Alien Types & Beings

Alien Hybrids

Not place-specific

Stories of human-alien hybrids grew out of modern abduction narratives in which experiencers described reproductive procedures and encounters with supposedly mixed offspring.

Flatwoods Monster

Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia

A fiery object in the West Virginia sky and a terrifying figure on a dark hillside created one of the strangest monster stories of the flying-saucer era.

Grey Aliens

The Black-Eyed Visitors of UFO Lore

Worldwide; especially American UFO lore

Small bodies, oversized heads and enormous black eyes: Grey Aliens have become the default face of extraterrestrial encounters, despite having no verified existence outside reports and popular culture.

Hopkinsville Goblins

Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky

The Hopkinsville Goblins are the small, long-armed figures a Kentucky family said surrounded their farmhouse during a bizarre night of gunfire in 1955.

Little Green Men

Not place-specific; strongly associated with Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky

The phrase "little green men" became one of America's most familiar alien stereotypes, even though one famous encounter associated with it described no green creatures.

Mantid / Insectoid Aliens

Not place-specific

Tall insect-like figures resembling praying mantises form one of the stranger recurring entity types reported in modern alien-abduction and extraordinary-encounter narratives.

Men in Black

United States; foundational lore tied particularly to Albert Bender in Connecticut and Gray Barker in West Virginia

Decades before the comedy films, UFO witnesses told stories of unnervingly formal strangers who appeared after sightings and warned people to stop asking questions.

Nordic Aliens / Space Brothers

Not place-specific; particularly associated with American and European contactee accounts beginning in the 1950s

Long before sinister abduction stories dominated UFO lore, contactees described friendly, almost completely human visitors commonly remembered as Nordics or Space Brothers.

Pascagoula Entities

Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi

Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker described three stiff, wrinkled beings with unusual head features and pincerlike hands during their reported 1973 encounter.

Pleiadians

Not place-specific; formative modern accounts strongly associated with Switzerland

Pleiadians are humanlike extraterrestrials said to come from the Pleiades, a modern contactee tradition shaped heavily by the controversial claims of Billy Meier.

Reptilians

Not place-specific

Reptilians evolved from scattered serpent-like science fiction and occult imagery into one of modern conspiracy culture's most recognizable supposed alien races.

Venusians

Not place-specific; strongly associated with California and the American contactee movement of the 1950s

In the earliest years of flying-saucer culture, Venus was one of the favorite claimed homes of attractive humanlike visitors offering contact to selected Earthlings.