What do aliens look like?

How Is the Claim That Extraterrestrials Influence Our World Different from Conspiracy Theories About “Lizard People”?

More than two decades ago, Chapa addressed a question that continues to resurface: If extraterrestrials are involved in human affairs, how is that claim any different from fringe conspiracy theories — like those involving reptilian overlords, beloved by the more eccentric son of certain Israeli politician?

Chapa was clear. In his view, the origins of most of these popular conspiracies are political in nature. That is, they tend to arise from — or be deliberately fueled by — circles with vested political interests. The politicians who are in any way supported, influenced, or observed by non-human intelligences will never openly admit to it. In fact, they may not be allowed to. Disclosure could endanger not only their positions but their lives.

As a result, when individuals in political environments begin to speak publicly about extraterrestrial involvement, they usually fall into one of two categories:

1. They have no real knowledge, and are merely speculating or posturing.

2. They know enough to be dangerous, and so they choose to distort the subject — either to deflect attention or to discredit the entire idea — by steering it toward the absurd. Hence, outlandish imagery: secret underground bases, blood rituals, and, of course, humanoid reptiles.

Chapa insisted, to anyone who asked, that in all his encounters with extraterrestrial beings, he never once met a species resembling these infamous "lizard people." Nor did they look like the classic alien caricatures seen in films and pop culture.

So — what do they look like?

Chapa gave a few possible answers over the years, but always with a warning: our ability to perceive them is deeply limited. First, due to what he called “the opacity/darkness of space” — a kind of perceptual interference or dimensional veil.(something I tried to convey in describing the encounter with 'Blue', Chapa's outer friend, in the alternate history). Second, because of “the absence of a fixed knower” — the idea that human consciousness itself is too unstable, too shaped by expectation, to apprehend them directly or consistently.

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And yet, he did offer one particularly striking possibility: they might appear to us exactly as we appear to one another.

That is, if they choose to be seen that way. Their technology, he claimed, allows them to present themselves in forms that our minds can accept. If they decide to appear as fully human — indistinguishable from anyone on the street — that’s precisely how they’ll be perceived.

As for me, I believe I may have already encountered a few.

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