extraterrestrial
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He held particular scorn for the flat-earthers, who he thought were plants to discredit genuine research about extraterrestrial technology.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
They didn’t indicate she was extraterrestrial in anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
In 2025, a press release stated that we have the “strongest hints yet” of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Second, though “virtually all scientists” reject the idea that aliens have visited Earth, researchers are “increasingly confident that humanity will discover extraterrestrial life.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Thus according to the common-sense view the science of extraterrestrial beings, if they exist and if they are intelligent, must, where it overlaps with our science, agree with it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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In the movie, Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a TV meteorologist chosen by extraterrestrials as the human through whom they communicate—“the last person on earth that you’d imagine would be destined for this task,” Blunt says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
You can bet on Nepal’s elections, which actor will next play James Bond, the next cabinet member to exit the Trump administration, and even whether the U.S. will confirm before 2027 that extraterrestrials exist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Inside its sci-fi trappings — space travel, crazy technology, oodles of extraterrestrials — Pixar’s “Elio” is the story of an outsider kid who finds a new family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as US president between 2009-17, clarified: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
It would be easy for extraterrestrials to make an unambiguously artificial interstellar message.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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