GREY ALIENS BITE THE DUST

A fiction no matter how bizarre, if repeated often enough becomes 
accepted as fact especially if it's reinforced by the voice of some 
Authority or other. This goes on all the time, especially in the media and 
their propaganda bulletins passed as network news, to take an obvious 
example. But the frightening thing is that once a fabricated belief is 
established in the mass mind, anyone who tries to expose the original 
fiction is almost certain to be set up as a liar, a lunatic, or worse... 
Fortunately for us there are still lunatics in the world who pan for 
truth in the polluted rivers of disinformation. Borderlands has long been 
one of those rare places where the odd, the avant garde and heretical 
have found their voice. For example, way back in the 1950s, long before 
UFOs became popular Borderlands was seriously investigating this 
phenomenon and over the years has observed and recorded all the 
extraordinary and bizarre developments in this field, always with a mind 
open to the infinite possibilities of a greater reality. In the early days of 
Ufology the extraterrestrial contacts claimed were usually of the 
benevolent space brothers type (Ashtar command), Adamski's 
voluptuous blondes from Venus, etc. It was all rather harmless and the 
messages were even quite inspiring _ never mind that the technical 
information on how to 'get there' never quite materialized. People 
believed what they wanted and reached out to other worlds and other 
possible states of consciousness, perhaps for the first time in their lives. It 
became a movement.

But over the past few years everything has changed. A disturbing 
element has entered the once bright arena of ufology and a shadow hangs 
heavy over the whole question of extraterrestrial contact. Somehow, 
since the mid-seventies, the storyline has been twisted, the stereotypical 
image of the 'space people' has been subtly and deliberately altered to 
reflect a very different mood. According to the proponents of this new 
wave of Ufology, extraterrestrial contact isn't desirable anymore _ unless 
you happen to be a masochist with a penchant for painful 'medical' 
examinations of a sick sexual nature. One thing is for sure _ the space 
people aren't benevolent any more; they're cold and gray and their 
intentions are increasingly sinister _ they want to control your mind, and 
steal parts of your body.

This about-turn in the field of ufology, I mean 180 degree turn, from 
the white voluptuous fantasy to the politically correct 'grays' (these aliens 
are neither white nor black) is quite remarkable. While claims of the 
earlier and more esoteric extraterrestrial contact were mocked by most 
normal people including the media, now the media is becoming saturated 
with stories of alien abductions and those same sane people are parroting 
all the latest details. There's a belief here verging on hysteria; so where, 
we have to ask, are these stories coming from?  And if they're true _ 
show us the evidence!

ENTER THE GRAY ALIENS
The two main images in the lurid ufology sweeping into public 
consciousness today are _ gray aliens and abductions of humans by 
these aliens. Together they form the key components of a cosmic 
conspiracy theory with elements of high level government involvement 
and mass genetic manipulation, to say the least, and it's a conspiracy 
that's spreading. A postcard just received in the mail from Paramount 
Pictures states that "2.5 million Americans claim they have had an alien 
abduction experience", as part of their promotion for the upcoming 
release of a major movie called Fire in the Sky very loosely based on the 
Travis Walton incident well known to ufologists, one of the early 
abduction cases which has been neither proven or refuted. 

The image of gray aliens is infiltrating the gray matter of the public 
like the sinister shadow reflex of those ubiquitous little troll dolls, 
insinuating itself into every level of the media. Grays are finding mention 
in television shows, such as the documentary A Strange Harvest, the TV 
movie Intruders, a recent episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, that 
well known prototype vehicle for the New World Order federation 
propaganda... advertisements, almost every new age consciousness 
publication, gutter press and otherwise intelligent magazines. Their 
mutated bland bug-eyed heads have sent ET back to kindergarten. 
Abductee has become a fashionable state of being and abduction 
seminars, workshops, support groups and private counselling for 
abductees are spreading like an epidemic. 

