All This Talk Of Aliens…Again

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Finally, we just might be getting to the bottom of all this talk about alien existence.  With troubles here and abroad the alien chatter has become front and center again. After teasing us for weeks, the government released a series of formerly classified documents and videos.  In my opinion, they leave a lot to be desired.  I watched  videos of some of these UAP’s (unidentified aerial phenomena) but to me they resembled low tech 1990’s style video games.  Afterall, three years ago when I first starting writing about this subject well respected figures within and without government came forward with astonishing claims of such evidence.  Some, like whistleblower David Grusch, have staked their careers and reputations on it. These folks are seemingly smart, articulate, and most importantly sane.  They are not like your crazy cousin Earl, who drinks too much, works too little, has a meth problem, and never met an alien he didn’t like.

According to esteemed sources, these are not your grandfather’s little green men.  Now, evidently, they come in a variety of colors: gray ashen, jaundice yellow, and my favorite, a whiter shade of pale.  Some of them even look like the characters from Star Trek. According to those in the know, their remains are housed in various military bases around the country. Legend has it, that Richard Nixon once took his pal Jackie Gleason to one such base in Florida. And Gleason himself built a UFO ‘inspired” home.  

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What is baffling that these otherworldly characters could come thousands of light years away from earth defying what we know about physics, technology, and … crash? It strains credulity.

Aliens for years have preferred the barren deserts of New
Mexico, the backwoods of Arkansas, the hinterlands of Montana or Wyoming.  But these aren’t the kind of places to announce yourself to the world.  Of course, they could end all this controversy by just showing up in Times Square, Piccadilly Square, or Tiananmen Square. Hold a press conference, visibly show their existence leaving no doubt as to their place in the universe and a press release detailing their new reality series called Meet The Aliens. 

As well intentioned as some of these credible sources seem to be, I’m still highly skeptical.  The media coverage rarely offers any follow-up or specifics regarding these claims.  Normally the source hasn’t seen any documents related to alien existence themselves but “talked to someone else within the highly compartmentalized military bureaucracy who has”. A recent bizarre story almost sounds like the old walk in a bar joke. But
no, instead of a bar, four to six “prominent” religious leaders were summoned to an Airbnb in east Tennessee to look over “evidence” and to help prepare their flocks for what is coming. 
I call these people the blithering idiots of the apocalypse. In the end, the evidence at hand is too vague to attach much credence to it.  The increased sightings of UAP’s could be explained as secret Pentagon aircraft programs (including drones) that befuddle even the most veteran pilots. 

But if aliens do exist, I tend to think that they would be like the ones depicted in an old Twilight Zone episode called “To Serve Man”. Seemingly benevolent, nine-foot-tall aliens arrive on earth offering earthlings a better way to live if only they board the spacecraft and travel to a planet of peace and paradise.  Unfortunately, “To Serve Man” was the name of a cookbook and all, who boarded would be subject to being eaten by the aliens.

 

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Les Marcott is a songwriter, musician, performer and a Senior Writer and columnist for Scene4.  For more of his commentary and articles, check the Archives.

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