Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – ABSURDITIES AND CORRELATIONS
This fascinating story may yield some important clues as to the elusive nature of the UFO phenomenon. There is no reason to believe that the witness fabricated the story. The details are so striking as to be guaranteed to inspire typical disbelief or even ridicule. What hoaxer would have described, for example, aliens dressed in very terrestrial-type coats and trousers, and a flying saucer with two rows of levers ‘like those on the hand-brakes in the older types of cars’?
Even by 1951 standards, this seems primitive. Surely an alien race sufficiently advanced to travel from another planet would have the wherewithal to locate and obtain such a basic requirement as water, without flagging down a passing motorist? If deception was involved, it is more likely that the aliens were responsible. On the other hand, we usually believe that aliens are omnipotent and omniscient. Why should that be axiomatic?
Despite apparent absurdities, there are interesting correlations with other cases. H.M. said, for example, that the hands of the men reminded him ‘of the hands of women’; that their foreheads were ‘a bit more pronounced’; and that ‘it seemed as though they had never had any beard’. These descriptions — and there are others — closely correlate with those given by other contactees. The corollary could be, of course, that H.M. was familiar with the literature on the subject and had simply incorporated some of its features into his yarn. I reject this hypothesis because it is unlikely that any hoaxer would incorporate so many unbelievable terrestrial elements into the story.
Why should it be incredible that something so fundamental to survival as water would be needed by the craft’s occupants? I am reminded here of the celebrated Eagle River, Wisconsin, contactee case of 18 April 1961, investigated by Dr J.
Allen Hynek and Major Robert Friend of Project Blue Book. The witness, Joe Simonton, claimed that a flying saucer hovered just above the ground on his property and one of two human-type occupants handed him a sort of jug and indicated they required water. Shortly after Simonton had obliged, he was handed some pancakes which the aliens had been cooking on a flameless grill!
Absurd, to be sure, yet there is no evidence to suggest that Simonton made up the story. Moreover, certain features of his description of the aliens correlate well with some other contact stories; for example, he reported that: ‘They were about five feet tall and about 120 lbs and looked . . . of Italian descent. Very nice-looking fellows about 25 to 30 years old. Each one was very well built in proportion to their size. [They] had a complexion much finer than any woman I ever saw.’
Regarding the instruments described by H.M., there are several (FSR Publications) accounts of exotic instrumentation, including putatively official accounts, but these are usually associated with operator-occupants whose morphology is unlike that of humans. This raises an interesting point that the contactee experiences tend to be with extraterrestrials whose morphology, dress and mannerisms are closely similar to those of ordinary humans, while the accounts of abductees usually involve aliens who, though humanoid, are still rather ‘other-worldly’ in physique and behaviour.