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'Gray' aliens product of past popular imagination

Abstract:
One of the things that has always bugged me as I write these articles is how to explain the similarities. How could a rural farmer know that aliens are supposed to look like little gray men with light bulb shaped heads and enormous eyes? How could someone in some far removed country know what they're supposed to look like when the X-Files hasn't even aired yet over there?

My friends, take comfort, for this question has been answered....

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chws

posted 5/20/05 @ 4:13 PM EST

Maybe the past popular imagination of gray aliens stems from
people seeing them and not the other way around. Maybe experience came first and pop culture representations came second.

mahone

posted 5/21/05 @ 8:03 AM EST

That would be a good counterpoint to the article; however, as minimal research shows, in reports of aliens the gray is not alone. The range of physical descriptions covers probably a couple of hundred different types. By focusing on the grays, the media makes it seem like all encounters are exclusive. It just ain't so.

cchrtex

posted 5/20/05 @ 7:44 PM EST

Check this out....

http://www.the-book-of-thoth.com/documents/UFO_related_quotes.pdf

This contains quotes by world leaders, high-ranking military staff, NASA Employees, etc. concerning UFOs. If it's all pop culture nonsense, world leaders beleive it to.

-Mike

JimOberg

posted 5/20/05 @ 8:46 PM EST

Aaron, I'm sure the "Gray" ETs have a little cure of their own for what you erronously refer to as "diseased minds," which to their way of thinking, would most certainly necessarily have to include kooky wannabe debunkers such as yourself:

http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/images/gray_alien_50yrs_of_denial_photo1.jpg

You REALLY can't handle the truth, can you, Aaron?

Why do you persist in making such a complete fool of yourself writing about what you know absolutely nothing about each week?

You must be a compulsive masochist because that's what it looks like to those who actually do know what they're talking about. You obviously don't, and prove it with virtually every smirking, sophomoric scribbling of yours.

I think I'll probably just have to stop reading them because they are such a complete and utter waste of my time because you are clearly beyond hope.

Do yourself a favor and get some professional counseling or something.

Be seeing you...


JimO

mahone

posted 5/21/05 @ 8:12 AM EST

To Jim and his comment.

Your rebuttal of Aaron consist of nothing but juvenile name-calling. Where is YOUR reasoned polemic. You are in college? Perhaps a course on logic and debate will help you. I have studied the phenomena and concur with Aaron in most respects. You are grist for the mill when it comes to being a sucker for media-generated myth. I don't subscribe Aaron's 'diseased minds' comment either. A phenomena is occurring and it is worthy of scientific study. That said, the idea that the "gray" is the prototype of an alien culture interacting with us is a myth. The phenomena is not so simple as friendly little gray aliens using a technology similar to ours to visit us. If you have put so little effort into the study of the UFO experience that you buy the Gray theory, then you are either extremely simple or in a delusional state. Not knowing more about you, I can't say which.

JimOberg

posted 5/21/05 @ 3:11 PM EST

Rebut this, Mahone:
http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/images/gray_alien_50yrs_of_denial_photo1.jpg

What's the matter? Can't handle the truth either?

Be seeing you...

JimO

mellaw22

posted 5/21/05 @ 2:04 PM EST

I am sorry to disappoint you Aaron. There is no comfort in your debunking column again. Mainly because it is all based on Science Fiction and YOUR OWN imagination. Your missed your calling, you should have been a SiFi Writer. The images you describe in this column are pretty good. Some of the images were obviously from the book you mentioned the rest seem to grow from your own mind. Maybe Hollywood could use your talents. I see Jim couldn't accept your ideas ether and even a 50% pro comment failed to see where your ideas came from, Science Fiction books...lol Come on there is no comparison. It is like trying to compare TV wrist bands like the comic character Dick Tracy displayed many years ago. Back then the idea of such a thing was too wild for most people to conceive. What you are saying and the way your saying it only shows your own narrow minded opinion. Something's need to be challenged, something's need to be supported, nothing I know needs to be destroyed. Whatever the truth is, it will stand unchallenged because it will unfold in due time.
Mike

aaronsakulich

posted 7/12/05 @ 12:34 PM EST

Awww, someone took a photo of a statue! Isn't that cute!

