Why is the Stereotypical Image of Aliens Green or Grey Bald Humanoids?

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Flying saucers, little green men, and anal probes have been a staple of our perception of aliens for as long as most of us have been alive. The reasoning behind the latter is a obvious- human scientists also can and do learn a lot about an animal by their feces- but where did the idea of short grey or green aliens actually come from in the first place?
As to little green men, the concept of green beings has been around for centuries, from Goblins to perhaps one of the most famous cases- the green children of Woolpit. For those not familiar, these were two children that seemed to have lived during the 12th century in England. When they were discovered in the fields, the little boy and the girl had green-tinged skin, wore strange clothes, spoke an unfamiliar language, and both refused to eat regular food for some time, apparently unfamiliar with it. If you’re interested in who they were, why their skin was green, and where they came from, check out our article here.
Fast-forwarding to the late 19th century, we have the first known instance of the term “little green men” being used to describe aliens, found in the Green Boy From Hurrah published in the Atlanta Constitution in 1899. In it, the story describes a short green skinned alien from- you guessed it- the planet Hurrah.
Much more famously Edgar Rice Burroughs’ early 20th century Barsoom series featured green aliens from Mars, though in this case they weren’t little at all, being about twice the height of humans....
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[@Allman203]

Today I Found Out where is the link for the green boy and girl?

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

As a former conspiracy theorist, investigative videos are a joy to watch. No smug mocking, just straight facts. These supposed mysterious cases are still fun to know about even if they seem rather mundane after investigation. I do wish I could support, but I'm just too poor right now.

[@the88thdarcstar]

30 years of watching star wars everything and I never had put together that Yoda was a literal "little green alien" ...my brain just shut off. Had to restart video

[@chrisquint3656]

UnitedWeStand Lucas originally wanted yoda to be blue... so idk

[@timsmith2525]

@@chrisquint3656 The Lizard People wouldn't let Lucas make Yoda blue.

[@purpleblorb]

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[@darkwolfnova344]

@T. F. 32 prove not you will, hmmm

[@Mewithabeard]

Star Wars has so many levels x)

[@GaretZaugg]

My girl just walked by and said “oh, you’re watching Vsauce?” I’m not sure it’s going to work out.

[@RevJR]

"Hey vsauce, Simon here, and this is the top ten reasons your girl is going to leave you."

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

That is so cute.

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Well, she knows Vsauce, so that's a plus...

[@Nick-ce6lt]

The SW behind Simon looks like a VS though

[@z-manoverstreet]

If he is Vsauce then I have a girl

[@makerhappy6718]

One of my favorite parts about being an alien on this planet is...Every time I tell somebody that I'm from a different planet they just think I'm crazy.

[@Kinobambino]

MAKER HAPPY what.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Kino He said that one of his favorite parts about being an alien on this planet is the fact that every time he tells somebody that he’s from a different planet they just think he’s crazy.

[@YoMommazNUTZ]

Yeah I would think that as long as you look like everyone else be it organic or a great humansuit nobody would be paying attention to you due to the lack of green or gray skin. Please only destroy the people who are evil and talk in theaters and enjoy the planet

[@unikeko96]

Same

[@jayhom5385]

Well it just needs to work to pick up on 1 chick, Zaphod.

[@crashjenn28]

I was watching this on my porch and when Simon says "lizard people" a toad hopped across my feet. Scared me but then I remembered toads are amphibians, but they could be in on it. Perhaps they control the lizard people. Luckily reality was restored and I stopped skeptically staring at the toad as if he was the leader of the nwo

[@vinnyganzano1930]

They are our pets. A handful got loose a couple of million years back and you know, EVOLUTION's a bitch.

[@dhotnessmcawesome9747]

That doesn't work for me brother. Wrestling joke. Trust me, it's killer funny.

[@Amy-si8gq]

toad: good, he doesnt know

[@owaindavies9971]

Nah, they're controlled by mice according to Douglas Adams.

[@moguldamongrel3054]

@@owaindavies9971 I thought mice were planet building super geniuses?

[@TheBruceKeller]

9:36 Those aliens look like they are dropping the dopest alien rap album.

[@PrayItForwardAGAPE]

Kel and the Zeta crew!!!

[@billthompson5117]

Gray life's matter

[@edwardleas1619]

When the tractor been clears

[@Kinobambino]

Bruce Keller on gang

[@Kinobambino]

Bruce Keller with aliens with big butts called zeta reTHICCules

[@Phil9874]

Not convinced this is the real simon

[@TodayIFoundOut]

What if I told you there's never been a real Simon...

[@ianpage2509]

@@TodayIFoundOut Simon is relative.

[@Phil9874]

@@TodayIFoundOut Touche good sir, Touche.

[@DocAtCdi]

didn't we just see him eliminated by the Illuminati?

[@Jimmyinvictus]

There's a Simon over at the Tyrell Corporation. I want you to go put the machine on it.

[@ztoob8898]

10:15 "...and speaking of super-advanced, bald humanoids..." Simon, you're a treasure!

[@Fisher_Films]

I’m wheezing. Simon really just called us Canadian’s as the United States’ Hat 🤣🤣🤣

[@e11aguru]

My biggest childhood phobia was waking up at night and seeing the gray aliens with the huge black eyes standing around me. I grew up in the 80s and 90s when that stuff was really popular and all over TV. And there's the cover of Communion *shudder*.

[@Tomb-G19]

*Grey clicking sounds*

[@sritz]

I had the same exact thing. The amount of sleep I lost as a kid due to that damned movie…

[@mattgilbert7347]

Ahh dude don't my childhood fear also *double shudder*

[@RicardoHernandezGTX]

Communion an fire in the sky fuct me up as a kid my biggest phobia beside cavediving freak that

[@ridesq]

Same here. And it’s still my biggest fear.

[@Sol17Opacus]

9:39 oh man, I loved Straight Outta Zeta Reticuli! Such a good album

[@ambulocetusnatans]

I've had sleep paralysis a few times. If I didn't know what it was, I could see how it could be mistaken for an alien technology.

