It is sometimes extremely difficult to draw a clear line between pseudoscience and science. Primarily because pseudoscience captures the imagination of the layman, allows you to dream and gives you an incredible sense of the feeling that someone is deceiving you.
Nevertheless, pseudoscience in almost a hundred percent of cases has nothing to do with reality. In this article we will go through the ten most interesting theories of alien contact - in the most and most incredible ideas.
If you remember a lot of films and books on this topic, let's just throw them away. Basically, all of these plot outputs boil down to a number of categories described a long time ago. The human imagination has generated too many possible collisions with extraterrestrial intelligence. Let's take a look at the most voluminous ones. All theories listed below include interference theory. The list is far from complete, but let's hope it's interesting.
1. Hypothesis of extraterrestrial interference
Aliens belonging to a technologically advanced civilization from somewhere in space came into contact with the US government (and others, one should assume) in 1947 or earlier. The aliens made a deal, offering their technology in exchange for experiments with the population. This theory has become the source of countless conspiracy theories and nightmarish tales of CIA mind control, cow mutations, underground laboratories, and so on. The theory also suggests that aliens have advanced interbreeding technologies, and their goals are not good, but completely sinister.
2. The "space brothers" hypothesis
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This theory assumes various types of alien intervention, due to good and kind intentions on their part. Perhaps they have a program to improve humanity and bring it to a higher level of consciousness. The most famous examples are Whitley Strieber's "guests" and Billy Meyer's Pleiades script. After much deliberation, the late John Mack also joined these views ("Passport to Space"). Among the first contactees is George Adamski, a tall blond man from Venus who wanted to prevent humanity from self-destruction, pollution, and so on. The first modern prototype of this theory is the "lords of the flame" (also from Venus) in the theosophical scenarios of Madame Blavatsky.
3. Sumerian card index
Includes all theories based on the Annunaki script found on Sumerian clay tablets, the oldest written documents on Earth. The main proponent, Zecharia Sitchin, claims that the Annunaki descended to Earth, founded civilization and the institution of theocracy. Sitchin also says that these aliens came from Nibiru, the outermost member of our solar system, a planet with an orbital period of 3,600 years. However, these data are astronomically not confirmed. This category of theories is unique due to its historical background. The Annunaki are cosmic masters rather than cosmic brothers. Sumerian mythology says that they created humanity by improving the genes of our ape-like ancestors so that humans could become their slaves.
4. Biblical UFOlogy
This category includes hybrid and passing theories based on the parables of the Old and New Testaments. It relies heavily on apocryphal writings, in particular the Book of Enoch with its famous Guardians, that is, the fallen angels. Uses a simple and commonplace analogy between angels and aliens. It also says that the angels described in the Bible - like those that Ezekiel saw, Jacob in the Jordan River, the Virgin Mary - are alien entities that are kindly towards humanity in accordance with the divine plan.
Some of the angels may be fallen, but the key assumption is that the alien angels are on the side of God the Father, and God the Father works for humanity (and not against him, as the Gnostic theory claims). It was most clearly expressed in the Raelian cult, which says that people are genetically created in the image and likeness of a god-like alien.
This category also most reflects religious speculation about aliens, as well as its naivety and attraction of divine manifestation. In some cases, biblical ufologists have questioned the identity and motives of the Creator God, such as Christian O'Brien and A. D. Horn. These people wrote smart and sobering books.
5. The theory of mind control
Mostly brilliantly designed by Jacques Vallee. He called the phenomenon of aliens and UFOs "spirituality control system." Includes influential writings by C. G. Jung. Aliens represent the projections of the imagination, or the collective unconscious, intrapsychic phantoms, psychic werewolves, and so on. This phenomenon is called quite real, but in a different sense. It acts as an "internal" control system, not a miraculous event or supernatural intervention.
6. Theories of the New Age
Reflections of these theories are found in numerous variants, with a tendency to wild proliferation, that is, completely insane spread. Theories of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, theories of the New Age, tend to be a mixed picture of grandiose romantic plans and divine intentions to scatter many non-human species, some benevolent, and some vice versa.
7. Ancient astronauts
The von Deniken hypothesis has gained a huge following. Smokescreen aside, it is simply a cargo cult interpretation of alien contact. Although von Deniken avoided explosive questions (apparently due to Swiss neutrality), the mysticism of the ancient astronauts comes down directly to crypto-fascism. According to the theory, Hitler escaped to South Africa on a flying saucer of alien allies. Also in this category are ice age catastrophe theories and hollow earth fantasies. Good criticism was provided by Joislin Godwin in Arktos. All the artifacts and archaeological finds that von Deniken cited as an example have been widely denied as far-fetched and fantastic.
8. Shamans - aborigines - occultists
The most traditional category of all of the above, which draws on world folklore and mythology, for example, the folklore of Australian aborigines and the testimony of Zulu shamans. All kinds of spirits, ghostly astronauts, going beyond astral bodies and communicating with aliens by eating special mushrooms. An indescribable amount of speculation has been generated on this basis.
9. Gnostic theory of alien invasion
This theory is based on the most solid and complete written evidence of antiquity: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi codes. The theory suggests that the "gnostic teachers" from the "pagan school of secrets" were real shamans who used paranormal abilities to remotely detect aliens, could resist them and reflect their blows. About one-fifth of the surviving Gnostic materials describe the alien archons, their motives, methods, tactics, and so on. Their main strength was "modeling, substitution", that is, virtual reality. The Archons were impostors who, in alliance with the false Creator God (Demiurge) Jehovah, worked against humanity.
Proponents believed that the archons penetrated deeply into our genetic structure, but the Gnostic writings say that they only tricked us into believing this, although in fact they were not able to disrupt the genomic intelligence that we embody. Their victory was to make us believe that they were acting in concert with us.
Gnostic cosmology is closely related to the modern theory of Gaia by Lovelock and Margulis. Gnostic records explained the cosmic origins of predatory aliens (reptilian type). Our planet Gaia (or Gaia) plays a key role in their presence in our minds and lives. The Archons are the embodiment of the intellect of the divine being of Sophia, which is contained in our planet, but are not compatible with human intellect, therefore they live anywhere in the solar system, just not on Earth. (Gnostics also say that the Earth does not belong to the planetary system, but is held captive). The Archons became a deviant skew in the evolution of people. Our task is to find it and fix it. After that, we will join Gaia, the planetary intellect that produced the Archons.
The Gnostic codes discovered in Egypt in 1945 explicitly state that these predatory alien objects enter our minds through spiritual belief systems. These systems, especially the Jewish, Christian and Islamic programs of salvation, are not entirely human in origin, but arise in our minds in connection with inhuman deviance. This "salvation" is an ideological virus of extraterrestrial origin. The Nag Hammadi texts contain evidence of the first alien abductions. However, the ancient sages who guard the Secrets also resisted the invasion of the consciousness of the archons in the form of religious ideologies that today are tearing humanity at the seams.
10. Virtual world
This theory is relatively new, or rather not new, but updated by modern ideas about computer technology. Read more about it here. According to the theory, our world is an illusion created by our consciousness at the will of a higher being. In more sophisticated assumptions, we are either selected experimentally creatures, emulated on universal computers and fulfilling the plan of the creator, or representatives of one of the many worlds invisible to us, created as part of an incredible experiment.