Alien Psychology

by Roderick R. MacDonald

  Of course, in several cases, this proved to be a good earner but what about NASA? From the beginning, the organisation did not comment to any great extent, most likely because the issue was rather trivial and not really worthy of serious scientific effort. NASA employed experts in looking at satellite photographs, able to discern and explain features all over the solar system, and with a degree of ability far exceeding the case for the face exponents, why didn't they say something if they thought the feature was alien?

  Basically, all there is to look at is a fuzzy picture and with human habits of anthropomorphizing features to make sense of them, it's no surprise that we see a face. As mentioned before, we see constellation patterns in the random sprinkling of stars in the night sky and we also see the Horse Head nebula and the Crab nebula in interstellar space. So far I haven't heard any theories about a race of intelligent extraterrestrial horses or crabs trying to communicate with their counterparts elsewhere but the night is still yet young. Despite this, the case for the face exponents say that NASA was well aware of the artificial nature of this feature right from the start but withheld the information for fear of the general panic it would create. This, essentially, is another conspiracy theory. If NASA was so inclined, why then do they lean towards evidence of Martian life in meteorites, the presence of life under Europa's ice or the possibility of some primitive replicating molecule in the murky swamps of Titan? Were they worried about public panic, we'd hear none of this!

  We had to wait two dozen years until the Mars Global Surveyor scanned the area in far greater detail to show, surprisingly, that there was nothing to look at except a rough part Martian landscape. There was no face to be seen. How NASA could have covered up such a conspiracy is beyond belief anyway. With a huge number of employees and newspapers and TV stations ready to pay up for a good story with good credentials, surely someone would have spilt the beans? However, to save face and continue to rake another couple of dollars, the case for the face exponents simply say that it is still a conspiracy; the new picture is a fake and NASA is sitting on a huge extraterrestrial discovery. What can you do?

  Some years ago, a series of books by Eric von Daniken proved to be a popular success. Everywhere you would go, someone would be reading a copy or have one in a back pocket. The claims that extraterrestrials have been here in our past to change the nature of humanity were based on a collection of cases, quite a lot being from central and South America. Horizon, the BBC science programme, did a special review in the 1970's of Daniken's claims, proving virtually every one false and, in some cases, fraudulent. After this, his popularity waned to an extent but more recently he has returned to the limelight. Whether or not he has any more validity is open to question but there must be grave doubts about his claims.

  In a similar vein, Hancock and others wish us to believe that a powerful civilisation existed on earth up to twelve thousand years ago. This civilisation was swamped when sea levels rose at the end of the ice age but, again, a lot of the evidence is difficult to substantiate. Egyptology plays a large part in the theories but attempts to correlate this with astronomical evidence has been vigorously refuted by professional astronomers. On Horizon, the supposed accuracies of the astronomical measurements were used to support the theories but when Hancock was confronted with the real astronomical evidence which was wildly at variance with his own figures, he complained of nit-picking. It is suggested in serious TV programs and magazines that the Egyptian evidence being put forward by the trio has been misinterpreted, or misunderstood, or mischievously manipulated. Whatever the case, I think their attempts to show a lost Atlantis are not convincing.

  Another not so mysterious case involves that of crop circles. Some claim these are made by flying saucers, a claim that's less credulous than saying that flying elephants were responsible. Showing great artistic invention, crop circles have been appearing for years and the patterns have become more and more diverse. This shows evolution in the people who make them. Now, if asked a logical question on whom is responsible for making crop circles and you had to choose between a bunch of terrestrial jokers or flying saucers, which would you really put your money on. Crop circles are a form of rural graffiti and like urban graffiti they can sometimes be artistic but the anti—establishment origins have nothing to do with extraterrestrials. Those to whom this is a serious belief should question themselves thoroughly.

  Yet another accusing finger points to NASA. This time it concerns a video published in the year 2000 entitled “The Secret NASA Transmissions: the Smoking Gun". In this long drawn out video from Canada which focuses on the efforts of a cable TV programme maker who had assiduously recorded every minute of transmission from NASA shuttle missions, it's stated that two new lifeforms have been discovered in the space around earth. Evidence mainly comes from floating blobs discovered on shuttle video coverage, especially during the tethered satellite manoeuvre on STS -61 in 1992. There's also Mir footage and strange flashes occurring on some time—frozen frames during shuttle flights. John Glenn's 1962 Mercury mission rates a mention too.

  There's something particularly wrong with this video in that it's very selective about the possible explanations for the phenomena. Beside the fact that the incidents mentioned were covered years before the video release, it could be the case that with a lot of effort spent on a project with no tangible results, this is an attempt to gain some financial return. In the video, initial SETI investigations lead on to UFO research and then concentrate on a long monologue describing how the phenomena were discovered. It's almost as if you are being thought directed to extraterrestrials but strangely, apart from the belief that two new alien life forms have been discovered, the claims as to their nature are vague, leaving conclusions open to question.

