Since the 60s. mysterious cases of the brutal and extraordinarily skillful dismemberment of animals grazed on farms became so widespread that they attracted the attention of the American public and the FBI. From dead animals dropped from above, certain organs, usually associated with internal secretions, hormones and the nervous system, genitals and sensory organs were removed, and blood was completely removed.
Eyewitnesses more than once found the hunters themselves at work - little "men" who arrived in small UFOs and carried out all operations to capture, kill and dissect victims extremely quickly and accurately. According to one of the official reports of the FBI, by 1979 alone, over 8 thousand animals were dismembered in the American states.
On September 19, 1961, spouses Betty and Barney Hill were stopped by a UFO on a mountain road in the state. New Hampshire, removed from the vehicle and subjected to unknown medical operations by its pilots. After that, their memory was blocked and they were returned to the abduction site. Subsequent sessions of regression hypnosis managed to restore some of the memories of the incident, as well as a number of valuable details from the interior of the aircraft.
On October 7, 1978, flying in a private sports plane over the Bass Strait, Frederic Valentich reported to the checkpoint that a UFO hovered over him. Immediately after that, the controllers heard a metallic grinding and communication with the pilot was interrupted. The search that followed during the week ended in vain: the plane disappeared without a trace along with the pilot forever.
One of the main incentives that moved the pioneers to new territories was the extraction of resources, the hunt for valuable elements of fauna or slaves, which were the less developed local population.
In the XV century. The Portuguese prince Enrique the Navigator set up the first expeditions to the west coast of Africa to hunt slaves. This activity was then continued by the captains of ships of various European countries until the 19th century. inclusive.
The impenetrable jungle of Selva along the banks of the river. The Purus remained completely unknown until 1860, when they were visited by the expedition of William Chandless. He reported a huge number of rubber plants growing in these parts, and soon hordes of rubber collectors flooded the area, despite its extreme inhospitableness.
A significant role in the study of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago at the end of the 19th century. played by the whalers.
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Strange contacts of a semi-mystical nature, allegedly with extraterrestrial intelligence, remote or direct, accompanied by retellings of extremely naive, contradictory, ambiguous and unreasonable statements, which nevertheless take possession of the consciousness of contactees and their fans.
Famous contactees of the 50s - George Adamsky, Daniel Fry, Richard Miller, George Van Tassel and others - conducted their sensational journalistic activities with a stable religious flavor. They often declared that they preach the perfect philosophy of aliens, transmitted to earthlings through them with noble intentions to protect them from future dangers and guide them on the true path. Many of them have founded religious movements. The information they published resembled a rambling religious sermon aimed at subconscious persuasion rather than strict factual statements. Their statements were rarely holistic in nature and were distinguished by discouraging naivety, which, however, did not prevent them from having a lot of fans and followers. In essence, still the perception of the idea of possible contact with extraterrestrial civilizations and the idea ofhow this can happen, remain with the average layman in many ways the way they were formed around that time.
Missionary work, the preaching of a faith and culture alien to the indigenous population, often went ahead of the main wave of colonization, preparing the ground for it. Often, in order to achieve their goal, missionaries used cunning propaganda tricks and concessions to the mentality and cultural characteristics of the natives in order to gain their trust. Without firing a single shot, they created original colonies and states from local residents. Although missionary work was usually funded by the metropolises for quite pragmatic reasons, it took many forms and did not always pursue aggressive goals. However, regardless of the true aspirations of the missionaries, they were soon supplanted by ordinary secular colonization.
French colonies in Quebec in the 17th century. were founded by wandering Jesuits who "got into the confidence" of the local Indians and gathered them into permanent settlements.
In the 70s. XVIII century. James Cook, while sailing in Oceania, practiced among the indigenous population the image of the god Lono, participating in rituals and visiting sanctuaries. This provided him with allies ready to supply the expedition with provisions and valuable information.