[@Rimmsolin]

There can be 2 things that are similar, but aren’t correlated.

[@bllllood]

sleep paralysis is fun.......however if you feel confusion during it not as fun(only had confusion once and thats recently) it felt like i was in a loop state +....well....dont remember it clearly now but eh :S

[@kaylag5043]

Yeah, I've had it a couple times as well and had pressure on my chest so I guess it could have seemed like I was strapped to a table about to be experimented on.

[@mixumup1]

Every time i had that one good focused breath broke me free every time

[@gj9157]

I remember seeing a figure near my bed the first time it happened. Worst experience ever.

[@maximeprometheas]

As someone who's started off my career as a Sci-Fi writer, and then deliberately had psychiatrist friends of mine put me through a battery of lie-detectors and hypnotism and what-not - I know that if an artist is completely dedicated to their project, they will remember their fiction like if it were reality. And just to F with your minds further, I am likewise legally obliged to deny anything I've just written.

[@TealDobber]

So, I've heard that story of the couple and their missing time, but this is the first time that I've heard about the damage to their vehicle. The strange thing to me is that I had a similar experience. The main difference is that my missing time ended in the hospital. My wife and I were rear-ended on a major highway around a major city in Canada. It seems clear to me that they were rear-ended, but didn't get medical attention. It's possible that the people who rear-ended them fled the scene and just never fessed up to it. Their memory loss is due to the concussions from the accident. It is likely really that simple. Why has that never been suggested on anything I've watched before? Thanks Today I Found Out! Love your channel and I'm always recommending it to others.

[@pocohax6552]

This story is much more plausible than aliens And their story is the least believable story of all time yet people are still talking about it. It’s absolutely insane

[@hecticfreeze]

9:31 That alien rap crew has some dope album art

[@PrayItForwardAGAPE]

KEL and Zeta Ret Crew, dropping their new studio album 1 lightyear from now!!

[@marcelozerbini5411]

Gangsta grey's! Lol

[@tomkatt8274]

@@marcelozerbini5411 grey lives matter! smash humanity!

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Other than recommending you on Facebook to my friends, which I do all the time, I gave you my first support several months ago when I signed up for the Dollar Shave Club on your link. I've watched you for thousands of hours at this point so I felt I owe you that much.

[@NotSoCrazyNinja]

The reason you didn't hear of extraterrestrials, UFOs, or abductions in the past is due to fear of ridicule. My grandparents witnessed a close encounter with a UFO and my mom was in the car with them when it happened. My mom came clean to me one day when we were talking about UFOs, but my grandparents never said a word about the event to anyone. I suspect it was due to fear of ridicule. In modern times, a lot of people just don't care if they're mocked or made fun of, so they speak their minds more often than not. Thanks to the internet and the semi-anonymity it brings, people who have witnessed stuff are much more likely to spill the beans. Humans have been seeing UFOs for all of their history, and there have been close encounters throughout history. Kind of similar to how so many are thinking that autism has become a major problem and that it didn't use to exist. The reality is that autism has been around for the entire history of humans. We have just become a lot better at diagnosing it. Same with homosexuality. There are people who genuinely think that homosexuality being "so rampant" is a "modern problem". No, throughout history homosexuals have existed, but due to real danger to them, most kept it to themselves and pretended to be straight. Society didn't magically get more homosexuals over the past few decades, they just stopped hiding who they were. Extraterrestrials have not been hanging around or abducting people more over the past century, we have just started paying more attention and speaking up about our encounters and experiences.

[@hydrolito]

Extraterrestrials were common in the past description of things. Angels came down from heaven which is the sky, Lucifer was brought down from the sky, Asgardians were supposed to travel the cosmos on the rainbow bridge, New Jerusalem in final book of the bible is a giant cube in space, where they travel to a new heaven and new Earth. A god supposedly drove a sun chariot what we might now call a star ship.

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

Then how come we can't find them? Any species advanced enough to have interstellar space craft, especially for repeated visits over thousands of years, is advanced enough to have built megastructures in their own system, such as Dyson Swarms. If they have FTL travel they should have pretty much colonized the entire galaxy by now and whether they existed or not wouldn't even be a question. Have you noticed that since everyone has started carrying a camera in their pocket UFO sightings have gone down?

[@Meninx87]

Uhm no.

[@lordvlygar2963]

To jump off that last point, maybe they grays are really just the greens in their version of hazmat suits or laboratory PPE.

[@ProfessorYana]

@Syntheon That is... actually fairly similar to one of the concepts used in the old Gerry Anderson TV show "UFO". (And here's a of Bonus Fact: the 'you-foe' pronunciation of UFO survives in that show.)

[@edwardleas1619]

Or advanced enough for their ai robots to be made of organic bio materials

[@eugenetswong]

Aliens: we have come to abduct you, and probe you. My fellow Canadians: it's not abduction, if it is consensual.

[@Nyctophora]

Excellent, especially when you brought up the Green Children, I like Jacques Valee's theory that the stories of fairies have a lot in common with the stories of aliens. (I'm not sure if he came up with it but I know he wrote about it.)

[@julietfischer5056]

Aliens are the modern fae folk. The stories draw from that source, but with _science_ rather than magic. Unless one decides that the fae folk were extraterrestrials.

[@jermainekngdom3154]

Year. Fairies are actually due to racism. Sidhe are from gaelic called the mound people. They inhabited the island before them and have been ran into underground in mounds. Modern interpretation are made from evolved fictional works and folklore and was never thought to be real.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@jermainekngdom3154- The fae are not pre-Celtic inhabitants of Britain. They're supernatural beings capable of messing you up, so it's a good thing they don't exist.

[@julietfischer5056]

They're similar because they originate from similar motivations in the storytellers. But you can do something about the fae, while aliens just float you out the window and stick probes up your butt.

