"Close Encounters of the Facial Kind"
I came across this article from Skeptics.com and found it fascinating; the images are especially awesome.
Close Encounters of the Facial Kind
Are UFO Alien Faces an
Inborn Facial Recognition Template?
by Frederick V. Malmstrom
This quarter, Skeptic.com presents an article in which Frederick V. Malmstrom asks: “Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?”
Author’s note: A previous version of this article was presented to the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, November 8th, 2003. Thanks for assistance from Robert A. Baker, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, and Jennifer Krischer, Jess Leuschen, Jim West, and Geoff Andersen, U.S. Air Force Academy.
The Descriptions of alien faces historically reported by UFO abductees are almost boringly uniform. Long before “close encounters” became a catchword in the ufologist’s vocabulary, self-proclaimed UFO abductees described their abductors as bulbous-headed humanoids equipped with oversized, wraparound eyes, vertical double-slit nostrils and gray skin. Is there another explanation for this uniformity of features besides the most obvious — that it is a description of an actual alien race?
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Close Encounters of the Facial Kind
Are UFO Alien Faces an
Inborn Facial Recognition Template?
by Frederick V. Malmstrom
This quarter, Skeptic.com presents an article in which Frederick V. Malmstrom asks: “Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?”
Author’s note: A previous version of this article was presented to the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, November 8th, 2003. Thanks for assistance from Robert A. Baker, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, and Jennifer Krischer, Jess Leuschen, Jim West, and Geoff Andersen, U.S. Air Force Academy.
The Descriptions of alien faces historically reported by UFO abductees are almost boringly uniform. Long before “close encounters” became a catchword in the ufologist’s vocabulary, self-proclaimed UFO abductees described their abductors as bulbous-headed humanoids equipped with oversized, wraparound eyes, vertical double-slit nostrils and gray skin. Is there another explanation for this uniformity of features besides the most obvious — that it is a description of an actual alien race?
Read the rest