Alien Nutrition: The Absorption Hypothesis

Blood and other fluids

May 08, 2024

The Venusian food bath, in Frank Hampson’s *Dan Dare* (July 28, 1950).

See Alien Nutrition: Energetic Feeding

“Is there any absolute impossibility in supposing man to be destined for a similar change; to imagine him no longer dining, with unwieldy paraphernalia of servants and plates, upon food queerly dyed and distorted, but nourishing himself in elegant simplicity by immersion in a tub of nutritive fluid?” —H.G. Wells, “Of a Book Unwritten: The Man of the Year Million” (1893)

In the previous part on energetic feeding, one of the sessions included this: “Lizards and Grays only need physical nourishment while ‘visiting’ 3rd level.” This part will deal with that physical nourishment necessary to sustain their presence in our 3D reality.

In his book A Trojan Feast, Joshua Cutchin writes:

The notion that aliens might absorb nutrition through their skin is not a recent one. A November 10, 2005, Magonia editorial by Martin S. Kottmeyer provided an excellent overview of the concept’s history, tracing it from 1988’s The Krill Report, a suspect document of the early internet, through the work of Dr. David Jacobs.1

After an extensive survey of “entity food” cases – paranormal encounters involving faeries, aliens, and Bigfoot offering or receiving food – Cutchin concludes:

There is a strong indication that entities do not consume in a normal terrestrial fashion via the mouth. While no one theory may be correct, the Absorption Theory, the concept of foyson, and the manner in which faerie food is revealed to be debris cloaked in glamour all support this claim.

The origins of the absorption hypothesis are found in the work of Paul Bennewitz, influenced in part by his study of abductee Myrna Hansen. In his “Project Beta” (ca. 1981), he wrote: “It appears that humanoids are fed by a formula made from human or cattle material.” He told Jim McCampbell in a 1984 interview: “They are fed by a formula and if they are short of that intake they will turn gray. […] Elimination is through the skin.” In Christa Tilton’s 1991 summary of the Hansen case, she writes:

Myrna continues her horrifying account by describing walking back to a trestle, to a doorway where she is able to observe a generator, pools of water with “submerged things” in them. Then it occurs to her that what she is viewing are body parts! She tells of seeing the top of a bald head, and arm with a hand, human. She also sees something like tongues—they look larger than human tongues.

John Lear was the first to suggest absorption explicitly. In a December 13, 1987, letter (later published online in multiple versions), he wrote:

The EBE’s have a genetic disorder in that their digestive system is atrophied and not functional. Some speculate that they were involved in some type of nuclear war or possibly on the back side of a genetic curve. In order to sustain themselves they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the tongues and throats of cows or humans. (Note: cows and humans are genetically similar. In event of a national disaster cow blood can be used by humans). This secretion is mixed with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) and another substance and is either spread on the skin, or the hands are dipped in the solution. The body then absorbs the mixture and excretes the waste back through the skin.

Lear reportedly admitted to writing the above-mentioned “Krill Report” (January 1988) as what Jeremy Corbell calls a “best estimate” of the reality behind aliens and UFOs. (It is possible that John Grace aka Valdamar Valerian, and/or William Cooper also contributed to it, and that it was intended to be published in Valerian’s Matrix I, also published in 1988.) It states (with obvious parallels to Lear’s letter above in italics):

We knew that the Greys were instrumental in performing the mutilations of animals (and some humans) and that they were using the glandular substances derived from these materials for food (absorbed through the skin) and to clone more Greys in their underground laboratories. The government was also aware that the Greys performed some of the abductions to secure genetic materials. […]
The apparent reasoning for the Grey preoccupation with this is due to their lack of a formal digestive tract and the fact that they absorb nutrients and excrete waste directly through the skin. The substances that they acquire are mixed with hydrogen peroxide and “painted” on their skin, allowing absorption of the required nutrients. It is construed from this that some weaponry against them might be geared in this direction.

Valerian’s Matrix I (1988) includes this regarding “Grey Species 3” aka “Rigelians”:

The nutrient glandulars extracted from terrestrial biological organisms is absorbed through their skin in a dual osmotic process. Nutrients are taken in and waste materials are excreted.

