Mantis & insectoid beings

✦Appearance

Towering (often 6–9 ft) insect-proportioned beings — triangular heads, large black eyes, multi-jointed limbs; mantis, moth, or grasshopper-like.

✦Behavior

Clinical and surgeon-like — 'leaning over you doing some weird operation on your brain,' performing examinations or procedures, sometimes 'harvesting emotions.'

✦Communication

Telepathic and businesslike — can 'telepathically reassure everything will be alright' even mid-procedure.

✦Emotional tone

Cool, detached; awe shaded with apprehension — not warm, but often not hostile.

✦Message or purpose

To examine, operate on, or 'fix' the visitor — the strongest single overlap with the abduction 'medical examination' script.

✦Further notes from the corpus

Quantified across three datasets: insectoid proportions in 11% and grey- or mantis-like forms in 6% of encounters (Michael et al. 2021); reptilian-or-insect-like beings in 9.2% of entity reports (Lawrence 2022 Reddit corpus); 'mantises, bees, spiders' appear by name in Strassman's summary of UNM volunteer encounters, several of which involved insectoids conducting procedures — the strongest overlap between the insectoid class and the new Surgeons entry. Meyer's corpus adds hybrid forms: 'scarab creatures with mechanical elements'.

✦What the sources say

'Preying mantis alien brain surgeons' appearing 'with baffling predictability.'

Volunteers reported insectoid/mantis examiners; encounters resembled alien abduction.

Insectoid proportions ~11%; grey/mantis-like ~6%.

'Human-sized praying mantises... perform surgical/medical experiments; often cold-hearted.'

Insectoid proportions coded in 11% of encounters; grey- or mantis-like in 6%.

Reptilian or insect-like creatures tagged in 9.2% of entity-containing reports.

Insectoid/arthropod category includes giant spider-like beings and 'scarab creatures with mechanical elements'.