Story archive

Aliens

Explore UFO sightings, alleged encounters, and the beings imagined around them, from the 1952 Washington, D.C. incident to the Allagash abductions. Entries distinguish documented events from disputed claims and explain why each story endures.

27 documented storiesAlphabetical

Aliens

Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky

A 1955 Kentucky family's report of small figures repeatedly approaching their farmhouse became one of the strangest and most enduring early close-encounter cases.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

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Lubbock Lights

Lubbock and the South Plains of Texas

In 1951, Texas Tech professors repeatedly watched formations of bluish-green lights cross the Lubbock sky, while a student captured five disputed photographs.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

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Pascagoula Abduction

Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi

Two Mississippi shipyard workers said a glowing craft and three strange beings interrupted a fishing trip and carried them aboard for an examination in 1973.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

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Phoenix Lights

Arizona, especially the corridor from northern Arizona through Phoenix toward Tucson

Thousands of Arizonans reported unusual lights on March 13, 1997, but the famous "Phoenix Lights" actually combine two different events with different explanations.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

Alien Types & Beings

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.

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Roswell Incident

The Crash That Became an Alien Legend

Southeastern New Mexico

A pile of strange debris recovered in New Mexico in 1947 grew into the most famous alleged UFO crash in history and a permanent argument over what the…