From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 09:38:08 MDT
Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:49:14PM -0700, Nathan Woods Currier wrote:
> > >
> > >And in case I missed something earlier in the conversation, is there some
> > >specific referent to "those reports", or is it a generic for all the
> > >popularly-known reports lumped together?
> >
> > If by "aliens" you mean the Little Grey Men of standard UFO
> > lore, then 5% doesn't seem totally unreasonable... I would guess somewhere
> > around 1%. The key is to drop the assumtion that they are aliens, and
> > consider the slight possibility that they might be genetically engineered
> > future humans coming back in time to study us Neanderthals.
>
> Naah.
>
> If you examine the "eye-witness" accounts of meetings with the Greys
> and the other guys with an open mind, you will notice after a bit that
> the whole thing reeks of the Fair Folk -- sidhe, elves, what have
> you. In fact, most of those alien abduction stories are dead-ringers
> for what would, a century or more ago, have been "away with the fairies"
> stories.
Moreover, as I've demonstrated in the past with my logistical
calculations, in order to maintain the level of sightings and abductions
that are claimed, on a constant basis, would require a fleet of UFO's on
earth in the order of 1000 vehicles, with a support infrastructure of at
least 100,000 aliens, living here, to support and maintain this fleet.
This would also result in a minimum of 1 UFO crash every year, up to as
many as 6 crashes a year, some of which would crash into populated areas
and be witnessed and photographed by large numbers of people.
I'm more inclined to believe Steve Witham's position about crypto-dirt:
having nanoscopic probes tweaking our brains in our sleep, induced by
magnetic fields or direct stimulation (as demonstrated by Persinger, et
al) to have abduction or other hypnogogic hallucinations is a more
reasonable explaination if one is to accept the other-intelligence cause
of these experiences.
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