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Grays
The dominant alien archetype in modern abduction narratives: short, gray-skinned, large black almond eyes.
Likely first widely seeded by the 1961 Hill abduction case and codified by Whitley Strieber's 1987 'Communion'. Sub-types described in literature include 'tall grays' (purported leadership) and 'short grays' (worker class). Skeptics view the Gray as a culturally mediated archetype shaped by science fiction; researchers like Jacques Vallée note the figure has folkloric antecedents going back centuries.