extraterrestrial
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I corresponded with con artists and attended a strange “medical” appointment that promised me invisible surgery and extraterrestrial matchmaking.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
They didn’t indicate she was extraterrestrial in anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The hunt for extraterrestrial life enters a new frontier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
However, the authors note that this choice could also have excluded some genuinely weak extraterrestrial signals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
I suppose that my extraterrestrial Visitor night puzzle over my records in much the same way, on first listening.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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He doubts the existence of extraterrestrials but recognizes their prominence in our imagination as a chapter in “humanity’s evolving self-portrait.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Diana Walsh Pasulka, a religion professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, said that for some, belief in extraterrestrials is akin to a kind of religion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
If the extraterrestrials stay at home, there are at least two ways in which they might find out about us.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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