Even though they are a different life form from a different planet they closely resemble people. Two legs, two arms, stand upright, eyes and mouth in the same spot. There are no aliens that look like plants, dogs, elephants, etc.
And they are always roughly the same scale as humans. No 1 foot tall aliens and no 12 foot tall aliens. Always somewhere between 4-7 feet.
They like to really mess with rural folk knowing that if they ever talk about what they saw they will only be ridiculed. They find this highly amusing.
Not true, actually. Most of the abduction and anal probing is done by members of the human Evil Community, masquerading as extra-terrestrials, as part of our long quest to find the prophesied hero who will–
Um, never mind. Forget I said anything. In fact, use the amnesia ray on yourselves. And by “amnesia ray” I mean “revolver.”
every alien, (whether a little green man with anntenae, or a grey-skinned creature with huge eyes) has a body temperature the same as ours, and they breathe the exact same quantities of oxygen as we do. So they don’t need to wear any special equipment while landing on a foreign planet.
One lucky thing about the aliens: they are not the carriers of horrifying diseases that they have long since developed immunity to. All that close contact – anal probing and whatnot – but no one has caught the alien version of smallpox. Whew! Dodged a bullet there.
And they are always roughly the same scale as humans. No 1 foot tall aliens and no 12 foot tall aliens. Always somewhere between 4-7 feet./QUOTE]
Not entirely true, as this documentary made clear. Those that are small, however, possess enlargement technology so they can walk among us without being conspicuous. (Once they’ve had their bodies shaved, anyway.)
Perhaps they die from our diseases ala H.G.Welles. That would explain why they keep coming back; no contact team has lived to return to Alpha Centauri.
Simple little contact mission…bunch of primative simians…where the hell are they?
Even when they try to appear in human form, they always seem to screw something up. If they aren’t emotionless vegetables coming out of pods, they have 3 eyes or webbed feet or pointy ears and green blood. In any case, there’s always something subtle that positively identifies them as an alien.
Or they just can’t come to grips with human interaction and act weird while trying to blend in.
Those that can, for whatever reason, mate successfully with humans are generally considered great lovers because they have highly developed organs and/or are used to things humans think of as freaky but fun.
Their form isn’t constant - it has changed a fair amount over time. It’s much influenced by human media - e.g. after a popular movie, sightings will tend to conform to the movie’s depiction.
And, by inference, Humans drew the short end of the shapeshifting evolutionary stick. Clearly, that’s why the aliens are so interested in us- we’re the only sentient species which is stuck in one shape.
One can also surmise that the shapeshifting organ is located in the anus…
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