Ok, quick review:

Pin halfway drilled through with the ring finger, x-hole inside of the VAL.  Brunswick synthetics, 42ft house shot(oiled to 34, 8 foot buff, very sharp backends).  

This particular house gives me trouble when they're fresh because it's literally an Exxon Valdez flood up front, with backends and outside of 7 being as dry as the sahara desert.  Usually I catch over under for my first 10-12 shots until we start breaking them down a little.  

Compared to my other equipment, I don't really notice anything spectacular out of the Alien.  It reminds me alot of the Classic Zone.  It does give the read of Activator coverstock.  It blended the transition from wet-dry while swinging the lane better than some of my other balls(Sahara, Rebound), and it did give a nice hard arc which I like, I'm not too fond of flippier equipment.  I was 3-4 boards right with the Alien compared to my Absolute to get it back to the pocket.  It gave me 5 inches of flare in the oil and with this much flare early, it made the ball very smooth in the back.  Carry.....I don't even think that's relevant to talk about, every ball finishes well nowadays when you get it in the pocket.

To me this was just another ball that on a house shot gives you the same result as everything else, stand left, throw right, miss either which way and still pound the hole.  I just didn't notice anything different for me to say this ball is better than ball-x or this ball is worse than ball-x.  The Elite Alien is very readable I'd say and you can tell that the cover is an activator derivative from the way it makes it's move from the wet to the dry and back.  This is more of a control ball for me and will probaly be more of a first ball out of the bag for me just to play the track with.
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-DP3
Respect the Game

This is my review of the Alien... I am cranker/tweener with med ball speed...
This is a pearl ball and my Alien had a 2 inch pin, 3+ top weight. I placed my ring finger just under the pin kicking it off the cg leaving me much finger weight.
I tried the ball without getting it legal just to see what it would to. Also before I threw it I sanded it up to 2000 and then shined it with some Black Magic. This ball would skid flip not giving me a consistant hook and not hitting very hard either.
I finally put a weight hole in it just slightly to the right of my fingers and up... I then weight it and it had 7/8 oz. finger weight and 1/4 oz. negative side in it. The best way to do this was to just drill the fingers deeper and I was just to lazy to have to put grips in it once again.


After getting this ball legal this ball was surely amazing! I will say the way I have mine drilled it wont work on heavy oil as some of the others like the shark but if you get some strong backeneds this ball will surely shoot big numbers! This ball is very versative because I have seen a couple others drill theirs stronger and they work just amazing on oil.

Remember, some of you guys see this ball as being dull and dont realize its a pearl ball especially from seeing the tv shots of it. But I think this ball fits all styles! I just wouldnt recommend this layout unless ones got some hand in it... Another very awsome ball from Elite and I cant wait to see another version of the Alien. For some of you guys saying durn I dont want  to pay 300 dollars for a ball but you will be glad you did!!! Performance is what you buy in a bowling ball and Elite is based on PURE 100% PERFORMANCE! John

ALIEN,SATURN SURFACE-1500 GRIT MATTE,SATURN DRILLING-PIN 4",CG 5".PIN IS NEXT TO RING FINGER.GOOD BALL-NO OVER OR UNDER REACTION.LANES ARE OILED 38-40 FEET.
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LAP11450

Just rolled this ball for the first time tonight in league play, drilled full roller.  Lanes were typical for this house, very slick synthetic lanes.  This ball was awesome.  I have been struggling in this house with my "Action Max", there was no struggle tonight.  Throw it out and it will come back, "Screaming" back & hits like a truck.

let me start out by saying i am a new member and this is my first review, i also have just started bowling again after a 12 year absence. i needed some new equipment so i purchased a brunswick fury and a elite green alien ( defective, color problem ) i am a right handed med. speed, med. rev. stroker the alien came with a 1" pin and 3 oz. top weight. the pin is placed 2" directly below the ring finger and the cg. is swung to the left a little in the center of my span, no side weight. i have used this ball on both synthetic ths and wood ths. my average is 181 and i had never rolled a 600 series until the alien came along. first night out on the wood lanes shot 637, these lanes tend to dry out by the end of the first game and the fury was just way too much. but with the alien all i did was move left a few boards over the set and that kept me in the pocket. with my style of delivery this ball starts a very controlled shallow arc in the midlane which gets much more pronounced as it reaches the dry and culminates in a very strong back-end, with very very good pin carry. i did this standing right foot at 20 and throwing out 10 at the arrows to a break point of 4 or 5. for what i paid for the alien ( about the same as my fury ) it was truly a bargain and i would pay more, i highly recomend this ball.

My Elite Alien was drilled 4 1/2" from pap. This ball is very aggressive and needs oil to perform. Out of box coverstock was a little too much for me since our area houses don't flood the lanes so I put some Elite polish on it and the ball gave me great reaction and super hitting power. Ball is very readale and consistant in its move to the pocket and hits the pins harder than any ball I have. after 20 games or so ball starts to go longer as all balls do but doesn't lose any hitting power which is awesome. Great ball Elite. Would love to get my hands on a Shark from Elite.