Aliens in Fallout share many similarities with purported accounts in pop-culture ufology, but the Zetans notably may have been inspired by the famous Barney and Betty Hill abduction incident, in which it is claimed that the aliens were from the Zeta Reticuli system. In UFO enthusiast communities, they refer to this species of aliens as "Zetans", although some consider the "Zetans" and "Greys" to be one and the same. Zeta Reticuli is a binary star system located about 39.3ly from Earth.

The zetans are some of the most interesting enemies encountered in fallout.

I hope in the next game they introduce a zetan that can communicate with the player either verbally or through psychic means I'm gonna laugh if we are a vault dweller again and he asks if people wearing the blue jump suits are geneticly modified or cyberneticly enhanced due to them being around since fallout 1 heck make him a companion Edit:Basically hell like anything you do that'll gives him insight into human behavior like accepting random quests or threatening others for personal gain

In my own head canon, the Zetans are in a prolonged conflict, either cold or outright, with another race. It would explain why they were breeding hybrids in an attempt to make some sort of front line soldier. If the race that Lorenzo spoke about in 4 was DIFFERENT, then it would open up some really cool back story. They had interacted with humanity in the past, the Zetans seized control of Earth from them, and then began studying Humans to find out what was interesting about us to the other Aliens. When the war started going badly, they started trying to make hybrids as cannon fodder. The idea that there is this galaxy spanning war going on that mirrors the the Sino-American War in a lot of ways, with both sides trying to develop ever stronger super weapons, is an entertaining one. It would be even cooler if both sides of the Great War were using technology that was reverse engineered from a different faction in the Galactic War. Maybe the Americans were using plasma weapons and power armor from Zetan tech, and the Chinese stealth suits as well as a few other pieces were from the Lorenzo aliens. It certainly makes for an interesting story

I think I remember reading a theory somewhere that the reason the Zetans never fully invaded was because they were scared of whatever Lovecraftian stuff is going on like with the Dunwich Building/Borers (similar to some fanfic I remember reading of aliens invading Earth only to to annihilated by the old gods that came back to defend humanity)

I mean to be fair, I doubt you often get the chance to watch a planet destroy itself and start rebuilding from the ashes. Must be interesting for the Zetans to watch all that from orbit.

it's funny to me how this 19 year old can not only take on the capital wasteland shard of the enclave but also the entire mothership full of robots and angry aliens (possibly with only his fists)

*"Demon!"* - A fleeing Alien worker

Fort Banister in fallout 3 has some interesting things going on with it as well. A crater can be found nearby with alien power cells and within the lower levels I remember seeing short range teleporter things on the floor; like the ones you use to go between some areas in mothership Zeta. I think the pre war government was trying to reverse engineer alien tech there.

Now this is quality content! I was wondering if you would cover topics like this.

Aliens, Mutated Creatures and hints of lovecraftian deities is exactly why I love Fallout.

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Its highly likely that the mothership the player visits in Fallout 3 is a military vessel. Look up the conditions on modern US Navy Vessels. They’re called coffin beds for a good reason.

So in theory the safest human beings are the ones sealed in the vaults. Which begs the question, why didn't the aliens bother with vault dwellers?

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I hope skynet's dialog is brought up, in that they tell the player that advanced AI technology was developed and reverse engineered from alien technology Edit:YES! HE KNOWS

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Wish the zetans played more of a role in fo4 Would've been fun to see how the institute would deal with them

It be cool to see a zeta reference somewhere in the upcoming Star field game

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I would love to have a spin off game that would focus on the Zatens.

I imagine that in-universe the name Zetans was probably invented for the comic books, and since they're still somewhat popular post-war (especially in vaults) that could be why the Lone Wanderer calls them that

Man these are great vids! Id love to see more

I can recognize Ridley Scott's alien ambiance. Also what if the Zetans are actually human (possibly mutant) time travelers? It would explain the government's cooperation and how similar they are in biology; It would explain why they seem to make an appearance throughout human history. It could even explain why they would start the great war, they knew that they needed to influence their own mutations into a more advanced species so they set the stage towards humanity's large scale conquest of the universe. If you ask me I think the Zetans have some ghoulish features.

I wish in the future there's more with them, perhaps a more diplomatic approach to a quest involving them. I've been endlessly curious about them since Fo3, would love to learn more about them.

