Do Our ETs Come from “The Pleiades”?

I find talk of UFOs fascinating. Sometimes it's laughable. Sometimes it's quite interesting. Mostly I get my information from Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, the late-night radio talk show host.

I mention this because George is often my traveling companion throughout the night during my newspaper run. (See Your Quarter's Worth for an explanation.) UFOs, specifically flying saucer types, are often the subject for the 3-hour nightly discussion.

Typically, UFOs are said, or thought, to come from other star systems, with motherships or bases on nearby planets or even the back side of the moon. “The Pleiades” star cluster is often mentioned by guests and callers alike as the home for our supposed visitors from outer space.

I have a problem with this particular explanation. First of all, how on earth (pardon the pun) would anyone from 380-440 or more light years away even know we were here, let alone want to visit us?

Of course, there are many who insist aliens from these and other locations “seeded” life here on earth and were, in some way, our ancestors, and that they are simply here to check on their previous work, although that work would have taken place many millennia ago, even in their time.

Even if this were so, why would these aliens leave their own star systems to “fly” 380-440 light years away to start a new civilization? It would seem much easier to “seed” folks in their own star systems. That they would come all the way here to do so seems a bit ludicrous to me.

Then there is a second point: Just because a few stars appear clustered close together from the vantage point of earth does not mean they have anything to do with one another. They may not even be that close to each other. They are certainly not a family of stars, with everyone therein were somehow related to one another.

Let's look at it in another way. Suppose there was a civilization on one of the planets orbiting one of the stars in “The Pleiades”. Supposing some friends looked up in their dark azure night sky and saw a cluster of stars, one of which was our dear old sol and another being what we call Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor at “only” 4.22 light years away.

One might say to the other: “Oh, look, there's “The Solar Babies” star cluster. They say that's where our flying saucers and aliens come from.”

Yet, what do we have to do with Alpha Centauri, let alone the other stars in our “cluster”, looking from their vantage point? Yet, are we not “The Solar Babies” star cluster to them? Do we not appear as one “system” or family of stars to them?

The same may be asked about “The Pleiades” star cluster: What do these stars, so far from each other, have to do with one another? Can we really say they have anything to do with each other, any more than the stars in “The Star Babies” cluster?

Can we really say that our visiting aliens and flying saucers come from “The Pleiades” star cluster? Can we say their aliens and flying saucers come from “The Solar Babies” star cluster? I think the answer to that, in both cases, is a resounding “No!” And for the same reason: At least to me, it is totally insane to think a civilization would “fly” 380-440 light years away to “seed” a small unknown planet when it would be so much easier to do so in their own star system, say something akin to our own Mars.

The idea of “The Pleiades” being the source of “life on earth as we know it”, or the home of visiting aliens and flying saucers, in my opinion, is a New Age idea and not based in any known fact, at least that I know of, or even of any sound reasoning and understanding.

Here's another way to look at the situation: If I were an alien from another star system, having come 380-440 light years away, who would be the most likely person I would want to contact, if I were going to make myself known?

Would I contact someone with a great deal of influence, say the President behind the President of the United States, Dick Cheney? Or would I want to show myself to John or Jane Doe of Boot Lick, Arkansas? (No offense to anyone living in any place similar in name, and there are a number of such places in rural America, particularly in the South. I have ancestors from such places.)

Yet, I cannot count the number of plain, ordinary people who have supposedly been contacted by aliens, some with messages and others with unknown intentions through abductions. The entire situation doesn't make any sense to me.

I have no doubt these honest people have been contacted by someone and experienced something, but I do not believe they have been contacted by aliens from “The Pleiades” or any other place off earth. (Abductions are a subject for another discussion, as are who or what are these supposed visitors from outer space.)

Of course, many people are just as convinced that our aliens and flying saucers come from “The Pleiades” or some other star system as I am convinced they do not. That's what makes America such a great place: We can still express our differing opinions, at least, as long as we don't rock any political boats. And that's an entirely different blog.

Happy UFOing.