UFOs and Aliens feature strongly in some chapters of 'Club Jaguar' Books II and III
the following article is intended to give a background to this aspect of the story
A UFO (unidentified flying object) is an object observed in the sky (or sometimes on the ground) of unknown nature
Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena.
The term is widely used for claimed observations of supposedly 'extraterrestrial spacecraft' often called 'flying saucers'.
A 'flying saucer' (also referred to as "a flying disc") is a descriptive term for a supposed type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flying object.
The term was coined in 1930 but has generally been supplanted since 1952 by the United States Air Force term unidentified flying objects or UFOs.
Early reported sightings of unknown 'flying saucers' usually described them as silver or metallic, sometimes reported as covered with navigation lights, or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly, either alone or in tight formations with other similar craft, and exhibiting high maneuverability.
While disc-shaped flying objects have been interpreted as being sporadically recorded since ancient times, the first recorded use of the term 'flying saucer' for an unidentified flying object was to describe a probable meteor that fell over Texas and Oklahoma on June 17, 1930.
'Some who saw the weird light described it as a huge comet, a flaming flying saucer, a great red glow, a ball of fire.'
The highly publicized sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947, resulted in the popularity of the term 'flying sauce' by U.S. newspapers.
Arnold's sighting was followed by thousands of similar sightings across the world.
More recently, the 'flying saucer' has been largely supplanted by other alleged UFO-related vehicles, such as black triangles.
In fact, the term UFO was invented in 1952, to try to reflect the wider diversity of shapes being seen. However, unknown saucer-like objects are still reported, such as in the widely publicized 2006 sighting over Chicago-O'Hare airport.
Investigations of UFOs
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Three weeks later they issued an intelligence estimate describing the typical characteristics reported (including that they were often reported as disc-like and metallic) and concluded that something was really flying around.
A follow-up investigation by the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio arrived at the same conclusion.
A widespread official government study of the saucers was urged by General Nathan Twining.
This led to the formation of 'Project Sign' (also known as 'Project Saucer') at the end of 1947, the first public Air Force UFO study.
'Project Sign'
Project Sign in 1948 produced a highly classified finding (see Estimate of the Situation) that the best UFO reports probably had an extraterrestrial explanation.
A top secret Swedish military opinion given to the USAF in 1948 stated that some of their analysts believed that the 1946 ghost rockets and later flying saucers had extraterrestrial origins.
(For document, see Ghost rockets.) In 1954 German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth revealed that an internal West German government investigation, which he headed, had arrived at an extraterrestrial conclusion, but this study was never made public.
'Project Sign'
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A top secret Swedish military opinion given to the USAF in 1948 stated that some of their analysts believed that the 1946 ghost rockets and later flying saucers had extraterrestrial origins.
(For document, see Ghost rockets.) In 1954 German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth revealed that an internal West German government investigation, which he headed, had arrived at an extraterrestrial conclusion, but this study was never made public.
'Project Sign' evolved into 'Project Grudge' (1949–1951), and then 'Project Blue Book' (1952–1970).
'Project Grudge'
'Project Sign' was dismantled and became 'Project Grudge' at the end of 1948.
It was announced that Grudge would take over where 'Sign' had left off, still investigating UFO reports, but as Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote, "In doing this, standard intelligence procedures would be used. This normally means an unbiased evaluation of intelligence data. But it doesn't take a great deal of study of the old UFO files to see that standard intelligence procedures were not being followed by Project Grudge. Everything was being evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it."
Ruppelt noted that some of "ATIC's Air Technical Intelligence Centre's top intelligence specialists who had been so eager to work on 'Project Sign' were no longer working on 'Project Grudge.
Some of them had drastically and hurriedly changed their minds about UFOs when they learned the Pentagon was no longer sympathetic to the UFO cause."
As Dr. Michael D. Swords writes, "Inside the military, Maj. Aaron J. Boggs in the Pentagon and Col. Harold Watson at AMC Air Material Command were openly giving the impression that the whole flying saucer business was ridiculous. Project Grudge became an exercise of derision and sloppy filing. Boggs was so enthusiastically anti-saucer that General Cabell ordered General Moore to create a more proper atmosphere of sceptical respect for the reports and their observers."
