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Are Space Aliens Breeding With Humans? 15

Space aliens are breeding

with humans, university

instructor says. Scientists

say otherwise.

Outlandish claim has a secret

breeding program creating alien-
human hybrids who can survive
climate change.

By Seth Shostak

Maybe you've never seen any space aliens, but
recent polls indicate that up to 6 percent of
Americans claim to have been abducted by
them. The experience doesn't sound pleasant.
The extraterrestrials are often said to take their
captives to their saucers, lay them out on a table
and extract sperm from the men and impregnate difficult climate accords or elaborate humanity will ultimately find this situation less
the women. geoengineering projects. It would also help the threatening thanks to an alien re-build.
If you're familiar with UFO lore, you aliens themselves — who are said to be living But still, you might want to check your
know there are a couple of common among us — by preserving the part of their 23andMe results. Maybe you're already a
explanations for these breeding experiments. DNA that's carried by the temperature-tolerant hybrid.
One is that the aliens are in a reproductive bind hybrids.
on their home world: They can no longer Of course, human-alien hybrids, no About the Author: Dr. Seth Shostak is Senior
successfully procreate and so have come to matter how well adapted to a warmer world, Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain
Earth to use humans as incubators to spawn don't address the crux of the climate change View, California and also host of the “Big
alien offspring. The other is that the aliens are problem. Even unimproved humans can handle Picture Science” podcast.
producing hybrid beings that will somehow help hotter temperatures; after all, they already live
them take over our planet. in a plethora of steamy environments including Alien abduction: a medical
Scientists, of course, are dubious of such the Congo, Amazonia and downtown Tucson. hypothesis.
claims. After all, there's never been any good Rising sea levels could be dealt with too, by
evidence that the abductions are taking place. building dikes along the seaboards and writing
No one ever seems to bring along a cellphone to off Miami Beach. D V Forrest - Psychoanalytic Center,
take photos or to pocket an artifact from the But it's the other inhabitants of the Columbia University College of
saucers. planet that are problematic — crops and critters Physicians & Surgeons, USA
But an instructor at the University of that will either migrate toward the poles or
Oxford in England believes the abductions are disappear altogether. These, after all, are In response to a new psychological study of
real. Young-hae Chi, who teaches Korean at the essential to both our environment and our food persons who believe they have been abducted
university, also claims to know what the aliens supply. Does the Oxford instructor presume that by space aliens that found that sleep
have in mind. In lectures given at the university, these other earthly residents are also being re- paralysis, a history of being hypnotized, and
he says they're creating alien-human hybrids as engineered by the aliens? preoccupation with the paranormal and
a hedge against climate change. To support his In addition, Chi's argument rests on the extraterrestrial were predisposing
unorthodox theory, Chi notes that for several fact that two things have simultaneously experiences, I noted that many of the
decades the number of reported alien abductions increased in the past several decades: the frequently reported particulars of the
has risen. He bases this statement on the work of number of reported abductions and the abduction experience bear more than a
David Jacobs, a retired Temple University concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. passing resemblance to medical-surgical
historian who has published several books on Of course, many other things have risen during procedures and propose that experience with
ufology and who runs the International Center this time, too — including the price of bacon these may also be contributory. There is the
for Abduction Research. and the number of TV channels. It's a big jump altered state of consciousness, uniformly
Jacobs has interviewed more than a from a coincidence in timing to an alien project colored figures with prominent eyes, in a
thousand people who claim to have been to produce a climate-resistant species. high-tech room under a round bright
abducted, using hypnotic regression that Eventually, this weird theory will be saucerlike object; there is nakedness, pain
apparently allows them to recall their unearthly vindicated or vanquished by observation. Chi and a loss of control while the body's
encounters with aliens. (Mind you, this too is says the reason we don't see the aliens is that boundaries are being probed; and yet the
controversial, and Jacobs himself admits that they are largely unrecognizable. "The first figures are thought benevolent. No medical-
people should be skeptical of these generation hybrids still have physical features surgical history was apparently taken in the
recollections.) distinctive to aliens'" he told NBC News above mentioned study, but psychological
Chi takes the claims at face value, and MACH in an email. "But from the second laboratory work evaluated false memory
links the growing number of abductees generation ... they have almost indistinguishable formation. I discuss problems in assessing
cataloged by Jacobs to the increase in bodily features from those of humans, although intraoperative awareness and ways in which
atmospheric greenhouse gases. He doesn't they may still carry at least one fourth of alien the medical hypothesis could be elaborated
imply a cause and effect: The abduction genes." and tested. If physicians are causing this
experiment is not responsible for global The inability to discern anything odd syndrome in a percentage of patients, we
warming. Rather, it's a reaction to it. The about the appearance of the hybrids is both should know about it; and persons who feel
extraterrestrials are producing hybrids that can convenient and unconvincing. They live among they have been abducted should be
better withstand the rigors of a toastier planet. us, but we don't notice. And meanwhile, the encouraged to inform their surgeons and
By producing a new model of Homo sapiens, concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide anesthesiologists without challenging their
this project would eliminate the need for continues to climb. It seems unlikely that beliefs.