Both the cuttlefish and UFOs are described as shape-shifters and mimics, they copy what they see, albeit approximately. For example, a Florida witness observed volleyball-sized anomalous lights in her pool palm trees behaving like the fireflies bobbing up and down as they blinked on and off. Sometimes a UFO will attempt to disguise itself as an aircraft, but not exactly. Witnesses have seen black helicopters in the sky missing the rotating blade. Near air force bases and airports, UFOs may appear as "floaters" - an array of lights which seem to be an approaching plane, but which is not symmetrical and which does not have the blinking beacon lights of a registered aircraft. They are imitators like camouflaged sea creatures.

UFOs paralyze their victims with rays, while mollusks use poison. In either case, the victim is dazzled by a light display and immobilized. The cephalopods of the ocean are copper based life forms with colorless blood which turns blue upon exposure to the oxygen in the air. It has been suggested by UFO researcher Mary Sutherland that the blondes who once inhabited ancient Egypt were semi-human aliens who were also copper based entities forbidden to mix with the human race, but that is another subject.

The Bottle Hollow Water Serpents

Concerning the nature of aquatic cryptids, the lake dwelling water monsters, Utah`s Uinta Basin provides a pertinent clue. As with other paranormal animals, there is a question concerning their nature, whether they are of earthly origin - prehistoric survivors perhaps, or whether they exist and visit from another dimension. In a gulch called Bottle Hollow near the Skinwalker Ranch, a reservoir was created in 1970. Soon after, a tribal policeman filed a report about large black water snakes cavorting there in the moonlight, swimming from one end of the lake to the other. The drowning of a woman was blamed on these large dark serpentine water creatures. Her companion reported wrestling underwater with a large black snake and the event was observed by witnesses. The police were satisfied with their testimonies. Bright white UFOs have been seen entering and exiting the lake having changed into a writhing type of form upon exiting the reservoir at night. These snakes are not prehistoric remnants since the body of water was newly created, they are evidence of the nature of such water serpents.

There seems to be a fine line separating the nature of sea dwelling bioluminescent animals and manta-shaped UFOs as well as giant water snakes of questionable origin. Our sky is looking more like an ocean full of colorful and stunning unknown living creatures.

(Next time: Extraterrestrial Blondes and the Lost Ten Tribes in Space.)

All references to Skinwalker Ranch, Uinta, Utah, and Dulce, New Mexico are from the book "Hunt for the Skinwalker" by Kelleher and Knapp.)