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Your Paracast Newsletter — January 31, 2021


Gene Steinberg

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January 31, 2021
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This Week's Episode: Gene and Randall present the return of Walter Bosley. Walter worked briefly in the film industry as a production assistant on commercials and a feature film. He then decided to put his talents to use in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism in a career with the FBI, the AFOSI, and other U.S. federal organizations. His non-fiction books include Latitude 33: Key to the Kingdom, and Empire of the Wheel: Espionage, The Occult and Murder in Southern California. He frequently sits in as an unofficial co-host on the critically-acclaimed radio show Radio Misterioso, and appeared on numerous other radio programs, including Coast to Coast AM, The Kevin Smith Show, Dark Matters Radio, and, of course, The Paracast.

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After The Paracast -- Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on January 31: Former FBI and AFOSI agent and paranormal writer Walter Bosley returns to continue the interview that began on the January 31, 2021 episode of The Paracast. He focuses, first, on his skepticism of possible UFO disclosure in light of the Pentagon UAP Task Force and other developments. In addition to offering a reality check about optimistic expectations based on his government intelligence background, he also talks about a possible paranormal encounter that occurred while he visited Disneyland in the early 1980s, The experience is also described at length in one of his books, Latitude 33: Key to the Kingdom.

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So Is ET Human?

By Gene Steinberg

Over the years, some of the extraterrestrials depicted in the movies were often grotesque monstrosities, and you wondered how they managed to not just develop advanced technological civilizations, but just to get around. It didn’t matter whether they were friendly or hostile, you couldn’t stand to look at them.

There were exceptions, of course.

So the heptapods, cephalopod creatures, depicted in the 2016 movie, “Arrival,” weren’t evil. They were just different, and after their messages to us were delivered and decoded, it turns out that they were there to help humanity avoid a world war, and, in turn, they expected us to help them at a future time.

While I wouldn’t care to have an up close and personal meeting with such creatures, they were not at all monstrous. If you can tolerate an octopus or a squid, they’d seem downright familiar to you.

But other renditions of ET in the movies were more familiar looking; well, more or less.

The invaders in “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers,” released in 1956, were clad in apparent metallic robotic uniforms (described as “solidified electricity), but inside were shriveled gray alien humanoids. I assume gray, because the film was in black and white, but that’s what they seemed to be.

In any case, they were here to occupy Earth, and intended to destroy us if they couldn’t negotiate a peaceful surrender.

It would be a loose interpretation to say the plot had any resemblance to the story of Klaatu, the human-like alien visitor depicted in the 1951 flick, “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” There was a robot, of course, one that accompanied Klaatu and served as both protector and enforcer.

The film doesn’t describe Klaatu’s home world, beyond referring to himself as representing “other planets,” who are concerned with our focus on rockets for use as missiles and atomic power. His admonition to Earth scientists is that, if we don’t get our acts together and join Klaatu’s “federation,” we will be “eliminated” in the interests of galactic peace.

Now the early flying saucer contactees appropriated part of that plot line in claiming to have met up with handsome extraterrestrials wearing silvery uniforms. But their hair styles were often long and flowing; Klaatu had a conventional 1950-style haircut. While they echoed his request in calling for love and peace, the “stick” in his approach, the demand that we straighten up or be destroyed, was conveniently ignored.

After all, the followers of those contactees would probably not be comfortable believing in the existence of creatures who were quite ready to destroy us if we didn’t embrace their policies.

That Klaatu was apparently human was a given; we didn’t consider whether his form was a simulation, that he had an entirely different appearance. When he was shot by a nervous soldier, he was able to heal himself with some sort of salve. That he was twice as old as he appeared to be simply conveyed the impression that alien medicine was more advanced than ours. When he was brought back to life using some sort of contraption in his flying saucer, that, too, represented superior technology.

Otherwise, he was human, and he was able to blend with us when he walked among us.

