31 January 2015

Our Enemies: The Grey Aliens


Who the are these "Grey" Aliens?

Why Are Grey Aliens Popular Foe?

The Society of the Grey Aliens


The Military of the Grey Aliens?


Grey Aliens and Popular Culture
Science Fiction and the Greys


The Colonists from the X-Files Universe

The Taar from Dark Colony 


The Sectoids from the X-Com Universe

The Maraduaring Greys from ID4

The Grey Aliens from the Area-51 Game

The Furons from the Destroy All Humans! Video Game Series

The Streibs and the Vree from the Babylon 5 Universe


The Greys from Fire in the Sky

The Grey Warriors from Signs 

The Hive-Slave Greys from the Dark Skies TV Series

Next Time on FWS...


  1. First off, let me refresh everyone on the Kardashev scale. The Kardashev scale is a scoring system, created by Nikolai Kardashev, by which civilizations are measured. Each level is based on how much energy that civilization can produce. When first created, it was limited to three levels. With the introduction of the theory of the multiverse, it could theoretically be extended further. The energy on each level is related to a celestial body capable of producing it.

    The first level civilization can utilize all the energy available to a planet. An example of such a civilization is cyberpunk.

    The second level civilization can utilize all the energy available to a star. An example of such a civilization is either Star Wars or Star Trek.

    The third level civilization can utilize all the energy available to a galaxy. An example of such a civilization is the Iconian of Star Trek.
    The Grey Aliens of popular UFO lore behave as a second level civilization. From reports of abductions and such, it appears that they are studying humanity. Though such activity could be at times a nuisance, it would not, as Project Blue Book concluded, pose a military threat to the United States. If grey scientist are anything like human scientist, that could change in an instant.

    A film crew was making a documentary about lemmings. They had captured a large group of them and were filming their behavior. The film crew became bored, and decided to chase their subjects off a cliff. This is how the myth of the suicidal lemmings was born.

    Besides becoming “bored,” and chasing humanity off a cliff, the greys could introduce variables to humanity to study our reaction to it. When studying a community of animals, the most common variable is either a predator, or an intruder. Another possible scenario could be that the greys wish to study humanity under specific conditions, and some inventor creates a contraption that makes this impossible. How would the greys return humanity to the proper course? Humanity’s response to any of these scenarios will doubtlessly include military action.

    On a related note, there are those who claim that an alien would not look like the traditional grey alien because anything that evolved on an alien planet would not look anything like a human. On the other hand, convergent evolution states that two different evolutionary lines facing the same environmental conditions could produce similar results. The most used example of this is ichthyosaurs and dolphins. One is a dinosaur, the other is a mammal, but the two have almost identical body types.

    1. The Star Trek civilizations have Dyson sphere?


    2. My favorite explanation as to why the Greys are so humanoid is that traveling faster than light travels back in time, so these are futire humans coming back from the other side of the galaxy millions of years after they left Earth undergoing significant evolution. With some species like the Nordics coming from a less distant future and the more exotic versions of Greys being more distant. As red dwarfs are the most common stars in the galaxy with no UV and high infrared output making the habitable zone dimmer, the future human colonies have produced pale humans with large dim adapted eyes. Also explaining why they might be interested in hybridizing with humans for lost useful traits. As hybridizing with anything more distantly related than a chimp is unlikely let alone a true alien, better luck with a mushroom. Another explanation is they are fairies pretending to be aliens to prank people. Or they could just be hallucinations and false memories, or prophetic visions of the distant future.

  2. Nice touch adding the levels of advanced civilizations...should have done that. It is also a good point about the two types of dolphin type species. I've always wondered about the Greys and their observations of the human race.
    Thanks for the comment!

