Editing Grey alien (section)

===Origins===
In literature, descriptions of beings similar to Gray aliens predate claims of supposed encounters with them. In 1893, [[H. G. Wells]] presented a description of humanity's future appearance in the article "The Man of the Year Million", describing humans as having no mouths, noses, or hair, and with large heads. In 1895, Wells also depicted the [[Eloi]], a successor species to humanity, in similar terms in the novel ''[[The Time Machine]]''. Both share many characteristics with future perceptions of Grays.<ref name="LevyMendlesohn2019" />

[[File:Supposed channeled entity by occultist crowley.jpg|upright|thumb|right|Crowley's drawing of "Lam", the entity that he allegedly made contact with]]

As early as 1917, the occultist [[Aleister Crowley]] described a meeting with a "preternatural entity" named Lam that was similar in appearance to a modern Grey. Crowley believed he had contacted the entity through a process that he called the "Amalantrah Workings," which he thought allowed humans to contact beings from outer space and across dimensions. Other occultists and ufologists, many of whom have retroactively linked Lam to later Grey encounters, have since described their own visitations from him, with one describing the being as a "cold, computer-like intelligence," and utterly beyond human comprehension.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/magickal-stories-lam/|title=Magickal Stories - Lam|author=Liz Armstrong|website=Vice|date=19 January 2012|access-date=20 December 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220200811/https://www.vice.com/en/article/mvpvyn/magickal-stories-lam|archive-date=20 December 2021}}</ref>

{{quote box|text=...the creatures did not resemble any race of humans. They were short, shorter than the average Japanese, and their heads were big and bald, with strong, square foreheads, and very small noses and mouths, and weak chins. What was most extraordinary about them were the eyes—large, dark, gleaming, with a sharp gaze. They wore clothes made of soft grey fabric, and their limbs seemed to be similar to those of humans.|author=Gustav Sandgren|source=''The Unknown Danger'' (1933)|width=25%|align=right}}

In 1933, the [[Sweden|Swedish]] novelist [[Gustav Sandgren]], using the pen name Gabriel Linde, published a science fiction novel called ''Den okända faran'' (''The Unknown Danger''), in which he describes a race of extraterrestrials who wore clothes made of soft grey fabric and were short, with big bald heads, and large, dark, gleaming eyes. The novel, aimed at young readers, included illustrations of the imagined aliens. This description would become the template upon which the popular image of grey aliens is based.<ref name="LevyMendlesohn2019">{{cite book|first1=Michael M.|last1=Levy|first2=Farah|last2=Mendlesohn|title=Aliens in Popular Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvaKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|date=22 March 2019|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-3833-0|pages=135–137}}</ref>