The following from Valerian’s Matrix II (1991) again restates the above details (but with a dubious and unsourced abduction account added into the mix):

You will recall that “mutilations” generally result in all of the blood being withdrawn from the body. This has been the case whether the subject is an “animal” or a human. The blood and other fluids are then generally transferred to holding containers, or vats, as well as other body parts. […] There was one case where a woman and her two children were abducted […] She managed to run down a hallway and went into a room where she saw a vat full of red liquid and body parts of humans and animals. She saw another vat of the same type in which the liquid was being agitated, and as she looked into the vat she could see Greys bobbing up and down, almost swimming, absorbing the nutrients through their skin. There is also the use of H2O2 in the vats in order to aid in preserving the fluid from rapid degeneration. These entities have been abducting humans for many centuries – these entities view Earth as a big farm, and have been essentially raising and harvesting humans […]

On the Grays, Valerian writes: “Digestive tract is useless. Nourishment is ingested by smearing a soupy mixture of biologicals on the epidermis. Food Source: Bovine cattle parts (and human) surgically removed by light technology (laser) and distilled into a high protein broth.”

Bill Cooper repeated the above details in 1989, as did George C. Andrews for his own alien taxonomy in 1993 (Extraterrestrial Friends & Foes). Channeler Lyssa Royal, in Visitors from Within (1992), claimed that Zeta Reticulans “genetically altered their bodies to absorb nutrients through their skin when nuclear war forced them underground” (echoing Lear’s speculation above).

Predating most of the above, Cutchin quotes a suggestive anecdote from a 1988 book by Brad Steiger, who relates a 1982 report of a Colorado forest ranger who “caught her [a beautiful blonde woman, who was accompanying a short, large-headed, large-eyed ‘dwarf’] putting her finger in to test the [coffee the man had offered her] as if she could somehow pick up the liquid with her fingertips and drink it that way.” He also cites the 1971 abduction case of Brian Scott, who described his abductors as “ugly humanoids with large heads, large mouths and ears, and crocodile-like skin,” the largest of which was nine feet tall. During a second encounter, Scott “noticed several other beings floating in large cylinders of jellylike fluid, cables attached to their heads and bodies.”

As Cutchin writes, accounts of alien morphology are consistent with absorption: they have small or absent mouths, and seem to lack urethras and anuses.

Ernie Sears, a recurring abductee from Southampton, England, told the Southern Daily Echo, “They have no mouth, just a thin skip of skin and hardly any nose. They don’t ingest food like we do.” Researcher Leonard Stringfield noted in the November 1978 issue of Flying Saucer Review that the extraterrestrial mouth “appears not to function as a means of communication or as an orifice for food ingestion,” at least in a majority of reports.

In Secret Life (1992), David Jacobs wrote:

The area where the stomach would be is flat. The aliens have no rounded paunch or line of demarcation for a food-processing mechanism like the upper and lower intestines. Witnesses do not see a navel. Nor do they see genitals. […] There is no apparent method for the elimination of liquid waste. […] The aliens do not appear to have a moveable mouth, teeth, saliva, or tongue. The throat is a narrow tube with no indication that it contains a complex apparatus for swallowing or ingestion. The lack of a jaw further supports the notion that if the aliens eat, it is not accomplished through mastication. There are no discernible buttocks or solid and liquid waste elimination apparatus.

This matches multiple reports of physical examinations of alien remains. For example, both Leonard Stringfield and Tony Dodd received documents alleging to be results of medical examinations. In Stringfield’s 1980 “UFO Crash Retrievals: Status Report II,” he summarizes what he learned from medical insiders, at least one of whom claimed to have performed an alien autopsy in the 1950s. This included the following features:

Mouth is indicated as a small ‘slit’ without lips, opening into a small cavity. Mouth appears not to function as a means of communications or as an orifice for food ingestion. […]
Skin description is NOT green. Some claim beige, tan, brown, or tannish or pinkish gray and one said it looked almost “bluish gray” under deep freeze lights. […] The texture is described as scaly or reptilian, and as stretchable, elastic or mobile over smooth muscle or skeletal tissue. […] No perspiration, no body odor.
No teeth.
No apparent reproductive organs. […]
Colorless liquid prevalent in body, without red blood cells. No lymphocytes. Not a carrier of oxygen. No food or water intake is known. No food found aboard craft in one known retrieval. No digestive tract of GI tract. No intestinal or alimentary canal or rectal area described.

In 1989, British researcher Tony Dodd received a document that appeared to be a re-typed version of a top secret South African Air Force document on a recent crash retrieval (the so-called Kalahari Conspiracy). It included a preliminary medical report on the “humanoid entities” recovered:

COMPLEXION: Greyish-blue – skin texture smooth, extremely resilient. […]
MOUTH: Small slit devoid of lips […]
GENITALS: No exterior sexual organs […]
NOTES: Due to aggressive nature of the humanoids, no samples of blood or tissue could be taken. When offered various foods, they refused to eat.

