Personally, I think 23 has something to do with the aliens. This comes through in a variety of ways. One auther, Robert Anton Wilson, seems to regard 23 as something to do with Sirius. July 23 was the beginning of the new year for the Egyptians, who worshipped Isis and Osiris, and the dog star was the symbol for those two gods. The dark star, Sirius B, represents Osiris, and occultist say that the rite for Osiris includes the secret that Osiris is a dark god, or a black god. I forget which. It's called the dark rite, I think. The tarot of the star has an ancient symbol of Isis, with the star above the archetypical depiction of this feminine principle. Wilson is big-time into synchronicity, and noticed the 23 and other Egyptian related happenings during his hypothesis that he was getting communications from Sirius.
From my own experience, 23 seems to crop up in relation to aliens, particularly the greys. It's like an unconscious thing, mostly picked up by creative peoples. Though hardly an authority, South Park in particular picks up this alien thingy. In one episode, when the big antenna was coming out of Cartman's ass. Anyway, the hangar where they finally uncovered the antenna was hangar 23. Also, the scientist came to his conclusions through a series of connections. Silly connections, of course, and maybe a joke on synchronicity or something, but it shows this connection with these little events meaning something. There are some other things in other areas, but I can't remember any of them, which might mean there isn't much to this theory.
Also, when I was younger, I was into the swords and sorcery fantasy sort of things, and made up stories all the time. Well, this one being I had made up in my stories as this god-like creature, strictly neutral in the affairs of good and evil, that I imagined my hero had some struggles against. Before I had learned of greys or knew anything about them, I had imagined this being as a tall version of a grey. It had the same white-like skin and big black eyes, the difference being that my version had long black claws, tall black horns, and a pair of bat-like wings. Now, remember, that this was before I knew about aliens, and I certainly don't remember basing it on any idea of an alien. I can almost guarantee that. If anything, it was subconscious. Anyway, the funny thing is, and this didn't strike me until later, way later, that the being's name, for reasons unknown, was Winchestor. I didn't make the connection until recently, that W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet. Now, that may not be enough, but placing it all together, and going through my own 23 synchronicities (before I knew of synchronicities and number connections, I had been seing 311 a lot. That was why I started looking into numbers popping up in the first place and found out about the 23.), I'm pretty sure that if there is something to coincidences, this all fits together.
"T e l o c h Of one so-called: T E L O CH = 203 Allocating Tzaddi (final) to T = 1013 or 10 + 13 = 23
32 is the number of total manifestion. It is Ichid - ego/self - the prism through which is projected phenomenal manifestation on the obverse of the Tree. 32 is of the Tree of Life (obverse / manifestation / being / phenomena). 23 is the reverse of 32. Hence, 23 is the number emblematic of the other or reverse side of the Tree. 23 is the essence of the Tree of Death (reverse / non-manifestaion / non-being / noumena). 23 'manifests' by dividing itself (into being): 2 · 3 = .666 (the Beast). As 666 is to 32, so 23 is to the reverse of 666 that is 999. – The Beast 'made flesh' is a reflection or ingress of 23 / 999 (noumena) into phenomena as 32 / 666.
On another level, 23 signals the chaotic state between two stable states. As such, it fits into the category of 'inbetweenness'. It is therefore one of those things which is Not. 23 is one from the demonic hosts of Non-being about to invade Being. The 93 Current will split apart the unconsciously created world we inhabit. 23 is not identical with 93, but an emanation from it. 203, as the extension of 23, reveals its full nature. 0 as the dis-illusion within 203 is the ingress from, and the gateway to, the Nightside. There will be more on these matters, and its implications."
What I think is that this whole alien thing is something sinister, or against what we have the potential for.
* When we start identifying wisdom with our ability to comprehend its form, what wisdom is that?
* Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
* People want platitudes, not progress.