When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...

People were allegedly advised to call the United Nations' "alien communications specialist" if they made contact with extraterrestrial life.

In the stillness of the night, someone suddenly wakes up unable to move, gripped by the eerie sensation of a strange presence nearby. Was it a dream, a hallucination, or something more? For some ...

It's one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...