The Racial Lives of Chilean Aliens: Prospective Genetic Hybridity in Abduction and Contact Narratives.

This article examines two intertwined narratives in Chilean ufology: historical and contemporary conceptions of race, mestizaje (racial mixing), and hybridity, alongside futurological racial projections found in four Chilean alien abduction and contact case studies. It highlights how these narratives reflect a dynamic, prospective understanding of race as an open, epistemological system shaped through ongoing experimentation and affective experiences, contrasting with more static racial interpretations common in U.S. abduction literature. The Chilean cases reveal themes of genetic kinship and brotherhood between humans and aliens, influenced by local histories of eugenics, nationalism, and theosophical spiritualities, and framed within millenarian and cosmological imaginaries that envision hybrid futures across time and dimensions. The article situates these ufological racializations as an "extreme" form of world-making that engages with unknown spatial and temporal horizons, offering a heuristic dialogue with Chile’s racial and political past without equating contemporary contactees with historical eugenicists.