The Alien Encounters Quotes

The Alien Encounters is a television program that debuted in 1970 . The Alien Encounters ended its run in 1970.

It features David E. Jackson as producer, William Loose in charge of musical score, and Holger Kasper as head of cinematography.

The Alien Encounters is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Alien Encounters is 92 minutes long.

The Alien Encounters Quotes

• (Allan Reed) "Mrs. Arlyn, for the past five years I've been traveling, investigating every phenomenon from alien astronauts to Atlantis to the Bermuda Triangle, even Bigfoot. I'm a scientist -- I'm an astronomer."
• (Mrs. Arlyn) "Really?"
• (Allan Reed) "Well, an unemployed astronomer."

• (Allan Reed) "Steve, why do you think some -- alien civilization out there would care enough about -- us -- travel light years away from their planet, just to teach us how to build a machine to prolong our lives? Doesn't really make sense, does it?"
• (Steve Arlyn) "Maybe they're, uh -- not like us?"
• (Allan Reed) "You mean there are certain things Man can not understand -- doesn't have the intelligence to comprehend?"
• (Steve Arlyn) "Of course we don't understand -- we're still trying to keep track of which nations hate each other the most."
• (Steve Arlyn) "But it's not like that on certain other planets."
• (Allan Reed) "No? What's it like then?"
• (Steve Arlyn) "Hard to explain -- it's not that Man doesn't have the brain power or the senses to understand -- it's a matter of how people have conditioned their minds."
• (Allan Reed) "We limit our thinking."
• (Steve Arlyn) "And reasoning, and feeling -- we limit the use of all parts of the brain. You've heard that a million times, right?"
• (Allan Reed) "Huh."
• (Steve Arlyn) "Picture a place -- out there -- inhabited by beings who look -- pretty much like we do. Their planet's about the same age as Earth -- they've evolved at the same rate -- with one exception --"
• (Allan Reed) "Their mental abilities are much greater than ours?"
• (Steve Arlyn) "You've heard that idea before too."
• (Allan Reed) "In every science fiction movie I've ever seen."
• (Steve Arlyn) "Well, it's for real."
• (Allan Reed) "Are you telling me -- there actually is another planet like ours, with people who look like us?"
• (Steve Arlyn) "Not just one, millions of 'em that have been discovered so far. You heard signals from one of them."
• (Allan Reed) "Barnard's star."
• (Steve Arlyn) "That planet's a lot like Earth, except drier -- more deserts -- with only a third of its surface covered with water -- but it's beautiful really. That's what my dad said."
• (Allan Reed) "Your father -- was visited by people from Barnard's Star -- so they told him how to build a machine to prolong life."
• (Allan Reed) "Why?"
• (Steve Arlyn) "So maybe we could live long enough to use what we'd learned."

• (Allan Reed) "I was alive, but it didn't matter. The memories were more than I could handle. Luke -- Susan. Why them, not me? I was alone, just my thoughts. Thoughts about how I might end my loneliness. My mind would not let me rest. Sometimes I'd get angry at myself for feeling self pity. I couldn't find a purpose. There was nothing left for me. It got worse -- unbearable, the thought of how they died. Finally, I couldn't hurt any deeper. I was numb, totally exhausted. That's when somehow I suddenly realized what I'd heard. It was a voice, a spoken message of some kind. But what did it mean?"

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