As it is eventually revealed, however, Luthor knew about the alien invasion in advance and did nothing to alert Earth's heroes to it, leading to the destruction of Topeka, Kansas, by an Imperiex probe.

But when a Viking space probe sends back the picture of an alien creature swinging a stick, a joint US / USSR mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.

Tom Swift explores the universe in the starship Exedra, using a faster-than-light drive he has reverse-engineered from an alien space probe.

Intent on returning home to Earth to face trial for their crimes, the former crew of the USS Enterprise finds the planet in grave danger from an alien probe attempting to contact now-extinct humpback whales.

* In the movie Battlefield Earth an alien race finds the voyager probe and are interested in Earth because gold is extremely rare and valuable to them.

John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 science-fiction fantasy film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of an alien ( Jeff Bridges ) who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.

The Voyager 2 probe is intercepted by an alien ship.

* In the L. Ron Hubbard novel Battlefield Earth, it is mentioned by the principal alien character that his race's conquest of Earth was made possible by their discovery of a space probe " that gave full directions to the place, had pictures of man on it and everything.

Gradually, the children discover the pieces of an ancient alien space probe named Kolob.

* Kolob was also the name of the alien probe in the children's sci-fi series Children of the Dog Star, transmitted in 1984 in New Zealand.

After a wormhole probe is sent through the wormhole, an alien life lab and a series of upgrades must be built to achieve victory.

An unmanned scientific probe sent to Mars discovers an alien artifact.

Primal's body would be subject to several attacks and alterations during the Beast Wars, the first of which came when an alien probe arrived on the planet at a mysterious standing stone formation.

Spock discovers that Nomad collided with an alien probe of immense power called Tan Ru, designed to obtain and sterilize soil samples from other planets.

In the episode " The Changeling ," Nomad is an Earth space probe that becomes damaged, and then somehow merges with the alien probe Tan-Ru.

The player must successfully navigate the probe over a fractal landscape, eventually reaching the alien at the end of a valley.

** Bílá hůl ráže 7, 62 ( White Cane 7. 62 )-a horror story describes an alien invasion through hijacking a visual signal coming from an interstellar probe captured by the aliens.

Piller felt Data's romantic feelings for Tasha Yar were over-the-top, and that the alien probe that served as a central part of the story felt like a cheat in terms of resolving Picard's dilemma.

Moore's script made the alternate universe militaristic, with the Federation at war with the Klingons, and the alien probe was removed.

In 2007, the U. S. government successfully sends a probe to an alien world in a parallel universe.

Then, just minutes into the mission, an alien life form discovers the probe and damages it, causing an unforeseen backlash of energy to create a black hole threatening Earth.

After being briefed on the situation by his old friend Major Vernon, former U. S. Navy SEAL Cutter Slade is given the job of escorting three scientists ( William Kauffmann, Anthony Xue and Marion Wolfe ) on a mission to this alien world to recover the probe and close the black hole.

* Dragon-a living, alien probe constructed and deployed by Maker.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.

It was an alien land, and she hated it intensely ; ;

Natural allegiance was acquired by birth within the Sovereign's dominions ( except for the issue of diplomats or of invading forces or of an alien in enemy occupied territory ).

*( c ) It may be granted upon condition, cujus est dare, ejus est disponere, and this denization of an alien may come about three ways: by Parliament ; by letters patent, which was the usual manner ; and by conquest.

Local allegiance was due by an alien while in the protection of the Crown.

A resident alien owed allegiance even when the protection of the Crown was withdrawn owing to the occupation of an enemy, because the absence of the Crown's protection was temporary and involuntary ( de Jager v Attorney-Geneneral of Natal AC 326 ).

Legal allegiance was due when an alien took an oath of allegiance required for a particular office under the Crown.

Greeks of the Classical age always detected that there was something alien and uncanny about the Aegis.

This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

The concept of zero ( which was also called " cipher "), which we all now think of as natural, was alien to medieval Europe, so confusing and ambiguous to common Europeans that in arguments people would say " talk clearly and not so far fetched as a cipher ".

The alien creature Sil is nearly identical to Tolentino ’ s chupacabra eyewitness account and she had seen the movie before her report: " It was a creature that looked like the chupacabra, with spines on its back and all ...

As a result of their rearing, Kal-El grows up to think of himself as Clark Kent, completely unaware of his alien heritage until he was well into adulthood ( the fact that the Kents found him sometime just after the Cold War meant that the Kents assumed the rocket they found him in was from an Earth-based space program-possibly that of Communist Russia-and that Clark had superhuman abilities because he was either a metahuman or some kind of genetic experiment ).

In 1986, Villanueva, an illegal alien from Mexico and a student at San Diego High School, was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Due to this action, he was immediately stripped of his Indonesian citizenship, causing him to be imprisoned for a few months on Ellis Island as " an illegal alien ".

* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.

The equation was formulated by Dr. Frank Drake in 1961, a decade after the objections raised by Enrico Fermi, in an attempt to find a systematic means to evaluate the numerous probabilities involved in alien life.

Alexander appeared on Star Trek: Voyager on the episode " Think Tank " playing a genius alien named Kurros who was trying to get Seven of Nine to serve on his ship.

By now an enemy alien, he was moved between various internment camps in Scotland and England before ending up spending a year and a half in Douglas Camp, Isle of Man.

This sample had been found by the scientist who resurrected John Corben as Metallo, powering the cyborg with the alien matter in a paranoid attempt to save the world from Superman, as a mistranslation of a message from Jor-El caused the scientist to conclude that Superman was the leader of an alien invasion force.