The species index
Every race currently catalogued in the archive, in dossier order.
Nordic
The 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 · ReportedGrey
The 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 · FolkloreReptilian
The 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 loreArcturian
The 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 lorePleiadian
The 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 · FolkloreSirian
The 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 loreLyran
The 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 loreAndromedan
The 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 · ReportedInsectoid
The 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 · FictionalDraconian
The 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 · ReportedMantid
The 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 loreAvian
The MessengersBird-headed beings run from Egyptian Horus and Thoth through Mesoamerican feathered deities to the 'Blue Avians' of 2010s contactee accounts.
Race 13 · Contactee loreOrion
The WarriorsIn channelled cosmologies the 'Orion group' is cast as a martial, hierarchical civilisation and the counterweight to the gentler Pleiadian lineage.
Race 14 · FolkloreTaurian
The BuildersThe bull-headed being is one of humanity's oldest mythic figures, from the Minotaur to Mesopotamian lamassu.
Race 15 · Contactee loreVenusian
The 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 · SpeculativeCapella
The ObserversCapella is the brightest star in Auriga, a system of two giant stars.
Race 17 · Contactee loreAldebaran
The 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 loreProcyon
The MediatorsProcyon is the eighth-brightest star in the night sky.
Race 19 · SpeculativeCentauri
The TravelersAlpha Centauri is the nearest star system to the Sun, and Proxima b is a confirmed planet in its habitable zone.
Race 20 · Contactee loreFelinid
The 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 · SpeculativeAquarian
The 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 · SpeculativeAthurian
The ObserversThe Athurian is a speculative pale-skinned observer people from a fictional system.
Race 23 · Contactee loreTall White
The 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 · FictionalLizardian
The 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 loreAvalonian
The 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 · SpeculativeCelestial
The 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 · FolkloreShadow
The Phantoms'Shadow people' are dark humanoid silhouettes reported at the edge of vision, most often during sleep paralysis.
Race 28 · FolkloreMothmanoid
The ScoutsThe Mothmanoid descends from the 'Mothman' sightings of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966–67: a winged humanoid with glowing red eyes.
Race 29 · SpeculativeCephalopod
The IntelligencesEarth's octopuses are the most intelligent invertebrates known, with a distributed nervous system unlike ours.
Race 30 · SpeculativePlantoid
The HarmonicsPlant-people appear in folklore as the Green Man and in fiction from 'The Day of the Triffids' to countless tree spirits.
Race 31 · SpeculativeCrystalline
The ResonantsSilicon-based life is a long-standing thought experiment in astrobiology, and crystalline beings are a staple of speculative fiction.
Race 32 · FolkloreAmphibian
The AdaptorsAmphibious visitors run through ancient myth: the Babylonian Oannes who taught civilisation, and the Nommo of Dogon tradition.
Race 33 · FictionalAquatic
The Deep OnesThe finned ocean-dweller is a fixture of fiction from Lovecraft's 'Deep Ones' to modern film.
Race 34 · SpeculativeRobotic
The 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 · FolkloreElemental
The ManifestationsElementals are the fire, earth, air and water spirits of Renaissance alchemy, formalised by Paracelsus in the 16th century.