Part 1: Introduction
Speculating about the inner workings of alien society has always
been the special preserve of philosophers, science fiction
authors, and scriptwriters.* Their fanciful depictions are
usually projections derived from their personal upbringings,
their creative powers, and the societies and technological
cultures in which they have lived.
These imaginative representations are often fascinating,
frightening, and entertaining. For the audiences, their plots’
fictional genesis has never been in question. The discourse
between the audience and the inventor has been an agreed upon
fiction in which aliens are portrayed according to cultural
norms of the times: Aliens are benevolent and have come to help
humans; aliens are malevolent and have come to take over and/or
destroy human society; aliens have come to share in human
society because of their own planetary problems; or, aliens are
angry at space probing humans whom they wish to destroy to
protect themselves. These and other common science fiction
themes have permeated entertainment in the twentieth century
from the early pulp sci-fi magazines like Amazing Stories and
Galaxy, to the first alien-themed science fiction movies and
television shows of the 1950s and continuing to the present day.
Now, for the first time, another way of constructing an alien
society has developed –- one which might be fascinating,
frightening, and perhaps on some level entertaining, but not
necessarily fictional. The new way is by studying people who
indicate that they have been abducted into UFOs. Their
descriptions of aliens and their interactions on board UFOs1
provide a picture of alien society very different than one based
on culturally derived fictional representations.
The authors of these alien accounts are not, for the most part,
professional writers, producers, directors, actors, or others in
the entertainment and literary industry. The vast majority of
them are not prompted to fashion their stories in the hopes of
celebrity or remuneration. They are often reluctant public
storytellers who would usually prefer not to tell their accounts
rather than either to suffer the ridicule that might result for
themselves and their families if their identities and stories
were to be revealed. Indeed, many say that they have had
experiences that they remember but that they have no desire to
relate them to anyone.
In spite of this, thousands of individuals have come forward to
tell their private stories although one suspects that the vast
majority have not done so because they have found no sympathetic
and understanding listeners. For the ones who have come forward,
their narratives compose an extraordinary body of anecdotal
evidence revealing a generally consistent account of alien life
that is on the one hand science fiction-like, and on the other
hand original and ingenuous. The distinctiveness of these
fantastic stories coupled with nonfiction makes them striking in
their verisimilitude.
But abduction data and its transmission are extremely
controversial. The evidence for its reality is largely anecdotal
and often incomplete. And, as is to be expected with emerging
and incompletely analyzed data, accounts often present more
questions than they answer. Researchers are forced to formulate
hypotheses based mainly on information derived from memory often
filtered through hypnosis usually administered by amateurs. It
is difficult to imagine weaker forms of evidence. Furthermore,
abductees will sometimes confabulate and relate events during
their abductions that either did not happen, or happened in very
different ways than they remember. Thus, using this information
to “construct” alien society is an intellectually perilous and
perhaps even pointless pursuit.
In spite of these problems, the consistency of detail and of
narrative line in these narratives, and the extraordinary
circumstances in which the stories are fashioned generate a
sense of authenticity that cannot be matched either by
idiosyncratic imaginative constructions or by professional
fiction authors. With abduction information, generalizations can
be made, although partial, that might give us a clearer view
into the extraordinary world of alien society.
According to an analysis of abductee testimony, alien society,
like any human society is, by necessity, complex. Abductees
describe a highly evolved and advanced technological society
that gives the appearance of a smooth running, hierarchical,
technocratically ordered culture. The beings are obviously very
advanced technologically. This requires a mental capacity
(either from biological manufacture or from evolution)
commensurate with the ability to advance science and thus, in
some respects, similar to that of humans. Although their mental
ability is on a par or even higher than humans, abductees give
no evidence to suggest that their physiological mechanisms and
the processes within their anatomical and genetic make-up are
the same as humans.
Abductees have indicated that alien gross morphology is
human-like but their internal biological systems are very
different. Their appearance is also varies significantly from
humans. Several dissimilar types of aliens appear to be involved
in the abduction phenomenon. The most common ones are the “gray
aliens” who appear to do the bulk of the abduction work. They
come in two varieties: small and taller. Abductees also report
seeing “reptilian-like” beings, “insect-like beings,” and
“human-like beings.” Little is known about the reptilian-like
beings and I have found their reporting to be less common than
the other types. Human-like beings are almost certainly adult
hybrids, of which more will be said later. Abductees indicate
that the insect-like beings are taller than the other aliens and
appear to be at the top of a hierarchical structure of authority
– they give orders; all others take orders. Of course, they
might not think of this as a hierarchy but rather as a system in
which each group performs specialized tasks as expected without
the hierarchical structure.2
In spite of their anatomical and/or hierarchical differences,
the beings all have certain common and important
characteristics: They are all seen together on board the same
UFOs, they all do more or less the same procedures, and most
importantly, they all appear to be working together for the same
goal. Thus, one can surmise that they all come from the same
society. But, they have another aspect in common that might help
to define the society in which they dwell: They all can
communicate telepathically with each other and with abductees.
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1. In this paper I will use the phrase “UFO” to denote an
extraterrestrial craft.
2. For the purposes of this paper, all aliens, except hybrids,
will be considered as one group.
* A version of this paper was published in The International
UFO Reporter, summer, 2001.
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