Russian Alien Races Book
The Russian Alien Races Book (also known as the KGB Alien Races Book or the Book of Alien Races) is a document purportedly compiled by Soviet intelligence services beginning in 1946 and maintained by KGB agents through at least the late 2000s, cataloguing approximately 58 extraterrestrial species known to have visited or interacted with Earth. The document was allegedly leaked to the public around 2013 by Dante Santori, an Italian man who claimed to have received it from a Ukrainian friend with connections to former Soviet intelligence.
Contents
The book contains entries on approximately 58 species, each with an illustration, physical description, home star system or constellation, purpose of Earth visits, visitation history, and colonisation data. Species documented include the Maitre, Dorsay, Negumak (Gnomopo), Solipsi Rai, Anunnaki, Kiily-Tokurt, Allgruulk, Ramay, Reptilians, Zeta Reticulai, Hav-Hannuae-Kondras, Allmahuluk-Strat-163, Ainanna, Indugutk, Alcobata, and the Council of Five members (Orela, Egaroth, Ginvo, Redan, Emerther).
Notable claims in the document include:
- The Negumak were the inspiration for the creatures in the 1996 film Independence Day
- The Hav-Hannuae-Kondras from the Sextans Dwarf galaxy were responsible for the vampire myth, with their first visit in 934 AD in Romania
- The Reptilians from Draco have been on Earth for 15,000 years with three main bases at the Bermuda Triangle, off the coast of Denmark, and off the coast of New Zealand
- The Anunnaki genetically engineered humans as a slave race and were unaware of Reptilians already present on Earth
Relationship to other species catalogs
The book predates and partially overlaps with several other extraterrestrial species catalogs:
- Clifford Stone's EBE Guidebook (seen 1979) — A classified U.S. military first-aid manual containing 57 species, described by Stone in Disclosure Project testimony. Stone's catalog was compiled independently for crash retrieval teams.
- A Gift from the Stars (Elena Danaan, 2020) — A catalog of 110+ species from claimed Galactic Federation of Worlds intelligence. Many species names overlap (Kiily-Tokurt, Dorsay, Negumak, Solipsi Rai, Allgruulk, etc.), prompting analyst Joost of Galactic Anthropology to publish a detailed comparison identifying both similarities and significant differences between the two catalogs.
- The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac (Craig Campobasso, 2021) — A MUFON-affiliated catalog of 82 species drawing primarily from the Wendelle Stevens contactee archive and independent channelers, largely independent of both the Russian book and Danaan's material.
- Encyclopedia of Alien Races (Maestà Pastore, 2023) — Explicitly draws from the Russian book, Stone's EBE guidebook, and contactee accounts as its primary sources.
Authenticity debate
The document's authenticity remains disputed. Supporters point to the internal consistency of the species descriptions, the overlap with independently reported contactee accounts spanning decades, and the detail of the visitation histories. Critics note the lack of verifiable provenance, the possibility that it was compiled from publicly available UFO literature rather than Soviet intelligence files, and the convenient timing of its emergence during the peak of online UFO interest.
Elena Danaan has been accused of using the Russian book as a source for A Gift from the Stars, which she denies, claiming her information comes from direct contact with Thor Han Eredyon via an implant device. Galactic Anthropology analyst Joost noted both striking overlaps (identical species names and star system attributions) and significant divergences (different physical descriptions, different political alignments) between the two catalogs, concluding that the relationship is complex and cannot be reduced to simple copying.
Images and their sourcing
Independent analysis indicates the book's illustrations are not original Soviet intelligence photographs but pirated and recirculated images assembled from existing UFO literature and the internet, some of them digitally altered. The genre of "alien" photographs that such compilations reuse has been traced to mundane origins by debunkers: examples documented by the analysis site Metabunk include props from the 1994 television film Roswell, a still from The X-Files, a 2003 iStock stock photograph, and two 1950 April Fools' Day newspaper hoaxes from the German papers Wiesbadener Tagblatt (photographer Hans Scheffler) and Cologne Neue Illustrierte. The book's "Alien Ships" section is likewise a gallery of recirculated UFO photographs; one of its images is the famous 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg broadsheet, a public-domain woodcut by Hans Glaser. No published source maps the book's images to their individual origins; establishing the provenance of any given picture requires reverse-image searching it.
A frequently cited indicator that the document is a modern fabrication rather than a genuine Soviet artifact is that the KGB coat-of-arms reproduced on its title page misspells «государственной» as «государстенной» (a missing letter), implying it was produced by someone without fluent Russian. According to its promoters, the English version was prepared around 2014 by Dante Santori — who described a varied European military background and work as a painter and art historian — together with a collaborator known as Petro (or "Petim"), who later died in a car accident; Santori himself died in early 2019.