Editing UFO conspiracy theories (section)

====David Icke and reptilians====
{{main|David Icke}}
{{anchor|Branton Files}}
The Branton Files are a series of documents espousing various conspiracy theories circulated on the [[internet]] since at least the mid-1990s. They are most often attributed to Bruce Alan Walton who claims to have been a victim of [[alien abduction]] and had contact through "altered states of consciousness" with humans "living in the inner earth". The files have been characterized as "high fantasy" filled with "complex and convoluted conspiracism".<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|123}}<ref name="Gulyas2016">{{cite book|author=Aaron John Gulyas|title=Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=afcEDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA173|date=25 January 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9726-3|pages=173–}}</ref><!--<ref name="Robertson2016145">{{cite book|author=David G. Robertson|title=UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ngwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT145|date=25 February 2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-5322-2|pages=145–}}</ref>-->  The content influenced David Icke.<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|123–124}}

In the 1990s, author David Icke proposed that world elites are actually "reptilian" aliens.<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|68|quote="British author David Icke (discussed in detail in chapter 6), who commands significant New Age and right-wing audiences, manages to construct a conspiracy whose categories include mind manipulation, tax-exempt foundations, elite military, the drugs and arms trades, religion, and politics—dragging in,
along with the Bilderbergers, Illuminati, and other standard players, the Vatican, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, capitalism, fascism, communism, and Zionism, among others.}}   Scholars note that the  [[V (franchise)|science-fiction franchise ''V'']] had told a similar story from 1983 to 1984.<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|30|quote="Shows such as V would occasionally, especially during the 1990s, serve as fodder for conspiracy theorists. David Icke, a British conspiracy theorist and New Age guru, asserts that the ruling figures of human societies are, in fact, shape-shifting reptilians."}}