A rather dry article on alien faces and mothers

Jan 19, 2006 12:04

Featured Article
(from Skeptic magazine Vol. 11, No 4)

This quarter, Skeptic.com presents an article in which Frederick V. Malmstrom asks: “Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?”

The Descriptions of alien faces historically reported by UFO abductees are almost boringly uniform. Long before “close encounters” became a catchword in the ufologist’s vocabulary, self-proclaimed UFO abductees described their abductors as bulbous-headed humanoids equipped with oversized, wraparound eyes, vertical double-slit nostrils and gray skin. Is there another explanation for this uniformity of features besides the most obvious - that it is a description of an actual alien race?

Click here for the entire article. You really need the pictures for the whole experience.

(If someone cared to 'Freud' this up a little, the results would be simply dazzling.)

kinship, postmodernism, extraterrestrials, aliens

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