List of alleged extraterrestrial beings

This is a list of alleged extraterrestrial beings that have been reported in close encounters, claimed or speculated to be associated with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) (not to be confused with the meaning of the term "alien species" in the biological science of ecology).[1]

## List

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Flatwoods monster[2][3] | Tall humanoid with a spade-shaped head.[2]

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Greys[4][5]

* Also spelled "grays" (in American English).
* Roswell incident

| Grey-skinned (sometimes green-skinned) humanoids, usually 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, hairless, with large heads, black almond-shaped eyes, nostrils without a nose, slits for mouths, no ears and 3–4 fingers including thumb. Greys have been the predominant extraterrestrial beings of alleged alien contact since the 1960s.[5]
Hopkinsville goblin[6][7][8] | Small, greenish-silver humanoids.[9]
Little green men[10] | Diminutive green humanoids. Even though a few abductions have referred to green skin, no report has ever involved anything that would fit the description of "little green men". They are included here only for cultural reference, however, this does not solely dispute the existence of little green men.[10]
Nordic aliens[11][12]

* Sometimes called Space Brothers[13]
* Plejaren (previously known as Pleiadeans from the Pleiades)[14]
* Venusians[13][15]
* Tall whites[16]
* Agarthans from Agartha[17]

| Humanoids with stereotypical "Nordic features" (tall, blonde hair, blue eyes) and which have featured in several cases of contact.
Cryptozoological animals and cryptobotanical plants, including those from folklore, religion (e.g. golem), mythology (e.g. dwarf (see also dwarfism); giants from Atlantis (see also gigantism), etc.), and some reports of ghosts, poltergeists, and time travellers (alleged)

* Mothman (see also American folklore)
* Jersey Devil
* Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) (dinosauroid)
* African Nommo
* Mokele-mbembe
* Yokai (many varieties)
* Quinametzin
* Rephaite
* Loveland Frogman

| Some claim that many of the allegedly real creatures from the Fortean archives (see also: Fortean Times and William R. Corliss) and related reports of anomalous phenomena[18] are actually of extraterrestrial or mixed origin, such as in the extraterrestrial hypothesis, the interdimensional hypothesis, or the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis. Sometimes these creatures are associated with the occult or with esotericism, or linked with supernatural or paranormal phenomena. Others dismiss these explanations in favor of skepticism, cultural tracking, or the psychosocial hypothesis such as in cases of mass hysteria. Some of these alleged encounters have turned out to be hoaxes or scams to boost local tourism, sell more newspapers or more fringe science books.
Reptilians and reptiloids (sometimes spelled as reptillians)[19]

* Ancient astronauts (see ancient astronauts in popular culture, Ancient Aliens)
* Draconians[17]
* Orion reptillian-humanoid matriarchy (see reptilian conspiracy theory)
* List of reptilian humanoids
* Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
* Fictionalized portrayals: They Live, V, Stargate, Star Trek, Worldwar, Gamehendge, etc.

| Tall, scaly humanoids. Reptilian humanoid beings date back at least as far as Ancient Egypt, with the crocodile-headed river god Sobek. The reptilian conspiracy theory has been advocated by David Icke.
Rods[20] or skyfish | Elongated visual artifacts appearing in photos and video recordings, sometimes claimed to be extraterrestrial beings. Generally thought to be caused by motion blur from flying insects.

## See also

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* Alien abduction
* Alleged extraterrestrial beings
* Ancient astronauts
* Chimera
* Conspiracy theory
* Contactees
* Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis
* Evolutionary biology
* Extraterrestrial hypothesis
* Genetic mutation
* Horizontal evolution
* Interdimensional hypothesis
* List of conspiracy theories
* List of cryptids
* List of humanoid aliens
* List of occult terms
* MUFON (United States) and Kosmopoisk (Russia)
* New World Order
* Truth

### In fiction

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* Template:Fictional biology
* Category:Lists of fictional alien species
* List of fictional extraterrestrials
* Lists of fictional species
* Template:Science fiction
* Babylon 5
* Battlestar Galactica
* List of alien races in DC Comics
* List of alien races in Marvel Comics
* Mass Effect
* Stargate
* Star Trek
* Star Wars
* The Twilight Zone

