encounters of the considerate and mutually respectful kind? could it possibly have something to do with human chauvanistic prejudices?
You're reading all the other stories then because there's many encounters where the aliens have taken people for trips around the universe and giving them advice on how to improve mankind.
Can Aliens ever explain to the English what the English don't already understand ? English understand both victimhood and fantastical salvation . Um , could be galacticly there's something else and even if heard it gets translated as bugmumps and mugwumps and very odd dancing .
well there's the assumption again. what about non-abduction? or some joker says, "beam me up scotty" and someone does? what about, there's a place, not military, where trucks (18 wheelers) pull up inside of this kind of bermed semi-enclosure, and they're trading containters (swap body vans) and you've got members of both kinds of crews, from different worlds, and they're all sitting around a campfire drinking coffee or passing around a doob?
that does sound much better than an abduction. this sort of thing would probably be hard to set up, as there would be communication barriers to overcome. but that has been done before and i'm sure it could be done again.
I know it was only a movie but isn't that what 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was really all about?
Studies of conspiracy theory networks concluded they provide early warning for when the crap is actually about to hit the fan. The issue appears to be morality, which most people apply to others systematically, but don't apply to themselves. The result is that nothing anyone says is terribly trustworthy, but conspiracy theory fans take this to an extreme, managing to squeeze a little tiny bit of something worthwhile out of a huge mountain of crap. The more full of crap the government and mass media become, the more people will turn to conspiracy theories just for a faster heads up if nothing else. Often, such people use symbols in their conspiracies as a way to communicate covertly and teenage horror films and other easy ignored forms of mass media are used to spread different ideas.
Our glorious leader just cut the mass media a deal on their rent, and alien conspiracy theories have to fight it out with every other whore in Hollywood and LaLa Land. They make money, but the superheroes are the big thing and have been for a long time.