Yeah, great question.
As far as motive for crossing the space time continuum maybe there's something we're missing about huckleberries? Like why they only seem to be for sale in National Park gift shops as marginal tasting treacle/jam/candy? IF huckleberries underpinned the whole thing, why wouldn't they target the processed huckleberry products through the supply chain? Seems like when the trucks deliver to the huckleberry smelters, that's the highest yield pirating, right at the entrance choke point. That's probably where you would need surveillance.
The thing is, those trucks never seem to go missing, at least as far as I am aware.
Take it a step further though, what about the bipedal food foragers? Those 5000 foot foragers are among the most observant people out there. If huckleberries, morels, truffles, etc are - like in Dune-
the spice- well I would think someone like Langdon Cook (
plug for Landon's books here) is going to have a tale to tell. Alternatively, if anyone's getting probed, that group seems high risk...
Which perhaps leads to a more concrete theory for motive. Maybe it's not rocks or minerals like Evan says. The Shroom Foragers, well they
seem pretty normal, albeit super fascinated by nomenclatures, but they
know you can ingest something that is a little on the weird side, start hallucinating, see things that perhaps we don't think are real... Maybe they are seeing into the other dimension perhaps, maybe opening a wormhole to travel beyond their earthly confines...Now that....
that seems more of a motive for forest walkers from another dimension.
Or maybe it is a little less spacy, a little more neurological.
The point is made above by Travis and Tom- whom I think we all would agree are credible- The point made that these
forest walkers lack arm swinging. From a Neurological perspective it means there is a fundamental lack of cross brain connectivity that works at midline for legs, but not lateral for arms. So we know there is corpus callosum or its equivalent connecting right and left hemisphere allowing bipedal alternating motion. We know there is a coordination center that regulates and reverses leg swing through a timing mechanism. we know that there is an anti-gravity and pro balance center that's intact. But there is a
blockade for arm crossover.
The arms are clearly not vestigial organs (most vestigial organs are solitary- think appendix, coccyx) because why waste development on two large items like long hairy arms? they must be there for something. So... It it is not a wiring issue, we know that because the alternating motion for the legs works...there has to be some neurotransmission failures unique to arm circuitry. Maybe the psilocybinoid shrooms allow the passage of those signals. they are in essence, reanimation fuel...
Maybe, and bear with me here, They cannot effectively pilot their ships or navigate wormholes without their arms. They
have to walk among us, without swinging their arms, till they find the shrooms that let them re-animate their arms, turn on the valves and compressors, hoist the sails, fire the boilers, pull the proverbial oars in the space galley that work their "ships" to catapult back to their other worlds....While they are with us, they are slightly paralyzed castaways looking for shrooms, they are not well in a basic motor sense, and yet they remain canny and full of sneaky guile suggesting the hallucinatory properties that affect us while on shrooms may not affect them. They don't make mistakes like we might when on shrooms, their associative and abstract cortex is working just fine, it's straight up bilateral primary arm motor control that is lacking.
Which...
.I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner...might underpin the fascination with the GI tract in probed abductees. Maybe this probing is an attempt to reclaim the undigested psilocybin/chitin mix when foraging is particularly tricky? Maybe they think we are way more prone to eating in-bulk foraged psychodelic mushrooms than we really are? Maybe the reason the ships do the beaming up and probing is the ones on the ships are just looking for the shrooms, they aren't weak yet. The ones on the ground though, they are weak, they know they can't probe and certainly can't attack. So they resort to trickery, kicking things, making noises, they make us think they are a danger when really the ones on the ground are pretty vulnerable and super shy because of it.
(Speaking of foragers, independent of the absolutely huge and jaw dropping scoop Jeffrey Goldberg has in this week's Atlantic magazine, there is also a killer
article on how mushroom ingestions (false morels) may underpin clusters of ALS (Lou Gherig's disease) in a French Mountain town.
The Atlantic has been putting out some really good stuff lately...)
