13. THE ALIENS
- THE GREYS:
The term "Grey" is taken from slang developed in the
UFO-ology community for the small, grey skinned aliens with large
craniums, large almond shaped eyes, small mouths and noses and long nimble
fingers. These aliens were first made popular as "pop-culture" icons with
the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Those little grey aliens,
however are far more benign than the critters we often encounter creeping
around the X Files.
THE X-FILES: PILOT: Although we never saw any aliens in this
episode, there was an episode of missing time normally associated with
alien activity and the whirlwinds of light and leaves at the beginning and
end of the episode didn't appear to be the kind of thing that the Majestic
Consortium or "Purity Control" could have been responsible for.
The reason I believe the Greys were involved in this episode is
that the desicated corpse of Ray Soames, the boy whose body was exhumed,
was shrunken, with a misshappen, enlarged head. Short, with an enlarged
head; sort of sounds like what the little "Grey" aliens look like.
CONDUIT: Once again, we never get a look at the aliens in this
episode either, but the seared camper roof, burnt trees tops, beach sand
at lake Okobogee fused to glass, Kevin Morris's strange psychic connection
to space-born data transmissions and Ruby Morris suffering from the
symptoms of prolonged weightless all point to the presence of
extra-terrestrials and not to the involvement of the Majestic Consortium.
The reason I believe the Greys are connected to this episode is simply
bhavioral. Abduction + experiments + safe return = Greys.
FEARFUL SYMMETRY: What are the aliens up to now? Artificially
impregnating zoo animals and stealing their fetus? Is it a Alien
administered conservation project? It sure seems different from the
aliens other projects on Earth (human-alien hybridization/ establishing
colonies etc.). But again, it seems to be the kind of activity performed
by the Greys: abduction and experimentation.
E.B.E.: While no aliens are seen in this episode, we do get
to see them interact with humans.The alien spacecraft that was shot down
by the Iraqi fighter acted as if it was either observing or playing cat
and mouse with the fighter. After it was shot-down, the aliens continued
to tail the truck transporting the crash survivor across the country. At
one point they interfer with the truck, causing it to stall out, but they
don't take the opportunity to rescue their captured companion. The reason
I believe the unseen alien is a Grey is because later, in the episode THE
MUSINGS OF A CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN we see Deep Throat executing a wounded
Grey. In E.B.E., Deep Throat implied that he had encountered aliens such
as the one shot down over Turkey before and participated in its execution.
In retrospect, its a safe bet the E.B.E. was a Grey.
In LITTLE GREEN MEN we see a blurry image of the alien, and it
vaguely appears to be a Grey. Plus the image drawn by the Puerto Rican
appeared to be the stylized face of a Grey, with the large black,
almond-shaped eyes.
In DUANE BARRY we see (from Duane Barry's perspective) his
abduction and torturous experimentation by alien Greys. But since we have
since discovered that the experiments performed on Duane Barry were
connected to Dr. Ishimaru/Zama and were part of the Majestic Consortium's
Purity Control project. So it may be that the Greys seen by Duane Berry
were implanted false memories put there to cover Barry's real memory of
capture and experimentation by humans.
The same situation is true is JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE.
Here the Greys seen in this epsiode are definitely costumes or the result
of false memories created by USAF psy-ops personel to cover their real
activities.
In PAPERCLIP the Greys make a quick appearance, scurrying
past Scully in the dark tunnels of the West Virginia DNA data archive as
she and Mulder hide from the hit team sent by the Majestic Consortium. Its
unknown wether these aliens deliberately or accidently show Mulder and
Scully a back way out of the mine.
In NISEI we see what may be be a Grey being disected by a
team of Japanese surgeons. However, the corpse could have been a hybrid
rather than a full-blooded Grey.
In TEMPUS FUGIT and MAX the Greys are seen again, trying to
recover the energy souce stolen from the Majestic Consortium connected
Defense contractor (and perhaps it was even stolen from the Greys by
Majestic first). Several Greys are killed when the Air Force shoots down
their spacecraft.
