10 Strangest Recorded Human Encounters With Aliens

UFOs have been making headlines lately, so it's time to meet the alien pilots. Here are the top 10 dumbest human encounters with aliens.

10. Reptoids

The Reptoids, or Reptilians, are a race of bipedal humanoid reptiles. Depending on who you ask, they are from a world orbiting Alpha Serpens in the Draconis system, or they are right here on Earth, having evolved from dinosaurs and surviving underground. Either way, they are considered malevolent.

In fact, most encounters involve abduction and rape. For example, one Mexican woman, a virgin, discovered she was pregnant after a “missing time” episode. According to her account, she spotted a UFO while driving past Teotihuacan at 11 a.m., then suddenly, without remembering it, found herself 185 miles away at 2 p.m. In the weeks that followed, she suffered from weakness and nausea, and upon examination, she was found to be pregnant. Seven months later, she gave birth to a monstrous reptilian hybrid with “double-membraned eyes, thick frog lips, fused fingers,” and a turtle-like shell. Despite her fear of the creature, doctors tended to its needs, which included a “diet of herbs” and incubation under infrared light. Three weeks later, it was raised by its mother “in seclusion.” According to UFO theorists, reptilian hybrids (or "mestizos") like this are part of a long-term plan to infiltrate human civilization in advance of a full-scale invasion.

Not all encounters with Reptilians are undesirable, however. Los Angeles jazz singer Pamela Stonebrook has spoken openly of her “great respect” for the Reptilians she has had sex with. Like others, though less reluctantly, she said the orgasms were “incredible.” She disagreed with the idea that Reptilians were disgusting.

9. Venusians

Like Earthlings, Venusians (or "space brothers," as ufologist George Adamski called them) come in a variety of colors. Their activities on Earth outside of their underground bases include observing our species and working with our rulers.

Adamski claimed to have met his first Venusian, named Orton, in 1952. They met in the Colorado desert, Adamski said, recalling a mark-like imprint left by Orton's boot in the sand.

Another famous contactee is Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. In her book"Very strange things I encountered" She claims she was abducted and taken to Venus - "a very beautiful place," she said, "very green." Her husband, nicknamed "Alien" by colleagues for his "otherworldly mannerisms," appears to support her claims.

8. Insects

Mantis-like creatures up to 7 feet tall are often encountered in abduction reports, usually accompanied by Greys. They often wear robes with high collars, indicating their seniority. But their interactions with abductees are usually fairly hands-off, usually limited to telepathic probing and stimulation of various emotions.

A notable exception is artist David Huggins, who lost his virginity to an alien hybrid named Crescent. During his encounters, he encountered the Grays, the "Hairy Guy" (like a short Bigfoot), and others in addition to insectoids.

After examining the hybrid babies he had produced with Crescent, one of the insectoids led Huggins to a doorway pulsating with light. “It was like he was pushing himself out of the doorway,” he said. “[The light] had a shape.” Huggins followed the insectoid’s direction to step inside, at which point he felt a light pass through him. When he woke up the next morning, he had “incredible energy” that lasted for weeks.

7. Andromedans

According to some reports, blue-skinned Andromedans share our genetic makeup and have guided humanity for millennia; they even appear in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

In our time, they have chosen a former US Army helicopter pilot as their representative on Earth – or so says Alex Collier. Since the 1990s, he has been relaying their messages to Earthlings. He has told us, for example, that humanity is made up of 22 extraterrestrial species, and that the “Andromeda Council” is the de facto United Nations of our galaxy. To be fair, that sounds equally capricious. Some on the council want to save our species, while others think we are too cruel and arrogant – especially since, according to Collier, helping would violate their time-honored pledge of non-interference (a la Star Trek).

But what makes this such a dilemma for the Council is all the alien interference to date. If they had left us alone, Collier said, we wouldn't be where we are now; all the aliens who visited (and often stayed) over the centuries stunted our spiritual evolution with silly ideologies that eventually culminated in the nuclear bomb. To complicate matters further, there's a supposed treaty signed by President Eisenhower giving the Grays free reign over Earth in exchange for alien technology. The Grays are unlikely to let Andromedans in, Collier said (just as when countries shut down the United Nations). Even human governments wouldn't trust them enough to dismantle their nuclear arsenals.

