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1.0 Preamble
This webpage examines the topic of Aliens, which appears to be a hot topic in the Google Search Engine ...
This is only an Intro piece ... hence the title of this web article is "Aliens — Intro".
You can also refer to our webpage entitled "Alien Abductions Mysteries" (available on the left NAVBAR), as well as to our 'web articles' (see right
NAVBAR) on aliens, alien autopsies, real aliens, alien abductions, ancient astronauts, and related UFO topics.
The concept of intelligent life elsewhere in our universe has gripped the world. Five of the top twenty highest grossing films of all
time —
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace,
Independence Day,
Star Wars: A New Hope,
ET, and
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
— all explore this topic. Nearly all the remaining films, from
this list, deal with science fictional or paranormal matters [source
cited — "All-Time World-Wide Box Office" website at www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide].
Then there are the award-winning TV series, such as:
Star Trek,
Babylon 5,
X-Files, and
Stargate.
Every toy and gift shop stocks alien merchandise and in North America it is
even possible to obtain insurance against alien abduction!
— Adapted from Christian von Nidda's Our Secret Planet
(2005)
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'Since 1947, aliens have poured from the abyss that lies somewhere between ourselves and the
world.' So begins Bryan Appleyard's dazzling survey of one of the most
pervasive yet under-reported phenomena of modern times: aliens — what
they are, why they are here, and what they say about us.
Before science and technology took hold of our lives we called them different
things: angels, demons, fairies. But in a world in which man has discovered his cosmic insignificance, our
need for aliens has reached the stars — and our search for them has drawn
our gaze upwards rather than to the bottom of the garden. Since Year 1947 (Year Zero in the modern history of alienology thanks to a flurry of activity from the first sighting of a 'flying saucer' [by businessman-pilot Kenneth Arnold] to the infamous Roswell Incident), there has been a deluge of sightings, abductions, cover-ups, conspiracies
and all their associated sub-plots from cattle mutilation to anal probes.
Science fiction both on the page and on the screen is in thrall to our
perception of and fascination with the Little Green Men — even if, in fact, most of them are Grey.
—
Adapted from front jacket of Bryan Appleyard's Aliens
Sub-title: Why They Are Here
(2005)
2.0 Notes
2.1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following (adapted) notes came from the Wikipedia web site — which is my favorite encyclopedia because it's
free, user-editable, updated (very, very quickly! Amazing!), and very, very
informative (I am 'dropping' the use of ALL the other paid encyclopedias to
'last place'; Wikipedia takes 'first place', it's a winner!) ...
Alien
Alien or aliens may refer to:
Biology
Extraterrestrial life
Any introduced species
Illegal aliens
In fiction
Fictional extraterrestrials
Alien (franchise)
Alien (Alien franchise), the titular creatures of the franchise
Film
Any of the six films in the Alien franchise:
Alien (film), 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott
Aliens (film), 1986 sequel directed by James Cameron
Alien 3, 1992 sequel directed by David Fincher
Alien: Resurrection, 1997 sequel directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Alien vs. Predator (film), 2004 crossover film directed by Paul W.S.
Anderson
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, 2007 crossover sequel directed by The Brothers Strause
Television
Alien (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Aliens in America, 2007 sitcom alien files
Literature
Aliens (1902 novel), novel by Mary Tappan Wright
Aliens (novel series), a number of novels based on the Alien franchise characters
Aliens (comic book), a number of comic book series based on the Alien franchise characters
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In games
Aliens (video game), a number of video games based on the Alien franchise characters
Aliens (arcade game), 1990 arcade game by Konami based on the Alien franchise characters
In Other Alien Games
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Aliens: Extermination
Alien Resurrection (video game)
Aliens: Thanatos Encounter
Alien Versus Predator: Extinction
Aliens versus Predator (video game)
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (video game)
Area 51 (2005 video game)
Destroy All Humans!
Destroy All Humans! 2
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon
Halo:Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo wars
Men in Black II: Alien Escape
Predator:Concrete Jungle
Space Raiders (video game)
UFO: Aftermath
UFO: Aftershock
UFO: Afterlight
[...]
