Okay I got an ask about UFO lore so here’s an off-the-top-of-my-head rundown on the different popular alien races:
Generally in UFO lore, the reptillians are just kinda space orcs. They’re not really evil or even cunning they’re just a civilization of asocial bipedal reptiles. There’s also their ruling caste, the Draconians, who are huge dragons, and the terra-reptillians, who settled the earth several million years ago and consider themselves the original terrans. All the stuff about drinking blood/shape shifting is mostly a David Icke twist.
The Nordics/Pleidians are the nice ones. They’re psychic space hippies that look like airbrushed white people. (The idea being that they don’t actually look like that in reality, but they try to project a bland, non-threatening image.)
Greys are not actually individuals, they’re sort of like telepathically remote-controlled biomachines for the Tall Whites. Individual grey’s all posess a small, semi-independent chunk of the Tall Whites consciousness, sort of like a drive partition on a hard drive. The tall whites are always creepy. Their concept of selfhood is completely different from ours, and thus have an entirely different sense of morality. They’re usually the ones doing highly unethical experiments.
The Arcturians are the blue ones. They’re like the Law and Order liberals of UFO lore. Whenever you hear stuff about Galactic Councils or Hyperdimensional Law it always involves the Arcturians in some way.
There’s also the Mantids/Mantises/Bugs. They’re rare. Their civilization is entirely non-social, so they rarely communicate with the rest of the intergalactic community.
In terms of UFO lore, humans aren’t space orcs, but we’re the Galactic equivalent of those worms that live in undersea sulphur vents. We’re extremophiles. The rest of the galactic community sees our civilization as an interesting little factoid. Earth is some backwater town on the outer rim of the galaxy on the outer rim of our galactic supercluster. To the rest of the universe, humanity is a clump of interesting mold growing on a gas station in the middle of nowhere.
Reptillians form co-operative dwellings for the purposes of brood-care, but are generally solitary, they largely do not understand or enjoy interacting with other sentient creatures. They seem to regard humans as “occasionally amusing potential food sources.”
The Mantids are insects. Their sentience is perpetuated as a hive consciousness. Individual Mantids are not social creatures.
Okay it’s UFO lore so the term “original source” means something very different here, but most of this is from either Stanton Friedman and Bill Moore’s correspondence with Timothy Goode, and the Dulce Papers.
Leaving Friedman and Moore aside, properly explaining the Dulce Papers and their relationship to the rest of UFO lore would take me another 2000 words. Just understand that the information above is an extremely general rundown.
YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND.
As what is essentially a “professional occult thing explainer” I wouldn’t even know where to begin with the Dulce Papers. The best explanation I could give would be the Last Podcast On The Left episode about them, but even that barely scratches the surface of how nuts those things are. They just kinda glaze over the Nightmare Hall.
Before I saw “machine elves” become a thing, the extradimensional “ketamine entities” that appeared to you on disassociatives were said to be mantids, are they the same thing?