[@jermainekngdom3154]

@@julietfischer5056 thats german and artherian interpretation. They are more scarier than aliens

[@lowercherty]

Ever since Paul was captured they've been drip feeding us images like these so that we don't freak out when we see one for real.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

I'll bet the "floating truck" was on top of a hill with a mirage of sky reflected off the top of the road, much as is seen on hot days on the road with anything on top of hills. Mirages can appear with quite an apparent height on top of which the vehicle "sits" or "rides."

[@natsune09]

While in the Army, one job I had was with satellites. When launching a new one and putting it through some tests, we had people from Lockhead Martin at our site. I got to talking to this older man who had worked there a long time. He had worked on making the SR71 and it was interesting hear him talk about it. He basically talked about how advanced the plane was, that he thought he was a smart man, but some of the stuff that went into it blew his mind and had no idea how people figured these things out. Some of the stuff he saw how it worked, was explained why, but was still little confused why it did, like almost like it was made by a wizard. The plane was just so far ahead of its time and that we still don't know the limits of what it can do. Interesting man.

[@Kryoza]

That’s just someone seeing technology that’s advanced for the first time

[@cotati76]

Whenever the military shows the public “new” tech it’s already 20-25 years old. The first F-117 stealth fighter was built and flown in the 1960s but the military didn’t show the public until the first gulf war in 1990. It explains all the “triangle shaped UFOs” people were seeing at the time. We can’t imagine what they are working on now.

[@kittywampusdrums4963]

The main issue is that people who have been abducted or had an experience never read anything about previous accounts, guarantee the dozens of kids in Zimbabwe school incident hadn't heard anything like that before.

[@Diesel436]

At the Ruwa school near Harare in 1994 ,the Zimbabwe children at the school ( many of who were white Afrikaners) claimed they had seen aliens ,while some of the black students thought they had seen tribal figures, so different folklore and backgrounds can affect ones viewpoint

[@jamesbecker7302]

I am endlessly fascinated by what an alien homeworld looks like.. the flora and fauna.. the cultures and everyday life. I’ve found nada

[@whiwhimee]

You didn't pose the question that I always thought of: Why are alien depictions are nude-without clothing or alien spacesuits?

[@LimeyLassen]

It's already well established that aliens are perverts

[@ShinyGoldBacon]

Humans are one of only a handful of species on earth who "clothe" themselves, and we initially did that for protection from cold and injuries. It's not unlikely that another intelligent species might never adopt the custom of wearing things over their bodies because they never needed to, especially if those beings are actually robots. Or maybe they have some kind of invisible shield suits that protect them.

[@duncanmcgee13]

If you think about it, what other clothing would they have? Theyre not home.

[@thenasadude6878]

If they are green, they could be photosynthetic, and if they dress themselves, they might die or become ill

[@Dampfaeus]

They are obviously printed bodies for their uploaded minds, and are only used for a short time.

[@jaybechaves7055]

I can't help but notice that Simon's accent noticeably changed when speaking about the dollar shave club plug.

[@BroKEnCaPSLoCk1]

I have noticed that he has a presenting voice which is more formal. The Nic Cage video has such a different tone as it is more informal. Maybe he went to school for it?

[@Brandon-dy8us]

Maybe its because he uses a fake british accent

[@sallycostello8379]

@@Brandon-dy8us oh he's British alright!

[@acepilot1]

Brandon he is a Brit...

[@metamorphicorder]

He lives i believe in the US. Maybe im wrong, but brits due to the albeit not obvious but still extant similarity of brittish and american accent spectrums, do when living among yanks and the plethora of othet accents in the US, experience a gradual shift in their accents. A good example of this is Hugu Laurie who is brittish, he played the titular character in House MD. He used an affected accent for that role and in addition to the character Chase, an aussie, played by i believe an actual aussie, one of the main cameramen was also from down under. He remarked that consistently keeping a consistent accent was sometimes difficult hearing not one but two peoples regularly talk in an accent thar while different than his was miles closer to it that anyone elses including the character he was playing. I said all of that to say this, its not uncommon to find in brits living abroad particularly ones whose profession requires them to sort of modulate their accents and pronunciations, and when heard by those who live with and among the accent, or those who are very familiar with it a certain 'fake' quality to their accent. Theres a certain over lap between a brittish guy trying poorly to sound more American and an american trying sound brittish.

[@TheWolfeDen]

I've been watching X-Files lately and seeing this video just added so much more depth to the writing of the show.

[@KennyRider137]

Bob Lazar's work and educational history were substantiated by various researchers. He really did work at Area 51. And he was very careful to say he did not know where the technology he saw came from. You lost a few points there, but thank you for talking about Betty Hill and her delusions.

[@toasternfriends3329]

Yeah, not true, no researcher has been able to confirm Lazar's work and educational history.

[@stevedave5867]

Jesus I feel like I'm the only one that actually comprehensively followed bobs story. He's full of shit - see art bell interviews where they accidentally give the show away, the accident in Los Alamos where he pinched 50% of the story he told, his educational history = exactly what he was i.e a tech assistant. Not a nuclear physicist.

[@toasternfriends3329]

@@stevedave5867 You aren't the only one, not even close.

[@magnusgreel275]

This is a very thorough video! It's cool that you took the time to discuss it fully.

[@extremelycareless2541]

They are actually green, they are just tanned by a purple sun.

[@cristianverdugogalaz8725]

makes sence to me

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Wouldn't that be a red sun?

[@ginnyjollykidd]

@rvidal0001 Mmm, I wouldn't dismiss it. After all, there are blue - hot stars. Why not purple? (for those who don't think there is a purple, you might get tested for red - green colorblindness. I know *I* can see it. And bees can even see ultraviolet light. One book I read about it called it "bee purple"

[@markkarasik2211]

rvidal0001 Learned something new! Thanks😎

[@abc-yg6tk]

Some incorrect facts in this video, and with incomplete crucial info. 1. You completely ignored the Zimbabwe 1994 Ariel school case, where 60-ish kids 6/8-12 saw a craft and short grey aliens. 2. Lazar never said he worked at area 51, but actually a place called S4. He also never claimed aliens are real. He only talked about reverse engineering a craft (Joe Rogan interview)

[@midwestweirdo666]

9:30 those aliens are about to drop the hottest mixtape in the galaxy

[@anthonyklanke1397]

Thanks for the shout out Simon! (A Canadian fan)

[@Barada73]

Interesting. I always just assumed that the green skin color came from old comic books, back in the days when publishers didn't have that many colors to work with and green skin was an easy way to immediately establish a character as non-human.