—
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien
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[The late ex-President of the United States, Ronald] Reagan ... believed in the existence of alien beings. Not only did he see a UFO with
his wife Nancy [sic; perhaps "Not only did he and his wife Nancy see a UFO], but often voiced his
concerns about an alien invasion [cited source — Timothy Green
Beckley, UFOs Among the Stars (1992), p.92]. On September 21st 1987, he spoke these words to the United Nations General Assembly:
In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much
unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal
threat to make us recognise this common bond. I occasionally think, how quickly
our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat
fromutside this world.
So great was the perceived threat, that [the US] Congress even passed the 'Extraterrestrial Exposure Law', which outlawed contact between US citizens and ETs. Non-compliance renders an
individual subject to an indeterminate quarantine under armed guard, a one year
jail sentence and a [US]$5,000 fine!
[...]
... The deeply philosophical [Hollywood star] Anthony Hopkins once stated:
It is a mathematical certainty that we are not alone. It would be a
fundamental, lonely, joke to think we're the only ones in the universe.
[cited source — Timothy Green Beckley, UFOs Among the Stars (1992), p.7]
[...]
The esoteric writers, at the beginning of the twentieth century, first
introduced the Western mainstream to the concept of quasi-human space beings
[Aliens; ETs; ALFs or 'Alien LifeForms'] and their magical craft [UFOs; 'Flying
Saucers'; USOs]. Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey, Aleister Crowley, Georges Gurdjieff, and Peter Ouspensky, in particular, re-invented Plato's notion of superior kingdoms to our own, which we will one day have the
privilege of encountering.
Bailey took this notion one step further and suggested that when this event
takes place, 'Seven Paths' will be revealed [cited
source — Alice Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar (1922; 1951), pp.185-91]. These Paths are almost like heavenly careers,
whereby the individual prepares to work alongside denizens of other worlds and
across multiple dimensional realities.
The 60's alternative psychologists Timothy Leary and Robert Anton-Wilson also made significant contributions. They suggested that humankind is evolving
into an intelligent 'space people' and devised a clever sociological model for
each human stage up until this point.
It was just a small step for Swiss author Erich von Däniken to steal the show by suggesting that not only are we destined for a life in
outer space, but that there are races like ours, elsewhere in the universe,
that have already passed this threshold, and have paid our planet multiple
visits in our history [these are the so-called Ancient Astronauts, under what has been called the'Paleocontact, or Ancient Astronaut, Theory']. ...
Although much has been said on this subject [of Aliens & UFOs], we, or those
with an open mind regarding this phenomenon, still have not been presented with
a complete balanced picture. Some writers tend to blindly praise these
otherworldly visitors, encouraging a sort of cult mentality: "the space people
will soon be here and make all our problems go away...". Perhaps we buy into
this idea so easily because it is a comforting notion to think that we are not
all alone in this vast, precarious universe. [In any case, the fact that some
cult leaders have led their followers to their suicidal deaths makes the idea,
or Mystery, of Aliens and/or UFOs, a serious enough matter for elected and
appointed representatives, officials, authorities and administrations to sit up
and take notice; to some of these suicidal people, this Alien/UFO Mystery is a
matter of life and death! We cannot ignore this matter or phenomenon
anymore! — Paul Quek]
At the opposite end of the spectrum, we have the conspiracy theorists [another
group of crazies! — Paul Quek] who are convinced that ETs are
exploiting our race. These types enjoy scaring the hell out of their readers;
and, in fact, would probably gain a wider audience if they re-defined
themselves as horror writers.
— Adapted from Christian von Nidda's Our Secret Planet
(2005)
2.2 "What Would Aliens Really Look Like?" (Surendra Verma's book Why Aren't They Here?)
The following excerpt (adapted) is one opinion about how aliens might look like
...
What Would Aliens Really Look Like?
We have made fictional aliens in our own image, but real aliens won't look like
us. Species evolve, they are not created instantly [unless you believe in some
form of creationism, perhaps in accordance to your faith or belief system or
religion - Paul Quek].
Humans are one of the billions of species that have arisen on Earth in 3.8
billion years of evolution. There is no straight line from the origin of life
to intelligent humans. There were many evolutionary branches before one pathway
led to the evolution of humans. It's statistically impossible that the same
maze of evolutionary pathways would be repeated if evolution on our planet was
run through again.
