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[-] UsoSaito@feddit.uk 4 points 12 hours ago

There's a movie from the early 2000s that goes over this. Movie is called The Fourth Kind.

[-] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

This movie gave me owl nightmares lol

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 12 hours ago
[-] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 22 hours ago

This seems to be the only really creepy picture of baby owls our there. The quality is dogshit, a potato would take a better picture. They don't look like aliens in normal pictures.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 11 points 18 hours ago

They look almost the same as in the OP picture. Now, imagine you are inspecting a barn at night, carrying only an oil lamp.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 15 hours ago

They look more like aliens in your picture!

[-] coaxil@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

If these guys where standing up more and looking down, like the op picture, they would be cooked as fuck

[-] dewey_mcbrewster@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Many many years ago, I had returned home. Think rural country road, cinder block garage a few yards off a dusty road, separate from the house, with a single industrial lamp burning, 100 watt bulb swarmed by moths and insects. The night is heavy, hot and humid. Crickets and katydids turn nights silence away.

Like I've done many nights, I would walk to the other side of the road to take a leak in the bushes and as I was finishing up... What the hell was that?!? Something was moving toward me.

Now I've been scared, gun pulled on me etc, but whatever it was I was seeing had me frozen, I literally couldn't move, I was affixed and the little character bent down to climb through a hole in rusty cattle fence over grown with brush. Grey, big eyes, hard to make out in the dull glow of the garage light and whatever faint moonlight existed. All I could do was try to think of how I love the Earth, the science of the universe and my reverence for nature and the natural world, and it stared seeming to read my thoughts.

And like that it turned around and went back through the hole in the fence from which it came, diminishing into the darkness of the night. Finally I was released and my muscles began to work. 20 yards later I began to wonder if that was real, like my memory of it was already fading. I never said I saw an alien or anything like that, however I have told this story about the grey thing with little hands.

Not so long ago I witness a raccoon walking and I sometimes wonder, was it just the low light, brain filling in faint details of an out of world visitor??? I certainly would like to know.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 15 hours ago

Cloud it have been an opossum? They look a bit freaky wandering around at night.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

I thought the blue aliens were birds. The Greys can't survive in our atmosphere for long.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago

Yes, ad than there is also this nice guy

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 points 20 hours ago

is that the harpy eagle or whatever its name is? They have freaky faces. Almost human-like in this super weird uncanny way.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yes, it's a harpy, very impressive birdies.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 15 hours ago

It's always cool to see real life mythical creatures.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 13 hours ago

Very impressive indeed. And a proper name for it too. Literally looks like a hybrid bird woman.

[-] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 20 hours ago

They are not what they seem

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 27 points 1 day ago

horrors beyond my comprehension

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago
[-] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 20 hours ago

Break its legs!

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

And the same for "demon sightings" at some points in history.

[-] lath@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yup, just some goats walking on two feet.

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Or.... owls are aliens. What we have on esrth is their primitive pregenitor species who they dumped here like it was some zoo

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago

@Dort_Owl@hexbear.net Are you a Martian? You know you have to tell us if you are. The intergalactic courts don't play around.

[-] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

This was a topic in The Fourth Kind but the reverse.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I'm obliged to point out the recent Doctor Who episode where the aliens were owls. Well, shape shifting, cosplaying owls to be more accurate.

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 1 day ago

Elegy for the Rings.

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