The species index
Every race in the archive. Filter by family or by how much evidence stands behind each one, or type a name. For the families explained in full, read the Types of Aliens guide.
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Race 01 · Contactee loreNordicThe WatchersThe Nordic archetype is described in various contactee traditions as a tall, human-like extraterrestrial associated with advanced technology, quiet observation, and benevolent interaction with humanity.
Race 02 · ReportedGreyThe Silent OnesThe Grey is the most widely reported extraterrestrial form in modern ufology: a small, slender being with an oversized head and large, dark, almond-shaped eyes.
Race 03 · FolkloreReptilianThe Cold-BloodedThe Reptilian is a folkloric and fictional figure: a tall, scaled humanoid that appears in serpent myths worldwide, in pulp science fiction, and in late-20th-century conspiracy theories.
Race 04 · Contactee loreArcturianThe Luminous MindArcturians appear almost exclusively in channelled and New Age literature from the 1980s onward, where they are described as a small, blue-skinned, highly evolved people oriented toward healing and consciousness.
Race 05 · Contactee lorePleiadianThe Seven SistersThe Pleiadian is a contactee figure closely related to the Nordic: a tall, human-like people said to originate in the Pleiades star cluster.
Race 06 · FolkloreSirianThe Star ArchitectsSirian beings appear in modern lore that draws on the Dogon people's reported knowledge of Sirius B, popularised by Robert Temple's 1976 book.
Race 07 · Contactee loreLyranThe First OnesIn channelled cosmology, Lyrans are cast as the original humanoid people from whom the Nordic, Pleiadian and Sirian lines are said to descend.
Race 08 · Contactee loreAndromedanThe Far CouncilAndromedans appear in the contactee accounts of Alex Collier from the early 1990s, where they are described as a humanoid people from the Andromeda region who sit on a council overseeing this part of the galaxy.
Race 09 · ReportedInsectoidThe HiveInsectoid or 'mantis' beings appear in a minority of abduction narratives, usually described as tall, praying-mantis-like figures who supervise smaller Greys.
Race 10 · FictionalDraconianThe Dragon LordsThe Draconian is a fictional and folkloric elaboration of the reptilian archetype: an imperial, dragon-like ruling species that appears in science-fiction franchises, role-playing games and conspiracy lore.
Race 11 · ReportedMantidThe AnalystsThe Mantid is a tall praying-mantis-like being reported in a minority of abduction narratives, usually described standing behind smaller Greys as a silent supervisor.
Race 12 · Contactee loreAvianThe MessengersBird-headed beings run from Egyptian Horus and Thoth through Mesoamerican feathered deities to the 'Blue Avians' of 2010s contactee accounts.
Race 13 · Contactee loreOrionThe WarriorsIn channelled cosmologies the 'Orion group' is cast as a martial, hierarchical civilisation and the counterweight to the gentler Pleiadian lineage.
Race 14 · FolkloreTaurianThe BuildersThe bull-headed being is one of humanity's oldest mythic figures, from the Minotaur to Mesopotamian lamassu.
Race 15 · Contactee loreVenusianThe HarmonizersThe Venusian is the original contactee being: George Adamski's 1952 account of 'Orthon', a fair-haired visitor from Venus, launched the modern contactee movement.
Race 16 · SpeculativeCapellaThe ObserversCapella is the brightest star in Auriga, a system of two giant stars.
Race 17 · Contactee loreAldebaranThe ExplorersAldebaran, the red eye of Taurus, has attracted lore since the early 20th century, including the discredited 'Vril' myth of the 1920s–30s.
Race 18 · Contactee loreProcyonThe MediatorsProcyon is the eighth-brightest star in the night sky.
Race 19 · SpeculativeCentauriThe TravelersAlpha Centauri is the nearest star system to the Sun, and Proxima b is a confirmed planet in its habitable zone.
Race 20 · Contactee loreFelinidThe GuardiansCat-headed beings run from Egyptian Bastet and Sekhmet to the 'Lyran feline' lineage of modern channelled cosmology, where they are cast as one of the oldest humanoid families.
Race 21 · SpeculativeAquarianThe HealersThe Aquarian is a modern speculative being tied to the constellation of the water-bearer: an amphibious healer people from an ocean world.
Race 22 · SpeculativeAthurianThe ObserversThe Athurian is a speculative pale-skinned observer people from a fictional system.
Race 23 · Contactee loreTall WhiteThe EnvoysThe Tall Whites come from the 2002–2005 books of Charles Hall, a former USAF weather observer who claimed to have met extremely tall, chalk-white beings at Nellis Air Force Range in the 1960s.
