The words "alien" and "alien" in the head often form a stereotypical image of a humanoid creature in a silvery spacesuit with a disproportionately large head and black big eyes without proteins. Meanwhile, not everything is so simple.
Analysis of eyewitness accounts, photographs, films and other evidence shows that even those aliens who resemble humans (that is, humanoids) differ greatly in height and appearance. What then to say about those cases when the aliens are not humanoids. Let's try to consider the most typical cases.
So, humanoids. First of all, there are strong differences in height. Fluctuations here reach two meters. For example, if in the cases of the Roswell accident, as well as in the case of the accident in Tibet, the growth of the creatures did not exceed 130 centimeters (but it was not less than 90 centimeters), then in some other cases the humanoids seen reached three meters in height.
And in some cases, eyewitnesses say that the growth was quite normal, no more than two meters. Some fluctuations, of course, were observed, but this is natural for earthlings as well. Recall that people of very large stature or, conversely, small, but stocky have greater physical strength and endurance than people of average height and build. So why not assume that such pilots, strong and resilient, were selected for space flights?
In the face, the eyes attract the most attention. In creatures from one to two meters in height, they either resemble ordinary human ones, or have a feature, namely, they do not have proteins. There are two versions on this score. According to one of them, these are not eyes, but adaptive devices, somewhat similar to our tinted glasses and contact lenses.
The devices allow you to regulate the effect of light and the environment on the eyes. According to the second version, the eyes of the aliens are fundamentally different in structure from ours and more resemble the organs of vision of a bee, a fly and some other insects (faceted vision).
They include many more perceiving cells and allow not only to send a better image to the brain, but also to process it differently. The fact is that with fractional perception of the image, the number of "frames" increases, and the picture is more complete and consistent, as with slow scrolling of a film, and the reaction of the creature does not suffer from this.
As for the rest of the face and head, in general they are very similar to the earth, but in some cases they are slightly displaced, for example, low-hanging ears, a "smoothed" chin, a massive back of the head. Often they generally speak of a head that is too large in comparison with the body. Sometimes parts of the face seem disproportionately small: nose, ears. Finally, there are often descriptions where the head of the aliens (like the whole body) is devoid of hair.
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Leather comes in a variety of colors, but these colors usually do not go beyond our understanding of what leather can be. In other words, no one has ever met creatures with blue or green skin. Often, the skin of the aliens is quite dark in color, and as a rule, this coincides with the lack of body hair.
To what has been said, it must be added that in this case the muscles of the creatures are poorly expressed. There are analogs of biceps, but in the rest of the body, muscles are almost absent. Perhaps they simply lost their functions and atrophied. But in other cases, a different correspondence is observed: with light skin and "earthly" facial features, the outlines of the body look rather proportional.
The limbs almost always appear in proportion to the body. Disproportions that would make aliens look like monkeys are not found in the descriptions we know. Although in some cases the arms are long, almost to the knees. Most often, there are five fingers on the hands and feet; one of the peculiarities is that the nails are strongly reduced and sometimes almost invisible (a detail seen on those aliens, whose height is about 1 meter). In addition, there are signs of syndactyly (webbing between the toes).
Among other features of the body structure, it should be noted the absence of other limbs, rudimentary and innovative, for example, a tail and something like that. Outwardly expressed sexual characteristics are also absent, but this rare observation is made from photographs, which may be fake. This refers to the aliens who died near Roswell. Unfortunately, the results of the autopsy carried out at that time remained unavailable to us (with the exception of some facts), and therefore nothing definite can be said on this score.
The clothes in the descriptions and in the pictures are rather monotonous. As a rule, this is a jumpsuit that resembles a lightweight spacesuit. He opens his hands, but his feet apparently do not. The helmet is not found in any description. Most likely, if it is, then it is left in the ship after analyzing the composition of the atmosphere, which turns out to be suitable for breathing.
The jumpsuit is tight, the material, according to some descriptions, resembles stretch. The color of the suit is most often described as silver, which is fairly easy to explain. Clothing made of a special material of this color protects against strong radiation and high temperatures, which is also used on Earth (firefighters, rescue teams in the areas of accidents at nuclear power plants).
An interesting and not unreasonable assumption is made that some of the aliens are not living beings, but cyborgs, that is, cybernetic organisms. This follows from the peculiarities of their internal structure: the absence of digestive and genital organs, a strange composition of blood. The speculation, in particular, concerns the pilots of the aircraft that crashed near Roswell. But it also needs to be verified.
In conclusion, a few words should be said about the reasons for the differences between aliens and earthlings. If we make the assumption that evolution on different planets under the same conditions proceeds in a similar way (as the Umians claim in their letters), then the appearance of the aliens must undoubtedly be similar to the appearance of earthlings. But since technically and in general in terms of development, they are much ahead of us, then their civilization must be much older than ours.
Thus, the aliens went through the path of development, perhaps in tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years, and the conditions of existence, the environment and the influence of their own culture on them led to a partial change in appearance. Most likely, we need to talk not about mutations, but about a longer process - evolution. Mutations could take place only in the event of global catastrophes, for example, a nuclear war, large-scale accidents. This would easily explain the dark skin color and lack of hair. But we do not know anything about this yet.
In the case of non-human beings, things are much more complicated. In the case of observing giant aliens according to the description, they differ from us only in that they have a three-meter height and some abilities that are not available to us. In addition, there are features in the structure of the body, for example, in the location of the organs of sight and hearing.
Something similar creatures were seen in the village of Nekrasovo, on the outskirts of Kostroma. On May 26, 1996, Eva Leonidovna Piskunova, one of the residents of this village, saw a three-meter man through the window of the house.
However, he seemed a man only at first glance. Its body was enormous and its head was shaped like a perfect ball. The "skin" on the head was of an indeterminate color, and E. L. Piskunova did not notice the face. The ball only gleamed with blue, yellow and white sparks. The hands and feet of the creature did not stand out when walking, according to the witness's impression. It moved along the street for a while, and then disappeared behind a rowan bush. Eva Leonidovna, emerging from her daze, ran to see him, but the creature disappeared, as if it had evaporated.
Three-meter growth is found in another description, this time from Nebit-Dag, in Turkmenistan. Twice, with an interval of almost 40 years, the inhabitants of this city saw creatures of a strange and even terrible appearance, which were clearly not humanoids and had never met on Earth either before or after these cases.
The first time they were noticed by Lyudmila Vartanyants, then still a student of the Ashgabat Medical Institute, the second (in 1994) - another resident of Nebit-Dag with her son. The description in both cases is the same: the height is about three meters, the surrounding bright light and the ugly head, which is a pile of “eyes, trunks, mouths against the background of grayish-green skin” (according to L. Vartanyants).
The creatures were also anomalies in terms of their influence on the psyche. In both cases, they inspired unaccountable fear even before they appeared. Lyudmila lost consciousness when they appeared and subsequently discovered strong changes in terms of her psyche and physical ailment, so she had to miss a semester at the institute.
But the strangest thing is that she, absolutely unprepared, was able to pass the exams with excellent marks, as if someone was “putting” information into her mind. On the second visit, both witnesses noted that one of the creatures had a flask in his hands, into which he put something, collecting from the ground. And in the middle of the century, and in 1994 there were two creatures. These facts have not yet been explained.
Even taller creatures were recorded in 1989 in the Vologda region. They were about 4 meters tall. Aliens similar in description visited Dzerzhinsk in 1979, or rather, a pioneer camp nearby. Sizes were described with varying degrees of accuracy, but some details in the descriptions of appearance coincided in both cases, for example, round metal plates on the "chest".