What people
call them.

Fifty names in wide circulation, each one checked against what the archive actually holds. 22 of them track nothing at all. Where a name does track something, the line that matters is not the star it is said to come from. It is the country whose archive holds the file.

Verdict
Tracked10The form, not the origin5Partly tracked5A name, not a form8Not tracked22

50 names

Tracked 10

The archive holds a working entry for this form.

  • Insectoids

    Chitinous/other insectoid. Targeted audit pending; no official file located.

    In the roster as INS-02 Chitinous

  • Mantids

    Head and forelimb geometry must be mantis-specific, not a thin Grey with large eyes.

    In the roster as INS-01 Mantid

  • Amphibians Claimed origin: Water Worlds Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    Requires anatomical adaptation, not merely an encounter near water.

    In the roster as OTH-02 Aquatic

  • Avians Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    Requires real feathers, beak or anatomical wings.

    In the roster as OTH-07 Avian

  • Energy Beings Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    Luminous humanoid. Anchored only on Talavera, which is a press clipping inside an official file.

    In the roster as OTH-04 Luminous

  • Aquatics Claimed origin: Ocean Planets Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    Same slot as Amphibians. The poster splits one class into two.

    In the roster as OTH-02 Aquatic

  • Zeta Reticulans Claimed origin: Zeta Reticuli Reported in France (2), Russia (USSR) — 3 cases across the grey-like family, not this name in particular

    The poster lists this twice - entry 1 and entry 26 are the same claimed thing.

    In the roster as GRY-02 Short Grey

  • Tall Whites Reported in Argentina, Brazil, United States — 3 cases across the humanlike family, not this name in particular

    Extreme pallor plus stature. White clothing alone is insufficient.

    In the roster as HUM-03 Tall White

  • Cybernetic Aliens Claimed origin: Artificial Worlds Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    Robotic/synthetic. One weak lead: the Voronezh robot, press-level only.

    In the roster as OTH-03 Robotic

  • Plasma Entities Claimed origin: Plasma Dimension Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    MoD Project Condign, ESA and DOE support plasma phenomena and self-organisation. They do NOT support a sentient plasma species. Plasma Dimension is invented.

    In the roster as OTH-05 Plasma

The form, not the origin 5

The form is a real working class. The star system attached to the name is not supported by any case record.

  • Greys Claimed origin: Zeta Reticuli Reported in France (2), Russia (USSR) — 3 cases across the grey-like family, not this name in particular

    Grey-like macrocephalic is a real working class (qualification P). The Zeta Reticuli origin traces to the Hill case and the Fish map; that correlation was later withdrawn. Our own site already says so.

    In the roster as GRY-02 Short Grey, GRY-03 Classic Grey

  • Tall Greys Claimed origin: Orion Reported in France (2), Russia (USSR) — 3 cases across the grey-like family, not this name in particular

    Orion/Bellatrix is on the alias watchlist as claimed origin metadata, not a race.

    In the roster as GRY-04 Tall Grey

  • Reptilians Claimed origin: Draco

    No official close-encounter file with explicit scales, reptilian jaw or claws has been located worldwide.

    In the roster as REP-01 Reptilian

  • Nordics Claimed origin: Pleiades Reported in Argentina, Brazil, United States — 3 cases across the humanlike family, not this name in particular

    Morphology label only. Does not establish origin, species or allegiance.

    In the roster as HUM-01 Nordic

  • Draconians Claimed origin: Draco

    Requires reptilian anatomy PLUS wings. The name alone is not a species.

    In the roster as REP-02 Draconian

Partly tracked 5

It overlaps something the archive holds without matching it.

A name, not a form 8

The name carries no body plan the archive can track. It names an origin, or a trait, or nothing.

  • Pleiadians Claimed origin: Pleiades Reported in Argentina, Brazil, United States — 3 cases across the humanlike family, not this name in particular

    Watchlist rule: split from Nordic only if official-source morphology is structurally different. It is not.

