Alien Raj

C. Scott Littleton is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, at the Occidental College in Los Angeles.

http://faculty.oxy.edu/yokatta/

Scott is currently researching the famous “Battle of Los Angeles,” in which a mysterious object flew across the L.A. Basin and northern Orange County in the small hours of February 25, 1942, drawing almost 2,000 rounds of antiaircraft fire, none of which managed to hit it, even though shells appear to burst right next to the silvery, bug-like object (above, looking like an early Adamski ship) that was illuminated by searchlights as well as explosions.  Scott himself was an eye witness.  He lived at the time in Hermosa Beach, right on the Strand.  He and his late mother came out of their makeshift cellar bomb shelter and watched the object follow the coastline south and disappear over the Palos Verdes Peninsula.  No definitive “official” explanation has ever surfaced, and, like a great many others ufologists, Scotty is now firmly convinced that it was an alien craft, that is, a UFO, although in those days the label had yet to be coined. Bruce Macabbee has examined the scatter pattern of the searchlight beams, and estimates that the object must have been at least 800 feet in diameter!

This must rank as one of the largest mass sighting ever recorded, at least until the Mexico City sightings in the late ’90s.

 Scott also has some thought on a possible new Roswell witness. He writes:

“In the spring of 2002, toward the end of one the last classes I taught before I retired, one of my students, a graduating Oxy Senior named Mia Maikinkoff came to my office and asked if she could write her paper on UFOs (it was a class in comparative mythology & folklore).  When I asked her why she chose this topic, she replied in a calm voice that her late father, at the time a young Air Force intelligence officer, had helped recover six bodies!  As you can imagine, I was floored!  When Mia gave her oral presentation, Don & Vicki Ecker sat in, and later that afternoon we interviewed her at length.  She was quite open about it, although she did say that we were the first people outside of her family to whom she’d mentioned her father’s involvement in the recovery.   Her father, who died in the early 90s, had retired as a bird colonel, and remained involved with bodies throughout his career, or so she said.  Apparently, they’re still on ice at Eglin AFB in Florida, which makes sense in light of the persistent rumor that in the early ‘70s Nixon took comedian Jackie Gleason, a major UFO buff, to see some alien bodies somewhere in Florida.  They were good friends, and Gleason had a place near the Summer White House in Key Biscayne.   Unfortunately, I’ve lost touch with Mia since she graduated.  And yes, I told Stan Freidman about this. He’s discovered her father’s name in one of his data banks, but can’t specifically connect him with Roswell.   I’ve promised to alert him immediately if Mia resurfaces.  My hunch is that she’s had second thoughts about telling us the story and doesn’t want to be found.   Will let you know as well if I can find her. Her mother lived in Oregon at the time, but I’ve drawn a blank as far as her address & phone number are concerned.  Interesting, no? “

The Introduction below is from Sott’s work in progress entitled Alien Raj. This book is an anthropologist’s view of the UFO phenomenon. It is good to see a fine academic mind of many years experience take such a positive and well-informed view.

Arguably, the so-called “British Raj,” which ruled the Indian subcontinent for almost two hundred years, from the mid-eighteenth century to 1947, is the epitome of a terrestrial colonial regime.  From Lord Robert Clive (1725-1774) and Warren Hastings (1732-1818) to Lord George Curzon (1859-1925) and Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979), the last British viceroy, the “Raj” controlled most facets of Indian life, in some cases directly and in others indirectly through native rulers.[1]  It exploited India’s resources and labor for the benefit of Britain, and, at the same time, was the matrix in which a hybrid class emerged, the Anglo-Indians, who came to occupy an ambiguous but important niche in the colonial hierarchy.

            This book is concerned with a broadly analogous, albeit infinitely vaster extraterrestrial colonial regime:  what I have come to call, for lack of a better label, the “Alien Raj,” which, I suspect, has exercised clandestine hegemony over this planet (and who knows how many other planets?) for at least the last 13,000-odd years.

