Aliens and UFO Art....

[Dragonrock]

I, for one, welcome our new snake overlords.

 

[headscratcher4]

I, for one, welcome our new snake overlords.

Couldn't be too much worse than the ones we got....

 

[Foster Zygote]

There is an interesting corelation between art and UFO mythology. I have a big history of Science Fiction Art, and early on in the book they show a cover from "Astounding" or one of those early pulp rags. It shows a circular (actually spherical) UFO, complete with leering "little green men" swooping in to abduct terrified Earthlings... This was 1936 or so, just prior to the war and the boom in UFO sightings that followed.
These images were in newstands all over the country, at a time when folks got their news from same. The author makes a pretty good case that such images would have been in the public consciousness for some time.

That reminds me of a Ufologist I saw on TV once. He was debating a skeptic and held up a simple drawing of the "grey alien" face in front of the camera. He demanded "If it's just imagination then how come everybody see this?" He refused to accept the skeptics response that he'd just answered his own question.

Steven

 

[Meffy]

I recall a UFO sighting in Russia, I think it was, in the 1980s or 1990s, that was widely ridiculed and discredited by UFO believers. Why? Because the space aliens had bulky bodies and tiny heads instead of the other way 'round. Obvious fakes!

For a while in the early 1950s the U.S. military experimented with "flying wing" airplane designs -- no fuselage, no tail, just a big wing. They tested them over nearly unoccupied land in the American southwest. Surprise surprise, during this time witnesses' descriptions of UFOs changed from the popular "cigar-shaped" form to "v-shaped." A vogue for "flying saucers" soon displaced the flying wing.