A visual reconstruction of the Essassani, based on Bashar's own directly quoted physical description.
THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY – Essassani
Since the early 1980s, channeler Darryl Anka has relayed messages from an entity called Bashar, who describes himself as physically real but existing 500 light-years away, in the direction of Orion, within a parallel reality roughly 700 years ahead of our own.
Name: Essassani
AKA: Meta-Terrestrials, The Bashar Collective. “Dow” as a misidentification is not a term found in any Bashar/Anka material located; it appears to be a comparison to a separate entry in this site’s own database rather than something from the primary source.
Location – Home System: Described by Bashar/Anka as located in the direction of the Orion constellation.
Distance from Earth: Approximately 500 light-years, per Bashar/Anka’s own consistently repeated description, existing within a parallel reality roughly 700 years ahead of ours.
Attitude: Benevolent and telepathically oriented, consistent with the source material’s general presentation.
Motives: Described in the source material as supporting human consciousness expansion and mitigating the more aggressive abduction/hybridization approach attributed to other Gray factions.
Physical Appearance: Bashar’s own published description, quoted directly: “we are approximately 5 feet of height… white/whitish-gray skin coloration; very wide upturned eyes… The males usually have no hair; females generally will have some…”
- Average Height: Approximately 5 feet, directly sourced to Bashar’s own description.
- 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: Per Bashar’s own description, males generally hairless, females generally with some hair; specific color is not given.
- Skin: White/whitish-gray, directly sourced to Bashar’s own description.
- Eyes: Very wide and upturned, with the pupil encompassing most of the eye, directly sourced to Bashar’s own description.
- Sex: Not specifically detailed as “binary-fluid” in any source; sourced material distinguishes males and females (see Hair, above) without further elaboration on reproduction.
Other Physical Information: Per broader Bashar/Anka material, Essassani are described as a human-Gray hybrid species.
Special Traits and Abilities: Telepathy is well documented as their primary communication mode.
Communication Type: Telepathic, per source material; Bashar’s own account states this replaced an earlier spoken language.
Origin: Described in broader Bashar/Anka-critical material as a Gray-Human hybrid species, created using DNA gathered across parallel realities — a claim made by critics summarizing Anka’s teaching, presented as such rather than independently verified.
Life Form Type: Human-Gray hybrid, per source material.
Subspecies: Not documented in any source.
Most Common Species: “Essassani” is stated in Bashar’s own account to translate roughly to a name for their world in an older, now-unused language.
Level of Species: Not documented in any source.
Habits: Not specifically detailed beyond the general framing of a telepathic, non-hierarchical society.
Transportation Type: Not specifically detailed in the sources found.
Witnesses Reports: Channeled material, not a witnessed encounter. Darryl Anka has channeled Bashar since the early-to-mid 1980s, reporting the practice began following two daylight sightings in the 1970s. Bashar’s own account states Essassani, Arcturus, and Sirius civilizations have all had contact with Earth’s governments. Recent 2026 media appearances by Anka reportedly include a prediction that 2026 would be a “year of disclosure” followed by open contact in 2027 — presented as Anka’s own stated prediction, not a confirmed event. A cross-check against Jake Muller’s A Guide to ETs/Star Nations and Beings located a separate, explicitly low-credibility “Essassani” tradition on the Bibliotecapleyades website, based on information said to be “recovered from crash sites”; Muller’s own analysis states plainly that “not much credible information is available” from that source and that its further material is “channeled and not considered credible.” That crash-site tradition is unrelated to Bashar’s channeled teaching material and should not be blended with it.
Special Features/Characteristics: Presented as a stabilized, positive outcome of human-Gray hybridization, existing 700 years in a parallel future timeline.
Summary/Description: A human-Gray hybrid civilization existing 500 light-years away and 700 years in humanity’s future, channeled by Darryl Anka as the entity “Bashar” since the early 1980s.
Source: Darryl Anka (channeling “Bashar”), bashar.org; Dr. Joshua David Stone’s Hidden Mysteries. This is channeled material; Anka himself has stated belief in Bashar as a literal separate entity is not required to find value in the material.
Related Cases: Hybrid Greys, another entry in this archive addressing a structurally similar but separately-sourced hybridization narrative (Hopkins/Jacobs).
DETAILED REPORT
The Essassani entry’s physical description checked out well against Anka’s own directly quoted words — height, skin color, and eye shape all matched the prior draft closely, which is unusual for this archive and worth noting as a point in the entry’s favor. The correction’s main contribution was restoring a specific, repeatedly-sourced distance (500 light-years) that had been dropped in favor of a vaguer “non-linear” framing, and tracing a suspicious “crash-site” detail to its actual origin.
That crash-site material does not belong to Bashar/Anka’s channeled teaching tradition at all — it traces to a separate, unrelated Bibliotecapleyades compilation that even Jake Muller’s own independent analysis flags as low-credibility. Mixing crash-retrieval genre material into a channeled-entity source was a genre error in the prior draft, not simply an unsupported detail, and this correction traces it to its actual (thin) source rather than leaving it unexplained.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
Bashar and the 500-Light-Year Future — Tracing a Misplaced Crash-Site Claim
- Source Chain Assessment: Bashar/Anka’s own directly quoted physical description anchors this entry reliably; a second, separate, explicitly low-credibility Bibliotecapleyades tradition exists under the same name and should not be blended with the first.
- Classification Correction: The specific 500-light-year distance was restored after being dropped in favor of vaguer language; the “CRM/26.06” crash-site designation was traced to the separate, low-credibility Bibliotecapleyades tradition rather than left as unexplained invention.
- Pattern Context: This is a clear case of genre bleed — crash-retrieval material (a different ufology sub-genre) attaching itself to a channeled-entity source. Worth watching for this specific failure mode elsewhere in this archive.
- Evidentiary Weight: Purely channeled material with no physical evidence; Anka’s own recent media predictions (2026/2027 disclosure) are dated and specific enough to be checked against future events, which is unusual for this genre.
- Geographic/Historical Context: Anka’s channeling practice, ongoing since the early 1980s, makes this one of the longest-running single-channeler traditions referenced in this archive.
The honest record: a physical description that genuinely matches its source, a distance figure that was dropped and has now been restored, and a stray crash-site claim now correctly traced to a separate, lower-credibility tradition rather than left floating as unexplained invention.
“We are approximately 5 feet of height… white/whitish-gray skin coloration; very wide upturned eyes.”
— Bashar, quoted via Darryl Anka.



