Interactive catalogue · claims, sources and lineages

Non-human intelligence:
a field guide to the traditions

entries. Open one to read it in full; the dotted words carry an — hover on a desktop, tap on a phone — and the related names at the bottom of each entry will take you straight there. Each open entry also carries an If you go looking note — what the tradition itself says about approach, and what harm is actually documented.

This catalogues traditions and how they arose. Nothing here asserts that any of these beings exist. The useful question is not “is it real?” but “where did this description come from, and did anyone arrive at it independently?” The cautions are recorded on the same basis: what a tradition warns is a fact about the tradition, and the risks worth taking seriously here belong to the practices, not to the beings.

For information only. This is a record of what traditions claim and where those claims came from — not instruction for practice, and not medical, psychological or spiritual advice. If you have had an experience that is frightening you, or you are finding that contact work is affecting your sleep, your mood, or your grip on things, this is the wrong resource. Speak to your GP, and to someone who knows you well.

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Where each tradition came from Lineage

The relationship map that matters. Most links between these beings are not links between beings at all — they are links between books, and between the people who wrote them.

Archetypes that recur Kinship

Grouped by shared form rather than claimed origin. The question for each cluster is whether unconnected cultures arrived at it separately, or whether it spread from one source and was later mistaken for convergence.

The alliance structure Internal cosmology

These relationships exist only inside the contactee and channelled literature. Set out here because it answers “how do these beings relate to each other” within that tradition — not because there is reporting behind it.

Aligned with human autonomy

  • Andromedans, and the Andromedan Council
  • Pleiadians and Plejaren
  • Lyrans, as ancestral stock
  • Nordics, in the older contactee material
  • Arcturians, in the later channelled material
set against

Cast as controlling

  • Reptilians and Draconians
  • The Orion group
  • Certain Grey factions
  • Anunnaki, in the Sitchin-derived versions

Three things are worth noticing. The structure appears in the early 1990s, not the 1950s — the contactees of the Adamski era had visitors, not a war. It maps cleanly onto human political narrative, with a council, a resistance and an occupying interest. And the roles are assigned by disposition rather than biology: the same Greys appear on both sides depending on which author is writing.