Reptilians (also called reptilian humanoids, reptoids, reptiloids, or draconians) are purported reptilian humanoids that play a prominent role in modern ufology and conspiracy theories.
Alien abduction
Alien abduction narratives sometimes allege contact with reptilian creatures. One of the earliest reports was that of
Ashland, Nebraska police officer
Herbert Schirmer, who claims to have been taken aboard a UFO in 1967 by humanoid beings with a slightly reptilian appearance, who bore a "winged serpent"
emblem on the left side of their chests.
David Icke
According to British writer
David Icke, 5 to 12-foot (1.5 - 3.7 m) tall, blood-drinking,
shape-shifting reptilian humanoids from the
Alpha Draconis star system, now hiding in underground bases in
Hollow Earth, are the force behind a worldwide
conspiracy directed at humanity. He contends that most of the world's leaders are in fact related to these reptilians. Icke's theories now have supporters in 47 countries and he frequently gives lectures to crowds of 2,500 or more. American writer Vicki Santillano ranked the notion that "Reptilian humanoids control all of us" as the 10th most popular conspiracy theory.
Politics
In the closely fought
2008 US Senate election between comedian and commentator
Al Franken and incumbent Senator
Norm Coleman, one of the ballots challenged by Coleman included a vote for Franken with "Lizard People" written in the space provided for write-in candidates. Lucas Davenport, who later claimed to have written the gag ballot, said, "I don't know if you've heard the conspiracy theory about the Lizard Men; a friend of mine, we didn't like the candidates, so we were at first going to write in revolution, because we thought that was good and to the point. And then, we thought the Lizard People would be even funnier."
Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet was a pejorative used to refer to then Ontario Liberal Party opposition leader Dalton McGuinty in a press release disseminated by the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario on September 12, 2003, during the provincial election campaign in Ontario, Canada.
Skeptics
Skeptics who adhere to the
psychosocial hypothesis for
unidentified flying objects argue the popularity of
V, a
science fiction television show, which debuted in 1983 and restarted in 2009, about an
invading alien race of reptilian humanoids disguised as human beings trying to take over Earth, may have significantly contributed to ufologists and conspiracy theorists adopting beliefs in the existence of reptilians, as well as making the wider public more receptive to embracing them.
Brian Dunning suggests that a 1934
Los Angeles Times article may have been the origin of such beliefs: it reported that a
geophysical mining engineer claimed to have discovered subterranean labyrinths beneath
Los Angeles to an
underground city built by an advanced race of “Lizard People” to escape surface catastrophes some 5,000 years ago.
See also
Ancient astronauts
Annunaki
Bug-eyed monster
Greys
List of alleged UFO-related extraterrestrials
List of conspiracy theories
Little green men
Nordic aliens
V (science fiction)
References
Category:Alleged UFO-related entities
