Zeke Newbold
Carbon based biped.
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UFO commentator David Jacobs - who I thought used to be relatively sane - is now putting it about that alien-humans are surreptitiously in our midst: he calls them `hubrids` (human hybrids).This idea, to be sure, is scarcely original to him, and must have been around - in various forms -for as long as we've been talking about extraterrestrial life.
In fiction `The Invasion of the Body Snatchers` (circa early fifties) showcases one variant of this notion, as did the TV serial`The Invaders` a decade or so later.
I'm not saying that I take this proposal all that seriously, but I thought it might be an interesting exercise (as well as a bit of psychological fun) to ask if anyone has met a person who struck them as odd enough - in some way or other - to qualify as an alien in human guise.After all, if these `hubrids` exist they ought to be detectable and observable in some way or other - and would be generating rumours.
Let me add a caveat: I don't mean people who are knowingly oddball. So, in my younger days yours truly garnered something of a reputation for being `a bit of an E.T`. This amounted to nothing much more than having a few fortean-type interests and missing out on some social skills. Let me assure you. however, that I am of woman born and as human as they come, and I like nothing more than to slurp a big plate of sausage and mash, with a steaming mug of yorkshire tea by my side and some `dad rock` on the radio...while I speed-read an A.E Van Vogt novel backwards in Serbo-Croat (Whoops! Scrub that last bit!)
I can only think of one candidate of a human who appeared off-world. Now don't laugh, but it was...Nicky Campbell! Yes. that Nicky Campbell - he of the merry quips on radio five live and `Strictly` appearances.
Well, I met him up close once, you know (long story: I just did, OK).Well, there's something about his needlepoint gaze which is distinctly unsettling - I felt as though I were being probed by something not of this world.
So if I were to give credence to the `hubrid`theory then Mr Campbell would be on my list of suspects.
In fiction `The Invasion of the Body Snatchers` (circa early fifties) showcases one variant of this notion, as did the TV serial`The Invaders` a decade or so later.
I'm not saying that I take this proposal all that seriously, but I thought it might be an interesting exercise (as well as a bit of psychological fun) to ask if anyone has met a person who struck them as odd enough - in some way or other - to qualify as an alien in human guise.After all, if these `hubrids` exist they ought to be detectable and observable in some way or other - and would be generating rumours.
Let me add a caveat: I don't mean people who are knowingly oddball. So, in my younger days yours truly garnered something of a reputation for being `a bit of an E.T`. This amounted to nothing much more than having a few fortean-type interests and missing out on some social skills. Let me assure you. however, that I am of woman born and as human as they come, and I like nothing more than to slurp a big plate of sausage and mash, with a steaming mug of yorkshire tea by my side and some `dad rock` on the radio...while I speed-read an A.E Van Vogt novel backwards in Serbo-Croat (Whoops! Scrub that last bit!)
I can only think of one candidate of a human who appeared off-world. Now don't laugh, but it was...Nicky Campbell! Yes. that Nicky Campbell - he of the merry quips on radio five live and `Strictly` appearances.
Well, I met him up close once, you know (long story: I just did, OK).Well, there's something about his needlepoint gaze which is distinctly unsettling - I felt as though I were being probed by something not of this world.
So if I were to give credence to the `hubrid`theory then Mr Campbell would be on my list of suspects.