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Cool video! Merry Christmas!

Do you think there could be a connection between the aliens, the Enclave & Vault-tec, maybe they could be an X Files type of syndicate where the events of the Fallout games could be one large experiment? What do you think?

Another amazing video!

The New Vegas recon ship can only be found with Wild Wasteland, which I thought was non-canon?

The part @5:55 kind of reminds me of the Asgard species in the Stargate franchise (also based on the typical Greys look) who are clones of clones of clones ect going back millions of years, that have begun to suffer from major genetic degradations. Some of these aliens (especially one in particular named Loki) began experimenting on humans in the hopes of reversing this problem, as our bodies somewhat resemble theirs. The bodies that they produce however don't actually have any intelligence or consciousness - that gets transferred from their older clone body to the new one.

The aliens started the war.

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I really hope they add more of a zetan story or add on thing in the next fallout i love the zetans

I do wonder if the sonic invasion in one of New Vegas' slides is tied to them, since by that point they have developed sonic based technology

I’ve always wondered what and where that large glowing spot on the earth was in this dlc glowing sea is possibly much bigger and actually a term for a large portion of the east coast?

i cant be the only one who thinks the existance of aliens and the idea of them causing the war kinda ruins the atmosphere fallout had. I love how it feels when you realize that the world is like this because of humans. It is the fault of governments, they caused all the awful things that go on in the wasteland

That's pretty interesting, as I didn't know of the UFO crash, and I am only 20 or so minutes from Hagerstown, MD. Pretty interesting to hear a reference to a pretty small city.

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I really love that the zetans are apart of the fallout lore because it's fun to imagine them interacting and scaring the shit out of the innocent simple minded folk of pre-war America, it really gives you a 70's alien horror vibe similar to that movie mars attacks. I think an entire game could be centered around the zetans because they're just so interesting and cool and there's just so much you can do with them, it's really disappointing that they've barely even been used in the games

The aliens in fallout are cool

man those aliens look tough but that baby was terrifying good video now I won't sleep

Retrofutrisim of the 30ds to 60ds not just a 50ds asthetic of the future. bathesda design of fallout 4 was when the 50ds era fixcation started.. but at anyrate great freaking video man..

Fly Away With Me! in New Vegas may be a reference to how the Zetans are evolved ghouls of some kind

2:38 was so funny man that noise

I’d like to see Fallout 5 be a alien invasion of the wasteland set in Chicago.

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“WOW you don’t look anything like me at all, you must be bad then let me introduce you to the knuckle of my power armor.” This would be my interaction with them in fo3 and that one in 4

I like to think Zetans just use Humans as an experiment, subtedly nudging them into different directions. Like say.. war.. Zetans seem to have similar physiology to humans as well so they could use humans as a studying template for their race.

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My theory is they are looking for the Alien city mentioned in Fallout 4. Human technology is (mostly) not advanced enough to interest them and if they wanted to wipe us out they would have finished the job soon after the bombs dropped. They have to be looking for something. Getting the pre war governments out of their way probably helped but it wasn't their only goal

Massive fin attached to a half ovoid shaped ship a quarter of the moon's mass impacts a zetan mothership (which is merely the size of a pixel compared to the behemoth spacecraft exiting a wormhole) Harvester Aliens from ID4: *S'CUSE US!*

What about the Flatwood Monsters from 76?

I really wanna see these guys in the Fallout tv series

I think its suggested that the Zetans can travel through time. And is maybe trying to extract information from the ancestors of humanity who somehow created an intergalactic empire that they want to dig up information on so that they can fight it in the future.

I’m scared where’s our story teller!!! I miss him sooo much also thank you for fallout lore we don’t get much these days but that will be a story …… for another day …

Was it ever mentioned which part of the earth the huge glowing crater is?

