Four Classes of Extraterrestrials: Taxonomy, Myth-Making, and the Search for Evidence

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Patrick Huyghe’s appearance-based fourfold taxonomy of extraterrestrials—humanoids, animalian, robotic, and exotic—together with brief narratives and drawings, is challenged by Eddie Bullard as relying on anecdote rather than science, while Michael Craft shows that belief systems shape what people perceive in a long history of alien claims by Adamski, Hill, Meier, Strieber, Hopkins, and Jacobs, and that despite popular culture's persistence of the idea that the truth is out there, there is no scientifically accepted proof of aliens or their craft.