- THE "INVISIBLE":
This alien appeared in FALLEN ANGEL, although I believe it may
have been a Grey using some kind of light bending camaflage. For one
thing, the "Invisible" had an obviously small stature. Second of all, the
"Invisible" abducted Max Fenig when its fellows came to rescue it. Later,
in the episodes TEMPUS FUGIT and MAX, Max Fenig was abducted by aliens
that appeared to be Greys. Unless more than one species of alien is
intent on abducting the same UFO geek, I'd guess the "Invisible" was
another Grey. A very well armed Grey. The radiation weapon it used to
cook the Deputy Sheriff, the EMTs and later Operation Falcon's soldiers
was devastatingly effective. And very similar to the weapon used by the
Oilien in PIPER MARU and APOCRYPHA. The "Invisible's" only apparent goal
was to get off the Earth and take Max Fenig with it.
- THE SHAPE SHIFTERS AND THE CLONES:
These aliens first appeared in the epsiodes COLONY and ENDGAME.
Here everything seemed simple. The "Gregors" and "Samanthas" are
alien-human hybrid clones created by aliens who intend to inherit the
Earth once man makes the planet uninhabitable for humans. Then a hulking
shape-shifting alien assassin (originally called "The Pilot" but later
refered to as "The Bounty Hunter") appears and begins slaying all the
Gregors and Samanthas and destroying the abortion clinics they'd been
using to harvest fetal tissue. Why? The Samantha clone claimed that she
and the Gregors' project was seen as a dimunition of the alien race, an
abomination. Or perhaps, it was simply an unapproved project.
The Clones and the Bounty Hunter are extra-strong and durable and
seem only to be able to be killed by a precise piercing of the base of the
skull by a long sharp object. The Bounty Hunter diplays in COLONY and
ENDGAME a toxic blood chemistry, fatal to humans upon exposure, and the
ability to change shape and appearance in the bink of an eye. These
abilities are identicle to those of Jerimiah Smith in the episodes TALITHA
CUMI and HERRENVOLK. Jerimiah Smith has the Bounty Hunter's abilties of
shape shifitng, and would appear to be identical incapabilities. Both
Jerimiah Smith and the Bounty Hunter demonstrate an miraculous ability to
heal the sick and injured. More Samantha clones appear, along with some
nazi-looking boy clones, but they don't appear to be anything more than
mindless drones. Biological robots tending the crops which Jerimiah Smith
hints may not be terrestrial in origin. Certainly the bees which have
been making honey from "alien ginsing" have become lethally toxic. There
is a colonization effort afoot in these epsiodes too which the Majestic
Consortium seems to be aware of and collaborating with. Jerimiah Smith's
job at the Social Security service seems to have been creating identities
for hundreds of thousands of "non-persons:" Alien clones sliped into
human society who need electronic backgrounds in order to blend in. The
Bounty Hunter returns again to kill Jerimiah Smith, but not because this
project was unapproved, but because Smith drew attention to himself by
healing the people wounded in a random fast-food shooting. Whether this is
the same Bounty Hunter that killed the Gregors and the Samanthas cannot be
known for certain, but he did seem to understand Mulder's desire to
protect the clone of his sister. The Bounty Hunter and Mulder had a
similar clash on the submarine USS Alligence in the episode END GAME.
There Mulder begged for information about his sister from the Bounty
Hunter, who, for reasons of his own, told Mulder his sister was still
alive and the saved Mulder from his own toxic blood fumes after Mulder
shoots him.
In MOMENTO MORI we see a second example of these aliens
working with the Majestic Consortium. Since NESEI and 731, it has been
obvious that Scully's (and quite probably insane FBI agent Duane Barry's)
abductions were the result of a secret government experiment run by Dr.
Ishimaru/Zama. Many other alien abductions seem to be cover for "Purity
Control" which seeks to hybridize human and alien DNA. In MEMENTO MORI we
encounter "the Kurts:" Alien-human hybrid clones almost identical in the
way they die and decompose into green ooze as the Gregors and Samanthas in
the episodes COLONY and ENDGAME. But here we have the alien clones
working side by side with the same government project which harvested
Scully's ova. While loyal to the project which created them, the Kurts'
goal is to try to prevent the deaths of their "birth mothers" who
apparently are being allowed to die so as to reduce the Majestic
Consortium's exposure.