Critics charged that, from its formation, 'Project Grudge' was operating under a debunking directive: all UFO reports were judged to have prosaic explanations, though little research was conducted, and some of Grudge's "explanations" were strained or even logically untenable.
In his 1956 book, Edward J. Ruppelt would describe 'Grudge' as the "Dark Ages" of USAF UFO investigation.
Grudge’s personnel were in fact conducting little or no investigation, while simultaneously relating that all UFO reports were being thoroughly reviewed.
Ruppelt additionally reported that the word 'Grudge' was chosen deliberately by the anti-saucer elements in the Air Force.
'Project Blue Book'
'Project Blue Book' was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force.
It started in 1952, the third study of its kind (the first two were projects 'Sign' (1947) and 'Grudge' (1949) (see above).
A termination order was given for the study in December 1969, and all activity under its auspices officially ceased in January 1970.
'Project Blue Book' had two goals:
1 - To determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and
2 - To scientifically analyze UFO-related data.
Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed, and filed.
As a result of the 'Condon Report' (1968), which concluded there was nothing anomalous about UFOs, and a review of the report by the National Academy of Sciences, 'Project Blue Book' was terminated in December 1969.
The Air Force supplies the following summary of its investigations:
"No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and
There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles."
By the time 'Project Blue Book' ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft.
'Project Grudge'
'Project Sign' was dismantled and became 'Project Grudge' at the end of 1948.
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Ruppelt noted that some of "ATIC's Air Technical Intelligence Centre's top intelligence specialists who had been so eager to work on 'Project Sign' were no longer working on 'Project Grudge.
Some of them had drastically and hurriedly changed their minds about UFOs when they learned the Pentagon was no longer sympathetic to the UFO cause."
As Dr. Michael D. Swords writes, "Inside the military, Maj. Aaron J. Boggs in the Pentagon and Col. Harold Watson at AMC Air Material Command were openly giving the impression that the whole flying saucer business was ridiculous. Project Grudge became an exercise of derision and sloppy filing. Boggs was so enthusiastically anti-saucer that General Cabell ordered General Moore to create a more proper atmosphere of sceptical respect for the reports and their observers."
Critics charged that, from its formation, 'Project Grudge' was operating under a debunking directive: all UFO reports were judged to have prosaic explanations, though little research was conducted, and some of Grudge's "explanations" were strained or even logically untenable.
In his 1956 book, Edward J. Ruppelt would describe 'Grudge' as the "Dark Ages" of USAF UFO investigation.
Grudge’s personnel were in fact conducting little or no investigation, while simultaneously relating that all UFO reports were being thoroughly reviewed.
Ruppelt additionally reported that the word 'Grudge' was chosen deliberately by the anti-saucer elements in the Air Force.
'Project Blue Book'
'Project Blue Book' was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force.
It started in 1952, the third study of its kind (the first two were projects 'Sign' (1947) and 'Grudge' (1949) (see above).
A termination order was given for the study in December 1969, and all activity under its auspices officially ceased in January 1970.
'Project Blue Book' had two goals:
1 - To determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and
2 - To scientifically analyze UFO-related data.
Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed, and filed.
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The Air Force supplies the following summary of its investigations:
"No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and
There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles."
By the time 'Project Blue Book' ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft.
According to the National Reconnaissance Office a number of the reports could be explained by flights of the formerly secret reconnaissance planes U-2 and A-12.
A small percentage of UFO reports were classified as 'unexplained', even after stringent analysis.
The UFO reports were archived and are available under the 'Freedom of Information Act', but names and other personal information of all witnesses have been redacted.
'Blue Book' closed down in 1970, using the 'Condon Committee's' negative conclusion as a rationale, thus ending official Air Force UFO investigations, however, a 1969 USAF document, known as the 'Bolender Memo', along with later government documents, revealed that non-public U.S. government UFO investigations continued after 1970.
The 'Bolender Memo' first stated that "reports of unidentified flying objects that could affect national security ... are not part of the 'Blue Book' system," indicating that more serious UFO incidents already were handled outside the public 'Blue Book' investigation.
The memo then added, "reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose."
