I was just wandering across reality yesterday when I picked up an old
Kodak manual on ambient light photography (to this day, I seldom use a
flash).  I'd been wondering idly about taking photos of an abduction 
in progress.
Then I recalled the size of the eyes of the classic grey.  Each one is
huge -- they cover about 20% of the entire face in some cases, even 
more in others -- and, oddly, are about the same relative size as the
eyes of a cat.
A cat's eyes cut significantly into the available space in the cat's
skull, thereby limiting brain size.  This limitation requires a brain
optimized for processing of sensory inputs, relegating conscious thought
and problem-solving to the place of luxuries.
What does this mean to the greys?  It suggests, if we assume that the
eyes are really the simple eyes you and I have, that there is little
in the way of brain in those skulls.  This does assume a couple of things
about their bodies: the aforementioned brain size limitation and similarity
to our eyes, but also that their brains are in their skulls.
Let's assume that their brain is in their skull.  An eye that is the
depth into the skull that an eye like ours would be (were it that large)
would decrease significantly the available space for the brain.
I'd like to suggest that the eye on the classic grey is NOT an eye as
we know it.  And that the shape of the grey is not one which reflects
the shape of the controlling intelligence in abduction situations.
... Open mouth, insert foot, echo intergalactically.
--- FMail 0.98
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