Astronomers who detect a credible signal from aliens after 2026 will be barred from announcing it publicly or sending any kind of reply until it has been painstakingly verified and reviewed through United Nations channels under a newly rewritten global first-contact code.

The "Disclosure Day" filmmaker does think he should be "afforded the opportunity" to see a UFO, given "all the movies I made about non-human civilizations coming to Earth."

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How David Levinson’s plan, Russell Casse’s sacrifice, and humanity’s unity defeat the alien invasion and secure a second chance for Earth.

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and the rise of environmentalism in her fiction from ...

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Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.