In addition, in the late 1960s a chapter on UFOs in the Space Sciences course at the 'U.S. Air Force Academy' gave serious consideration to possible extra-terrestrial origins.
When word of the curriculum became public, the Air Force in 1970 issued a statement to the effect that the book was outdated (?) and that cadets instead were being informed of the 'Condon Report's' negative conclusion (see above).
A small percentage of UFO reports were classified as 'unexplained', even after stringent analysis.
The UFO reports were archived and are available under the 'Freedom of Information Act', but names and other personal information of all witnesses have been redacted.
'Blue Book' closed down in 1970, using the 'Condon Committee's' negative conclusion as a rationale, thus ending official Air Force UFO investigations, however, a 1969 USAF document, known as the 'Bolender Memo', along with later government documents, revealed that non-public U.S. government UFO investigations continued after 1970.
The 'Bolender Memo' first stated that "reports of unidentified flying objects that could affect national security ... are not part of the 'Blue Book' system," indicating that more serious UFO incidents already were handled outside the public 'Blue Book' investigation.
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In addition, in the late 1960s a chapter on UFOs in the Space Sciences course at the 'U.S. Air Force Academy' gave serious consideration to possible extra-terrestrial origins.
When word of the curriculum became public, the Air Force in 1970 issued a statement to the effect that the book was outdated (?) and that cadets instead were being informed of the 'Condon Report's' negative conclusion (see above).
The term 'flying saucer' quickly became deeply ingrained in the American vernacular.
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A 'Gallup Poll' from August 1947 found that 90% had heard about the mysterious flying saucers or flying discs, and a 1950 Gallup poll found that 94% of those polled had heard the term.
Air Force statistics indicated that the basic saucer-shape continued to be the most commonly reported one through the 1950s and 1960s until 'Project Blue Book' ended in 1970.
There have been some claims, still undocumented by scientific study, that reports of saucers began to decline in the 1970s, being supplanted by other craft such as black triangles, cylinders, and amorphous shapes.
U.S. investigations into UFOs
The 'Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit' (IPU), established by the U.S. Army sometime in the 1940s, and about which little is known.
In 1987, British UFO researcher Timothy Good received from the Army's director of counter-intelligence a letter confirming the existence of the IPU.
The letter stated that "the aforementioned Army unit was disestablished during the late 1950s and never reactivated. All records pertaining to this unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with operation BLUEBOOK."
The IPU records have never been released.
'Project Blue Book', previously 'Project Sign' and 'Project Grudge', conducted by the USAF from 1947 until 1969 (see above)
The secret U.S. Army/Air Force 'Project Twinkle' investigation into green fireballs (1948–1951)
'Ghost Rockets' investigations by the Swedish, UK, U.S., and Greek militaries (1946–1947)
The secret 'CIA Office of Scientific Investigation' (OS/I) study (1952–53)
The secret 'CIA Robertson Panel' (1953)
The secret USAF Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 by the Battelle Memorial Institute (1951–1954)
'The Brookings Report '(1960), commissioned by NASA
'The Public Condon Committee' (1966–1968)
The private, internal 'RAND Corporation Study' (1968)[48]
The private 'Sturrock Panel' (1998)
The secret 'Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program' which was funded from 2007 to 2012.[
Thousands of documents released under FOIA also indicate that many U.S. intelligence agencies collected (and still collect) information on UFOs.
These agencies include the 'Defence Intelligence Agency' (DIA), FBI, CIA, 'National Security Agency' (NSA), as well as military intelligence agencies of the Army and U.S. Navy, in addition to the Air Force.
The investigation of UFOs has also attracted many civilians, who in the U.S formed research groups such as 'NICAP' (active 1956–1980), 'Aerial Phenomena Research Organization' (APRO) (active 1952–1988), 'MUFON' (active 1969–), and 'CUFOS' (active 1973–).
In November 2011, the White House released an official response to two petitions asking the U.S.
'Majestic - 12'
'Majestic 12' (or MJ-12) is the code name of a committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft.
The concept first publicly surfaced in a series of possibly 'leaked' secret government documents.
Upon examination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), not surprisingly, declared the documents to be ' bogus', and some researchers considered them to be an elaborate hoax,
however, the 'Majestic - 12' concept continues to appear in popular culture including television, film and literature.