[@hydrolito]

Green, blue, yellow, red, orange, purple, brown, black, white and gray characters are sometimes used in comics more complex colors are probably hard to do.

[@bruh3457]

@@hydrolito "more complex colors are probably hard to do" more complex colors like what?? Pink??? You just said all the colors bro

[@zappyapp]

@@bruh3457 Reddish black, blackish red, Purplish black, light purple, cyan, magenta etc

[@bruh3457]

@@zappyapp cyan and magenta are base colors on printers man Every other color you mentioned is perfectly doable on an old printer used for comics

[@zappyapp]

@@bruh3457 "Green, blue, yellow, red, orange, purple, brown, black, white and gray" -hydro "You just said *all* the colors bro" - you replying to hydro "cyan and magenta are base colors on printers man Every other color you mentioned is perfectly doable on an old printer used for comics " -also you That should explain itself.

[@lukelee7967]

In the two weeks before Betty and Barney Hill were hypnotized Barney likely watched The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. Both of which had aired episodes in the past two weeks that likely influenced what he "remembered".

[@johnmoore2910]

I was looking for your link about the little green children that you said would be in the description below

[@jagoob]

I've heard some people argue the first depiction of a gray Alien was actually drawn by Alistair Crowlie. Though he didn't proclaim him to be an alien but a demon he had communed with by the name of "Lam". If you wanna be creeped out go look up that drawing.

[@hb-dc3170]

LOL I'm good thanks! It's 12:51 at night over here and I don't need whatever kind of creepy image that is lingering around in my mind while I lie awake with nothing but me and my thoughts LMAO

[@kjs8719]

I like that he sounds genuinely almost childishly enthusiastic about the product he's advertising

[@MyFairDinkum]

Where's the link to your other video about the two green children in 13th century England?

[@TheGuardDuck]

Aye! Where is it?

[@TodayIFoundOut]

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[@TheGuardDuck]

@@TodayIFoundOut ty!

[@PrayItForwardAGAPE]

Oh yea little green kids are believable even though the supposed story with them is that they said they came from a different realm(well which ever little bastard survived long enough to learn english)

[@julietfischer5056]

@@PrayItForwardAGAPE - Watch the video. They may have suffered from an iron deficiency. As for the girl's story? It was years later and she probably didn't want to return 'home' or invented the story because she'd forgotten the real one.

[@ninjaswordtothehead]

Interviewer: What do you remember from your time on the alien vessel, sir? Me: Mostly the screaming, my non-stop screaming.

[@juliabuonincontro8617]

That was hands-down the most creative sponsor Segway I’ve ever seen on KZbin. Bravo!

[@TheLoxxxton]

I love seeing the Simon pop up in my feed 5 times a day but how does one man maintain such an output? Maybe he has multiple clones or survives on nothing but industrial grade stimulants. I fear he is not doing this volentarily, I imagine balaclava wearing maniacs behind the camera holding his family hostage. We need a free the Simon kickstarter campaign. Even more worrying to think of is the theory that the Simon is stuck in some groundhog day like time glitch forever to sit in a tiny studio endlessly churning out interesting facts for us unknowing fools!! Our hearts must go out to the Simon who must be broken in his never ending factoid hell. Good luck the Simon our hearts go out to you.

[@Brandon-dy8us]

Maybe it's a team of researchers that write these videos and he just reads them off which would make sense because you can record 20 of these in a day and then you have 4 days of content while you write and research more videos.

[@sterling9314]

loxxxton poxxxton considering the Illuminati shot and killed him in a previous video and quickly replaced him with what can only be described as an almost completely identical and very convincing clone, I think we can assume with certainty that there are multiple Simon clones/androids that, while originally created to educate the masses, have been corrupted or replaced by the New World Order and can no longer be trusted.

[@acepilot1]

Simon is an omnipotent alien all hail our Alien Overlord!

[@richardbidinger2577]

They probably pay him gawdawful amounts of money, and most of those videos aren't very long, so he probably only works 20 hours a week and makes more than all of us combined, so who wouldn't want a job like that.

[@jamesdspaderf2883]

CGI and deep fake technology, it's all one big simulation to profit from monetized KZbin Channels, the real Simon is now a homeless person living off the streets in London

[@justme-rz1kx]

yet another great video! the complete diversity of topics is fresh, fun, and always informative. thank you Simon and crew!!

[@Dav2Kink]

@ 2:05 Stop Teasing Me LOL @ 2:55 This need to shop Love your shows

[@lads.7715]

Buds Hopkins was one of the earliest Abduction researchers, before the whole alien fad spread. He noted with amazement how different people would use different, but still very similar, descriptions for their skin, such as looking like being “made of putty” or “like a mushroom.”

[@ProfessorYana]

"What am I dealing with? Little green men?" "No. Little green blobs in bonded-polycarbide armour."

[@julietfischer5056]

The homicidal ones who yell, "Exterminate."

[@nerd1000ify]

@@julietfischer5056 Omnicidal, not homocidal. They don't limit themselves to exterminating humans.

[@Linkous12]

17:05 Eyes are really only useful when there's sufficient light. Most stars in the universe are not like our bright yellow sun; they're normally dim and on the redder end of the spectrum. There's been quite a few speculative biologists and artists who have developed whole planetary ecosystems where the more complex life is completely dependent on things like echolocation, because sight would be nearly useless with a dim red star. Wayne D. Barlowe's Expedition is a good example of this.

