Analysis Of The Varieties Of Alien Experience By Bill Ellis

"Aliens, if an when we find them, could be so alien, so different from humanity as to undermine the meaning of any exchange we might have, or even make such exchange impossible." --Henry Gee

“No child had such an oversized balloon shaped head. It didn’t even look human, although it had human like features” (18). This is a description of an extraterrestrial from the Roswell incident in the book The Day After Roswell written by Col. Philip J. Corso (Ret.) with WIlliam J. Birnes. This book is quite the interesting read to say the least. Extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and “foreign technology” are some of the complications in Corso’s autobiography during his time in military intelligence working at The Pentagon. Corso describes everything between the events of a flying saucer crash that occurred in Roswell, NM. on July 4, 1947 to the modern day technology that the United States has managed to reverse engineer due to the crash.

I am sure that everyone of you have heard about aliens and UFOs. Indeed, we all have heard about the famous case of aliens and UFOs in Roswell, New Mexico. Most people might be interested in the topic of aliens, but I know that the majority of you just think of it as rumours and the existence of them are impossible. Therefore, I am standing here in front all of you to make you change your perspective. I am strongly confident that I have found the evidence of their real existence to convince all of you.

In 1947 out in Roswell, New Mexico a rancher found some unknown debris in his sheep pasture. Though it was said from the local air force that it was from a crashed weather balloon. Others think it was from the remains of an Alien flying saucer. Though many believe it may be true and others believe it's false. This paper will show the incident at Roswell, New Mexico and how it is false.

For more than 60 years, the debate between reality and conspiracy has raged on with the concept of aliens in the center(History.com Staff). In Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 what is believed by conspiracy theorists to be a flying saucer was found in a rancher’s sheep pasture. The idea that exterrestrial life could possibly exist may seem out of this world to some. But, to an entire town of people, the idea is not as far fetched.

Much fanfare has been made over the dozens or even hundreds of so called “witnesses” to UFO activity and even the UFO crash near Roswell. It wasn’t just among UFO buffs either, many authors of numerous Roswell books talk about the

It was no other than May 2nd, 4521 when the first Athaenroch ship had landed in a meadow in South Carolina. The News Reporters were all over the case. Joshua King had first heard of it while browsing through his favorite E-paper The Charleston Chase, A newspaper that usually covered stories on crime, but this made for quite an exception. The Article’s title caught his eye, Alien Life found, Intelligent or Not? Joshua thought it was most likely a ‘bacteria’ but found it read,

“I’m dead serious. They’re into UFOs, metaphysical journeys, astral entities, the afterlife, strange occurrences, Area 51, conspiracy theories, the Knights Templar, you know, a lot of weird stuff. People call the show and tell the host they left their body; or they lived in a previous century; or aliens took them aboard their space ships. You could call them and tell them your own experiences, too. The radio show has four-point-five million listeners every night—they might just believe your story.” Agent Winston Powell opined.

1. The government was forced to admit Area 51 was a real place, but avoided releasing any information about the activities conducted. E. Numerous polls that have been conducted from the 1950’s show that belief in UFO’s may not be the norm, but are anything but

journalist. Vorilhon claims to have had a visitation from aliens who proclaimed that they did by

Part of the credibility of the conspiracy theories surrounding alien abductions is the similarity of the detailed accounts from abductees, even from those who were not notably interested in the phenomena before their experience. (page 167, Bullard) In fact the narratives are so recurrently similar that they can be analysed into types in which certain story elements always occur. The most familiar of these is the Physical Abduction where the victim feels tranquillized of cannot move and is taken placidly aboard an alien spaceship, usually by means of a tractor beam or inter-dimensional gate. A somewhat different experience is the Bio-extraction Method whereby aliens absorb bio-energy or consciousness by means of a blue-white beam of penetrating light. Occasionally their conscious is inserted into another body. A similar abduction type is the Lucid Dreams in which the victim experiences a dream created by the aliens containing telepathic messages or images. On waking the victim sometimes glimpses a white light emanating from the ceiling, which vanishes at the conclusion of the dream. The "commonality of experience" such as similar descriptions of the aliens, procedures and implants is "disquieting" for some, especially with the number of such reports growing ever more frequent and numerous. (page 26, Southwell and Twist)

The concept of “alienness” constitutes the physical manifestation of the cognitive, tremulous paranoia based on the instinct to survive. This physical manifestation of the “alien” has altered over the course of science fiction history in order to serve as a metaphor according to the cultural paranoia or prejudice of that time period. For example, one of the most significant and influential interpretations of the physical manifestation of the “alien” is in John W. Campbell’s novel Who Goes There? which depicts the story’s alien as having amorphous, shapeshifting capabilities allowing it to identically amalgamate into any organism. The psychological horror behind this power of infinite imitation capabilities has gone on to inspire several film adaptations of Campbell’s novel such as The Thing (1982), and the prequel/remake, The Thing (2011).

In Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer’s ultimate goal is to explain, in great detail, to his readers his opinion of certain topics. The book is a collection of sections about different subjects that are controversial in the minds of many people today, and in the past. In each section, Shermer presents the arguments of the believers, and presents his own opposing view. Along with just his own opinions and support, he also includes the facts and opinions of many other well known opposers as well. While he may be aiming to disprove a certain subject, Shermer does so with delicacy, and remains civil for most of his arguments. The topics of the arguments range from alien abductions and ghosts to the very delicate topics of the Holocaust and religion. Along with trying to explain to his readers the truths and fallacies of his topics, unavoidably, he is also trying to persuade his readers into believing as he does, from an arguably more enlightened and educated point of view.

Extraterrestrial encounters of all forms and kinds leave some kind of evidence whether it is physical or non tangible evidence like a person’s story of seeing a flying saucer or possesses photos of the unidentified flying object. These forms of evidence aren’t always the most reliable as many are reported false and considered hoaxes. Ever since the incident at Roswell, any information or evidence that proves other worldly existence automatically becomes the center of attention and can bring an individual fame and even

     For half a century the subject of UFO has been discussed by scientists, ecologists, politicians, and common people around the world. It seems paradoxical, but the main question of their discussion concerns existence or non-existence of UFO itself, so many people is not sure that the very subject of their debate really exists. I share the opinion of those who do not believe in UFO saying that this phenomenon has not been scientifically proved, and everything its adherents operates is conjecture and fantasy, and disconnected stories of those who allegedly have seen UFO are far from scientific explanation of the event.