posted on Jun, 22 2007 @ 01:48 PM
The whole alien contact/abduction area of the UFO field has always been problematic for me, as it has been for most people who haven't personally
experienced it. Like UFO sightings in general, there have been too many of them reported by too many people to completely ignore it. And like UFOs,
even though the number of reports is very high, the amount of real, tangible evidence is very low. Even less than UFOs, because with UFOs, we at
least get photos, radar and the occasional ground trace. Apparently, the aliens don't mind us photographing their ships, but they are personally a
bit camera shy.
The descriptions of the aliens are similar, but they are NOT identical, which is curious. "The Message" that contactee/abductees are given also
often contains many similar elements, but they are also not the same. The message is admittedly very vague. There are a lot of messages warning us
about threats to the environment. A lot of them have the familiar, "When the time comes, you will know," message. The aliens frequently imply that
we need to evolve more spiritually (whatever that means), and they're either helping us, or waiting for us. It's a little insulting.
Any real cures for diseases (per above), groundbreaking mathematical formulas, or instructions for building a warp drive remain sadly unavailable.
And without something like that we can sink our teeth into, it all just adds up to made-up stories, or perhaps an odd but surprisingly common
psychological state shared by the experiencers.
The only way we can get around the problems of the lack of consistency and evidence is to postulate some kind of mechanism where these "aliens" have
the ability to move through time and space in ways we just don't understand. Even veteran abductee researcher Budd Hopkins has come around to
thinking that way, since there's no other explanation that fits. The problem with that, of course, is that it's never a good idea to try to explain
something with an unknown. And it's even more difficult to try and figure out what the agenda of these things is, since their activities seem at
first to oriented toward reproduction and genetics, but also include tracking through generations, psychic communications, and then they often have
the whole "Message" thing tacked onto them.
One of the stranger aspects is "The Secret." For some reason, the aliens will let abductees remember certain things, but never their Ultimate Goal.
They'll hint around, but never just come out and say, "On July 9, 2009, we're going to show up and take command of Earth, because your leadership
is heading in a wrong direction and will mess up our intelligence nurturing experiment." There's no logical (human logic) reason for them not to
tell us. There's no realistic way we could interfere with it or stop it. In my opinion, coming right out and telling the abductee exactly what
they're up to would go a long way toward verifying the story, and as a result, preparing us for The Event. If we got a lot of different abductees
who never met each other all telling us the same date, that would be something worth standing up and taking notice of. As it is, we just have vague
warnings and half-hearted predictions.
So what is there to DO about it (as if we could do anything, anyway)? Not much. We just have to keep waiting for this special day to arrive, I
guess, with no indication whether it's going to be next week or 10,000 years from now, after we've done some more evolving. So far, after a couple
of decades of work with the abduction experience, not much has really happened. The abductions apparently continue, although they're not as talk
show worthy as they used to be. Whitley, after deciding a few years back that these aliens are a bunch of scumbags, still occasionally writes stuff,
but even his experiences haven't really added up to anything, particularly an answer. So we just wait. And if nothing happens, then it'll just
remain a weird mystery.
[edit on 22-6-2007 by SuicideVirus]