Quote:The first appearance of little gray aliens, though at the time they were not known as such, was in 1891. That’s right. The UFO enthusiast would have you believe that this image is a recent phenomenon, from when spaceships began sneaking down and snatching people, but this is simply not correct. More than 110 years ago a book was published called Meda: A Tale of the Future by a Mr. Kenneth Folingsby.

The book described tiny gray men with heads shaped like hot air balloons, some of who needed sandbags strapped to their small bodies to keep them from floating away. It doesn’t take a vivid imagination to see that his book contains the descriptions of the little beasties that much more recently took an interest in cruising our darkened country lanes. And I am well aware that there was a supposed UFO flap in the late 1890s, where people spotted lots of blimp-like things in the sky.
However, none of these people reported little gray aliens. The only ones that reported these ships as having crews or passengers reported seeing regular-looking people.