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. I ...

An off-duty police officer reportedly spotted three mysterious figures near a newly-made crop circle. The unnamed man approached the possible extraterrestrials at the site near Avebury, Wiltshire, ...

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.

Crop circles -- the strange designs found in crops and grasslands -- have been reported and documented for hundreds of years. Are they a link to a higher intelligence or merely an elaborate prank? In ...