Weird Alien-Like Thing Photographed
Just in from Mac Tonnies and The Anomalist is a link to a strange picture posted on the UFOdata site. It appears to be some sort of figure running in the forest. The anonymous (of course) sender writes that she didn’t notice the white humanoid thing until after she got home and downloaded the picture. It was taken with a cel-phone camera. There are a lot of bitmapp-y things around the figure, which brings up authenticity issues. As Mac comments, it’s probably a hoax, but why is it so ridiculously unlike the little grey critters that we have all come to love and expect?
There are several possibilities:
1) The person perpetrating a hoax may be stupid.
2) They may not be very good at Photoshop.
3) Perhaps they’re crazy like a fox and realize that the non-scheduled look of the creature might make it all the more “real” to non-dogmatic eyes.
4) It’s real and shows us once again that non-human entities don’t always look like we want them to.
5) It’s an example of “spirit” photography and shows some sort of elemental being.
6) It’s a tulpa-like entity that the photographer (or someone else) projected onto the scene for the split-second that the picture was taken.
I’m sure there are more theories, but I can’t think of any right now. The incident recalls the Solway Firth photo taken in England in 1964. According to the photographer, he did not see the “spaceman” in the background when the picture was taken. He also reported strange Men In Black-type experiences after the picture was made public.
If the anonymous woman who took the cel-phone photo starts to receive mysterious visitors, we’ll have to believe her on that one too, unless third-party investigators can track her down.
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Mar 13 2007 
March 13th, 2007 at 3:23 am
One other possibility I’d imagine is that it’s a log, fence post or something similar which just happens to look humanoidish. What I’m wondering though is, what was the woman taking a photo of if she didn’t see it until after the fact - doesn’t look to be too many features worth capturing in that area.
Not really even worth taking the time to think about though is it…
;)
Kind regards,
Greg
March 13th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Gregg,
It might just be one of your tulpas and the reason I say that is this: it looks like one of the dancers from the Cliff Dwellings Petroglyphs. Strong social imagery there.
But then again this could have been taken at the garden of an art museum that specializes in southwestern contemporary art.
BTW the Cumberland Space Man photo and story has always given me the heebie jeebies. Just one of those stories I guess.
Jess
March 13th, 2007 at 5:19 am
I think it’s some kind of elemental being, but, the picture just looks so wierd. Almost like it was drawn or something. I don’t think this lady made this as a hoax, but it’s still pretty weird.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:35 am
that is fake.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Greg,
I think it is worth the time to think about, for many reasons-from cultural relevance to laughter.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Jess,
The resemblance to Kokopelli is something I wanted to mention, but forgot. Perhaps that’s what materialized, or what the hoaxer thought would be a good image to impose on the scene.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Smylex,
I try to limit my use of the word “is” as a definitive when talking and writing about the UFO subject, but as you say, it’s most likely a hoax.
March 13th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Fake, fake, fake…
Sorry, Greg, but stuff like this is why almost no-one in science, the media or academia takes the subject seriously. An anonymous photo is worthless. Absolutely worthless.
Especially when it looks as ridiculous as this.
Paul
March 13th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Could that swept back head thing actually be a white-colored alien comb-over blowing in the wind?
No, probably not.
March 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Paul
You may be right; but, you may be wrong. Eventhough; the pic is not that clear it looks like the being was caught by surprise. It’s legs and arms are not of a human kind and those eyes. Sure not clear, this pic even if fake it gives me the hebbies. It’s more realistic then most of the unclear sasquatch photos. She has my vote and I wouldn’t blame her wanting to be anonymous.
March 13th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
My guess Greg is #5 - then #6 - then #4.
Indeed, I like your wordage ‘elemental being’.
Frankly, I don’t know about you, but I’ve grown tired of the endless quips of folks who say `fake’ at every chance - is their world so normal that NOTHING out of the normal has EVER happened. If so, sorry — that is not the case for myself.
March 13th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Greg, when I first inadvertently stumbled on this image the other day I thought it was supposed to be an illustration from a kid’s book or something - it’s got that peculiar synthesis of visual comedy and narrative earnestness that all good kids’ book art has, each picture a story unto itself, this one urging you to laugh at the figure’s absurd ungainliness while at the same time demanding you wonder just what it is that’s making the green guy bustle along so frantically like that…?
When I realized it was supposed to be a real figure in a real photo I still felt it looked much more like a kid’s book painting - possibly simply because I’m a painter myself - but I’m willing to entertain the possibility if it can’t be traced to some book somewhere, or isn’t subsequently exposed as a definite hoax, it might just possibly be a manifestation of some critter along the lines of The Green Man/Mescalito.
p.s.