6. People

Most alien species are humanoid in shape, but some are more human than others. Lemurian hybrids, for example, with their dark hair and olive skin, appear to be very similar to Middle Easterners. The Avegans, from a world orbiting Vega, look exactly like Indians, according to a Brazilian contactee.

So birder (or plumber) Joe Simonton may have been one of these species in 1961. At 11 a.m. on April 18, he heard a sound he likened to "tire spikes on wet pavement," warning him of a flying saucer hovering near his home, just above the ground. It didn't land, but as he approached the craft, a side "gate" opened to reveal three Italian-looking aliens in turtlenecks and helmets. They looked so human that Simonton could estimate their age at 25 to 30 years.

One of the three handed him a metal container, possibly aluminum, and gestured to fill it with water. When he did as they asked, another of the three, the one cooking on the stove in red striped pants and whom Simonton called “the chef,” gave him four 3-inch pancakes with holes in them. The Air Force, NICAP, and the FDA found that the pancakes were made of flour, sugar, fat, and (rumor has it) possibly an unknown wheat. The Air Force called the encounter “inexplicable,” and Simonton went on tour with his story.

5. Northern countries

The most famous humanoid aliens are the fair-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Nordics, so called for their resemblance to the Swedes. They are also known as the Plejarans or Pleiadians, although some claim to be in contact with these species, insisting that the Plejarans and Pleiadians are different from each other, as the Plejarans do not belong to the Pleiades.

In any case, the Nordics, Pleiadians, and Plejarans are described as benevolent. They allegedly once tried to convince President Eisenhower to get rid of American nuclear weapons in exchange for alien technology. Unfortunately, however, Eisenhower (as President of the United States) instead signed a treaty with the Grays, allowing them to abduct anyone they wanted in exchange for alien technology without having to give up their nuclear weapons.

Eisenhower is not the only politician to have had close encounters with Scandinavians. Another is former Florida vice mayor and congressional candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, who made headlines during her 2017 campaign by claiming she was on a spaceship. As a young girl, she said, she was welcomed aboard by blonde telepaths, robed aliens who resembled, as she put it, Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue. There, she was told that “the center of the world’s energy is Africa,” that Florida’s Coral Castle is an ancient pyramid, that every religion taps into the same energy, erroneously personified as “God,” and that 30,000 non-human skulls had been discovered in a cave in Malta.

4. Orions

Like the Nordics, Vegans, and others, the Orions resemble humans. In fact, with their darker features, they are more human-like than the others.

Sometimes they are described as an evil race. Contactee George Hunt Williamson, for example (transmitting from Uranus in 1952), listed “evil people and menacing aliens from the Orion Solar Systems” among the threats to Earth from space. He said there were six “Orion Solar Systems” — the “Unholy Six” — each inhabited by “negative cosmic intelligences” seeking to plunder Earth’s resources to replenish their own dying worlds. And apparently they are already here.

However, a later report from 2019 portrayed the Orions as peaceful and caring - so perhaps they have changed their minds. Published in a Colombian newspaper El Tiempo , the report came from the small rural village of Guacimal, where locals claim to have been visited by tall, dark humanoids since December 2012. According to them, these encounters were mostly frightening; the beings only appear at night, are always dressed in black, and their voices are strange and robotic. But in 2018, the visitors delivered their message: “people must love each other, otherwise the human race will soon be destroyed.” The beings also claimed to have lived there in an underground base for 60 years since arriving on Earth from Orion. A police officer called by one of the locals partially confirmed the story; he saw silhouettes of tall, dark beings, as did ufologist Christian Ramos.

3. Alpha Centauri

The aquatic, glowing, blue-skinned Alpha Centaurians from our sun's closest neighbor are said to live deep in our oceans, launching UFOs from their underwater bases and, depending on who you talk to, either maiming livestock or enlightening people.

