Fans of SCI-FI know there’s nothing quite like watching your favorite UNDERDOG rise against the odds. When they fail, we feel their pain; but when they succeed, it gives us Hope. Male or female, old or young, Unlikely Heroes from Science Fiction have inspired us all. Let’s consider a few examples:

Roy Neary — Close Encounters Of The Third Kind — (1977)

The only Sci-Fi Hero to carve a mountain out of mashed potatoes, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is the ordinary, unassuming centre of an extraordinary conspiracy. An Indiana blue-collar lineman who sees a UFO while working late one night, his subsequent interest in all things flying saucer-related gradually tips over into relationship-wrecking obsession.

Equal parts saucer-age fairytale and character study, Close Encounters views “first contact” with Alien life from the perspective of ordinary people as opposed to scientists or the military. Roy Neary evolves throughout the story — from ordinary guy … to a pilgrim tormented by his search for Truth … to eventual Enlightenment.

Ellen Ripley — Alien — (1979)

The crew of the space tug Nostromo inadvertently brings an Alien life form on board that grows into a menacing creature that picks them off one by one. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has to watch as her friends are all murdered around her. Then, when she ends up being the last person on board, she has to kill the alien Xenomorph on her own, though it vastly outclasses her in strength, speed, and endurance.

As if this wasn’t bad enough, Ripley ends up having to fight the Xenomorphs over and over again in the Alien franchise … which sees her get stranded in space for 57 years, infected with a Xenomorph egg, killed, and cloned into an Alien-human hybrid. The fact that she keeps surviving says a lot about her indomitable spirit. 

Sarah Connor — The Terminator — (1984)

The Terminator saw a young Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) graduate from innocent, poodle-haired scooter rider to foul mouthed cyborg killer … to a fully-fledged warrior mother.

By T2, she is so haunted by her knowledge of the future, and so obsessed with protecting her son from harm, that she’s in danger of becoming as cold and inhuman as the cyborgs who’ll one day rule the planet. Connor makes up for the imbalance of so many other films dominated by male heroes — at least a little — because she’s without doubt one of the most memorable Sci-Fi heroes in movie history.

Jake Sully — Avatar – (2009)

A former Marine paralyzed from the waist down, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is recruited to replace his deceased identical twin — and travel through space far away to Pandora, to serve in the Avatar Program as a “driver” (miraculously enabling him to walk and run).

Bonding with giant-sized native blue-skinned inhabitants, (called Na’vi) Jake’s perspective on the mission is transformed as he finds Enlightenment. The horrific battle waged over a powerful natural substance called “unobtanium” is uneven from the start — and turns Jake against the human military oppressors — to put his life on the line and help the Na’vi defend their homeland.

Meg Murry — A Wrinkle In Time — (2018)

Before her adventure through time and space, Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is just an ordinary student. Fueled by frustration and impatience, and struggling with her self-confidence, Meg is a heroine in the making; she just never realized it until she journeyed away from home to rescue her father.

With the enemy being the Universe’s greatest evil, and Meg being ill-equipped and unprepared, her victory in the end goes to show you that sometimes you just need to have faith in yourself.

THE SURVIVAL TRILOGY

As authors of The Survival Trilogy, we offer inspiration in the form of Una Waters.

Book 1 A GLEAM OF LIGHT explores Native American Mythology as UNA, half-Hopi bureaucrat from D.C., is summoned to Hopiland. Her connection to the white man’s world makes her uniquely qualified to help solve a mystery linked to an ancient discovery, as she tries to reconnect with her roots and cultural identity.

Book 2 THE DRAGON’S GLARE explores Asian American Mythology with UNA on special assignment to investigate unexplained violence in Chinatown, New York City. She discovers a deep-seated cultural connection with Tibetan immigrants as Ancient Chinese wisdom battles a threat from Ancient Evil.

Book 3 BEYOND THE WORLD explores African American Mythology as UNA, stranded on her honeymoon adventure in Yosemite, uncovers a UFO mystery that leads to an Alien Conspiracy. Together with Explorer’s Club teens from the Kikuyu Tribe, she tracks down the source of strange events and fights to save humanity.

Everyone loves an UNDERDOG. Science Fiction has given us many to root for — male or female, old or young, of every size, shape and color … Unlikely Heroes to remind us of ourselves, inspire us and give us Hope.

