Helmeted Space Suits
"Because of the way they were dressed, I could see nothing but their eyes, and only vaguely because these were protected by round glasses. Their eyes seemed much smaller than ours, though I believe these were the effects of the lenses. Above their eyes those helmets looked so tall that they corresponded to double of what a normal head should be. Three tubes extended down from the helmet and blended into the suit." Thus spoke Antonio Villas Boas in describing his 14th October 1957 encounter with aliens on his Francisco de Salles farm in Brazil. Antonio never got a proper look at the three beings, believed to be male. His intimate encounter with a female would have him believe she was human but for her bright red pubic hair, and animal gutturals, which seemed totally alien to him. (Note: Heinonen and Viljo's CE3 alien wore a tall helmet. Finland Jan. 1970).


Russian Giants
On the other side of the world in a Russian park of Voronezh, a UFO landed in front of startled children. On that memorable day of the 27th September 1989, three beings, one apparently a robot, emerged from a hatchway under the craft. Two of the entities were almost four meters tall, dressed in silvery overalls and bronze boots. Between their shoulders where their heads should have been was a bump supporting three eyes, one central, the other two displacing the ears. This account with many other details, was run by the very conservative Pravda newspaper and wired around the world through the major news groups. Although many efforts have been made to discredit the whole account, it remains a truly enigmatic case.


Grotesque Beings
On the night of 21st August 1955 eight adults and three children were besieged for over two hours by beings so grotesque, they defied belief. This is the Kentucky-Hopkinsville encounter that stands out as one of the classic cases in UFO lore. Billy Ray Taylor, one of the adults present had seen a UFO come down and land near a dry creek bed not far from the farm. The creatures involved were glowing dwarf-like beings with huge bulbous yellow eyes and enormous membranous elephantine ears. When the terrified farmers fired at the beings, they merely floated down from the farmhouse roof and made off on all fours. No other entities quite like this have been reported, but on 23rd February 1975, two frightened boys, Masato Kono and Katsuhiro Yamahata from Kofu, Japan had an encounter with an alien 130cm high without eyes or nose, but with huge elephantine ears.

Interestingly, from Sayama City, Japan, on the 3rd October 1978, a Mr Hideichi Amano, a keen radio ham, and his two year old daughter Juri, had driven up a mountain side to make good contact with Amano's brother. Just before their journey back down the mountain, the lights inside Anano's radio van started playing up and other equipment failed. Feeling something pressing against his right temple, Amano turned to find a frightening spectacle staring at him through the open window. Where its mouth should have been was a T-shaped pipe from which a stream of high pitched rapid babble ensued. No nose was evident and the eyes were motionless, glowing bluish white. The oval chinless head sat on neckless shoulders more in the style of a robotic figure. It's lobeless ears were enormous, tapering upwards to sharp points. The creature began to dim out and disappeared.


The Vilvorde Alien
This interesting humanoid was surprised in the small hours by a Mr V who needed to obey a call of nature at his home twelve miles from Brussels. At 2am on the 19th December 1973, Mr V heard a noise. What he saw in his garden could have been pure science fiction, except that it wasn't. A 3-foot humanoid, glowing green, was sweeping the walled garden with something resembling a scanner or metal detector. Its head was encased in a 'goldfish bowl' connected by a tube to a backpack. Attached to the front of a shiny one-piece suit was a bright red box that sparkled. When Mr V flashed his torch in the direction of the thing, it turned bodily and stiffly as if any head movement was impaired. No nose or mouth was visible, but its ears were pointed. Large glowing oval yellow eyes were clearly seen.

When Mr V flashed his torch yet again, the humanoid raised its fingers in a V-sign. perhaps in telling universal rudeness, or acknowledging Mr V's name, or for whatever reason. It then proceeded to walk across the garden and up the wall like a fly and down the other side in a feat of gravity defying agility. A short time later, a small round object rose up into the night sky from behind the wall and disappeared into the inky blackness.


Pascagoula Mississippi 12th October 1973
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were enjoying a night's fishing from a pier in the Shaupeter Shipyard, when a craft appeared hovering two or three feet from the ground, not far from the amazed and frightened witnesses. Three beings emerged from the buzzing vehicle and floated towards the men. They were quickly seized and floated back on board.

Under hypnosis, Hickson later described the beings as having '... bizarre facial features, long conical rods where nose and ears would normally be. They had long arms ending in crab-like pincers and ghostly pale wrinkled skin. They were vaguely humanoid in shape but their feet were not like feet, more like a round thing, sort of ...'


Anti-Gravity
What are we to make of aliens or entities 'floating' down to earth, walking up walls, floating into craft or running away from a police cars at over 35 mph (the Jeff Greenhaw case, Falkville Alabama 17th October 1973)? Does this indicate bionic beings with extraordinary abilities, or aliens from worlds with much less gravity than our own? Similar parallels can be found through our own astronauts effortless leaps on the moon, only restricted by their weighted boots and heavy equipment.

