Let's add a few more of the mainstays of Ufology, such as underground bases to protect our elite from harm and possibly continue our race, cattle mutilations designed to harvest DNA for study and replication, Men In Black spreading confusion, disinformation, and threats to keep the masses calm and ignorant, all cloaked in the most powerful degree of secrecy ever experienced by mankind.

Each of these facts by themselves have lent to great story-telling. Put together, though, it makes a weird kind of sense. An extraterrestrial race or group of races, fearing the destruction of a sentient race on Earth, could be working to understand the natives of this planet.

It could also be the other way around and these same extraterrestrials are being opportunistic. It would be easier to dominate a race with an intrinsic fear of or obsession with extermination that voluntarily compels them to become subservient to you, believing you to be saviors. However advanced in some ways these extraterrestrials may be, we're still talking about billions of naturally rebellious, individualistic, self-centered human beings. Forcing so many to fall in line would be comparable to trying to herd billions of cats into a single file line.

Whether or not I believe all of this, you have to admit that it glues everything together in a fascinating way. So is this fodder for a B-movie, or something worth considering?

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