From our new writer at Alieneight: Ben Worthen

I remember when I was younger (9-10 years old) just starting to form my opinions of things like Alien existence.  Oddly drawn to all things which were unknown and unproven, yet, fearful, as though I knew it was real.

Watching shows like “Unsolved Mysteries”, and then later the “X-files”, and as I moved into adulthood, seeing documentaries of Roswell, reading books which included the Christopher Columbus Unidentified Submerged Object account during his voyage to the Americas. These experiences ignited within me a desire to know the truth.

As life followed, I found it increasingly difficult to spend time reading about aliens, and connecting the dots so to speak.  I fell into crowds where believing in aliens might well alienate me from my “friends”. I became heavily involved in discussions which felt taboo, but only every once in a long while.  The fanaticism with which Alien believers portrayed their beliefs was off-putting to me. My religious upbringing kept me from going too far away from the accepted beliefs of my church.  I still had a desire to find out the truth, but my belief was trending towards that of a non-believer.  After all, the only fascinating stories of alien encounters were unsubstantiated frenzied stories from uneducated hillbillies in back country areas of poor regions around the world.  The descriptions of “aliens” were so varied and different that it was hard to take them seriously.  Yes there were nagging bits of information that left the imagination to run wild, but nothing was concrete enough to prove anything.

The brain is a powerful thing.  It can perhaps dream up ideas of what we want to see, and “make” us see those things.  We could be fooled perhaps by our views of what was interesting, or of what we fear.  Did I just see a ghost? Did I just feel something behind me in this dark house?  Was that light in the sky that just disappeared, a UFO?  Why can’t I remember what happened on that long stretch of highway?  Does all the military secrecy mean that there are UFO’s at Area 51?  What about the stories I hear?

I dismissed the idea as something too farfetched to be reality.

And then it happened.  Over the course of four months time, I had what I believe to be, at minimum 12 separate alien encounters between myself and several other friends.  I had seen what all those uneducated, back woods “liars” had seen.  The “fire in the sky”, the “Greys”, the “reptilians”, and I KNEW that what I was seeing was not fake.  It was not staged.  It was NOT a figment of my imagination. I was not the only person involved.  I was from an upper middle class neighborhood in Southern California, I didn’t even know any rednecks, and I couldn’t possibly be convinced that what had happened to me was not real.

I was no longer a skeptic.  In fact, the only thing to this day that I am skeptical about is whether or not to share my experiences.  Would people believe me? Would I continue to believe myself when faced with retelling of these events?  Would I be able to maintain my position in my career, my life, and also tell people with the conviction that I have, that Aliens exist?  Would I alienate myself from the other parts of my life and lifestyle?

With regards to Aliens, the fear I have is more of respect than anything.  I cannot say I am not scared of the things I have seen or experienced, but I don’t feel helpless.  I have seen enough to never question it, but only enough to pique my interest.  I have experienced enough to scare me, but only enough to make me want to find out more.

I don’t have an abduction story.  I have never been probed.  I have never been violated by an alien life form on a ship somewhere. I don’t think I have at least, but somewhere inside me, I know that there is hidden within my defense mechanisms and the deep crevasses of my mind and memory, more than what I now know. Somewhere inside me, part of my stories that I do decide to tell, aren’t complete.  Like I can’t remember, or it’s too tough to talk about.

I have experienced time loss (dramatically so, provable by timestamps, travel records, gas receipts, and mileage readings), I have seen things I cannot explain like shape shifting, and I have come face to face with multiple types of aliens. Or at least that’s what I believe.

I want to share these experiences with you so you can take from it, what truth you want to believe, and leave behind those things you may feel are too fantastical to believe…

The vast majority of UFO reports have been reasonably concluded as misidentification of naturally occurring phenomena. That still leaves thousands of sightings that have left only mystery and inconclusive results in their wake. Some have even presented enough evidence that former skeptics have come to reassess their beliefs. One such incident heavily affected J. Allen Hynek, scientific advisor for the United States Air Force's UFO investigations, and began his change of attitude about the potential reality of some non-terrestrial cause to the sightings that poured in to their investigators. Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico experienced the alien encounter on April 24, 1964.

Officer Zamora was chasing a speeding vehicle south of Socorro in the late afternoon of that day. He "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to southwest some distance away - possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." Abandoning the speeder he went to investigate, as he knew a local dynamite shack was in that direction and was afraid it may have exploded. With the weather fine and only a few clouds scattered about the sky he recalled seeing a long, funnel shaped, bluish-orange flame that lasted about as long as the roaring sound he heard. He said it dropped from a high pitch to a lower one and then stopped as he approached the gravel road leading up to the shack.

