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Grey Aliens, sometimes called Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys, or just Grays, are defined by their humanoid forms, long limbs, large black eyes, small noses, thin mouths, and of course, gray skin or gray clothing. They are some of pop culture’s most recognizable representations of extraterrestrial life. But where did this depiction of extraterrestrials come from, and why are Grays the ones mostly responsible for all the abductions?
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aliens with large heads and big black eyes some tall sone short where not first mentioned in the 1950's lol they were depicted on cave walls for thousands of years all over the world, along with in the sumerian tablets. Ya ya long be for the 1950 lol
Do t know about abductions, but in the 80s witnessed about 12 times ufo craft hovering over power plant…. Craft came and left so much so that I just stopped watching it…. Seen by my family and friends… first time called the sherif and they told me they had received many calls..
I suspect the Grey's are androids sent by higher intelligence to perform things to humans. Traveling far, light years to come here. Why, who knows but it could be genetic modification.
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Calling the Travis Walton experience similar to the Hills’ experience is a, um, unique interpretation. For starters, Betty and Barney were actually pursued by their visitors whereas Walton’s visitors were trying what they could to keep away from him and his buddies at first.
The better question is why do Aliens love to probe people in the booty?
All grey's look alike to me!
The telling of the Barney and Betty Hill abduction is WAY OFF. If y’all want the truth read the book, Captured by. Kathleen Madden and Stanton Friedman. This will tell you the truth of what happened to the Hill’s. Nit this video.
We need app for smartphones… it will start recording when something will start doing in the room… until we catch them on tape… or app will start speaking to them some massage…
According to Ssgt Clifor Stone, their are three types of Grey's. Each seems to be a little taller than the next. The Grey one (1) seems to be the most common. The Grey Three(3) are the guys in charge of it all. We captured one ( Grey Three), Ssgt Stone had to help him escape. If he didn't, that underground base along with all of its occupants would have been destroyed.
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Betty is a (Mud shark).
no photographic evidence… apart from all the photographic evidence…
this lady has not done her homework. Fallacious work at best
Don't u think its weired that people were ubducted by fairies and then technology happened and the suddenly we were ubductec by alien's
explain all the military footage of UAPs (not just USA) and why almost every major country has a UFO program? if our enemies had this technology, why did we do nothing when they hovered over the white house (that many people saw)?
explain the recent congressional hearing on UFOs?
explain why the US military is working with TTSA?
maybe there is a reason we always have abduction stories in history, maybe it's been happening for a long time.
The Grey Aliens do exist and are real. The book The Day After Roswell which was written by Phillip J. Corso who use to work for the U.S Military and at the Pentagon explains details of what actually happened near Roswell in 1947 when an Alien anti-gravity flying saucer and spacecraft crash landed and was retrieved by a U.S Military unit and taken back to one of the U.S Military bases and it was studied and components of the spacecraft reverse-engineered. President Eisenhower most likely had one or more meetings with a small group of Grey Aliens and another Alien species, called the Nordics back during his presidency from stories I've heard. The Grey Aliens also had a secret meeting decades ago with the Russian Government and the KGB, which their is leaked video clips and photos of the Grey Aliens on the internet which you can find if you search for them. The Grey Aliens also might be the ones behind the crop circle phenomenon on planet Earth and might have been creating most of the crop circles in past decades.
many are not believable but how do you explain Betti Hill's sketch of the solar system zeta reticolai when it was not even discovered yet? Let alone seen by the naked eye
Maybe those movies counting as fiction are the perfect disguise for their actual existence. It’s quite easy to say „nah, they just think it happened because they’ve watched some movies.“ We can’t tell if they tell the truth or not, without making our own experiences I‘d suppose
They are evil!!!
So abnoxious how she tries to sound smart by spreading misinformation while the Pentagon literally revelead UFO videos and said that UFO's do exists and they have no explanation. But this lady here knows more than the military and the pentagon, everything is human fantasy and the government never covers up anything…..
What do the greys want from us? Do they just want to study us or is their goal to give us some sort of spiritual awakening?
whats a gray could be from our own future through a time warp
I've seen some wierd stuff in the sky. Could it be et or interdimentional beings, well maybe. Could it be some mundane things that I can't identify. Absolutely yes. I really find believers to be a bit much and what they are willing to accept as "evidence" makes me tend to believe there's nothing to it all.
I don't know 100%, but if this is a real species I'm interested. They don't look bad for aliens. Wonder what their world is like.
They say that the Grays are our closest relatives in the known cosmos and their planet is the closest to have humanoid species.
This was made for 7th graders, said the mildly surprised adult human who wanted new information.
I hope they are friendly when I meet them 🙌🏻❤️. Maybe smoke some weed 👀😂🙌🏻🙌🏻
Actually, there ard many other sightings throughout history, and no, nit sightings have been reported worldwide. American folks are most likely just more apt to be reporting them
So why is it primarily English speaking parts of the world? Seems a little suspicious to me, almost like most claims are false accounts of poorly understood neurological conditions.
They still want to make babies with humans because they have no population left they are trying to repopulate. I don't think they're any good really!
What do aliens have with probing and buttholes???
If aliens were real they wouldnt be able to communicate w us easily. Our whole package of sensory detectors is calibrated to our planet and sun. Our ears only hear certain wavelenghts of sound, same with our eyes, our skin and bodies is sensitive to a particular range of temperatures. All of this things would be calibrated differently for aliens, we dont even know if they would have eyes to detect light or ears to detect sound. They might aswell communicate through light instead of sounds. The fact that they are always depicted as humanoids too… You dont even need to leave the earth to see creatures as weird as octopuses, platypuses, cockroaches, etc. What in the hell do you think the probabilities of them being humanoids (2 eyes, 2 arms and legs, etc) is? Extremely narrow.
Our hallucinations of alien abductions are both extrmely limited by our imagination and extremely far away of what they would be like if they really happened.
The truth is that there is no proof needed of extraterrestrial aliens. We are the aliens. We are an intelligent form of life habitating a random planet in the universe. This happened here so this can totally happen somewhere else. That is the proof of alien life. UFO "proof" doesnt prove alien life further bc it is already proven, what it tries to proof is the existence of aliens being able to break the light-travel-barrier and in that regard mathematicians and physicists are helping much more by actually unraveling the laws of reality than any UFO enthusiast by screaming they have been abducted.
Who’s the chick narrating?
I have HD video of ufo and other things!
They very smart and have something like invisible camouflage! But they ships possible to see !
I recommend looking in the sky more😉
Aliens are inter-dimensional malicious beings. They hate you. Unclean spirits. Evil.