The first appearance of small, big-headed, gray aliens, although they were not known as such at the time, was in 1891. More than 120 years ago, Kenneth Folingsby's book A Tale of the Future was published. The book describes tiny gray creatures with the shape of a balloon-shaped head.
Around 1892, humans seem to have begun to take an interest in what humans would look like after millions of years of evolution. They came to the conclusion that in tens of millions of years a person will not have hair, mouth or nose; there will be a huge head, a small body and large or unusual shaped eyes. This was explained by the fact that technology will do all the hard work, people will become more intelligent organisms, thereby the size of the body becomes smaller, and the brain is larger.
Part of an article titled "People of the Future: What Our Descendants Will Be Like in 1,000,000 Years." December 23, 1893, printed in the Ottawa Journal.
H. Wells in his article "The Man of the Millionth Year" (1893). Assumes that humanity is transformed into a race of gray-skinned apathetic creatures with large heads. In The Time Machine (1895), Wells describes the Eloi as grayish-white, pampered creatures with large eyes. In 1901, in The First Men on the Moon, Wells described the Selenites (natives of the Moon) as having gray skin, large heads, and large black eyes on the sides.
Article by H. Wells in Pall Mall (1893).
In the 30s and 40s, small, gray, aliens were a solid foundation for comic books such as Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, and Science Wonder Stories. Thus, they became part of the popular comic book culture.
In 1933, Swedish writer Gustav Sandgren, using the pseudonym Gabriel Linde, published a science fiction novel entitled Den okända faran (Unknown Danger), in which he describes aliens: … the creatures are not like any of the human races. They were short, shorter than an average Japanese, and their heads were large and bald, with strong, square foreheads, and a very small nose and mouth, and weak chins. What was most extraordinary, they had eyes - large, dark, shiny, with a sharp gaze …
Then, books, films, magazines, comics, etc. became so popular that everyone in the world recognized aliens of just this kind: small, gray or green men, with a huge head and big eyes. This image is so ingrained in the minds of people that when they were "abducted", most people described the aliens in this way …
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