Alien Encounter Quotes

“You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.”
― J. Richard Singleton

“Space, as you can see, is a complete void, nothing but clear air, without solid objects or the illumination of light. On some of our photographs of space, however, studied close to, even without a magnifying glass or an enlargement lens, you will notice, in the remote background, stars, some solitary, others in shimmering clusters. And in the next set of photographs you will see the alien machine we encountered that sat stubbornly stationary in the way of our unselfgoverned path.”
― Philip Dodd, Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle

“I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadows in Flight

“It's a bit beyond human comprehension. According to my experience, they want to have, to possess. And if they can, change the natural body into at least partly technological. What did I feel then, during the Ritual? I'll tell you now. Pain. Not fear, just pain. And then – absolute freedom.”
― Eve Janson, The Nano Story