- THE "GENDERBENDERS":
These aliens appeared in the episode GENDERBENDER and
masqueraded as a reclusive and austeer religious sect called "The Kindred"
living in near rural Steventon MA. They don't appear to have any advanced
technology, buy at one point in the episode a group of Kindred "magically"
appear to take the runaway sex-killer "Marty" back to his/her people to be
delt with. They disappear just as quickly. Interdimentional travel?
Matter transport? Who knows.
These aliens share much in comon with the Shape Shifter and the
Clones. First is their ability to change sex, sometimes at will and
sometimes as part of the rejuevenation of their life cycle. But they
don't seem to do any more than change back and forth between a male
version of their genotype and a female version. Like the Clones and Shape
Shifters they also have a body chemistry which is highly toxic to humans,
as was repeatedly demonstrated by the fates that befell Marty's sexual
partners. They may be related to the Shape Shifters in some way.
The "Kindred" only goal seems to have been to retain their
anonymity while waiting to be rescued from the earth, which is exactly
what happens at the end of the episode. The only question I have is if
aliens are visiting the Earth all the time and abducting people, why did
the "Kindred" have to wait so long to get picked up? They apparently
waited over a century! Are they a different species from the Abductor
Aliens? Did it take that long for a rescue mission to reach Earth?
- THE HUMAN-ALIEN HYBRIDS:
We've seen a number of human-alien hybrids over the last four
seasons. These hybrids are the result of human experimentation and I
include them to differentiate them from some hybrids which appear to be
the result of alien experimentation. The human-produced hybrids appear in
the episodes THE ERLEMEYER FLASK, ANASAZI, THE BLESSING WAY, NESEI, and 731.
The Human produced hybrids are discussed at length in CONSPIRACY
101: PURITY CONTROL.
- THE "OILIENS":
We've seen only one "Oilien," which appeared in the episodes
PIPER MARU and APOCRYPHA. The Oilien came to earth in 1945, and was shot
down by US Army Air Corps P-51 Mustang fighters, acording to the Well
Manicured Man. I find it far more likely there was a mid-air collision
that brought down the fighter and the UFO. In 1945 the U.S. Submarine
Zues Farber tried to locate the downed UFO, but its mission was
compromized by one of the UFOs occupants (who had somehow become separated
from its craft). This Oilien took over the submarine's captain and tried
to find its ship. The Oilien abandoned the Zues Farber when the crew
mutinied and turned on the captain. The UFO was salvaged by the Majestic
Project in 1995 and a few months later a French salvage team from the ship
Piper Maru came in contact with the Oilien which had taken up residence in
the corpse of the P-51 pilot that had crashed with it's UFO.
The Oilien was highly radio-active, apparently inadvertantly
leaking lethal ammounts of radiation which killed the crew of the Zues
Faber and the French ship Piper Maru. The Oilien could also use radiation
like a weapon, which it used to deep-fry six French agents, and five of
Cigarrette Smoking Man's GARNET agents. This weapon seems almost identical
to the alien weapon used in FALLEN ANGEL to kill the Deputy Sheriff, EMTs
and Operation Falcon's team members.
It seems to have access to its hosts' memories since it found
its way back the the french crewman Gauthier's apartement while in that
body, and found the hidden MJ file data tape and CSM while inhabiting
Krycek. The Oilien's single apparent goal is to return to its ship. To do
this, it cuts a deal with CSM and exchanges the stolen MJ file data tape
for the location of the salvaged 1945 UFO. In the end, the Oilien and its
host Krycek are sealed in a sealed missile silo in North Dakota by the
double-crossing CSM. Whether the Oilien escaped its entombment with its
ship at the same time Krycek did, remains unknown.
