The Alien Invasion Survival Handbook: A Defense Manual for the Coming Extraterrestrial Apocalypse (2 page)

THE ALIEN INVASION SURVIVAL HANDBOOK

Late one night in 2006, a heavy-vehicle accident on the outskirts of Pine City, Minnesota, resulted in classified military documents being recovered from roadside wreckage by unnamed members of the public. These sensitive documents revealed the range and extent of government interaction with extraterrestrials over the last century. Here, for the first time, we reveal a small portion of the information contained in those recovered files. The public interest is always best served by full disclosure of the facts.

Contrary to the opinions of many UFO enthusiasts, there is only one species of alien proven to be in regular contact with our planet. These have, in recent years, been popularly known as “grays,” because of their pallid skin color. There is no way of knowing what they call themselves, due to our inability to effectively communicate with them. Government authorities often refer to them as Extraterrestrial Biological Entities (EBEs).

As biological entities, aliens are in many ways similar to humans. They breathe the same air we do, must take sustenance, reproduce, and die. Yet, despite the similarities, there are some very imporant fundamental differences. It is, in fact, these differences that have provided aliens with the biological advantage over us in personal combat. When these differences are fully understood, they provide the key to thwarting an enemy who has hitherto seemed invulnerable.

IDENTIFICATION GUIDE

HEIGHT:
3.5–4 feet

WEIGHT:
70–80 pounds

POSTURE:
bipedal, fully erect stance and gait

SKIN:
light gray to pale blue-gray, hairless

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Humanoid in appearance. Large, forward-facing eyes, adapted for nocturnal lifestyle. Elongated head with large cranial cavity (2,000– 2,500 cc), poor facial mobility and vocal repertoire. Absence of external ears. Small nasal opening. Poorly developed sense of smell. Elongated neck. Long arms relative to leg size; gracile/slender. Four digits; each hand has three fingers and an opposable thumb. Feet have four toes each; all digits are without nails. Sexual monomorphism; no discernable external difference between male and female specimens.

Sense Organs

Sense organs are the parts of the body that receive information from the external environment and convert it into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain. Humans have five basic senses: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Aliens have not only these five, but also a number of unique adaptations that must be studied with due diligence before we can confront our enemies with confidence.

The alien eye and its sight

Alien eyes are similar in structure to our own; they are comprised of a retina, iris, and pupil. However, alien eyes are large and dark, taking up a disproportionate percentage of their faces. Their irises are black, making them indistinguishable from their pupils, which, when fully dilated, are circular. The alien pupil can constrict to thin vertical slits to reduce the amount of damaging daylight entering the eyes. Alien eyes have a translucent nictitating membrane that moves horizontally across the eyeball, giving protection and lubrication. This is often called a “third eyelid” and is common among animals such as birds, lizards, frogs, and some mammals like cats. Humans have a remnant “third eyelid” in the inner corner of the eye. It appears as a small, pink fold of skin and is no longer functional.

Aliens have a thick, reflective membrane behind their retinas, known as the
tapetum lucidum
, which makes their eyes “glow” in the dark in much the same way a dog's or cat's eyes do when you shine a light into them. This special night vision adaptation collects light that has passed through the retina and then reflects it back into the retina, giving the eye a second chance to catch all the available light from dimly lit environments.

All these features make alien eyes specifically adapted to low-light environments, suggesting that they may have evolved on a planet with minimal ambient light. As their eyes are highly sensitive to sunlight, aliens try to restrict their daytime activities as much as possible. It is no coincidence that most alien abductions take place at night.

Studies have shown that aliens have virtually no color vision, they see only in shades of gray. There is also some evidence to suggest that aliens — along with creatures such as certain species of marine life, bats, and birds — perceive ultraviolet (UV) light, which is outside the range of human visibility. As yet, the extent and purpose of this ability remains unknown.

Ears and hearing

It did not take the military scientists of the 1940s long to realize that aliens have only a rudimentary sense of hearing. Early experimentation on captive subjects prior to the Roswell incident (see page 16) revealed little or no response to ambient noises in their surrounding environment. Although, at first, it was thought that they possessed a Zen-like capacity to disassociate from what was happening around them, it was soon discovered that their hearing was impaired to the point of being practically useless.

Aliens also have no external ear structure or pinna. A thin membrane covers the auditory canals, which are situated in slight depressions on either side of the head.

Although they have internal ear structures similar to our own, it is wholly unsuited for our atmospheric air pressure, and, as a result, they are unable to hear many subtle sounds that we take for granted. This is similar, in many ways, to our own partial loss of hearing if we quickly ascend or descend a mountain. What hearing aliens do have tends to be at the high end of the scale, which would make normal human speech almost inaudible to them. There has been no evidence to suggest that they can read lips, but it is best to not take any chances.

THE ALIEN INVASION SURVIVAL HANDBOOK

Some scientists have suggested that, even under the right atmospheric conditions, their auditory system is nothing more than an evolutionary relic. Having developed a range of other “super senses,” such as electrogenesis and electroreception (see pages 19–23), that allow them to efficiently communicate, any air-based auditory system has been rendered obsolete.

Unauthorized research carried out on a U.S. military base in Guam in 1982 revealed that aliens do recoil from very loud sounds, and they display some degree of agitation when subjected to prolonged human screaming. It was unclear from the available document abstract whether these reactions in any way related to their hearing ability.

Evidence from documents smuggled out of the former Soviet Union during the 1970s indicated that some captured alien specimens have been found fitted with electronic devices that may compensate for their hearing deficiency. Attempts were made to locate scientists associated with these findings after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, but both they and their families had disappeared.

The integumentary and nervous systems and touch

With an ambient body temperature lower than humans, alien skin is cool to the touch, more like a reptile than a mammal. It is hairless, smooth, and elastic — similar to dolphin flesh in texture. While humans shed their skin continually in a relatively unobtrusive process — with more than one million skin cells shed every hour — aliens shed their entire skin as a single piece, once every four to six weeks. This lizard-like process takes less than an hour and leaves behind a hollow, transparent sheath that some researchers have dubbed “alien suits.” Their new skin has a higher luster and is more sensitive to stimuli for a week or so after molting.