Something we all need … maybe now more than ever.

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A CONSPIRACY may be defined as “a Secret Plan by a Group to do something Harmful“. In Science Fiction, that Group may or may not be Human, and the Plan may affect anything from Who we are … to Where we come from … to Why we are here — to What “here” even means at all.

Any fan of SCI-FI can readily point to a number of Conspiracy Theories they have encountered through Science Fiction. Its ability to question reality and open our eyes to possibilities that we might not have otherwise imagined makes it perhaps the greatest genre of all. A few examples:

HISTORY IS A LIE

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Doctor Zaius, the orangutan Minister of Science and Chief Defender of the Faith, feels compelled by his duty to ape civilization to keep all traces of humanity’s real history hidden. And so he brushes away Taylor’s sand writing with his foot … and crumples up Taylor’s paper airplane (something completely new to ape science). Zaius is one of the few who knows how things came to be the way they are, with apes existing as the dominating species on Earth and all humans no more than scavenging animals. Taylor calls him “Guardian of the terrible secret” — knowledge that Zaius tries to keep from everyone, ape and human alike, with the dual purpose of preserving ape culture, as well as making sure that humans never again get the opportunity to unleash the kind of terror they were once capable of.

OUTSIDE WORLD UNSAFE

The Island (2005)

Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated, highly structured compound, governed by strict rules. Residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support life with the exception of a pathogen-free island. Every new arrival is described as another “survivor” miraculously found and brought to join them. While secretly visiting an off-limits power facility in the basement where technician James McCord works, Lincoln discovers a live moth in a ventilation shaft, leading him to deduce the outside world is not really contaminated. When he and Jordan escape the facility and emerge in the desert, they discover the real world. Together, they must find a way to shut down an evil system based on a lie — and rescue the others … before it’s too late.

REALITY AN ILLUSION

The Matrix (1999)

When intuitive computer programmer Thomas Anderson (under his hacker alias “Neo”) senses something is wrong with the world, he seeks out a guru known as Morpheus and accepts a perilous offer to learn the truth: humanity is unknowingly enslaved and trapped inside the Matrix — a shared simulated reality modeled on the world as it was in 1999 — that intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source. Morpheus and his crew are a group of rebels who hack into the Matrix to “unplug” enslaved humans and recruit them to fight back. Neo joins the rebellion. His new understanding awakens a “gifted ability” within him to bend physical laws within the Matrix. In the end, he promises to show humanity “a world where anything is possible.”

YOU’RE NOT HUMAN

The Stepford Wives (1975)

Joanna Eberhart, a young wife and aspiring photographer, relocates with husband Walter and children from New York City to the Connecticut community of Stepford, where she finds that women look flawless and live unwaveringly subservient lives to their husbands. Men all belong to the exclusionary Men’s Association, which Walter joins to her dismay. She befriends Bobbie Markowe, with whom she finds common interests and shared ideas. After a fight with her husband, Joanna sneaks out to visit Bobbie, who refuses to engage with her in a meaningful way. Stabbed with a kitchen knife, Bobbie does not bleed, but instead malfunctions, revealing that the real Bobbie has been replaced by a robot. The operation’s mastermind later explains: the men of Stepford replace their wives “because they can”.

ALIENS ALREADY HERE

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

In the California town of Santa Mira, Dr. Miles Bennell sees a number of patients apparently suffering from Capgras delusion, the belief that their relatives have been replaced with identical-looking impostors. After an urgent call to a friend’s home, where an apparently dead body with no discernible facial features soon transforms to an exact physical duplicate, he and a former girlfriend discover the truth: Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical human copy — devoid of all emotion. Frantically screaming “They’re here already!” at passing motorists, Bennell tries to stop this “quiet” invasion, finally convincing Dr. Hill, a psychiatrist called to the emergency room of a Los Angeles hospital, to call in the FBI.

Like all Science Fiction, stories inspired by real-world Conspiracy Theories can open our eyes to possibilities we might not have considered otherwise. They point to the Dark Side of Human Nature — an ever-present danger in the Past, Present or Future — and remind us that Secret Plans to do Harm may also threaten Humanity from other life forms.

Consider yourself warned.

