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Your Paracast Newsletter — April 17, 2022


Gene Steinberg

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April 17, 2022

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The Form of ET
By Gene Steinberg

Although there are notable exceptions, most of the reported extraterrestrials encountered by UFO witnesses are decidedly — uncannily — human. Sure, there are the so-called grays. But they, too, are still somewhat human-like, more or less.

We don’t see bug-eyed monsters in those reports, although they were common in sci-fi movies. No doubt they were produced with the proposition that a “monsters on the loose” theme would generate good box office.

Or they didn’t know any better.

I would consider the classic Grade-B sci-fi film, “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers,” from 1956, as an example of a compromise in presenting ET. In passing, I should mention that the film was “suggested by” a 1953 fact book from Major Donald Keyhoe, “Flying Saucers From Outer Space.”

Evidently Keyhoe expected something with more of a documentary style when he naively sold his book to Hollywood without some level of creative control. He was predictably embarrassed.

In any case, the best parts of the film were the fantastic stop-motion flying saucer special effects from Ray Harryhausen. The aliens were shown wearing robotic suits, but inside them were human creatures with a passing resemblance to grays.

The star of the film, a scientist portrayed by Grade B movie veteran Hugh Marlowe, described one of those creatures as an “ancient being,” implying that they used the suits because their bodies were too old and frail to exist without life support.

In any case, the core concept was the same. Humanoid.

And obviously we know about all those early flying saucer contactees who met humans that claimed to come from such nearby planets as Mars or Venus. In light of what science knows about those worlds, those claimants were not very imaginative.

But many of the TV and movie depictions of ET also focused on humanoid.

In “Star Trek,” Captain Kirk and crew largely met human or human-like beings with minor variations. Sometimes they did encounter aliens of a more bizarre nature, such as reptilians and, in one case, the Horta, the living rock-like creature featured in the first season, in an episode titled, “The Devil in the Dark.”

With a limited budget, the Trek producers found it convenient to mostly make aliens look as close to us as possible, although some of the actors wore masks to convey a certain image. Mr. Spock was human except for his long ears. Klingons had mostly a darker look originally. Later Trek productions outfitted them with bulbous ridges on their foreheads.

But they still looked mostly human.

Less can be said about the various iterations of Star Wars. But our heroes are almost invariably human except for Chewbacca, the walking Bigfoot, and some happy-go-lucky droids.

Assuming UFO sightings that include humanoids are as described, it would indicate the strong possibility that evolution on other planets moves in the same direction as on Earth. Or genetic manipulation was at play.

It may always be possible that the beings observed are deliberately altered to seem less bizarre, and what we see doesn’t actually represent their true form. Or they are just robots designed to look a little friendlier.

In the 1997 movie, Contact,” based on the Carl Sagan novel, ET is presented in the image of the protagonist’s father. She is told that he or it took that form to make it more acceptable to her.

That leaves absent the suggestion of what its true form might be. One possibility, I suppose, is the octopus-like creature with seven limbs, called heptapod, as depicted in the 2016 movie, “Arrival.”

There has been back and forth debate about what extraterrestrials must look like. Considering an Earth-like planet with similar environmental conditions, just how would life evolve anyway? Would it take a similar direction, and would the humanoid be the ideal form to adopt an advanced technology?

If that were the case, ET could walk amongst us and not be recognized. One contactee who appeared on The Paracast, Dolly Safran, said that their DNA was similar enough to ours not to be recognized by scientists. Or this may have been her excuse when she claimed to be a human/alien hybrid, and I asked about her DNA.

It may also explain why, despite all those visits by alleged alien beings emerging from flying saucers around the world, nobody has any provable evidence of an alien presence.

Obviously, a gray would be recognized, but the so-called Nordics would clearly go undetected.

Again, there are lots of assumptions there. First is that the witness or experiencer is describing ET in its true form. It may be that the event is being experienced on a subconscious level and our minds are doing a little editing along the way to make it more acceptable, or at least understandable.

If ET truly looks alien, then the scenario painted in “Contact” may apply. It is changing its looks — or our perception of its looks — to be more presentable to humans.

The various versions of “V,” the TV series first broadcast in 1984 and rebooted in 2009, depicts a race of alien invaders who land on Earth and pretend to be friendly. But their human exteriors mask their true appearance, that of reptilians.

Of course, this is all fiction writing and speculation. We don’t have a solid case that proves someone was visited by humans from another planet. Without physical evidence, what people see may be explained by a host of factors other than seeing an actual event in its true form.

It also means that I could very well have encountered extraterrestrials along the way over the years and simply not recognized them for what they were.

From the standpoint of future space travel, if we could journey to a far-off planet orbiting another star system, wouldn’t it be helpful to encounter Earth-like conditions?

At the very least, we could probably survive there without space suits.

But what about alien viruses? And what about humans infecting ET with our own? You know, the same as the ones that did in the otherwise victorious alien invaders in “War if the Worlds.”

In any case, whenever I consider whether I would like to meet up with ET, the answer would probably be yes, if their appearance is reasonably human.

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