Off-topic a bit,
always uncomfortable with ufology's use of "Nordic", and UFO enthusiast's apparent lack of insight into why it might be a problematic term
(as well as the startling improbability of aliens not only resembling humans but a specific
stereotype of some northern European people).
Aliens described as Nordics have been in UFO lore at least since George Adamski, 1952 (though I think the term "Nordic" in ufology is later, retrospectively applied):
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On 20 November 1952, Adamski and several friends were in the California Desert near the town of Desert Center... ...according to Adamski's accounts, a scout ship made of a type of translucent metal landed close to him, and its pilot, a Venusian called Orthon, disembarked and sought him out. ...Adamski described Orthon as being a medium-height humanoid with long blond hair and tanned skin wearing reddish-brown shoes, though, as Adamski added, "his trousers were not like mine.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski
Wikipedia, Nordic aliens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_aliens) says "Nordic" aliens are often tall, blond,
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...and showing stereotypically "European" or "White" features
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In the 1950s, George Adamski, a Polish-American ufologist, was among the first to publicly report his alleged contact with Nordic beings. Scholars note that the mythology of extraterrestrial visitations from such beings (with physical features superficially described as "Aryan") often make mention of telepathy, benevolence, and physical beauty and grace.
(Remembering Grusch's description of cadavers as "very beautiful").
Billy Meier's Pleiadeans, which broadly fit this template (some of the women have darker hair, claimed photo
post #26) warned of "gypsies" causing future catastrophes,
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Meier's prophecies repeatedly blame Jews (whom he refers to as "gypsies") for future atrocities.
Wikipedia, Billy Meier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Meier
As an ethnographic or anthropological term, "Nordic" is obsolete and associated with discredited theories that underpinned "scientific racism", and is broadly equivalent to the Nazi use of "Aryan".
Much less problematically Nordic is a common synonym for Scandinavian, but in ufology it's clearly used as an ethnographic/ racial descriptor.
Grusch's aliens might not be classic "Nordics", but the long (albeit greyish) hair, their supposed beauty (not really explained by Grusch) might suggest they are a continuation of this mythology.
At 1:00:20 in the vid in the OP Grusch describes their pallor as "...blueish-white",
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"Nordics" as blue-skinned
Later legends and popular culture sometimes depicted benevolent aliens as bluish in color, rather than blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and light-skinned.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_aliens (Though Adamski's aliens are almost always considered "Nordics", he described them as tanned- implying fair-skinned people who've been in the sun or whatever). So Grusch has seen footage "confirming" a pre-existing trope.
Strange racial references crop up elsewhere in ufology; they appear to be a feature of Betty and Barney Hill's narrative and Betty's subsequent identification of ethnic groups she believed resembled the claimed abductors (
post 20, Communion Book Cover thread).
Somewhat bizarrely to our modern sensibilities, Betty made one identification (with Mongolians) after attending a presentation by anthropologist Carleton Coon,
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...best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific by modern science.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_S._Coon
In the thread
Claim: Time-Travelling Humans are Causing Close Encounter Experiences, which discusses the claims of biological anthropologist Michael Masters,
@SkepticSteve tells us
...he suggested in podcast appearences that different races might to a certain degree represent
different "human races" being propagated into time. With the Nordics being of Northern European ancestry, while the Greys could be of East Asian origin. I know - it's ridiculous.
Odd that aliens very rarely resemble black African or Australian people, and no-one says that future time travelling visitors are descended from them.
They're "Nordics", like "Greek gods", or "East Asian"/ Mongolian. The former are friendly and want to protect and teach us; the latter scary and inscrutable abductors who perform intimate examinations and weird experiments. The existence of superior beings resembling Europeans isn't questioned: Nor is the absence of human-looking aliens with features resembling people of African descent.
To be clear, I'm
not saying ufology has an inherent "race problem", or that UFO enthusiasts are more likely to be racist than other folk (Meier is probably an outlier).
But the failure of ufology, and individual UFO enthusiasts, to question these strange correspondences between claimed aliens and specific human ethnic groups, and their use of outdated (and discredited, unscientific) terminology in their comparisons is I think telling.
They ignore the red flags ("Nordics" good, those resembling/ descended from Asians scary), the tanned blond(e)s/ pale skinned ones are beautiful or handsome, even like Greek gods.
No consideration seems to be given to the possible influence of unconscious biases, cultural factors. Descriptions and subjective impressions (beauty) are unchallenged.
Grusch's description of the claimed cadavers, and the lack of obvious critique by UFO enthusiasts, arguably continues this dubious tradition.
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I've been struck by Adamski's 1952 description of Venusians and the portrayal of Venusians in the comic strip
Dan Dare from 1950 on:
Adamski claimed Orthon was from Venus, and described him
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...as being a medium-height humanoid with long blond hair and tanned skin
The British comic "Eagle" featured Venusians with long (for men of that time) blonde hair and tanned skin in the strip
Dan Dare, from November 1950,
two years before Adamski met Orthon.
They were called Therons, and were pleasant, wise and peace-loving.
The Therons were in conflict with the green-skinned Treens- maybe of reptilian appearance? The Treen leader, the Mekon, had an enlarged head and a small spindly body, traits seen in some descriptions of "greys". (L-R, Therons, a typical Treen, the Mekon).
The names "Orthon" (Adamski's Venusian) and "Theron" (the Eagle's Venusians) have some similarity.
Eagle was not published in the US as far as I know. Radio Luxembourg aired the series
The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future (in English) from July 1951, 16 months before Adamski's encounter (Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dare)- maybe syndicated/ broadcast in the US? (I've no evidence of this).
Contactees were so unoriginal, but their influence lives on in ufology and perhaps in Grusch's account.
