Alien Universe by Don Lincoln

Author:Don Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 4.4. The mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (left) was huge, many hundreds of feet across, while the Aliens (right) were classic examples of the diminutive Grays. Two humans are shown for scale. The black-and-white figure showing the mother ship doesn’t do it justice. You really have to see the movie to appreciate the magnitude of the spectacle. Columbia Pictures Corporation.

The humans had prepared a group of astronauts who they hope will leave with the Aliens. At the last minute, it is decided that Roy will join them. Roy is welcomed by the Grays with open arms, and he is guided onto the ship. It is implied, but not obvious, that he is joined by the other astronauts. The Aliens all reenter the ship, and the door closes for a final time. As it rises majestically into the sky, Barry closes the movie by saying, “Bye!”

Close Encounters of the Third Kind incorporates many of the “right” elements as believed by UFO enthusiasts, and it resonated well with that community, although, as always, there were purists who quibbled with this point or that. The movie was a huge commercial success, grossing more than $300 million worldwide.

The title came from a scale devised by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek and popularized in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. His scale classified UFO sightings as close encounters of the first kind and sightings with physical evidence, like scorch marks or lost time (à la Betty and Barney Hill), to be the second kind. Close encounters of the third kind required that one encounter “animate beings” with the UFO. The name was vaguely chosen to allow for the possibility that perhaps UFOs were not extraterrestrial in origin. There have been subsequent extensions of the Hynek scale, but these are not universally accepted. Fourth is abduction with retained memory. Fifth is for regular conversations (like the Adamski experience). Sixth is an encounter that causes injury or death to a human. Finally, close encounters of the seventh kind requires human/extraterrestrial mating that produces an offspring, often called a “star child.”

The idea of this interspecies mating has been reported by some of the post–Betty and Barney Hill abductees and also proposed by von Däniken and his contemporaries as possible explanation of, for example, the human/beast hybrid gods of ancient Egypt. Even a cursory knowledge of genetics shows how ludicrous this idea is. Think about it: humans and oranges share a genetic history and have appreciable genetic overlap, yet a human/orange hybrid is unthinkable. In contrast, Aliens and humans have no shared genetic history; indeed it is unlikely that the genetic material of Aliens looks much like the DNA of Earth-based life. From mankind’s recent advances in genetics, we know that it is possible for genetic material from one species to be transplanted to another, but the merging of human and Alien genetic material seems very unlikely.

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