Actually, sometimes it's just paranoria.

Today's featured article from UFOlogosit is by Jon Wyatt, who postulates that many corporate logos hold hidden messages of welcome to alien visitors.

          

The first one isn't a logo so much, as an ad promoting Connex's new sms service:  a fact Jon Wyatt does acknowledge, but adds 'but is it also welcoming any ET commuters?'.

Sure.  In the same way that ET was a giant conspiracy to make humans welcome our alien overlords as cute little creatures...  hang on a minute.  Maybe there's some truth in this alien conspiracy thing!  Or perhaps I've been reading UFOlogist a little too much lately.

Jon Wyatt continues.  Now I can give him that the Optus, Telstra, Powertel and Orica logos look a little spacelike.   Even the old Telstra logo (bottom right, first picture) could look, as he suggests, like a 'an ET with large hollow eyes gazing at us from a star field'.  If you squint and turn your head on the side.

The predominance of telecommunication companies represented gives rise to a query though.  If Optus, Telstra and Powertel really do have the technology to be in contact with alien beings, how come I still can't get a mobile phone signal in parts of Canberra?   You'd think that transgalactic communication would mean consistent coverage across the nation's capital would be easy stuff.

When the attention turns away from the telcos, things get a bit iffier.  Take the National Bank logo for instance.  It's a red star.  John Wyatt says it 'may symbolise the Planet Mars with the orbits of Phoebus and Deimos, its two moons, indicated by two notches'.  Ok, first off, Mars?  Doesn't look like a 6 pointed red star.  Mars looks like this:

Though, it is true that Mars is sometimes referred to as the red planet, and there is a Project Redstar which has released a video entitled 'Martian Genesis' which offers, apparently 'incontrovertible evidence of an extraterrestial base on Mars'.  The link is here - but don't go if you value your eyes.  

So perhaps the red star link can be justified - by use of a conspiracy theory.  Sure, using a conspiracy theory to prove another one, that's solid logical ground!  My debating coach would be so proud.

Taking the National Bank logo as welcoming the Martians causes some concern though.   There may be life on Mars, it's true.  But NASA tells us it would most likely be 'very small, bacteria-like life forms'.   National Australia Bank has designed its logo to make the alien bacteria feel at home?  

Good thing I'm with Commonwealth.

Now to give John Wyatt his due, he does present his findings in a not altogether serious manner.  (Which is good, because the RMIT logo looks less like a 'fiery object entering the Earth's atmosphere' and more like a sideways Pac Man baddie to me).   But I thought it would be worthwhile to see if anyone else had come up with the link between corporate logos and hidden messages to aliens.

What I found is 

1.  A lot of people suggesting a link between a 1967 sketch of UFOs and the XBOX 360 logo:

    

2.  If you google "alien conspiracy theories corporate logos", you're asking for everything you get.  (Apparently the Google UFO logo and Masonic/Illuminati conspiracy theories rule the roost (I blame you, Dan Brown!)).