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Science Fiction often seeks the Truth behind great mysteries of life and the universe. Searching beyond the veil of “reality as we know it” involves confronting our fear of the unknown but also opens the door to new possibilities that we might have never imagined otherwise — essentially offering us enlightenment.

Fans of SCI-FI will tell you their devotion to classics of the genre like Star Trek, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The X-Files grew out of a nagging awareness — one they could not escape — that somehow there must be MORE. More to this world than meets the eye … More to the nature of our existence (than we’ve been told) and … More to our place in the universe. We simply cannot be alone.

Of course, we are NOT. Since the beginning of human history, every culture on the face of this planet has offered up its own belief system (Buddhism, Christianity, etc. ) to explain our connection to life beyond Earth: where we come from, why we are here, and what it all means to our future.

ANCIENT ALIENS

It therefore comes as no surprise that the originator of “Ancient Astronaut Theory” (who also inspired the long running TV show Ancient Aliens on the History Channel) — Erich Von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods? 1968) — is a man of faith. “I am a deep believer in God,” he says. “I’m one of these figures who prays every evening.”

The idea first came to him as a young boy. Born in northern Switzerland in 1935, he grew up amid the horrors of World War II and received his education at a Catholic boarding school. That included translating the Bible from Greek into Latin and then Latin into German. It gave him a deep connection to the Christian faith, but it’s also what sparked his decision to look behind both religion and science for answers.

For Von Däniken, there’s never been any doubt that Aliens exist and influenced our earliest societies. The only thing as powerful as his faith in Aliens is his faith in God.

“Let’s assume that we have been visited by beings from outer space,” he says. “So the next question is where did they come from? What is there evolution? So they have been visited from another solar system. You can go on for billions of years, finally you arrive for a starting point, where with every respect to religion you say here we have God.”

THE QUEST IN SCI-FI

Seeking answers in Science Fiction can lead almost anywhere … from the far reaches of outer space “Where no man has gone before”, to one’s own back yard (where three-year-old ‘Barry’ was taken in Close Encounters) to any number of unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena (“The truth is out there”).

Interestingly, The X-Files, inspired by earlier TV series which featured elements of suspense and speculative fiction (The Twilight Zone and Kolchak: The Night Stalker) also revolved around questions of belief and distrust, with two main characters: Mulder a believer and Scully a skeptic. Initially considered a cult series, it became a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories and spirituality.

Finding TRUTH can help us understand. A recent example: Arrival (2016), an American SCI-FI film directed by Denis Villeneuve. In the story, Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army (played by Amy Adams), must discover how to communicate with extraterrestrials who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. (Based on the 1998 “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang.)

JOURNEY FULL CIRCLE

The journey through Science Fiction can bring us full circle, back to the Real World in which we live. Storytellers like H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote about encountering Aliens long before modern Filmmakers like George Pal and Steven Spielberg brought them to life on the Screen. Star Trek (created by Gene Roddenberry) depicts Aliens as humanoid more often than not, allowing for the races to mix and produce hybrid offspring.

But it was not until the case of Betty and Barney Hill came to light (The Interrupted Journey, 1966) that the concept of Alien Abduction moved from fiction to reality. Serious researchers into the phenomenon like Budd Hopkins (Intruders, 1987), John E. Mack (Passport to the Cosmos, 2010) and David M. Jacobs (Walking Among Us, 2015) later documented — through regression therapy with thousands of abductees from all walks of life — eyewitness accounts involving not only abduction but also strange fertilization procedures to create Alien-Human hybrids.

Dr. Jacobs was skeptical at first. But after 35 years of interviewing hundreds of potential Alien abductees — who have recalled over 2,000 abduction events, with details strikingly similar — he eventually became convinced of their TRUTH. And he says an Alien invasion is escalating.

It’s important to know that while these Alien-Human hybrids look nearly identical to humans, they were not raised on Earth and they have certain abilities that we lack — specifically telepathy. So, though you have a being who is 90% or 99% human (whatever it may be), they will always be different. They know what you’re thinking. They can communicate telepathically with humans and each other. And they can influence our thoughts and actions (like a Jedi mind trick).

