It’s possible that if everyone were to perceive “normal” people as having light complexion for skin tone, then a mother of caucasian ethnicity might
pass for the light complexion of the typical standard description of aliens.

what if the “normal” woman happens to be a mother of an ethnicity having much darker skin tone complexion? the infant might see a distorted shaped, but as for the light complexion…no.

so far not too many people have witnessed seeing aliens with darker complexions. so perhaps people who have darker skin, might happen to witness the standard dark large eyed light skinned alien, and if wouldn’t be an infant memory of their own darker complected mother.

I just had a thought (which may in itself be unusual) about this:

What if we took a bunch of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens, and asked them to draw a picture of the aliens.

Then we ask them to provide a picture of THEIR mother and run it through the filters, as opposed to just any ol’ young woman.

That seems like it would make for a more solid case to me, or at least make for some interesting comparisons.

Thanks right back!

http://-www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v11n4_alien_faces.html

We tried checking out your link, but it’s broken.

Could ya fix that for us?

JanieBelle and Kate

It’s sort of the same thing as the similar stories about after-death experiences: the eye narrows its field of vision as consciousness flickers out, which might explain the stories of tunnels of light, etc.

@ Dan, regarding black eyes: Newborns do not have a great ability to distinguish color either; high-contrast toys (black and white usually) are preferred over the colorful bangles one sees in an infant’s crib. Therefore, all eyes are merely seen as “dark”, not necessarily “black”.

How can we tell what a baby sees? I’m sure I don’t know, but I’m also confident that science can examine the shape and consistency of newborn’s eyes and determine how it sees, much in the same way we know a cat is mostly color-blind and that a fly sees in a mosaic pattern. I wish I had links to a detailed analysis.

Dave

Several years ago I read about a computer program that was used to extrapolate adult faces from the juvinile in order to find missing children several years after they were abducted (by their parent). The particular researcher used the program , based upon the evolutionary alterations in our physiognomy, to project how our remote descendants might look,,,his program showed humans with large eyes and heads, small faces and chins, but 7 feet tall(big bodies needed to support that big brain).
Looked quite similar to the “gray aliens.”
One should also look to anthropologists who used to lump different ethnic groups into black, white, yellow and brown and see they now use for white the term “pinko-gray”.
Children with ” ancient” physiognomy, ie, large faces in relation to the head size, close set eyes and large jaws are the most likely to be abused children.

Put all that together and we have anticipation of coming events down to the genetic level.

As far as remembering infancy, my brother, the rocket scientist, remembers being born,,,and some other things, while I have a confirmed memory going back to the age of 2.5 years(first time I ever tied my showlaces, a big deal 60 some years ago). So, yes, some early memories can be retained but most seem to require some an emotional tag, to mark the memory as important (mine was angry frustration).

Gary 7

Recall that aliens and UFOs are relatively modern examples of magical thinking. These kinds of explanations follow fashions. In Victorian times it was faeries. Before them it was witches. Most of the contemporary drawings of these creatures do not much resemble ‘greys’. One illustration I have seen of a devil sitting on a man’s chest is now interpreted as being inspired by sleep paralysis.

Whenever Venus shines brightly in the evening sky, uninformed observers speculate on what they are seeing. Too many opt for the exciting thought, rather than admit ignorance or apply logic.

It used to be that seeing something out of the corner of your eye might mean a faerie was about. We seldom see reports of wee folk sightings in today’s media.

I wonder what the replacement for UFOs and aliens will be. Science and common sense?

The Sagan quote I gave a few posts ago is from The Demon-Haunted World (1996), page 188. I believe the following passage from page 64 is relevant to the 800,000 figure the BA mentioned in his post:

As revealed by repeated polls over the years, most Americans believe that we’re being visited by extraterrestrial beings in UFOs. In a 1992 Roper poll of nearly 6,000 American adults — especially commissioned by those who accep tthe alien abduction story at face value — 18 percent reported sometimes waking up paralyzed, aware of one or more strange beings in the room. About 13 percent report odd episodes of missing time, and 10 percent claim to have flown through the air without mechanical assistance. From nothing more than these results, the poll’s sponsors conclude that two percent of all Americans have been abducted, many repeatedly, by beings from other worlds. The question of whether respondents had been abducted by aliens was never actually put to them.

If we believed the conclusion drawn by those who bankrolled and interpreted the results of this poll, and if aliens are not partial to Americans, then the number for the whole planet would be more than a hundred million people. This means an abduction every few seconds over the past few decades. It’s surprising more of the neighbors haven’t noticed.

One abduction every four seconds works out to a bit shy of 8 million per year, BTW.

It’s food for thought, but you can only stretch it out to cover a midnight snack.

Most mothers don’t have black eyes.

Is this a(nother) flaw in the theory?

The only psychologist I’ve ever read who has said something similar, however, was Marlene Steinberg, in Stranger in the Mirror. She sees alien abductions as a form of dissociation created by the victim’s need to blame someone other than their own parents for whatever horrors they experienced.