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alien

[ayl-yuhn, ay-lee-uhn] / ˈeɪl jən, ˈeɪ li ən /




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Its 2024 debut report revealed hundreds of previously unknown UAP incidents, but found no evidence that the U.S. government had ever confirmed a sighting of alien technology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

By revealing how complex alien atmospheres can be understood from faint changes in light, this new approach could help scientists take another step toward answering that question.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

She seems less like a criminal than an alien.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Watching “That Thing You Do!” climbing the charts throughout the movie is a peek into an alien musical world, one that was both more regional and more monocultural than the one we inhabit today.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

She’s dressed as this yellow slinky alien from a candy commercial.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

She lists bills that would penalize states that permit abuse of their welfare systems, of which Minnesota is hardly alone, and another that would require deportation of aliens convicted of fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

As I walked out into the desert sunshine, I tried to reconcile the suffering I’d seen online with aliens performing metaphysical microsurgeries throughout my body.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Phil Tippett, the visual effects artist who crafted aliens in “Star Wars” and dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park,” is shutting down his Berkeley-based studios after more than 40 years of business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

By examining the belief in aliens, he writes, we “can help clarify some of the primary social and spiritual quandaries of our time, even—or especially—if UFOs don’t actually exist.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Even though I was sure I knew the identities of the three aliens who attacked me, I couldn’t prove it.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson


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