The United States Armed Forces maintains that what was recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude weather and surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named " Mogul " however, many UFO proponents maintain that an alien craft was found and its occupants were captured, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up.

At the age of thirteen, Novinha, a cold and distant girl, successfully petitions to be made the official biologist of the colony ( roughly the equivalent of a master's degree ); from then on, she contributes to the work of father-and-son xenologers ( alien anthropology ) Pipo and Libo, and for a short time there is family and camaraderie.

") V & V then used random die rolls for the origins of superpowers ( i. e., mutant, space alien, etc.

To create the alien water tentacle or pseudopod, Cameron initially considered cel animation or a tentacle sculpted in clay and then animated via stop-motion techniques with water reflections projected onto it.

After the rest of his squadron is annihilated in a one-sided dogfight, Hiller captures an alien pilot after luring an alien fighter to the Grand Canyon, then causing it to crash into the canyon walls.

Merrill swings at the alien, who then drops Morgan, causing one of Bo's water glasses to spill on it.

When they ask it about its origin, the alien levitates several balls to represent its solar system and then demonstrates its powers by reviving a dead plant.

The alien then gives a short performance of " Hello!

The most well-known alien invasion scenarios involve the aliens landing on Earth, destroying or abducting people, fighting and defeating Earth's military forces, and then destroying Earth's major cities.

Santilli and Shoefield stated that they had " restored " the damaged footage by filming a simulated autopsy on a fabricated alien, based upon what Santilli saw in 1992, and then adding in a few frames of the original film that had not degraded.

The earliest sources regard the two dragons as distinctly different, and in a metaphor of the Adventus Saxonum describes one as being native to the island of Britain ( it had arrived first ) which was then joined by another new and alien dragon that fought it for supremacy.

* The Clone Zone is an alien based ride, where you beam onto a mothership, then ride away on a suspended coaster.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica.

Harryhausen then returned to Columbia and Charles Schneer to make 20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 ), about an American spaceship returning from Venus that crashes into the ocean near Italy, releasing an on-board alien egg specimen which washes up on shore and soon hatches a creature that, in Earth's atmosphere, rapidly grows to gigantic size and terrifies Rome.

As Dutch asks the mortally wounded alien what it is, the creature mimics his question in garbled English and then activates a self-destruct mechanism on its wrist device while laughing, gradually increasing its laugh into a human-like pitch.

Occasionally, alien races are able to extrapolate the rules of English from very little speech and then immediately be fluent in it, making the translator unnecessary.

At the end of the episode, Eek is dropped off by an alien on the wing of the aircraft and meets the gremlin, then promptly offers to help him " find his wallet ".

Unknown to them, the alien immediately kills and then imitates the crew's physicist, a man named Connant ; with some 90 pounds of its matter left over it tries to become a sled dog.

", XI, vii, viii ), who refused to separate from his alien wife, Sanaballat's daughter, and with him the many Jews, priests and laymen, who sided with the rebel, these betook themselves to Shechem ; a schismatic temple was then erected on Mount Garizim and thus Shechem became the " holy city " of the Samaritans.

There is no trace of imitation or derivation from an alien source in the genius of this poet ... he resemblance between the tragic verse of Tourneur and the tragic verse of Shakespeare is simply such as proves the natural affinity between two great dramatic poets, whose inspiration partakes now and then of the quality more proper to epic or to lyric poetry.

During a meeting in Mr. Furlong's ( Jon Stewart ) class, he enters the room and acts suspicious, leading to Mr. Furlong attempting to infect Zeke during a fight, but Zeke pulls out a pen filled with his drug, and jams it into Furlong's eye, which then shrivels the alien inside of him.

Then she wakes up to discover that she is in her Tracer orbiting an alien gas giant.

After spending the night with his fiancée ( Sarah Wynter ), Patrick wakes to find her mutilated body and another alien child.

He then wakes up in an alien place.

He gets knocked out and wakes up on an alien planet dozens of light years away from Earth.

They curl up and die at the sight of something strange and alien -- like a spaceship ''.

Ekstrohm walked through the alien glass and looked up at the unfamiliar constellations, smelling the frozen sterility of the thin air.

In addition, Conan speaks many languages, including advanced reading and writing abilities: in certain stories, he is able to recognize, or even decipher, certain ancient or secret signs and writings ; for example, in " Jewels of Gwahlur " Howard states, " In his roaming about the world the giant adventurer had picked up a wide smattering of knowledge, particularly including the speaking and reading of many alien tongues.

* in Doctor Who's first series after its revival, episodes 4-5 and 11 featured the alien Slitheen family of the planet Raxicoricofallapatorius, which were said to be Calcium-based life forms, causing them to be blown up in contact with vinegar.

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 ).

The second season two-episode finale included Dilbert getting pregnant with the child of a cow, a hillbilly, Robot DNA, " several dozen engineers ", an elderly billionaire, and an alien, eventually ending up in a custody battle with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the Judge.

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.

Skin looked more natural and spinal bones were brought up into the foreheads for a decidedly more alien appearance.

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.

After that he added other signs saying " hi " and " this is neat " ( near rayguns ), and he ended up creating conversions for the other letters of the Latin alphabet for the signs to resemble writings in an alien language.

John was considered to be an " alien king " and soon gave up the administration of Bohemia and embarked on a life of travel, spending time in Luxembourg and the French court.

While promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich came up with the idea for the film when fielding a question about his own belief in the existence of alien life.

Along the way, she picks up several survivors and also finds the injured First Lady ( Mary McDonnell ), who had been flying out of Los Angeles by helicopter when it was knocked down in the alien attack.

While dragging the unconscious alien across the desert, Hiller is picked up by a ragtag group of refugees driving campers and trucks to a nearby military base.

Doohan also performed the alien navigator Arex, and often performed up to four different and distinctive voices in each episode.

But at least up to the year 1247 he submitted patiently to papal encroachments, contenting himself with the protection ( by a special papal privilege ) of his own diocese from alien clerks.

The space flight Head Quarters established on Olga picks up an SOS signal coming from the Earth where the first colonists of Darius originated before colonizing Darius ; the signal included the description of alien ships similar to that of the Belser Army.

However the game is mission orientated and involves setting up a futuristic base and carrying out missions which involve mining minerals, developing relationships, harvesting resources to prevent running out of oxygen and power, collecting food, and fighting back alien attacks.

He changed his walk to that of an " old crab, and because my alien metabolism is supposed to be messed up ".

Both Bemular and Redman were designed by Toru Narita, who also came up with the final design for Ultraman based on his Redman design, now resembling a less-scary Buck Rogers-style alien being, mixed with a bit of the iconic " Roswell Alien.

Terrified, Charlie attempts to deflect suspicion onto Tommy, the boy who originally brought up the idea of alien infiltration.

In his own sitcom, Mork & Mindy, his character of Mork, the alien from the planet Ork, landed in 1970s Boulder, Colorado, to study humans and took up residence with Pam Dawber's character of Mindy McConnell.

Thereafter fictional utopian and dystopian societies tended to spring up on other planets or in space, whether in human colonies or in alien societies originating elsewhere.

He keeps a baseball on the desk in his office ( given to him by an alien impersonating Buck Bokai, Sisko's favorite historical baseball player ) halfway through the first season ), and often picks it up and tosses it around when deep in thought.