Greys
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| Name: | Grey | |
| AKA: | Roswell Aliens, Zeta, Reticulian |
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| Grouping: | Extraterrestrial | |
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| First Reported: | September 19, 1961 | |
| Last Sighted: | Present Day | |
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| Status: | Unconfirmed | |
The Greys, also known as Roswell aliens, Zetas, and Reticulians, are extraterrestrial life forms that appear in modern UFO conspiracy theories and other UFO-related paranormal phenomena. They make up approximately 75% of all aliens reported in the US, 20% of all aliens reported in Mainland Europe, and 12% of all aliens reported in Britain. [1] In American popular culture they have replaced little green men as the most typical extraterrestrial life form.
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[edit] Appearance
Typically, Greys are described as being approximately 4 feet tall, with grey (sometimes blue-grey/green-grey) skin. Their body is typically described as being elongated, and lacking in muscular definition. Their legs are shorter and jointed differently than one would expect in a human, giving them an apparently awkward gait. Their arms often reach down to their knees, and some accounts give them three digits, or three digits and a thumb on each hand. They have a bulbous, hairless head supported by a thin neck, which is dominated by large, (usually black) lidless eyes. They typically have small flat noses, small mouths and small ears lacking a pinna. In some cases, Greys are said to have slit-like nostrils on a flat face.[2][3][4][5]
Some accounts have Greys wearing tight neutral colored uniform-like jumpsuits. Other reports have them appearing to be naked. In most cases, clothed Greys have no determinable gender and naked Greys have no visible external genitals.[3]
[edit] The Grey in society and culture
[edit] 1890-1950
Although the exact appearance of the Grey has varied with time and media, the overall concept of "a thin diminutive grey figure with a bulbous bald head, large almond shape eyes, and minimal facial features", has existed in popular culture for over 100 years. Grey-like beings have appeared in numerous science fiction stories from the late 19th century onwards; including H.G. Wells' Of a Book Unwritten, The Man of the Year Million; in which Wells writes about the hypothesis that the increasing industrialization of society would lead to humans developing into Grey like beings with shrunken bodies and enlarged brains, and his 1901 book The First Men in the Moon in which he describes the moon dwelling Selenites as being short, grey skinned creatures, with high foreheads, no nose, and bulging eyes who walked with a strange gait due to their oddly articulated legs. [6]
The concept was continued in comics and science fiction magazines into the early 20th century, including such works as David H. Keller's The Conquerors, which was serialized in the Wonder stories, starting in 1929 December.
[edit] 1950-1960
In the wake of the Kenneth Arnold sightings, the 1950s saw an increased public awareness of ETH and Flying saucer in America; leading to a corresponding increase in the appearance of Grey-like creatures in cinema and television.
[edit] 1960-1970
Until the 1960s, the image of the Grey primarily existed in popular fiction, but this began to change in 1965 when the Boston Traveler published the purportedly true story of abductees Betty and Barney Hill. The story included details from a hypnosis session, conducted a year earlier by Dr. Benjamin Simon, in which the Hills described being taken aboard a pancake-like craft by small hairless men with no noses and slanted eyes that wrapped around to the sides of their heads. [7]
Coincidentally on the 10th of February 1964; 12 days prior to the Hill's undergoing hypnosis, the science fiction series The Outer Limits ran an episode entitled "The Bellero Shield", which featured a hairless, noseless alien with a bulbous head and 'wrap-around eyes'.[8]
However, these similarities of greys to the TV episode being are disputed, mainly because the TV being is as tall as a human, does not have a very big head, his eyes are not that big, has no black eyes, and has a glowing body.
Furthermore, Betty Hill maintained that she had not seen the Outer Limits, and said that it was unlikely that her husband had seen the episode, because he would either have been working, or performing community activities, during the series' time slot.[8]
In 1968, Greys became associated with the Zeta Reticuli system, after amateur astronomer Marjorie Fish compared a Star Map drawn by Betty Hill to astronomical charts, and determined that the twelve stars depicted on the map showed the aliens home to be a planet in the Zeta Reticuli system, situated approximately 39 light years from Earth. This led to Greys sometimes being referred to as 'Zetas' or 'Reticulians' in popular culture.
[edit] 1970-1980
In 1977, Director Steven Spielberg chose Greys as the alien protagonist for his film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Greys have since become the archetypal image of an alien for many UFO believers and science fiction fans.
[edit] 1980-1990
During the early 1980s Greys were linked to the alleged crash landing of a flying saucer in Roswell New Mexico, in 1947, by a number of publications which contained statements from witnesses who claimed to have seen the US military handling a number of unusually proportioned, bald, child-sized corpses. The witnesses claimed that the corpses had over-sized heads and slanted eyes — but scant other facial features — during and after the incident. [9]
In 1987 popular novelist Whitley Strieber published the book Communion, in which he describes a number of close encounters he purports to have experienced with Greys and other extraterrestrial beings. The book became a New York Times bestseller and inspired a number of sequels.
[edit] 1990-Present day
During the 1990s, popular culture began to increasingly link Greys to a number of Military-industrial complex/New World Order conspiracies.
Arguably, the most well known of these was The X-Files, which first screened 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. 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 Greys who visited ancient Earth masquerading as characters from Norse Mythology.
