t remember hearing about literally decades ago was the insectoid. The “It looks human, but is taller, and super pale.”, one is, yep, something described by abductees. The “grey” is so prevalent in the lore that they get reused in almost every sci-fi dealing with “UFO/abduction” stuff all the time, including Star Gate SG1, in which they where cast as the ancient race who pretended to be the gods of Asgard (or rather, sort of did, for the sake of some displaced humans on other planets who already believed in those gods). And the reptiles are so common that they bled out of UFO conspiracy and straight into government conspiracies.
This is like complaining that someone writing fantasy has a complete lack of imagination because they decided to use elves, dwarves, dragons and pixies, and if they really wanted to be created they should invent new mythological creatures instead!
Remember seeing a cute little scene in Babylon 5. Guy in a courtroom telling a judge that he has evidence that the defendant’s ancestors abducted his great grandfather. Cut to the defendant, who is a grey, holding up a crop circle diagram.
Judge: “Can we get a translator in here?”