extraterrestrial
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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
The hunt for extraterrestrial life enters a new frontier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He’s not a super-scientist or a god or an extraterrestrial or a one-percenter able to develop all manner of nifty crime-fighting gadgetry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
For example, the statements “UFOs contain extraterrestrial visitors” and “UFOs are unidentified flying objects” are two entirely different assertions.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
Grace plays the role of an unnamed NBC news anchor tasked with presenting to the world an archive of video evidence proving the existence of extraterrestrials on Earth stretching back decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
In the movie, Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a TV meteorologist chosen by extraterrestrials as the human through whom they communicate—“the last person on earth that you’d imagine would be destined for this task,” Blunt says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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