The concept of 'Majestic Twelve' emerged during a period when researchers believed there had been a 'cover-up' of the Roswell UFO incident, and speculated some secretive upper tier of the United States government was responsible.
Their suppositions seemed to be confirmed when images were published of eight pages of documents that appeared to be briefing papers describing 'Operation Majestic Twelve'.
The documents purported to reveal a committee of twelve, supposedly authorized by United States President Harry S. Truman in 1952, and explain how the crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell in 1947 had been concealed, how the recovered alien technology could be exploited, and how the United States should engage with extra-terrestrial life in the future.
Researchers later received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what has been called the 'Cutler/Twining Memo', while searching declassified files in the National Archives.
U.S. investigations into UFOs
The 'Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit' (IPU), established by the U.S. Army sometime in the 1940s, and about which little is known.
In 1987, British UFO researcher Timothy Good received from the Army's director of counter-intelligence a letter confirming the existence of the IPU.
The letter stated that "the aforementioned Army unit was disestablished during the late 1950s and never reactivated. All records pertaining to this unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with operation BLUEBOOK."
The IPU records have never been released.
'Project Blue Book', previously 'Project Sign' and 'Project Grudge', conducted by the USAF from 1947 until 1969 (see above)
The secret U.S. Army/Air Force 'Project Twinkle' investigation into green fireballs (1948–1951)
'Ghost Rockets' investigations by the Swedish, UK, U.S., and Greek militaries (1946–1947)
The secret 'CIA Robertson Panel' (1953)
The secret USAF Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 by the Battelle Memorial Institute (1951–1954)
'The Brookings Report '(1960), commissioned by NASA
'The Public Condon Committee' (1966–1968)
The private, internal 'RAND Corporation Study' (1968)[48]
The private 'Sturrock Panel' (1998)
The secret 'Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program' which was funded from 2007 to 2012.[
Thousands of documents released under FOIA also indicate that many U.S. intelligence agencies collected (and still collect) information on UFOs.
These agencies include the 'Defence Intelligence Agency' (DIA), FBI, CIA, 'National Security Agency' (NSA), as well as military intelligence agencies of the Army and U.S. Navy, in addition to the Air Force.
The investigation of UFOs has also attracted many civilians, who in the U.S formed research groups such as 'NICAP' (active 1956–1980), 'Aerial Phenomena Research Organization' (APRO) (active 1952–1988), 'MUFON' (active 1969–), and 'CUFOS' (active 1973–).
In November 2011, the White House released an official response to two petitions asking the U.S.
'Majestic - 12'
The concept first publicly surfaced in a series of possibly 'leaked' secret government documents.
Upon examination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), not surprisingly, declared the documents to be ' bogus', and some researchers considered them to be an elaborate hoax,
however, the 'Majestic - 12' concept continues to appear in popular culture including television, film and literature.
The concept of 'Majestic Twelve' emerged during a period when researchers believed there had been a 'cover-up' of the Roswell UFO incident, and speculated some secretive upper tier of the United States government was responsible.
Their suppositions seemed to be confirmed when images were published of eight pages of documents that appeared to be briefing papers describing 'Operation Majestic Twelve'.
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Researchers later received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what has been called the 'Cutler/Twining Memo', while searching declassified files in the National Archives.
The Memo purported to be written by President Eisenhower's assistant Robert Cutler to General Nathan F. Twining, and containing a reference to 'Majestic 12'.
Claiming to be connected to the United States Air Force 'Office of Special Investigations', Richard Doty claimed that the MJ-12 story was true, and presented documents purporting to prove the existence of small, 'grey humanoid aliens' originating from the 'Zeta Reticuli' star system.
The FBI began its own investigation of the 'secret' documents, and had (not surprisingly) some doubts as to their authenticity - but having been kept out of the 'MJ-12 circle', that would be expected.
The 'United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations' stated that no such committee had ever been authorized or formed, and that the documents were 'bogus' (?).
Later a document called the 'MJ-12 Special Operations Manual' then circulated among ufo researchers.
Researcher Stanton T. Friedman, however, believed the 'MJ12' documents to be authentic.
