# Do grey aliens exist?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 26, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683 "2014-06-26T10:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/1 "2014-06-26T10:47:11Z")
I’m a skeptical person but I really do think they exist. It’s interesting how so many people have reported seeing them. I’ve never seen one but I’ve “felt” their presence and had highly disturbing dreams involving them.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/2 "2014-06-26T11:10:18Z")
Any time you start a sentence with “I’m a \_\_\_\_\_, but” or “I’m not a \_\_\_\_\_\_, but” odds are you are wrong about what you are.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/3 "2014-06-26T11:13:08Z")
Do they exist? No
Do people believe they exist? Sure, but people also believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/4 "2014-06-26T11:18:31Z")
And [nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe in angels](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels/).
“Feeling” something’s “presence” and having “highly disturbing dreams” about something is not proof that thing exists.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/5 "2014-06-26T11:26:46Z")
Once I had a disturbing dream about flying pies that could bite you.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/6 "2014-06-26T11:27:09Z")
Why does it have to be grey? You have a problem with green aliens? Are you a bigot?
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/7 "2014-06-26T11:32:23Z")
Time to adjust the meds.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/8 "2014-06-26T11:44:51Z")
I prefer to believe in the “benevolent observers of an elder race” aliens we had during the Fifties. You remember them, they were about to welcome us into the Brotherhood of Advanced Beings because we finally made atom bombs. The robes were cool.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/9 "2014-06-26T12:05:41Z")
> [@protoboard](#):
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> I’m a skeptical person but I really do think they exist. It’s interesting how so many people have reported seeing them. I’ve never seen one but I’ve “felt” their presence and had highly disturbing dreams involving them.
Your sensations and feelings and experiences may or may not be widespread and “normal”, but your conclusions about them are certainly wrong. What about your experiences drives you to conclude that grey aliens exist?
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/10 "2014-06-26T12:14:04Z")
**Snark free post ahead:** I can’t remember the exact details but there were some researchers who tried to tackle the problem of “Why are all these people seeing the same thing?”
A few conclusions:
!.) A lot of these “abductees” were going to hypnotherapists. These therapist were poisoning the well so to speak. They were putting the idea of what these guys should look like into their clients heads.
2.) The grey alien thing is just an anomally as is the light at the end of the tunnel people see in near death experiences. It has something to do with a built in coping mechanism for when you die.
2.a) The “grey alien” has always been there. they’re just interpreted as a grey alien now because these are the times we are living in. 600 years ago the were interpreted as as demons or angels. All depending on the person.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/11 "2014-06-26T12:14:01Z")
We don’t know. It’s a big universe and we haven’t searched all the habitable planets yet.
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### Author:  [@Raging\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raging_Bull)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/12 "2014-06-26T12:18:42Z")
Do aliens exist?
Given the size of the universe, its incredibly unlikely that there isnt more life elsewhere,so thats a yes from me.
Dont know about the colour bit.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/13 "2014-06-26T12:26:07Z")
The feeling their presence/dreams part may be [sleep paralysis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis). Note that historically we blamed this on witches or demons, and other cultures had/have their own explanations.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/14 "2014-06-26T12:28:53Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#):
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> The feeling their presence/dreams part may be [sleep paralysis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis). Note that historically we blamed this on witches or demons, and other cultures had/have their own explanations.
THAT’S what I was trying to remember but couldn’t!
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/15 "2014-06-26T13:07:13Z")
> [@protoboard](#):
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> I’m a skeptical person…
No, not really.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/16 "2014-06-26T13:12:01Z")
I thought maybe this thread was going to be about elderly illegal immigrants.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/17 "2014-06-26T13:16:50Z")
Instead of asking “Do aliens exist,” try asking “Why would they want to come here?”
When dealing with unknowns and unverifiables, you lack credible data. You only have isolated accounts. Therefore, to determine some kind of likelihood or possibility, use comparative analysis.
So why would gray aliens, or aliens of any color, want to come to Earth?
Earth history observes great explorers such as Columbus, Magellan, Hudson, and so on. What motivated them to sail to parts unknown? It wasn’t just curiosity. They had to enlist help from sailors who had no home lives. They had to find backing from rich entrepreneurs. They had to make sure they could renew resources such as food and water. They had to arm themselves for potentially dangerous situations.
Gray aliens are in it for the long haul, if they were able to travel hundreds of light-years without dying of old age. If they’re exploring Earth for usable resources and harvest their finds, they’re going to be noticed, and not just by Billy Bob out in the swamp. If they have ships in orbit, they’re going to be noticed. Yes, maybe they have cloaking devices like from Star Trek, but we’ve got satellite dishes scanning for radio waves and anything funny looking on all light spectrums. We can find blips light-years away, so we can certainly detect anomalies orbiting around our planet.
Point is, alien explorers need some place to park and recharge. If they’re sending scout teams to Earth, we’d see some kind of evidence of travel activity. Maybe they parked too far away for us to notice. They still have to expend resources to slink here and implant those anal probes. Maybe cow vaginas are their dilithium crystals.
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/18 "2014-06-26T13:35:26Z")
The size of the universe makes the likelihood of aliens existing highly probable and makes the likelihood of them traveling to our planet highly improbable. So, while I believe in aliens, I don’t think they’ve ever traveled to Earth, and I don’t think the experiences of people who claim to have seen or felt their presence are credible.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/19 "2014-06-26T13:41:55Z")
Almost certainly aliens exist of every color you can imagine. The universe is too vast for a human mind to really grasp.
Have any visited here, of any hue? My strong feeling is no.
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-grey-aliens-exist/691683/20 "2014-06-26T13:44:13Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> The size of the universe makes the likelihood of aliens existing highly probable and makes the likelihood of them traveling to our planet highly improbable. So, while I believe in aliens, I don’t think they’ve ever traveled to Earth, and I don’t think the experiences of people who claim to have seen or felt their presence are credible.
I agree - especially if “gray aliens” look an awful lot like humans (walk on two legs, have two arms, head at the top of the body with two eyes).
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