Now movie producers no doubt prefer humanoid aliens, because they present a cheaper solution. They don’t have to focus on elaborate makeup or cgi to create monsters, although the latter, along with motion capture technology, is a common tool for enhancing humans or presenting intelligent apes and such.

But in the early days, movie and TV budgets for sci-fi and fantasy were low, and they had to do their best. The makeup for the Klingons in the original “Star Trek” series was far less elaborate that what was used later on, such as in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” After the success of films featuring the original crew, the folks at Paramount realized that a new Trek TV series deserved a higher budget for special effects and makeup.

But the Klingons, Romulans and other Trek creatures were still basically human. The “universal translator” gimmick made it unnecessary to have crawling subtitles when the aliens spoke, although fans actually developed a real Klingon language as source material.

The original “Stargate” movie, released in 1994, had the aliens speaking Ancient Egyptian, but when the concept was modified for TV, in “Stargate SG-1” and its spinoffs, the aliens largely spoke English except for occasional words in phrases to define some of the alien species depicted on the show.

But aside from the serpent-like creatures, the Goa’uld, who possessed human hosts, most of the beings were mostly human. There were exceptions, such as the gray-alien Asgard, but even they were humanoid.

It was certainly easy on the budget and keeping viewers comfortable.

But in our real world, can we believe that ET, at least those beings seen in connection with UFO sightings, look much like us? With possibly millions of potentially life-bearing planets in our galaxy, is the humanoid the exception or the rule.

In the Stargate universe, humans were seeded across the galaxy. Our own scientists are apt to dispute the possibility that ET would necessarily resemble us, but they are also busy cataloging extrasolar planets in search for those that might harbor the conditions for life as we know it.

As you might expect, such conditions would very likely support the same lifeforms that have evolved on Earth. In other words, it would be possible for you and I to survive on such worlds without much use for spacesuits and such. Well, except for the possibility of becoming ill from alien microbes.

But if we could live there in relative comfort, wouldn’t that create the possibility that at least some of the natives would largely resemble us?

It wouldn’t necessary mean that other species would become more advanced, but at the end of the day, the possibility exists that ET might very well be humanoid. Certainly evolution has equipped us to be able to invent and build things, and despite the relative frailty of our bodies, we are succeeding in extending our life spans, advancing technology and, of course, perfecting space travel.

This doesn’t mean that our “visitors,” if they are truly from other worlds, aren’t disguising their true appearance. I think of the alien being from the 1997 movie, “Contact,” where it tells the protagonist, a radio astronomer, that it assumed the form of her late father because she couldn’t accept its true appearance.

Then again, maybe all or most of the UFO phenomenon is staged for our benefit via an advanced form of holography, a deliberate effort to conceal its real appearance and purpose in visiting our planet.

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Prof Stephen Jay Gould said if we “re-ran the tape” of evolution on Earth, life could end up looking different to how it looks now.

The odds of another bipedal sentient species from another planet is astronomical, pun intended. The human Tree of Life is unique to us.

The TV shows used humanoid aliens due to budget and SFX limitations.
 
Prof Stephen Jay Gould said if we “re-ran the tape” of evolution on Earth, life could end up looking different to how it looks now.

The odds of another bipedal sentient species from another planet is astronomical, pun intended. The human Tree of Life is unique to us.

The TV shows used humanoid aliens due to budget and SFX limitations.
Maybe. I guess it depends on how much we allow the "tape" to be changed. If nothing about the circumstances were changed, there would be no reason to think anything would turn out differently. Then we have to consider the possibility that life here wasn't accidental, in which case pure random chance may not be the only force at work.

Is alien intervention controversial? Yes. Impossible? No. Unlikely? More data is needed before we can be sure it's not part of the picture. There's no reason that what we perceive to have been random "mutations" weren't purposefully made to happen. Direct gene manipulation can leave telltale markers, and so far, none of those have been found. But there are other ways to induce mutations that would be indistinguishable from nature.
 
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