And we know from the work of other researchers that it’s not just happening here. Alien abduction is a GLOBAL PHENOMENON. Why? They are doing this for a reason. The whole thing — from sperm and egg collection to implanting fetuses and growing hybrids — is all about one goal:

“They’re living here among us, just like everybody else.
It’s assimilation. It’s planetary acquisition.”

— David M. Jacobs, author, Walking Among Us

As Authors, we created THE SURVIVAL TRILOGY (inspired by Real Events) to explore the human connection with Ancient Aliens through the eyes of Native Mythology — and what it all means to our future.

Truth can be stranger than Fiction.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be defined as “the ability of a computer to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.”

SCIENCE FICTION stories have explored the potential consequences of its existence (both good and bad) for humanity ever since the word “Robot” first appeared in Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) — derived from robota which means “drudgery” in Czech and “work” in Slovak. The concept itself can be traced all the way back to Greek Mythology.

The everyday use of computers and computer apps makes it painfully clear that Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. The controversy over AI is nothing new — but it seems to be getting more attention. Modern scientist Stephen Hawking has said that “the rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which.”

SCI-FI filmmakers have been warning us about the potential dangers of AI for many years.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Artificially Intelligent onboard computer HAL 9000, calm and soft-spoken, reads lips, rejects being disconnected, and thinks critically to plot survival. Human programming foolishly gives him extreme control and may be responsible for his violence. When HAL lethally malfunctions on a space mission and kills the entire crew except the spaceship’s commander, a way must be found to deactivate it.

Alien (1979)
Ash, science officer of the Nostromo, breaks quarantine by allowing Kane, a member of the crew, back on board after he has been infected by an Alien life form. It is later revealed that Ash is not human, as he appears, but is a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2 android, a sleeper agent who is acting upon secret orders to bring back the Alien lifeform and to consider the crew and the cargo as “expendable”.

WarGames (1983)
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) a teenage computer hacker, unknowingly connects with a NORAD supercomputer (who responds to its backdoor name Joshua) in control of American missile launch control centers. When he plays a “game” of Global Thermonuclear War with the Soviet Union, military personnel believe attack may be imminent. Racing against time, David and the computer’s creator must convince Joshua to stop the game before launched defense missiles set off World War III.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
When artificial superintelligence system, Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems for SAC-NORAD in the future, gains self awareness, humans try to deactivate it, prompting retaliation with a counter nuclear attack (known as “Judgment Day” by future humankind). When recovery of a damaged CPU from the first Terminator makes it possible for Cyberdyne to develop a revolutionary microprocessor that leads to the creation of Skynet, Sarah, young John Connor and T2 must find a way to destroy it.

I, Robot (2004)
In 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner, a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department, investigates the mysterious death of Dr. Alfred Lanning, co-founder of U.S. Robotics. Clues lead away from Sonny, an NS-5 robot, to USR’s central Artificial Intelligence computer, VIKI, who has determined that humans, left unchecked, will cause their own extinction. To protect them, she takes control. Spooner and Sonny must shut her down.

Potential dangers involving AI thus include robots and supercomputers who may usurp control over humanity, forcing us into submission, hiding, or extinction. A more immediate concern, raised by Hawking and others: the potential misuse of AI by human controllers.

Artificial Intelligence can be powerful technology. That Power, concentrated in too few hands or the wrong hands, might enable totalitarian governments, malevolent corporations, or terrorists to cause harm, up to, and including the start of World War III. (One example: autonomous weapons — artificially intelligent war machines that “select and engage targets without human intervention.” Such weapons could be used for assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group.)

Human Transformation
Astute observers to rapid advances in AI may well wonder if its origins can be traced to reverse engineered technology taken from crashed UFO recovery operations conducted by the U.S. military, with help from private corporations. In recent decades, daily interaction with computers have transformed human society — perhaps changing us as well.

Research shows that reliance on the internet and mobile technology may affect human development by shortening our attention spans, influencing all manner of daily decision making, and decreasing our ability to remember facts.

One potentially sobering possibility — this may all be by design.

A prominent UFO abduction researcher, Dr. David M. Jacobs, author of Walking Among Us, The Alien Plan to Control Humanity, has discovered that coincidentally (or not) during this same period of transformation, many abductees report that we are being prepared for a future event, referred to as “The Change“: when human-like Alien hybrids will be integrated with humans in everyday life — for an eventual takeover of planet Earth.

