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Aliens from Earth?
Posted by Mac Tonnies, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Mac Tonnies
The UFO phenomenon is innately slippery, forcing researchers to adopt various paradigms in order to explain it. I'm personally satisfied that we're dealing with a form of nonhuman intelligence ... but how sure are we that this intelligence is from space, as commonly assumed? The following in an excerpt from a manuscript I'm working on. In it, I attempt to set the tone for a speculative re-examination of the UFO evidence:
Looking down from a sufficient distance, human habitation recedes to the merest glimmer. As night devours the continents, our seeming dominion vanishes, replaced by scattered constellations, the haughty gleam of our cities suddenly as substantial as a skein of campfires. As the dark deepens, we realize with mounting unease just how tenuous our presence is; the mountains, prairies and lakes, denuded of daylight, taunt us with their enormity.
Then there are the oceans, almost entirely vacant of man-made lights. Our seas, so often taken for granted, are like vast tombs from which even the most unseemly phantasms might emerge; we ply their waters at our own peril, distantly aware that we might find ourselves in the company of others.
The Earth is ancient, its biosphere only slightly less so. For four-billion years our world has has secreted life. The advent of homo sapiens is alarmingly recent in comparison. We're like foundlings washed upon some alien shore, stifling our fears by pretending to a feeble omnipotence. Having launched spacecraft to the outer planets and inspected the crater-pocked wastes of Mars through the unblinking eyes of rovers, it's easy to entertain the idea that we're the first, evolution's sole successful stab at the phenomenon we casually term "intelligence."
Yet as we watch night erode the familiar highways and stadiums and ever-encroaching suburbs, our confidence falters. Already, technological forecasters envision a near-future populated by our artificially intelligent offspring. Perhaps as our most cherished certainties crumble in the glow of a new century -- full of danger, portent and enigma -- it's become relatively easy to contemplate the presence of the Other: not an other new to our planet, but one predating our own genetic regime. Something unspoken and ancient yet nevertheless amenable to science . . . an intelligence with an almost-human face, until recently content to abide by the shadows of our complacency.
But since the middle of the last century it seems to have asserted itself with a vigor hitherto found only in the domain of folklore. Understandably daunted, we've relegated its existence to the margins of perception: hallucination, war fever, misunderstood natural phenomena, delusion, butchered recollections of dreams best left forgotten. We see lights dancing in our sky and invoke impossible meteors. Landed vehicles accompanied by surreal humanoids become military test aircraft and their diminutive pilots. The emaciated creatures seen aboard apparent spacecraft -- or, more portentously, within rock-walled caverns -- are summarily dismissed as sheerest fantasy or, at best, as the spawn of novel brain dysfunctions.
In the decades since 1947, dawn of the contemporary UFO era, we've confronted a parade of strangeness that has rallied uncritical enthusiasts and rattled entrenched authority, leaving a bizarre residue that defies attempts at categorization as certainly as it elicits hypotheses.
Mac Tonnies
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Posted by Grazy
March 31, 2008 at 01:38 PM
And at the end of 4 billion years earth are infested by a virus called man
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Posted by C D
March 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM
There is also a third possibility beyond T or ET, that these beings are other-dimentional or spiritual beings. If videos like the NASA UFO clips are to be believed, these "craft" or entities are capable of right angle turns at incredible speeds that would destroy (liquify!) a physical being like ourselves due to inertia (unless they have found a way around physics with technology). The film also shows UFOs that are semi-transparent and can be seen only with a camera that sees additional wavelengths of light our eyes cannot perceive. This is similar to the so-called "orbs" caught on film unseen by the photographer. Both seem to be just outside our reality and seemingly intelligent. Given the fear and/or confusion that these supposed encounters often seem to cause, could these be the demons of the Bible? If so, we should consider not only their origin, but their motives, because they are said by Scripture to be hostile to humanity.
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Posted by J Mar
March 28, 2008 at 01:04 PM
I believe that Aliens are machines (AI) created by Humans thousands of years in the future and are being sent back into the past to gather data - hence there only purpose is to gather data to either change the future or to correct the catastrophic errors we might make or will make.
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Posted by Tom Barnes
March 28, 2008 at 10:39 AM
I have a boyhood friend who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and was an Air Force scientist for many years. He is now a retired LCol and working for a major aerospace firm as a scientist. He believes that \\'Aliens\" are earthlings. He has believed for over thirty years now that they are essentially beings that evolved from insects over a billion years time....they are the sentient descendants of Earth insects in his mind! He says to me , \"Do you have any idea what the Universe can do in a billion years? It can turn a beetle into an Alien\". He steadfastly continues to believe this even now in his mid fifties.
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Posted by Nick L
March 27, 2008 at 03:47 PM
This \"sharing the Earth with sentient Others\" idea is very ancient but has begun resurfacing (!) in recent years. Now that the Flores hominids have shaken up a lot of assumptions about the survival of older human ancestors into recent times, maybe we\\'ll start finding more clues to a branch of the hominid tree that became nocturnal or went underground. The great fear in the minds of many humans is that we aren\\'t the sole sentient inhabitants of this world. The Others may be expert at camouflaging themselves, or survive in the regoins where humans cannot, or have other tricks to blend in on the surface. In ancient times we seem to have interacted with cretaures that looked \"human\" but were not; some seem more evolved than us, others less so. The other burning question is what \"they\" want with us.
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Posted by WMM
March 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Don't know what the "\\" in my previous post is all about, but I won't blame the dero.
Morlocks, maybe.
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Posted by WMM
March 27, 2008 at 12:10 PM
The evidence for an earthly origin is indeed overwhelming:
http://tinyurl.com/3bxp4r
I\\'m looking forward to seeing Mac Tonnie\\'s book, as he\\'s on the right track.
-W.M. Mott
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Posted by rootdeco
March 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Trouble is: Cryp. T.'s aren't as sexy as E.T.'s.. But, in light of the Hopi and their Ant People and the Cherokee with their Moon People, Cryp T.s have more of a pedigree. Maybe H.G. Wells nailed another one: the Morlocks are getting restless.
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Posted by Bruce Duensing
March 27, 2008 at 09:15 AM
I just finished a three part series on this theory which honestly was not where I thought I would be some decades ago. Needless to say, critical assumptions in check, this unknown terrestrial species is more likely in terms of probability,behavior, and vested interest toward the degradation of a shared environment on their part, than the other alternatives which are so abstracted as to be unintelligible. I think the deconstructive aspects, the revisionism of rational materialism as in fragmenting consensus is very pointed and is intentional. The ground is being softened. For all we know Oannes will make a dramatic reappearance. The linkage between environment and vested interest is certainly attributable in theory to their intent and motive.
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