Here at Borderlands under siege from the stacks of hype from the 
New True Believers, we have also received information from the other 
more skeptical side of the story and this article is an attempt to gather 
together some of the kernels of truth, if truth is to be found, from the 
bloated fiction being sold by the sensation hungry press to the ever 
gullible public.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ABDUCTIONS _ WEAK LINKS IN THE chain
One of the most rational and scholarly investigations into the claims 
of human abduction by extraterrestrials is a meticulously researched 
paper published recently by the International Fortean Organization, 
titled Demons, Doctors, and Aliens by James Pontolillo, subtitled: An 
Investigation into the Relationships Among Witch Trial Evidence, 
Sexual-Medical Traditions, and Alien Abductions. But don't expect to 
find any serious review of this work in the mainstream ufological press, 
as James Moseley of the Saucer Smear cynically comments: "If it ain't 
real-life aliens, true ufologists don't want to hear about it!"
The author is concerned about "the central role of cultural misogyny 
in the origin and development of the alien abduction phenomenon"... the 
shallow contradictions and misrepresentation of facts in the reports, and 
the lack of substantiating evidence... as he says, "nothing but the human 
imagination is required to produce an abduction narrative."

He begins by questioning the numbers of alien abduction cases 
claimed by such prominent researchers as Budd Hopkins (100's of 
1000's _ or 1 million last count), or Donald Ware from MUFON 
(approximately 6 million Americans "whether they know it or not"). The 
figures claimed are extrapolated from individual cases (including friends 
and acquaintances) to the general population, and from a poll 
containing five leading questions that was apparently distributed to 
several thousand people, and quoted in Fate magazine. Have you ever 
experienced missing time... felt you were flying... awakened with a 
strange presence in your room... seen unusual lights... found puzzling 
scars on your body...? You might be an abductee and not know it. This is 
the theoretical basis of the abductionists' extravagant claims (but they 
don't ask if you take drugs, drink alcohol,  engage in subtle energy 
practices, or watch too much TV...) 

Skeptics, of course, deny that anyone has ever been abducted.  
Pontolillo goes on to question the evidence of which the 
overwhelming majority is unsubstantiated eye witness (and alleged eye 
witness) testimony from the purported abductee. Most abductees are 
anonymous and the crucial medical and psychological documentation on 
their cases is inaccessible. He questions the use of hypnotic recall 
procedures by pro-abduction therapists with little knowledge of the 
scientific literature on hypnosis and its proper application. Most of the 
abduction evidence hinges on hypnotic regression and, as Pontolillo 
points out, "a casual examination of all major pro-abduction books 
reveals the use of leading questions by researchers on their hypnotized 
subjects" _ while Hopkins categorically states in UFOs And The Alien 
Presence: "You can't lead people." (Another question that presents itself 
here is: How is it humanly possible to conduct in-depth psychological 
tests for such a vast number of traumatized victims _ if their claimed 
numbers are true?) 

As there is no physical evidence or objective testimony the author 
digs more deeply into the psychological interpretation of the abduction 
phenomenon to seek out the underlying archetypal imagery. In doing so 
he draws a compelling thread between UFOs, abductions and ancient 
folkloric tradition, or as he puts it "The core abduction event, sexual and 
medical experimentation by extraterrestrials on unwilling human 
(primarily female) subjects, is only the latest variation in a time-worn 
cycle of misogynistic folk tradition endemic to Western civilization."
He takes the reader back to the first abduction story ever recorded, 
in Genesis, with the sons of God taking the daughters of men, beginning 
a cycle of domination and abuse of women not merely tolerated but 
aggressively pursued by the Judeo-Christian authorities. In the early 
days of the Church, intercourse between female saints and angelic lovers 
in male form was quite acceptable, as was the idea of human-angelic 
interbreeding, but later on woman was made into the evil seductress, the 
insatiable succubus depicted lewdly cavorting with demons. The sadistic 
trials of the Great Witch Hunt (15-17th century) with their countless 
victims, mostly women, were a direct result of this misogynistic 
mythology, and the physical and sexual torture of the mediaeval 
inquisitors with the lurid confessions extracted from their helpless 
victims were only a few steps away in time from the "scientifically 
proven" fledgling disciplines of crude gynecology and psychiatry. It's 
chilling but true that normal female sexuality in the 1800s was 'treated' 
with flogging, clitoridectomy and female castration. As Pontolillo states, 
these are the roots from which much of our 20th century philosophical, 
intellectual and scientific modes of thinking grew. Under the cloak of 
science, intercourse with the supernatural faded from public view but in 
the mid 1950s it returned in another guise, the early contactees such as 
George Adamski, and an increasingly religious tone to the UFO 
encounter. It was in the 1960s that the claimed abductions of Betty and 
Barney Hill, Antonio Villas-Boas and Betty Andreasson-Lucas were 
reported, setting the theme for all subsequent abduction stories. While 
abduction proponents claim the media had no influence on the reports of 
these famous cases, Pontolillo points out the great tide of pulp sci fi 
magazines and movies conveying "the paranoia about alien visitors that 
had permeated American culture and its resultant influence on the 
development of the alien abduction phenomenon" with examples like the 
'39 novel Sinister Barrier where extraterrestrials artificially inseminate 
human women, or the '57 film The Mysterians where alien men take 
human wives for breeding purposes.

