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By EraofLight
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) was an influential American writer best known for Naked Lunch. He was also fascinated by altered states of consciousness, dreams, occult practices, shamanism, UFOs, and the possibility that human beings might be influenced by forces beyond their ordinary perception. His interest in extraterrestrials was connected to a larger question that appeared throughout his work: who or what controls human consciousness, and how can people recognize that control?
1. His interest in Whitley Strieber’s alleged encounters
In the late 1980s, Burroughs read Communion (1987) and Transformation (1988), books by horror novelist Whitley Strieber describing alleged encounters with mysterious beings. Strieber called them “the visitors” rather than definitively identifying them as extraterrestrials.
In 1989, Burroughs contacted Strieber and visited the cabin in upstate New York where Strieber said his encounters had occurred. Burroughs considered Strieber sincere and believed he was describing experiences that felt physically real to him. However, Burroughs did not report seeing the beings himself, despite his efforts to make contact.
2. Why he suspected the Grays were hostile
Burroughs eventually developed a disturbing interpretation of the beings commonly called the Grays. In a journal entry dated February 3, 1997, later published in Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, he described them as “Control Aliens.”
He speculated that they were a dying civilization that had lost its ability to create and needed human blood and semen. He also suspected they wanted to diminish human intelligence, believing that people with heightened perception or spiritual awareness might be more difficult to manipulate.
These were Burroughs’s own theories, not conclusions established by physical evidence. Nevertheless, they reveal how he interpreted the abduction phenomenon through his longstanding preoccupation with control, mental freedom, and the possibility of hidden influences on human beings.
3. The strange attempt to attract their attention
One of the article’s more unusual details concerns Burroughs’s reported attempt to attract the visitors to his home in Lawrence, Kansas. According to researcher Matthew Levi Stevens, Burroughs let his lawn grow long and arranged for a large sexual symbol to be cut into the grass, apparently hoping it would draw the beings’ attention.
The idea stemmed from his belief that sexual or reproductive activity might be central to the reported abductions. Despite his unusual attempt, he never reported the encounter he wanted.
The account comes from Stevens’s historical writing; the lawn display has not been independently established. Burroughs died in August 1997, still without the firsthand encounter he had hoped to experience.
4. His deeper concern: consciousness and control
The most significant aspect of Burroughs’s interest may be less about the appearance of gray aliens and more about the questions he raised. He wondered whether unknown intelligences could influence human perception, whether reality extended beyond conventional physical explanations, and whether language and social conditioning could restrict people’s freedom of thought.
He also explored the idea that dreams, artistic creativity, and altered states might open pathways to unfamiliar forms of consciousness. In his worldview, the possibility of extraterrestrial contact was intertwined with a broader investigation into the limits of human understanding.
The article also discusses his interest in the Roswell story and the alleged abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. Burroughs entertained ideas about alien biology, time, and human aging, but these speculations should not be confused with independently verified findings.
5. Additional historical context: How the Gray alien image became famous
The famous Betty and Barney Hill case began in September 1961, when the couple reported seeing a strange object and later described an alleged abduction. Their detailed account emerged through hypnosis and became widely known during the 1960s.
PBS’s historical examination explains how the Hill case, later abduction accounts, science-fiction films, and Strieber’s Communion helped establish the large-headed, dark-eyed Gray as the familiar image of an alleged extraterrestrial.
This context matters because Burroughs developed his views within an existing body of abduction stories and cultural imagery. It does not automatically disprove those reports, but it helps explain how a recognizable image and a recurring narrative developed over time.
6. What independent research adds
Researchers have investigated whether certain reported abduction experiences could be related to sleep paralysis, a state in which a person becomes aware of their surroundings while temporarily unable to move. Episodes can include a sensed presence, frightening figures, unusual sounds, and vivid bodily sensations.
A 2005 study by psychologists Richard McNally and Susan Clancy examined people who reported alien abductions and whose experiences were associated with apparent sleep-paralysis episodes. A separate 2018 systematic review examined factors associated with sleep paralysis. These studies offer possible explanations for some experiences; they do not establish the explanation for every reported encounter.
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