  3. Bradley VanBenschotenJanuary 31, 2015 at 6:17 PM

    I honestly don't subscribe to the UFO community, or the idea that there are little gray men zooming around in flying saucers abducting people. There's no substantial evidence which supports the idea of extraterrestrial visitors, and it seems like there's a lot of assumptions from ignorance being made within the UFO community (i.e. ''Look! An unidentified flying object... it must be aliens!"). Add to that the fact that UFO sightings are almost nonexistent among astronomers - since they actually know what they're looking at. That's not to say I don't think it's possible that aliens may be among us or have visited us in the past, but I think Carl Sagan put it best when he said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

    Anywho, I don't like being a buzzkill, and I'd be amiss if I didn't say that the grays certainly have a place in the world of sci-fi - and American popular culture in general. I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Asgard from Stargate SG-1 though! :P

  4. Don't believe Aliens have visited earth. Then please explain to me what happened over Washington DC, July 19 - 29, 1952. Several objects were seen by 100's of people. Picked up on radar, chased by Air Force fighter jets, they can be seen in photo's and film taken at the time. The US goverment tried to claim it was "swamp gas" but that has been proven to be false. Yet to this day no one can explain what was flying over Washington DC on several different days.

    1. I'm not dismissing UFO sightings as swamp gas, though I do think that most UFO sightings can be explained by very terrestrial phenomena. I'm just saying that there's no solid evidence which suggests that they're extraterrestrial in origin. Is there a chance that UFOs are actually alien visitors? Absolutely! Is it likely? Once again, I'll refer to Sagan. The thing with unidentified flying objects is that they're UNIDENTIFIED; so when somebody spots one and automatically assumes that it must be aliens, they are making a very big assertion based in ignorance. I share William's confidence that there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, but I can't subscribe to the idea that we are being visited until more grounded evidence is presented. Rest assured, I want to believe - I simply haven't been convinced yet!

      Also, I'm kind of iffy about divergent evolution being applied to extraterrestrial visitors - mainly because every single example of divergent evolution has occurred on a single planet. Even if aliens came from a planet that was similar to ours, there are so many other factors to consider when it comes to how animals survive and evolve. Plus, even though the humanoid form is awesome when you're here on Earth, it's not suited for the harsh environment of space. Personally, whenever I think of a highly advanced, space-faring species of aliens, I think of the Scramblers from Peter Watt's 'Blindside' or the Combine advisors from Half-life 2. They have bodied must more fitting for the harsh environment of space, though I'm sure real aliens will be unlike anything we've ever thought up.

      ...and wouldn't it be easier just to send probes to study us? Why waste the manpower sending a crew if they're so advanced?

  5. Despite firmly believing in intelligent life in the universe, I am not 100% sold on the aliens visiting us, the ruins on Luna or Mars, or even UFOs. I tend to believe in elements of UFO/ancient alien lore, but not to the point of 100%.
    The trouble for me is that for aliens to be coming to our little blue world, Faster-than-light has to exist. Period. If indeed aliens are visiting us, making treaties with US government, than FTL exists and the stars are open to us, as soft science fiction predicted.
    I am open to alien visitation to Terra though and ancient alien theory despite being an social studies teacher.

    1. FTL doesn't have to exist. They might not mind the long haul, thanks to immortality, or suspended animation, or extreme time dilation due to the speed.


    2. Ooh, and the ships could be sent unmanned, but then raise a crew from frozen zygotes when they arrive.


    3. Whoever said that extraterrestrials are that advanced. To me personally I think the reason for the lack of extraterrestrials is that
      A. They're on the other side of the galaxy and their warpdrive can't jump that far
      B. Their equally as advanced as us now
      C. Their na vi primative.

    4. FTL also doesn't have to exist if it's as we have plans for our own species, a generational ship. ;)

  6. Why FTL is necessary for aliens' interstellar travel? Couldn't those aliens travel at sub-C speeds, build some research base in our solar system and conduct their ass-probing raids from the dark side of the moon?


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  8. The idea of the Grey's appearance being due to their space suits makes sense. It is likly that even if a bibedal intelligent life-form eveolved parallel but seperate to humanity it would still be unable to walk on Earth unprotected. Quite aside from germs, viruses, and bacteria, even pollen will probably send the alien into anaphalactic shock.