The media hype following the Betty cases saw a phenomenal upsurge 
in reported abductions and with them a return to the mythic theme 
proposed by the author. The blatantly sexual medical procedures 
practised by aliens on the abductees uncannily echo the reports of the 
demonic liaisons extracted under the inquisitor's torture _ the icy 
demonic phallus becomes a cold instrument inserted by aliens; the 
'pricking' of the accused witch becomes a recurrent needle motif in the 
alien 'medical' examinations; some of the aliens copulate with the women 
but there is no pleasure involved, and human interbreeding with fairies 
or demons is transcribed into alien genetic manipulation, forced 
interbreeding, the stealing of ova and sperm and brief pregnancies with 
the fetus mysteriously vanishing into yet another unverifiable report _ 
while the experiences of male abductees have received very little 
attention.

As Pontolillo states: "The abductee testimony of various medical and 
sexual experiences is a convoluted mix of lurid dream imagery, 
confabulated medical and sexual experiences, and iatrogenic effects."
While he focuses on the psychological aspects and the mythic quality 
of abduction reports the author also brings up the subject of devices 
allegedly implanted in abductees' bodies by aliens for purposes of 
tracking and mind control, although it seems none of these implants have 
been made available for independent scientific evaluation _ they have 
the habit of "vanishing mysteriously, being lost in the mail, misplaced, 
stolen by unknown entities or seized by unnamed federal agents as the 
ufological worldview usually requires."  

THE SINISTER WORLD OF "SPY-CHIATRISTS"
Another nail in the coffin of the gray alien syndrome is added by 
Martin Cannon in a manuscript entitled The Controllers: A New 
Hypothesis of Alien Abductions, in which the author asks some pretty 
basic questions that seem to be conveniently overlooked by the abduction 
proponents. Firstly, "How do we know that the abductors are alien at 
all? And if the abductees are placed under some kind of mind control 
through implanted memory as claimed by Budd Hopkins and others: 
How can we trust the perceptions of someone whose perceptions have 
been altered? What if the kidnappers were actually human beings, using 
advanced hypnotic techniques to create the 'alien' screen memory?"
Cannon doesn't question the validity of the abductee experience, but 
rather he seeks to unravel the deeper layers of the mystery from a 
pragmatic and definitely Earth-oriented approach. With a formidable list 
of resource references he puts forward his case that the claimed UFO 
abductions might well be a continuation of clandestine mind control 
operations including hypnosis, drugs, psychological conditioning, 
microwaves, brain implants and even more disturbing technologies. 
Having spent a great deal of time reading, researching, contacting other 
researchers and conducting interviews, Cannon has come up with 
shocking evidence of the sinister and covert world of the "spy-chiatrists" 
who have been experimenting with mind control technologies for 
decades. 

He says: "If my hypothesis proves true, then we must accept the 
following: The kidnapping is real. The fear is real. The pain is real. The 
instructions are real. But the little grey men from Zeti Reticuli are not 
real; they are constructs, Halloween masks meant to disguise the real 
faces of the controllers."

And who are the controllers? 

"Substantial evidence exists linking members of this country's 
intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the 
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval 
Intelligence, with the esoteric technology of mind control."
He traces clandestine behavioural research going back to World 
War II with the developing tools of hypnosis, truth drugs and a 
pharmacology of chemicals. After the war the Navy continued this 
research, then in 1950 the CIA began its own mind control program with 
Project BLUEBIRD, which became ARTICHOKE and later MKULTRA, 
regarded by some as the most heinous of all the CIA's disreputable 
covert operations _ with its most secret area of study being 
psychoelectronics. That these programs existed is an established fact, as 
the author states "...the existence of mind control was verified in two 
(heavily compromised) congressional investigations and in thousands of 
FOIA documents."

For those who doubt the power of mind control over unsuspecting 
victims, he includes this anecdote about a MKULTRA veteran and author 
on warfare hypnosis George Estabrooks, who "once amused himself 
during a party by covertly hypnotizing two friends, who were led to 
believe that the Prime Minister of England had just arrived; Estabrook's 
victims spent an hour conversing with, and even serving drinks, to the 
esteemed visitor." As Cannon asks "If the Mesmeric arts can successfully 
evoke a non-existent Prime Minister, why can't a representative from the 
Pleiades be similarly induced?" 