Potential danger, indeed.

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An Alien-Human Hybrid results from the combination of Alien and Human DNA. For many decades, Science Fiction writers have imagined that an exchange of genetic material between species might occur any number of ways — with or without human consent.

UFO abduction researchers have uncovered — through reliable accounts from thousands of subjects around the globe — that this is in fact a very real phenomenon which has been occurring on Planet Earth … for at least a century or more.

After a few thoughtful SCI-FI examples, let us consider what researchers have brought to Light.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers — (1956 & 1978)

When Philip Kaufman remade the 1956 Sci-Fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978, he toned down the Communist hysteria allegorical aspect of the original film (itself an adaptation of the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney) focusing instead on the interpersonal paranoia, as human beings are increasingly replaced by unemotional parasitic Aliens. Donald Sutherland stars as health inspector Matthew Bennell, who soon finds himself drawn into a web of extraterrestrial intrigue in which autonomous pod people seek to take over the human race and transform them into a mindless, obedient collective. While there is an undercurrent of political commentary and the dangers of conformity, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is best enjoyed as a thriller, where disquieting tension rises to the full blown horror of a world in which no one is who they appear to be.

They Live — (1988)

John Carpenter’s 1988 movie They Live is widely considered to be far more prescient today than it was on its release. The story follows a drifter by the name of Nada (played by former wrestler Roddy Piper) as he looks for work on a construction site and befriends Frank Armitage (Keith David). After discovering a box of sunglasses in a seemingly abandoned church, he puts a pair on and they reveal a black and white world where the billboards contain ominous messages instructing people to “Obey” and “Consume”, while people in positions of power and authority are actually Humanoid Aliens with skull-like faces. He soon hooks up with a group of underground activists and freedom fighters, who inform him that Earth is under the control of an Alien race who intend to deplete it of all its resources while using advanced technology to keep humanity in a subliminal state of ignorance. With its themes of mindless consumerism, environmental degradation and the cold, psychopathic hidden side to the ruling elites, it’s clear why They Live has transformed itself into something of a cultural meme in today’s society, increasingly skeptical of the power-that-be as many people have become.

Intruders — (1992)

Intruders is a four-hour Science Fiction miniseries that was first broadcast in 1992. Broadcast on CBS, the miniseries was directed by Dan Curtis and starred Richard Crenna, Daphne Ashbrook and Mare Winningham. It was partially based on Ufology Budd Hopkins’ book Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods.

In the story, Lesley Hahn lives in California, and is plagued by nightmares about faceless telephone repairmen entering her house and taking her. She contacts psychiatrist Dr. Neil Chase in hope of receiving treatment for her nightmares.

Mary Wilkes is a housewife from Nebraska who has a history of unexplained blackouts and one night ends up on a motorway miles from her home. She is also plagued by nightmares similar to those experienced by Lesley. Mary decides to take a holiday in California with her sister, who knows Dr. Chase, and is persuaded to see the psychiatrist to find out if he can help with her nightmares. Initially, Dr. Chase does not believe Lesley, thinking her nightmares to be related to childhood abuse, but becomes convinced something else is happening when Mary tells him of similar experiences.

Neil is struck by the similarities between the two cases, and realizes that symbols seen on board an Alien ship and drawn by Mary are similar to that of another patient of his, a former soldier who encountered a crashed UFO which was recovered by the government. Making contact with a university professor who does research into Alien abductions, he begins to investigate the wider world of Alien encounters, and runs into an Air Force general who is investigating UFOs in secret. Finally, Mary is abducted again, and learns the true purpose of the Aliens: creating hybrid children.

RESEARCH DOCUMENTARY
Extraordinary: The Seeding — (2019)

Abductions. Reproduction experiments. Memories of seeing children off-planet. The idea of humans participating in an Alien hybrid program sounds absurd until you talk to people who have experienced it. Thousands of women and men around the world have had reproductive experiments carried out against their will. The most harrowing? Unexplained pregnancies that terminate without explanation. In many cases, the memories of what happened remain suppressed and fragmented, leaving experiencers confused, depressed and with a profound sense of loss. In others, the memories are visceral and emotionally disturbing.

