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Aliens Invade; Government Panics; Sinister Vats Appear; Film at 11
Mike MacLeod and friends
This note is an enquiry into the nature of the "EBEs", or, now, "ALFs",
the allegedly extraterrestrial creatures mentioned in the John Lear
Statement (LEAR.TXT) and in a number of other files here on ParaNet.
I am not a UFOlogist, and neither are my friends who shared some of the
ideas herein. I'm not sure if they wanted their names attached to this
note, so I have not given them a auctorial credit. I am a professional
technical writer, currently writing software manuals for a computer
company.
My friends and I have looked at UFO materials for over 20 years, and
this set of data - from at least three camps - leaves a uniquely bad taste
in our mouths.
When confronted with a situation like this, with a lot of hand waving and
an atmosphere charged with menace, there are a number of ways to look at
the proffered data. We are surprised by the lack of imaginative discussion
here; if this stuff is even remotely true, we're going to need all the
theorizing and ideas we can muster.
It may be instructive to look at some possible explanations and toss out the
least likely:
Theory 1: Everything posted is true, except where documents disagree - such
as meetings taking place at two different times or locations, in
which case one is assumed to be true.
Not likely. Several files were prepared from memory and the authors were
careful to say so and to suggest that they may have forgotten details or
misremembered incidents.
Have you ever read a set of witnesses' reports taken by police from the
classic "scene of the crime"? They vary considerably - so much so, that
they often seem to have been observing something completely different.
The reports about EBE activities seem disturbingly similar, sometimes
seeming as if an ounce of data were fluffed up with a hair dryer into a
pound of descriptive prose to please adrenaline junkies.
Theory 2: It's all bs; none of it's true.
We don't think this is likely, either, though it's probably a safer bet
than theory 1. We have been reading reports of one kind or another for 20
years and this one gives us a very odd feeling. There is a kind of
strangeness to it that is much more characteristic of reality than
fiction. I know this is an insubstantial subjective feeling, but there
is a good deal of truth to the cynical comment that "Of course life is
stranger than fiction - it doesn't have to make sense". It is difficult
to write a realistic tale without the puppeteer's strings showing; in my
opinion, these reports do not show a great deal of fabrication;
opportunistic lying, perhaps, to merge details from one incident into
another.
Theory 3: The EBE story, as posted here, is a cover for something even
>worse< that the EBEs are doing.
Mr. Lear muses that "What could be worse than being eaten"? Well, let's
see...the aliens are currently held responsible for mutilations and
abductions; perhaps we can pin AIDS on them. It may be that the EBE
presence has crippled the US Space Program and otherwise interfered with
events, but our information is simply inadequate. Still, this merits inquiry.
Theory 4: The EBE story is a cover for covert >government< activities,
again, worse than we suspect.
Unfortunately, a good case can be made for this. There is considerable
evidence that the Nazis never really surrendered, but went underground and
also infiltrated most of the world's intelligence agencies. Certain
crimes of the aliens remind one of Nazi atrocities during WWII. Some
reports here claim that the Germans seized a crashed saucer in the late
1930s. Suppose they had already cut a deal with the EBEs, then the EBEs
extended their reach to the USA, along with top Nazis? It's an open
secret that Project Paperclip brought over dozens, if not hundreds, of
Nazis, installed many of them in scientific or intelligence posts, and
even forged fake documents to let them get on with the Thousand-Year Reich
unmolested. And where were the U-boats when the Allies captured their
pens? Mostly gone; some say to secret bases in Neuschwabenlandt in
Antartica; with EBE technology they might make a go of it.
Hard to believe that the Nazis really didn't lose WWII? Not any harder
than accepting "highly evolved" aliens with degenerated digestive tracts.
Rather than consider a number of other scenarios on their merits, one at a
time, perhaps a deductive approach will bear fruit, now that some of the
wider-ranging theories have been looked at. Let me bring up several issues
in the story we have trouble with.
We're surprised that the presence of humanoid aliens has been accepted so
blandly by the community of researchers. From a standpoint of locomotion
in gravity wells, a quadruped is a pretty simple, stable configuration.
There are few upright bipeds, fewer still as large as men. We do not see
six-legged higher animals on Earth, so, by the only analogicial reasoning
we have at our disposal, we cannot assume them to be that common. However,
I would not be surprised to see centaur-like aliens with four legs and two
more manipulating leg-arms.
Animals built low to the ground are in no great danger from falling, but
humans can die from just falling down. So it takes some good motor control
to be a big, heavy biped. Like other predators, men have binocular
vision, which is most suitable (of eye placements) for fine motion
detection. Preyed-upon creatures generally have eyes on either side of
their heads, the better to check out leopards making their midnight creep.
In Elaine Morgan's thoughtful book, _Descent of Woman_, she hypothesizes
that our hominid ancestors underwent a >partial< adaption to the sea, as
did seals and such, but reconsidered and returned to the land. She
postulates about 10 million years of seashore living and adaption. And
she makes a good circumstantial case; she points out that the other
primates are either fearful or at best indifferent to water - chimps
supposedly will not enter water above their waists. Anybody who has seen
human babies swimming happily long before they can crawl cannot doubt that
humans are comfortable in water.
She lists a number of items: the rotation of the human arm is adapted for
360 degree motion, unlike other primates; the placement of human nostrils
(unlike other primates) keeps water away from the nose when diving
headfirst into water; we lost our body hair in the sea; we communicate
mostly verbally, which would be more effective in the intertidal zone,
rather than by body language, gestures, and facial expressions, as other
primates do.
Like the other sea mammals, we lost our hair, developed larger bodies and
breasts, and greater intelligence, presumably from having to cope with
two radically different environments. Above all else, humans are
gloriously >generalized<. We swim, climb, run, and eat almost anything;
with the addition of brains and thumbs, we won the Pleistocene War Games,
when competitors like sabre-tooth cats and cave bears, as the books say,
"mysteriously" disappeared.
Contrast this admittedly Nietzchean scenario with the EBEs. They are
right out of the feelgood school of SF movies: the New Age Space Brothers
like ET and the CE3K Stay-Puft types. (The other school - and it's
interesting how cleanly they fall into the two archetypes - is the
Supercompetitor out to eat our niche's lunch, and us for dessert, best
shown in the movie _Alien_.)
The obvious inconguity is the nonfunctional digestive system. On Earth,
nothing more complex than a mayfly has evolved without a digestive system,
and the success of omnivores suggests that such adaptions - and the
sophistication such adaption requires - has survival value. It's possible
that, as was suggested, the nonfunctional digestive tract is an artifact of
genetic damage from environmental causes or genetic warfare. If the EBEs
have genetic engineering sufficient to do the damage,