Of course it could be argued that the smaller the alien stature, the greater their world's gravity, but how do our own pygmies fit into this theory? On earth there are reports of entities doing amazing things. Jeff Greehaw's alien was over two meters tall and ran in huge strides. Police Chief Greenhaw thought he was dealing with a silver-suited robot.


Greys
When Maurice Masse found two aliens sampling his lavender crop in Valensole, France on the 1st July 1965, he thought he had surprised two boys due to their diminutive size. His thoughts changed when he was immobilised by some sort of ray gun. Their large heads, large dark eyes in faces lacking clear noses and mouths, their shiny one-piece suits and egg-shaped craft made Masse realise he was dealing with something not of this world. He was seeing what are now commonly accepted as the Greys, just as New Mexican policeman Lonnie Zamora had seen a year previously in 1964.


Decades of Diversity
Now of course the general impression put out by scores of abductees, UFO magazines, books and videos is that the Greys are the only aliens to be lurking in our skies and bedrooms. What about the hundreds of reports from France, Spain, Italy, Russia and Europe as a whole throughout the Fifties and Sixties that describe the weirdest little (and not so little and very often hideous) alien types? There are giants from Russia, the Canary Islands and Spain, Nordic types from England, the USA, and many other countries, tiny beings (three to four inches) from Malaysia and Perth, Asiatic types from everywhere, omnipresent Greys and robots, Insectoids and Reptilians. The list is endless.

According to the Nevada Aerial Research Group, (NARG), there are sixteen main groups of aliens interacting in some way with Earth and/or its inhabitants. The diversity of reports would have us believe the figure is much higher, but this could mean 'at any one time'. As there are no UFO 'experts' to give us the answers we must surmise the reality of an alien. Are they time travellers (ourselves) coming back for a closer look at our past? Nuts and bolts ETs warping time and space, inter and/or intra-dimensional visitors, materialisations from a higher plane, holographic projections or materialised remote viewers? Perhaps they are all of these things and much much more.

Apart from the great variety of alien types that have presented themselves over the years, there seems to be the negative and positive, black and white, good and evil aspect to the whole picture. So can we believe what we see when an alien identity reveals itself? We know one of the main methods of communication between aliens and humans is telepathy. Telepathy can be a form of mind control, and hypnotism is bound up with the same string. We may be seeing a blonde Nordic type, but the reality may be an Insectoid or Reptilian. The truth may be too traumatic to be revealed. Screen memories are often implanted into the mind of the abductee to block recall of the real event. Shakespeare advised that it is better '... to be rather than to seem ...' In the alien's case it's probably better '... to seem rather than to be'.

A list of alien types compiled by NARG makes interesting reading. Take it with a pinch of salt - or garlic- if needs must!

TYPES...........................................................PURPOSE .........................CHARACTER

Group 1 (enemies)
Draco (native terrans and ET - planetoid)
Reptilian Humanoid tall.......................................food/control...............................Bad
Draco Reptilian Greys........................................food/control...............................Bad
Deros (detrimental robots)..................................food/control...............................Bad
Nephilim/Baf..................................................... food/control...............................Bad


Orion/Secret Govt Pact
Big Nosed Greys...............................................genetics....................................Bad
Insectoid Greys.................................................experiments/food.......................Bad
Tall Greys.........................................................genetics/food............................Bad
Blond 1 ............................................................deception..................................Bad
Synthetics........................................................deception..................................Bad
Robotoids..........................................................deception..................................Bad


Group 2. Semi-neutrals Zeta Reticulan (Secret Govt. Pact 2)
Reticulan Greys ................................................learning.....................................Neutral
Reticulan Oranges.............................................experiments...............................Bad


Group 3 Allies
Pleiadean Humans.............................................teaching/friendship.....................Good
Sirian Humans...................................................friendship..................................Good
Akartians
Human
Mutated Human ................................................semi-friendship...........................Good
Iargans
Humanoid..........................................................friendship...................................Good
Others
Humanoid hairy..................................................friendship...................................Good


As far back as 1946, Ray Palmer's Amazing Stories magazine ran allegedly true stories from contributors Albert Bender, Gray Barker and Richard S. Shaver. These spoke of sinister beings beneath the earth, the Deros, Dracos, Nephilim, Bafath and Atlanteans, all caught up in a master/slave matrix with alien connections. The forces of good and evil in their eternal struggle for supremacy. Add all this to the updated versions of researchers/informants Bill Cooper, William Moore, Richard Doty, Paul Bennewitz, John Lear, Bob Lazar et al, and we have a veritable smorgasbord of data. A dichotomy of fact and fiction. Some of this food must be tainted, and it's hard to know which when it tastes so good.