I realize that, to a great many readers, the foregoing thesis may seem far-fetched, or, indeed, utterly absurd.  Yet the body of evidence on which it is based is, I submit, extremely compelling, especially when looked at in its entirety.  So I urge you to suspend disbelief until you’ve had a chance to examine it. 

Coming Out of the UFO Closet.  Let me emphasize at the outset that I'm an anthropologist, not a professional "ufologist."  I've never personally investigated a UFO sighting, let alone a crop circle, cattle mutilation, or abductee case.  Nor, to the best of my conscious knowledge, am I what is sometimes called an "experiencer."  To be sure, on at least four occasions I have observed objects in the sky that didn't fit any categories I'm familiar with.[2]  But I've never had a significant "missing time" episode or any other indication that I've ever been abducted by aliens.  Moreover, as a research scholar, I’ve heretofore focused on the comparative study of mythology and folklore.[3]  For example, in collaboration with my long-time colleague Linda A. Malcor, I’ve developed a radically new interpretation of the origin and distribution of the legends of King Arthur;[4] indeed, the popular 2004 film “King Arthur” was in fair measure based on Linda’s and my interpretation of these legends.  I’m also considered something of an expert on Japanese religion and culture, both ancient and modern, and especially the indigenous Japanese religion known as Shinto.[5]

However, for the better part of the last half-century I've watched the serious UFO literature—including works by dedicated investigators such as Richard M. Dolan, Don Ecker, Raymond Fowler, Stanton M. Friedman, Timothy Good, Budd Hopkins, the late J. Allen Hynek, David Jacobs, Bruce Maccabee, John Mack, Jim Marrs, Linda Moulton Howe, Jenny Randles, the late Leonard Stringfield, and Jacques Valleé, to mention but a few major contributors—grow into an impressive body of data and theory.  It is a literature that can no longer be ignored by responsible social scientists, including cultural anthropologists like myself.  For this reason, as well as several others shortly to be discussed, I have finally decided to "come out of the closet," as it were, and assert my belief that the UFO phenomenon is patently real—despite the carefully orchestrated attempts by our own and other governments to deny its existence, and the skeptics and debunkers who do their best to make persons who take the phenomenon seriously appear ridiculous.

Indeed, the implications of the UFO phenomenon for anthropologists—or, indeed, for anyone who would make rational sense out of the human condition—are obviously profound.  If Dolan and the rest are correct, for the last ten millennia or so, we human beings (along with other terrestrial species) have been the genetically exploited "lab rats" of one or more extraterrestrial civilizations whose technological sophistication bears out the eminent British science fiction   author Sir Arthur C. Clarke's famous assertion that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 

An Overview of the “Alien Raj.”  As I just indicated, I strongly suspect that what was to become the “Alien Raj” first made its presence felt shortly before the end of the last Ice Age, that is, around 13-15,000 years ago.[6]   The earliest alien explorers probably realized that this planet was about to undergo a major climatic transformation, one that would almost certainly have a profound impact on the indigenous inhabitants.  As the indigenous inhabitants (our biologically modern, Cro-Magnon ancestors) were clearly sentient creatures who vaguely resembled them—that is, although they were much more robust, they walked upright and had large brains, two eyes, two lower limbs, and two upper limbs culminating in prehensile hands that could manipulate objects with dexterity—the aliens decided to establish bases here and observe the course of human evolution as the climate warmed up.  Indeed, indirect evidence of their presence can perhaps be seen on Late Upper Paleolithic cave walls in what is now Southwestern France and Northern Spain, on which “lenticular,” that is, saucer-shaped objects not all that dissimilar from the most frequently observed contemporary UFOs, begin to be depicted ca. 12,000 B.P.,[7] and in some petroglyphs, or rock art, dating from approximately the same period, which includes what appear to be large-eyed, helmeted bipeds that could be attempts to portray the magical creatures from beyond the stars 

            Several millennia later we find humanoid figures in ancient Egyptian art that curiously resemble the classic “Gray aliens” that have become so familiar in contemporary popular culture.[8]

At first, the aliens’ agenda appears to have been primarily scientific, and they probably concentrated most of their attention on planetary surveys.  But it wasn’t long before these “visitors,” as Whitley Strieber calls their modern counterparts,[9] began to exploit the planet’s resources, including our DNA.  Thus there emerged the interstellar colonial regime I have called the “Alien Raj.”   