Lt. Col. Phil Corso would later make similar claims (see below).

The Cassiopaeans first brought up the absorption hypothesis in late 1994:

October 22, 1994

Q: (L) What is their [aliens’] metabolic structure?
A: […] part of their reason for existence on the fourth level is their ability to nourish themselves both through ethereal methods and through physical methods. Therefore, this energy transfer would represent the ethereal method of nourishment and other means are achieved physically.
Q: (L) What other means?
A: […] the drinking of blood and blood byproducts would be an example of that.

As we quoted John Keel in the article on cattle mutilations, “Obviously, someone or some thing needs enormous quantities of animal and human blood, and we have been furnishing it for hundreds of years.” Few since Keel have considered the idea seriously, even when discussing mutilations and their obvious connection with blood. Two exceptions are Timothy Good and Nick Redfern (as well as channeler Marshall Summers, discussed in the next part).

In his 2013 book Earth, Good summarizes the account of “Thomas,” who served in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. While Good pseudonymizes Thomas, checking the sources in the footnotes reveal his identity as Trevor Beer, a British naturalist and columnist who died in 2017 (the planned book on his experience, Code Orange, was never published). Beer tells of having been given the duty of helping to watch over two live aliens and their craft, which were flown over to Britain from the United States. Beer and his colleagues were told the beings and craft had come down in New Mexico in 1947. Relevant to the topic, Good writes:

The Code Orange team were never present when the aliens took their meals. Although some thin tubes were present in their glass enclosure, their purpose was indeterminable. Waste matter, perhaps? Eventually, G and L [the two beings], having picked up the men’s bewilderment, communicated some details. “You have been wondering if we feed, and how we do so. We do know your seniors have not told you. […] We feed on blood, and water. Yes, I can feel your reaction, but our race does not digest solids. … Both liquids are available on this planet and we partake of small amounts of each in order to survive. […] Your seniors obtain enough food for our needs and provide us with it in your absence.”
Thomas told me he recalls that the blood—presumably from slaughtered animals—was obtained from a local farm. In an interesting letter to a magazine, written in 2001, he made some apposite references to the consumption of blood—without, of course, citing his own experience. “Over the years, certain peoples have been vilified by modern attitudes against the terrors of blood sacrifices,” he wrote. “However, if genetically modified humans, ruled by their makers up to a time when they, our makers, leave the planet [and] have had at times to ‘entertain’ and consort with said makers, then they would have to provide the necessary correct food. …
“What if there was, or is, a race of beings which have evolved to feed on blood? As simple as that. It may appall some of us, even possibly most of us, yet we are talking alien creatures here. […] So along comes a race of beings which lives on blood from animals rather than meat. And when they arrive as ‘gods’ or powerful beings, we in due deference feed them with what they require.”

In Paranormal Parasites, Redfern describes what he learned on his Chupacabra research trips to Puerto Rico. Two independent sources described their personal knowledge of a secretive group that reportedly ritually summoned the Chupacabras into existence. (The first sightings occurred in August 1995.) “Julia” claimed her ex-husband was a member of the group in 1999:

Julia’s husband told her that it was due to certain supernatural pacts between the group and the paranormal denizens of realms beyond ours that he now had so much prestige, power, and money. There was, however, a price to pay—as there always is when one makes a deal with malignant supernatural things from other dimensional planes. The price revolved around nothing less than human blood.

This was provided by well-paid volunteers, and the blood delivered by another well-paid local doctor. Julia described the ritual:

The lights in the building flickered and the room was filled with a nauseating odor of sulfur. In seconds, the air shimmered […] and the creature slowly came into being, hunched over and staring at the group malevolently. […] the Chupacabra was semitransparent. It was far more spectral than it was physical. That is, until the monster placed its clawed paws into a large bowl, in which substantial amounts of blood had been poured. […] the magical nature of human blood […] not only fed the Chupacabra, but also gave it physical substance in our world, in marked difference to the ethereal form it had in its own realm. When the creature was apparently sated and fed, it vanished in a bright blue flash that affected the eyes of one and all present for several minutes.

While this story relates to a window-faller, aside from the function of blood in sustaining 3D existence, the story resonates with another line of questioning in a more recent session (2024-04-27) about why the Brazilian UFO/alien/window-faller encounters have historically been so intense and violent, e.g. in Colares, as reported by Bob Pratt in UFO Danger Zone (1996). The answer: “There are many Brazilians involved in questionable practices [e.g. black magic, voodoo, spiritism, drugs like ayahuasca] that attract and give permission for such violations in the specific areas.”