My first encounter with an alien was in Fallout 4 in the cave and I just stared at it while it kept shooting at me and then I hear a single “BWAM” and it was dead. Preston blew its face clean off! I could see it’s skull! So cool!

i love to explore more of the Aliens without having the wild wasteland perk or have you luck up i love the Mothership Zeta DLC but also found it (kinda pointless) i mean after this DLC we dont toucg upon them again like i said for FO4 if your Luck is over 10 you see a craft being "shot" down and encounter 1 Zetan Mr Cabbet from the Cabbet house believes in them and the people from that settlement in Nuka World wanted to "Go" there and they believe that the "Ride" is a Zetan craft but other than that they are a mysterious race that likes to kiddnap people from different points in the fallout timeline, these Zetans have been watching Earth for a very long time but the Zeta ship that The Lone Wanderer got taken to we dont know how long it was station above the Earth because we seen a Japanese Samurai Kago's armor is dated to the Azuchi-Momoyama period A.D. 1568-1603 and the symbol on his breastplate dates back to Heian period (A.D. 794-1185) and used to the current day i think Kago is the very oldest "alive" person from that time period thanks to the cryogenic tube he was put in

Whats the connection between zetans and the human civ precursors in fallout?

It seems as if we are just a test group for them to develope better technology perhaps to aid their wars with other advanced space-saving alian civilizations or splinter groups of their own.

I believe that there a somewhat peaceful somewhat not maybe their hostile because of past interactions with humanity

I loved this wholeheartedly

Always wanted to get a companion zataan

What Bethesda should do is have a main focus on the aliens in the next game. They would be great antagonists, they have been built up ominously over the entire series and it only makes sense they are the final big bad

Why do I feel the Sea of Tranquility Conflict was fought against the Zetans

I hope the new show dabbles in the alien part of fallout.

10:47 Holy-Shit it’s supposed to look like the Millennium-Falcon-Thing from Under The Ocean IRL…

there were alien bodies in the westek facility in F1

Wonder if there's more aliens along side Zetans

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Isn’t it crazy that aliens are like real life real now

The abominations thank you upon death…like the ghoul reaver? Are abominations a bit ghoulified then?

yes

My headcanon is that the Zetans aren't evil, they're just misunderstood. They have a negative connection with the aliens that built that mysterious city in the Arabian desert and are trying to either kill the Dunwich monster upon locating it or are trying to keep it from awaking should its powers be far too superior for them to stop. The Zetans themselves cannot be too close to areas where the monster and its unearthly beasts are, which is why their ships keep crashing in areas close to anything Dunwich related. They know the monster's presence has an influence over the humans and has corrupted a great many of them, and from what we can gather from the Dunwich lore, it has corrupted those in power. The Zetans are only aggressive to humans because they do not whom was corrupted or how many, they can only run some tests, and the ones that turnout positive with the corruption become the abominations we see roaming the ship. Perhaps they're trying to reverse the corruption in humans or find ones that aren't corrupted to destroy the monster, hence (assuming you played as a good protagonist in F03) is why they put you and that woman in the same cell so they can use the good humans as vessels to take down the monster(s) once and for all. Sadly, your character interpreted the abduction as a danger and killed the aliens on board. It also explains why they wanted the missle codes, perhaps to prevent humans from killing each other or to purge the Earth of all those that corrupted and were close to awakening the monster.

What if the zetans are fighting the dunwich entities maybe those entities are trying protect us from them think about it all the stuff that was shown in F4, 3 and 76 then look at all of the lore with the zetans put two and two together

I often wonder about nations like portugal, spain, and south africa in fallout specifically, I wonder if Portugal or Spain decolonized

Wtf was that ending screen with the baby

-talks about aliens in the fallout series- -completely ignores 76's signifigant contributions entirely- -refuses to elaborate-

Lol theyre from the zetan star systam....hence their name

how did they not get sued for using "skynet"

is there something wrong with me I decided to make a vault in fallout shelter where all the dwellers are dead

Fallout 5: Seattle, WA. DLC: Canada, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana.

8:42 Talk about a tojan horse

The humanity destroyed it self before the Zetans could. Thus they didn't attack earth. And probably see the Humans as potential rivals. Waiting, that one day humanity will stand on it's feet once again. And try to fight the Zetans. Or they perhaps need the Humans for something else.

What if the zetans are subject to another alien race?

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If the motherships are primarily millitary vassals then they obviously don't know how to organize. I mean seriously they should have organized assaults from all parts of the ship to kill the player and the loose humans by they time he gets the others out of their cryo tube. It's as if they never prepared for a boarding of mass breakout.

The Zetans are from Earth.

