Viewer

This unnamed shapeshifting flying predatory species was seen on Earth in the 21st century, dubbed "Viewers" by a Human who assumed they were actual spaceships carrying smaller pilots. A member of this species, nicknamed "Jean Jacket," terrorized the area around a ranch in Agua Dulce, California.

Biology
Viewers are large, flying creatures that bear grey skin with a metallic texture. In their default form, they resemble typical flying saucers over two school buses in diameter, with a tiny dark slit on its rim that appears to be an eye. They bear no other visible features aside from a large, gaping, circular mouth, which leads to a fleshy gullet. Viewers can also generate cyclones from their mouth orifice, which are used to suck up prey from the ground. Viewers hold their prey in their gullets for several hours before digesting them, and the screams of their victims can be heard outside their bodies. While having no wings and no biomechanical engines, Viewers in saucer form can fly nearly silently and with incredible speed, and can presumably survive in space. Viewers are also capable of unfolding their bodies into a strange, somewhat amorphous kite-like form, which drastically lowers their speed and mobility. In their kite forms, Viewers somewhat resemble jellyfish and appear to be trailing at least four large, flat tendrils, connected to their central bodies, where they can reveal a dark triangular eye-like organ.

Viewer stomachs take the form of a dark, square orifice, which are strangely connected to a series of larger green squares with tassel-like edges, which can unfold and stick their stomachs outside their main body while in kite form. Viewers are carnivorous, capable of eating large groups of prey at once, but can only digest organic non-liquid substances, regurgitating all inorganic and liquid matter, such as blood, plastic, and metal, although small solid objects they regurgitate, such as keys and coins, are spat out with enough speed to be like bullets to whatever they hit. Notably, Viewers can create smokescreens shaped like clouds to hide themselves, and generate an invisible energy field that disables electronics in a certain radius around them, which fades if the Viewer generating it is killed.

Behavior
Viewers are incredibly dangerous, although they appear non-sapient, as they are extremely territorial. They find regions of planets to live on, and claim a certain piece of land as their territory, where they hover over the surface in one spot when not hunting, cloaked by a cloud smokescreen. They target any living beings that look directly at them, and tend to ignore any who do not, although they can be fooled by the eye-like images or markings on even non-living objects, targeting them as well. Viewers attack all targets that make eye contact with them, even those that match them in size. The kite form of the Viewers appears to be a defense mechanism, as Jean Jacket only entered kite form after being tricked into sucking up barbed wire, which cut up its gullet before it was regurgitated.

Appearances

 * Nope (2022)