Just because you find it on the internet, that doesn't make it true. For instance:

http://radio.javaranch.com/mikec/images/manetee.JPG

I'd beleive the Hindenberg was a giant river-dwelling cow-monster before I believe your silly photo.

jvogel2000

posted 5/25/05 @ 10:14 AM EST

Aaron,

In the second paragraph of your article you states "My problem was that I believed that the description of little gray space people was something recent" and then you go on to say you found references for these gray men with bulbous heads as far back as 1891, expecting us to be shocked! The only thing shocking to me is your lack of research in this area.

You said in your article "The UFO enthusiast would have you believe that this image is a recent phenomenon..." but this is only YOUR imagination. What is a recent phenomenon (50 years till present) is the number of reports of the sightings of these grey men (and UFO's in general), not because there haven't been sightings in the past, but because our overall information infrastructure (with radio, television and now the World Wide Web) has grown and we have a much better system of communication then 100 years ago.

I would suggest that you do a little more research on this. First, you will find out that descriptions of these gray men go back much further then a mere century but can be traces back a couple of thousand years, though they did not consider them alien beings (for the most part).

Further, I would suggest you learn more of cause and effect. You are completely warped on cause and effect if you think that the cause of these sightings is from an early science fictions book, when the case may just as well be (and can be shown to be) that the science fictions depictions of the gray men were borrowed from "popular folklore and myths", stories that have been in circulation for centuries.

P.S. As an aside to this post, did you know that in the book "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells, he accurately described a modern day television? I wonder if H.G. Wells was the cause of T.V.'s being built?

donmaor

posted 8/01/05 @ 12:18 PM EST

If what writes this guy can be considered true i would expenting the aliens to be green instead of gray.
or be like clingons instead of grays.

also i would be expecting their ships be like stars wars or star trek.

regarind the picture of the alien of 1890, is it the best picture from an alien aaaron has?
all i see is a fat boy with a rope a big ears. Please post the other grey pictures of the 1930 comics.

garbage logic,
thats what is found in aarons article.

84735

posted 7/19/08 @ 10:42 AM EST

The Greys may be believed to be what you say it is, mass hysteria of some kind popularized through media and blah blah ... Clearly, you haven't gone deep enough to know that there is a more elusive truth to it than what meets the skeptical investigator's eye ! There are many such advanced races in our galaxy, leave alone the chance of live being there in the cosmos itself. We don't need to go far into space to know that either, as they are among us on our planet as we speak ! There is a lot of reverse psychology going around hiding the true nature of these extra-terrestrials and the truth which threatens to shake up this patriarchal system we thrive in ! I would like to believe we are all one, irrespective of our caste, country or planet ! Like everything else it's all energy and it's all one ONE ! There is no real good or bad, but there are positive feelings which help us evolve and the others don't ! We all are one with the source we just need to awaken to the fact in our own charted timelines ! Again, WE ARE ONE !

Bob VanDerClock

posted 7/26/08 @ 10:13 PM EST

Hmmmm....I guess the comments from ex-NASA Rocket Specialist Clark McClelland to me in 2004 that NASA, as of 1992, (his last year of employment there) KNEW of at least 20 races out there "observing us"...or those of former Army Sgt. Clifford Stone, directly involved in the Top Secret "ET Recovery Team", publicly kicked that civilization number up to 57 during the Disclosure Witness Program's National Press Conference at the National Press Club, Washington DC in May 2001,...or the written comments in independent journalist Terry Hansen's groundbreaking "The Missing Times; NewsMedia Complicity In The UFO Coverup" about the CIA's way-too-cozy relationship with our "great liberal bulwark against unchecked gov't. excess" to keep the ET agenda safely hidden, have no relevance whatsoever to this thread....

Sorry to have bothered your speculative history with a little almost-eloquent "dissent".

Bob VanDerClock
UFO Researcher/Lecturer/Writer since 1993
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