Aliens have long been an area of major division. The notion of advance beings coming from far away planets seems ludicrous to some people. Anyone who knows me can tell you I am a FIRM believer in aliens visiting Earth, and would even go as far to say that I think they live amongst us at this very time. I will admit I have a bit of a bias on this subject, so pretending I do not would be a waste of time. However I can fully understand why people find it hard to believe and I can take that onboard, unless that is of course you are using “Creationism” or similar religious ideas as evidence, in that case I am not interested.
There are reportedly whole ranges of different “Breeds” of aliens out there, from reptilians to humanoids. But the most common is the Grey alien.
Grey aliens appear a lot in modern popular culture, and when people think of aliens they usually have a mental image similar to the image above. Grey’s are thought to originate from the Zeta Reticuli binary star system some 39 light years away from Earth. This star system consists of two yellow dwarf stars, Zeta 1 and Zeta 2, and some astronomers believe they can support life if there is a planet at the correct orbital distance from one or both stars. The main reason many researchers in Ufology think this is the origin of the Grey is due to an American couple named Betty and Barney Hill. The Hills are often credited with throwing the idea of “Alien Abduction” into the mainstream. Many years after their alleged abduction, Betty Hill went under hypnotic regression and drew a star map that was apparently shown to her during her abduction by the Greys. For years no one could find any star system that matched her drawing, but eventually they did and it was the Zeta Reticuli system. So to this day many people believe this is their origin, and why some people call Greys “Zetans”.
But if Greys were real, how would their evolution have differed from ours? Well, here are a couple of theories:
Clones
There are some scientists out there who believe that Greys are in fact laboratory-engineered clones created by some other advanced life forms and designed specifically to deal with the stress of space travel. Supporters of this idea say that Greys notorious lack of empathy may be due to them being organic robots, operating under their programming to perform tasks with no emotion.
Hollow Earth
Not as popular as it used to be, the “Hollow Earth” theory is just as it sounds. That there are intelligent life forms living in giant subterranean caverns below our feet and that the UFO’s we see in our skies in fact come from underground. There is only one real source of decent evidence I can find, and that comes from Nazi Germany. Hitler and Himmler were very interested in the occult and allegedly sent a plane to the North or South Pole (I forget which one) to find the entrance to Hollow Earth. As the plane flew across the baron ice filled landscape they noticed a huge city beneath them and their plane was then landed via remote control by an unknown force. Once landed they were greeted by Greys and the crew stayed in the Hollow Earth city for many years before returning to Berlin with new sciences that the Greys showed them. At the end of WWII most Nazi scientists were took to America, and you can see how a conspiracy theory started from that.
Dolphins
Always a popular theory is that Greys evolved from a creature similar to our dolphin. Theoretically it does make a lot of sense and out of all the ideas floating around about Greys this one is by far the most plausable. The most noticeable thing about Greys is their grey skin (hence the name, Grey Alien) and is very similar to that of a dolphin. Without an actual sample of a Grey’s skin this would impossible to verify, but there is more evidence to support the dolphin idea than just skin colour. The eyes of the Grey are always reported as big and with a black “eye shield” covering the pupil. On Earth, many water-based creatures evolve these to deal with low light levels found in the ocean, which would suggest Greys evolved in a low level light environment. Another factor that suggests Greys come from Dolphin-like creatures is their very large heads. The size and shape of the cranium infer that Greys have an enlarged rear (occipital) and frontal lobe, a feature that is common in dolphins. During many abduction cases, victims often report that they were unable to move when a Grey looked in their direction, but as soon as the Grey looked away they regained physical control. Certain species of dolphin can disable small fish using sonar, and marine biologists have found that these waves can cause significant changes at cellular level. With many years evolution, it is not that unbelievable that Greys have adapted this technique from an existing skill they gained from millions of years of evolution.
So there are a few theories as to the origins of Grey aliens. It is worth highlighting that not so long ago, elves and pixies were the equivalent of Greys in popular culture. Maybe Greys are just part of human social evolution and popularity, or maybe we really are not alone. Until they officially make their presence known, Ufology will always remain a psuedo-science.
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