What Do Aliens Look Like? How Many Exo Planets are there and...WHO is Scared?

There are some good points in this video interview, The sort of thing we used to have discussions about when Ufology was actually interested in reality (or some Ufologists were and this is before I left Ufology in the 1980s as a veteran!).

Orson Welles 

"How might people react if aliens landed?" The response is usually "Look at the 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds and the panic and death it caused!" In fact, that is mostly myth and that successive UFO and other authors -print or blog and even You Tubers (what can you expect there!) continue the myth just shows how lazy people are. Some basic searching helps sort things out and this blog did just that: 

https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html

Welles himself was sheer brilliance and I am sure that he neither added to the story or denied it!

What might aliens look like? Well, if you go online you see one image after another of "Greys" -not similar to one another but all, of course, genuine "Grey". This shows jus the kind of pap Google, MSN or Firefox throw up at searchers who then dribble away and say "See -Google would not show Greys if they were not real aliens!"

ahem

The other thing you will get are images of microbes and even of whale like, insects type creatures and walking tree and I have to admit at that point my brain farts loudly -especially when these images come from "respectable" scientific blogs or articles by scientists. Probably, these images are used because walking trees and whale like creatures on far distant planets are non-threatening; no one can imagine microbes, something whale sized or even a walking tree thing hopping into their flying saucer and skipping over to Earth. And many astronomers and astrophysicists, including those working in the Search for extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have a deep seated fear of alien intelligences coming to Earth. I often wonder whether that is why they so ridicule UFO reports based on no investigation or a jokey news comment?  This I have dealt with in my books to an extent and to be honest if your are pooping your pants over aliens coming to Earth maybe SETI is not a  good (life long gravy train) job for you?

A while back I reviewed The Zoologist's Guide To The Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens by  Dr Arik Kershenbaum

https://aeceiiikp.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-zoologists-guide-to-galaxy-what.html

There is an interesting interview with Dr. Kershenbaum here:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/arik-kershenbaum-on-why-alien-life-may-be-like-life-on-earth-20210318/

He states:

"No planet will have a complex form of life that popped into existence all on its own. Whatever life is like on an alien planet, it must have begun simply. Now, it could be that it remained simple; that’s possible. Probable, even, on many planets. But if life is to achieve any kind of complexity, the only way that complexity can accumulate is if favorable changes and innovations are retained and unfavorable ones are lost — and that’s precisely evolution by natural selection."

He is then asked: "One of the key ideas in your book is the notion of “convergent evolution.” What is that, and why is it important?"

His response:

"If you observe two animals with similar features — feathers, for instance — you might presume that they inherited them from a common ancestor: the feathered dinosaur that was the ancestor of all modern birds. That’s just regular evolution, where children have similarities because they inherit the characteristics of their parents.

"But sometimes you see animals with traits that they couldn’t possibly have inherited from a common ancestor. For instance, the wings of birds work in pretty much the same way as the wings of bats. But the common ancestor of birds and bats was a small lizardlike creature that lived over 300 million years ago, long before even the dinosaurs. It certainly didn’t have wings, and the large majority of its descendants, including elephants and crocodiles, don’t have wings (thankfully). So those wings must have evolved separately in different lines of descendants.

"Sometimes this “convergence” of traits is for something obviously useful, like wings. But sometimes convergence produces bizarrely similar creatures that share so many characteristics, it can be hard to believe they’re not closely related. The recently extinct thylacine [a large predatory marsupial native to Tasmania and mainland Australia], for example, could easily be mistaken for a peculiar breed of dog, but it’s much more closely related to a kangaroo! And yet living a life similar to that of modern coyotes or jackals meant that it evolved many similar characteristics convergently."

