# Whatever happened to alien anal probes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458 "2010-07-03T21:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/21 "2010-07-04T11:49:26Z")
People, people, people, It has been established that the aliens have moved on to cowanuses, didn’t you get the memo? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/22 "2010-07-04T12:06:45Z")
I feel we can put this question behind us. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/23 "2010-07-04T12:14:36Z")
Actually, the only account I know of was Whitley Strieber’s. He still goes on about how the horrible Phil Donahue made a big deal about mocking it to the point where it became a cultural meme. Betty Hill said she got probed/injected through the navel. If anal probes show up anywhere else in the literature, I would bet it’s post-COMMUNION (Strieber’s first book on the subject) and are copycat reports. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/24 "2010-07-04T13:45:43Z")
Perhaps part of the reason you don’t hear about it anymore is that anal sex is all over the place in pornography (ummm, so I hear). It’s just not that esoteric anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/25 "2010-07-04T15:03:15Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > … OTTOMH The Betty and Barney Hill case was in the sixties. I doubt I will have to explain why I now have a mental picture of rednecks being chased around the woods at 2X speed by aliens carrying anal probes, all to the tune of Yakety Sax. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/26 "2010-07-04T15:12:48Z")
They’ve coded anal probing technology into padded toilet paper. The Charmin’ Teddy Bear is actually the alien overseer of the the project. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/27 "2010-07-04T16:23:41Z")
I understand that the Japanese market in used probes collapsed in1997, causing widespread unemployment in the Grey community. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/28 "2010-07-04T16:45:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Ouch! Try not make an ass out of yourself. Why don’t you just turn the other cheek? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/29 "2010-07-04T16:50:16Z")
\*\*Whatever happened to alien anal probes? \*\* They moved on to cattle anus’ and simply remove the whole thing and take it with them. In case you missed the fun: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=564343&highlight=cattle+anus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=564343&highlight=cattle+anus) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560113&highlight=cattle+anus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560113&highlight=cattle+anus) ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/30 "2010-07-04T17:08:24Z")
When I was active in those threads my custom title was ‘cattle mutilation expert’, and I alluded to it on a couple of occasions, as in “note my title and treat my opinion as gospel”. Now when I go back and look, my title still there, but it says “Woo woo”, so the part where it says “note my title and treat my opinion as gospel” still makes sense. I love this title thing. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/31 "2010-07-04T20:40:33Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > BTW I was once probed by an alien. I know she was an alien because she showed me her green card. Did you go to a special house, or answer an ad in _The Village Voice,_ or what? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/32 "2010-07-05T00:07:18Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Why don’t you just turn the other cheek? It’s a bum rap! ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/33 "2010-07-05T00:59:22Z")
It became cool to be gay so there was no need for alternate explinations of anal sex 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/34 "2010-07-05T03:24:16Z")
Dammit Jim, I’m a proctologist, not a homosexual! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/35 "2010-07-05T03:49:52Z")
Someone in the government knows exactly why the anal probes have stopped, but they’re sitting on it. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/36 "2010-07-05T04:39:26Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Dammit Jim, I’m a proctologist, not a homosexual! Win. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/37 "2010-07-07T18:25:01Z")
They’ve switched to probing mouths. Let’s hope they washed the probes. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/38 "2010-07-07T18:37:54Z")
They collected all the data and now they’re into alien anal scrapbooking. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/39 "2010-07-07T18:54:33Z")
The new generation of Greys is just not into it anymore, they regard it as their father’s pastime, just wait until it becomes “retro” and the grandchildren of the original probers descend upon us like locusts. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458/40 "2010-07-07T19:59:34Z")
Carl Sagan’s _The Demon-Haunted World_ has an excellent chapter on the subject. “Aliens From Spaceships Performing Anogenital Experiments On Us” is nothing more than the current version of a dream that people have been experiencing for hundreds of years. . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-alien-anal-probes/545458.md?page=3)