According to Cutchin, in Thieves in the Night, some faerie lore claimed “any faeries denied water offerings extracted blood to make into cakes, while other tales spoke of a green-clad faerie mistress who fed her offspring with—or washed them in—the blood of children.” Also, the faeries’ hatred of the color red reflected “their own bloodless state,” possibly also a reference to their pale complexion.

Q: (L) Do they do that [i.e. drink blood]?
A: Yes, but the manner of intake is different than what you may be thinking. It is done through pores.
Q: (L) In what manner?
A: Bathing and then absorbing the necessary products and then disposing of the remaining product. […]

In a related bit of folklore, Cutchin quotes “a perverse old English belief” that “witches abducted unbaptized children to boil into a jelly, part of which they drank and the other half they smeared on their bodies, all in an effort to acquire magical powers.” (Lilith was also said to steal men’s sperm and blood.)

More recently, a Reddit user claiming to have worked as a molecular biologist from the late 2000s to the mid-2010s “for a national security contractor in a program to study Exo-Biospheric-Organisms” made the following claims:

Skin: The grey skin that is often described in folklore is in fact a biosynthetic film which, likely, serves to protect the EBO from a hostile environment. It doesn’t provide effective protection against temperature changes, but it does offer adequate protection against the passage of liquids. […] Under the grey film, the epidermis is rather white, and the texture is very regular and without any hair. We do not see any defect other than the folds near the joints. It’s described as greasy in one report, but that’s not something I've observed. The same report states that a strong, lingering smell of burnt hair and ammonia is present when the film is removed. There are a lot of pores on the skin, crossing from the epidermis to a gland in the hypodermis. These glands and pores are the terminal part of the excretory-sudoriferous system, which could explain the previously mentioned smell. […]
Excreto-sudoriferous system: This system is completely different from what I’ve seen. As mentioned earlier, there is no large orifice, like an anus or urethra, to get rid of biological waste. Instead, there are countless small pores on the surface of the skin. […] Waste is excreted into the equivalent of a ureter, which branches out into four. Each branch flows towards one of the four limbs and in turn these branches divide until they end up as thousands of excretory pores. […] As there is no urea cycle, the ammonia concentration at the exit of the hepatorenal organ is very high. This ammonia is carried to the pores and gives the distinct odor I mentioned earlier. The rationale behind this unusual excretory system is directly related to this excreted ammonia, which enables thermoregulation by evaporating on the skin’s surface. […]
Digestive system: The digestive system is extremely underdeveloped. […] there is no stomach in the familiar sense. However, there is a pseudo-stomach located at the transition between the thoracic and abdominal cavities. This organ is not involved in digestion, but only serves as a reservoir. A sphincter controls the flow of food into the intestine. The intestine is limited to the equivalent of our small intestine, i.e. it only serves to absorb liquids and nutrients and acts as the main digestion site. It has villi and microvilli like ours. The intestine ends in the hepato-renal organ, where non-digested matter is transported to the ureter and excretory system. Residues are dissolved in the ammonia of metabolic waste for excretion. There’s an organ near the pseudostomachal sphincter that secretes digestive enzymes directly into the intestine. […]
Given the absence of teeth, the narrowness and rigidity of the esophagus, the absence of a true stomach and the absence of defecation, it is strongly believed that EBOs can only consume food in liquid form. It is assumed that, given the high metabolic needs of their brains, this food would have a high carbohydrate concentration. In order to meet other metabolic needs, there must also be a high protein content in the food consumed. These two statements are supported by the type of enzyme secreted by the digestive organ. It is therefore speculated that the food consumed is a sort of broth rich in sugar and protein, which probably also has a high copper content. Given the strict limitations on the type of food that they can consume, it’s unlikely that this type of creature could survive in our biosphere without technological support.

Several of these descriptions match those from previous sources, above, with the notable difference that the pores are described only as serving an excretory role, not one of absorption.