To Nick:
just because you’re a RED fern, that doesn’t give you the right to go all GREENist on the poor guy!
Maybe when you’re finally a vegetation deity/mushroom god that’s older than History itself you’ll need a comb-over too!
And you will, you know, Nick, it’s inevitable in your case, because not only is it a fully established scientific fact you’re a red FERN, but it’s also utterly indisputable you’re a FUN GUY, too - in which case you’re already two stages of the way along!
p.p.s.
to DingoDog99:
I reckon the spaceman in the pic is actually an early action figure type doll - it’s not just the classic slightly-too-small-head-atop-an-oversized-barrel-shaped-chest look, but the appearance of its left arm that nails it for me: not only has it got that standard awkward-looking bend in its ‘fully poseable’ elbow, but where the arm goes into the shoulder socket it tapers to a distinctly unnatural-looking narrowness that remains very characteristic of such action figures to this day.
But in case you think that means I’m dismissing the heebie jeebies the pic gives you, let me be clear - I’m not!
Ask yourself why so many horror films trade on dolls as figures of fear?
Ask yourself why the doll-like alien greys are usually described as so much smaller than us?
Ask yourself why the likes of elves and fairies are often referred to as the little people or the wee folk?
Ask yourself why so many adults view children as inherently sinister, (eg. The Midwich Cuckoos)?
Ask yourself if you can remember far back enough to recall a time when the scale of the world was so much different than it is for you now, a time when even slightly older children looked enormous, and adults looked like sky-high giants?
Finally ask yourself why my fourteen year old’s been capable of growing up watching all manner of horror films, completely unphased yet, since its first showing, the scenes in The Simpsons’ episode where Mr. Burns’s mistaken for an alien’ve always spooked the living crap out of him?
March 13th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Greg,
It all depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.
March 14th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Alan,
I am cursing you, you have just hit upon my fears of all things that adults intend to be non threatening and that children find terrifying.
I fear sock puppets and clowns, and who can blame me? . . .and just as I set down to respond to you the phone rings and no-one is there except a faint electronic babble of some machine that communicates only in analogue. But do I hear sinister laughter as well?
Thanks a lot ALAN! It’s going to be a long night in the Ops Center tonight.
May you say ‘hastur’ when the stars are right.
Jess
March 14th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Looks like something either Photoshopped or done with Adobe Illustrator to me. Where was Doc Shiels
when this anonymous anomaly was submitted? Does have a bit of a “Gumby”-style claymation look to it and the swept-back big “whatever” at the back of the head echos the described and drawn ears of the Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky, aliens.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Alan
Me need a comb-over? LOL, that’s a good one! There isn’t enough on my head *now* for a comb-over, never mind when I’m an old and feeble “mushroom god”!! I still think that alien has a crappy comb-over though. Has ET got no taste at all?
March 14th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Are you sure it isn’t Abe Sapien from Hellboy?
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0167190/R294-47o.jpg
March 14th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Paul wrote:
“Sorry, Greg, but stuff like this is why almost no-one in science, the media or academia takes the subject seriously. An anonymous photo is worthless. Absolutely worthless.”
Have to agree completely with Paul. While I can’t say anything about whether it is fake, a misattribution, or genuine, the photo alone offers nothing. There is no witness (let alone group witness) as the photographer said she didn’t see anything, there is no trace evidence. Just a weird looking maybe-humanoidish object/figure with a cartoony look about it, on a blurry photo from a mobile phone. Hence my original point “not really even worth taking the time to think about”. And as Paul said, it’s the kind of thing that makes ufology (and associated fields of the paranormal) look stupid to outsiders.
Kind regards,
Greg
March 16th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Hi Greg
Have you checked your email this week? The Mirage Men need to speak to you…
Perhaps we can skype?
Cheerio
Mark
March 16th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Adam,
“Is” can be a tricky term, as elucidated by Saint Bob Wilson.
March 16th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Paul and Greg,
I know it’s likely a fake, but the discussion about it is what interests me, and unless someone is pushing their belief system on me, I’m willing to talk about nearly anything. The posts on kokopelli/ mescalito et. al. bring up issues I find educational and enjoyable. I really don’t care in this case if it makes “ufology look bad.” No one outside of our interest group is going to care about this one anyway.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
“No one outside of our interest group is going to care about this one anyway.”
You got it, bubba! Dead on the money. To all the “outsiders’ this will neither help nor hinder. They couldn’t care less, no matter what.