Extraterrestrial

In its broadest definition, an extraterrestrial (also referred to as "ET") is anything not "of the planet Earth". The narrower and more well-known definition is of an alien life-form. The most common assumption of this narrow definition is that of a sentient being, often with superior technology. If so, one can only hope that they have found a way to counteract the conservative constant.

Extraterrestrials currently exist only as a hypothetical, with no conclusive proof of their existence yet found. Similar to belief in God, this lack of evidence does nothing to stop people from crediting extraterrestrials with a wide array of accomplishments and interference here on Earth, such as building the Egyptian pyramids and kidnapping anyone who ever had a really long night of forgotten debauchery.

Put another way, most accounts of interactions with ET's are primary source material (highly sought after as a resource if/when an event happened centuries ago, but to be avoided as much as possible if they are about recent occurrences), and thus considered anecdotal, the anathema of all proper thinking beings, who are not inclined to believe what is seen unless it can be seen whenever and whereever it is looked for. Since ETs seem reluctant to be drawn into scientific laboratories or to partake in repeatable experiments, they may not exist at all. Darn. Or maybe they just don't live nearby? Or maybe they just don't like us enough to talk to us face to face face to tentacle.

If there really were aliens we would have heard their equivalent of the World Series and seen their version of "I Love Lucy" first, and then after setting up a two-way conversation over many centuries (and teaching each other to speaka zee lingo) we would have made an appointment to meet in The Hague or something, where they would announce that Al Gore was right all along, and the whole affair would be under the sunshine policy, out in the open, on CNN and there would be no conspiracy stuff. It most definitely would not be just the UFO and some hayseed sitting in his combine in Idaho.

Species

Aliens that have supposedly come in many different forms indicating that either Earth is really interesting to aliens or that they are made up. Often, there is a good correllation between the culture that has observed alien life and what it looks like. The "Grey" species is undoubtedly the most common seen and the most commonly depicted in fiction and reported. Similarly, the "flying saucer" shape only became prevailent after UFOs were reported as being round. Some early close encounters of modern times reported dart shaped rather than saurcer shaped UFOs.

Either way "respected" Ufologists have identified several different species of aliens they include:

• the Greys: Most famous types of aliens in popular culture, they are short but have really big heads, no hair, grey skin, either very small or no mouth and nose, and really big eyes. They are the most commonly reported aliens in North America. They seem to have an agenda, but the grey agenda should not be confused with the gay agenda (although both seem to involve anal probing).
• the Nordics: They look like a Nazi's wet dream, although taller and not into Hitler. For some reason they like to abduct Europeans more than Americans.
• the Reptilians: Also known as the the Gorn, they look like sentient dinosaurs. David Icke and his followers actually believe that Queen Elizabeth, the Bush family, and nearly every other major politician is actually a reptilian in disguise. Seems reasonable enough...

See also

• Alien abduction
• Alien/UFO related pseudoscience?
• Exobiology
• Exotheology
• Intervention theory
• Unidentified flying object

External links

• The Alien Resistance Movement - Got some good publicity in the 90s via Louis Theroux but now seems as defunct as the Flat Earth Society
• AlienResistance.Org - Another fine example.