Reaching the top of the rise, he saw what, at first, he mistook for an overturned white car about 150 to 200 yards away with two figures standing beside it. Turning his patrol car towards this sight, intending to offer assistance, he noted one of the figures give a start and they disappeared from his view. He said there was nothing extraordinary about them except that they were maybe the size of children or small adults.

Radioing in to his dispatcher he informed them he would be outside his vehicle checking on the "car" in the arroyo. As he exited his vehicle heard a a very loud roar begin, starting at low frequency and raising higher then a flame appeared under the object he could now see was NOT an automobile. He described the object as being white, not aluminum or chrome, and of an egg shaped oval, very smooth with no apparent windows or doors. He noted some sort of red lettering on the side and what seemed to be an "insignia" about 2x2-1/2 foot square. While the roar began while the object was on the ground, it began to slowly rise straight up into the air on the pillar of flame.

He began running, attempting to get away from the roar which he admits frightened him. When it ceased, he looked up and saw the object, now silent and flameless moving away from him, clearing the 8' shack by several feet. He regained his patrol car and radioed to the dispatcher to see if they could spot the object as it began to lift higher into the sky, soon passing over Six Mile Canyon Mountain, still silent and flameless.

He was soon joined by the dispatcher, Nep lopez, and Sergeant M.S. Chavez who helped him investigate the sight where the object had rested. There was brush burning in several places and they noted tracks left by what must have been "legs" on the object. The four indentations in the ground were deep, cutting into the subsoil to expose a deeper moisture level. The moist soil indicated that the marks were freshly made. There were also three other circular marks that only extended to about an eighth of an inch in depth. Some of the smoldering brush, while still smoking, was also cool to the touch.

As independent corroboration for Officer Zamora's story were several other sightings of the flying egg-shaped object reported round that time by others in various locations in the area, including two separate groups of tourists and an unidentified person who called the television station in Albuquerque. Other people reported hearing the roar of the object and one gas station attendant who reported in flying over his station at a very low altitude.

Several years later a former University of Arizona radiation biology doctoral student stated to UFO researcher James McDonald, who was also an atmospheric physicist, that she had been sent to collect and analyze soil and plant samples from the site. While the finished report she turned in has never resurfaced, she stated that the sand was fused, the plants were unusually dried out and that there were two undetermined "organic substances" included in the samples.

The official Air Force conclusion was blatantly riddled with errors and easily exposed misinformation. The claims that there were no other witnesses than Officer Zamora and that there was no indication of soil disturbance were easily debunked by the numerous reports as well as photographic evidence of the depressions left by the craft. This obvious falsification of the data at hand proved the insincerity and lack of integrity provided by the "official" military investigators, leading them to be increasingly held in suspicion and paving the way for their own scientific advisor to begin looking more closely and seriously at the sightings he was given to debunk.

Supposedly the result of breeding between the typical “Gray” Aliens and humans, hybrids are thought to already be in existence among us. The Grays, during the abduction of humans, will extract sperm and ova to be combined with Gray DNA to create a hybrid race that is theorized to be needed to save the Grays from extinction due to excessive use of cloning. Another theory is that the Grays are creating the hybrids in order to save the human race from extinction by transplanting us to far away planets before our society self-destructs.

According to some sources, eyewitnesses and abductees, the aliens tend to continually refer to the future. They seem to hold it true that what they are doing will be for the betterment f both of our species. When impregnating the women, the women are often told that they are carrying the future. The hybrids are referred to as the children of the future. They are always talking about a change that is coming something difficult but inevitable.

It’s a wonder that with all the knowledge abductees obtain about why they are taken, what experiments are being done and for what purposes that the abductees can handle such information. The aliens have explained on numerous occasions that the programs for creating hybrids are meant to salvage our future. The aliens have communicated that there are benefits to the change and that there is need to prevent or cope with impending mass destruction. So the new question is this: if a change is coming that the aliens are preparing for, who will benefit from the change?

Something puzzling about the phenomenon of abduction is that the aliens seen to be greatly concerned about the environment. They have been telling us that humans have been doing the planet a disservice with all the pollution. There must be some reason that they are concerned about our environment. People with positive vision of the aliens believe that the message is one of concern. But, those with a darker view have thoughts that question their motives such as whether the aliens are trying to clean up the planet before a take-over.

Hybrid fetuses are taken from the abductees and are placed in tanks of liquid nutrients. Abductees report the huge size of these rooms and the staggering number of fetuses contained within. When the hybrid newborns are taken from the tanks they do not cry, do no grasp and their bodies have a unique muscular tension. They often seem mature for their age. These hybrid babies seem to have unusual mental abilities. They seem to be using mind coupling to gain knowledge when looking at you, so it’s difficult maintain eye contact without feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Whether the purpose for these hybrids is sinister or benevolent in nature is unknown. But there is still a concern about why the Grays are creating them. If it is to propagate their own species, it would seem that they have gathered enough DNA samples to establish a hybrid race. Perhaps we will know their intentions sometime in the near future.