Obviously, the “Alien Raj” does not hold anything equivalent to the ostentatious durbars so beloved of the old British Raj, such as the famous one held in 1902 in New Delhi by Lord Curzon to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII, but it does appear to “recruit” vast numbers of humans into an “alien army” composed of persons who have been implanted with tracking devices, just as the “British Raj” recruited vast numbers of Indians as servants and to serve in the British Indian Army. And, as already indicated, it also appears to have engineered the development of a hybrid race that is in some measure more “alien” than human in its worldview, just as the Anglo-Indians tended to identify with the “alien” culture imported by their colonial masters rather than their indigenous Indian roots.  (Indeed, to the average 19th century Indian peasant, the British were in a great many respects as “alien” as the Grays are to a contemporary American—or any other product of a post-industrial society, for that matter—who has had the “pleasure” of  being one of their “guests” abroad a hovering UFO!)

At the same time, as was the case in British India, where the Raj built railroads, maintained internal peace, and, in its latter years, established medical “missions” and promoted rudimentary public health standards, there seems to be a persisting altruistic dimension to the “Alien Raj’s” agenda.  Evidence of this dimension can be seen in the consistent accounts by abductees of their captors’ attempts to warn them of impending environmental .and other planetary crises.  And as we‘ll see in Chapter [X], it would appear that on several occasions over the millennia individual aliens, dissatisfied with the “Raj’s” colonial policies, have attempted to transfer their highly sophisticated technology to human communities, thus inspiring the mythologies surrounding Prometheus, Lucifer, and the Mesoamerican culture-bearer deity Quétzalcoatl (or Kukulkán), the “Feathered Serpent.”[10]   In short, at least in certain alien quarters, we human beings soon appear to have become what might be called, with apologies to Rudyard Kipling, “The Gray Alien’s Burden.”

Plan of Attack.  Although I will from time to time make reference to a number of landmark UFO cases and abduction episodes, such as those involving Antonio Villas-Boas (Brazil, 1957), Betty and Barney Hill (New Hampshire, 1961), Herb Schirmer (Nebraska, 1967), and Betty Andreasson-Luca (Massachusetts, 1967),[11] this book is not simply another UFO case-book.  Rather, it surveys—and assesses—the major theories that have been advanced by serious students of the UFO phenomenon—that is, the “Alien Raj”—in all its myriad aspects, as well as the evidence upon which those theories are based.  It attempts to arrive at an overall anthropological model, not only of the aliens themselves and especially their "colonial" agenda (or agendas) as far as this planet is concerned, including their exploitation of our genetic resources (human ova, semen, and DNA itself), but also of our media-driven culture of denial when it comes to this matter.  Moreover, in attempting to build models of both the alien colonial agenda and the extent to which is (or is not) reflected in our overt culture, I will be forced to engage in what contemporary anthropologists call “studying up.”  That is, unlike the traditional posture of the ethnographer who studies a tribal or peasant society from the “top down,” as it were, in order to make sense out of the “Alien Raj,” mine must necessarily be that of the “native” who is looking “up” at the powerful (and often external) hegemonic forces and agencies that control his destiny and/or are attempting to shape his perceptions of these phenomena.   A hypothetical analogy would be an Indian scholar circa 1900 attempting to build an objective model of the nature and purpose of the British Raj.[12]