[@LowenKM]

Good point, though red dwarfs are also the most common stars in the galaxy, and with their frequent and potentially life-extinguishing solar eruptions, apparently they're are also the most 'questionable' stars for supporting life.

[@shamusmcdrunkenen6491]

Our sun is white, not yellow.

[@JosephKeenanisme]

EDIT: the wide attention is what I am talking about. There are earlier sources which did not capture the wider appeal until said events took place. Note how the typical alien now is "the grey". This only happened after the movie Close Encounters. That movie basically started the "modern" (post 1960s "spacemen from Uranus & Neptune" who looked like humans) abduction and alien looks we see in the delusions of abduction cases. That combined with sleep paralysis. :( For some people the hallucinations seem real enough that they believe it to be aliens. Some are out to make a buck or have 15 mins of fame. Some others are manipulated by shrinks and other hucksters who take advantage of people who won't see a medical or mental health professional. :(

[@applesaurusrex8075]

I was literally just wondering about this earlier so it’s cool that this video was in my recommendations.

[@tymader8927]

a 22 min video on why aliens are grey. Simon you've outdone yourself you cheeky Brit 😂

[@firstlast-cs6eg]

. The Dollar shave club website and this KZbinr doesn't say how much it costs for regular blade shipments. He says "regular price", that they won't tell you that price and it can't be found on their website, is suspicious. Generally buying a safety blade is cheaper and more environmentally friendly too. Also It requires a little learning how to use it but once you do, it works fine and is so much cheaper. Like I got 100 blades for $10, that's 10 cents a blade. You might also buy a shaving brush and cream (you dip the brush into the cream which is is more solid like a soap and apply to your face) it's also cheaper long term and more environmentally friendly than the aerosol stuff and it seems to work better.

[@AFmedic]

I'm 69 and still use an old fashion double edge razor. Blades are cheaper and they last longer because they don't clog up like the 3, 5, 6 bladed razors.

[@firstlast-cs6eg]

@@AFmedic Yeah, the double edged is what I use too. But I'm told the single edged last longer to compensate for their single edge, requires a slightly different way of shaving I think? Generally double is cheaper because it's more common. Double edged is not double blade, the edges are on either side. So either way your dealing with one blade edge as you shave, which allows you to deal with the contours of say a face or whatever easier. With these razor blade faces, not only are they impossible to clean out and fully dry before you need to use it again but they got this wide bed filled with many razors which means it doesn't contour well since the shaving face is so wide. Companies that sell shaving heads will advertise about flexibility in these shaving heads where the blades can move independent of one another, but that's not an issue with a single blade edge (with either type of product the blade itself won't flex much, nor do you want it to)

[@AFmedic]

@@firstlast-cs6eg - Yes! With the double edge, if you notice a little build up you can take the blade out and wipe it on a towel and you can even flip the blade over. A cousin of mine (year younger than me) uses the ultimate single edge razor - the old Straight Blade . If tried tried to use one it would more like a "Self Sacrifice" ROFL

[@firstlast-cs6eg]

@@AFmedic Straight blades too scary for me. I'm sure I wouldn't accidentally slit my throat or something. But I'm sure I'd look like I got into fights with a cat from hell till I learned how to use it, and hopefully no permanent scars.

[@pommiebears]

Little green aliens were cartoon characters, from my experience. The Greys come from stories I’ve watched and read, and are from sightings and abduction experiences.

[@DeadManSinging1]

Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for

[@ziggy8253]

Cause any other color would be too “out there.”

[@-buser]

P. The truth is out there

[@terrygrossmann2295]

Gray lives do matter.

[@kypreston1045]

Farr out brother

[@TheDiamondInvader]

We need more blue humans.

[@SergeCruso]

@@TheDiamondInvader I agree because if i was Green..then I'd die

[@michellearzu1265]

I love how much I learn from your videos :D Here's a question for you: why do we put candles on birthday cakes?

[@vinnyganzano1930]

In my case it keeps the local fire station busy. Well I can't blow out all those candles myself.

[@adarshkamoda9183]

I love sponsorships like this. Genuinely interested in the product, not just trying to sell another damn thing but actually examining it like a normal person.

[@jasonberezny9705]

“ Everything and everyone is part of something else “ Great presentation!🖖👁❤️

[@gregj4857]

My mummy story.. 1967 I was 5, one night I woke up in the middle of the night my room was lit up bright, standing at the end of my bed was a tiny grey creature with big black eyes. I sat up and tried to figure out what it was then it came to me it was obviously to my young mind a mummy not an ordinary mummy but a baby mummy. I jumped out of bed and yelled a mummy then ran into my parents room yelling there's a mummy in my room! When I returned to my room with my dad the lights were gone and no sign of anything.. About 12 years later a friend invited me over to watch his new t.v. network called cable t.v. he was flipping all the channels when he stopped on the sci-fi channel and said this one shows all the science fiction. To my utter surprise there was my baby mummy on the screen. Without a thought I jumped up and yelled that's my mummy! My friends laughed and said no thats a alien..

[@Blindashitmetalasfuck]

Not a very good joke...

[@gregj4857]

@@Blindashitmetalasfuck who's joking..I don't claim that anything happened to me I wasn't scared, it was just standing there and I thought I had better tell my parents a baby mummy was running loose in my room..in those days the only monster's were Frankenstein, the Wolf man, Dracula and the Mummy what ever it was it looked closes to the mummy but small...

[@dianneb2224]

Maybe because they’re wearing grey space suits that covered their entire body and head?

[@marypoppins2044]

Better than the naked ones.

[@isoufo]

Aliens in clothes.... ewwwww

[@juniorr2646]

You almost get it right. But no. They are alien robots made by the aliens

[@dianneb2224]

Junior R - Yes - Another possibility.