## References

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1. ^ "Frequently asked questions". European Alien Species Information Network. Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-07-05. "Non-native organisms that become established in a new environment."
2. ^ a b Clark, Jerome (1999). "Flatwoods Monster". Unexplained!. Visible Ink Press. p. 426. ISBN 1-57859-070-1.
3. ^ Nickell, Joe (November 2000). "Investigative Files: The Flatwoods UFO Monster". Skeptical Inquirer. 24 (6). Amherst, NY: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. ISSN 0194-6730. OCLC 4081591. Archived from the original on 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2015-06-02. "The 'monster' reportedly had a 'man-like shape' and stood some ten feet tall, although Barker (1953) noted that 'descriptions from the waist down are vague; most of the seven said this part of the figure was not under view.'"
4. ^ Bryan, C.D.B (1995). Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 9780679429753.
5. ^ a b Blackmore, Susan (May 1998). "Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?". Skeptical Inquirer. 22 (3). Amherst, NY: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. ISSN 0194-6730. OCLC 4081591. Archived from the original on 2010-08-13. Retrieved 2015-06-02. "The '[G]ray' is about four feet high, with a slender body and neck, a large head, and huge, black, slanted, almond-shaped eyes. Grays usually have no hair and often only three fingers on each hand. Rarer aliens include green or blue types, the taller fair-haired Nordics, and human types who are sometimes seen working with the Grays."
6. ^ Musgrave, Beth (August 22, 2005). "Kelly Green Men get new venue". Lexington Herald-Leader. Archived from the original on 12 January 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2008 – via AccessMyLibrary.
7. ^ Musgrave, Beth (22 August 2005). "Kelly Green Men get new venue". Lexington Herald-Leader. p. 14. Retrieved 9 July 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
8. ^ Musgrave, Beth (22 August 2005). "Green | 'It scared him for the rest of his life'". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 9 July 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
9. ^ Nickell, Joe (November 2006). "Siege of 'Little Green Men': The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident". Skeptical Inquirer. 30 (6). Amherst, NY: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. ISSN 0194-6730. OCLC 4081591. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2015-06-03. "[Green] was apparently later injected by the national media, although 'Lucky' Sutton's son now says his father described them as 'silver' with 'a greenish silver glow'..."
10. ^ a b Clark, Jerome (1999). "Little Green Men". Unexplained!. Visible Ink Press. p. 442. ISBN 1-57859-070-1.
11. ^ Carlson, Peter (2004-02-19). "Ike and the Alien Ambassadors". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
12. ^ Delasara, Jan (2000). "The X-Files and the Zeitgeist of the '90s". PopLit, PopCult, and the X-Files. McFarland. p. 187\. ISBN 0-7864-0789-1. Archived from the original on 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
13. ^ a b Clark, Jerome (1999). "Space Brothers". Unexplained!. Visible Ink Press. p. 581. ISBN 1-57859-070-1.
14. ^ Bures, Frank (September 2001). "Aliens, Anomalies, and Absurbity at Mt. Adams". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
15. ^ Ellwood, Robert S. (2000). "Adamski, George (17 April 1891–23 April 1965), lecturer and writer on occult subjects and on UFOs during the 1950s' flying saucer enthusiasm". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0801882. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Archived from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
16. ^ "Charles Hall and the Tall White ETs". openseti.org. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
17. ^ a b "Cosmic Disclosure". Gaia. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
18. ^ "THE ANOMALIST: World News on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Paranormal, and Other Mysteries at the Edge of Science". anomalist.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
19. ^ Lewis, Tyson; Kahn, Richard (Spring 2005). "The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory". Utopian Studies. 16 (1). University Park, PA, US: Penn State University Press [for the Society for Utopian Studies]: 45–75\. doi:10.2307/20718709. ISSN 1045-991X. JSTOR 20718709. "Icke, ... is now today's most (in)famous proponent of what we are calling the 'Reptoid Hypothesis'—the idea that alien lizards conspiratorially control the Earth and with it human destiny."
20. ^ Carroll, Robert Todd (2003). "A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions". Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2010.

## External links

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* Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens (2005) by Susan A. Clancy

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Events and objects|

* Shergotty meteorite (1865)
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* Energy beings
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Hypotheses|

* Cosmic pluralism
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Fermi paradox solutions|

* Aestivation hypothesis
* Berserker hypothesis
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* Firstborn hypothesis
* Great Filter
* Hart–Tipler conjecture
* Neocatastrophism
* Planetarium hypothesis
* Rare Earth hypothesis
* Zoo hypothesis

Related topics|

* Ancient astronauts
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* San Marino Scale
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UFOs

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Claimed sightings|

| General|

* List of reported UFO sightings
* Sightings in outer space
* Sightings near atomic sites
* UFO reports and disinformation

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Pre-20th century|

* Ezekiel's Wheel (circa 622–570 BC)
* Airship of Clonmacnoise (740s)
* 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg
* 1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel
* 1665 celestial phenomenon over Stralsund
* José Bonilla observation (1883)
* Airship wave (1896–97)
* Aurora (1897)

