# What did extraterrestrials look like before "Gray"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-extraterrestrials-look-like-before-gray/178798 "2003-05-31T18:11:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-extraterrestrials-look-like-before-gray/178798/41 "2003-07-11T19:42:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by mangeorge \*  
> \*\*Why is that? \*\*

Probably because Dreamcatcher was made as a movie about a year ago and written a book maybe five years ago. Greys have been around before Stephan King.

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-extraterrestrials-look-like-before-gray/178798/42 "2003-07-11T19:52:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by slipster \*  
> \*\*and in the Middle Ages in Ireland people used to see “trooping dwarfs”, little people who marched in line.  
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Sounds creepy. Almost like Underwear Gnomes.

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