In this connection, I will also explore the strong possibility, often suggested by serious UFO researchers, that some human groups, both within and beyond our own and other governments, have been in sustained contact with one or more alien races for at least the last half-century and perhaps a good deal longer in the case of certain pre-modern secret societies and cults.   Indeed, this may explain the persistence of such shadowy groups as the Priory of Zion, recently made famous by Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code,[13] and the elusive Illuminati, about which so much ink has been spilled in recent years.[14]

I will conclude by looking at some of the ways that have been suggested in which we, as a species, can come to grips with the “Alien Raj’s” agenda, with or without the support of our respective governments, religious institutions, legal systems, etc.  This will also involve an assessment of the possible results of sudden disclosure on the part of either our own governments, the UN, or the aliens themselves, and will draw upon what we anthropologists have learned from analogous situations in the immediate past, such as the emergence of “nativistic movements” like the so-called “Ghost Dance” that twice swept across the Western United States in the late 19^th century in the wake of intense—and, of course, highly unequal—contact between the indigenous Native-American peoples and White settlers, the transcontinental railroad, etc., and the “Cargo Cults” that emerged in Papua-New Guinea in the first half of the 20^th century as a result of contacts with Europeans, as well as from the impact of World War II.[15] Could we expect to see a series of planet-wide “nativistic movements” that would dwarf the ones just noted?   And could such disruptive episodes be avoided?

I should emphasize that most of what follows will necessarily be speculative.  As I’ve indicated, I do not have in hand anything approaching a “smoking gun”—that is, “hard” evidence that would permit me to make unequivocal statements about the nature and purpose of the “Alien Raj” (that one or more human governments may in fact harbor such evidence is a matter we’ll shortly consider).   Nevertheless, I do promise to assess the compelling information I have been able to gather as objectively and as judiciously as possible, drawing liberally upon my discipline’s conceptual arsenal, as well as other relevant theoretical frameworks.   Moreover, although my assessment of the UFO phenomenon will frequently be couched in a vocabulary that reflects what is sometimes called the paranormal—ESP, precognition, teleportation, psychokinesis, remote viewing, interdimensionality, etc.—it will studiously avoid framing this extremely complex, multifaceted phenomenon in terms of the traditional magico-religious metaphors and superstitious folk beliefs our pre-modern ancestors constructed to explain it, and in which some "New-Age" UFO gurus are still mired, despite their protestations to the contrary.  Indeed, these metaphors and folk beliefs, objectively considered, will form an important part of my data-set.  For I firmly believe that only when we disabuse ourselves of the notion that our extraterrestrial "visitors" exist on some higher "spiritual plane" than ourselves can we begin to make rational sense out of a phenomenon that continues to have such a profound, albeit clandestine impact on the existence of our species.

Finally, in this connection we need to assess what has come to be called the “Fermi Paradox.”  In 1950, in the course of a casual luncheon conversation with his colleagues, the late Italian physics icon and Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi observed that any alien civilization with even a modest degree of sophisticated technology would long since have colonized the entire galaxy.  As they’re apparently not here, he reasoned that the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations was highly unlikely.[16]     

But there was a fatal flaw in Fermi’s reasoning.  Like H.G. Wells in The War of the Worlds, which Orson Wells so famously dramatized on the radio in 1938, the Italian scientist assumed that, like their terrestrial counterparts, any alien imperialists would have made their presence patently obvious from the moment they arrived here.  As we’ll see, however, the Alien Raj’s agenda has been far more devious and clandestine.  Just because its agents haven’t landed on the Whitehouse lawn or in front of Buckingham Palace doesn’t mean it that it’s not here, or that it hasn’t been here for millennia.  The evidence for the alien presence, when carefully considered, is overwhelming.

Thus, part of what Fermi suggested was correct:  this corner of the Milky Way Galaxy, at least, has in fact long since been colonized by extraterrestrial imperialists.  The difference is that these imperialists have chosen to remain, for the most part, in the shadows, as it were, and to bear “The Gray Alien’s burden” in such a way that it totally eluded Fermi’s “radar.”

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