Whether we're talking about books written by alleged abductees, series like the marvellous X-Files , spectacular films, from 2001 to Independence Day , or simple speculation, it does take one's mind off one's problems. It is an exhaustive history of unidentified flying objects, from an 1880 sighting in New Mexico to the post-Sputnik spate of abductions. The manifestations appear to accord with our expectations - from airships with propellers at the turn of the century to spacemen who looked like RAF pilots seen through a haze after the war. We saw Nordics in Close Encounters of the Third Kind . A Grey, on the other hand, is a short, grey-skinned, horrible little creature with a big head and huge black eyes.
Greys are the kidnappers, who beam innocent humans up to their hovering spaceships for vivisection.
Once, all aliens were Nordics. Now, most are Greys. Or maybe not. In a world where matter and antimatter meet, where quarks spin and all principles are uncertain, perhaps the Nordics, the Greys and their spaceships exist in another dimension. Randles has written a book suggesting they're time travellers - which means these awful creatures are us.