You see what appears to be an oddly moving light in the sky and as it gets closer you see it is a craft. It lands and an entranceway appears. This steps...floats out. What is YOUR reaction? photo of Sarlacc Jellyfish (Chrysaoro achylyos)

If you are feeling a bit "my brain is mushy" at the moment do not panic. It will soon pass. Humans look out at the galaxies arounds us and all we know is Us and the planet we are killing and the way we behave. Therefore, every planet has to evolve like Earth and every species has to evolve like species on earth. Alien life will develop the same as human life and by so many thousands of years will have destroyed itself in war. These aliens will also use our forms of energy or more advanced forms and will use the same type of signal technology humans use.

Wrong and Right in the same breath. We can only base evolution and planets and what we think they will look like based on our limited knowledge of the Earth.   Every time someone writes or talks about the new exo-planets we are finding out come the graphic images of the planet's surface and clear skies, water and....well, it's all made up. What scientists detect are tiny spots of light and then through analysing the images guess at the new planet being "rocky like Earth" or a "Gas giant like Jupiter" (ask astronomers about the distant gas giant exo planet that...uh...vanished)

Well, I lose things all the time.

The truth is that we have never seen the surface of these planets and anything added to the information about "probably rocky like the Earth" is pure speculation.  If we are able to detect these "far distant" planets using Earth's best equipment the...why are we not concentrating on the planetary systems closer to us which would make logical sense. You look nearby then start venturing outwards -that's how exploration works. But not with SETI. Safest way is to send a signal or look for a signal from as far away as possible and the work "thousands" you can add to the "light years away" the better. Some 55,000 years for our signal to reach the planet in question. Anyone there can respond and after 55,000 years we will get a reply. "We" will not be here and by the time "We" get that reply it is likely that neither will "they" be there.

Fear.

As for the 'fact' that every alien civilisation that becomes advanced creating its own destruction through war "the way we will" the only response to that statement is to call it the height of human arrogance!  Humans love killing anything it can including any other living creature and, of course, the planet they are living on and to even insinuate that no other intelligent life form could be better than us and last far longer is sheer foot-stamping by ignorant people. Brian Cox, the physicist or whatever he wants to call himself has openly called people stupid for believing in UFOs and also stated that "there is no life out in space" which is one of the most unscientific statements ever. But then he has always come across as arrogant and egotistical and definitely, as we used to say "Kopf in den Arsch".

The Hubble Deep Field, an extremely long exposure of a relatively empty part of the sky, provided evidence that there are about 125 billion (1.25×10¹¹) galaxies in the observable universe as of 2022. 

Here is a quote for you (and Brian Cox): Not that very long ago we were living in a universe with only a small number of known planets and these were all orbiting our sun. But after a new raft of discoveries Scientists confirmed that, as of 21st March, 2022, there were more than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system -exo-planets.  Skies & Scopes website gives this estimate on planet numbers 

"Given that we can’t be completely certain how many planets there are in the Solar System, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that once we look beyond that our estimates get much vaguer. But we are going to have a go anyway.

"So, Earth and the planets of the solar system revolve around the Sun. Which is one star within our galaxy, the Milky Way.

"Whilst our sun alone seems huge to us, the current best estimate is that the Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars (source).

"Estimates vary considerably as it is extremely hard to calculate and so you can find different estimates out there (including this one estimating a trillion stars in the Milky Way).

"If we then take the higher-end figure of 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, how many planets does this mean?

"We know that our Sun has at least 8 planets, but the most recent analysis in Nature journal is that, on average, each star of the Milky Way hosts one planet.

"Therefore we can take the estimate that there are 400 billion planets in the Milky Way".

Sit on that one Brian Cox.