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Aliens are known to be quite enamored of our species, and because of that they will stop at nothing to breed with us, experiment on us, perform terrible mind tricks and test us in our altered states of reality and if that doesn’t beat all, they’ll erase our memories of the events and do a shoddy job of it. If you suspect for any reason that you have been the victim of alien abduction, you need to read through this list of symptoms very carefully. Here are the signs of alien abduction that everyone should be aware of.

(1) Have you experienced any periods of missing time? Periods that cannot be accounted for? (Not to be confused for high time, borrowed time, bed time, overtime, killing time or the like…)

(2) Do you have any odd markings, unusual scars, designs or wounds for which you have no explanation? Of the many signs of alien abduction, this is probably the most important.)

(3) Have you or are you currently having flying, levitating, falling or floating dreams? And if so, is it your belief that Aliens were responsible? If you can’t recall, skip to number 4.

(4) Do you give credence to spurious information being posited as credible science?

(5) Do you feel as though you are the special chosen one; chosen by some unknown cosmic entity and appointed to save the planet and all of its inhabitants? Or, have you felt the compelling desire to join environmental groups who have the same “save the planet” mentality?

(6) Have you been receiving telepathic messages or channeling entities that claim to be the High Priest of some such planet, or the Overlord of All Mankind? Or do you believe Cher, Elvis, Queen Elizabeth and Michael Jackson are reptilian invaders?

(7) Do you find yourself spending too much time in the shower dreaming about the mother ship?

(8) Do you believe that you can safeguard your thoughts from Alien Super-beings by wearing hats made from tin foil?

(9) Have you experienced any highly vivid or lucid dreams in which you could not move your extremities and were completely helpless while being probed by beings of unknown origin, which had a penchant for making insensitive remarks about your private areas?

(10) Do you recall having been given a tour of crying, green-skinned, twelve-eyed babies in a nursery and being informed that they were yours?

(11) Are you unable to control your urge to surf the net for websites on the unexplained, mysterious and unsolved? Do you root around their forums looking for other people who show signs of alien abduction and find yourself posting information as if you personally knew the aliens yourself?

If you show any or all of these signs of alien abduction, you should know that it is very serious. You are probably being repeatedly abducted and probed and sexually assaulted by some Alien life forms looking for a way to take over the planet. There’s nothing you can do.

There is a theoretical new and unique form of life now actively flying through the air in our environment. Some believe that they are all around us. So what are they? Is there any evidentiary support?

Some of the characteristics of these flying rods are quite intriguing. They are shaped like rods and can vary in size from just a few centimeters to many meters in length. They are zipping through the air at enormous speeds. They are nearly invisible to the naked eye, but can be captured via video or film. Some have appendages along the torso that resemble fins. And they do not appear to be mechanical, they seem to be alive and possibly have intelligence.

So, how have these Flying Rods caught the public attention? They brought into the public eye in 1994, thanks to filmmaker Jose Escamilla. He filmed some mysterious and unexplainable objects in Midway, New Mexico. On March 5, 1994 Escamilla filmed about 16 minutes of footage that contained UFOs. On March 19, 1994 he had the Flying Rods caught on film. This was the first recording of the phenomenon ever documented. Since then, many people have had these Flying Rods caught (or what they think are Flying Rods) on film, in pictures and videos.

Theory proponents say that there is no possibility that the Flying Rods can be known objects. All of the evidence centers around the photographs and the Flying Rods caught on tape and on film. There are also non-photographic pieces of evidence like ancient cave drawings that can be depicted as the Flying Rods. But, no one has the desire to make an active case for the evidence so it doesn’t get attended to much at all.

Since the evidence is based only upon the photographs and video, the theory of this phenomenon isn’t well supported because the evidence is flawed. With the motion-blue effect of “fins” on a Flying Rod is consistent an inset beating its wings very quickly.

After analysis of the footage, it is clear that the objects cannot possibly be as big as reported or they could easily be seen without the use of any specialized equipment. And in addition to that, it just isn’t possible for video to be able to capture something like that without being visible.

There is plenty of information to find online and in the media regarding the Flying Rods caught on tape and in photographs. In 2002 there was a television documentary called Rods! The documentary is produced and directed by John Moffet who was also responsible for such titles as Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (2001) and World's Scariest Ghosts: Caught on Tape (2000). The footage used in Rods!, primarily focuses on the video footage by Jose Escamilla. There are also interviews with Escamilla and various other rod researchers, along with mentions of other UFO reports.