Q: (L) Going back to the beings that absorb nutrients through their pores, what kind of beings are they?
A: Both those that you describe as the Lizard beings and those you describe as the Grays. This is necessary for their survival in each case. Even though the Grays are not natural parts of the short-wave cycle [physical 3D reality as we experience it], but rather an artificial creation by the Lizard beings, […] nevertheless they mimic the nourishment functions. […] They have all the same capabilities of the Lizard beings except for the fact that their physical appearance is entirely different and they do not have souls of their own and also their biological structure is internally different. But, their functioning is the same and in order to remain as projection beings they also must absorb nutrients in the same fashion both spiritually and physically as the Lizard beings do. […] beings existing on the fourth level of density can draw from beings existing on the third level of density in terms of absorption of negative soul energy. Likewise, beings on the third level of density can draw from beings on the second level of density, though this type of drawing is not as necessary but is done. This is why human beings existing on the third level frequently cause pain and suffering to those of the animal kingdom who exist on the second level of density […]

October 23, 1994

A: [In 4D, people will] absorb nutrients through the skin.
Q: (L) In the same way as the Lizzies and Grays do?
A: They are 4 level.
Q: (L) And they also absorb nutrients through their skin?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) What nutrients do they use?
A: Many. […]
Q: (L) Are you saying that we will be feeding ourselves the same way [i.e. bathing in blood]?
A: No.
Q: (L) Is it true they throw people in the blender and then absorb their bodies?
A: Close.

This last question is probably a reference to the “vats” described in the abductions of Myrna Hansen and Christa Tilton (among others), mentioned above.

January 21, 1995

Q: (L) What is this item that they [the government] were protecting so that society or the public wouldn’t know about it? What activity is this?
A: Humans eat cattle, aliens eat you. […]
Q: (J) They drink [cow blood]? What do they use this blood for?
A: Nourishment.
Q: (L) OK, but you just said that aliens eat humans, and humans eat cattle. Why were the aliens being nourished by cattle, if that’s not their normal bill of fare? […]
A: Do you not ever consume facsimile? […] Facsimile is less controversial, obviously! […] Some of their human “food” is merely emotions, think of flesh as being the equal of “filet mignon.” […]
Q: (T) We’re talking about the Lizards.
A: Yes. […]
Q: (T) OK, what do the Grays feed on?
A: Plasma.
Q: (T) OK, the Grays feed on plasma, blood plasmas of some kind, is this what you are saying?
A: Yes.

Alan B. de Walton (aka “Branton”) quotes an interview with “Thomas Castello” (the fictional vehicle of “Tal Levesque” and Ann West) that took place ca. 1990 and was published in 1996: “The aliens use the blood and body parts for formula to keep them alive and for use in the growing vats, and for the artificial wombs. Plasma and amniotic fluid are the two most vital ingredients for their lives. […] The formula includes amniotic water, plasma and several other body parts [raw, usually bovine]. This nearly clear mixture with a texture of pureed peaches, and almost in that color.”

Q: […] (L) OK, in this Krill document there was a statement made that the Grays and other aliens use glandular substances extracted during physical exams of human beings, what they would call the gynecological and the sperm extraction exams, that they used these glandular substances to get high or to feed on, that they are addicted to these. Is this a correct assessment?
A: No.

This section is quoted above. The document also summarizes a page from George C. Andrews’s book Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, stating:

A recent arrival on the nutritional scene is protomorphogens, or glandulars — ground up glands of cattle. If one [i.e. presumably a human, not an alien] takes these for a year you get “hooked” on them. Your own glands stop producing hormones. Many EBEs have no alimentary canals and no glands. In some cancer clinics, these glandulars are used to treat cancer victims, and so are glands from human fetuses.

Phil Schneider would later claim that aliens got high off these substances (see further below).

Q: (L) Do they use glandular substances at all?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) What do they use glandular substances for?
A: Medicine.
Q: (L) And what or who do they use this medicine on?
A: Themselves.
Q: (L) And what does this medicine do for them?
A: Helps them cope with 3rd density.
Q: (T) Is this something that they use to help them stay in the 3rd density?
A: Close.
Q: (L) Does it help them to manifest in a more solid physical manner?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, in other words, they draw glandular substances. Do they also use sexual energy given off by individuals to maintain their status in three dimensions?
A: No. That feeds them in 4D, as we told you before.

Subsequent to these sessions, others continued to advance the absorption hypothesis, or hint at it. In his 1995 book Abduction, John Mack quoted an abductee who “recalled watching as alien infants were sponged with a green liquid ‘as if to put energy into their bodies.’” In a 1995 lecture, Phil Schneider said something similar (possibly influenced by the above sources):

I’m going to tell you something a little bit different about these alien species. The bad news ones, there are nine races of alien populations. They look at a human being as a bag of food. They’re not cannibals [i.e. anthropophages], they don’t eat the flesh and the bones and all that kind of stuff. They use the glandular secretions of animals and human beings as a mixture of the vitamins for their food. They get high off of our adrenal gland substances, called adrenochrome. It’s something like cocaine to them.