- THE BLACK CANCER:
As seen in the epsiodes TUNGUSKA and TERMA, the toxic
extra-terrestrial substance found in the impact site at Tunguska Siberia
does seem to be related in some ways to the "Oil-ien" seen in PIPER MARU
and APOCRYPHA. Like the Oil-ien, the Black Cancer is the same color, and
texture, appearing much like crude petroleum. Both substances are organic
and are capable of surviving for long periods of time under extreme
conditions: the Oilien at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, the Black
Cancer sealied in rock beneath the Siberian tundra. Both the Oilien and
the Black Cancer seem to be able to pass through air-tight barriers. The
Oilien penetrated the air-tight deep diving suit worn by the French
salvage team, the Black Cancer penetrated the Level 4 Contamination Suit.
Both substances cause the tell tale signs of black cloudiness in the eyes.
Both substances cause the central nervous systems to shut down in a kind
of paralysis. But with the Oilien, the creature is able to impose its
will upon its host and direct it. The Black Cancer cannot.
I believe that the Oilien and the Black Cancer are related.
Perhaps the Tunguska blast of 1908 was caused by the crash of an alien
space-craft crewed by the creatures known as "Oiliens." The crash blew
the crew into millions of pieces, shattering their consciousness and
minds, leaving nothing except the indestructable fragments of their bodies
imbeded in the tundra. The Black Cancer is the fragmented bodies of the
Oilien crew. The fragments still act instinctually to occupy hosts, but
cannot impose it's consciousness because it doesn't have any.
- THE "WRAITH":
In the episode SPACE we see some of the most sinister aliens
at work sabotaging the U.S. Space Program. There can be no doubt that we
are dealing with aliens in this episode. The "Wriath" bears a striking
resemblance to the "Face on Mars." I doubt the intention of this episode
was that the "Wraith" was the ghost of Gus Grissom or the other astronauts
who died in the Apollo launch pad fire.
The alien "Wraith" possesses Col. Marcus Aureilius Belt during his
Gemini space walk and acts like a sleeper agent, waiting for critical
moments to act and sabotage the Space Program: the Challanger Shuttle, the
Hubble Space Telescope, and two recent Shuttle launches.
These aliens seems to be connected to Cydonia, the name given to
the region on Mars where the infamous "face on Mars" stares up from the
surface of the red planet. The UFO-conspiracy theories about Cydonia and
NASA's alleged cover up of the proof of life on Mars are too numerous to
mention. There are also a number of pyramid-like rock formations in that
region that have led to speculation by conspiracy theorist Richard
Hoagland that the area is actually a dead alien city. Other connections
to Mars was the mention that the most recent Mars Observer probe had
recently (August 23, 1993) malfunctioned and became lost in space. The
implication in this episode was that the loss of the Mars Observer was due
to more "alien sabotage."
These "Ghost-like" aliens seem dedicated to keeping mankind blind
to what's going on among the stars. They don't want their activities in
our solar system discovered by a bunch of nuclear armed monkey (that's us
folks), but what activities they are particularly covering up remain
unknown. Despite being immaterial, the "Ghost-like" aliens appear very
anthropromorphic (two arms, two legs, one head).
- "LORD KINBOTE"
In the episode JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE, viewers got an
look a cyclops-like "Harrihausen" alien which both Roky Crikenson and USAF
Lt. Jack Schaeffer called Lord Kinbote. This alien appeared to abduct the
terrestrial abductors (Lt. Schaeffer and Maj. Vallee) as well as their
intended targets (Chrissy and Harold). The abduction appeared (at least to
the abducted) to be a pointless exercise in sadism, Maj. Vallee does not
survive the experience and his terrestrial manufacture UFO is taken by the
"real" aliens. At the same time Roky, who witnessed the abduction is
given a "New-Age" message of salvation by Lord Kinbote which involves some
variation of the rather anachronistic "hollow-earth" theory. Of course,
one of the main themes of JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE is that perception is
not necessarily reality. When someone, in this case the government, has the
ability to affect your memory, what can you rely on?
FINAL NOTE: Any alien species capable of crossing interstellar distances
is capable of almost anything. It may be that the Oilien, the Wraith, the
Genderbenders, the Clones and the Shape Shifters are all simply Greys who
have altered their physical forms in order to complete their missions.
