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Elon Musk has turned a long-running joke about being an extraterrestrial into a central part of his public persona, even as he argues that humanity may be the only intelligent life in the universe.

Disclosure Day had people talking for its fresh take on alien contact and powerful sci-fi themes. These films follow the same path.

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The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

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Are aliens real? Was Fox Mulder right all along? We examine the prediction markets to gauge if the U.S. government will confirm that aliens exist before January 2029. The prediction market on a U.S.