For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

The first time Fontella “Faun” Day believes she saw life from another planet, it came from above. It was a cloudy afternoon in Rachel, Nevada, and the phones and computers at the Alien Cowpoke gas ...

You'd think that a man who has made four theatrical movies about contact with extra-terrestrial life, both benevolent and malevolent, would have had at least one close encounter in his lifetime. But ...

Where Spielberg's visions once seemed to be leading the culture, now he's following decades of lore and mythology. The UAP files show a lot of things we’ve seen before — in grainy U.S. military ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...