Reticulians

Not to be confused with

Zeta Greys

,

Eben (Zeta Reticuli)

,

Solipsi Rai

, or

Do-Hu

.

Reticulians (also Reticulans or Reticulum Four beings) are an alleged Grey-type non-human intelligent species reportedly originating from Reticulum Four, the fourth planet of the Zeta Reticuli binary star system. The term appears in alleged United States government treaty documentation as the formal designation for the Grey beings party to the Greada Treaty. Their origin is contested across whistleblower testimony: according to Michael Wolf Kruvante and Elena Danaan they are an extraterrestrial species native to the Zeta Reticuli system, while according to Dan Burisch they are future human descendants who migrated to that system after a catastrophic event and underwent microevolutionary changes over tens of thousands of years. The discrepancy has been suggested to reflect compartmented need-to-know briefings across different programs rather than a true contradiction.

The Reticulians are distinct from — though frequently conflated with — several related alleged Grey types covered in their own articles, including the Tall Greys, the Do-Hu and Solipsi Rai of Elena Danaan's taxonomy, and the Ebens.

Origin claims

The Reticulians' origin is reported differently across the principal whistleblower sources. According to Michael Wolf Kruvante, who allegedly served as a Majestic 12 scientist at S-4 from 1972 to 1977, the Reticulians are a kind, fun-loving, and spiritually advanced extraterrestrial species native to Reticulum Four, the fourth planet of the Zeta Reticuli binary star system. Elena Danaan, drawing on information she attributes to Thor Han Eredyon, likewise places the Zeta Reticuli Greys as alien species rather than future humans, identifying them with the Do-Hu (from Janet Elderan in Zeta Reticuli M-2) and a rogue faction of the Solipsi Rai from Cygnus operating in Zeta Reticuli space.

According to Dan Burisch, who reportedly worked with a Reticulian being designated Chi'el'ah at S-4 under Project Aquarius, the J-Rod beings are not aliens in the conventional sense but future human descendants who migrated to Zeta Reticuli after a catastrophic event and underwent microevolutionary changes — decreased height, enlarged eyes, modified cranial structure — over tens of thousands of years. Burisch was reportedly briefed initially that his subject was "specifically from the Reticulum system, Reticulum Four"; the time-traveler aspect was allegedly disclosed to him only later. Two temporal sub-groups are distinguished within this framing: P-45 J-Rods (~45,000 years future) reportedly based in Zeta Reticuli, and P-52 J-Rods (~52,000 years future) reportedly based in the Gliese 876C system.

The Wolf and Burisch claims have been suggested to be compatible rather than contradictory: Wolf, working within a different compartment, may not have been briefed on the time-traveler aspect of the beings' origin.

Physical description and physiology

The Reticulians are described as short Greys, typically 3.5 to 5 feet in height. According to Michael Wolf Kruvante, they have dolphin-like soft skin and four-lobed brains lacking a corpus callosum. According to Dan Burisch, the morphology of the J-Rod variant — decreased height, enlarged eyes, and modified cranial structure relative to present-day humans — is the result of alleged microevolutionary changes accumulated over tens of thousands of years.

The Reticulians are reportedly distinct in stature and role from the Tall Greys, a taller command-type alleged species said by Elena Danaan to direct shorter Grey workers in abduction and military operations.

Communication

According to Michael Wolf Kruvante, his primary Reticulian contact, Kolta (rendered KLT in the Reticulians' own notation), allegedly communicated via "thought throwing" — directed telepathic transmission experienced by the recipient as a clear voice inside the mind.

Vulnerabilities

According to Michael Wolf Kruvante, lead is acutely toxic to Reticulian physiology; a bullet wound is said to kill a Reticulian from lead poisoning before the wound itself proved fatal.

Treaty relations

Main article:

Greada Treaty

The Reticulians are reportedly the formal counterparties to the alleged Greada Treaty with the United States government. According to Michael Wolf Kruvante, the treaty language reads: "The Greys, originating on Reticulum Four, called the Reticulians, have agreed to treaty terms with the government of the United States of America." The treaty framework allegedly permitted limited abductions in exchange for exotic technology transfers, but the stipulated numbers were reportedly rapidly exceeded. An "Above Top Secret" United Nations ruling is also said to have prohibited any Reticulian from walking openly in public. According to Dan Burisch, the P-45 J-Rods conducted human abductions under Majestic 12 treaty arrangements and were the primary Greada Treaty counterparties.

S-4 presence and the 1975 firefight

Main article:

S-4

Both Michael Wolf Kruvante and Dan Burisch reportedly describe Reticulian beings housed at the S-4 facility near Area 51. According to Wolf, in 1975 Reticulian entities were allegedly demonstrating a 100-percent-power-producing annihilation reaction in a small antimatter reactor, using a super-heavy element bombarded with protons, when a security guard refused an order to disarm. Wolf reports that the guard shot one of the Reticulian beings; the surviving Reticulians are alleged to have killed 43 humans via directed mental energy — all fatalities reportedly died of head wounds with no visible alien weapon, said to be consistent with Reticulian neural capacity being usable as a defensive weapon.

Relation to the Hill abduction

Main article:

Betty and Barney Hill abduction

The first public association of Grey-type beings with the Zeta Reticuli system reportedly emerged from the 1961 Hill abduction. Under hypnotic regression, Betty Hill reproduced a star map she said was shown to her aboard the craft; in 1969, schoolteacher Marjorie Fish constructed a three-dimensional model of nearby stars and identified the map as a match for the Zeta Reticuli system, establishing the connection that subsequent contactee and whistleblower testimony would independently corroborate.

Distinction from related Grey types

The Reticulians are reportedly the most commonly described Grey variant, but are not the only alleged Grey species; some researchers identify up to eleven distinct Grey subtypes. They are taxonomically and operationally distinct from several adjacent categories with their own articles:

• Tall Greys (Main article: Tall Greys) — a taller command-type alleged species said by Elena Danaan to direct shorter Grey workers in abduction and military operations, including in the 1979 Dulce Base battle over the shorter Greys present at Dulce Base.
• Do-Hu (Main article: Do-Hu) — identified by Elena Danaan as one of two Zeta Reticuli Grey species, originally from Janet Elderan (M-2) in Zeta Reticuli, said to be enslaved under Nebu / Orion Grey Collective command.
• Solipsi Rai (Main article: Solipsi Rai) — identified by Elena Danaan as a species from Cygnus with a rogue faction operating in Zeta Reticuli space, also under Nebu command.
• Eben (Main article: Eben (Zeta Reticuli)) — a separate alleged Zeta Reticuli species named in Project Serpo documentation.

Elena Danaan's own 1987 childhood abduction is reported to have been conducted by Zeta-Reticuli-type Greys of the kind described in this article.

See also

• Zeta Greys
• List of non-human intelligent beings
• Classification of non-human intelligent beings

References