I will try to give my 2 cents here before reading everyone else’s; I will go over the other responses after. This is just my own ideas from what I have experienced and put together from searching.
Besides a few dreams of the greys and one night being electrocuted in my bed by 3 little people (I was being zapped so I didn't make out much more then they were small shadowy figures, and I think one tall guy) besides that, I haven't had enough aware contact that I can recall. Greys are known to tag people with these implants and seem to be interested in our emotions as well, not just DNA.
Even if you cloned someone in space or on a ship, they wouldn't have the same psychological development and experiences to qualify as an Earthling.
But... from the things I have found out in my own life and background, I wouldn't be surprised if it’s a military trick, or that they use the greys as a cover for something else.
With so much talk these days of the microchip, it makes me wonder where all these test subjects are who they used to try out this technology?!
If the military was to sneak into peoples homes at night and tag them, well... may as well let the person just think its a nightmare, or something so crazy that you wouldn't feel comfortable to mention it, like an alien abduction.
If they do exist, which I think maybe they do, then maybe they come from close by and not so far away.
I personally don't think that they are us from the future. The last grey dream I had
(I haven't had many) was a few weeks ago... me and a grey alone in a dark room and there seemed to be just light between us.
He told me that we are related, we are one and it was more like a knowing then a conversation... I woke up feeling very emotionally attached to the little guy, like he was a brother. That kind of was weird because they scare me normally.
Working with our scientists... hmmm, I don't know, maybe us working with some faction of their race is possible, an exchange of some sort. There is said to be many different types of greys, maybe they don't all get along.
I have mostly been trying to figure out my own personal encounters and what they are, so I don't know much about that.
I think the weird things that happened to me are of an occult nature, something of interest to the military because of my family’s background with them and the occult and ufo sightings. I also suppose there is more then one agenda going on.
Why are the Nordics Blonde with blue eyes? I have no idea, maybe it has to do with their planet and environment. I still don't think they are our future selves, wasn't that the greys?
I don’t think our physical bodies, or theirs, have anything to do with how advanced we get, spiritually or otherwise.
If there are good guys out there watching us from the stars, and they see a few other races come here and mess around with us causing grief, maybe they should do something, maybe they are.
It makes me think of that song by the Byrds " To everything, turn, turn, turn.
There is a season, turn, turn, turn. And a time to every purpose under heaven."
Maybe I came to this planet myself fully aware and knowing just what I was in for, and asked for this experience to unfold along this specific timeline.
Did I choose a timeline where we are rescued by an alien race, or one where we rescue ourselves maybe it was a joint effort that I choose, seems like a good opportunity for learning.
The Reptilians... I am pondering them a lot lately, If they were dumped here, it was probably before we came along. Again... maybe they are factioned, I don't think they are all bad. Greys I have a feeling were created close by, some of them anyhow.
From reading Sitchins book, The Lost Books Of Enki... well, its clear even though the Anunnaki are evolved they still make mistakes and have issues and blow things up. They also speak of a great spirit, enlightened being a creator of all and have questions of their own, same for the Nordics maybe.
I wouldn't know though... haven't met one.
{9. Who benefits from a paranoid "alien agenda" scenario?}
Well that’s obvious! The same ones who bring you the microchip.
Yes, I think it is possible that some, if not most alien abductions have a military twist to them. They probably target people and families who have already had some sort of encounter. And I think the UFO community is very muchly manipulated, that’s clear... and why we are all here trying to piece things together. Honestly, besides my own spiritual moments of knowing, much of what I have encountered could probably be all traced back to the military, accept the occult bit... its a hereditary trait.
I do believe that alien contacts have been made through out history. There is an interesting legend from my area that sounds a lot like an encounter with aliens.
Mi’kmaq Women Who Married Star Husbands
http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/st...#39;k2eng.html
These are great questions I wish I had the answers for!
PEACE!