We can estimate and estimates are just that -estimates (I may have over complicated that line). But we know that water and the other material needed for the creation of life on Earth is out there as are, probably, the things to create life as we do not know it. Had science not started by ridiculing observers/percipients  (though not from the very outset since some were open to life in space but the conservative members of the community were quick to move in when an official stance was taken -The Robertson Panel in the 1950s (This was a scientific committee which met in January, 1953 and headed by Howard P. Robertson. The Panel came about after a recommendation to the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) in December, 1952 from a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) review of the U.S. Air Force investigation into UFOs, Project Blue Book. The CIA review itself was in response to widespread reports of UFOs, especially in the Washington, D.C. area during the summer of 1952. The panel was briefed on U.S. military activities and intelligence; hence the report was originally classified Secret) and The Condon Committee which was funded by the USAF from 1966-1968). Neither was that open to educating the public on the possibility but intentionally to play the subject down, ridicule it and so on -with the help of scientists and Ufologists "on the payroll" (ref: Richard Doty, Paul Bennewitz and William Moore).

I could write more about how many scientists (including Hynek who had his own university and astronomers condemn him over his UFO work) suffered loss of work, contracts and relentless pressure from their peers and others to not be open minded and scientific and use a sceptical eye and look at the data. Study UFO history, folks.

The intelligence community had money to throw around as grants and bribes and oh those so wanted "military contracts" so there were plenty of scientists prepared to not just stick a knife in the back of a former friend and colleague but also twist it around a lot for good measure... oh, and spit on their shoes at the same time.

The AATIP and all those others are just the same old same old. Moving in and knowing just how to subvert Ufology and receive the applause because they have done it so many times before.  Ufologists leap on board willingly, pants around their ankles and ready to bend over. Doty paid Ufologist William Moore to lie and deceive Ufology for years. Moore confessed and he was out. Doty has become a Ufology hero attending conventions and meetings and no doubt still plying his trade and why should Ufologists care what his machinations did to Bennewitz? Just like all the suppressing of UFO information bad guys are now the good guys so Doty is now a celebrity. Watch this:

I have read thousands of reports of CE3K/alien entities in coming up to 50 years now, and even if I cut that list down to just  10 reports that I felt sure indicated "something" would that help me to state what "aliens" might look like? No and yes. There are cases in those ten where the entity descriptions match -the percipients in two events did not know each other, were separated by hundreds of miles yet their descriptions of entities match up.

Imagine that landed UFO you see does not have jellyfish like entities but more insectoid ones -ant-like, say?  Reason to panic?

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Now let's consider certain other reports and as I detailed in my book Contact! we have entities in what appear to be pressurised or atmospheric suits and helmets -the so termed "Michelin Men" and some reports go back to the 1950s.  Most of the observers had no interest in UFOs/flying saucers and a good few mocked those stories "before" and most of the accounts were not in the press and publicly known. These are the sort of facts and correlations Jacques Vallee has not noticed even though some reports are from France.

Entity described in 1954 Marius Dewilde incident
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I had one case of black coloured (or "negative") entities in the mid 1970s and then a case from France pushed that up to two. Again, ongoing research has revealed other such reports. It cannot be guaranteed that all the percipients/observers saw the same entity type but a case from the UK in the 1970s has an entity type that matches up with the "Kelly Cahill" case and, no, unless someone shot forward in time to buy my book or secretly broke into my home to access the files Cahill and the others involved would never -never-  have seen the illustration I drew and had the observer confirm as being accurate. Now if you are good at math you work out the odds of that.

"They were emotionless" and "They did not seem to care" as well as the ever popular "They knew we were watching them doing whatever it was and just ignored us" are often lines used to describe some entities. Suppose that certain aliens have only one "emotion" and it created an obsessive compulsive disorder to just learn, gather samples and nothing else? Perhaps "they" do not have emotions or any concept of pain -they may well have conquered pain centuries ago- so an "abductee" and his/her reactions may seem very odd to such aliens but on noticing the distress a touch of some kind relieves the pain or stress.

