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  2. Extraterrestrials in fiction - Wikipedia

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    For example, Voltaire's Micromégas features people from Saturn, who are simply of higher proportions. [5] This was changed by the 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, which proposed the theory of evolution. This book caused a revolution in fiction as much as it did in science, as authors began to imagine extraterrestrial races ...

  3. Extraterrestrial life - Wikipedia

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    For example, during the Barney and Betty Hill incident, the first recorded claim of an alien abduction, the couple reported that they were abducted and experimented on by aliens with oversized heads, big eyes, pale grey skin, and small noses, a description that eventually became the grey alien archetype once used in works of fiction.

  4. List of alleged extraterrestrial beings - Wikipedia

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    Grey-skinned (sometimes green-skinned) humanoids, usually 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, hairless, with large heads, black almond-shaped eyes, nostrils without a nose, slits for mouths, no ears and 3–4 fingers including thumb. Greys have been the predominant extraterrestrial beings of alleged alien contact since the 1960s. [5] Hopkinsville goblin [6] [7] [8]

  5. Extraterrestrial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The extraterrestrial hypothesis is the idea that some UFOs are vehicles containing or sent by extraterrestrial beings (usually called aliens in this context). [13] As an explanation for UFOs, ETI is sometimes contrasted with EDI (extradimensional intelligence), for example by J. Allen Hynek. [24]

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Zoo hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    An extraterrestrial society with advanced remote-sensing technologies may conclude that direct contact with neighbors confers added risks to itself without an added benefit. A variant on the zoo hypothesis suggested by former MIT Haystack Observatory scientist John Allen Ball is the "laboratory" hypothesis, in which humanity is being subjected ...

  8. Culture of extraterrestriality - Wikipedia

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    A culture of extraterrestriality is the cultural imagination and description of otherworldlyness, alienness or outright outer space, characterizing the other through extraterrestrial space, [1] [2] beyond mere extraterritoriality or periphery, being the space that is imagined or described as extraterrestrial, or simply any space outside a described land.

  9. Category:Fictional extraterrestrial characters - Wikipedia

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    Fictional extraterrestrial characters from the Solar System (2 C, 8 P) Extraterrestrial superheroes (6 C, 67 P) Extraterrestrial supervillains (4 C, 90 P)