Friedman examined the documents and has argued that the United States government has conspired to cover up knowledge of a crashed extra-terrestrial spacecraft.
One of the most common states that some photos of saucers were hoaxes;
Another theory states that many are 'natural phenomena', such as lenticular clouds and balloons, which appear disc-like in some lighting conditions.
A third theory puts many saucer sightings down to a form of mass hysteria.
Claiming to be connected to the United States Air Force 'Office of Special Investigations', Richard Doty claimed that the MJ-12 story was true, and presented documents purporting to prove the existence of small, 'grey humanoid aliens' originating from the 'Zeta Reticuli' star system.
The FBI began its own investigation of the 'secret' documents, and had (not surprisingly) some doubts as to their authenticity - but having been kept out of the 'MJ-12 circle', that would be expected.
The 'United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations' stated that no such committee had ever been authorized or formed, and that the documents were 'bogus' (?).
Later a document called the 'MJ-12 Special Operations Manual' then circulated among ufo researchers.
Researcher Stanton T. Friedman, however, believed the 'MJ12' documents to be authentic.
Friedman examined the documents and has argued that the United States government has conspired to cover up knowledge of a crashed extra-terrestrial spacecraft.
Explanations
In addition to the 'extra-terrestrial hypothesis', a variety of possible explanations for flying saucers have been put forward.
Another theory states that many are 'natural phenomena', such as lenticular clouds and balloons, which appear disc-like in some lighting conditions.
A third theory puts many saucer sightings down to a form of mass hysteria.
ALIENS
The most commonly reported 'aliens' are known as 'Grey Aliens', and it is this type of alien that is featured in 'Club Jaguar'.
Grey Aliens
Grey aliens, also referred to as 'Zeta Reticulans', 'Roswell Greys', or simply 'Grays', are purported extra-terrestrial beings whose existence is discussed in ufological, paranormal, and 'New Age' research, and who are named for their unique skin colour.
Forty-three percent of all reported alien encounters in the United States describe Grey aliens.
Such claims vary in every respect, including the nature, origins (e.g. extra-terrestrials, 'extra-dimensionals', time travellers, or 'machines'), moral dispositions, intentions, and physical appearances of the encountered beings, though many of them nonetheless share many noticeable similarities.
A composite description derived from this overlap would have Greys as small-bodied beings with smooth grey-coloured skin, enlarged hairless heads and large black eyes.
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'Grey Aliens' are also famed for having been reported in the '1947 Roswell UFO Incident'.
Some sources describe the 'Grey Aliens' as artificially created/modified race used by other alien races as servants, or even slaves, to execute tasks such as abductions and others.
Whatever their origin, the 'Grey Alien' has emerged as an archetypal image of sentient non-human creatures, and of extra-terrestrial life in general, as well as an iconic trope of popular culture in the age of space exploration.
Appearance
Their bodies are usually depicted as being elongated, having a small chest, and lacking in muscular definition, and visible skeletal structure.
Their legs are shorter and jointed differently from what one would expect in a human.
Their limbs are often depicted as proportionally different from a human's; their humerus and thighs are the same lengths as their forearms and shins.
'Greys' are depicted as having unusually large heads in proportion to their bodies.
They are depicted as having no hair anywhere on the body, including the face, and no noticeable outer ears or noses, but only small openings or orifices for ears and nostrils.
They are generally depicted as having very small mouths and very large opaque black eyes with no discernible iris or pupil.
Reports of alleged encounters frequently state their height to be 2–4 feet (0.61–1.22 m) tall, although other varieties of Greys are sometimes portrayed as human-sized.
Precursors of 'Alien Greys' in Fiction
The precise origin of the 'Grey' as the stereotypical extra-terrestrial being in 'fantasy' is difficult to pinpoint.
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In his 1901 book 'The First Men in the Moon', Wells described 'Selenites' (natives of the Moon) as having grey skin, big heads, and large black eyes.
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In 1933, the Swedish novelist Gustav Sandgren, using the pen name Gabriel Linde, published a science fiction novel called 'Den okända faran' ('The Unknown Danger'), in which he describes a race of extraterrestrials: "...the creatures did not resemble any race of humans. They were short, shorter than the average Japanese, and their heads were big and bald, with strong, square foreheads, and very small noses and mouths, and weak chins. What was most extraordinary about them were the eyes—large, dark, gleaming, with a sharp gaze. They wore clothes made of soft grey fabric, and their limbs seemed to be similar to those of humans." The novel, aimed at young readers, included illustrations of the imagined aliens.
In a more recent fictional representation, he 'Greys' appear as the (benevolent) aliens in the 1977 film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'.
That same year, a species of 'Grey alien–type' beings, called the 'Bith', were depicted as the 'Cantina Band' in the film 'Star Wars'.
'Alien Greys' and Abduction Scenarios
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Almost all reports of 'Greys' are related the experiences of forcible abduction.
While "alien abduction" did not achieve widespread attention until the 1960s, there were many similar stories circulating decades earlier.
These early abduction-like accounts have been dubbed "paleo-abductions".
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It would appear on initial investigation that alien contact and alien abductions have no basis on objective reality, however, an investigation of over 800 abductees indicated the 'ordinariness' of the population, which included a restaurant owner, several secretaries, a prison guard, college students, a university administrator, and several home-makers.
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The majority of abductees do not appear to be deluded, confabulating, lying, self-dramatizing, or suffering from any mental illness.
While psychopathology is indicated in a very few isolated alien abduction cases, assessment by both clinical examination and standardized tests has shown that, as a group, abduction experients are not different from the general population in term of psychopathology prevalence.
Some abduction reports are quite detailed.
An entire subculture has developed around the subject, with support groups, and a detailed explanation of the reasons for abductions.
It is suggested that the aliens have specific roles, origins, and motivations.
Abduction claimants do not always attempt to explain the phenomenon, but some take independent research interest in it themselves, and explain the lack of greater awareness of alien abduction as the result of either extra-terrestrial or governmental interest in cover-up.
Eventually, newspaper reports of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction brought 'Greys' to international attention.
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The abductees, Betty and Barney Hill, claimed that in 1961, alien beings had abducted them and taken them to a flying saucer or saucer-shaped spaceship.
(The term 'Greys' did not come into usage until many years later, but the beings described by the Hills generally fit many characteristics of the 'Greys'.)
From a star chart reported by Betty Hill, Marjorie Fish, an elementary-school teacher and amateur astronomer, located the home planet of these beings in the Zeta Reticuli star system (allegedly the fourth planet of one of the stars of the Zeta Reticuli binary system).
The 'Greys' therefore often became known as 'Zeta Reticulans', however, the description of "Zetans", a similarly named alien race, differs completely from that of the "Greys", including in appearance, behavior, flying craft design and their treatment of abductees.
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| Whitley Strieber |
In 1987, novelist Whitley Strieber published the book 'Communion', which, unlike his previous works, was presented as non-fiction, and in which he describes a number of abduction encounters he experienced with 'Greys' and other extra-terrestrial beings.
The book became a 'New York Times' bestseller, and 'New Line Cinema' released a 1989 film adaption that starred Christopher Walken as Strieber.
'Greys' are commonly included in alien abduction claims.
Among reports of supposed alien encounters, Greys make up approximately 50 percent in Australia, 43 percent in the United States, 90 percent in Canada, 67 percent in Brazil, 20 percent in Continental Europe, and around 12 percent in the United Kingdom.
These reports include two distinct groups of 'Greys' that differ in height.
Abductees say that they recognize the leader of their abductors by its 'demeanour'.
Some ufologists and abduction researchers believe that taller 'Greys', with their reported increased authority and apparently more complex psychology, may be the only Grey type to be biologically 'alive', and that the shorter form could be their artificially constructed robot or cyborg servants.
Some alien abduction reports have depicted variant skin colors such as blue-grey, green-grey etc.
The skin is typically described as being extremely smooth, almost as if made of an artificial material like rubber or plastic.
Abduction claims are often described as extremely traumatic, similar to an abduction by humans or even a sexual assault in the level of trauma and distress.
(Research has shown that emotional impact of perceived abduction can be as great as or even greater than that of combat, sexual abuse, and other traumatic events.)
In his book 'Abduction', Dr. Paul recounts the events of David Hartman's abduction.
Leading up to it Hartman, a computer programmer, claims he experienced strange phenomenon with his work tech, including date and time changes, words typing by themselves, and whole sets of data moving from one place to another without human intervention.
He also told of physical signs such as nausea, insomnia, and nightmares of inhuman faces coming out of the dark.
The eyes are often a focus of abduction claims.
They are said to not move or focus in any observable way to the naked eye.
Claims often describe a 'Grey' staring into the eyes of an abductee when conducting mental procedures.
This staring is claimed to induce hallucinogenic states, or directly provoke different emotions.
Although abduction claimants often say that the 'Grey' was only inches from their face during the staring mind-scan procedure, they often subsequently claim to not feeling breath or seeing the Grey's chest move from breathing.
A recent survey conducted by the Roper Organization asked American subjects certain questions designed to reveal abductees.
Their results showed that, back in 1998, 1 of every 50 subjects had experienced an alien abduction.
Typically, abductions are on-going, and often begin in childhood.
According to researchers, who have worked with over 400 abduction cases, the abduction phenomena includes some of the following details:
The 'Greys', can alter individuals perceptions of their surroundings.
They can create a kind of 'virtual reality' in individual's minds and can appear under any number of guises and shapes.
Perhaps the mental 'scanning' is used to select imagery to calm the victims, and provide substitute memories of the abduction.
They can be present with individuals in an invisible state, and can make themselves only partially visible by this same ability.
Abductees receive marks on their bodies.
Scoops of flesh are mysteriously missing, and straight-line scars sometimes appear on victims' bodies.
Other marks include single punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three and four fingered claw marks, and triangles of every possible sort.
Female abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems after their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to cysts, tumors, cancer of the breast and uterus, and to hysterectomies.
Abductees report being scoffed at, jeered at, and threatened by their alien captors.
Painful genital and anal probes are performed - even on young children - and unknown fluids are injected into some abductees.
Abductees report being taken to underground facilities, where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of bodies.
Other abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being drained of blood, mutilated, flayed, dismembered, and stacked like logs of wood.
Some abductees have been threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they don't co-operate with their alien captors.
Aliens have forced their human abductees to have sexual intercourse with aliens, and even with other abductees while groups of aliens observe these performances.
In some encounters, the aliens have sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the abductee, appearing in such forms as Jesus, Blessed Mary, the Pope, certain celebrities, and even the dead spouses of the abductees.
The 'Grey's' ability to scan minds allows them to assess individual's vulnerabilities, and as a result customize the abduction experience.
Aliens often make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos and destruction.
They say that a certain number of humans will be 'rescued' from the planet in order to continue the species, either on another planet, or back on earth after the destruction is over.
Many alien prophesies to contactees of the 50's and even today have failed to come true, or appear to be outright lies.
Many contactees and abductees today are again delivering warnings of coming earth changes and disasters along with promises of help from aliens.
They feel 'chosen' to deliver these messages to mankind.
Again the 'Grey's' know their vulnerable egos, and can compel their cooperation.
The prophesies often create false hope and dependency on their abductors, whom they know little about.
Alien Breeding Programs - the reason behind abductions
It has been suggested that, because they are clones, the 'Greys' suffer from genetic mutations, and diseases, but most problematic is the fact that they are slowly dying.
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This poses a problem, because Grey Aliens were created, as clones, without any reproductive organs
With the inability to re-produce sexually, the 'Grey Aliens' face a 'time sensitive' issue that they have set out to solve.
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| Cloning Program |
They therefore set out in search of a solution, and eventually found what they wanted and needed on Earth.
As a result it has been suggested that the Grey Aliens are currently abducting humans so they can prefect their own method of cloning, using human reproductive methods to achieve their goal.
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| Child Abduction |
This is where Grey Aliens begin the process of extracting human DNA that allows Grey Aliens to cross breed their own DNA, and create Human/Alien Hybrids that will allow them to perpetuate their alien race.
Contrary to much speculation, Grey Aliens, with their Hybrid Program, are not set out to conquer our planet, but rather to solve their dying races' issue.