Sudenly, a 19 year wastelander appears.

maybe Zetans are evolved humans from the future

The Aliens in Fallout are Interesting

i hope zetans are in starfield :D

I know they aren't aliens but i wish Wanamingos appeared on fallout new vegas

perhaps the zetans are near hive minded, but perhaps not the zetans might not have the same hive mind or agressive nature as the likes of the xenomorphs from aliens, the zerg from star craft, the tyranids from warhammer i belive the zetans might be more close in structure and behaviour to the aliens from the "Battle: lose angelas" - the ones nikcnamed 'landsharks' why do i say this? their structure might be similar: the 'civlian' workers on the ship could indeed be just that, or they could be the commander class, regadrless of if they are the higher ups in the rank and file or are simply workers, their behaviour might be the same regardless: they arent violent and cower when threateened because they are NOT the class that is used to combat maybe its being rasied as a such, maybe have some kind of programming implanted into their heads, maybe they are vat grown clones, regardless, the soldiers are not gonna cower because this fight is EXACTLY what they are raised, trained, created, programmed whatever - to do; fight to the death the workers? they wouldnt know how to throw a punch to save their lives and they are probably afraid because they dont know how to properly respond to the stimuli of threats and combat; or they are simply afraid for their lives because they are more important then the soldiers are and as such as are allowed to keep their free-will and not undergo training, brainwashing or program implantation think of the zetan soldiers as clone troopers from star wars; and their role in combat is that their inhibitor chip is ALWAYS active; they will ALWAYS throw their lives away fighting somthing they have no hope of beating because its all their programming allows the civilian/worker class we can think of as the kamino scientists; they are the intelligence behind the operation but they have no inhibitor chip implanted to affect their intelect as for WHY they are here? alot of suggestions is all we can really get at this point, but i have a few theories ready to go suggestion 1: they are a technologically advanced race that has studied other life forms and are tired of only being "smart' they want the brawn to back it up early attempts to make themselves not little more then nerds being bullied is the soldier class: they might raise or vat grow less intelligent zetans to be the foot soldier; they are not as smart as the less violent counter parts because they are the FIRST attempt at keeping the smarter of the group alive what are they after? they seek to improve their species, kinda like how the Combine will do to conquered species in half life; they will take a more dangerous and dominant life form and try to splice it into their army the abominations would be the zetans attempt to take their DNA, the DNA of the humans and make a loyal shock trooper that can be sent into earth to conquer it in their name without suffering losess - this would mean that the zetan 'soldier' is probably that, their version of a soldier or at the very least, a security detail as they HAVE the tech to make robots and such, why not change themselves with augmentations to better serve their purposes? suggestion 2: the zetans are either DESPERATE to find a new world for whatever reason or are naturally dying off and have resorted to clonning/splicing their DNA with other creatures that have a planet that are similar to their home world - or maybe they need new soldiers for some war they in maybe the species is just on a decline, maybe a disease, maybe even another hostile species of alien is forcing them into a losing war and they are off in search of other worlds that have the same atmosphere as their homeworld and hopfully find a more tougher species that they can splice into their genetic code to get a leg up on the enemy that are forcing them off their home world for suggestion 2: think of it like this: you have access to cloning/DNA splicing tech - but you have tried splicing yourself with EVERYHING on your home world to get an advantage over this new threat that is forcing its way into your home world - whats left? you take to the stars to get NEW, better DNA to splice into your own so that you can clone better, tougher soldiers to send back against the hostiles taking away your homeworld this theroy also fits with what we see of their classes and behaviour: the civilian/worker class is the intelligence of the group, the actual individuals the soldiers are clones they are vat grown to try and fight a war that they quickly found out they CANNOT win because their troops are just TOO weak in CQC, maybe the hostile species is just as advanced, maybe there are just too many - either way, the tech offered no advantage, so they resorted to cloning and splicing DNA the abominations are what they hopped to make: a larger, tougher, more vicious clone that would go into the front lines and fight back against their enemies maybe the zetans we see are in fact not the natural zetans; they could have been like the hanaar from mass effect; some jellyfish like alien that then was forced to start splicing its DNA with everything it could find if thats the case, maybe its already too late for the "natural" zetans, maybe they are long dead and all thats left are the clones and spliced creatures they created in an attempt to keep their homeworld out of the hands of some other enemy

Only vault tech causing the great war could possibly butcher fallout's themes more than the zetans doing it. aliens should have stayed an easter egg and nothing more.

I dont need a human baby to force me to like this video, I already did