are aliens. Group Captain Gilmore asks if he's fighting little green men, to which the Doctor says "no, little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour". Instead, the little green alien image seems to have migrated mainly to the world of children's media where it can still be found in abundance. Examples include The small, green squeeze toy aliens from Pizza Planet in the 1995 film Toy Story and its sequels). In some pieces of Toy Story media, most prominently the cartoon Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, they are even referred to as the "LGMs". The Pokémon species "Elgyem" is based on little green men ("LGM") in its design, characteristics, and name. The Irkens from Invader Zim bear a similarity to green little men. In the space-simulation game Kerbal Space Program, Kerbals are the only species in the game and are portrayed as little green men with a large head compared to their bodies. The Saibamen in the anime Dragon Ball Z are depicted as little green men. In Destroy All Humans, many of the human characters refer to the main character Crypto as a little green man, much to his annoyance, where Crypto himself resembles a stereotypical grey alien. "Unidentified defending objects" The uniformed "local self-defence" forces with camouflage and modern Russian weaponry but no identifying badges or insignia, operating in 2014 during the Russo-Ukrainian War were also called "martians" or "little green men" by the locals and the media. Astronomy In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge, UK dubbed the first discovered pulsar LGM-1 for "little green men" because the regular oscillations of its signal suggested a possible intelligent origin. Its designation was later changed to CP 1919, and is now known as PSR B1919+21. See also Bug-eyed monster Extraterrestrial life Fairies Green Man (folklore and ornamentation) Grey alien Irkens Jinn Leprechaun List of alleged extraterrestrial beings Little people (mythology) Men in Black Nordic aliens Orbit (mascot) Reptilians The Awful Green Things from Outer Space References Further reading Karyl, Anna The Kelly Incident, 2004, Roth, Christopher F. (2005) "Ufology as Anthropology: Race, Extraterrestrials, and the Occult." In E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces, ed. by Debbora Battaglia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Vallee, Jacques Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space, 1965, . External links Summary of folklore LGM research by Chris Aubeck Summary of electronic LGM search of New York Times and