Biography A alien

This common image of the alien has long gone beyond science fiction and even ufology, finding a shelter on the pages of yellow newspapers, in urban legends and mass culture. Where did this image come from, how it became so popular and what place takes in modern fiction? Let's try to figure it out. For the first time, large -headed gray aliens appeared at the dawn of modern science fiction - at the very beginning of the twentieth century they met the heroes of Herbert Wells’s novel “The First Man on the Moon”, who dared to visit the satellite of the old woman.

But the gray -skinned lunatics of Wells fundamentally differed from the modern image of “little green men” by the presence of wings. They were lost against the backdrop of other aliens who were rich in early fantasy. It all started with Roswell the first mass surge in interest in aliens dates from the year when the famous Roswell incident occurred. Farmer William Breisel, going around his possessions, discovered strange fragments.

Soon, the information about the “broken ship and aliens” reached the local military, but by that time the press had already deployed a fuss around this event. On this, the facts in history end and the speculation begins: the US government allegedly hid the traces of the crash, the bodies supposedly fell into the hands of the military, and perhaps even living aliens, all witnesses allegedly forced to remain silent, and so on.

However, over time, there were enough local residents who were ready to tell the “whole truth” about the “Rosuelian incident” - however, most often from the words of distant acquaintances or deceased relatives. The aliens were hairless, low and fragile in appearance, with huge heads and black eyes like resin. At first, the incident did not cause wide resonance outside New Mexico.

But at the end of the x, Major Jessel, who served in OM at the Roswell air base, gave a scandalous interview where he spoke about the fragments he saw - those, according to Marseille, were of extraterrestrial origin. The press immediately remembered the incident, the “sundress radio” turned on and it became not so important, a ship of aliens crashed in the vicinity of Roswell or the witnesses simply had an imagination.

The more representatives of the authorities denied the extraterrestrial origin of the object, the more they convinced the public that he was hiding something. As a result, the idea of ​​how real aliens should look, and the image of the “gray” in the mass consciousness actually merged together. Nowadays, the Baika on the incident feeds the entire tourism in the city, the official version of the US government says that in Roswell, only experimental meteosonda crashed, and the bodies that eyewitnesses saw were mannequins used to test new parachutes.

This does not prevent dozens of enthusiasts from continuing to explore the “Roswell incident”, about which thousands of pages have already been written and kilometers of film have been removed. After almost fifty years, an interest in the aliens in Roswell broke out with renewed vigor, when the musical producer Ray Santilli, published the scandalous film “Examination of an alien”.

Allegedly, the operator who took off the autopsy of the alien has survived the film. Now she fell into the hands of the producer, and he decided to open the truth to the world. In the year, Santilli admitted that he fed the film. However, he continued to claim that he had seen genuine shooting. Say, it was not preserved, because of which I had to go to deceive.

The organs for the aliens of the aliens, the filming of the “opening of an alien” acquired, according to Santilli, in the nearest meat shop, the aliens of the Hills finally took the image of gray humanoids in the American mass consciousness after another famous incident in the ufology: in the year Betty and Barney Hill were the first to say that they had been stubborn Aliens.

Returning from the vacation, the couple witnessed the appearance of UFOs, but when they reached the house, they could not restore the events of the previous night in their memory. Soon, Betty began to torment the nightmares in which various medical experiments of low -growing gray -skinned creatures conducted various medical experiments above her and her husband. The statue and drawing of the alien in the Hill Museum according to Betty, the leader of the aliens, answering the question of where they came to Earth, showed her a star map.

Subsequently, Betty was able to draw it - based on this figure, many ufologists consider the homeland the “gray” to consider the dzeta system, located in 39 light years from the ground. The first to listen to the history of the Hills was the astronomer Walter Webb. He believed that Betty's nightmares were caused by hysteria about the UFOs, which covered the Americans in those years.