20th century|

* Los Angeles (1942)
* Ängelholm UFO memorial (1946)
* Kenneth Arnold (1947)
* 1947 craze
* Flight 105 (1947)
* Roswell (1947)
* Rhodes (1947)
* Mantell (1948)
* Chiles-Whitted (1948)
* Gorman Dogfight (1948)
* Mariana (1950)
* McMinnville photographs (1950)
* Sperry (1950)
* Lubbock Lights (1951)
* Nash-Fortenberry (1952)
* Washington, D.C. (1952)
* Flatwoods monster (1952)
* Kelly–Hopkinsville (1955)
* Lakenheath-Bentwaters (1956)
* Antônio Villas Boas (1957)
* Levelland (1957)
* Barney and Betty Hill abduction (1961)
* Lonnie Zamora incident (1964)
* Solway Firth Spaceman (1964)
* Exeter (1965)
* Kecksburg (1965)
* Westall (1966)
* Falcon Lake (1967)
* Shag Harbour (1967)
* Jimmy Carter (1969)
* Finnish Air Force (1969)
* Pascagoula Abduction (1973)
* John Lennon UFO incident (1974)
* Travis Walton incident (1975)
* Tehran (1976)
* Petrozavodsk phenomenon (1977)
* Operação Prato (1977)
* Zanfretta incident (1978)
* Valentich disappearance (1978)
* Kaikoura Lights (1978)
* Robert Taylor incident (1979)
* Val Johnson incident (1979)
* Manises (1979)
* Cash–Landrum incident (1980)
* Rendlesham Forest (1980)
* Trans-en-Provence (1981)
* Japan Air Lines (1986)
* Ilkley Moor (1987)
* Voronezh incident (1989)
* Belgian UFO wave (1990)
* Ariel School (1994)
* Varginha (1996)
* Phoenix Lights (1997)

21st century|

* USS Nimitz UFO incident (2004)
* Campeche, Mexico (2004)
* O'Hare Airport (2006)
* Alderney (2007)
* Norway (2009)
* USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents (2014)
* Jetpack man (2020–21)
* High-altitude object events (2023)
* David Grusch claims (2023)

Confirmed hoaxes|

* Maury Island hoax (1947)
* Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947)
* Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949)
* Southern England (1967)
* Majestic 12 (1985)
* Gulf Breeze (1987–88)
* Alien Autopsy (1995 film)
* Morristown (2009)

Sightings by country|

* Africa (South Africa)
* Albania
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* Belarus
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* Iran
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* Mexico
* Nepal
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Poland
* Russia
* Spain (Canary Islands)
* Sweden
* United Kingdom
* United States

Types of UFOs|

* Black triangle
* Flying saucer
* Foo fighter
* Ghost rockets
* Green fireballs
* Mystery airship
* Space jellyfish

Types of alleged
extraterrestrial beings|

* Energy beings
* Grey aliens
* Insectoids
* Little green men
* Nordic aliens
* Reptilian humanoids

Studies and timeline|

* Investigation of UFO reports by the United States government
* The Flying Saucers Are Real (1947–1950)
* Project Sign (1948)
* Project Grudge (1949)
* Flying Saucer Working Party (1950)
* Project Magnet (1950–1962)
* Project Blue Book (1952–1970)
* Robertson Panel (1953)
* Ruppelt report (1956)
* National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (1956–1980)
* Condon Report (1966–1968)
* Institute 22 (1978–?)
* Project Condign (1997–2000)
* Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (2007–2012)
* Identification studies of UFOs
* Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (current)
* NASA's UAP independent study team

Hypotheses|

* Ancient astronauts
* Cryptoterrestrial
* Extraterrestrial
* Interdimensional
* Psychological perspectives on UFO belief
* Psychosocial
* Nazi UFOs
* Time-traveller
* Posadist Trotskyism

Conspiracy theories|

* Area 51
* Storm Area 51
* Bob Lazar
* Dulce Base
* Men in black
* Project Serpo

Involvement|

| Abduction claims|

* History
* Entities
* Narrative
* Perspectives
* Insurance

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Other|

* Implants
* Cattle mutilation
* Close encounter
* Contactee
* Crop circles
* Government responses
* GEIPAN
* Organizations
* Ufologists

Culture|

* Fiction
* Religions
* list

Skepticism|

* List of scientific skeptics
* Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Government and law|

* United States Congress hearings on UFOs (2022)
* Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UADPA), USA law (2023)

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