About
Welcome to Greeting Earthlings (GE) - a blog for those haunted, fascinated or amused by illustrations, photos and descriptions of "alien" entities. Part "art project", part encyclopaedia, the blog is intended as a place where the imaginative potential of alien encounters and images can be explored and enjoyed. The aim is to create a playful and provocative space that (hopefully) prompts, cajoles and stimulates readers' imaginations. Above all else, I hope it's fun.
Though GE will happily document celebrated/famous alien sightings, it is particularly interested in encounters that appear (on the face of it) especially improbable and "ludicrous". There is (perhaps) a tendency among earnest, "nuts and bolts" ufologists to deliberately exclude more outré aliens from the "official" alien story. By focusing on encounters with sanctioned, "orthodox" creatures like greys a certain (misleading) homogeneity may be suggested.
As Peter Hough puts it, "Many researchers, in their efforts to make the ET hypothesis more tenable, have attempted to squeeze occupant descriptions into a mere handful of categories".1 The reality of reported experiences, however, suggests a far more heterogeneous phenomenon - one that ranges from "fairies" to robots (and everything in between). In fact, as author Patrick Harpur has suggested, attempts at "sensible" classification of the dizzying variety of reported alien beings may be inherently doomed to failure:
On the one hand such a catalogue of contradictions makes one despair of ever satisfactorily classifying the aliens; on the other hand, it provides a real clue to their nature - which is to be essentially contradictory. It is almost as if their variety is specifically designed to refute any theory we might hold about them.2
The intention here then is not to "make sense" of these creatures through rigid classification, nor to dogmatically pronounce on the validity of individual encounters. GE is simply intended as a place where these entities/encounters will be presented and (hopefully) enjoyed for what they are - whatever that may actually be. Very loose groupings (based on physical or behavioural characteristics) will gradually appear, but these are not intended to suggest any serious/literal connections.
While random thoughts and speculations about the nature (and possible "meaning") of individual encounters will follow each entry, the aim is not to prove or disprove any particular hypothesis. Rather, the intention is simply to let ideas fizz and fly. Ultimately, I hope that the illustrations, photos, and accounts will (to a certain extent) speak for themselves.
My other blog can be found here: www.fustar.info
Disclaimer: For every entry I will ensure that proper referencing is done to credit sources (I have no interest in plagiarising anybody). The blog is merely the (completely non-profit) work of an enthusiast, but if you are the copyright holder of any of the reproduced images and object to their use, please contact me and I will remove the images in question. Thanks.