    In the roster as HUM-02 Pleiadian Humanlike

  • Arcturians Claimed origin: Arcturus

    On the alias watchlist: descriptions vary, held in research queue. No roster slot.

    On the alias watchlist: the name is recorded, no entry is created from it.

  • Andromedans Claimed origin: Andromeda

    Name-only research target until source wording supplies repeatable anatomy.

    On the alias watchlist: the name is recorded, no entry is created from it.

  • Sirians Claimed origin: Sirius

    Do not preselect morphology from the name.

    On the alias watchlist: the name is recorded, no entry is created from it.

  • Lyrians Claimed origin: Lyra

    Humanlike and feline descriptions conflict; not merged without evidence.

    On the alias watchlist: the name is recorded, no entry is created from it.

  • Anunnaki Claimed origin: Nibiru Reported in Argentina, Brazil, United States — 3 cases across the humanlike family, not this name in particular

    Watchlist rule is explicit: do not import ancient iconography as literal anatomy. Nibiru has no basis of any kind.

    In the roster as HUM-04 Anunnaki / Giant Humanlike

  • Blue Avians Reported in United States (3), Brazil, Denmark, Spain, USSR/Russia, Venezuela — 8 cases across the other morphology family, not this name in particular

    Watchlist rule: blue is a trait; avian anatomy determines the class.

    In the roster as OTH-07 Avian

  • Alpha Centaurians Claimed origin: Alpha Centauri

    Claimed origin metadata pending exact source.

    On the alias watchlist: the name is recorded, no entry is created from it.

Not tracked 22

Nothing in the record supports an entry. These are inventions, categories, or ideas about what life elsewhere might be, and the archive says so rather than filling the gap.

  • Hybrids Claimed origin: Earth

    Human-alien hybridity is a claim about biology, not a morphology class. Nothing in any official record.

  • Crystalline Beings Claimed origin: Crystal Worlds

    No official record anywhere describes a crystalline entity.

  • Feline Humanoids

    Appears only inside the Lyran name claim, which the watchlist flags as self-contradictory.

  • Canine Humanoids

    No official record.

  • Moon-Eyes Claimed origin: Lunar Bases

    No official record. Lunar bases are not in any archive we audited.

  • Small Greens

    Little green men is a press coinage. Note: the Kelly-Hopkinsville figures were never described as green in any record.

  • Hive-Mind Species

    A claim about cognition, not anatomy.

  • Silicon-Based Life Claimed origin: Silica Planets

    Astrobiological speculation, no encounter record.

  • Gas Giant Floaters Claimed origin: Gas Giant Worlds

    Science-fiction lineage, no record.

  • Jellyfish Aliens Claimed origin: Oceanic Worlds

    No official record.

  • Plant-Based Intelligences

    No official record.

  • Parasite Species

    No official record.

  • Ancient Builders Claimed origin: Prehistoric Era

    Megastructure claims are archaeology disputes, not entity records.

  • Time-Traveling Humans Claimed origin: Future Earth

    No official record.

  • Interdimensional Beings Claimed origin: Multiple Dimensions

    A framework, not a morphology.

  • Lava World Species Claimed origin: Volcanic Planets

    No official record.

  • Ice Planet Nomads Claimed origin: Ice Worlds

    No official record.

  • Oceanic Giants Claimed origin: Deep Oceans

    No official record. The quoted 20-100 ft height has no source of any kind.

  • Telepathic Collectives

    A claim about communication, not anatomy.

  • Swarm Organisms

    No official record.

  • Desert World Nomads Claimed origin: Desert Planets

    No official record.

  • Unknown Cosmic Entities

    A placeholder, not a taxon.

Why this page exists

Most writing on this subject starts from the names and works backwards to find records that fit. This archive starts from the records, so a name only earns an entry when something in the record carries a body plan behind it. Where nothing does, the name stays on this page with the reason attached rather than quietly disappearing.

A tracked form is still only as good as its evidence tier, and most of them are Reported. Tracked means the archive has somewhere to put it, not that anyone has established it exists.

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