The concept of the ufo shape
The "flying saucer" shape was popularized by the Kenneth Arnold sighting on June 24, 1947. Before that, supposed alien spacecraft were very rarely described with anything like that shape. In the weeks after that extremely highly publicized sighting, hundreds of people claimed to see that exact shape, and it remained the most famous UFO shape for a couple generations and the shape used in all the most famous UFO photo hoaxes. Amusingly, now that drones seem to account for most UFO sightings and none of the drones are saucer-shaped, suddenly flying saucers have fallen out of favor.
Because, you know, a saucer is actually a really dumb and inefficient shape for a flying craft for numerous reasons.
similar alien likenesses have definately predated 1960.
Name any not from fiction. Grays were occasional in fiction before 1960, but they usually didn't even represent aliens. They never showed up in "true" stories until the 1960s.
This is every reference to grays from the wikipedia article:
1891: Novel
Meda: A Tale of the Future. Purely fictional.
1893: Novel
A Man of the Year Million. Purely fictional and depicting an advanced human, not an alien.
1895: Novel
The Time Machine. Purely fictional and depicting an advanced human, not an alien.
1917: Aleister Crowley's "Lam", a drug-fueled séance vision, not an alien.
1933: Novel
The Unknown Danger. Purely fictional.
1962: Twilight Zone TV episode "Hocus Pocus and Frisby". Purely fictional.
1964: Outer Limits TV Episode "The Bellero Shield". Purely fictional.
That's SEVEN uses of gray aliens with big bald heads and big eyes in fiction before the first use in "real life". It's obvious why the motif was picked - when we try to imagine what an alien would look like, we trend towards the most extreme forms of humans we know - copying features of infants, or copying features of old people. The baldness, the oversized heads, the oversized eyes, the small mouths and noses, the small frail bodies, those are all just exaggerated versions of people at the very beginning or the very end of life. It's a natural way for fiction to go. Took 70 years of fiction before it broke into "abduction stories."
Name one example of a "real life" alien matching the grays that come before all those fictional representations. You won't.
You are agressively anti this whole topic lol
Especially when the majority are atleast admitting there are some interesting developments that arent easily explainable. Yet we are also cool with definitive proof of things being faked. But your complete one sided lack of nuance towards it is suspicious, especially when you're also a religious guy. Meaning you have a vested interested in this topic not being true.
This is the silliest ad hominem. I believe in alien life and always have. None of my religious beliefs have any problem with aliens at all. I just think there's zero evidence they've visited us.
I counter made-up alien stories with the same energy and for the same reason I counter made-up 9/11 crap, Hebrew Israelites, Flat Earthers, QANON, mass shooting "false flag" claims, and all the other conspiracy theories on here. Because they're not true. If you've ever seen my posting history, you'll know I bring that same energy to all my debunking of false narratives