Alpha The microbial stage. A human abductee who has just gone through implantation is considered "Alpha." Hosts will often experience disorientation, voices, paranoia and extreme schizophrenic episodes. During this stage, they are not yet candidates for a successful A.R.T.

Beta The ganglion stage. After approximately twenty-four hours, a ganglion control site will have formed in the human brain stem. At this point, it will begin to attack the co-opt the host's central nervous system.. During this "Beta" phase, the host intelligence is aware of its predicament, although most often incapable of action. However, several reported suicides have occurred during this stage. A.R.T.'s have been attempted on Betas with a success rate of approximately sixty percent.

Gamma Nearly a year into the infection, the ganglion has sent offshoots (tendril) throughout the central nervous system, dominating the host completely. This is known as "rooting." By this point an A.R.T. is nearly impossible. As the host is no longer considered human, extermination is the preferred action when detected. Gammas are fully-functioning members of the Hive, and should be considered low-level telepathic and extremely dangerous.

Delta Before "Delta" is achieved, a period of several to ten years of implantation has occurred. At this point, the human host can be considered no more than a shell. The infection can best be compared to the root bole of a tightly potted plant where root structure has almost totally replaced soil. Based on field evidence, Deltas appear to have longer range telepathic power, feel no pain, act without mercy and have a total antipathy toward humanity.

E.B.E. PROFILE
Developed by John Loengard during his work with the MJ-12 during 1962 as a working model for detection of "Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities," Loengard theorized that recent Hive implantees derive the majority of their emotional response information from the sound of the voice of whomever they are talking to. By casually asking nonsensical questions while receiving normal answers. the theory went, a recent implantee could be detected.

GRAYS, THE
Four bodies of non-terrestrial biology and their spacecraft wreckage were recovered by Air Force personnel outside Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. These creatures were roughly three-and-a-half to four feet tall, with gray colored feathery skin and large slanted black eyes. Although three of the Grays were dead on arrival, the fourth was briefly kept alive at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. No communication was achieved.

HIVE, THE
Term coined in reference to the aliens' insect-like ability to maintain a group consciousness telepathically. Because the alien life form tends to live in groups and clusters the "Hive" can also be used to describe an alien enclave within a town or city.

MAJESTIC
Sometimes known as MJ-12, reflecting the dozen directors who historically set policy. Officially formed in 1947, MJ-12 began as the covert United States government response to the retrieval of the Roswell unidentified flying objects and the containment of the two crash sites. Operated in the utmost secrecy, MJ-12 was responsible only to the President, although even that command link was abandoned in 1961 under the leadership of Frank Bach.

To this day, the organization remains a subject of rampant speculation by UFO enthusiasts and abject denial by the United States government. The truth is this: Majestic existed in secret because it was created in secret. The organization was severely compromised in 1965 by alien infiltration.

MONKEY FILM, THE
Said to prove the insidious nature of the alien micro-organism, the Monkey Film captured a chimpanzee artificially implanted with ganglion tissue, opening his cage door by operating a numerically sophisticated lock mechanism. Afterward, the same chimpanzee viciously attacked its captors, actually firing a small revolver.

The film was scheduled to be broadcast as part of a network news expose in November of 1965. In order to prevent this, a Hive spacecraft caused the overload of the northeast's electrical system, triggering the New York black-out.

Through official denial, misinformation and assassination, the Monkey Film has become a mythic piece of the UFO landscape, no longer in existence, and never publicized.

PATIENT ZERO
On February 17, 1962, Elliot Grantham died of apparent head trauma wounds in an automobile accident seven miles outside Boise, Idaho. When his body was autopsied, a "ganglion," identical to that found in the Grays, was discovered attached to the Amygdala portion of Grantham's brain with tendrils extending throughout his body's central nervous system. Classified as "Patient Zero," this incident proved to be the turning point for MJ-12, prompting the shocking realization that "they walk among us."

SINGULARITY
The moment of empowerment for a group mind. On earth, it refers to the threshold point when there are enough members of the Hive across the planet to generate a world-wide Hivemind. When Singularity is achieved, every member of the Hive instantaneously will know what every other member of the hive knows. At this point, they will be able to move against us with perfect hostile precision.

The term Singularity is the most accurate English translation of the Hive goal to dominate the earth population. A less-accurate term, first popularized by President Bush, is the more literal, New World Order. Although certain right-wing militias have adopted the latter phrase to characterize their own paranoid fear of the government, it is an ignorant misuse of the term.