When Did Us Humans Suspect Their were Aliens?
Greeting Earthlings…
I am Just curious Ive been lookin up some area 51 stuff cause i have nothing to do xD.
And uh When did we suspect maybe theirs space pepole.
I mean like i think it came from the movies and tv and stuff but like when did they suspect their real.
TY for awnsers in Advance 
This is a subject that is fascinating to me as well.
There are a couple of ways of looking at this question. Humans have been suspecting that intelligent creatures exist other than us practically for as long as we can remember. There have always been beliefs about spirits, demons, and gods. Some think the phenomena of aliens is distinct, but I really think the idea of nonhuman beings is similar.
In the very first works of science fiction, in fact, there is a lot of overlap between spirits and extraterrestrials. Man seems to have started imagining life on other worlds as soon as we realized that there -were- other worlds–that the Earth was a planet, and that other objects in the sky were also planets, not just tiny points of light in the sky.
The first work of science fiction may be Johannes Kepler’s “Somnium,” or “The Dream.” Written in 1610 (about 100 years after Copernicus discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun), “The Dream” is about a voyage to the Moon, performed with the help of witchcraft and the demons living on the Moon. In this story, we have the first example of life or civilization outside of Earth–not biological life, but the nonhuman demons that had so long haunted human fantasies.
We see aliens again in Voltaire’s “Micromegas,” written in 1752. The alien in that story is clearly a biological being, like humans. He’s 120,000 years old, comes to Earth in a solar-powered spaceship, and comes from a planet very different from our own. This is perhaps fitting, given Voltaire’s famous lack of religion.
As for when we came to believe there might really be aliens for the first time, that probably happened in 1877. In that year, the pioneering astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli got the best look at Mars any human had ever had–and he thought he saw canals on its surface. In Schiaparelli’s mind, these straight lines crisscrossing the Martian surface had to be signs of a civilization far older and more powerful than humans on Earth. He believed the Martians were dying, and that they had built these massive canals to distribute what little water they had left to cities around their planet.
So basically, humans have speculated about life on other planets for as long as we’ve known there were other planets. And we have suspected that they really existed since we became able to view other planets in detail. We humans really seem to be predisposed to look for life on other worlds!
Although it was eventually proved that there was no intelligent life on Mars or Venus (once thought to be a tropical paradise, possibly with humanoid natives), we sort of never stopped looking. From the time of War of the Worlds, there existed humans who thought there was intelligent life coming from somewhere in space. The first modern reports of alien abduction date from the 1950s (Antonio Villas Boas in 1957s) and 1960s (Betty and Barney Hill in 1961). Some people think that the progress of humans into space (as the first satellite was launched by the Soviets in 1957) might have made the idea of space traveling aliens all the more possible. And Cold War tensions may have made the prospect of invasion by a hostile force seem equally believable!
Interestingly, as science fiction has become more popular, the aliens it portrays have become more human. The first aliens portrayed in science fiction were incomprehensibly different from us, like Voltaire’s 120,000-year-old voyager, or H.G. Wells’ creatures with their incomprehensible technology, enormous brains, and tentacles. But present-day aliens we see in the media are little different from ourselves–even the blue aliens of Avatar were basically blue Native Americans, and the aliens of V looked and acted much like attractive humans.
I think this reflects a change in how humans think about the universe in general. We’re no longer seeking beings incomprehensibly more advanced than us–we no longer seek the mystery and power of the divine. Now the aliens we see are just like ourselves, with similar strengths, weaknesses, and technology. Alien stories are now more a metaphor for race relations and social issues than a metaphor for questions of the divine. I think this reflects how the human psyche has changed over the past few hundred years.
Aliens are a subject that’s dear to my heart, so feel free to email or IM me if you’d like to discuss them more!
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