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Three weird looking monsters in their transparent ship
By: Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 5/4/07 Section: Ed-Op
Originally published: 5/4/07 at 3:03 AM EST
Last update: 5/4/07 at 2:09 PM EST
Originally published: 5/4/07 at 3:03 AM EST
Last update: 5/4/07 at 2:09 PM EST
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At least those guys had bodies, though. In 1971, John Hodges was driving down the road with his friend, Peter Rodriguez, when they saw what looked like two enormous human brains lying in the road. Hodges dropped Rodriguez off at his home, and only when he returned home did he realize two hours of his life were missing.
Under hypnosis, he recalled some sort of entity contacting him and promising to talk again. Seven years later, the space brains kidnapped him again. They were, apparently, rather discouraged by humanity's development of the atom bomb, a theme that reoccurred throughout the contactee movement of the 1950s and 60s. They also explained that devices were being implanted in people to augment their psychic abilities, bringing in a little flavor from the abductee implant craze into the mix.
Unlike the marshmallow men, I'd actually heard of something similar. In 1958, a giant brain from outer space used his telepathic powers to thwart the launch of a nuclear weapon into space while living in a cave. Unfortunately for Mr. Hodges, this case occurred in Hollywood, on the set of a movie called The Space Children. You may have seen it on Mystery Science Theater. So I ask you which is more likely: a man with absolutely no influence on atom bomb development was contacted by giant brains from outer space, or he saw a movie with the same plot and somehow lost his grip on reality to think that it really happened?
The UFO enthusiasts would have you believe that the whole phenomenon is fairly simple: space monsters from beyond the stars that look like little gray critters or gigantic praying mantises come to Earth in their spaceships to do things to our genitals. Let me say first that that's hot, and I'm surprised there's so little porn with that theme. Or so I'm told.
Second, that's not true. Space aliens and their vessels come in every shape, size, color, conformation, form and figure you can imagine. In these three alone, we've got midgets in marshmallow suits, and enormous human brains. These guys have shown up one single time and then flown back into space, never to be heard from again. And the ship from Fontain's story? As far as I can tell, nothing similar has ever been reported.
So what is more likely? That hundreds of different species of space alien are coming here to mess with us, or that some people have gone a little nutty, had a bad dream, hallucinated, played a prank or some other purely human explanation?
You don't need to be a statistician to realize that there must be something up with this. Why there is a wide range of monsters supposedly coming to earth is a question that remains unexplained by those that believe in UFOs and should be the source of a great deal of skepticism from those who hear about it.
Be seeing you.
Aaron Sakulich is a graduate student studying engineering and materials science. He can be reached through ed-op@thetriangle.org.
Under hypnosis, he recalled some sort of entity contacting him and promising to talk again. Seven years later, the space brains kidnapped him again. They were, apparently, rather discouraged by humanity's development of the atom bomb, a theme that reoccurred throughout the contactee movement of the 1950s and 60s. They also explained that devices were being implanted in people to augment their psychic abilities, bringing in a little flavor from the abductee implant craze into the mix.
Unlike the marshmallow men, I'd actually heard of something similar. In 1958, a giant brain from outer space used his telepathic powers to thwart the launch of a nuclear weapon into space while living in a cave. Unfortunately for Mr. Hodges, this case occurred in Hollywood, on the set of a movie called The Space Children. You may have seen it on Mystery Science Theater. So I ask you which is more likely: a man with absolutely no influence on atom bomb development was contacted by giant brains from outer space, or he saw a movie with the same plot and somehow lost his grip on reality to think that it really happened?
The UFO enthusiasts would have you believe that the whole phenomenon is fairly simple: space monsters from beyond the stars that look like little gray critters or gigantic praying mantises come to Earth in their spaceships to do things to our genitals. Let me say first that that's hot, and I'm surprised there's so little porn with that theme. Or so I'm told.
Second, that's not true. Space aliens and their vessels come in every shape, size, color, conformation, form and figure you can imagine. In these three alone, we've got midgets in marshmallow suits, and enormous human brains. These guys have shown up one single time and then flown back into space, never to be heard from again. And the ship from Fontain's story? As far as I can tell, nothing similar has ever been reported.
So what is more likely? That hundreds of different species of space alien are coming here to mess with us, or that some people have gone a little nutty, had a bad dream, hallucinated, played a prank or some other purely human explanation?
You don't need to be a statistician to realize that there must be something up with this. Why there is a wide range of monsters supposedly coming to earth is a question that remains unexplained by those that believe in UFOs and should be the source of a great deal of skepticism from those who hear about it.
Be seeing you.
Aaron Sakulich is a graduate student studying engineering and materials science. He can be reached through ed-op@thetriangle.org.
William Riggs
posted 5/04/07 @ 10:49 AM EST
A great percentage of the reports from around the world seem to border on the extreme of strangness. A lot of the reports make it hard to think that the stories are not someones mental delusion, and are dismissed. (Continued…)