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
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
For K2-18b, only 6.6% of surveyed astrobiologists agreed that scientists had probably found extraterrestrial life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
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
“Disclosure Day” is Spielberg’s latest alien-centric movie that charts a desperate race to show the world the truth about extraterrestrials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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
God, angels, and extraterrestrials have yet to come to our assistance; yet more and more phenomena have proved explicable by the dim reason of human beings.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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