Why do so many people think extraterrestrial aliens are child-sized, anorexic-looking

[raccoon]

pale human beings with big heads, no hair, and bulging bug eyes?

Who's to say they don't look like Chewbacca? Or an octopus? Or something else?

[leftyohiolib]

1. b/c in almost all abductions it is he greys that people deal with moslty - however

there are other types of et's reported by abductees - the tall nordic ones. the ones in lab coats (i forget how theyre described) people have reported reptilian types

[Skip Intro]

2. The Nordic ones are called Peleiadians, I believe.

Supposedly benevolent, unlike the grays and reptilians.

[leftyohiolib]

6. you can read about the pleiadians here: http://arcturi.com/PleiadianAliens.html . as for the greys

i heard people describe them as more of a kind of automoton a biological robot that are directed - the greys do the dirty work

[Patiod]

8. Your picture explains alien "sightings"

Just put pointy ears and whiskers on that, and picture it sitting on your chest, looking for breakfast.

That's my theory on aliens, and I'm sticking with it.

[leftyohiolib]

10. i've always believed that cats were not from here

[LiberalEsto]

3. Because they believe an alien can never be

too rich or too thin.

It costs a lot to travel in a flying saucer, you know.

[hunter]

4. It's the mechs you've got to worry about. They rule this galaxy.

They can create a physical body of any sort, indistinguishable from any biological organism.

If they want to be your college professor, your political leader, your lover, your pet dog, an orca, a tree in your backyard, a houseplant, a fly on the wall, or even a bug eyed alien, there's nothing stopping them.

They are everywhere.

[Taverner]

5. Silly, everyone knows they look like EEEEELVIS!!!!

[In_The_Wind]

7. imo: It makes them seem powerless.

[talkingmime]

9. No clue. I always think "Alien".

[TrogL]

11. Because they are.

Next time I'm talking to one I'll ask if they know.

[olddots]

12. When I was abducted by aliens ( and who hasn't been ?)

they looked just like humans but had some cultural differences .
#1 they all relieved their bladders together as a social thing

#2 they went off to little rooms to eat alone

# 3 they watch TV upside down to fully appreciate it's affect of draining the blood supply to your head .

# 4 they find republicans sexually attractive .

[Spike89]

13. Get real, the aliens have red hair

Otherwise they look just like us. This has all been explained by Tom Robbins in Still Life with Woodpecker Doesn't anyone read any more?

[trof]

14. Well, I've seen one. It looked like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Rx47qrH1GRs

Well I saw the thing coming out of the sky
It had one long horn and one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said oo-wee
It looks like a purple people eater to me
It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
Sure looks good to me

Well, he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said Mr Purple People Eater don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
I wouldn't eat you 'cos you're too tough
It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
It sure looks strange to me

I said Mr Purple People Eater what's your line
He said eating purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock 'n roll band
Well, bless my soul rock 'n roll flying' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed under-growed flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed one-horned it was a people eater
What a sight to see!

Well, he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
He started to rock really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swinging tune
Wop bop a lula wop bam boom
One-eyes one-horned flying people eater
Ooh, it sure looks strange to me!

Well he went on his way and then what do you know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was a blowin' it out and really knockin' them dead
Playing rock 'n roll music through the horn in his head!

[baldguy]

15. It's the hypothesis of neoteny applied to future human evolution, then transferred to ET.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny#Human_evolution

Just more anthropocentrism.

[raccoon]

16. Thanks for the link--I never knew about neoteny. nt