THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY

STROM

In the Think About It Alien Database, the Strom are documented in the Soviet-era Alien Race Book (ARB), corroborated across multiple independent archival transcriptions. Unlike many entries in this archive, nearly every core fact in this entry — the Ursa Minor origin, the invertebrate/coelenterate classification, the 2-meter height, the focus on vegetation, the 200 visits, the Ice Age first contact, the 20 colonies, and the octagonal craft — is genuinely sourced. This entry preserves that accurate core and removes an extensive invented biometric panel and 2026 storyline layered on top of it.

Name: Strom

AKA: Undocumented. No source supports “The Ursa Minor Botanists,” “The Octagon Pilots,” or “The Jelly-Giants” as established alternate names.

Location – Home System: The constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper), per the source.

Distance from Earth: Undocumented as a specific figure in the source.

Attitude: “Acting with extreme caution, rarely seen by people,” per the source.

Motives: Vegetation holds great significance to Strom culture, per the source; their primary documented reason for visiting Earth is to study its flora.

Physical Appearance: Invertebrate and coelenterate, per the source — the same broad biological category as Earth’s jellyfish and sea anemones. No further specific physical description (skin texture, coloration, bioluminescence) accompanies the original source material.

Average Height: 2 meters (approximately 6’7″), per the source.
Average Weight: Undocumented.
Body Temperature: Undocumented.
Pulse/Respiration: Undocumented.
Blood Pressure: Undocumented.
Life Expectancy: Undocumented.
Hair: Undocumented.
Skin: Undocumented beyond the general coelenterate classification.
Eyes: Undocumented.
Sex: Undocumented.

Other Physical Information: Classified specifically as coelenterates in the source, the same biological grouping used for Earth’s jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals.

Special Traits and Abilities: Undocumented beyond the general invertebrate/coelenterate classification in the source.

Communication Type: Undocumented.

Origin: The constellation Ursa Minor, per the source.

Life Form Type: Invertebrate; coelenterate, per the source.

Subspecies: Undocumented. The source states the Strom maintain 20 colonies across the galaxy, but does not describe distinct subspecies or variation between them.

Most Common Species: Undocumented as a formal designation.

Level of Species: Undocumented; no numbered ranking appears in the source.

Habits: Studying Earth’s flora, per the source, with no further behavioral detail documented.

Transportation Type: Octagonal (eight-sided) craft, per the source.

Witnesses Reports: No named individual witnesses; documented in the compiled Soviet-era Alien Race Book.

Special Features/Characteristics: The source records 200 visits to Earth, with the first occurring at the end of the last Ice Age, and states the Strom maintain 20 colonies across the galaxy.

Summary/Description: The Strom are documented in the Soviet-era Alien Race Book as invertebrate, coelenterate beings from the constellation Ursa Minor, standing about 2 meters tall. Vegetation holds great cultural significance to them, and their documented purpose for visiting Earth — across 200 recorded visits beginning at the end of the last Ice Age — is to study its flora. The source states they act with extreme caution and are rarely seen, travel in octagonal craft, and maintain 20 colonies across the galaxy.

Source: The Alien Race Book (ARB), also circulated as “The Translated Russian ‘Secret Book of Alien Races,'” a Soviet-era compiled text, corroborated across multiple independent archival transcriptions.

Related Cases: None documented beyond the general framework of the Alien Race Book, which catalogs numerous other entities in the same brief format, including this archive’s separately documented Smad and Solipsi Rai entries.

DETAILED REPORT

The Strom entry is unusual in this archive for how closely its core claims match the documented source. The Alien Race Book, corroborated across multiple independent archival transcriptions, states in full: the Strom come from the constellation Ursa Minor; they are invertebrates and coelenterates; their average height is 2 meters; vegetation is of great significance to Strom culture; they have made 200 visits to Earth, the main reason being to study Earth’s flora; they act with extreme caution and are rarely seen; their first visit occurred at the end of the last Ice Age; they maintain 20 colonies across the galaxy; and their ships are octagonal in shape. Every one of these details in the earlier draft traces directly and accurately to this source.

What does not appear anywhere in the source is any further elaboration: no biometric panel beyond height, no description of skin texture or bioluminescence, no named communication method, and critically, none of the extensive 2026 material. The claims of octagonal craft using “localized gravitational fields” to harvest pollen, satellite footage of a Strom ship cooling a wildfire in British Columbia, a “Wood Wide Web” data-download ability, an “Emergency Extraction” phase tied to deforestation, and the 20 colonies functioning as a planetary “Backup Drive” do not appear in the Alien Race Book or any other source located for this entry.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Strom — A Rare Case Where the Base Facts Were Already Accurate

Nearly every core claim in the earlier draft was already correct: the Ursa Minor origin, coelenterate classification, 2-meter height, vegetation focus, 200 visits, Ice Age first contact, 20 colonies, and octagonal craft all trace accurately to the Alien Race Book — an unusually clean baseline for this archive.
The invention here is entirely additive, not corrective: rather than distorting the source, the earlier draft simply added a large volume of unsupported technical and narrative detail on top of an already-accurate foundation.
The full biometric panel has no basis: beyond the documented 2-meter height, the source gives no weight, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, or life expectancy.
The entire 2026 narrative is invented: wildfire-cooling footage, a “Wood Wide Web” download ability, and an “Emergency Extraction” phase appear nowhere in the source.

The honest state of this entry is that the Strom’s documented record, while brief, was already accurately represented in its core details — the correction needed here was almost entirely subtractive, removing invented elaboration rather than fixing distorted facts.

“They come from Constellation URSA MINOR. Strom are invertebrates and coelenterates… Vegetation is of great significance to the strom culture.”
— the Alien Race Book