Alien (Fallout 76)

Aliens are creatures in Appalachia.

Background
The extraterrestrial aliens were discovered and captured by the Appalachian Enclave's Research Division, and were brought to Enclave Research Facility Site J as test subjects. However, all collected data was later redacted, simply relaying that the subjects were to be destroyed.

During the Invaders from Beyond event, they appear to invade Appalachia. They are often assisted by drones.

Characteristics
The creatures will shoot at their enemies with alien blasters. They typically wear white and orange spacesuits, though some also wear blue and green.

Alien
The basic alien variant.

Cryogenic alien
An alien in a blue spacesuit who uses cryogenic weapons in battle.

Toxic alien
An alien in a green spacesuit that uses poisonous weapons in combat.

Alien invader
The strongest variant of alien, these aliens pilot robotic spacesuits similar to power armor and use normal alien weapons in combat.

Locations

 * Aliens appear during the seasonal event Invaders from Beyond.
 * Three alien corpses are located in the Z-05 specimen chamber of the Enclave research facility.

Notable aliens

 * Lieutenant Kappa
 * General Zeta

Appearances
Aliens appear

Behind the scenes

 * Aliens share their combat sounds with the aliens from Mothership Zeta.
 * The aliens had existed within the game's files since release and were first implemented as corpses in the Steel Dawn update.
 * The Fallout 76 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide describes aliens as an enemy encounter. However, living aliens were not added until the Invaders from Beyond update, and do not appear in standard enemy encounters.
 * The Bethesda Game Studios Austin team had internally discussed doing "something fun" with the Zetans prior to the Fallout 76 launch. This ultimately became Invaders from Beyond, the first public challenge added to Fallout 76.