Till we get proof of E.T., keep reading ET

In the Netflix comedy series Alien Resident, we get an idea of what Harvard‘s Human Flourishing Program – no relation to Salman Khan’s charity, Being Human Foundation, or Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, Human, All Too Human – means in its new paper, ‘The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis: A Case for Scientific Openness to a Concealed Earthly Explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena’.

The show deals with an extraterrestrial crash-landing on Earth (read: Colorado, since aliens never crash-land anywhere else till non-Americans make alien shows or movies), and, then, taking on the identity of an Earthling.

True, the Harvard paper (1) is yet to be peer-reviewed, (2) has been taken off the social networking site for scientists and researchers, ResearchGate, (3) made us check whether it’s April 1, but the idea it posits – existence of the cryptoterrestrial (CT), an alien that lives under the radar among other Earthly sentient beings.

The paper suggests four types of CTs: (1) member of an ancient human civilisation who has returned, (2) non-human that lives quietly among terrestrial non-humans, (3) aliens from the future, and (4) aliens that are ‘magical’, like elves, fairies, etc.

Yes, that does sound like Donald Trump’s election pitch about illegal immigrants living among legit American citizens. Till any proof comes humanity’s way, keeping reading ET.