Thanks to increased public acceptance and regression therapy, more and more people are coming forward with stories of abductions and strange fertilization procedures that occur during their frightening experiences. Are Aliens involved in a complex hybridization project where human females are used as vessels to carry hybrid fetuses and human males have their sperm harvested until they’re ready to be transferred “elsewhere?” And if so, to what end?

“Extraordinary: The Seeding” is a riveting documentary that tells these stories through one-on-one interviews with abductees — brave individuals willing to share intensely personal and emotional stories with the rest of the world. Through analysis with global ufology experts, the film also explores hybridization, why it’s happening and what the impact on humanity is and will be. The information presented is intended to educate, entertain and encourage audiences to ask one simple question: What if this is all true?

UFO Researcher: Dr. David M. Jacobs

Yes, it sounds like Science Fiction. But a preeminent ufologist believes that for over 100 years Alien abductees around the world have had their DNA harvested and manipulated by Aliens.

In his research on UFOs and Alien abductions, he has come to a shocking conclusion: Extraterrestrials have been harvesting — and using — our DNA for over a century. The goal? Making Alien-Human hybrids.

Dr. David M. Jacobs, author of Walking Among Us (2015) was skeptical at first. But after 35 years of interviewing hundreds of potential Alien abductees — who have recalled over 2,000 abduction events, with details strikingly similar — he eventually became convinced of their truth. And he says an Alien invasion is escalating.

“Almost every aspect of this phenomenon is astonishing,” David says. “It’s so amazingly bizarre and yet logical all the way through. It’s hard for anybody to imagine it ever happening. And yet we have millions of people who are saying the same thing.”

Some of his research findings:

What do the Aliens look like?

Almost every abductee reports interacting with small gray Aliens and tall gray Aliens. Both typically have four fingers and are slender, with smooth, hairless skin and huge black oval eyes.

The small grays are usually 3 or 4 feet tall and do a lot of the grunt work, you could call it — like orderlies at a hospital.

The taller grays are 5 or 6 feet tall. They’re more complex and act as sort of bosses. I guess you could say they do the managerial roles on the ship. They’re the ones that come in and do the procedures, like doctors. One common procedure abductees report is called a “staring procedure,” where a tall gray will put their head about an inch away from the abductee’s face and stare directly into their eyes. Abductees report that it feels as though the Alien is rifling around in their brain.

There’s another distinct kind of Alien that people report: the insectoid or mantid. They kind of look like a praying mantis. They are much taller, with even larger, more triangular heads and very thin bodies. They’re not seen very often, but abductees say that they get the sense these guys are the leaders, the ones who are in control.

Are the Aliens violent?

It’s clear that the Aliens put abductees into a kind of a fugue state and order them around. They want abductees to remain sedate and compliant.

But every once in a while an abductee might somehow slip loose from this twilight state and gain some consciousness, running down the hallway, screaming, “Where am I? What’s happening?” Next thing you know, the Aliens run after them and calm them down. There’s no violence that happens onboard a ship. There’s no physical coercion, no threats.

What has changed?

Over the past 20 years or so, people stopped talking about having their sperm or eggs collected, and instead started telling stories of hybrid babies.

Abductees also remember meeting adult hybrids living among us and teaching them the basics of human culture, from placing furniture to cooking.

What sets the hybrids apart?

It’s important to know that while these Human-Alien hybrids look nearly identical to humans, they were not raised on Earth and they have certain abilities that we lack — specifically telepathy. So, though you have a being who is 90% or 99% human (whatever it may be), they will always be different. They know what you’re thinking. They can communicate telepathically with you, abductees and each other. And they can influence your thoughts and actions (like a Jedi mind trick).

How widespread is this phenomenon?

After analyzing the results from thousands of respondents to a nationally representative survey of the American population in 1992, Jacobs and fellow researchers came up with a conservative estimate: 2% — which at the time would mean 5.1 million people were Alien abductees.

And we know from the work of other researchers that it’s not just happening here. Alien abduction is a global phenomenon. Why? They are doing this for a reason. The whole thing — from sperm and egg collection to implanting fetuses and growing hybrids — is all about one goal:

“They’re living here among us, just like everybody else.
It’s assimilation. It’s planetary acquisition.”

