Ex-CIA researcher claims there are 4 sorts of alien species recovered from UFOs
Former Pentagon-linked advisers Dr Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis have revived claims that US “crash recovery” programmes retrieved craft and “at least four” alien species
These are the alleged four alien species
A former CIA boffin has claimed that US agents investigating recovered UFO craft have identified four different types of alien species. In a new episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast, Dr. Hal Puthoff, a former CIA-funded researcher and Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) advisor said he had been told by “high-level sources” involved in such programmes that there are “at least four” distinct alien species linked to recovered craft.
When talking on the ‘Diary of a CEO’ podcast alongside Age of Disclosure director Dan Farrah, the former CIA researcher was asked for details on what aliens had been found.
“Four separate types,” he said.
He added: “Now I have not had direct access to that, but I believe the people I talked to, four separate types of life at least.” The “four types” described have been attributed publicly to Dr Davis, a longtime collaborator of Puthoff, Brobible reported.
At a 2025 UAP Disclosure Fund conference, Davis reportedly categorised the alleged beings as “Grays”; small, hairless figures with large eyes, “Nordics”; said to be human-sized and resembling Northern Europeans, “Insectoids”; described as tall, mantis-like humanoids, and “Reptilians”; portrayed as humanoid figures with scaly skin and tails.
Puthoff also claimed there has been a longstanding culture of secrecy around the subject.
This reportedly includes what he characterised as a CIA strategy of spreading disinformation designed to deter serious public interest in UFOs.
Separately, Davis has for several years asserted that he has examined “off-world” wreckage and biological material from craft he says “we couldn’t make ourselves”.
On the podcast, Dr. Puthoff also alleged there had been a “CIA meeting where people got together and said, ‘Okay, in order to not have people be pursuing this area, let’s go out of our way to spread what we would call now disinformation.’”
The alien claims remain anecdotal and unverified in public. Neither Dr. Puthoff or Davis have produced physical evidence, such as photographs, independently testable materials, or biological samples, to support the specific classifications being discussed.
Furthermore, Puthoff’s comments were explicitly presented as secondhand information based on conversations rather than direct access.
In terms of the official position, while there has been heightened congressional interest and high-profile testimony from figures such as David Grusch, the US government has not formally confirmed the existence of recovered alien bodies or validated the species descriptions being circulated.
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