  First of all, NASA doesn't really have secret transmissions. What happens during a mission is that stations around the globe track the shuttle and then relay this to a geostationary satellite some twenty two thousand miles up. This may have to be relayed further to the satellite that NASA uses which will be stationed above America. Because there is a distance to travel up and down to satellites, there's often a slight delay between the voices of Mission Control and the Shuttle or vice versa. Anyone with a dish and equipment can tune in to the NASA satellite: if NASA had any desire to make transmissions secret, why don't they encrypt the data in the same way as satellite television?

  The second curious form of life mentioned on the video can be explained immediately—cosmic rays. Travelling near the speed of light, they will leave traces on the recording devices. Being visible only on one single frame lends credence to this idea: moving so fast, they will affect one frame alone and the length of the streak produced depends on the initial angle of entry.

  The first life phenomenon, namely the floating blobs, are the result of several things: fuel vapour, debris already in space, meteors, waste from the shuttle, traces of radioactive particles. The latter explains the curious motion of some particles, which are probably hit by other particles, perhaps neutral, which then change their trajectory. The pictures of Mir from the Russian mission control were taken through a telescopic device probably a couple of hundred miles away. The image flickered from atmospheric turbulence. Any other object appearing could be anywhere in the line of sight.

  Finally, the moving blobs during the shuttle tether experiment. A satellite on a long tether will orbit at the same speed as the shuttle. If higher up from the shuttle, the satellite will want to orbit more slowly than the shuttle. Tidal effects from earth pull on the combined object. The idea is that when the satellite is released, it will have an upward motion, opposed to the downward motion of the shuttle. Because the shuttle is more massive, its movement will be significantly less than the satellite. This method is intended to boost satellites into higher orbits for no extra fuel costs.

  The tether also develops a high potential difference—i.e., a voltage. This will affect any particles floating about, making them move in curious ways. The particles of i
mportance in the video were blob like affairs which apparently passed behind the tether in the distance, thus giving them a huge apparent size. Actually, the blobs were much closer to the shuttle and they were probably quite small and out of focus. When an out of focus blob moves in line of sight with a distant object, it may seem that it passes behind it. This doesn't happen and careful analysis of frames will show that there is, depending on the quality of film, a minute point where the real image eclipses the distant one, although, being small, it probably doesn't eclipse it entirely.

  This video shows no curious lifeforms at all. All phenomena are easily explained with a bit of knowledge combined with reasoning and to say that they are living entities is stretching credibility too far. Claiming, on the outside cover, that it is the astronauts’ favourite underground video is also a touch scandalous especially if no further information is given to back up this claim. This video is probably an attempt to make a return on the many hours spent gathering data. The return will depend on the degree of sensationalism attached to the otherwise normal content and, basically, this is an attempt to make something out of nothing.

  Finally, there is a serious suggestion by many that extraterrestrials visiting earth in their spacecraft aren't really extraterrestrials at all. The are, in fact, visitors from our own future coming back in time to indulge in a spot of tourism, to collect genetic samples to augment what they've lost, to warn us of impending self destruction—the list could go on and on.

  This theory is ingenious in that it removes the need for interstellar travel or even interplanetary travel for that matter. It explains many things. UFO's have been known to suddenly appear and disappear but if you consider that they may be travelling in time, this is how they would behave. Also, the alien Grey would not be alien but our descendant. This could be logical because of their supposed evolved appearance and surely someone from thousands or millions of years into the future would have the technological ability to construct the weird flying machines that some have witnessed?

  It's probably the case that the alien Grey physiology looks as it does through evolution in a space environment so this would argue against them coming from earth but, there's nothing to say that future earth people don't come from space. They could live in orbiting stations. Who knows? The major obstacle to this theory is the ability to travel back in time. This question has already been discussed in this book and on this basis, future origins of UFO's have to be discounted. If it were possible, which is very unlikely, think of all the paradoxes their visits could cause? Earth history will already have been changed by their appearance in our skies and this in turn would affect the future, maybe even making the existence of the tourists impossible. It is also unlikely that someone from the future would wish to go back in time to allow catastrophic events to be circumnavigated. The existence of people in the future, beyond these events, would still be dependent on them. Should the events be averted by their actions, they would probably cease to exist. How would they then be able to go back in time?

  If UFO's in the form of spacecraft exist, it's more than likely that they have an alien origin. Nonetheless, the discussion in this chapter is important. Only a few examples have been briefly studied: there are innumerable theories and counter theories being pushed around and who is to say which is correct? Many will disagree with my conclusions and many will undoubtedly have other ideas as to what is going on. Overall, it is unquestionably important to examine all ideas in detail. By leaving no stones unturned we won't get to the truth but we'll get nearer to the truth. As has already been mentioned, these claims are so important that they cannot be blindly accepted. Many fall down because they are scientifically improbable. Others are clever constructions intended to deceive for the sake of financial return. While some obviously believe their claims and have ardent faith in them, without a doubt others sit back knowing full well that what appears in their writings is a fabrication. This subject is difficult enough without false prophets trying to confuse the issue!

