The deep dive on part 11. MM's 28,000-word species file on the beings he says he worked beside under red light: what they wear and how they stand, their hands and brains, how a crew moves like ants on a trail, the hive-matrix soul that shares every memory, the four myths he says mark a fake, their technology, what they want from a nursery planet, the culls, the treaties and the fire-fights, and what the Commander added later.
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Written by an AI, not by Metallicman. This is a plain-language summary of 13 archived articles (mainly the collections Type 1 Grey Extraterrestrials, Extraterrestrial Species). It restates what those sources say and does not add claims of its own. Every part links to its sources at the bottom so you can check the original wording.
In one breath
MM's longest single article is a field guide to one species, the "Type-1 Grey", written in January 2019 from two sources he keeps carefully apart: what he says he saw and felt beside them in dim red light, and what he read in binders or on the internet, which "should always be considered suspect". The portrait: small, hairless, forty pounds, three long fingers and a long thumb, arms to above the knee, a brain twice ours, dark blue jumpsuits with no pockets or insignia, boots with barred soles; a crew that moves "like ants following a pheromone trail" and never says hello; one designated mind that speaks, and speaks into your head. Their soul is a hive-matrix, so memories are shared. They are not religious, not dying, not slaves, not from Zeta Reticuli, and anyone who says otherwise, he says, has never met one. What they do is tend a nursery, ours, and decide which crop is worth keeping.
Two kinds of knowledge
MM opens with a rule for reading the article: "Anything that I have not directly experienced should be considered as second hand information only." His direct experience was under their lighting, "a reddish light", and never under daylight, which is why skin colour, smell and diet are all marked as hearsay. On the internet material he is even-handed for once: "the bulk of (general) information about them is actually fairly accurate", because "someone in charge of the redirection and disinformation efforts made by the United States government just threw their hands up in the air and gave up", and the government "no longer try to denounce it. They just try to confuse the issue."
What they look like
Vitals, limbs and clothing. The numbers come from MAJestic autopsy material "gained between 1951 and 1978", which MM says matched his own contact: "I agree completely with this assessment." The fingers "are, contrary to what you might find on the internet, completely separate digits", rarely spread, with knuckles "more pronounced and obvious than human knuckles"; "they are neither left nor right handed". Clothing: "a deep dark blue one-piece jump suit... a kind of turtle neck... no pockets. I never saw buttons, snaps, clasps, Velcro or zippers", "never any insignias", and boots whose soles left prints "like wide lines or thick bars". The overall effect up close: "They seem normal. They seem absolutely normal... the impression that one gets is that of another co-worker."
Skin
Second-hand: "bluish grey to beige, tan, brown or white", changing with health and, reportedly, after feeding. He never saw them in white light.
Food
Second-hand: nourishment absorbed through the skin from "a biological slurry mixture that has been mixed with hydrogen peroxide", waste excreted the same way. "I never saw any of them do this." The 2025 "EBO molecular biologist" post he endorses says the same: no navel, no teeth, nutrient broth through the skin, bird-like lungs, brains wired straight to technology.
Smell
Others report "mentholated cinnamon". "I did not smell anything... I have tried to wrack my brain."
DNA
Claims of reversed DNA, huge lungs and implanted "crystal appearing artifices" circulate; "I cannot confirm or deny the accuracy of this."
Sub-types
Several "families" share the body plan but not an origin: "Type-1 species members all have the same central hive/matrix soul. Type-1 species DNA might vary from sub-type to sub-type." The article's detail is about "type-1A", the big-headed kind.
How they work, and how they talk
"They think, I react." As a group: "They do so like ants following the direction on a pheromone trail. However, they are decidedly not ants." As communicators: "They provided instruction, direction, and information. That was it... They do not bow, shake hands, nod their head, smile or glance downward." Contact is telepathic and one-way: "They initiated and directed the communication... Whenever I worked with them, I felt like I could communicate with them telepathically, but I never (at the time) felt like I wanted to." He reads this as control: "They have a manner of interaction with humans that involves a degree of control over the human mental processes." Some, he has read, can also speak, strangely, "more to do with the shape of their mouth and throat"; he never heard it. "They are not personal."