Race 24 · FictionalLizardianThe SurvivorsThe Lizardian is the survivor variant of the reptilian archetype: a hardy, adaptable people portrayed in fiction as refugees from a lost world rather than as conquerors.
Race 25 · Contactee loreAvalonianThe Light BearersThe Avalonian fuses two lores: the Pleiadian star Taygeta, home of Billy Meier's planet 'Erra', and the Arthurian isle of Avalon.
Race 26 · SpeculativeCelestialThe High OnesThe Celestial is the non-physical, light-bodied being that appears across religious tradition and New Age literature as an angelic mentor.
Race 27 · FolkloreShadowThe Phantoms'Shadow people' are dark humanoid silhouettes reported at the edge of vision, most often during sleep paralysis.
Race 28 · FolkloreMothmanoidThe ScoutsThe Mothmanoid descends from the 'Mothman' sightings of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966–67: a winged humanoid with glowing red eyes.
Race 29 · SpeculativeCephalopodThe IntelligencesEarth's octopuses are the most intelligent invertebrates known, with a distributed nervous system unlike ours.
Race 30 · SpeculativePlantoidThe HarmonicsPlant-people appear in folklore as the Green Man and in fiction from 'The Day of the Triffids' to countless tree spirits.
Race 31 · SpeculativeCrystallineThe ResonantsSilicon-based life is a long-standing thought experiment in astrobiology, and crystalline beings are a staple of speculative fiction.
Race 32 · FolkloreAmphibianThe AdaptorsAmphibious visitors run through ancient myth: the Babylonian Oannes who taught civilisation, and the Nommo of Dogon tradition.
Race 33 · FictionalAquaticThe Deep OnesThe finned ocean-dweller is a fixture of fiction from Lovecraft's 'Deep Ones' to modern film.
Race 34 · SpeculativeRoboticThe SyntheticsSeveral astrobiologists argue that any civilisation we meet is more likely to be post-biological than biological, because machine intelligence can outlast its makers and survive interstellar travel.
Race 35 · FolkloreElementalThe ManifestationsElementals are the fire, earth, air and water spirits of Renaissance alchemy, formalised by Paracelsus in the 16th century.
Race 36 · FolkloreAnunnakiThe Sky LordsThe Anunnaki are the gods of Sumerian and Akkadian religion, reinterpreted by the author Zecharia Sitchin in 1976 as giant visitors from a planet called Nibiru who engineered humans as a labour force.
Race 37 · ReportedHopkinsville GoblinThe Kelly VisitorsOn the night of 21 August 1955, eleven people at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky, reported a hours-long siege by small, silver, large-eared creatures that floated, climbed the roof and shrugged off shotgun blasts.
Race 38 · ReportedFlatwoods MonsterThe Braxton County VisitorOn 12 September 1952 a group of boys and a local mother followed a bright object to a hilltop near Flatwoods, West Virginia, and reported a ten-foot figure with a hooded, spade-shaped head and glowing eyes that glided toward them through a foul mist.
Race 39 · ReportedPascagoula BeingThe River VisitorsOn 11 October 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on the Pascagoula River when, they said, three robot-like beings with wrinkled grey skin, pincer hands and pointed protrusions floated them into an oval craft and examined them.
Race 40 · ReportedVarginha CreatureThe Brazilian VisitorOn 20 January 1996 three young women in Varginha, Brazil, reported a creature crouched against a wall: brown, oily-skinned, with large red eyes and three ridges on its head.
Race 41 · Contactee loreUmmiteThe Letter WritersFrom 1966 onward, scientists, writers and enthusiasts, mostly in Spain and France, received thousands of typed letters signed by visitors from the planet Ummo, describing their physics, society and quiet presence on Earth.
Race 42 · FictionalEbenThe Serpo ExchangeIn 2005 a series of anonymous emails to a UFO mailing list described 'Project Serpo', a supposed 1965 exchange in which twelve American servicemen travelled to the planet Serpo in Zeta Reticuli and lived among its inhabitants, the Ebens, for thirteen years.
Race 43 · FolkloreStar PeopleThe AncestorsStar People, or Star Beings, appear across Indigenous North American traditions, including Lakota, Hopi, Cree and Zuni accounts, as ancestors who came from the stars, teachers who return, or relatives who will one day take people home.
Race 44 · Contactee loreHybridThe In-BetweenThe human-alien Hybrid is the child of the abduction literature: a pale, thin being with large dark eyes and wisps of hair, described by abductees as presented to them aboard craft as their own offspring.