Three years later, Betty and Barney repeated the same story already under hypnosis. Dr. Simmons, who spent him, managed to save the spouses from nightmares and came to the same conclusion that webb. However, it was too late to drive the genie to the bottle. The hype rose again, the story of the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill went to the people and became one of the favorite topics for ufologists.Barney died in a year, Betty survived her husband for thirty -five years and, until the end of her life, retained confidence that her meeting with the gray aliens had actually occurred, and was not the fruit of the imagination.

The history of the Hills to this day remains one of the favorite topologists. The anatomy of the “Gray” according to the plot of the series “Babylon-5” in Roswell took the first contact of mankind and the races of Vria, although the small green men as a whole, are similar to Homo sapiens, the details are fundamentally different. Their growth rarely exceeds one and a half meters, they differ in a fragile -looking physique, absolutely devoid of the hairline, and in most cases noticeable genital organs.

Most often, gray or do without clothing at all, because they prefer thin tight -fitting costumes of black or silver. It is believed that “gray” are weak, but fully compensate for this drawback with mental abilities. The disproportionate of the gray head is striking - often this is explained by an increased volume of the alien brain, which, perhaps, allows them to communicate telepathically.

This ability is often explained by a barely noticeable mouth - it is possible that they simply do not need it as a means of communication. The nose is just as poorly manifested on the frighteningly impassive faces of the gray - but the good half is occupied by huge black eyes, devoid of pupils and at least a hint of human emotions. Perhaps it is precisely the lack of emotions, the inability to understand what thoughts are hidden behind the piercing gaze of black eyes, make the image of gray so frightening and at the same time memorable.

But what if an unemotional mask is just a helmet? The frame from the film “Communication” is a big business on little men for the time being, the theme of UFOs in general and the little green men in particular brought the ladies only clever newspaper men, but soon many others realized that the aliens could make a name or even a fortune. Hundreds of messages about the abductions rained down on the heads of journalists, and most of the “victims” literally repeated the word of the Hill spouses in word.

Separate details could change, but the “gray” in the role of abductors have been present in most stories for several decades. And, of course, not one of the hundreds of books on the problem of aliens was bypassed by the “gray”. The image rooted in the mass consciousness and on the pages of ufological books gradually began the expansion into the territory of science fiction.

Perhaps the first author to seriously engage in the topic of contacts of people with gray aliens -, however, under several extraordinary circumstances, was Witley Striber, whose first fame brought the horror novels. Witley claimed that he had experienced the abduction in the year - two years later he described his experience in the book “Communication” Communion, which in the blink of an eye became a bestseller.

In the United States, the book of Stripiber diverged more than 2 million copies on the cover of the book depicted by that time that the newcomer's image of the alien was already depicted - the artist Ted Jacobs drew an alien in strict accordance with the description of Striber. Feeling that he grabbed good luck by the tail, Strieber temporarily moved away from science fiction and began to stamp books on ufological topics, which were read, as fascinating fantastic novels, and therefore enjoyed the unchanged success of a wide audience.

However, having returned in recent years to fiction, Strieber does not forget about his little alien friends. On the pages of The Grays and the graphic novels of The Nye Incents, he continues to speculate on the unfading popularity of the "gray" and the love of Americans for the theories of conspiracy. The most popular theory explaining what the “gray” forgot on our planet, it says that their race is dying, and they hope to save themselves with the help of the genetic material of Homo sapiens.

To do this, they abduct people over whom various experiments are conducted - with the knowledge and silent consent of the world governments. Judging by The Grays’s novel, Streber adheres to this point of view. In the year, based on “communication” the film of the same name was shot, in which Christopher Waken played the role of Stribar. However, by that time, aliens have already ceased to be a novelty for the audience, and the film did not bring special laurels to their creators.

Waken got from Stribir for the fact that the actor portrayed him too crazy in normal fiction is obvious that such films and novels, press and eternal fear of a person before the unknown created a “gray” bad reputation. Think of them to land on the lawn in front of the White House tomorrow, they will run into what kind of good, on fire-fighting missiles of the Earth-Athos type instead of flowers and the red carpet, no “we came from the world”.

