alien
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Especially not a green, alien orb that levitates him.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
In “We Want to Believe,” Adam Kirsch says “there is no convincing reason to think that Earth has ever been visited by alien spaceships.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Reapers look awesome through cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt’s night-vision binoculars that make their skin glow an alien shade of green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Another woman is “presumed” a citizen, the AG’s office says, but was “subject to a complicated international adoption as an infant many decades ago,” and “her federal alien file is both missing and irreplicable.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Other events of the four-day festivities included an alien invader costume contest, a Martian panic bike race, and an alien attack reenactment.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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He might conjure up a protective bubble, let’s say, to shield a town from hostile aliens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the 1950s, Miller began making figurines — often of dinosaurs and space aliens — using plastic injection molding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A Japanese journalist coined the term cosplay -- combining costume and play -- in 1984 after seeing people dressed as monsters and aliens at a sci-fi convention in Los Angeles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Suggested causes include acoustic pollution from human activity, naturally occurring environmental sounds and conspiracy theories involving the CIA or even aliens.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
I wished I knew how to make Diego believe me; I wished the aliens had abducted him, too, so we could have watched the stars together.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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