As far back as the 60s, he states, and possibly earlier, scientists have 
had the means to create implants similar to those claimed by abductees. 
Around the late 50s a neuroscientist named Jose Delgado invented a 
device known as a "stimoceiver" _ a miniature depth electrode which can 
receive and transmit electronic signals over FM radio waves. With this 
the controller can wield a surprising degree of control over the response 
of the subject, playing the emotions electronically "as easily as a musical 
instrument." Delgado stated quite clearly in 1966 that "motion, emotion 
and behaviour can be directed by electrical forces and that humans can 
be controlled like robots by push buttons." Other researchers have 
induced memory, sexual arousal, fear, pleasure and hallucinations in 
their subjects, and devices have been created for tracking people over 
long distances, leading to "electronic house arrest" devices approved by 
the courts. (Mind machines of a supposedly more innocent nature have 
also become commonly used in New Age circles, such as the Synchro-
energizer, TENS machine etc.) The early implants were soon replaced by 
tiny miniaturized intracranial receivers, which in turn have been 
superseded by microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation 
to elicit mind control. How far the technology has progressed is hard to 
monitor, Cannon admits, as the press stopped reporting on brain 
implantation in the early 70s, but journalists have asserted that the CIA 
now has mastered "Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control" and 
"Electronic Dissolution of Memory" _ being able to induce hypnotic 
trance, give suggestions, and erase memory ("missing time" is a common 
claim of abductees), all at a distance and "triggered at will by radio 
transmission" surpassing even the sophisticated horror of The 
Manchurian Candidate. Intramuscular implants have also been 
developed with the small resultant scars reminiscent of abductee reports.  
Perhaps the most ominous proposals for mind-management, says the 
author, come from people like Joseph A Meyer of the National Security 
Agency who proposed implanting tens of millions of "subscribers", as 
Meyers put it, (about half of all Americans arrested) who could be under 
constant computer surveillance wherever they went. As this frugal fellow 
stated, "implants are cheaper and more efficient than the police." And 
the operation can be done right in the office taking less than 20 minutes, 
as a Florida doctor brags, who also suggests implanting children with 
transmitters for constant monitoring for their own safety! With such 
sophisticated techniques at their disposal Cannon asks the key question: 
Why are 'advanced aliens' using old Earth technology? 

It all sounds very fishy and yet the lure of the little gray alien has 
been swallowed by otherwise intelligent people, hook, line and sinker. 
"Perhaps," says Cannon, "one purpose of the UFO abductions is to 
engender and maintain the legend of the little gray aliens. For the hidden 
manipulators, the abductions could be, in and of themselves, a 
propaganda coup." (It may be mere coincidence but "ex"-intelligence 
agents are very prominent in such highly sophisticated disinformation 
schemes as the 'cosmic conspiracy', the UFO and alien abduction plot, 
e.g. John Lear, William Cooper, Bob Lazar, etc _ although on a recent 
radio show both Lear and Cooper were both heard back-peddling on the 
alien angle of the conspiracy caper). But for what purpose? One chilling 
possibility put forth by Cannon concerns "the disposal problem" of the 
mind-control experiments, or "What do we do with the victims?" Another 
possibility is to prepare earthlings for a simulated alien invasion which 
could bring into effect an international state of emergency _ remember 
the film The Day The Earth Stood Still?  

CATTLE MUTILATIONS
Another atrocity that has been linked to alien abductions by the 
thinnest threads of evidence (so thin as to be practically invisible) is the 
disturbing cattle mutilation enigma. In one case a young woman claimed 
she was taken by aliens to a facility where they were processing the body 
parts of a mutilated calf. In the New Mexico area where cattle 
mutilations have occurred, strange lights have been repeatedly seen in 
the sky along with other unusual activity such as helicopters that can be 
seen but not heard, or heard but not seen. Common in abductee accounts 
is the memory of a helicopter turning into a UFO. According to George 
Earley who in a Fate interview with Hopkins is surely fantasizing about 
equipment on an alien space ship: "Such equipment might function in a 
manner similar to the Klingon cloaking device in the Star Trek TV 
series."  And in a similar vein Linda Moulton Howe, creator of the TV 
film A Strange Harvest, and a major media proponent of alien 
abductions, states "...they (the grays) have the technology to camouflage 
themselves however they want to."

