Time to post this again, I think.
Thanks, fascinating.
Interesting the 1977 robots appear the year C3PO and R2D2 entered our collective conciseness. Then you have the 'greys' coming into prominence with the 'Communion' book (1987) and then the advent of the internet.
The aliens came to admire The Mekon and sought to emulate his clothing style.It's interesting that a large proportion of these alien species seem to choose the same couturier. Where does the assumption come from that all the best dressespace travellers prefer to wear closefitting overalls, often with a utility belt of some sort? Is it from an early comic strip?
An annotated version of that poster would be great so we can read the source cases for the drawings.
They are Klingons from UranusThe aliens came to admire The Mekon and sought to emulate his clothing style.
Tell us more please.From the chart it seems to be a crowded universe.
My alien abductors look like the Betty and Barney slot only with rectangular eyes.
Tell us more please.
If you look at the 'little people' lore of times past then you will find belts feature prominently (elves, faeries, pixies etc.). You can draw a direct parallel with the 'little people' touching their belt buckles to make amazing things happen and these Ufonauts doing likewise. Adds weight to the theory that there is an intelligent 'other' interacting with, yet disguising itself from, humans over the centuries/millennia.The increasing standardisation over time is one very noticeable aspect here - a mass media effect I suppose.
There one or two strange outliers, like Pascagoula for example - though even then it's been noted that there was a (50s?) South American case with similarly nightmarish entities which had found its way into a mass market UFO paperback, which one or both witnesses could have read.
It's interesting that a large proportion of these alien species seem to choose the same couturier. Where does the assumption come from that all the best dressed space travellers prefer to wear closefitting overalls, often with a utility belt of some sort? Is it from an early comic strip?
Can someone tell me what the creature next to the Flatwoods monster is? The one that looks kind of like a gray 2-tiered cake with legs?Time to post this again, I think.
Can someone tell me what the creature next to the Flatwoods monster is? The one that looks kind of like a gray 2-tiered cake with legs?
Human explorers and scientists do go to places with blind tube worms and such, so I dont see why aliens wouldn't go somewhere where the locals were different from themselves.If you happen to be a bipedal, visually oriented humanoid, then would you visit a planet of intelligent, blind, subterranean tube worms where there's nothing to see and you can't fit into their architecture; or would you go to planets like earth?
Human explorers and scientists do go to places with blind tube worms and such, so I dont see why aliens wouldn't go somewhere where the locals were different from themselves.