Physical description of the people from Janos

All the people seen in the spaceship, and all those seen in films of the planet, were without exception of the Nordic European type - very fair skinned, with light blue eyes and yellow blond hair. The men averaged around six feet in height, and were of slim build. The women were smaller, about five foot four to five foot six, and of slight build, with a light slender body, small breasts and slim hips; it is possible that a majority of the women seen were quite young, and this is the impression they made on our witnesses, though they may not have been as young as they appeared, quite apart from the relativistic time-shift. Serkilias, when John happened to see her very near, seemed to him "most attractive". The women themselves evidently felt that their eyes needed more emphasis, for many of them used make-up to darken the naturally pale eyelashes and make the eyes seem larger.

We cannot, of course, be sure that all the Janos people conform to this type; our witnesses saw less than a hundred people in all. There is a possibility that other racial types may be represented in other ships; if this is so - and it does seem to be suggested by some incidents reported from other parts of the word - it must mean that, whatever the circumstances in which their ancestors left Earth long ago, more than one local group was involved.

However, a large proportion of reports of normal spaceship people, as distinct from the various dwarf and goblin types described, do conform to the fair blue-eyed type described here; and it may well represent the typical Janos person.

It is remarkable, on any theory of Janos origin from Earth folk ancestors, that the so called 'black' or 'coloured' races of mankind appear to be totally absent from reports of 'space' people, so far as my own reading goes. This circumstance, in itself, lends weight to the idea that the Janos people originated, very long ago, from a comparatively small area of Europe, in an age before the various races of mankind began to mix as they have done in modern times. (Well - this is described in the contact material from Semjase and also to some extend - in the material from Daniel Fry. R.Ø.remark.)

Excerpt from the eBook “The Janos People” by Frank Johnson