[@bartstewart8644]

Glad you mentioned the movies that were made with big-head "gray" aliens, but you could have gone back MUCH farther. The first one I am aware of was The Man From Planet X. (1951) That one was a dead-ringer for a Budd Hopkins "gray." But the same look was used in Star Trek in the 1960s. It was an easy make-up job to do. Just make a big dome out of papier mache and stick it on the actor's head. Budd Hopkins was the writer who started people thinking that there really were big-headed aliens. The fact that all those old movies and TV shows were in the public consciousness made it an easier sell. The whole UFO thing is a 20th century myth.

[@soundmapper]

Can you explain the current events surrounding UFOs? 3+ confirmed pentagon videos are myths? They acknowledge it, and state they don't know what it is.

[@CryptoRich1]

It's not a myth. I wish you could know how extremely infuriating it is to live a life knowing the truth about these creatures and having the majority of people on earth not believe it. Its extremely annoying to read comments like yours. I know you don't mean anything by it. I'm not mad at you. I just hope there will be a day where people like you will know the truth but hopefully not find out in the way that I did

[@bartstewart8644]

You don't tell us anything about why you believe they are real. You imply you had an experience with them. You know, the "contactees" and "abductees" generally produce not one atom of evidence apart from their word on it. I don't have room or time to go into all of it, but it's a lot like the Loch Ness Monster. If it was real the evidence would be better. What if you said that a two-headed genie visited you? Should we be open-minded about that?

[@datastorm75]

I think the whole alien thing can be summed up by one phrase: I want to believe. Against such a thing, no amount of reason or evidence can prevail.

[@audrey1336]

I love this show! Great, topical episode. Keep up the great work. If you had a Dollar Shave Club package deal for female shaving products, I would definitely be interested in buying it, in case you were wondering :)

[@amandasamson4513]

ha ha I love how I live in "the United State's hat"

[@forgottenredemption4970]

Tis a fine hat ma'am. We wear it well.

[@visvivalaw]

Lazar's claim to have worked at Los Alamos was later confirmed, once the Las Vegas news reporter produced an internal employee phonebook that contained Lazar's name. He also found a news article in the local Los Alamos paper about a jet car Lazar had built and was racing in the desert. The article described him as Los Alamos physicist Bob Lazar.

[@scharf74]

You mean people have to prove if he worked there or not? What about paystubs?

[@cotati76]

@@scharf74 shhh you’re making too much sense. Ufoologists believe every cockamamie story they’re told without question. Bob Lazar is just another conman who has made a lot of money off people but Bob claims to have never made any money off of his story. I guess the videos he used to produce and sell and his deal with Tester models who make a model of Bobs “sport model” of the ufo he claims to have worked on. But yeah he never made any money off of his story.

[@murderedcarrot9684]

I once had a bizarre dream of climbing up a beach and being snatched up be a colourful jelly fish that walked on land on four bird like legs and four arms that it used too collect water from giant kale, the same way we draw maple from trees.

[@NinossoniN]

Can you do a video about the confirmed clips of the US navy having unidentified areal phenomena sightings, what they could be and why the apparent lack of interest of these findings?

[@amandab3946]

NinossoniN searching for some confirmation bias?

[@LindaB651]

Yes! This!

[@NinossoniN]

@@amandab3946 What do you mean? My message was lacking any kind sign of my beliefs or biases.. im stating facts, im not saying they are alien, i saying they are "unidentified areal phenomena" and its not my words, these are the official terms from the US navy.. im not saying i want a video where simon debunks OR prooves there are aliens, im just saying i want a video about the whole situation and the apparent lack of reaction in the world - whatever the video shows or doesnt show.

[@NinossoniN]

@Raging S No, they have not, but if you have seen some info I havent, please attach some source to that claim, cuz that would be interesting.

[@NinossoniN]

Raging S Thank you for the source, that was interesting, but i dont think We mean the same situations, Im talking about two other instances I believe, check this out and see if we mean different things: www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/18/politics/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-trnd/index.html

[@ATReade]

Doesn't Bob Lazar have yearbooks and other proof from the schools and jobs he worked in? I did find his Joe Rogan podcast quite intriguing.

[@FearlessP4P1]

Yeah, I thought this video was completely unfair to lazar

[@edaugusts]

@@j.p.6932 YES, it stands out in its total mischaracterization of Bob Lazar. But Simon Whistler is just the host. Credits at the end reveal an author, editor and THREE producers... One can wonder WHY this team agreed to TEAM-UP on Bob Lazar?

[@badmanskill1112]

@@j.p.6932 "For some reason" can be summed up quite easily. If you don't follow the government narrative your channel will run into some problems.

[@metcairn]

www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/looking-at-the-bob-lazar-story-from-the-perspective-of-2018/

[@aubreymacleod2618]

@@FearlessP4P1 I agree. One only needs to watch a few recent videos about him to completely turn ur world upside down. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND watching a video from a KZbinr who fascinatingly examined Bob's Interview on Joe Rogan. While i dont know his title or credentials, he was basically evaluating bob for evidence of deception. I won't spoil it, but it blew me away, and it will you too. And the main thing in all of this, is not so much whether he lied or told the truth, but what it means to all of humanity IF he IS telling the truth....

[@mathewadams2929]

I loved this! Thank you

[@samarthur1847]

How do I submit a question to you guys?

[@judithhuling-cadieux1700]

I find it interesting, that all over the world, there are mentions of elves, gnomes, goblins, fairies, brownies, here in the the States, the Native Americans also have similar stories of small folk, as well as "pumpkin head" individuals, who only come out at night night...could this an attempt to explain normal phenomenon? Just a thought...

[@calebwinfield1403]

I would guess that at mankind's very basic state, we all share the same thought process- giving us the same ideas, even without ever meeting each other.

[@ericsaul9306]

As the other comment said, things like vampires have been proven to be stories that have been around at least a few thousand years, if I would have to bet I would say that those were the first myths of humanity

[@S0nder]

I agree. Normal phenomenon. :)

[@BranDenhauer]

We know that dragons have been invented by many cultures independently from each other. We also know that dragons do not exist. We humans just have wicked good imaginations, dude.

[@theera5145]

You should read the book called Passport to Magnolia by Jacque Valle. In it he talks about how this sort of phenomena happens all over the world and documents all of the different reports.

