THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY

Ebans (Ebens)

Long before “Grey” became a generic label for almond-eyed visitors, a specific narrative gave that image a name, a home planet, and a diplomatic backstory — the Ebens of Serpo, said to have hosted twelve American military personnel for thirteen years on a world lit by two suns.

Name: Ebans (Ebens)

AKA: Ebens; EBEs (“Extraterrestrial Biological Entities,” per the Roswell-derived designation used in the Serpo narrative). “Large Nosed Grays” and “Tall Greys” belong to a separate, unrelated tradition and are not used for this species in the Serpo/Kasten/Doty sourcing (see Location and Motives below).

Location – Home System: Planet Serpo, Zeta Reticuli binary star system, per the Serpo narrative sources.

Distance from Earth: Approximately 39–40 light-years, consistent across Serpo-narrative sources.

Attitude: Reserved and analytical in manner, but also documented as providing medical care, food, and cultural accommodation to the visiting team — a more measured picture than a purely cold, transactional one.

Motives: A 1965 exchange in which twelve American personnel traveled to Serpo, reportedly following contact established after the 1947 Roswell crash and the death of a surviving entity (“EBE1”) in 1952.

Physical Appearance:

Average Height: Approximately 4 feet, per Richard Doty’s on-record description and general Serpo-lore accounts.
Average Weight: Not documented in any source.
Body Temperature: Not documented in any source.
Pulse/Respiration: Not documented in any source.
Blood Pressure: Not documented in any source.
Life Expectancy: Not documented in any source.
Hair: None — consistently reported across sources; Ebens are described in some ufological writing as part of a broader “hairless” grouping of species.
Skin: Grayish-brown, per sourced descriptions.
Eyes: Large, dark/black, almond-shaped or “cat-like,” per Doty’s description.
Sex: Both male and female individuals are described in the sourced material — Kasten’s account specifically names a female Eben spokesperson, “Ebe2.” Cloning is discussed only in reference to a specific genetic-laboratory episode, not as the species’ general means of reproduction.

Other Physical Information: Large craniums; reportedly no visible ears, per Doty’s description.

Special Traits and Abilities: The narrative attributes advanced technology to the Ebens, including a holographic historical-record artifact known as the “Yellow Book” — described as a device, not an innate biological ability.

Communication Type: Tonal speech, translated through a mechanical device described in Kasten’s account as displaying printed text on a screen.

Origin: Planet Serpo, Zeta Reticuli system, per sourced material.

Life Form Type: Commonly grouped with “Grey” type entities in ufological writing; no formal sub-classification is documented.

Subspecies: None documented.

Most Common Species: Not named in any source.

Level of Species: Not documented in any source.

Habits: Kasten’s account and independent commentary on it describe a hierarchical society with an elite technocratic class that restricts advanced knowledge to specialists.

Transportation Type: Disk-shaped craft using anti-gravity propulsion, per sourced material.

Witnesses Reports: No named, independently corroborated eyewitnesses exist. The narrative originates from a 2005 series of anonymous emails (signed “Anonymous,” later associated with a purported “Victor Martinez”) circulated on a UFO email list, expanded by Len Kasten’s 2013 book Secret Journey to Planet Serpo (which draws on an alleged team diary and debriefing document never independently verified), and supplemented by on-record statements from Richard Doty, a retired Air Force investigator who has separately and publicly acknowledged running government disinformation campaigns targeting UFO researchers.

Special Features/Characteristics: The core narrative holds that following the 1947 Roswell crash and the 1952 death of a surviving entity (“EBE1”), contact was established with the Ebens, leading to a 1965 exchange in which twelve American personnel traveled to Serpo and lived there roughly thirteen years, debriefed upon return in 1978. Sources disagree on how many team members returned (variously seven or eight).

Summary/Description: The Ebans (Ebens) are the central species of the Project Serpo narrative: small, grey-skinned, roughly four-foot exchange participants from Zeta Reticuli, hosted twelve American personnel for thirteen years following contact traced to the 1947 Roswell crash.

Source: The 2005 “Anonymous”/Victor Martinez Project Serpo email series; Len Kasten, Secret Journey to Planet Serpo (2013); on-record statements from Richard Doty. No official government document, physical evidence, or named participant has ever surfaced to independently corroborate the story.

Related Cases: Heplaloids and other species named in the same “Reagan UFO Briefing” hoax-document tradition (see this site’s separate entry); the unrelated “Large Nosed Grays”/Betelgeuse “Tall Grey” tradition, addressed separately to avoid conflating the two species.