Even if some of the best CE3K reports are accurate we still know nothing concrete about alien life or these "visitors".   In one of my books I referred to the possibility of "lurkers" -probes sent out over the centuries or decades to other star systems to hide amongst asteroids or even orbit a planet. These lurkers gather data and send it back to the planet of origin. Now they could be more than just Voyager type craft and could also be able to return to mother craft moving through space or carrying out planetary surveys. The intelligences may look nothing like us or similar to us. For decades I searched every and all records I could for reports of non-humanoid entities in UFO incidents and those I found were either hoaxes (by Ufologists) or newspaper jokes.  I was then told that far from dismissing humanoid looking entities they were now deemed far more likely to be what we were looking for. Hey, I have a life time to waste so go for it!

Let us suppose that they, the "aliens", do not look like us? Our radio and TV broadcasts have been beaming out into space since the 1920s at least so they can see our popular culture, concepts etc. Humans will view anything looking different as evil and recall all the horror and sci fi memories.  Could some entities be a form of advanced holographic projection? Of course they could and more advanced civilisations are going to look at our top tech and laugh. Some form of holographic contact controlled from a craft is a possibility. There are also reports of entities that seemed and looked robotic in the way they acted. Perhaps that is just how aliens look?  Robots are a possibility as are androids constructed to look human-like so that there is less of the fear element in encounters.

The rare -very rare- reports are worth noting. Euporia, Mississippi in 1973 (never investigated due to racist viewpoints) is a case in point:

“Night time (no exact hour).  Two UFOs were observed near the above location (Eupora), by several witnesses in a car.  One object hovered in the sky overhead while the other landed on the highway just over 100 yards (103 m) from the car ; the car lights and engine now died.

  “An AE now appeared from the landed object.  This AE had to hold on to a handrail.  It had a wide mouth, flipper like feet and what appeared to be webbing between the legs.  Even more strange were the feather-like structures on its back which gave the impression of opening and closing when the AE moved.

 “The AE now re-entered (?) the object which took off ; the car’s electrics then began to function again.”

I have never heard a description similar to this in all my years handling these reports. The one case that even Ted Bloecher felt needed to be investigated in full was dumped. Pascagoula in the same state was to feature the 'only' CE3K in 1973 (there were other accounts but these were, again, ignored as the observers were "black"). A unique and multi observer case lost.

It is interesting that Ufologists join in with the debunkers in dismissing some of the cases involving stranger, non human entity case while not really accepting any other type either! Again, Ufologists spend years chasing after lights-in-the-sky as extra terrestrial space craft but will not consider "what's in 'em?"  I have see UFO 'investigators and the usual bunko boy Ufology celebrities talk about this and that account but when someone mentions "aliens" they giggle or side-step the matter.

Stupidity?  Ignorance? Or fear?

UFO conferences used to be full of eager people wanting to talk about their latest UFO reports or encounter cases from abroad (even in the 1970s Ufologists thought UK CE3Ks were so rare that there might be only 3-5 at most if we excluded contactees). Now we have pure escapist fantasy moving in and claims of "I investigate 100 abductions a month in the UK" and it is shocking how many do not know anything about Ufology or its history and while some will claim, say, Jacques Vallee or Budd Hopkins have contributed a great deal to the subject not many have even read Vallee. Few if any have read Ivan T. Sanderson's books. Most have not read any pre-2000 books and a great many have watched all the UFO documentaries (like the fake Skinwalker Ranch series) and read the sensationalist books where almost the only thing true is the author's name (sometimes).

If I explain to someone why the object they photographed or videoed looks diamond shape, and it is a fact, I can expect a curt response or full on abuse! 

Science has failed in its main task of  looking into UFOs and instead the hucksters and counter intelligence crowd control everything from what people are told to believe to what we are supposed to now call them and Ufology stands there and takes it all in one big whallop. Why would people who have suppressed UFO reports and facts and acted against Ufology lie to Ufology?

In the UK early flying saucer reports were forwarded to the Ministry of Defence and there was an openness.  But the new craze was to criticise all military and governments and call then cover up liars while George Adamski conned the gullible, aided and abetted by Ufologists, and raked in the money.  "Hmm this flying saucer photo looks a bit out of focus..just say it was the transmogrification transducer coil effect!"