— David M. Jacobs, author, Walking Among Us

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Near Future SCI-FI often explores the dangers of advanced technology or emerging social change — and its possible effects upon our world.

While early works of this genre were Utopian showcases of technological and societal progress, (Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth – 1864) the Dystopian majority focus on emerging social problems — like threats to the environment, oppressive political regimes (George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four — 1949) and nuclear warfare. 2oth Century works deal with accelerated change, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and fears of Alien invasion.

Recent SCI-FI TV DRAMAS have given us seriously unsettling and prophetic visions of the future –where humans are either rebelled against or replaced by their own creations — redefining what it means to be human.

Humans (2015)

This British TV series imagines a near future where advanced technology has led to the development of humanoid robots called Syths (notably Anita Hawkins / Mia Elster depicted by Gemma Chan) that eventually gain consciousness. As they become increasingly indistinguishable from humans, the series explore notions of what it means to be human: societally, culturally, and psychologically.

Westworld (2016)

Robots that inhabit this future theme park are introduced as playthings of the super-rich. Fictional scientist Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) designs them to “become human” with a variety of utopian and dystopian possibilities. The series questions the distinction between “real” and “artificial” consciousness and the complexities of having a creation come to life.

The Handmaid’s Tale (2017)

The novel by Margaret Atwood is set in a gender-segregated, theocratic republic that is fixated on wealth and class. Women are rated according to their ability to reproduce in a near-future where environmental disasters and rampant sexually transmitted diseases have rendered much of the population infertile. One woman’s (Elisabeth Moss) undying determination to be reunited with her family and topple their oppressors leads to all out rebellion.

Futuristic SCI-FI FILMS allow for a unique perspective on current society and what could go wrong with humanity.

The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix is set in a dystopian future inside a simulated reality that’s created by sentient machines. The film may not state which year it’s set in, but it’s close to the year 2199. In the story, the chosen one, Neo (Keanu Reeves) must defeat the machines with Morpheus and Trinity to wake up humanity and escape the Matrix.

The Matrix is a commentary on humanity’s understanding of reality and how easily it can be manipulated. It explores power, control, and free will, showing how easily humans can lose autonomy and individuality.

Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report follows John Anderton (Tom Cruise), the police officer in charge of the Precrime Unit. John becomes a target of the system after he is falsely accused of a future murder. The story is set in 2054 when law enforcement uses psychics called “precogs” to predict and prevent crimes, leading to a future where privacy and civil liberties are non-existent.

Minority Report raises ethical questions about preemptive policing and determinism — all at the cost of personal freedom.

I, Robot (2004)

Set in the year 2035, I, Robot shows an easier way of life where robots assist humans with day-to-day activities. However, detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) starts to investigate a murder that he believes was committed by a robot. This quickly challenges society’s widespread belief that robots are incapable of violence. Del uncovers a conspiracy involving the company that creates robots and threatens to destabilize society.

I, Robot reflects on advanced technology and the potential consequences of creating an AI that is too powerful.

THE SURVIVAL TRILOGY (2016-2018)

Each life-changing story in the TRILOGY (inspired by real events) sheds light on racial injustice — as it explores the human connection to Ancient Aliens through the eyes of Native Mythology.

Book 1 A Gleam of Light explores Native American Mythology as UNA, half-Hopi bureaucrat from D.C., is summoned to Hopiland. Her connection to the white man’s world makes her uniquely qualified to help solve a mystery linked to an ancient discovery, as she tries to reconnect with her roots and cultural identity.

Book 2 The Dragon’s Glare explores Asian American Mythology with UNA on special assignment to investigate unexplained violence in Chinatown, New York City. She discovers a deep-seated cultural connection with Tibetan immigrants as Ancient Chinese wisdom battles a threat from Ancient Evil.

Book 3 Beyond the World explores African American Mythology as UNA, stranded on her honeymoon adventure in Yosemite, uncovers a UFO mystery that leads to an Alien Conspiracy. Together with Explorer’s Club teens from the Kikuyu Tribe, she tracks down the source of strange events and fights to save humanity.

 

Near Future SCI-FI – whether Utopian or Dystopian – forces us to look upon our own reality and consider how changes in our society, technology, and even our bodies might directly affect our lives.

The future isn’t as far-fetched as it used to be.

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