This theory’s main problem is that these Flying Rods caught on tape and in video can easily be explained by naturally occurring phenomena; such as birds and insects. This theory, in short, just doesn’t “Fly.”

In Ufology (the study of UFO’s), the phrase alien autopsy refers to an examination of an alien corpse that was allegedly performed and recorded in 1947. The recording performed by the American Government was on black and white 16mm film. The footage is also referred to as the Santilli Footage, because it was London-based Merlin Group producer, Ray Santilli who purchased the footage for £ 100'000 in 1995.

So what is an “alien autopsy”? Supposedly, an alien autopsy is a procedure that is carried out on a being of extraterrestrial origin after it has died. The belief in these alien autopsies, along with the belief that they are being carried out by the United States Government, is one of the core components of numerous UFO conspiracy theories. The term “alien autopsy” is used in pop-culture, fiction and Ufology regardless of its validity.

The 17-minute footage of the typical “Gray” alien, an almond-eyed, gray-skinned creature with a large head and small body, getting dissected was presented on television in Britain and America in 1995. The broadcast drew bigger viewing audiences than Live-Aid. The incredible images of the disemboweling of the being were sensational enough to have made front page news worldwide.

Ray Santilli claimed to have purchased the footage from a former cameraman for the military who had been behind the camera for the autopsy performed on the alien from the now famous 1947 Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash site. Each frame was examined thoroughly by doctors and ufologists along with special-effects and film experts. The authenticity of the film has been fiercely debated.

In 2006, Santilli made the announcement that the shocking film was not exactly genuine. In the televised documentary Eamonn Investigates: Alien Autopsy, by British Sky Broadcasting, Santilli kept insisting that the film was a restoration of genuine footage while Eamonn Holmes kept referring to the film as a fake.

Santilli maintained that the film was a reconstruction of an authentic film he had watched in the early 1990’s but subsequently lost. Furthermore, Santilli claimed that frames from the original “real” alien autopsy film were embedded in the new “reconstructed” version, but could not pinpoint exactly which ones they were.

Santilli made explanations as to how he happened to come across the cameraman and subsequently purchase the footage. Altogether, Santilli acquired a lot of two reels of film, twenty-one safety prints and the negative. From this acquisition, Santilli was able to put together four films. Aside from the famous alien autopsy everyone knows from TV, there is also a second autopsy performed on a less-injured creature, footage of a Gray getting examined inside a military tent, and footage of some control panels and I-beams from the wreckage of the craft.

The other autopsy is rare and hard to find. Apparently Santilli had a private showing for only a select few people, among them the Italian journalist Maurizio Baiata. The second autopsy was never shown publicly and was bought by Volger Spielberg. The footage from the tent was eventually proved to be a hoax.

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In an attempt to fit various types of UFO/alien experiences into some categorized listing, the astronomer and ufologist J. Allen Hynek created a classification system. He first introduced this terminology to the world in his book, "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry" in 1972. His determination was that UFO/alien encounters could be broken down into three basic types.

It is accepted that a close encounter must occur within a 500 foot range to avoid the misidentification of conventional terrestrial aircraft or other natural phenomena. Beyond that range objects are considered to be either "nocturnal lights", "daylight disks", or " visual and radar reports".

According to Hynek's classification system a close encounter of the first kind is the near sighting (500 foot or less away) of an unidentified flying object, odd lights or an aerial object that is maneuvering or otherwise displaying characteristics that are not possible with terrestrial technology.

A close encounter of the second kind is the sighting of a UFO that leaves some physical trace of its presence. These can take the form of either measurable heat or radiation damage on the observer or damage to the immediate terrain and its flora and fauna. Incidences of human paralysis or inexplicable frightened or agitated animals as well as interference of radio and television reception fall into this category. The phenomena of "lost time" associated with a UFO sighting is also a second kind encounter.

Due to Steven Spielberg's famous movie, close encounters of the third kind are most well known. This encounter scenario is where the witness observes "animate beings" in associated with the sighted UFO. Hynek himself did not wish to use the term "alien" as there was no was to rule out the possibility that the beings seen were actually humans as opposed to automatically assuming they were of extraterrestrial origin.

Others have added extra classifications to this list although not all ufologists universally accept them. Ted Bloecher added seven more potential categories although they are mostly subsets of the major classifications and three do not particularly pertain to UFO's or aliens at all. Of the most accepted of these additional classifications is added the close encounters of the fourth kind. In the fourth close encounter category is the actual abduction of a human by alien beings.

The close encounters of the fifth kind classification was proposed by Steven M. Greer, the founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. These encounters are one's mutually arrived at with a conscious and deliberate purpose by both the humans and the aliens for the purposes of communication. These "contactee" encounters were considered to have begun sometime in the 1950's and supposedly continue, along with the less planned encounters, to this day.