Alien Anatomy
Thanks to Suite101 editors and an aggressive research staff, it has come to my attention that a number of inquiries and suggestions have been received concerning this “UFOs and Paranormal” site; suggested subjects readers would like to see addressed here. By your responses I have determined one such subject a majority of you would like to explore is that of extraterrestrials; not just where they come from and what do they want with us, but specifically, what do they look like, their physical characteristics.
This week we explore alien anatomy; what we know, what we think we know, and a few blueprints laid down by pop culture, just to add to the mystery. Keep in mind just about everyone, especially Hollywood, has their own image of what an alien should look like. From friendly-looking greys with oversize orbs and long slender fingers, to ferocious looking dinosaur/insect-looking creatures two-stories tall, society has advanced its love affair with the possibility of off-world visitors and what they would look like through literature and film, so much so that we each could name at least three different anatomical species in our own minds.
Let’s try it. Think of three different-looking alien species. Quick now. Let me guess, you thought of the grey aliens first, then, perhaps, Klingons, or that eerie creature that haunted Sigourney Weaver throughout the “Alien” movie series. Did you think of Chewbacca? The octopoids from “Independence Day” or reptilian creatures depicted in literature by masters like Heinlen, Asimov, Clark and others?
Putting Hollywood aside (as much as possible), let’s examine the earliest recorded accounts of what modern-day eyewitnesses had to say about extraterrestrial anatomy. That would, of course, take us back to 1947 and that old tale of the Roswell Incident.
Oh, yes -- there were eyewitness accounts of alien bodies at Roswell, many more than the U.S. military would have liked. Consider that if an actual spacecraft, albeit small, crashed into the hard New Mexican plains, it must have made a terrible mess to clean up; parts of aircraft strewn across acres of ranch land. That means lots of witnesses.
Loretta Proctor and her husband Floyd raised sheep on the property next door to Mac Brazel’s ranch, site of the crashed spacecraft. Now 82, she remembers Brazel bringing by strange material from the crash site the day after it happened.
Frank Kaufmann, now 83, was a civil service radar operator at nearby White Sands Proving Grounds who says he was called into service the week of the alleged crash because of unusual and unidentified radar activity in the area. In a 1997 Albuquerque Journal copyrighted article, Kaufmann reports he was dispatched on one of the first search teams to stumble upon the burning wreckage.
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