17th & 18th SETI Articles

Tony Lucas walks through a typical abduction in the article "Night Visitors and Alien Abductions".  Lucas says that victims typically see a beaming light into their window while they are sleeping. They are awake but cannot move and the aliens are usually at the foot of their bed. The aliens are constantly reassuring the victim that what they are doing is for the greater good. They take the victim into their spacecraft and run tests. More than not, the victim has to do something dealing with reproducing. Many victims have claimed to see half alien-half human babies on the spacecraft. The aliens then return the human back to where they found them. The abductee doesn't remember any of the majority of the events until weeks or months later, but has unexplainable bruises or scars. 

Someone asked the question "What do aliens look like?" at abduct.com. The person who answered said that aliens do not look like what they do in Hollywood movies or TV. Aliens have been reported from abductees to anywhere from 3 inches to 15 feet tall. Some of them resemble humans in some sense, others are just balls of light. Aliens can also look like large praying mantises. Their skin type as well as color have been documented all over the spectrum. Basically, an alien can look like anything according to this answer.

15th & 16th SETI Articles

Theresa J. Thormond Morris writes about her claimed alien contact in "Alien Contact Experiences". Morris believes that she has had contact with aliens multiple times and now she wants to reveal the secret. Aliens often visited her in her red hammock outside. One time her alien friend Gus let her go on a ride in the spacecraft! She'd be gone for days in alien time but only minutes in Earth time. This memoir of Theresa and her alien friends was very amusing. She's crazy.

"Psychic Attack by Reptilians" by Eric Cooper is another interesting story I found on the internet. Cooper believes that he has come into contact with aliens. He claims the extraterrestrials would take over his wife's body and use her as a medium for communication. This has happened to him a couple times. He also believes that since he is part of the Grey species, Reptilians have had set a psychic attack on him since the Greys and Reptilians are enemy species. Cooper concludes with "I believe my purpose here is too educate and be a benefactor to abductees who have a hard time dealing with what they don't know." Cooper should proof read before he submits his memoir. Wrong too. 

13th & 14th SETI Articles

"The Hunt For Aliens" by Seth Shostak discussing the progress that has been made to find aliens. Today, SETI is taken more seriously than it has in the past. Back when it was first established, not many people viewed SETI as a legitimate science. SETI scientists had to work very hard to use telescopes and other important instruments used to attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life. Now, there is a specialized optical telescope at Harvard that searches for laser pluses from space. There is also the Allen Telescope Array at Berkeley to pick up radio waves. A lot more is being done to communicate with other intelligence. 

The article "Alien Sociology" by Seth Shostak talks about if we did come in contact with aliens, what would they do? All movies about martians typically deals with harvesting various minerals on our planets or breeding experiments. Shostak argues that breeding experiments would not be a possibility because humans don't breed with animals. Just as human have different DNA than animals, extraterrestrials will have different DNA (if any at all) than humans as well. Also, aliens will not harvest Earth. If there are nearby extraterrestrials, that means Earth's precious minerals are not rare. Their planet as well as other planets are made up of the same things and there is no need for them to take from Earth. Shostak believes aliens will simply come here to learn more about humans, just as humans are doing to them.