DETAILED REPORT

The Ebans/Ebens entry sits at the center of one of ufology’s most elaborate single-source narratives. The Project Serpo story did not originate with a named, identifiable witness coming forward — it began as a series of anonymous postings to a UFO research email list in 2005, signed only “Anonymous” and later loosely associated with a “Victor Martinez,” a name that itself has never been independently confirmed to belong to a real, verifiable person. That distinguishes this case from named-witness reports elsewhere in this archive: there is no one to interview, no one to cross-examine, and no one who has ever staked their own name and reputation on the claim in the way Gustavo Gonzalez or Colonel Shaw did for their respective cases.

The narrative gained texture and specificity through Len Kasten’s 2013 book, which drew on an alleged team diary and debriefing document. Neither document has been produced for independent examination. Richard Doty, a retired Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent, has lent the story credibility in some circles by discussing it on the record — but Doty has also separately and publicly admitted to running disinformation campaigns against UFO researchers during his AFOSI career, a fact that cuts both ways: it means he had access to whatever official messaging apparatus existed around UFO topics, but it also means his on-record statements cannot be taken as disinterested testimony.

Physically, the earlier draft of this entry gave the Ebens the same general silhouette as generic “Grey” archetypes — but inflated their height to 6 to 8 feet, a figure with no basis in any Serpo-tradition source. Doty’s own description places them close to four feet, consistent with the shorter stature typically associated with Zeta Reticuli-linked Grey traditions generally. The correction is not cosmetic: at 6 to 8 feet, “Ebans” would overlap physically with an entirely different, unrelated tradition (the Betelgeuse “Tall Grey” lineage, addressed in a separate entry), and conflating the two collapses two distinct, non-corroborating traditions into one.

No institutional response of any kind — congressional, military, or scientific — has ever been documented in connection with this case, which is itself notable given the scale of the claim (a multi-year government exchange program). That absence is not proof the story is false, but it is a data point that belongs in any honest accounting of the case’s evidentiary weight.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Serpo Exchange — Zeta Reticuli 1965 and the Limits of Anonymous Testimony

Source Chain Assessment: Every layer of this narrative traces back to a single origin point — anonymous 2005 email postings — with no named, verifiable first-person witness at any stage. Kasten’s book and Doty’s statements are elaborations on, not independent corroborations of, that original anonymous claim. This is structurally different from cases in this archive with a named original witness, however uncorroborated their later claims may be.
Classification Correction: The prior draft’s 6-to-8-foot height figure improperly merged this species with the unrelated Betelgeuse “Tall Grey” tradition. Corrected to approximately 4 feet, matching Doty’s own on-record description and resolving the internal contradiction with the species’ otherwise-standard small-Grey classification.
Pattern Context: The 1954-Greada-Treaty conflation found in the original draft is a recurring failure mode across this archive’s Grey-type entries — several different traditions (Serpo/Ebens, the Betelgeuse Tall Greys, the Cooper/Schneider Greada Treaty legend) get flattened into a single “generic Grey” narrative in secondary retellings. Each has its own distinct sourcing chain and should be tracked separately.
Evidentiary Weight: No physical evidence, no named living witness, and no institutional acknowledgment exists for this case at any point in its telling. Its evidentiary standing rests entirely on the internal consistency of the Kasten/Doty material, which is a literary and testimonial consistency, not a corroborative one.
Geographic/Historical Context: The narrative is explicitly anchored to the 1947 Roswell crash and its aftermath, situating it within the oldest and most heavily mythologized UFO tradition in American ufology — which likely accounts for both its narrative appeal and the ease with which later elaborations (biometrics, taxonomy, classification tiers) have attached themselves to it over two decades of retelling.

The record’s honest position: this is a well-developed, internally consistent story with no independently verifiable witness behind it at any stage, and no physical or institutional corroboration in twenty years of circulation. That does not make it uninteresting — but it does mean every specific detail beyond “small, grey, from Zeta Reticuli” should be read as elaboration on a single, anonymous claim rather than as accumulating, independent confirmation.

Richard Doty is on record describing the Ebens’ height as approximately four feet — the closest thing to a named, attributable physical claim in this entire case, and worth noting as reported description rather than a verified verbatim quotation, since no single clean, exact quotation could be confirmed for this entry without risking misattribution.