The reason memories need no implanting, and the reason the crew moves as one, is the soul. "Their memories are all shared, due to the nature of the matrix soul structure. They do not need, nor require the insertion of memory patterns. (After all, memories are controlled in the non-physical reality, not in the physical brain itself.)" Their society follows from that: fewer of the wide swings of a species with individual souls, no wars and crime as we know them, but also, he suggests, an aesthetic of their own, "open space configurations", "color blending; and even scent blending". And a personal aside: "the fundamental base soul structure is inclined to what we, as humans, determine as elementary; the insect biology. Yet, it has been my experience that there is significant evidence that the insect biological, quantum soul structure is the superior structure. (Or, maybe this is my entanglement speaking.)"
Four myths, in MM's account
The tells of a fake, as MM lists them. "They are not a dying race... this claim has been repeated so often, and with such alacrity that it is part of the myth of the greys." "Some individuals write that this species is a slave race to yet another race... It is not even remotely true." On religion: "They do not worship a deity... There are no ten commandments or religious rituals that they follow"; the "Ebens worship a God" story is "pure dribble". On origin: "Anyone who states that they know where this race evolved from is wrong." His own guess is a world "smaller than the earth, but larger than Mars", lower oxygen, higher pressure, around "a K-class or M-class red dwarf", which is why he wrote a separate 14,000-word article on brown-dwarf and red-dwarf systems and why he says "our sun is, perhaps, a little too energetic for them". The Commander later confirmed the first point flatly (part 23): "not a dying race", none of The Domain die.
Technology
level"Compared to them, we are still monkeys climbing trees."
"Human technology is still fixed rigidly in classical mechanics. They passed this level of understanding hundreds of thousands of years ago." His scale: imagine a race "approximately 2000 years more advanced than we are currently today, but that was about 50,000 years ago". Galaxy-faring, "not simply solar system traveling", marked as personal opinion.
portalsDimensional travel
"They have mastered vehicular transportation, and dimensional travel through portals." Travel to other universes "is an entirely different matter"; he has read that some of their technology "damage their bodies", and speculates that is why. The 1981 portal that took him to their hospital (part 30) is his one direct experience.
materialsProgramming matter by writing on it
"This method of programming appears to be circles, spheres, curved lines and odd characters. In actuality, the writing is the physical representation of a quantum based program that resides and coincides with the material." Results: "levitation, invisibility, material modifications, and dimensional transparency". He points to the CARET leak as an example, and says the major UFO organisations that called it a hoax are "fronts for the NSA".
soulsQuantum appliances
"They are able to create soul-level quantum appliances (and appendages)... They can modify and adapt their souls to mate with other entities." The EBP in his own body is such an appliance.
genesGenetic manipulation
"They have the ability to modify and create other races", though "far less than the progenitor race" and their redacted principals. A puzzle he cannot solve: why, with that ability, they still "insist on working with MAJestic to improve their understanding of the human genome".
bodiesWhat the later sessions add
The Commander's term is "doll bodies": synthetic containers tuned to an IS-BE, worn by officers, with a rigid class system deciding who wears what (parts 21, 22). Airl in 1947: "I AM NOT A BIOLOGICAL BEING."
What they want here
"Farming of humans." "In our section of the galaxy there are a number of solar systems that are used as a kind of incubator for the development of sentient life... It is the Type-I grey extraterrestrials who are involved in tending and cultivating humans toward ultimate sentience." Two outcomes: a service-to-others soul "is able to evolve to a purer state"; a service-to-self soul "is permitted to evolve appropriately as well", into "either [1] absorption into the Type-I grey extraterrestrial hive, or [2] evolve into a farmed creature". His speculation about the deeper motive: "the absorption of human-derived quantum envelopes and clouds to their quantum matrix", to grow the collective toward "a sort of critical mass" and "a higher energy form or state". Officially, MAJestic never knew: "Their objectives were never clearly announced to the MAJestic leadership. They simply led us to believe what we wanted to." This is the 2019 version of the story; the 2021 sessions replace "hive absorption" with the prison and the Mantid curriculum (parts 7 and 8), and MM did not go back to reconcile them.
Interests
"They do not want the earth to be radioactive, or to be overly polluted. And they will go at great lengths to guarantee that this will not happen. They have, at other times, completely disabled the launch systems of ICBMs, the engagement of nuclear weapon arming systems", and, he adds, arranged the removal of leaders "they deem as dangerous". "No race is overly concerned about the human race. It is considered that humans will come and go."