[@meggiem4685]

Yet another thing that I never knew I wondered about... thanks Today I Found Out!

[@dukkencuvva1]

Hi Simon, I've been a big fan of yours for a very long time. Very insightful, well researched and well presented information, it's like a drug to me:) I'm writing this comment before having watched the video just because the title seemed a bit off to me, it suggests that there is no validity to the claims of anyone who says they've had contact with ET's, and that the abduction phenomenon is to be taken seriously only as a result of some kind of trickery of the human psyche straight off the bat. Doesn't seem very impartial right from the get go, anyway, gonna check out the vid now:)

[@matonmongo]

Unfortunately the Betty and Barney Hill incident has since been discredited, after among other things, serious UFO researchers who spent considerable time with her said that she couldn't tell a UFO from a street light. And the grey alien described by Barney Hill under hypnosis matched the one that appeared only two weeks before on 'The Bellero Shield' episode of the Outer Limits tv show.

[@CryptoRich1]

Then explain how she drew a star map of a star system that wasn't discovered until years later. I think over 10 years later

[@hisgreasiness]

Little green men are from hurrah! Little blue women are from tee hee

[@TheGuardDuck]

Little blue _women_ ??

[@TheGuardDuck]

@Gary Daniel The fuck is wrong with you??

[@jamesslick4790]

"Colonists", "United States' Hat" 👍😂👍

[@JediCody2]

19:43 Massively missed opportunity to have flashed a pic of the Inklings and Octolings here for some easy pop-culture points!

[@bluetablepainting]

Shout out to Dollar Shave Club. I love them. Changed my (shaving) life. Super economical.

[@jango268]

"Jello master Yoda"

[@hermesvargas2275]

Well, in spanish we do pronounce it UFO like the original author inteded it to be. So it kinda catched on.

[@Necroskull00]

More like Ovni, well from where I’m from that’s how we say it in spanish

[@leeolsson5271]

In Swedish too.

[@stephjovi]

in german too

[@EksaStelmere]

I also pronounce them like the original author. First language French.

[@Werevampiwolf]

There's a Marvel comics villain team called the UFOes

[@raychang8648]

You listed Doctor Who first! Much appreciated!

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

Because that's what they look like. It's not exactly a "stereotype" when they actually look like that. Unless you're asking why this particular type of physical body is so prevalent for intelligent beings.

[@debbiehenri345]

I've often considered 'alien encounters' as people who have experienced an electrical shock/mental trauma - and are recounting an exaggeration of very early life memories. When we are babies, we are short-sighted and see in black and white, so that would explain 'the greys' skin tone. Eyes would be a key feature for most babies, so these will be exaggerated in importance and thus out of all proportion to other facial features in those early weeks, explaining why they appear as such a dominant feature on an alien. Often, alien hands are described as being long - hands being another feature which a baby would experience most as parents reach to pick it up, feed, clean and change it (just imagine how large they would appear from a short-sighted baby's perspective). The alien 'obsession' with the anal region is merely memory of baby regularly requiring cleaning and checking. Otherwise, why would alien beings (or their robotic representatives) be particularly interested in taking samples from the anal region of humans, or indeed any animal (since cows are also a favourite abductee?) We modern humans have much more sophisticated and less invasive means of collecting DNA samples already, and we're nowhere near guiding spaceships across the galaxy to another inhabited star system (that ability is at the least several decades away, perhaps centuries away). Anal probing seems all rather primitive for a technologically advanced species.

[@mal_3157]

Interesting!

[@youngknowledgeseeker]

Creative, but there's no way the answer is that simple. This is coming from a guy who got to witness a Ufo. It wasn't my exagerrated memories both my friend and I were witnessing in real life and real time....

[@melissawickersham9912]

There is a major problem with your theory. The problem is that most if not all childhood memories before the age of three are quite literally overwritten or permanently deleted by the human brain as the human brain develops and ages.

[@jimboscooter432]

@youngknowledgeseeker what does the UFO you saw have to do with aliens?

[@gorillafunk725]

The problem with Simons debunk is that those who experience such experiences cannot un- experience them. One of these being a friend whose trauma and psychological damage from that experience is 100% real. Knowing how he was prior. And seeing the extremely negative effects of the resultant PTSD of remembering his very traumatic EXPERIENCE To date from my fallable memory 80 000 "varified" Meaning credible testimony from reliable witnesses or experiencers of abduction or a UFO encounter from all over the world from every creed culture & religion. Now ether all these people with little or no intercultural connection collectively despite much derision, persecution, marginalisation and often intimidation are sticking to their story. There is something actually happening that so called self professed "the intelligent" by cherry picking the narative to suit their pre conceived cognitive dissonance & bias dismiss. Or this through advanced black op tech movies and an ever increasing army of seemingly unconnected false whistle blowers are perpetrating the greatest hoax ever conceived in human history. There is IMHO only these two possibilities. Condidering the buffonery and holes in nearly every govt" cover up" Which do YOU think is more likeley?

[@halonothing1]

I've been absolutely terrified of greys ever since I was little. I loved everything about aliens and abduction and such but the more I learned, the more shitless I was scared. I used to watch this show called Sightings that was sort of like unsolved mysteries, but about paranormal stuff. I'll never forget the episode where they showed the MacPhearson tape, which supposedly shows a family celebtrating a birthday when they see a bright light in the woods. They approach the craft and you can see figures walking around it in the dark. Then at some point they're back in their home and the aliens were trying to get in. At the end it shows a really clear shot of one of the aliens walking through the house. I know it's fake now, but the thought of it scares me so much, I have goosebumps just from typing this. I'm pretty sure the video's up on KZbin somewhere, but it's been found to be a hoax.

