Four species of aliens recovered from crashed UFOs according to CIA scientist… here’s what they look like

A former CIA scientist has claimed that there are several alien species the US government secretly knows about.

Dr Hal Puthoff, a physicist and electrical engineer who worked on the intelligence community’s psychic spy and UFO research programs in the 1970s and 80s, said people who have recovered crashed UFOs encountered ‘at least four separate types’ of life.

Those species have been previously discussed by physicist Dr Eric Davis, known for his work on top-secret Pentagon projects, who testified in Congress that ‘Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians’ are potential operators of unidentified craft.

Davis described these entities as humanoid, approximately human-sized, and possibly linked to classified reverse-engineering programs allegedly taking place around the world, which US officials described as a new ‘Cold War.’ 

Speaking on Steve Bartlett’s ‘The Diary of a CEO’ podcast last week, Puthoff said: ‘There are at least four types. Four separate types. Now, I have not had direct access to that, but I believe the people I talked to. Four different types of life, at least.’

The Grays are the classic four-foot-tall creatures with large heads and enormous, almond-shaped black eyes, while Nordics are said to closely resemble extremely tall humans from Scandinavia, with blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin.

Reptilians may be the most infamous of the alien races mentioned, as this giant alien species has been alleged to look like serpents but walk like humans, and have the ability to shapeshift, sparking unproven claims from conspiracy theorists that these creatures regularly infiltrate human society.

Meanwhile, the Insectoids have been said to resemble giant mantis-like creatures with multiple limbs, an exoskeleton, mandibles and antennae. 

The latest revelations from Puthoff on the May 14 episode of The Diary of a CEO came after the first wave of UFO files were disclosed to the American people one week earlier.

Puthoff appeared on the podcast with filmmaker and director Dan Farah, who recently released the bombshell documentary The Age of Disclosure, which claimed that the US government has been covering up a massive UFO recovery operation since the 1940s.

Farah said during the interview: ‘The people I’ve talked to, through the process of making the documentary, both on camera and off the record sources, and the people Hal’s talked to over the decades have said that there have been dozens of recoveries of crashed craft in the US alone.’

‘Dozens of craft of non-human origin that either crashed organically or caused a crash and then recovered,’ the director added.

Farah’s documentary interviewed a plethora of high-ranking government officials, military veterans and whistleblowers from the US intelligence community who revealed what they knew about the global effort to reverse engineer advanced technology left behind by these four races.

This included testimony from physicist Davis, a colleague of Puthoff’s who previously revealed what he knew about the four alien races during a special meeting on Capitol Hill in May 2025.

Davis stunned listeners at the hearing by revealing detailed descriptions of the four alien species, who he said were the alleged operators of unidentified craft over the US.

Last year, Davis told members of Congress: ‘There are typically multiple species people are familiar with. 

‘The greys, the Nordics… People are talking about reptilians and insectoids. It’s not that they’re reptilian or insectoid. It’s that they resemble, to the percipient, a reptile or insect-type humanoid. Because they have a head, and four limbs, and a torso.’

The concept of Grays quickly became the popular alien depiction in the mid-1960s, largely due to the famous Betty and Barney Hill abduction case. 

The New Hampshire couple described being taken by small humanoids with smooth gray skin, large black almond-shaped eyes, and lacking typical human features like noses or ears. 

The Nordics, the tall Scandinavian-like aliens, have often been linked to the Pleiades star cluster, a region 440 light-years (or 2.6 trillion miles) from Earth.

Those who have allegedly contacted these entities, or were aware of government agencies that did, have said the Nordics possessed advanced technology and had peaceful intentions. They have been featured in UFO lore since the 1950s.

Insectoids, meanwhile, have been part of alien mythology since at least the early 1900s, with roots tracing back to Georges Méliès’ 1902 film ‘A Trip to the Moon.’

These beings have been compared to six-foot-tall versions of Earth’s praying mantis, and those who have claimed to see these aliens alleged that the Insectoids were a telepathic race, capable of sending messages directly to the human mind.

As for the Reptilian theory, there have been wild claims that the shape-shifting aliens secretly control Earth, a conspiracy theory popularized by David Icke in the late 20th century.

Interestingly, similar half-human, half-serpent figures appear in ancient South and Southeast Asian myths, such as the Nāga.

Despite President Trump ordering the Pentagon to disclose all files related to UFOs and alien life, the government and the military have maintained that there is ‘no verifiable evidence’ that UFOs and extraterrestrials have ever been recovered.

A new batch of files providing more alleged evidence of non-human encounters is expected to be released this month, including information that Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett called the ‘holy c***’ moment for UFO disclosure.

Multiple members of the House Oversight Committee, who have reportedly been briefed on the upcoming UFO files awaiting disclosure, have claimed it proves that non-human intelligence exists in the cosmos.

However, some in Washington, including Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and Vice President JD Vance, have argued that the beings were not aliens as Puthoff claimed, and were actually ‘interdimensional beings’ which have been documented by humans since biblical times.