Little Green Men

Little green men is the stereotypical portrayal of extraterrestrials as little humanoid-like creatures with green skin and sometimes with antennae on their heads. The term is also sometimes used to describe gremlins, mythical creatures known for causing problems in airplanes and mechanical devices. Today, these creatures are more commonly associated with an alleged alien species called greys, whose skin color is described as not green, but grey.

During the flying saucer "sightings" in the 1950s, the term little green men came into popular usage in reference to aliens. In one classic case, the Kelly-Hopkinsville sighting on August 21, 1955, two rural Kentucky men described a supposed encounter with 3–4 foot (1 m) tall metallic-silver, somewhat humanoid-looking aliens. Employing journalistic licence and deviating from the witnesses' accounts, many newspaper articles used the term little green men in writing up the story.

Little green aliens and the term "little green men" have fallen out of general use in serious science fiction circles and are typically only used by the uninformed or to ridicule the notion that aliens may exist, with a few exceptions, such as Yoda in the Star Wars movie saga. A derisive usage can be seen in the original Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", set in 1969, as Captain Kirk, captured by the US Air Force while attempting to steal film showing the Enterprise in Earth's atmosphere, calls himself a "little green man from Alpha Centauri" when interrogated by the base commander. Earlier in the same episode, a rescued Air Force captain brought aboard the Enterprise tells Kirk he's never believed in little green men, immediately before meeting the greenish-tinged Mr. Spock (who replies, "Neither have I"). In the 1988 Doctor Who Serial Remembrance of the Daleks, the line is parodied when the Doctor claims the Daleks are aliens. Group Captain Gillmore asks if he's fighting little green men, to which the Doctor says "no, little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour".

Instead, the little green alien image seems to have migrated mainly to the world of children's media where it can still be found in abundance, for example the small, green "squeeze toy aliens" in the 1995 film Toy Story.

Elgyem is a Pokemon based on LGM (little green men).

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