[@ShineHatfield]

I grew up in New Hampshire and had never heard the Betty story until today lol

[@bearnunnemaker5453]

Here in Oregon we heard it long ago and all the time. Because ya know in Oregon we're all aliens! 🤣🤣 👽👽👽👽👽 🏳️‍🌈🐻🌈🏳️‍🌈🐻🌈🏳️‍🌈🐻🌈

[@BigSkippy1263]

I love Dollar Shave Club! The Executive razor is great - how could six blades not be?

[@keithkovacik9427]

Think about this one, when we humans go out in to the wilderness to tag a bear in a helicopter, wouldn’t that bear’s account of what happened mostly be the same as a UFO abduction story? P.S. Fires in the sky also implied that the classic Roswell gray may be their version of a space suit. But I still like the line from the movie Paul: “What do you think we are doing, harvesting farts?”

[@maryhill2346]

Dollar shave club would be great for women too. Think I’ll try it!! Double your business just like that!!

[@BrandyHoelscher]

I love dollar shave club. The shave butter is awesome

[@gustavoolivieri6568]

I hope youtube doesn't begin recommending videos on this subject because I liked this one, but this one I rather enjoyed. (Because I like the channel content generally..)

[@honeysucklecat]

Simon - it’s Cannon Mt. Not Canyon Mt. Used to be where the Old Man of The Mountains face that is the state symbol of NH is, before it fell off a few years ago. The Old Man would be a good topic for a Geographics vid.

[@kek4494]

Was waiting for Simon to pull off his mask to reveal his scales. 👽

[@marypoppins2044]

I believe sometimes they have scales on their butts where we can't see them.

[@deepspacedoggydog]

LOL!

[@calsavestheworld]

@4:58 Cameo - Hank and Peggy Hill. And their names are really Hill!

[@jessicacanfield5408]

By the way I really love your channels I watch. I was just asking questions

[@VideoGamePhilosopherShorts]

Lizard people are a thing…I really like this sentence.

[@nathanriley7899]

"One random dude" named Bob, who speaks only the truth of what he saw with his own eyes, and heard from his colleagues.

[@FearlessP4P1]

I know. He really roasted bob. It’s seems like this video was completely wrong on what happened to lazar.

[@edaugusts]

@@FearlessP4P1 Yes! I'm amazed this know-it-all must not have seen Bob Lazar's videos, which I find hard to believe. So, based on just these terribly negative comments about Lazar, we have an agenda at work here.

[@beandip9803]

Bob Lazar NEVER said area 51 housed aliens or alien technology nobody ever gets it right; S-4 is where the fun is; why is it every jackass that wants to roast bob lazar never gets what he said right

[@scottdavidson526]

@@beandip9803 Because the skeptics have obviously not taken the time to watch Bob's commentary about his experience at S-4 they have formed an opinion on here say instead of doing the homework themselves. Close mindedness can be damaging when one decides not to objectively examine the data at hand.

[@PrayItForwardAGAPE]

(This is a repost of a comment I had to bring up.) Oh Simon I'm so disappointed in you. I understand your a skeptic, hey I'm a skeptic I'm going to be as scientific as possible when looking into fantastic things. You swept right over the fact that Bob Lazar is in different phone directories as well as newsletters for the schools he "claimed" to attend. Its obvious that his name has been drug through the shit. I dont even know how to proceed. I love 99.9% of your content but for you to glance over straight up facts is bothersome. If your not a part of the disclosure of all things the elite try so hard to hide, then your part of the disinformation. He brought up element 115 how many years before the world recognized it to be real. What theories in physics that he has mentioned he believes to be true have been absolutely proven false? Simon please you have to update this video after some true research. I'm so sad every other topic you cover you obviously to the research but it's just as obvious you only looked into the skeptical point of view leading up to this video. I respected you so much, I still do but I cant trust you now. The US Gov has acknowledged many things the last few years I never thought they would. I'm devastated about this, I dont want to unsubscribe. Please I will even send you truly critical info on this matter.

[@paranoiawilldestroyya3238]

16:10: Good point, but I do suppose secret military installation are rather thin on the ground.

[@sciencenate]

Wow Orson Wells looks SO GODDAMN YOUNG!!!

[@dbaldwin2803]

I'm going to say Simon didn't do enough homework on Robert Lazar. There is proof of his records being wiped, because things were missed in the process of trying to erase his history.

[@ironmantis778]

Nah Lazar goofed.. all them public speakers are bs. I didnt want to believe it.. but its all bs, most people just don't know what he is saying is bs unless your in that field, whatever kind of technician he was, i forget.

[@ironmantis778]

Start searching public records on these people, theres a bunch of FOIA requests made public, i got a bunch on a drive account, but its all debunkable if you actually start looking for facts, instead of facts that only back up the narrative we WANT to be true.

[@DuduCosmin]

@@ironmantis778 Didn't he talk about some undiscovered element, for which he was made fun of, but then they did find that element?

[@mistermigraine2779]

Cool story. Simon and his writers are well known for not doing research. Dolt.

[@luftschiff1069]

At 2:12 he called Americans “colonists”

[@Dc-alpha]

And?

[@lordmarshall5239]

It’s his people that are to blame for every bit of American colonization history.

[@Dc-alpha]

@@lordmarshall5239 I dunno, bloody colonials, you're never happy......

[@lordmarshall5239]

@@Dc-alpha I know that Americans aren’t colonists. It’s the British and French that were the colonists. Americans made a nation .

[@Dc-alpha]

@@lordmarshall5239 By that rationale almost no one is a colonist. Take the word by definition, a group living together. Even the idea that its once you have planted crops proves almost all of us/our civilisation/countries are colonists. In the interest of fostering amity though, fine Americans are no longer colonists in the strictest sense. Hopefully that does not offend your colonial sensibilities. All in jest.

[@realAniram]

Fun fact for that first bonus fact: that 'original' pronunciation is actually very close to the Japanese word for UFO. They just modified it a little for their language when the word was invented, and say ユーフォー yufuo [yoo-foo-oh]. A lot of words for things in Japanese that were invented after 1800s are just modified versions of words from other languages, usually English.

[@XenHat]

That segue to the sponsor was pretty good, lol.