Editing List of alleged extraterrestrial beings

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This is a '''list of extraterrestrial beings''' that have been reported in [[close encounter]]s, claimed or speculated to be associated with [[unidentified flying object]]s (UFOs) (not to be confused with the meaning of the term "[[Extraterrestrial life|alien species]]" in the [[biology|biological]] science of [[ecology]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frequently asked questions |url=https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/easin/Documentation/FAQ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421090751/https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/easin/Documentation/FAQ |archive-date=2021-04-21 |access-date=2021-07-05 |website=European Alien Species Information Network |quote=Non-native organisms that become established in a new environment.}}</ref>

==List==
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| '''[[Flatwoods monster]]'''<ref name=Flatwoods>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Jerome|chapter=Flatwoods Monster|title=Unexplained!|date=1999|publisher=Visible Ink Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/unexplainedstran00clar/page/426 426]|isbn=1-57859-070-1|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/unexplainedstran00clar/page/426}}</ref><ref name="nickell1">{{Cite journal|last=Nickell|first=Joe|date=November 2000|title=Investigative Files: The Flatwoods UFO Monster|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/flatwoods_ufo_monster/|url-status=dead|journal=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|location=Amherst, NY|publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|volume=24|issn=0194-6730|oclc=4081591|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630095308/http://www.csicop.org/si/show/flatwoods_ufo_monster/|archive-date=2011-06-30|access-date=2015-06-02|quote=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.'|number=6}}</ref>
| Tall humanoid with a spade-shaped head.<ref name=Flatwoods/>
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| '''[[Grey alien|Greys]]'''<ref>{{cite book|last=Bryan|first=C.D.B|title=Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind|date=1995|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf, Inc|isbn=9780679429753|url=https://archive.org/details/closeencounterso00brya_0}}</ref><ref name="grey">{{Cite journal|last=Blackmore|first=Susan|date=May 1998|title=Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/abduction_by_aliens_or_sleep_paralysis|url-status=live|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|location=Amherst, NY|publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|volume=22|issn=0194-6730|oclc=4081591|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813121544/http://www.csicop.org/si/show/abduction_by_aliens_or_sleep_paralysis|archive-date=2010-08-13|access-date=2015-06-02|quote=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. There are two vastly different types of so called "greys" both from the Zeta Reticulan star system. The Hollywood "grays" are the typical on seen in pop culture, however, they should not be confused with the slightly taller greyish blue NHI known as Ebens. The difference in the them is that the greys are not biologically born. They are engineered, augmented, created and controlled by their creators and other sentient beings. The Ebens are biological entities as we know them on earth. Meaning they are conceived and born biologically. Greys are often considered emotionally "stunted" where as Ebens are empathetic and sympathetic like most mammals. |number=3}}</ref>
* Also spelled "grays" (in [[American English]]).
* [[Roswell incident]]
| Grey-skinned (sometimes green-skinned) humanoids, usually {{Convert|1|m|ft|abbr=on}} 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.<ref name=grey/>
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| '''[[Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter|Hopkinsville goblin]]'''<ref>{{cite news |last=Musgrave |first=Beth |date=August 22, 2005 |title=Kelly Green Men get new venue |work=Lexington Herald-Leader |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9560765_ITM |url-status=dead |access-date=November 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112032638/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9560765_ITM |archive-date=12 January 2009 |via=AccessMyLibrary}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Musgrave |first=Beth |date=22 August 2005 |title=Kelly Green Men get new venue |page=14 |work=Lexington Herald-Leader |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81057351/part-1-of-a-story-about-the-kelly-green/ |access-date=9 July 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Musgrave |first=Beth |date=22 August 2005 |title=Green {{!}} 'It scared him for the rest of his life' |work=Lexington Herald-Leader |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81057432/part-2-of-a-story-about-the-kelly-green/ |access-date=9 July 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
| Small, greenish-silver humanoids.<ref name="jn-si-2006-11">{{Cite journal|last=Nickell|first=Joe|date=November 2006|title=Siege of 'Little Green Men': The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/siege_of_little_green_men/|url-status=dead|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|location=Amherst, NY|publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|volume=30|issue=6|issn=0194-6730|oclc=4081591|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104223801/http://www.csicop.org/si/show/siege_of_little_green_men|archive-date=2013-11-04|access-date=2015-06-03|quote=[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'...}}</ref>
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| '''[[Little green men]]'''<ref name=green>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Jerome|chapter=Little Green Men|title=Unexplained!|date=1999|publisher=Visible Ink Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/unexplainedstran00clar/page/442 442]|isbn=1-57859-070-1|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/unexplainedstran00clar/page/442}}</ref>
| Diminutive green humanoids. Even though a few abductions have referred to green skin, no report has ever involved anything that would fit the classic cultural stereotype of "little green men". They are included here only for cultural reference.<ref name=green/>
