A notable subgenre of fictional languages are alien languages, the ones that are used or might be used by putative extraterrestrial life forms.

Although this field remains largely confined to science fiction, the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life makes the question of alien language a credible topic for scientific and philosophical speculation.

Ironically enough, the President's paranoia and opportunism lead to the establishment of a real resistance movement that is organized through narrow-beam radio transmissions from a mysterious alien near-Earth satellite, by a superintelligent, extraterrestrial, but less than omnipotent being ( or network ) named VALIS.

It was the report of an object that crashed in the general vicinity in June or July 1947, allegedly an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants.

Active SETI, also known as messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence ( METI ), consists of sending signals into space in the hope that they will be picked up by an alien intelligence.

Proponents of the extraterrestrial hypothesis suggest that these unexplained reports are of alien spacecraft, though various other hypotheses have been proposed.

The narrative of Xenu is part of Scientologist teachings about extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described as space opera by Hubbard.

It is now seen as the seminal alien invasion story and Wells is credited with establishing several extraterrestrial themes which were later greatly expanded by science fiction writers in the 20th Century, including first contact and war between planets and their differing species.

He also is perhaps the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction, and was an early proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

* Zeta grey alien, an alleged type of extraterrestrial being

The player takes control of an alien ( who bears a striking resemblance to the race of aliens from the Alien series of films ) aboard a huge spacecraft filled with many extraterrestrial creatures.

On an exploratory mission, two astronauts discover an extraterrestrial container ( referred to as a dumpster as a result of its smell ) and breach the unit, inadvertently releasing the evil alien sorceress Rita Repulsa from 10, 000 years of confinement.

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar space travel or other technologies.

The novel is about a mysterious " zone " filled with strange and often deadly extraterrestrial artifacts, which are theorized by some scientists to be the refuse from an alien " picnic " on Earth.

" One belief of Scientology is that a human is an immortal alien, i. e. extraterrestrial, spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is trapped on Earth in a physical body.

In the end, the two alien henchmen are inexplicably revealed to be Poemy's foster parents, Nabeshin and Kumi-Kumi, who are thus not dead, and Poemy and Futaba combine their powers in order to make the world nice and end the extraterrestrial menace.

The US Army recovered an object which crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, allegedly an extraterrestrial spacecraft, and alien pilots, Many books on the incident have been written since the 1970s, and numerous alleged witnesses have spoken on the event.

Steve Bronson was able to alert the military to the alien Sandman's presence, but they also proved ineffective in dealing with the extraterrestrial threat.

* Thor ( Stargate ), an extraterrestrial alien character in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1

He wrote the script for the film Alien Resurrection ( 1997 ), where an extraterrestrial creature is bred from a human and an alien in a laboratory, and went on to develop the space western television series Firefly.

He believed Earth to be in danger of being overrun by extraterrestrial races, and so the Nightwatch, a fascist, paramilitary organization, was created to find out people suspected to be alien infiltrators or sympathizers.

Both involve the unearthing of an extraterrestrial spaceship, an alien race that has interfered with human evolution and is the basis for legends of devils, demons and witchcraft, and places with " devilish " names-Devil's End in The Daemons, and Hob's Lane in Pit.

The Terra miniseries revealed that she is a member of an alien race called Stratans who live below the Earth's surface in a massive subterranean cave called Strata which is actually the empty spacesuit of a long dead cosmic extraterrestrial, and possesses a rare mutation granted by a unique ore called " quixium " that grants her the earth powers she wields.

Some science-fiction fans have speculated that the Quatermass serials in general, and Quatermass II in particular — with its elements including a conspiracy of silence in the government concerning extraterrestrial life, secret government facilities for alien use, and the silencing of any critic who opposes the government's plans — influenced the successful American series The X-Files ( 1993 – 2002 ).

In Dianetics, the unconscious or reactive mind is described as a collection of " mental image pictures ," which contain the recorded experience of past moments of unconsciousness, including all sensory perceptions and feelings involved, ranging from pre-natal experiences, infancy and childhood, even the traumatic feelings associated events from past lives and alien cultures.

The dreams were actually memories of a great massacre that took place on the Enaran homeworld, and were the elder Enaran's method of making sure that the memory of this massacre lives on, even if in the mind of an alien.

: There is even a daily newspaper — the Washington Times — published strictly for the movement ’ s benefit, a propaganda sheet whose distortions are so obvious and so alien that it puts one in mind of those official party organs one encounters when traveling in authoritarian countries.

A fuel-air bomb is dropped in the centre of a city near the end of the space opera Judas Unchained in an attempt to eliminate the main antagonist ( an alien with mind control capabilities ).

There is another alien faction at work, however, represented on Earth by small spider-like robots that recruit human agents through some form of mind control.

Foley's alien goes on to say that in the 50 years they've been doing this, the only thing they've learned is that " one in 10 doesn't really seem to mind " and that he suspects their " Great Leader " may be " just some sort of twisted ass freak ".

Campbell's supernatural horror novels include Incarnate ( 1983 ), in which the boundaries between dream and reality are gradually broken down ; and Midnight Sun ( 1990 ), in which an alien entity apparently seeks entry to the world through the mind of a children's writer.

Indeed, one of Hilary Putnam's arguments for his version of functionalism relied on the intuition that such alien creatures would have the same mental states as humans do, and that the multiple realizability of standard functionalism makes it a better theory of mind.

Although it seems to be left ambiguous as to whether Benny is real or the Prophets ' creation, at the end of this episode, the wormhole alien he was hunting says, " The Kosst Amojan tried to stop you with a false vision ," implying that the Pah-wraiths was implanting the Russell fantasy into Sisko's mind to throw him off his mission.

Garganta was returned to human form by the Gammazons, a race of giant alien Amazon women, which left her tall with the mind of a passive sea mammal.

Decades ago, Ryszard Michalski, one of the pioneers of Machine Learning, taught his Ph. D. students that any truly alien mind, to include machine minds, was unknowable and therefore dangerous to humans.

Cho conceived of a 6-part " raunchy sci-fi fantasy romp " called " The Body ", centering on an intergalactic female merchant, Katy Wyndon, who can transfer her mind into any of her " wardrobe bodies ", empty mindless vessels that she occupies to best suit her negotiations with the local alien races that she encounters while traveling the galaxy trading and seeking riches.

Descendants of the earth human / Trevarian mix would eventually rescue a conquered Earth from alien conquerors who could mind lie-which they used to conquer the telepathic League of All Worlds.

Each has a small silvery sphere of alien material, about 3 – 4 cm in diameter, that allows a trained mind to project thoughts to carry out telekinesis in some limited manner.

Aboard the alien vessel, Sheridan is repeatedly tortured by his alien captors and forced to fight other aliens who appear to be under some sort of mind control.

Both books deal with the difficult and counter-intuitive Eastern teachings of non-self, a concept which has sometimes proved so alien to the Western mind as to be out of reach for many Western Buddhists.

In December 2008 he appeared alongside his Blackpool co-star David Tennant in " The Next Doctor ", the 2008 Christmas special of Doctor Who, playing Jackson Lake — a man who believes he is the Doctor after his mind is affected by alien technology.

Eventually, his mind was restored by an alien race of computer intelligences called the Technis, created from the sexual union of Swamp Thing and a machine-planet when Swamp Thing was travelling through space.

Those people of London in whom the alien admixture remains strong fall under the ship's influence ; they merge into a group mind and begin a telekinetic mass murder of those without the alien genes, an ' ethnic cleansing ' of those that the alien race mind considers impure and weak.