![]() ![]() The novel also suggests a potential future for human evolution and perhaps a warning against overvaluing intelligence against more human qualities. Wells was a well read man, I wonder if he was influenced by the work, or is it just co-incidence? Even my own band has a grey type alien mascot character who turns up on all our posters and cd covers.īut the image in the OP is interesting, especially as it dates from 1895, the same year as Wells published War of the Worlds. The result being these days that the 'grey' has become the main image people think of when the term 'alien' is mentioned. A blockbuster film followed and the grey was cemented into popular culture. The book was a best seller, popular with sci-fi fans, who took it as a novel, and UFOlogists, who took it as fact. However the final boost for the grey aliens and even the name Greys came with Whitley Striebers book Communion in 1987, where the author describes another abduction case, this time describing aliens almost identical to Spielbergs from 10 years earlier. Needless to say, with Close Encounters being a huge and influential film, this assured the grey alien format as the favourate ET of choice with writers, UFO fans and 'abductees' and they even started working their way into historical ufo lore, for example there is no published claims of grey type aliens in the Roswell mythos until the early 1980's. (info from the bonus features on the DVD) ![]() ![]() After considering several ideas for the friendly aliens in the film Spielberg settled on using small girls because he felt "girls move more gracefully than boys." and the costume of a grey leotard and a simple mask was chosen for effect, simplicity and for the ease of movement it allowed the child extras. The first classic greys turn up in Spielbergs 1977 flick 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind', and the reason they look like the way they do is simple to explain. Note that until now the aliens are like, but not the same as the creatures that these days are referred to as greys. This also seams to have boosted the 'grey' alien culture, (although the term grey was still some 20 years in the future), and as more abduction claims were made grey type aliens slowly became the kidnappers of choice, although men in space suits and robots were also popular with claimants. They appeared nearly human, with black hair, dark eyes, prominent noses and bluish lips. The men stood about five feet to five feet four inches tall, and wore matching blue uniforms, with caps similar to those worn by military cadets. ![]()
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