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| '''[[Nordic aliens]]'''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Carlson|first=Peter|date=2004-02-19|title=Ike and the Alien Ambassadors|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/02/19/ike-and-the-alien-ambassadors/4698e544-1dc8-4573-8b8d-2b48d2a6305e/|access-date=2021-07-05|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=2019-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416171257/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/02/19/ike-and-the-alien-ambassadors/4698e544-1dc8-4573-8b8d-2b48d2a6305e/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Delasara |first=Jan |title=PopLit, PopCult, and the X-Files |date=2000 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=0-7864-0789-1 |page=187 |chapter=The X-Files and the Zeitgeist of the '90s |access-date=2020-10-21 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7aKTJljercgC&pg=PA187 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705061134/https://books.google.com/books?id=7aKTJljercgC&q=nordics+space+brothers&pg=PA187 |archive-date=2021-07-05 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Sometimes called Space Brothers<ref name=space>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Jerome|chapter=Space Brothers|title=Unexplained!|date=1999|publisher=Visible Ink Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/unexplainedstran00clar/page/581 581]|isbn=1-57859-070-1|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/unexplainedstran00clar/page/581}}</ref>
* [[Plejaren]] (previously known as ''Pleiadeans'' from the [[Pleiades]])<ref name="bures1">{{cite web |last=Bures |first=Frank |date=September 2001 |title=Aliens, Anomalies, and Absurbity at Mt. Adams |url=http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=25334&category=34029 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083958/http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=25334&category=34029 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |access-date=2007-05-01 |publisher=Portland Mercury}}</ref>
* [[Venusians]]<ref name=space/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Adamski, George (17 April 1891–23 April 1965), lecturer and writer on occult subjects and on UFOs during the 1950s' flying saucer enthusiasm|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0801882|access-date=2021-07-05|website=American National Biography|year=2000 |language=en|doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0801882|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |archive-date=19 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019145502/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0801882|url-status=live |last1=Ellwood |first1=Robert S. }}</ref>
* Tall whites<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Hall and the Tall White ETs |url=http://openseti.org/Hall.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813071542/http://openseti.org/Hall.html |archive-date=13 August 2015 |access-date=31 March 2018 |website=openseti.org}}</ref>
* Agarthans from [[Agartha]]<ref name="gaia.com">{{cite web |title=Cosmic Disclosure |url=https://www.gaia.com/series/cosmic-disclosure |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413235810/https://www.gaia.com/series/cosmic-disclosure |archive-date=13 April 2017 |access-date=31 March 2018 |website=Gaia}}</ref>
| Humanoids with stereotypical "[[Nordic race|Nordic]] features" (tall, blonde hair, blue eyes) and which have featured in several cases of contact. 
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| '''[[Cryptozoology|Cryptozoological animals]] and cryptobotanical plants''', including those from [[folklore]], [[religion]] (e.g. [[golem]]), [[mythology]] (e.g. [[dwarf (mythology)|dwarf]] (see also [[dwarfism]]); [[List of giants in folklore and mythology|giant]]s from [[Atlantis]] (see also [[gigantism]]), etc.), and some reports of [[ghosts]], [[poltergeists]], and [[time travel]]lers ''(alleged)''
* [[Mothman]] (see also [[Template:American folklore|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 [[Charles Fort|Fortean]] archives (see also: ''[[Fortean Times]]'' and [[William R. Corliss]]) and related reports of [[anomalous phenomena]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE ANOMALIST: World News on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Paranormal, and Other Mysteries at the Edge of Science |url=https://www.anomalist.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619155951/https://anomalist.com/ |archive-date=2021-06-19 |access-date=2021-07-05 |website=anomalist.com}}</ref> are actually of [[extraterrestrial life|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.
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|'''[[Reptilian humanoid|Reptilians and reptiloids]]''' (sometimes spelled as ''reptillians'')<ref name = tl-us-2005>{{Cite journal	
|first1 = Tyson
|last1 = Lewis
|first2 = Richard
|last2 = Kahn
|date = Spring 2005
|title = The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory
|jstor = 20718709
|journal = [[Utopian Studies]]
|publisher = Penn State University Press [for the Society for Utopian Studies]
|location = University Park, PA, US
|volume = 16
|issue = 1
|pages = 45–75
|doi = 10.2307/20718709
|issn = 1045-991X
|quote = 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.
}}</ref>
* [[Ancient astronauts]] (see [[ancient astronauts in popular culture]], ''[[Ancient Aliens]]'')
* Draconians<ref name="gaia.com"/>
* [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] reptillian-humanoid [[matriarchy]] (see [[reptilian conspiracy theory]])
* [[List of reptilian humanoids]]
* [[Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp]]
* Fictionalized portrayals: ''[[They Live]]'', ''[[V (franchise)|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]].
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| '''[[Rod (ufology)|Rods]]'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skepdic.com/rods.html |title=A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions |last=Carroll |first=Robert Todd |date=2003 |access-date=6 April 2010 |archive-date=25 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225054714/http://skepdic.com/rods.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 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==
* [[Alien abduction]]
* [[Alien abduction entities]]
* [[:Category:Alleged extraterrestrial beings|Alleged extraterrestrial beings]]
* [[Ancient astronauts]]
* [[Chimera (mythology)|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]]
* [[Mutual UFO Network|MUFON]] (United States) and {{Lang|ru-latn|[[Kosmopoisk]]|italic=no}} (Russia)
* [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]]
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===In fiction===
* [[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==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=U8fqoTvsvUEC ''Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens'' (2005)] by Susan A. Clancy

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