Aliens: A Modern Myth
“Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we’re going to examine one of the most enduring ideas of modern culture: the belief in space aliens. For over a century, the public has been bombarded with stories of UFOs, crashes, alien pilots, and government cover-ups. But when we peel back the layers of this phenomenon, a very different picture emerges—one not of extraterrestrial visitors, but of human invention, misinterpretation, and manipulation. Let’s begin.”
Part 1: The Mars Craze – Fiction as ‘Fact’
In 1877, during the opposition of Mars, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed what he called canali—meaning ‘channels.’ This was mistranslated into English as ‘canals,’ a much more artificial-sounding term. American astronomer Percival Lowell took this mistranslation and ran with it. Despite the fact that the so-called canals changed over time—a dead giveaway of optical illusion—Lowell published book after book claiming Mars was home to a dying civilization. By 1908, his ideas had sparked a worldwide fascination with ‘Martian life,’ eagerly picked up by writers like Waldemar Kaempffert. Science fiction and speculative journalism merged, and the ‘Martians’ were born.”
Part 2: Airships and Early UFO Myths
“Next came the ‘airship’ craze of 1896 and 1897. Across the United States, people reported seeing mysterious dirigibles in the sky. In Aurora, Texas, a story emerged of an ‘alien pilot’ killed in a crash. Yet, contemporary investigation suggests the so-called alien may simply have been a foreigner—perhaps French—or that the entire incident was fabricated. These sightings coincided with a boom in experimental aviation and a press eager for sensational headlines.”
Part 3: Occultism and the First ‘New Age’
“The late 19th and early 20th centuries were also a hotbed of occultism and pseudo-scholarship. Figures like Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley blurred the lines between mysticism, performance, and delusion. Crowley in particular indulged in drugs, ritual hallucination, and self-mythologizing. In 1917, he even created an entity he called ‘LAM,’ an image strikingly similar to modern depictions of the ‘gray alien.’ Crowley’s students—Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology fame, and Gerald Gardner, founder of Wica (note the original spelling)—would carry these ideas into mid-century counterculture and fringe religion.”
The extra touch which is the most common denominator in all occultist mysticism is to roll in all mythologies together as merely ancient people seeing and tricked to worship and serve the same aliens, or fight them and the rest is morons forming ET and Spaceship Cargo like cults. Angles, demons, deities, devils, fairies and more all become forms of "shape shifting space bugs and andro-grey flesh drones that have fare too much fascination with butt probing and chooses the anal fetish of Crowley, and the so called magic want of said fairies become both an all purpose tool like Dr. Who's "screw driver" and private sex toy up the butt. (Batteries not included).
Part 4: Technology, War, and Propaganda
“During World War II and after, a mix of advanced aircraft and secrecy fueled the UFO mythos. The German Horten 229 flying wing—a real jet-powered craft built in 1944—looked remarkably like many later ‘boomerang-shaped UFOs.’ Meanwhile, Alexander Weygers patented the Discopter, a disc-shaped aircraft concept, in 1944. In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing strange objects over Washington State, describing them as ‘saucer-like.’ Less than a month later, the famous Roswell incident occurred, giving the public its first ‘crashed saucer’ narrative—just as memories of wartime secret projects were still fresh and classified.”
Part 5: Media Amplification
“In 1938, Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of War of the Worlds caused panic among some listeners, a sign of how susceptible the public already was to alien invasion stories. By the 1950s, Cold War paranoia mixed with flying saucer tales, new occult movements, and science fiction into a single cultural stew. By the 1960s and ’70s, drug culture, neo-paganism, and the rise of ‘contactee’ movements turned aliens into angels, saviors, or demons—whatever the believer needed them to be.”
Part 6: The Internet Age and Mass Hoaxes
“In the 1980s, mainstream media’s ‘Satanic Panic’ distracted from real abuses while spreading paranoia about hidden cults. In the 1990s, the so-called ‘New Age’ movement rebranded earlier mysticism with updated artwork and pseudo-science. The arrival of the internet turbocharged this process. Old hoaxes, myths, and disinformation were given new life and new audiences. Each generation, less grounded in critical thinking, became more vulnerable to manipulation.”
Part 7: Aliens as a Tool of Control
“Today, claims of alien invasions, secret government hearings, or ‘comet swarms’ called alien probes are simply the latest version of the same game. These stories are distractions—ways to create fear, confusion, and division. People who believe without evidence become easier to manipulate. Those in power—‘the puppet masters,’ as some call them—can then justify surveillance, militarization, or population control by inventing new enemies from the stars.”
Conclusion: The Price of Belief Without Evidence
“So what do we actually have? A trail of mistranslations, hoaxes, hallucinatory visions, wartime technology, science fiction stories, and media hysteria—all spun into a mythology of alien visitors. Believing in aliens on this evidence is not open-mindedness. It is willful ignorance. And it serves the interests of those who would rather have you distracted by fantasies than paying attention to the very real power structures shaping your life. The truth is simple: the alien invasion we fear is not from space—it’s from within our own culture, our own myths, and our own willingness to believe.”
“This is why skepticism is not just healthy. It’s essential.”
Also, enough with the want to believe bullshit!
The excuse "Well, there could be intelligent life elsewhere" or "It's hypocritical to deny life existing elsewhere in the universe" are not justifications nor proofs. Hearsay is also not irrefutable evidence. In fact, its the least reliable because people lie to themselves as well as others and the easiest form of indoctrination is self indoctrination. It's also the hardest to break through if ever. Don't be a willing ignorant tool.
And if you have to ask yourself or someone else rhetorically if this whole ET thing is just one mass mind game, or if your being duped, fooled, swindled, tricked, punked, or whatever other slang you want to slap in there, the answer is yes, along with the reality that always proves itself, that when something is over hyped, over pushed and even forced, its a fraud, a scam, a lie.
