In the 20th and 21st century reports of "close encounters" with extraterrestrial beings has skyrocketed. Some alien sightings have been disproven as hoaxes or hallucinations brought on by stress or drugs, but some are still difficult to explain. Here is a list of some of the most famously described alien beings that have scared even those with the brightest handheld hid lights, flashlights and unbreakable emotions.
Greys
The Grey aliens are beings which said to be small bodied, sexless beings with smooth grey skin and large head and eyes. The most famous Grey encounter is in the reports from the Betty and Barney Hill abduction that got national attention. The Hills claim to have been abducted on an isolated road in New Hampshire where they were taken up into the spacecraft and subsequently had nightmares and dreams about her experience on the alien shift being tested and probed. Analysis and hypnosis has critics suggesting the entire story was a hallucination brought on by the stress of the Hills being an interaction couple in early 60s America. Others have said that they made the story up based around the show “The Outer Limits” which had a similar looking alien on the program 12 days before they had gone public.
Hopkinsville goblin
Also known as the Kelly Green Men was an account of several reported encounters in Hopkinsville, Kentucky with small green, goblin men with long arms and claw-like hands. A family in a rural farmhouse reported to have seen a flying saucer in the sky and afterwards hear strange and unexplainable noises outside. Two of the family members then reported seeing a strange creature emerge from the trees, “a luminous, three-and-a-half-foot-tall being with an oversized head, big, floppy, pointed ears, glowing eyes, and hands with talons at their ends. The figure, either made of or simply dressed in silvery metal, had its hands raised.” They shot at the creature but where unable to find it. The interesting thing about the case is that the family was not interested in seeking fame but were deemed genuinely frightened by the incident.
Alan McGee is a freelance writer from MN.
