Tall Whites
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The Tall Whites are extraterrestrials described by Charles James Hall, a former US Air Force weather observer, who says he met them repeatedly while on duty at the Indian Springs gunnery ranges of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, between 1965 and 1967.[1][2] He describes them as very tall, thin, chalk-white beings with large blue eyes and nearly transparent platinum-blond hair, living in an underground base in the desert with the knowledge of senior US officers.[2] Hall's story is told in his Millennial Hospitality book series, first published in 2002, and in the film Walking with the Tall Whites (2020).[3][5]
The Tall Whites are known almost entirely from Hall's own account. He says he took no photographs and wrote his books largely from memory, so the story rests on his testimony alone. This article reports what Hall says, attributed to him.[1]
Charles Hall
In his own account, Hall enlisted in the US Air Force in July 1964, did basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, and trained as a weather observer at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois. In late March or early April 1965 he was assigned to the weather squadron at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, where he stayed until May 1967. During that time he served several temporary tours as duty weather observer at the Nellis gunnery ranges at Indian Springs, Nevada.[2] His duties there, he says, included releasing and tracking weather balloons — the "balloon runs" during which many of his encounters took place.[1]
Indian Springs was a wartime airfield: a "tent city" training camp from 1942 that by February 1943 was being used for air-to-air gunnery training.[4] The field, later Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, is now Creech Air Force Base, a centre for remotely piloted aircraft.[4] Hall left Nellis for military service in Vietnam in 1967 and says he has had no direct contact with the Tall Whites since.[1]
The books
Hall says he first tried to tell people about his experiences in 1965–68, began typing them up on a word processor in 1985, and, after struggling to find a publisher, published the first volumes in 2002 through a print-on-demand company.[1] Millennial Hospitality (2002) became a series of several volumes.[5][1]
The books were first presented as fiction. Asked about this in a December 2004 interview with the "exopolitics" writer Michael Salla, Hall said he had changed names "to protect the innocent, including himself and other servicemen", and insisted that everything in the books was true and "as close to a documentary of events he experienced as possible".[1] He said he kept a log book but no diary and "basically relied on memory" in writing the books; conversations with other airmen were summarised or reconstructed, while conversations with the Tall Whites were "close to verbatim" because they spoke little.[1] Salla says the first researcher to investigate the case in depth was Paola Harris.[1]
The Nordic aliens article lists Millennial Hospitality, filmed as Walking with the Tall Whites (2020), among books claiming personal contact with tall, human-like aliens.[3] See Nordic aliens.
Description
In Millennial Hospitality, Hall describes the Tall Whites as having "the usual thin frail body build, chalk white skin, large blue eyes, and nearly transparent platinum blonde hair", with eyes "perhaps twice the size of human eyes" that stretch further round the sides of the head than human eyes do.[2] He gives the height of one young female he knew well as about 5 ft 10 in to 5 ft 11 in, and says he believed photographs of beings "standing 6' 6"" published in the early 1990s showed Tall Whites.[1]
According to Hall:[1]
- They talk little. The men hardly spoke at all and the women were more talkative; without their communication equipment they did not communicate at all.
- They live very long lives. They age and heal about ten times more slowly than humans, and were amazed at how quickly a bruise on Hall healed. He says he was told one, "Pamela", was born in the valley during the presidency of James Madison.
- They like heat. They chose the Indian Springs valley because it is hot.
- They carry weapons. He describes a "pencil weapon" that, he says, could be set to the "atomic frequencies" of sodium, calcium or iodine to cause pain, sleep or death by internal bleeding, and says it was once used on him in a misunderstanding.
- Their personalities vary. Some were friendly and curious; others, such as a "Tall White general", could be harsh, and their tempers could change quickly.
Hall says that servicemen at Nellis called the Tall Whites "Range Four Harry", and that this legend went back to at least 1954.[1]
The claimed base
Hall says the Tall Whites have an underground base with a hangar built into a peak at the north end of the Indian Springs valley, about thirty miles north of his weather station, and that their deep-space craft arrived at sundown on full-moon evenings and left at midnight at the new moon.[2] He believes they used Earth much as a navy uses an overseas base — to refuel, repair and refit their deep-space craft — and that they have no interest in colonising Earth or dominating governments.[1]
He claims the arrangement had the support of senior US officers, whom he describes as eager for technology transfers. In his account the Tall Whites shared radio and communications technology but not their faster-than-light or anti-gravity propulsion, sometimes sat in on classified meetings, and were allowed by American generals to kill servicemen who threatened or harmed them.[1] He links them to rumoured meetings between President Eisenhower and extraterrestrials in 1954, and suggests in his books that they may come from near the star Arcturus.[2]
Hall told Salla that he never took photographs, explaining that he was focused on staying alive, at first thought he was dreaming, and did not want to offend the beings.[1] He also said that weather information was never classified and that he was never briefed or told not to talk about the events.[1]
Reception
Hall's account has been promoted by writers in the "exopolitics" movement, who treat it as a possible form of official disclosure.[1] The Nordic aliens article lists it alongside the books of 1950s contactees such as George Adamski and Howard Menger.[3] Sceptics usually consider contactees charlatans, con artists or deluded, and psychologist Susan Clancy describes such claims as false memories.[6]
See also: types of aliens, Nordic aliens, grey aliens, Area 51, Nellis Air Force Base.
References
- Michael E. Salla, "Interview with Charles Hall – Motivations of the Tall White Extraterrestrials" (2004), mirrored at Biblioteca Pleyades · bibliotecapleyades.net
- Michele Bugliaro Goggia, "Charles Hall and the Tall Whites" (quotes from Hall and Millennial Hospitality), reposted 2014 · lisaromanekufoinsider.blogspot.com
- Nordic aliens — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Creech Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Millennial Hospitality by Charles James Hall — Goodreads · goodreads.com
- Contactee — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia articles “Nordic aliens”, “Creech Air Force Base”, “Contactee”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
This page was last edited on 14 November 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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