On top of all this are the countless reports of weird and wonderful biological creations leaping about the countryside causing turmoil and terror at worst or sceptics fodder and future folklore at best. Often unassociated with UFOs, these 'beasts of the bush' cannot be dismissed so easily. Far too many reports from reliable witnesses world wide are the makings of a huge jig-saw puzzle waiting to be assembled. It has been suggested that some of the aliens are placing various life-forms in selected locations on Earth to:

1) Test their survival potential.

2) Monitor movements/behaviour.

3) Test human (psychological and media) response
to sightings.

4) 'Sacrifice' selected species by letting them
deliberately fall into the hands of the authorities
as part of the conditioning/educating process of
humankind to the alien presence. This final point
may not be as absurd as it sounds. The Roswell
crash (2nd July 1947) is believed by some
researchers to have the makings of a contrived
'sacrificial accident'.


Varginha
What are we to make of the amazing Varginha case which happened so recently? At 3.30pm 20th January 1996 in the small town of Varginha in the state of Minas Gerais (the same state as the Villas Boas encounter) in South America, three girls came across an extraordinary sight.

Squatting at the back of an old garage was a strange creature with slippery brown skin, and what appeared to be three small rounded horns protruding from its head. Liliane Fatima Silva (16), the first to see the creature, screamed in alarm. The terrified girls later described the creature as '... squatting, its long arms between its legs. Its eyes were huge and red. It was not an animal and it certainly wasn't human. It was a horrible thing.' The frightened girls continued their account: 'He seemed stupefied and didn't make any noise'. But when the being made a small movement, the girls ran for their lives.

An elderly couple, Oralina Augusta and Eurico Rodrigues claimed to have seen a submarine-shaped UFO trailing white smoke as it flew silently overhead in the early hours of 20th January. It is claimed that not one but two aliens were captured by the military that fateful January day. Yet no grounded UFO has been reported. Were these two unfortunate beings marooned on Earth for 'conduct unbecoming' or deliberate bait for the authorities?


Chupacabras
Out of Puerto Rico come chilling stories of the nocturnal Chupacabra. (Spanish for 'goatsucker' after one of the first animals to be found drained of blood, with two identical holes in its neck.) According to witnesses' testimony this is the ultimate living gargoyle, the devil personified. But we cannot know if this is an alien lifeform, an interdimensional materialisation, or a figment of many imaginations. What we do know is, it has gained a cult following and runs the risk of being buried in a morass of disinformation and denial, as applied to the crop circle phenomenon.

Bigfoot, Susquash, Yeti, Yowi, call it what you will, too many people have seen them. And the Mothmen, half men, half birdlike creatures, from West Virginia in the Sixties. (Read, John Keel: The Mothman Prophesies.) Too many people have claimed to have been abducted. People have sustained injuries from the so called Greys (Vallensole, S. France), been grabbed by mechanical objects (Livingstone, Scotland) attacked by tiny jelly-like creatures (Domsten, South. Sweden), threatened by Men-in-Black (MIBs), and witnessed brain-like creatures in the road (Dapple Grey Lane, Los Angeles).

All these sightings, and thousands more, do not suggest solely alien origins. We don't even know if what we see is an illusion, an aberration of the truth, the 'lie' in alien emerging from our altered visual stimuli. When the truth is so elusive it's easy to fall into the hidden agenda/conspiracy theory trap, although at times this is justified. What it does suggest is a diversity of life forms, some no doubt extraterrestrial, interacting with the human race, flora and fauna.

This planet is still our home We have every right to check the credentials of our uninvited guests. Unfortunately these are seldom, if ever, presented. For so long now the aliens and their UFOs have remained, not one, but many steps ahead of our efforts to find the truth. That UFOs exist, and aliens have been seen, is beyond doubt. The much needed hard evidence seems always beyond our grasp.

Conspiracy theories aside, whenever something has turned up, that vital linchpin to all research invariably goes astray, gets lost in transit, or mysteriously disappears.


Implants
But things may be about to change. Some remarkable X-rays have surfaced at recent UFO conferences thanks to the work of two dedicated researchers, Derrel Sims (Certified Medical Hypnotherapist and Registered Hypnotic Anaethsesia Therapist), and Dr Roger Leir, Podiatric Surgeon, DPM. Dr Leir has recovered a number of possible alien implants from patients claiming abduction experiences and otherwise.

These tiny objects, only about 4.5mm long, are being subjected to critical testing and analysis in the USA, Italy (Pizza), The Netherlands, Germany and Austria. They are undergoing Isotopic Range Tests and age dating. Two of the objects are believed to have meteoritic origins

If we are being carefully monitored already, who and what are the agencies involved, and what is their ultimate goal? An alien agenda - survival of a species - or a New World Order - the ultimate in power and control? There are many theories but few facts. The problem is, if the facts uncovered are so bizarre and don't fit our 'comfort zones' they're not going to be believed anyway. It's a personal choice.

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