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 Alien-human hybridization programs for the purpose of colonizing and/or (if they’re coming from the future) directing us to their biological state makes some sense to me. It would explain why they might kidnap people and gestate hybrids for some time in the woman before taking the embryo back and into some other incubator (or leaving it if it’s viable to term). 

What I find harder to believe is the claim that aliens are “only” taking DNA samples to help diversify their own population because they’re dying out and want to become more fertile. 

We have 1,000s of people’s genomes sequenced already, can’t they just take the info and synthesize the DNA chemically? We can already make synthetic cells and program simple genetic circuits*— how can engineering themselves to be more fertile be beyond their technology (even without human DNA input) if they are millions of years ahead of us? 

Is it possible they’re actually quite dumb and just inherited fast spaceships? Did they live through an era of Idiocracy? Should we be even more concerned about interacting with these folks than we are right now???

* (It is possible there is more to DNA samples than just sequence, eg epigenetic markers, bound protein factors, or other things not known to us, or the claim of “taking DNA samples” is a hyper simplistic term lost in translation that stands for some other process, or hybridization biology between two perhaps entirely unrelated species is much harder than I’d expect.)

#NHI #UAP