Insectoid - in Ufology and Conspiracy Theories

In Ufology and Conspiracy Theories

Abduction researcher Brian Thompson claims that a nurse acquaintance of his reported that during 1957 in Cincinnati she encountered a 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) praying mantis-like entity two days after a V-shaped UFO sighting. This mantis-like creature is reminiscent of the insectoid-type entity reported in some abduction accounts. He related this report to fellow researcher Leonard Stringfield. Stringfield told him of two cases he had in his files where separate witnesses reported identical circumstances in the same place and year.

Abduction researcher Karla Turner in Into the fringe reported that a man called David remembered an encounter with a giant mantis during an hypnosis session.

Linda Moulton Howe in Glimpses of Other Realities describes some claims of alien mantis. The book includes the cases of Linda Porter and David Huggins. In 1988 Linda Porter remembered an abduction by alien mantis which she said took place when she was a child. In the same year 1988 David Huggins remembered an encounter with alien mantis that he said took place in the 1950s, when he was a child. The book report also the case of Jeanne Robinson, which said she have received messages by an alien similar to a mantis. According to Ms Robinson, these aliens are a branch of Greys.

Vicki Cameron in UFO experience in Canada reported a case of an abduction by an insectoid alien similar to a grasshopper.

On the Coast to Coast AM radio show (February 8, 2004), Major Ed Dames once described remote viewing data which seemed to indicate a sentient, insectoidal race on a distant planet. In response to the topic of orbs, "...he said that they were not related to ghosts, but rather an alien life form's continued "telepresence" on Earth. He went on to explain that an insect race, at a great distance from us, uses a kind of "psychoenergetic technology" to explore places in the universe."

Martin Kottmeyer argue the phenomenon of mantis alien may be explained by the effects of cultural factors. He remembered that in the movies The Deadly Mantis (1957) and Son of Godzilla (1968) appeared giant mantises, though they are not aliens. Kottmeyer remembered too that in the Saturday morning kid show Space Ghost (1966) appeared an alien mantis named Zorak.