extraterrestrial
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At first, he kept his extraterrestrial experiences to himself, he said, because he was afraid of the potential blowback.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
They didn’t indicate she was extraterrestrial in anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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
The hunt for extraterrestrial life enters a new frontier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
If we should receive a radio message from an extraterrestrial civilization, how could it possibly be understood?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The mysteries surrounding Sanxingdui have spawned even more outlandish questions: Do the enormous protruding eyes and enigmatic smiles featured on the figures suggest the ancient people were extraterrestrials?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
At the end of Season 1, their cover being blown, and humans being famously weird when it comes to extraterrestrials — you’ve seen the movies — they return home en masse, except for Sugar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
In science-fiction scenarios of first contact with extraterrestrials, humans usually bootstrap a common language with mathematics, demonstrating that we know the digits of pi and so forth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
It would be easy for extraterrestrials to make an unambiguously artificial interstellar message.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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