'Roswell Greys'
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| Major Jesse Marcel |
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| The Roswell Incident |
During the early 1980s, popular culture linked 'Greys' to the crash-landing of a flying saucer in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
A number of publications contained statements from individuals who claimed to have seen the U.S. military handling a number of unusually proportioned, bald, child-sized beings.
These individuals claimed that the beings had over-sized heads and slanted eyes - but scant other facial features - during and after the incident.
The incident was more or less forgotten until 1978, when a UFO researcher called Stanton Friedman went to interview Major Jesse Marcel (retired), who insisted that he really had found a flying saucer, but that his superiors had covered it up, and ordered everyone who came into contact with the UFO never to talk about it.
Subsequently, (Major Marcel died in 1986), other witnesses came forward to corroborate his story, with some even claiming that alien bodies had been found in the wreckage — small, humanoid figures with large heads and huge, slanted almond-shaped eyes.
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| Main Street - Roswell - at the time of the Incident |
A local funeral director claimed to have received two mysterious phone calls on July 7 1947 from someone claiming to be a mortuary officer:
“He said he needed to know how many two-foot-six-inch hermetically sealed baby caskets were in stock. Then he called back to ask about what embalming fluids would do to a body.”
A nurse at a local hospital claimed to have seen autopsies performed on 4ft-tall aliens.
The accounts eventually led to the publication of a book, 'The Roswell Incident' (1980), which, with the release of the film 'ET' (1982), helped ignite an explosion of interest in all things extra-terrestrial.
Over the next 30 years the 'Roswell Incident' would grow into a huge commercial phenomenon, making huge sums for film companies, writers - and not least, the town of Roswell, which hosts two museums and an annual UFO festival.
The association proved lucrative, too, for Jesse Marcel Jr, (Major Jesse Marcel's son), who appeared on numerous television and radio shows, went on lecture tours and in 2007 published 'The Roswell Legacy', in which he continued to insist that the wreckage had an extra-terrestrial origin.
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During the 1990s, popular culture began to increasingly link 'Greys' to a number of military-industrial complex and 'New World Order' theories.
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| The X Files |
A well-known example of this was the FOX Television series 'The X-Files', which first aired in 1993.
It combined the quest to find proof of the existence of Grey-like extraterrestrials with a number of UFO conspiracy theory subplots, in order to form its primary story arc.
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Other notable examples include 'Dark Skies', first broadcast in 1996, which expanded upon the MJ-12 conspiracy, and 'Stargate SG-1', which in the 1998 episode "Thor's Chariot" introduced the Asgard, a race of benevolent 'Greys' who visited ancient Earth masquerading as characters from Norse Mythology.
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On 'Babylon 5', the Greys were referred to as the Vree, and depicted as being allies and trade partners of 23rd century Earth.
In 1995 filmmaker Ray Santilli claimed to have obtained 22 reels of 16 mm film that depicted the autopsy of a real 'Grey' supposedly recovered from the site of the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico, however, in 2006 Santilli announced that the film was not original, but was instead a 'reconstruction' created after the original film was found to have degraded.
He maintained that a real 'Grey' had been found and autopsied on camera in 1947, and that the footage released to the public contained a percentage of that original footage, but he was unable to say what that percentage was.
During the 2000s, William J. Birnes published numerous accounts of encounters with little 'Greys' in 'UFO Magazine'.
QUESTIONS
Of course there is something very odd about this whole 'saga' of recent (from the late forties), UFO occurrences.
If, as very many would say, this whole matter of UFOs, and aliens, and abductions is just a matter of hoaxes, hysteria, hallucinations and such like....then why has it been a constant concern of all US governments (and also the governments of many other countries - including Russia and Great Britain), since the Second World War.
And in particular, in the US, why has the Military (particularly the USAF), and all the Intelligence Services, to the very highest levels, spent millions upon millions of tax payers dollars on investigating the various reports regarding UFOs, and aliens, and abductions.
As possibly Strieber suggests, "the aliens are indistinguishable from demons, and to see them..... to look into their eyes..... is to be less - forever.....they are the stealers of souls...."
"I've come away from this experience convinced of one thing: if there aren't demons out there, there might as well be, because these guys are indistinguishable from demons. Indistinguishable. To see them..... to look into their eyes..... is to be less - forever..."
Whitley Strieber - 1993
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