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.

22 names

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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