Where Did The Grey Alien Imagery Come From?

While the Roswell, New Mexico incident might not have delivered to the world undeniable proof of the existence of alien life, it did form the bedrock of our entire modern UFO mythos, and led directly to our shared vision of Greys.

The story, recounted countless of times and told again by Sky at Night Magazine, starts on June 24 with pilot Kenneth Arnold, who saw nine unidentified "crescent-shaped objects" flying at about Mach 1.5 (about 1,200 mph). For the record, Charles "Chuck" Yeager didn't officially break the sound barrier until several months later that year on October 14, as the National Air and Space Museum recounts. And if you're thinking that the craft that Arnold saw were experimental jets, you're not alone.

Per Sky at Night Magazine, Arnold said that the craft were wiggling around in a bizarre way, "like a saucer would if you skipped it over water." Newspapers picked up on this description and deployed a term oh so familiar to us: "flying saucers." Mere weeks later, on July 7, 1947, New Mexican rancher W.W. "Mac" Brazel came forward claiming to have found metallic debris scattered around his property. Per Smithsonian Magazine, the Roswell Daily Record — a local paper — ran a story saying that Brazel found a downed flying saucer. Official FBI records state that the object was a hexagonal disc suspended by cords from a weather balloon. But no matter — UFO fever was in full swing.

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