A type of UFO occupant. Typically diminutive, grey-skinned being with large black eyes, frail body and a slit for a mouth. The also have flat,
duck-
like feet but this is never shown in films or TV as undermines their sinister, ethereal quality.
Purportedly from the Zeta Reticuli star system but fond of hanging around the
mid-western United States, waiting to fondle truckers, rednecks, fishermen, loggers and
people looking for a publisher.
Abilities; walking into locked rooms, designing and flying circular craft, turning radios on and off with science/telepathy, levitation and fingering orifices.
First appearance in fiction; possibly the
work of HG Wells.
Witness 1; wait!... what are those beings in the clearing... my God!
Wotness 2: Oh they're just Greyliens. They aren't famous aliens
like Klaatu and Gort.
Witness 1; or
Han and Chewie.
Witness 2: is
Han an Alien?
Witness 1; technically he was.
Greyliens return to saucer, feeling despondent. Nobody notices.