    Although I thing(or hope, rather) that humananity is not alone in the cosmos Sagan was indeed correct when he said 'extrordinary claims require extrordinary evidence'. I find it higly unlikly that such a thing as aliens visiting Earth could be kept secret so that most people reject it; Occam's Razor, in effect.


  9. The stories of the Greys coming to the Earth tell of the aliens coming to and from their own star system to ours. It is true that the aliens could be operating from an off-world HQ (maybe on a moon of Mars?) and it took them generations to get here...but something tells me that they, if they exist, are using a interstellar shortcut.
    Thanks for the great comments!

  10. Hey, how's the book going. Are we gonna see images of the dragoon mech yet or you're still working on it

  11. Personally, I do not believe in any of this UFO and conspiracy stuff involving flying saucers and ruins on the Moon. However, the image of the Grey-type alien has certainly become a cultural icon and is worth discussing just for that. :-)

    My theory is that most (all?) stories of alien visitors are influenced heavily by cultural images that filtered down from science fiction into mass consciousness through books, movies, and TV. The grey alien is easy to trace. Back in the way-back-then, H.G. Wells envisioned what he thought future mankind would look like. He decided that after thousands of years of living in a technological culture, we would depend on our machines so heavily we would cease to labor physically and would gradually develop superior intellects. Thus, Wells concluded, we would evolve to have atrophied bodies and absolutely gigantic heads to house our enormous brains!

    The end result of this progression would be a "man" that was almost all head, with a tiny, atrophied body with very little muscle mass and and digestive system that wasn't worth sh*t. Future humans would spend their days thinking up things with their super-intellects while their machines labored. When it came to meal-time, our distant descendents would gather around a bowl containing a nutritious pre-processed liquid, since they will have also dispensed with all that hard work of chewing and digesting food. Let the robots chew!! I assume they shall also reproduce in an artificial fashion since I doubt sex and pregnancy is going to be popular amongst people with such atrophied bodies. Indeed, sexual selection would almost certainly preclude humanity evolving in this direction!

    This idea of future humans having big heads and atrophied bodies (guess field and track isn't popular in the 30th century) was picked up by pulp-era SF and filtered its way into popular consciousness. Since star-faring aliens would obviously be way more advanced then us, people begin to think of aliens that looked like that- and this image showed up in 50s SF. Fom there, it was a short hop into the world of UFOlogy.

    The day a grey comes down to say hello I'll revise my opinion of his existence, until then, I blame the little butt-probers on good old H.G. Wells. Oh, and you'll notice that the Martians from The War of the Worlds are kind of built on these lines- although they can scarcely move in our heavy gravity, it does not matter, because they function as the minds behind their unstoppable war machines. I think they were a bit sprightlier on Mars, although never likely to engage in marathons or ballet dancing. :D

  12. The book is done, at the publisher, and the cover art is completely done. My publisher and I will be rolling Endangered Species in a calculated way. There has been a delay, however, it should be out very soon. At the moment, I am working on the sequel and another book separate from the Endangered Species universe. This book is about an far future black special forces unit. I've been very much enjoying the writing of the novel. I think it will be my next book.

  13. I love me some Original X-Com and X-Files. The 90s were pretty cool.

  14. The 1990's were a great time. I miss those times...I guess I am getting old

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  16. Agreed. I wonder what the aliens will really be like?

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  21. A re-recurring thing that I keep seeing is that, you and the other authors of FWS desperately need to proof read your blogs before you post. Ive ignored the first hundred or so but some of these grammatical errors make me wonder who's writing these things.

  22. There only a few writers here at FWS, me being the primary for the vast majority. Editing is a tough effort for me due to a learning disability and time issues. I generally I plug the text into a speech read and edit if it does not sound "right". The grammatical errors are just an error in biology, not technology. Look, at the end of the day, the information is there and presented in a way that maybe difficult at times, but there is nothing like FWS on the internet. Thanks for the comment, and I will attempt to fix these issues moving forward.