But what would be the point of producing this dummy? Why would someone be making aliens like this in the 1940s?
"If it is a hoax, it is very well done and was clearly done some time ago," says Sci-Fi Channel spokesperson, Lawrence Hall. "There are signs of degradation on its upper and lower left arm, it is cracking."
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The most curious thing to me is why the thing would be IN a jar in the first place, if it's obviously a model (as it undoubtedly is -- or, if not, this should be easy to determine!) A model doesn't need to be "preserved" in a liquid that smells like vinegar and, anyway, vinegar isn't the embryo preservative of coice -- formaldehyde is! So, the hoax would possibly have been to PRETEND that this was an alien embryo, perhaps just for the purpose of filming it, which would explain why the liquid ISN'T (evidently, anyway) formaldehyde.
But in that case (and I think it's fairly obvious that it's some kind of man-made model -- has nobody taken a sample of it for analysis?), why is the liquid vinegary? Why not just use water?
I think it's already been establised that it's a clay model. But it looks as if it's an *old* clay model, which I think is kind of weird.
The overwhleming odds are that it's a hoax. But if it's a hoax that predates the 1960s, when the "Gray" became known, then where fid the hoaxers get the idea for their model?