The Alien Art of David Huggins
Some abductees write books and articles, go on the lecture circuit and appear on TV as a way to cope with their experiences (and sometimes to get attention of course) but David Huggins chooses to express himself in the medium of oil painting. I first heard of Huggins in the early-1990s, strangely enough through a notice in Jim Moseley’s Saucer Smear newsletter. As you might expect, Moseley treated the subject in a humorous way, while still respecting some possible reality behind Huggins’ encounters.
Huggins’ paintings run the gamut from pastoral scenes of aliens from childhood in his native Georgia to depictions of a sort of chorus line of female extraterrestrials with whom he says he’s fathered many hybrid children. There is a profile and podcast interview with Huggins available at Jerry Pippin’s site. The interview was conducted by Farah Yurdozu, who also happens to be Huggins’ neighbor.
In August of 1997, Huggins was a guest on the Leeza Gibbons talk show. Before the program, he was invited to take a lie detector test, which apparently came back “inconclusive,” but when the cameras started rolling, the producers decided to report that Huggins had failed the test. By his own choice, that incident ended Huggins’ career in the spotlight.
I choose to believe that Huggins is sincere, however his story appears to most people. The fact that his paintings are so far off the beaten path of what most people consider “art” is a plus.
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Apr 28 2008 
April 29th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I expect he is sincere-but thats no
evidence of the external reality of
his claims. Sadly, when Contactees/
Abductees encounter the Press, the
notion of an internal reality seems
to go by the boards. ” It can’t be
true, so he must be lying!!!”
April 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I agree with you Craig because lies can sound just as sincere as truth, as can delusions, illusions, and hallucinations. While insincerity can be an indicator of a lie, sincerity has never been and never can be an indicator of truth — just ask Richard Nixon.
I have no doubt that Huggins could believe in his self-delusions with all his heart, just like those who believed the smoking gun would be a mushroom cloud if we didn’t invade Iraq. Almost the same exact stupid argument is now being given again for invading Iran. Will people ever learn? Yet here we are, repeating history, as if common logical sense is going extinct.
Put on your thinking caps people, and take a good close look at Huggins. Isn’t he the kind of stud that any race would desire above all others to father their children ? More importantly, it is so obvious he is very intelligent, has a great personality, and is in perfect health…not! What kind of idiot ETs would want to have Huggins sire their offspring?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I don’t know what the truth is behind Huggins’ experiences and I didn’t say that I did. Insulting someone who hasn’t done any harm as far as I can tell is not a habit of mine.
His “internal reality” as Craig says is the part that’s interesting to me–it’s refreshing to me to see paintings rather than another book about the subject. Whether it’s “true” or not was not the point of the article.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Quite right, Greg. The reason such stories arise is no less important than
the stories themselves.
Sage- Running Huggins down does not
increase your stature.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Correction — I did not run Huggins down or insult him. I merely pointed out the fact that he is clearly not prime genetic material, and that point still stands. My stature is unchanged, since I still post anonymously.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
“I merely pointed out the fact that he is clearly not prime genetic material”
Is that a fact now, Sage? I suppose you have closey examined the man’s entire genome to make that assertion, or is that an opinion based solely on observing a single photo?
I don’t know if abductees’ claims of strange entities stealing their ova and sperm are true, but entertaining the possibility for a moment just for pure intellectual entertainment, and also giving the gigantic leap that cross-breeding between species that evolved on two different ecosystems is even possible, how do we know of what an alien species considers desirable genetic traits? They may think that the physical prowess of someone like Schwartzenegger are useless or quaint.
It’s interesting to note that of the two children Albert Einstein had, and the subsequent grand & great-grand children that followed, there wasn’s a single one that inherited the apparent genius of their cellebrated ancester —apparently one of Albert’s sons had a comparable intelligence, but alas he was also diagnosed as an schizophrenic…
May 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Saying Farah is his neighbor is a bit of a stretch. They both live in New Jersey, though. Dave is a good guy and he absolutely believes everything he says about his alleged encounters.
Note that many of his paintings are not literal reproductions of scenarios (even though they look like it) but give the flavor of how he felt and what he says he saw/experienced through the years.
Dave is actually a more forgiving person than I am. He doesn’t care what others think of him–and doesn’t say that by way of defense mechanism–he truly doesn’t care. He “knows what he’s experienced” and so our belief about that is irrelevant to him. Likewise, he doesn’t judge others’ experiences, even the more outlandish-sounding, because he doesn’t know.
I think he’d be the first to admit that he’s no specimen as far as what we consider the ideal human candidate to create hybrids from. But then again these beings aren’t exactly a catch either! Imagine a gray mixed with Stallone or Ahhhhnold’s DNA? THAT would be something. That something? You guessed it: sasquatch.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Jeremy (that’s you right?)
Farah herself told me that Huggins lives in her neighborhood, unless that’s changed in the last year.
Huggins’ attitude is admirable. Most people would expect him to be vitally concerned with what others think of him.