Culls
"Perhaps 3000 years ago, they completely destroyed an entire sub-species of humans for the purposes of culling the current human lineage." Around 4,000 years ago they cultivated a genetic marker in a group in what is now Eastern Europe, tended it for about 45 years, and when another group attacked it "the Type-1 greys, of course, destroyed the encroaching humans... they just simply vaporized their settlements, and poisoned them through other means". "They have no problems with this and do this quickly and without any ill will", because the culled "will reincarnate into more approved humanoid forms".
Strife
"They are not warlike. However, they do seem to prefer a degree of strife in the world... They seem to want or prefer to have the humans interact in the Earth in a state of upheaval or confusion." In 2021 the Commander gave this a name and an owner: the Mantid Primes' "growth through strife" (part 27).
Abductees
One objective "appears to locate compatible quantum soul constructs on individual human subjects" and "inject quantum level appliances" to make agents. "The Grey's do not, absolutely, get involved with a human soul construct without prior approval. They just do not; it only seems that way to the individual."
Cattle
They "monitor the earth and the biosphere", so sampling is expected; of the mutilation lore, "I know nothing about any alleged experimentation."
Conquest
"If they wanted to seize the planet earth, they would have taken it 200,000 years ago." Then a footnote: "Technically, they already did so, and we are just humans living within their structured kennel."
History with us
"God to servant or subject." Before the 1940s "no treaties were necessary, they commanded and we obeyed"; depictions of them run from Egypt through the Middle Ages, always read as "gods; demi-gods, angels, demons, or children of gods". The Nazi contact of the 1930s "is not true. The Germans did have contact with an extraterrestrial race, but it was not this race." Of the conflicts he knows little: "There were hostilities in May of 1975, and again in the early to middle 1980s"; the Dulce and Groom Lake fire-fight stories he reprints from Lazar, Wolf and Castello, without endorsing them. The MAJestic policy position "dated to 2005": their interests "are suspect but not malevolent", and known only "to the upper tiers... Us working grunts had no clue."
Bob Lazar, in MM's account, "is also a former member of MAJestic. I never worked with him... he has never met them face to face. Thus he parrots the official information", which nonetheless "sounds very close to the description of the type-1 grey extraterrestrials". The article ends with an apology: "I must apologize for all the redactions... The Type-1 extraterrestrials did not work in isolation. There were events and procedures that required the assistance of other species and relationships. I redacted everything regarding these other events."
What they like about us
A short 2020 companion piece answers a question readers kept asking: what does this species think of humans? Not our culture, technology, religions or kindness. "It is our human-ness", a comparative trait "very difficult to put into words". The species he knows finds it most concentrated in Japanese society, which they regard as "sublime"; Americans "are not high on the list of being appreciated or even understood". His analogy for how they consume it: "You know how we like to watch cat videos? Well, it's sort of like that." Watch the interactions of people with each other and with things, he says: "it is our relationships with others, and our actions and thoughts that define our sentience. That is what makes us attractive." The one-minute "Human-Mantid Trinity" post points to his first Patreon video on the three-way relationship of human, Mantid and Grey (part 38).
Read with care
This is MM's 2019 species file, and its framing (the Greys as gardeners who absorb failed souls into their hive) predates the 2021 sessions, in which The Domain is the gardener's employer and the Mantids run the curriculum; the archive presents the older article as written and notes the shift. MM himself flags most of the biology as second-hand and marks his own theories ("[20] This is my personal opinion. It is not verified or documented by anyone else in any way"). The culls, the ICBM sabotage and the 1975 and 1980s hostilities are unverifiable claims. Names of the beings' principals are redacted throughout.
Remember
Small, hairless, three fingers and a long thumb, brain twice ours, blue jumpsuits with no pockets; up close, "another co-worker".
They move like ants and speak through one mind, one way: "They think, I react."
Hive-matrix soul; memories shared; not religious, not dying, not slaves, origin unknown.
Portals, matter programmed by writing, soul appliances, genetic work.
Gardeners of a nursery that includes Alpha Centauri; two exits by sentience; culls without ill will; a preference for strife.
Treaties since the 1940s; before that, gods. What they like in us: "human-ness".