{"id":1067,"date":"2010-03-25T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:55:42","slug":"close-encounters-of-the-facial-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/25\/close-encounters-of-the-facial-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounters of the Facial Kind:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em> <\/em><small>Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?<\/small><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/the_magazine\/featured_articles\/v11n04_images\/alienface_fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Frederick V. Malmstrom<\/p>\n<p>THE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALIEN FACES\u00a0historically reported by UFO abduc<\/p>\n<p>tees are almost boringly uniform. Long before \u201cclose encounters\u201d be<\/p>\n<p>came a catchword in the ufologist\u2019s 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<\/p>\n<p>the most obvious \u2014 that it is a description of an actual alien race?<\/p>\n<h5>Reports of Aliens<\/h5>\n<p>The archetypical alien face most commonly reported by abductees is usually recalled while the victim is in a hypnagogic half-dream state, or else under hypnotic regression. Figure 1 below shows a typical face drawn by a self-claimed UFO abductee who was interviewed by psychologist Robert A. Baker in 1993. Figure 2 shows another typical alien face drawn by one of my abductee clients. In 1979, my colleague Richard Coffman and I published a study of the bodily dimensions of reported aliens.<a href=\"#note01\">1<\/a> Our random sample of 30 reported aliens revealed that 100% were humanoid in shape and stood at a median height of 155 cm (60 inches )\u2014 a height close to that of the average woman. In addition, 80% of our sample had the typical UFO face: prominent, somewhat diagonally oriented eyes, double-slit nostrils, and little or no evidence of a mouth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/the_magazine\/featured_articles\/v11n4_alien_faces.html\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template? by Frederick V. Malmstrom THE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALIEN FACES\u00a0historically reported by UFO abduc tees are almost boringly uniform. Long before \u201cclose encounters\u201d be came a catchword in the ufologist\u2019s vocabulary, self-proclaimed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/25\/close-encounters-of-the-facial-kind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}