A habitable alien planet could differ from ours in many ways — distance
from its parent star, gravity, moons, chemical composition, and so on —
which could force the development of radically different life forms. All this
makes it absolutely impossible that one day we will say hello to a loveable,
wrinkly, long-fingered ET. 'Finding another planet with our kind of dinosaurs
or people is more unlikely than finding a remote Pacific island on which the
natives speak perfect German or cockney rhyming slang,' says Jack Cohen, a
reproductive biologist and the world's foremost authority on the physiology and
behaviour of aliens.
— Surendra Verma Why Aren't They Here?
Sub-title: The Question of Life on Other Worlds
(2007)
'Now if there are many worlds,' wrote Michel de Montaigne, 'as Democritus,
Epicurus, and almost all philosophy has taught, how do we know whether the
principles and rules of this one [our planet Earth] apply similarly to the
others? Perchance they have a different appearance and different laws.'
By the sixteenth century, when Montaigne wrote this, most philosophy, as he
knew perfectly well, had taught no such thing and, when it did, the
consequences could be catastrophic. The many-worlds beliefs of the dissident
philosopher Giordana Bruno were one of the reasons that, on 16 February 1600,
he was burned at the stake by order of the Inquisition in the Piazza Campo dei
Fiori in Rome.
— Bryan Appleyard, Aliens: Why They Are Here (2005)
Giordano Bruno, ex-Dominican Italian monk of the sixteenth century, was burned
at the stake on order of Pope Clement VIII .... This is what he wrote:
"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a
manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living
beings inhabit these worlds."
"Arrested, tried, and convicted, he was imprisoned in the dungeon of Castel
Sant'Angelo in Rome for six years. Refusing to recant, he was finally treated
to a barbecue, Inquisition-style, in the year 1600. While his heretical beliefs
of astronomical theories were not the only crimes for which he was burned at
the stake, they most certainly fueled the fire from which Galileo no doubt
smelled the smoke." -- Linda Zimmerman, Bad Astronomy
Point to Note: We must NEVER EVER allow priests — especially the so-called Pope — to have such
powers over anyone!
How did the human race — or the Western-European part of
it — ever become so stupid and wimpy to succumb to man-made
religious-cultist tyranny???!!!
I look forward to the White-Throne Day of Judgment, when all such tyrannical schlepps will be consigned to the Second Death in the Lake of Fire, per Revelation 20:11-15 — if that indeed is His will.
Halleluyah!!! / Praise the Lord God Jesus!!!
2.3 About.com (Billy's Blog on UFOs / Aliens)
The following entry — maintained by Billy Booth — can be found at the About.com website ...
Billy's UFOs / Aliens Blog
Space Official: "NASA Can't be Trusted."
Wednesday January 21, 2009
Sometimes, things get a little raunchy among UFO researchers. Case and point:
In an expected move, retired delegate of the European Space Agency, Dr. Peter
Creola, has come over to the side of disclosure proponents.
While discussing disclosure, Creola stated “…you cannot unconditionally trust
NASA.”
As you probably know, NASA has been accused many times of covering up UFOs in
various videos of its missions, but most of those who fill important positions
in space-related programs have remained silent on the issue.
Creola went one step beyond when he answered the following question in an
interview in the German magazine, "Mysteries."
Question: In your opinion, would a scientific investigation of the UFO
phenomenon and the propulsion systems used by UFOs bring new possibilities for
terrestrial space activities?
Creola: Of course – not only for our space activities, but maybe even for the
future of mankind! I always found it astonishing that sightings of silent
crafts, which are obviously not bound to our gravitational laws, are being
ignored by science – at least officially.
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Search Extraterrestrial Life"
Description: "Your source for information on UFOs and Aliens. Includes the early history of
UFOs, classic UFO case studies, and current, breaking UFO sighting reports."
—
ufos.about.com/
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2.4 "Alien Central" (Website)
This website ("Alien Central") asks questions such as "How many people believe in aliens?" and "What do they
look like?" ... and offer "theories about their existence" ... The
following notes were adapted from this site:
How many people believe in aliens?
A Newsweek Poll taken before the release of the massively hyped film
“Independence Day” revealed that:
48% of Americans think UFOs are real.
29% think we have made contact with aliens.