  We've also got to accept that everything we witness may not be the truth. It's only what we think is the truth! There's a story from the eighteenth century about a boat docking in an obscure British port. Monkeys captured from Africa escaped and commenced wandering about, looking for food. Locals with no knowledge of Africa and little knowledge of anything beyond their vicinity except for major issues such as the war against France, concluded that the monkeys were indeed the French in the process of invading Britain.

  Looking behind the UFO myths, despite all the fabrications and myths, it's obvious to see that there is still something going on. There is a collective subconscious feeling amongst many that this alien Grey being exists and that its presence is menacing. Many people claim to have been abducted, so many in fact that most can't be true. There are many explanations other than extraterrestrials to rationally explain why people claim they've been abducted but in addition to this, there are other cases where the truth is tantalisingly obscure. The next chapter looks at alien abduction and considers that maybe, just maybe, something quite extraordinary is happening here.

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  Phase 12

  Abducted?

  Whatever concept of normality you choose to adopt, not all people are normal. If everyone behaved in the same way, there would be no problems in the world. Everything would be predictable. This obviously isn't the case.

  Some people do all sorts of mad things, irrespective of the consequences to their sanity, self-respect and esteem, or, standing in society. Craving publicity, they go out of their way to be noticed. On Channel 4 Racing in Britain, minor examples of this type are often observed standing in the background of Big Mac as he talks about betting on horses. Usually acting the fool, they make all forms of silly faces on TV. They're not restricted by age and a recent ploy is to use a mobile phone so that other equally idiotic friends can see them perform their antics live to the nation. Big Mac detests this sort of person. Some of these people claim to have been abducted by aliens.

  Equally it is the case that some people fit into the norm of society. They go about life in a perfectly sane and rational manner. Maybe they belong to a golf club and have a couple of pints on a Friday night. Maybe they work at a regular job and have no financial worries. Usually they shun publicity and would never think of acting the fool on TV. Should they by accident be caught up in the background of Big Mac, they would stand quietly with a reserved countenance. Big Mac likes this sort of person. Some of these people claim to have been abducted by aliens.

  Many examples of alien abduction exist: the Internet is full of supposed cases. A figure of four million alien abductions in the United States alone was derived by extrapolation from a very small poll sample. This would appear to be ridiculous! If the aliens had been at it constantly for the last forty years, it would average two hundred and seventy three people abducted every day. There is no particular reason why aliens should favour citizens from the USA so it is reasonable to suppose that a proportional number would be abducted from all the other countries of this planet. The sheer number of abductions would require our skies to be constantly buzzing with UFO's; there would be five and a half thousand abductions on a daily basis from earth, thus making UFO's a more popular people carrier than most of the world's airlines. In fact, a major airline like Northwest probably carried one to two million passengers a year even before the slump in air traffic caused by the terrorist attacks on September eleven 2001. Their planes carry hundreds at a time but UFO's are reportedly small objects, nowhere near the size of the Jumbo Jet. Maybe only half a dozen abduction passengers can be carried in a UFO so that would work out at approximately one thousand UFO fights per day. That's, at a rough reckoning, more fights than several of the major airlines put together. So why don't we detect all these flying saucers? Not a likely scenario, is it?

  Whether or not you believe alien abductions are real, what is a likely or reasonable number that could be expected to take place? If the Exordicans were here, it's
likely that the number would be quite small. The asteroid ship probably has a limitation of approximately fifty thousand of which less than half may be biological robots. Let's say they're looking for twenty thousand samples that will last for contingencies during the next few thousand years. If they required fifty thousand genetic samples, and given that they've been here some considerable time, the frequency of abduction becomes quite small. It may be that experiments and sample taking has been going on for several hundred years but, for arguments sake, let's say that it has only progressed in a serious manner for forty years. This gives an average of three and a half abductions every day. Given that a much smaller genetic pool is more than sufficient to breed a large number, then the abduction rate is probably a bit less.

  However, if we accept the three and a half figure, then the USA will experience only sixty-four abductions every year. This is proportionally vastly inferior to the four million talked about. It's a maximum figure and should it occur, it would cause some consternation but nothing remotely close to that which is claimed. In the U.K., the figure would only be about ten people abducted by aliens every year. The number of people going missing without trace is much higher than this.

  Large numbers of alien abductions are plainly ludicrous to contemplate and to give serious consideration to them only makes a joke out of the whole subject. Yet, something is definitely going on. This phenomenon of alien abduction is quite well rooted in the psychological history of humans and it goes back several hundred years to times when demons, witches and suchlike carried out the devilish deeds instead of aliens. I think it is wrong to dismiss the whole subject as nonsense because even if aliens are not involved, it is a real phenomenon to many people. So, what exactly is going on?