The ‘Greys’: They’re Coming to Get You Barbara! Part Two

Continued from yesterday’s blog…

Now it’s not sufficient to claim you were abducted, tagged (implanted) and experimented on by aliens; there’s also got to be a logical reason(s) why aliens would want to do so in the first place. Why you? Unfortunately, you probably can not supply one! But that’s okay in that an alien is by definition an alien and therefore may have such alien motives – as in “why me” – that might be quite beyond your (or our) comprehension. The question isn’t so much ‘why me’ as ‘why anyone’? The one thing that immediately comes to mind is that there is one natural resource extraterrestrials can not find closer to home and that is terrestrial biochemistry. For that, and I can only assume that’s what they’re interested in, the mountain has got to come to Mohammad as it were.

Why would aliens be interested in our (including our entire planet’s) biochemistry? Well, scientists interested in the question of extraterrestrial life are convinced that alien life will be based around the carbon atom like we are. Carbon based life forms are organic life forms and if the ‘Greys’ are real and a life form then the way to bet is to bet that they too are organic. Their biochemistry won’t be drastically different (though different it will be) or absolutely incompatible with terrestrial biochemistry. And just as we scour the globe for natural pharmaceuticals, etc. that derive from the biochemistry of our companion plants and animals, our ‘Greys’ have expanded the amount of real estate they’re doing equivalent searches on. Perhaps some terrestrial species hold the key to drugs that could cure their cancer (or alien equivalent thereof) or anti-aging or whatever ails them.

Why the abductions? How else are they going to access human biochemistry? Maybe they’re looking to human biochemistry for hints on how to deal with their version of the common cold. While that’s possible, here’s where we take a sharp left turn and head towards “The Twilight Zone”. As noted in the abstract, that if abduction accounts are to be believed and taken at face value, the emphasis of their interest centres on genetics and reproduction. Is that the alien equivalent of ‘dirty old men’? - Hardly that I’m sure. If images of their little grey naked bodies don’t turn us on, images of our bodies probably don’t excite them either.

No, this emphasis apparently is nothing less than the creation of human-alien hybrids. Would this be an exercise in climbing Mt. Everest – let’s see if it can be done by trying to do it just for the sake of seeing if it can be done? Since there are no human-alien hybrids (to the best of my knowledge) walking our streets, unlike say for example Negroid human-Asian human hybrids, then they are walking-the-walk and talking-the-talk elsewhere, assuming the success of their experiments that is.

Since the creation of human-alien hybrids is probably something easier said than done, even if we are both carbon-based bipeds, and since abductions are ever ongoing, the viability of these experimental hybrids remains in some serious doubt. As to why the ‘Greys’ require human-alien hybrids apart from the Everest explanation, that’s something probably best left in the here-and-now to sci-fi authors.

That “Twilight Zone” scenario apart, what parallels can be drawn between what humans do, and what alleged aliens allegedly do?

Let’s start with human-to-animal parallels. Can wild animals comprehend being abducted and put on display in zoos (or stuffed and on display in natural history museums)? Can they understand being tagged and re-released back into the wild? Can laboratory rats, mice, rabbits and monkeys (plus a whole host of other creatures) comprehend their torture?

In all cases, zoos, museums, wildlife studies, medical research, etc. the usual ends-justify-the-means goal is mainly for our benefit. We mainly benefit from the medical (and pharmaceutical and cosmetic) research and experimentation on our test animals. Zoos and museums are major tourist attractions, designed with us in mind. Wildlife tagging and monitoring keeps biologists employed and results in pure, sometimes applied, knowledge. However, in all cases the animals remain ignorant as to the reasons for their kidnapping, torture, captivity and/or monitoring.  In similar terms, we humans remain ignorant as to what the ‘Greys’ are really up to. All we can ask is “why me” or “why anybody”? All we can conclude is that whatever their motives, the purpose(s) are ultimately going to be to their benefit in the first instance, not ours. 

Now animals may also benefit from human-animal abduction/research interactions. Some medical research is veterinary research; some animals may ultimately live a longer, healthier, more secure life in a zoo or wildlife theme park; tagged wildlife yields knowledge that might ultimately benefit the management, understanding and sustainability of their species. Another reason we abduct some animals is to breed them, usually because they might be an endangered species. Of course humans are anything but an endangered species, so that rules out that motive on the part of the ‘Greys’ despite the sexual connotations.

Moving away from human-animal parallels and instead onto human-human parallels, we have some examples of note, one of which has a logical alien-human counterpart. 

Tracking devices are hardly unknown in and for our own society. For our own benefit, we like to keep tabs on known criminals under house arrest/detention and the location of armoured vehicles that carry around wads of money. Aliens might want to keep tabs on humans previously abducted for follow-up purposes; hence those alleged tracking implants associated with some abduction cases. Humans sometimes abduct humans for various other purposes, usually ransom, but in this case I doubt if the ‘Greys’ have much use for our money and they’ve never made any such ransom demands in any case.

As to the zoo/museum parallel, one can but help wonder whether our extinct prehistoric mega-fauna, from non-avian dinosaurs to the more recent sabre-tooth cats, mammoths and terror birds still exist and live in an alien zoo, along with say some Neanderthals. In an alien air-and-space museum there might be a display of a primitive flying machine along with its dead and stuffed pilot, Frederick Valentich. Maybe they have a display of our primitive aerial war machines (Flight 19), and anything and everything else that has vanished under highly mysterious circumstances might be grist for their alien zoo/museum mill too. In short, not all abduction scenarios might be of the catch-study-tag-release variety.  

In conclusion, and on balance, the “why me” or “why anyone” answer probably isn’t either/or. Rather, there are probably several answers or reasons o purposes behind alien abductions.