Aliens from "close contacts of the third degree." With a certain stretch to the “largest” one, I-Ti from the “alien” can be attributed to almost the only one who in the last century tried to portray “gray” by kind neighbors of people, was Stephen Spielberg. The first fruit of his interest in extraterrestrial life was the film “close contacts of the third kind”, in which the role of brothers in mind was assigned just “gray”.

They appeared on the screen only for a few moments, and the whole film is dedicated not so much to them as the favorite topic of Spielberg - the clash of a person with an unknown. However, the final scene in which people finally entered the first contact with the aliens gave hope that in the "Gray" we can find not enemies, but real brothers in mind. After almost thirty years in Spielberg’s film, a place was again “gray” - the next dangerous adventure of the unfading Indiana Jones will bring him with friends and Soviet intelligence officers in the jungle of the Amazon, where they will find aliens in an ancient temple.

True, they will not think of revealing their secrets and instantly retreat into a parallel dimension, boiling the brains of Stalin's favorite in parting. In Indiana Jones, the aliens came from a parallel world, and not from space but the main popularizer of the image of gray, low -growing humanoids in modern science fiction was the television series Secret Materials.

According to the mythology of the series, what was it before the restart of the low -growing gray aliens, called the “colonists”, visited the land at the dawn of mankind and directed the course of the evolution of our race until the last ice age. Returning after the millennia, the colonists were surprised to find that they were no longer dealing with the barbarians, who considered fire to the gift of the gods - and after all the aliens had big plans for the “speaking monkeys”.

Only adult colonists are similar to typical gray, young individuals are more likely reminiscent of reptiles after the alien ship collapsed in the year near Roswell, the powers that were in this existence and had to enter into negotiations with people. Soon, an organization called syndicate was born, whose members promised to the aliens to assist in the seizure of the Earth and create a human and colonists hybrid in exchange for guarantees of their own safety and access to alien technologies.

To bring to clean water the conspiracy of the colonists and the syndicate was the goal of the whole life of the main characters of “secret materials”. FBI agents Mulder and Scully constantly encountered traces of the colonists, such as the abduction of "gray" people. Obviously, the creators of the series constantly drew ideas in common city legends. Thanks to this, what was happening on the screen seemed surprisingly believable, and “secret materials” enjoyed the audience love for many years.

Aliens from the X-Com threat to humanity are customary to portray the "Gray" in the game industry. In the classical strategy of X-Com: Ufo Defense, earthlings were invited by the motley army of aliens, in which the "gray", renamed sectoids, the unenviable role of bargaining pawns was given. The gray shorts created with the help of genetic engineering were perhaps the weakest opponents of earthlings conducting a desperate struggle for their native planet.

The events of the action movie with the UFO strategy: Aftermath from the Altar Interactive studio begin with an insidious biological attack of another variety of “gray” - reticulan - to Earth with the aim of conducting a cruel experiment above us. Survivor people have no choice but to go underground and start a partisan war. However, later it turns out that only the radical wing of reticulan is responsible for aggression, and in the UFO sequel: afterlight less warlike gray can become allies of mankind against a common enemy.

You try for people, but they don’t appreciate! And a series of parody video games Destroy All Humans! Her main character was a small alien named Krypto, who in the mid -twentieth century goes to the ground with a secret mission - to save human brains by extracting them from these terrible lanky bodies covered with hair. But on the way of the noble purpose of a small alien are the evil human intelligence services - their stars of the image of the “Gray” images, who are called asgards, in the consumption of their series “Star Gate”.

Contacts with the name of the city of the gods from the Scandinavian legends are by no coincidence - in ancient times, Asgard visited the Earth and left their memory in human traditions. It is no wonder that primitive people took Asgards for the gods, because they are rightfully considered one of the most developed in the technological terms in the universe.

Which, however, did not save them from extinction. Asgards have lost the ability to reproduce, and survive only with the help of cloning. In the universe of the Star Gate, Asgarda is not enemies, but the strongest and most reliable ally of earthlings was found "gray" a place even in the universe of the Star Wars. They made their debut directly in the "New Hope" Remember visitors in Kantin!

Unlike the classic “gray”, Duro is not inferior to a person either by growth or addition, and their eyes are relatively small and shine with scarlet color.