The portrayal of Greys in the media took a slightly different turn in 1995 when film maker Ray Santilli claimed to have obtained 22 reels of 16mm film that depicted the autopsy of a real life Grey that was said to have been recovered from the site of the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico. [10][11] 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 not able to say what that percentage was.[12][13]
[edit] Perspectives
American researcher and alternative knowledge author Lloyd Pye advocates the hypothesis that modern Humans are the result of genetic intervention by Greys from another star system, and believes that there has been a sustained program to crossbreed Greys and Humans over the centuries. He holds that the Mexico Starchild skull constitutes empirical evidence in support of his standpoint. [14]
According to English reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, the typical image of a Grey, given that it would have evolved on a world with different environmental and ecological conditions from Earth, is too physiologically similar to a human to be credible as a representation of an alien. [15]
Neurologist Dr. Steven Novella believes that the physical appearance of a Grey does not represent a real flesh and blood creature, but that it is instead a byproduct of the human imagination, with the Greys' most distinctive features representing everything that modern humans traditionally link with intelligence. “The aliens, however, do not just appear as humans, they appear like humans with those traits we psychologically associate with intelligence.”
Novella holds that if you were to plot the physical differences between an ape and a human, and then were then to apply these differences directly to a human model, the resulting human would strongly resemble a Grey. [16]
Philosopher Michael Grosso believes that Greys, along with many paranormal myths and legends throughout history, are the telepathic manifestation of the collective consciousness of a community or culture. [17] He proposes that the physical form of the Grey is that of a malnourished human being, not an alien, and that Greys may be a manifestation of guilt felt by the developed world over the plight of the developing world.
[edit] Alternative perspectives
While Greys are commonly cast as being factual/fictional extraterrestrials, a number of alternative perspectives also exist. Including that Grey-like beings are:
- A modern iteration of ancient folklore and myth
- Part of a government-led disinformation/plausible dependability campaign.[4]
- A future evolution of the human race, or an alien race from the future, that has traveled back in time[18]
- Extradimensional life forms[19]
- A product of Government mind control experiments[20][21]
[edit] References
- ^ Bryan, C.D.B (1995). Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN B000I1AFBA.
- ^ Blackmore, Susan (May 1998). "Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?". Skeptical Inquirer 22 (3). Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
- ^ a b Smith, Jonathan Z (2001). "Close encounters of the diverse kind". Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
- ^ a b Clary, David A (2000). Before and After Roswell. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 0-7388-4106-4.
- ^ D'arc, Joan (2000). Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form. Book Tree. ISBN 1-58509-127-8.
- ^ Wells, H G [1901] (2004). "XI", The First Men in the Moon. Wildside Press. ISBN 0-8095-9653-9.
- ^ Lutrell, John H. "Did THEY Seize Couple", Boston Traveler, 1965-10-25.
- ^ a b Clark, Jerome [1998]. The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial, 1st, Visible Ink, 705. ISBN 1-57859-029-9.
- ^ Berlitz, Charles; Moore William (1980). The Roswell Incident, 1st, Grosset & Dunlap. ISBN 0-448-21199-8.
- ^ Wingfield, George (1995). "The "Roswell" Film Footage". Flying Saucer Review 20 (2).
- ^ Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Eamonn Investigates: Alien Autopsy", British Sky Broadcasting, 2006-04-04.
- ^ Clarke, David (2006-06-01). "Alien Autopsy". Fortean Times (210). ISSN 0308-5899.
- ^ Pye, Lloyd (1997). Everything You Know Is Wrong (Book One: Human Origins). Adamu Press. ISBN B000IZZLXS.
- ^ Cohen, Jack; Stewart, Ian (2002-02-07). Evolving the Alien, 1st, Ebury Press. ISBN 0-09-187927-2.
- ^ Novella, Steven (2001-12-01). The Psychocultural Hypothesis. The New England Skeptical Society. Retrieved on October 1, 2006.
- ^ Grosso, Michael (1992). Frontiers of the Soul: Exploring Psychic Evolution. Quest Books. ISBN 0-8356-0676-7.
- ^ Davenport, Marc (1994). Visitors from Time: The Secret of the Ufos. Greenleaf Publications. ISBN 1-883729-02-5.
- ^ Thomas, Kenn (1999). Cyberculture Counter conspiracy. Book Tree. ISBN 1-58509-125-1.
- ^ Cannon, Martin. The Controllers.
- ^ Constantine, Alex (1995). Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A.. Feral House. ISBN 0-922915-28-8.
[edit] In fiction
- The aliens in the film Fire in the Sky, based on 'true' stories of alien abduction, are Greys.
- In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 the alien race known as the Asgard are based on a stereotypical image of the Grey.
- In the video game Area 51, the game's antagonists are Greys with major conspiracy theories based on ones reported in the real world.
- In the television series Babylon 5 the The Vree' s appearance and shaped ships) lead descendents of human abduction victims to take legal action against them.
- In the computer game Deus Ex, Greys are genetically modified human beings, born from parents injected with a falsified smallpox vaccine at Area 51, and are meant to be assimilated into the population (as seen on Stanton Dowd's computer).
- A race of Greys named "Sectoids" are at war with the human race during the X-Com computer game series.
- In the PlayStation2 game Destroy All Humans the player character is a Grey-like alien.
- The Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of the Duelist expansion set contains a monster card called 'Alien Grey'.
- In Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, the aliens are known as Grays.
- Greys are featured prominently in the South Park episode Cartman Gets An Anal Probe.
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