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Over the next few months, workers at APL will bolt on eight three-bladed rotors that will allow Dragonfly to fly several miles at a hop above the alien surface.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

Resident safety practices are not alien to constitutional history.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

What Are We is the first song Winnie released as a solo artist in 2020, and an alien language specialist was hired to help her translate it into the Bilquis language.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

"This flight safely reached Venezuela and all illegal aliens on board were returned home," a DHS spokesperson told BBC on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Unnecessary delay hurts both aliens with meritorious claims and the American public who wish to see aliens with non-meritorious claims removed as quickly as possible,” the spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Landed here to found New World about twenty years ago or so. But there were aliens here. The Spackle. And they...didn’t want us.”

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness