THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY – 2017

A single contact, a single year embedded in a name, and nine blacked-out sentences — the entity known only as “2017” is one of the thinnest entries in the archive’s Nordic-type lore, and one of the most over-decorated in its retelling. The source material amounts to two lines: tall, blonde, smelling of flowers, they met Soviet witnesses once in 1935, spoke an archaic Slavic dialect, and left behind a message of ten sentences — nine of them redacted, the tenth reading only “2017–2022.”

Name: 2017

AKA: None given in the source.

Location – Home System: Galaxy UDFj-39546284 (per source)

Distance from Earth: Approximately 13.2 billion light-years (per source)

Attitude: Not characterized in the source. The single described contact was non-hostile, but the source does not assign a general disposition to this entity.

Motives: Unknown — not addressed in the source.

Physical Appearance: Per source: tall, with long blonde hair, and reported to “smell like flowers.” No further physical description appears in the original entry.

Average Height: Not given in source; only “tall” is stated
Average Weight: Not given in source
Body Temperature: Not given in source
Pulse/Respiration: Not given in source
Blood Pressure: Not given in source
Life Expectancy: Not given in source
Hair: Long, blonde (per source)
Skin: Not described in source
Eyes: Not described in source
Sex: Not addressed in source

Other Physical Information: None given in source beyond height, hair, and scent.

Special Traits and Abilities: Travel by means the source describes as a “worm-hole,” used to “bend” space

Communication Type: Spoke to witnesses in what the source calls “some kind of Slavic dialect.”

Origin: Galaxy UDFj-39546284 (per source)

Life Form Type: Categorized here as Humanoid, based on the source’s description of human-like appearance; not an explicit source classification

Subspecies: Not addressed in source

Most Common Species: Not addressed in source.

Level of Species: Not addressed in source.

Habits: Not addressed in source beyond the single recorded contact.

Transportation Type: Wormhole-based space-bending travel (per source)

Witnesses Reports: The source states, in full: a single contact with humans occurred in the USSR in 1935; witnesses reported the entities spoke “some kind of Slavic dialect”; a written message of approximately ten sentences was left behind. Per a handwritten annotation in the source, nine of those ten sentences were “blacked out” in the compiler’s copy, leaving only the final line legible: “2017–2022.”

Special Features/Characteristics: Reported floral scent (“smelled like flowers”) per source

Summary/Description: A single 1935 USSR contact, a Slavic-dialect message, and a redacted ten-line note with one surviving line — “2017–2022” — which gave this entity its name. The source offers almost nothing else.

Source: The Book of Alien Races (Dante Santori translation/compilation; self-published, no independently verifiable chain of custody for the original document — treat as an identified but unverified primary source, not a fabricated one).

Related Cases: None currently on file.

DETAILED REPORT

Unlike the Invisibles entry audited previously, this profile traces to a real, locatable source rather than a mismatched or fabricated citation. That source — a self-published compilation whose own author describes finding it in a box of a deceased diplomat’s papers, with no independent verification offered at any point — is itself the kind of source this archive would flag with an anonymous/unverified warning if it were the sole basis for a case page. It should be treated the same way here: real, but not credible as documentation, and its content should be labeled as lore rather than evidence.

What’s notable is how little the source actually says. The entire entity gets two sentences in the original book. Everything that made the earlier draft of this page feel like a fleshed-out species profile — the exact biometrics, the motive, the classification tier, the narrative color around the 1935 contact — was added afterward, and none of it can be attributed to the source it cites. This is a good illustration of the general risk with this genre of page: a two-line stub can be inflated into something that reads as thoroughly documented without a single added detail being traceable.

The Blacked-Out Line — UDFj-39546284 and the Limits of a Two-Sentence Source

Source chain assessment: The citation is accurate and the source is real, which distinguishes this page from the Invisibles entry. However, the source’s own origin story is uncorroborated, and the entity’s actual entry within it is minimal — two sentences plus a handwritten marginal note about the redacted message.

Embellishment scope: Nearly every field that gives this page the feel of a scientific profile — vital signs, classification tier, named motive, AKA designations — was invented in the earlier draft. This is a heavier embellishment ratio than the Invisibles page, which mostly borrowed real content from unrelated entries; here, most of the added material has no source anywhere in the book at all.

Astronomical note: UDFj-39546284 is a real astronomical designation — a high-redshift galaxy candidate identified via Hubble Ultra Deep Field imaging, among the most distant objects ever observed. The lore correctly uses a genuine deep-field designation, which likely explains the appeal of this entry as a “cosmic origin” hook, even though nothing about the astronomy confirms anything about the lore.

Evidentiary weight: There is no named witness, no location more specific than “the USSR,” and no surviving copy of the message beyond one line. This entry cannot be elevated past unverified lore regardless of how it’s phrased.

Stripped down to what its source actually supports, “2017” is a single reported line and a redacted message — the kind of fragment that invites embellishment precisely because there’s so little to work with. That fragment is worth preserving as part of the taxonomy, but it doesn’t support the fully biometric, motive-laden profile the earlier draft presented. Until a more substantial account of the 1935 contact surfaces, this entry stays a two-sentence stub dressed in its original, honest proportions.

No period-accurate quote is included. The source offers no direct witness quotation for this entity — only the paraphrased summary reproduced in the Witness Reports field above.