And in the summer 1995 edition of Flying Saucer Review, Kevin Aspinall noted a connection with faerie lore (the subject of Cutchin’s book, which quotes it), in which “The pith and spirits only [i.e. foyson] of women’s milk feed [faeries’] children”—a “shorter way of conveying a pure aliment (without the usual digestions), by transfusing it and transpiring through the pores into the veins, arteries, and vessels that supply the body.”

In The Day after Roswell (1997), Philip J. Corso wrote:

In these biological entities, the blood system and lymphatic systems seem to have been combined. And if an exchange of nutrients and waste occurred within their systems, that exchange could have only taken place through the creature’s skin or the outer protective covering they wore because there were no digestive or waste systems.
The Walter Reed doctors were also fascinated by the nature of the creature’s inner skin. It resembled, although their preliminary reports didn’t go into any chemical analysis, a thin layer of fatty tissue unlike any they’d ever seen before. And it was completely permeable, as if it were constantly exchanging chemicals back and forth with the combination blood/lymphatic system. Was this the way the creatures nourished themselves during their journeys and was this how waste was processed? The very small mouths and the lack of a human digestive system troubled the doctors at first because they didn’t know how these things were sustained.

In 1998, David Jacobs published The Threat, in which he (re)discovered the absorption hypothesis. He cites a hypnotic regression of Allison Reed from July 6, 1994 (10 days before the first Cassiopaean session, incidentally) of an abduction that occurred in 1986, which echoed those of Hansen and Tilton, as solving the puzzle for him. She described seeing multiple tanks in an “off-limits” room. She was told the room was for “eating and sleeping.”

The absorption theory is supported by reports of fetuses floating in tanks in “incubatoriums.” Many fetuses do not have umbilical cords, suggesting that they do not receive nourishment from a placenta. An alien told Diane Henderson [in summer 1974, regression: July 14, 1994] from southern Illinois that the fetuses were in the liquid for “feeding,” and that it was “nutritious.” […] Susan Steiner [on September 30, 1995, regression: October 9, 1995], went into a nursery where an alien presented her with a baby. […] When they could not force her to feed it, they brought out a bowl of brown liquid with a “paintbrush” and told her to paint it on the baby. She asked them what the point of this was. They told her it was for “nourishment.”

In 2013, Timothy Good quoted a U.S. Army Intelligence source who included the absorption hypothesis in his description of “Grays’ anatomy”:

The alien species described by my source said they lived for several hundreds of years. Anatomically, they had a bi-chambered heart, and a single lung served to oxygenate their blood and tissues and to eliminate bodily wastes in gaseous form. Vegetable-based food was liquefied and its nutrients absorbed through their tissues, not gastronomically. Their genitals were similar to ours, but those of the male were much smaller.

More recently, in his 2015 book, Cutchin collects many of the above sources in the context of his exploration of “entity food.” He speculates:

If we consider the implications of the Absorption Theory, we are faced with something of a quandary. Quite a few alien encounters feature liquids, gels, and ointments smeared over the abductee’s naked body, a fact begging the question: if aliens consume via their skin, does this make any abduction involving ointment an entity food case? […] There certainly is evidence to suggest that these full-body immersions possess a nutritive component. When Mario Restier was taken aboard an alien craft in 1949, he was placed—clothing and all—into a tub full of liquid that he was told would “eliminate the discomfort of large accelerations and also nourish the body.”

Other Feeding Methods

December 2, 1995

Q: (L) What kind of nourishment was required by that being [i.e. a human-Gray hybrid]?
A: Saline gelatin globules.
Q: (L) Did it eat as we do, through the mouth?
A: Cordates. [Cordata means heart-shaped in Latin; cordate is a leaf shape, cordatum is a sea urchin.]
Q: (L) What? What is that?
A: Applications using biological microforms to metastasize through primary glandular channels.

July 19, 1997

Q: What do the Orions [i.e. Nordics] eat?
A: Crystalline tablets, which are aspirated through oral demolecuarization.
Q: Are these crystalline tablets like rocks, like our idea of crystals?
A: Picture a sparkling polished oval bead.
Q: What is the chemical composition?
A: Quartz at the 3rd power compared to Terran samples.

The only account included in Cutchin’s book of a non-human consuming tablets is that of a West Virginian in April 1897, who “claimed to have met eight 12-foot-tall entities with large heads who visited for an hour, all while eating small pills and ‘drinking air.’”