Grey
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A Grey is a colloquial term used to describe the alien species that crashed at Roswell in 1947, and planned to colonize Earth in 2012. (TXF: "The Truth") They are also referred to as Reticulians, as they allegedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli. In reality, Zeta Reticuli is where many alien abductees report the Greys originate from.
They worked with the Syndicate as part of the Project and were referred to as colonists until the Syndicate's demise in 1999.
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[edit] Anatomy and Physical Characteristics
Although the relationship between the greys/colonists and the alien bounty hunters is unclear, they seem to be similar or possibly the same species, although this discrepancy was never addressed. They are able to reproduce through at least two different means. The first being gestation in a human host and emergence as a long-clawed alien, which seeks heat and then sheds its outer skin to become a true grey. The existence of the alien fetus indicates that they may be able to give birth in a manner similar to humans, although this fetus may just be an early form of the prior gestation process.
Various comments indicate the black oil virus, the gestating form of the greys, and the effect of their toxic blood on human physiology are all extremely hampered by the cold, suggesting that greys may also be highly sensitive to the cold.
If the story told by Arthur Dales in The Unnatural is accurate, the greys are not a carbon based lifeform, although little information was given on this.
Events of The Unnatural indicate the colonists, greys, and bounty hunters are all the same, meaning the greys all posses the same shapeshifting ability.
According to comments made by CSM in The Truth, the colonists/greys share the supersoldiers weakness to Magnetite.
If the bounty hunters and greys are the same species, as The Unnatural indicates, then the greys likely share the healing abilities exhibited by the bounty hunters.
[edit] Use as Disinformation
Several incidents indicate that the government sometimes uses images of greys for disinformation purposes, to conceal the abductions and activity performed by the human members of the project. It should be noted that the fake greys often look notably different from the real ones, although they share the same basic look. Agent Mulder claims to have met with an air force pilot who often dressed as a grey alien, and an autopsy conducted by Agent Scully on an "alien body" confirmed that, in at least one case, the air force was using the image of aliens for some sort of disinformation project. Mulder went on to claim that two "men in black" informed him that such encounters were staged by the government and then intentionally revealed as false to discredit truth seekers, who have fallen for a blatantly false deception. In 1997, Michael Kritschgau informed Mulder of similar operations, and Agent Mulder encountered a dead grey whom Kritschgau claimed was actually a genetic chimera, carefully constructed to be very difficult to disprove.
