But maybe it wasn’t a crash but a gift from another species. “There’s a belief that something crashed. “Think about an event like Roswell,” McGrillen continues. In helping us, the plan is for us to return the favour when they need our help in 3,000 years’ time. The premise of Arrival (and even Eternals) doesn’t seem that far-fetched to McGrillen, then? In Arrival, the aliens, erm, arrive in order to teach us their language, which alters our linear perception of time to allow us to experience future events as ‘memories’. Is that someone or something helping us out? Giving our development a bump?” The aliens of Arrival communicate. Very recently has alluded to a belief that around 70,000 years ago, human DNA took a little bit of turn. “If you look throughout human history, our evolution and our development, you can see moments where it really does look like we’ve had a leg up. “I subscribe to it, to a degree,” says McGrillen. This is a theory that will be familiar to anyone who’s ever stayed up too late bingeing episodes of Ancient Aliens. The central premise of Eternals is that alien life has always been among us – in fact, the new Marvel joint proposes that the very reason that humanity exists is because aliens bore us. Would it be via the UN or another coalition of governments? These are big questions being asked right now.” Already Among Us? And so if we did manage to spot another planet with a bit of hustle and bustle going on, we’d need to know how to coordinate contact. Potentially we’ll be able to spot exoplanets and different atmospheres, and we’ll see things with clarity that we’ve never seen before. It’s really exciting! By cutting out all light from the sun and cloud cover, it’s going to be able to look into deep, deep, deep space. This December, the James Webb Space Telescope is going directly into space. “The issue of disclosure is something that NASA has discussed in the last few days. “This is a very timely question right now,” he says. He’s certain that protocol exists within the world’s greatest institutions chronicling what the arrival of ET might look like. Like all ufologists, Andy has theories about what first contact might look like. If you need us, we’ll be scooping our pulverised brains off the floor. What if they look at our battleships or submarines as being what life is? What if they consider Earth’s greatest lifeforce to be water?” First Contact What if alien life sees whales or dolphins as the species here they’d need to connect with? They’ve been here longer than we have. And you’ve got to question what alien life might consider the dominant species on earth. “You’ve got the US navy reporting things they can’t explain all the time. “Some of the most credible UFO sightings in recent times are being captured at sea,” he says. But McGrillen sticks to ‘facts’, which do undermine the Hollywood narrative. Are these more likely scenarios, in reality, than a hostile or destructive visitation? Possibly, given the warmongering nature of humans. District 9’s ‘prawns’ are quickly contained in makeshift squalid internment camps and subjugated by humans, while Arrival’s visitors are initially feared and misjudged but shown to be not only friendly but also intent on the protection and betterment of humankind to foster a mutually beneficial relationship. In District 9, and also Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival come to that - in which twelve alien spacecraft travel to different locations on Earth - the aliens aren’t hostile like Eternals’ Deviants, and those in Earth vs the Flying Saucers, and Independence Day. The White House, the Ocean, or a Johannesburg Slum? The arrival of similar lifeforms on earth is something McGrillen thinks about often. Eternals sees the Jack Kirby-created alien race of the same name and the beings they’re protecting humanity from – the Deviants - enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the very first time. With the advent of the MCU’s latest offering, Eternals – which hypothesises what might happen if such a scenario ever transpires – we couldn’t think of a better time to kick some theoretical anal probes around with Andy McGrillen, founder and co-host of That UFO Podcast, the UK’s best and most popular resource for all things extraterrestrial. If aliens landed tomorrow and said, ‘GZKWONK KZAAAAA! KAZZZZZA!” (that’s alien for “We’re running the show now puny earthling!”), would you really be surprised? Enter the Eternals. A global pandemic that shut down all of planet Earth? Been there, done that. When was the last time that anything genuinely surprised you? Reality TV star Donald Trump in the White House? Sure.
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