-Witches were just people with different practices/beliefs and people are naturally xenophobic.
You're a little bit right here, I think, but there's more to it. If you're talking about the witch hunts of the 18th/19th centuries then there are alot of reasons why people were accused of being witches, I think alot of it had to do with people holding grudges against other people. For example, you'd accuse the woman your husband was cheating on you with of being a witch to get revenge.
What I specifically had in mind with the witch thing was alien abduction itself. There are records of people in the middle ages having almost the exact same experiences as with what people describe with alien abductions, but only with witches and demons. Basically I'm talking about sleep paralysis, which, along with that nasty practice known as hypnotic regression, creates probably 99% of abduction cases (the other 1% being flat-out hoaxes/lies).
-Dragon's, I agree that this is pure psychology, but possibly based around dinosaur bones finds. (look up the Ica stones for some puzzling stuff, maybe fake, maybe not)
I agree with your assessment that dinosaur bones could have helped support any theories of dragons that were floating around back in the day. However, I'm not aware of any specific cases of people finding dinosaur bones and attributing it to being a dragon (but this by no means means that those cases don't exist, but I've never sought them out).
-Giants might just be genetic oddities, have a look at the Guinness Book of Records, same goes for dwarves. There is always one giant and not a tribe or town full of giants. I am not religious but there are giants in the Bible.
True, but I had in mind the elaborate tales of giants that you find in Norse mythology and stuff like that. They were convenient for explaining certain geologic features of the local areas.
"A lot of physical features make sense to me when you think about evolution in space, low/zero gravity (muscles), not much light (eyes)."
One problem here is that you're assuming they evolved for years in space itself and not on a planet, and that they live in low/zero gravity as opposed to the kind of gravity you'd find on an earth-like planet, plus one would think that they'd have lighting in the UFOs and on their home planet, which would have to have a sun. So in and of itself I don't think that holds up very well.
My main point though is that the aliens are just a manifestation of ourselves, quite literally. Like satan is the manifestation of what is evil and scary (as opposed to being an actual entity), the average "gray" is a manifestation of ourselves as we move through this technological age. Perhaps we are seeing ourselves as clones of each other, becoming featureless and pale, with large, lifeless eyes representing our loneliness or desperation. I think the image of the gray holds alot of meaning for the pschology of our society today.
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19 years ago
You both have some good points, thanks for your input.
Since we're proposing theories and there is no evidence, the only thing we can do is make assumptions.
I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with Norse Myths, sounds plausible though, "A very big man must have done that".
Dinosaur fossils have been found in China in recent years, I think it's safe to assume that these are not the first. Chinese dragons are an old myth and some dinosaurs found recently have early wings and feathers like the dragons in artworks. It's very far fetched but maybe even a few 'dragons' (flying dinosaurs) survived the extinction like the crocodile, who knows, and then the last ones were killed by medieval knights.
No offense but "their home planet has to have a sun" doesn't hold up with me either, the sun might be a lot further away, they might have had to migrate away from their sun, they might have been forced to live underground or the atmosphere could be thicker. If your eyes are more sensitive to light you would need little light in an UFO to operate. There's also the possiblity that they altered their own genes to artificially evolve. Then again, maybe they wear helmets, and the eyes are like sunglasses or vision enhancing goggles.
I think just a bit less gravity could cause these (slightly more) slender limbs, more gravity could result in muscular, more packed together lifeforms with thick bones and short limbs.
"My main point though is that the aliens are just a manifestation of ourselves... for the pschology of our society today."
Good point, I'm constantly reminding myself of this but I like to think that there could be something truly alien in all of this, only one genuine case would be great. And to me it would be absurd if we would be the only civilization in the galaxy, but that is maybe another discussion. I agree that we shouldn't underestimate the power of human imagination.
Ahhh, xenobiology (or exobiology), what a wonderful subject, I really hope some tangible evidence will show up in my lifetime. It won't be long untill we can get pictures of Earth like planets.
P.S. Sorry if I'm mixing up theories about aliens and the theory we were talking about (the time travellers).
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