According to a woman who had afternoon tea with one in 2022, they also have strong telepathic abilities. She claimed that they can stop us from asking questions by inducing “brain fog.” This helps steer the conversation to the most important questions, like (in this case) which internet service provider we use. The Alpha Centaurians seem to strongly recommend Starlink and speak highly of its founder, Elon Musk, who they say spends a lot of time doing business off-world. “Elon Musk is destined to do great things for humanity,” said the alien, whose species allegedly belongs to the “Galactic Federation of Worlds.”

2. Gray

Although humanoid, the Grays—with their pale gray skin, large black eyes, and hairless heads larger than their bodies—are basically the opposite of humans. UFO lore explains this as an adaptation to life underground after the surface of their planet was destroyed by nuclear weapons. The Grays originally looked much like us, only with larger eyes. Their interest in experimenting on humans is said to be in restoring the capacity for emotion.

Like the most frequently reported alien species, there are plenty of strange encounters out there. But few come close to explosives engineer Philip Schneider. In the 1970s, while helping build an underground military base in Dulce, New Mexico, he came face to face with 7-foot-tall aliens. For some reason, he had a gun and opened fire, killing two and sending a third shooting a plasma ball back, blowing off several of his own fingers. Although Schneider was saved by a Green Beret soldier, 60 people died, including that Green Beret. And according to Schneider, the war still rages to this day.

Dulce is just one of nearly 1,500 such bases around the world, each funded by secret “black budgets,” many of them are war zones. Another famous example from the U.S.’s alleged portfolio of 129 underground alien bases is the one in Groom Lake, Nevada: Area 51. According to former employee Bob Lazar, there was also a shootout with the Grays there — sparked when a human guard told the Grays not to enter a Gray-controlled area with loaded guns. Another shootout at Dulce began similarly, when humans refused to take the bullets out of their guns when ordered to do so by the Grays.

1. Martians

Although historically the term “Martian” was a catch-all, it now refers to something specific: two-foot-tall humanoids from Mars. According to UFO lore, they were the dominant species on our neighboring planet three billion years ago, perhaps due to their bulbous brains. They are also known as “gnomes” or “dwarves,” and communicate through music or telepathy.

Perhaps the strangest report comes from an English housewife. One morning in early January 1979, after her husband had left for work, she noticed a light outside. To her surprise, it was coming from a giant orange sphere above the garage. As she and her dog watched from inside (until the dog fell over on its side, unconscious), three winged gnomes flew past her into the living room.

She herself felt cold and weak, but followed them and saw two of them shaking the Christmas tree, knocking the fairy to the floor. Each wore a helmet with a flashlight on top. None of them had fingers or toes. Their limbs simply tapered to their tips, but somehow they were able to lift objects around the room. When the housewife was finally paralyzed, the Martians began to speak in hoarse male voices in unison: "Beautiful?" Then she could move. At first, they did not answer her questions, simply repeating them back to her and running around the room, jumping on the couch. If they did not like what she said, they fired a beam from their helmets at her forehead, causing temporary blindness and paralysis. However, they relented when she told them it hurt. They also began to answer questions, such as where they were from ("heaven"). They even asked questions of their own, such as about the picture of Jesus on the wall, the Queen, the housewives and the children. They also asked for water, which she duly brought on a tray with some mince pies. When they each had a glass, she raised hers and they raised theirs, but when they saw her looking at them, they blinded her again. When her sight returned, she thought of offering them cigarettes, as they were interested in the box; but when she lit one, they recoiled in fear.

Eventually, a loud noise outside announced the return of the orange sphere, and the Martians "put their hands to their sides... rose," pressing buttons on their chests, and "slipped out" - each with a meat pie in his hand (or on the points at the ends of his arms). The housewife collapsed in pain on the couch and lay unconscious for the rest of the day. When she awoke, neither her watch, radio, nor television worked, nor did the tapes the Martians had touched.