48% think there is a government cover up of UFO knowledge
The Alien Theory (Slightly Adapted)
In the far distant past around 240 millions BC, an intelligent technological
species of theropod did evolved on earth. This species developed space travel
and established colonies in nearby star systems. The asteroid impact that
apparently occurred 65 million years ago devastated this civilization as well
as nearly destroying the entire ecosystem. With their home civilization on
earth devastated, the colonies were left to evolved on their own. It would be
likely that the earth would be monitored and as the ecosystem recovered these
reptoids would resume operations on earth. Given the distances and effort
involved to move resources back to earth, it is likely that a need to augment
the local work force with a native labor force that could accomplish the more
menial and laborious tasks. A simple means of acquiring this labor would be to
utilize local terrestrial stock and genetically alter this stock as necessary
to accomplish these goals. This idea is not without precedent, since mankind
itself has done this with horses and other domesticated livestock. It is likely
that this is how modern man was developed.
Given the current status of humanity, it is likely that problems arose almost
immediately with this race, simply put, they could not overcome the instinctive
aggressive and independent nature of the base stock. It was because of these
problems that another subservient race was developed. This race however, was
not derived from local stock but was engineered from scratch to fill the need
and to overcome and prevent the problems encountered earlier. The result of
this effort was the grays. It was discovered that for certain tasks, the
independent nature of humans was a desirable trait, and also these humans
proved to be a ideal host for the gestation of the gray's fetus. Therefore,
although the grays replaced humans for most tasks, human were continued to be
utilized within the society on a limited basis. It is from this human group
that the Adamski/Meier humans might be derived.
After a time, the interest in earth declined, and only a small observation post
was left in operation. Mankind was therefore left to develop on earth with only
occasional interaction with its former inhabitants. In the meantime, the
reptoids were continually modifying the grays, and developing specialized grays
for specific tasks.
At some point, the grays evolved enough cognitive abilities to realize there
status, and it is this faction of grays that is active on earth attempting to
overcome their built in limitations. It is the remoteness of earth that allows
this group of grays the required freedom of action.
To gain sustenance these grays must obtain certain nutrients and the simplest
and most direct means is to mine them from local fauna.
To reproduce, the grays must obtain host females (called a "container"). Since
utilizing the native population of humans currently carries little risk of
interdiction, and no requirements for maintaining the host, this method is
preferred. Specialized grays, (these grays are taller and more slender that the
basic stock) developed specifically to work in genetic engineering labs,
oversee these operations as well as the effort to cross-breed their race with
humans in an effort to overcome the built in limitations. Females are taken,
the DNA evaluated, and if acceptable, the female is tagged for future recovery.
Males are also evaluated, and if suitable, tagged for future recovery, some of
these males may be used to impregnate current stock of host females in order to
assure the transfer of desirable traits to future hosts females.
Other activities involve evaluating the nervous and other systems and tissues
in order to optimize the ongoing development their cross-breed's capacities.
The greys have several ongoing problems:
The need to increase their number as quickly as possible.
As their population increases, more support facilities are required and must
be developed. This diverts needed resources from the effort of obtaining self
sufficiency. Also as more excursions are required to obtain the suitable
containers, the likelihood that their purpose will be discovered and
coordinated native interdiction initiated increases. Also the sheer numbers
required to continue the breeding operation mandates that they seek hosts in
more densely populated areas.
As the local military capabilities become more sophisticated it becomes
increasing difficult to maintain covert activities.
The master race may arrive and intervene at any time.
The governments that are aware of their presence may discover the true
purpose of their activity and attempt active intervention.
—
aliens.monstrous.com
3.0 YouTube Videos
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3.1 Video Clips
The popular video hosting site, YouTube, carries several videos about Aliens, UFOs, and related topics ...
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mars Alien Martien
3.2 Video Summaries
Here are the YouTube video summaries:
Title: YouTube - Michio Kaku On Aliens On Physics ... From: basic204 Added: March 24, 2008 Info-Description: YouTube - Michio Kaku On Aliens On Physics
Title: Undeniable Proof of Real Aliens From: R4ME Added: February 20, 2007 Info-Description: NASA shows that signs of civilizations exist on Mars and the moon.
Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am
in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That
would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this
website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in
... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever
really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the
Mysteries of the World
.
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond.
[...]
— Katya Walter,
Tao of Chaos
Sub-title:
Merging East and West
(1994, 1996)
Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda,
Our Secret Planet
(2005)
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