Drawn into this highly contentious area was Peter Jordan, author of 
The Psychometry of Cattle Mutilation, and founder/director of the 
Association for the Study of Unexplained Phenomena. As an independent 
investigator Jordan, with a fair amount of skepticism, took photographs 
of mutilations to four separate psychics, each with a well established 
reputation for accuracy. He was amazed by their independent analyses 
which showed a stunning similarity of impressions, each describing a 
military or paramilitary operation involving helicopters, sharp surgical 
instruments, the necessity for fresh animal samples, hovering craft with 
lights to give the impression of UFOs, and a strictly terrestrial but 
massive covert operation. In one way or another each of the four 
psychics insisted that "phenomena suggestive of extraterrestrial 
involvement had been introduced to create confusion."
So we have two diametrically opposed stories _ UFOs manned by 
"advanced" aliens cloaking themselves as helicopters _ or _ military 
helicopters cleverly disguised as UFOs. 
What would you believe?

WHO CONTROLS THE CONTROLLERS?
While Pontolillo and Cannon present enough evidence between them 
from a psychoanalytical and physical standpoint to deflate the gray alien 
bubble, there still remains a nagging feeling that something strange is 
going on.

Deep within the ancestral memory of every race lies the tradition of 
space contact, of communication with divine or other-worldly beings and 
it seems that at certain times, perhaps during powerful planetary 
alignments, the barriers which separate humans from other worlds and 
states of being become more tenuous, more easily crossed. During the 
1960s and '70s for example an intense occult revival began to surface 
across the planet inspiring individuals and groups to alter their modes of 
perception, to penetrate other dimensions and extraterrestrial spaces 
and make contact with 'those beyond.' Occult technologies for 
accelerated spiritual development became suddenly available and so did 
a strong desire for freedom from the prevailing and intensifying state of 
global materialism.

It was also during this time that the alien abductors made their first 
much publicized appearance. Was it a deliberate attempt to close down 
the newly opened 'doors of perception' _ to make people fearful of 
something beyond the control of earthly powers? Or was it merely 
coincidence?

One of the major influences on this occult revival were the prolific 
writings of the English magician Aleister Crowley, who was instrumental 
in merging the occult knowledge of the orient with the western mystery 
tradition, and who could be called one of the first contactees _ in 
particular a book transmitted by a 'trans-mundane' intelligence called 
Aiwass in Cairo in 1904. Several years later in America Crowley made 
contact with another extraterrestrial entity called Lam and the reason I 
mention this is because a portrait drawn by Crowley of this entity bears a 
startling resemblance to the modern 'gray alien.' In recent years others 
have also made contact with this entity which is regarded by the 
respected occultist and contemporary author Kenneth Grant, as a potent 
"Gateway to other dimensions, other worlds or aethyrs." And, he says, 
this image of Lam (reproduced below) is "fast becoming a focus for those 
interested in the occult implications of 'Ufology' and intradimensional 
psionics."

From The Magical Revival (1972) to Hecate's Fountain, his latest 
work, Grant has explored the occult ramifications of  extraterrestrial 
contact throughout human history, through "dimensions that scientists 
are only just beginning to explore." He identifies the 'gateways' through 
which alien forms of consciousness are manifesting and the reasons why 
a rapidly growing number of people are experiencing an explosion of 
consciousness, felt as disturbing because most are without any occult, 
metaphysical or scientific discipline.  

Through the manipulation of natural forces such as nuclear and 
electrical technologies man has unleashed certain energies (or from an 
occult point of view, has invoked certain entities) over which he has lost 
control and is now totally unprepared to face the consequences. The 
elemental constituents of the material world have been blown apart, the 
'gateways' have been opened once again between the worlds and real 
contacts are being established between the inner consciousness of 
evolving humans and outer, or inner, space intelligences. For those who 
can't detach themselves from a materialistic world view these subtle 
contacts are translated in material terms as physical beings, 'the grays' 
with their equally solid space ships (of which no material evidence 
exists), rather than being recognized as grossly deformed shadows 
reflected into the subconscious from cosmic individualities beyond the 
ken of the rational mind. 

It's obvious that our world is undergoing a violent transformation. 
All concepts of what constitutes a stable universe are daily being swept 
away. Who can say with all certainty what is real, or what is not? As for 
the 'grays', the only ones I've seen with sinister intent are the gray faced, 
gray-suited politicians on the network news deciding your fate. As to 
whether they're human or not _ well, that's another story...

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