Alien movies have endured as a popular way to explore our anxieties about the unknown. But why do so many take place in rural America and what are they representing when they do? Art by Nhatt Nichols.

Aliens & Espionage: Crop Circles and the CIA Coverup In 1974 a group of scientists beamed a message into space. The message, meant to be received by an intelligent alien species, described life on ...

In college, I studied history, film, and the environment. I don’t think I could have predicted that these three fields would eventually come together in one strange topic: extraterrestrials. Whether ...

Neither aliens nor goblins had a hand in creating this “maize maze” near York, England—the farmer “Top Pearsy” (that’s a name, yes) owned up and said he merely wanted to mark the ending of the Harry ...