The most iconic of the alien race, the Greys represent the most widely-recognized pop-culture version of extraterrestrial life.

In 1953, “Orthon the Venusian” took his favorite human, George Adamski, on a joyride through the cosmos.

The hit book of 1953 was “The Flying Saucers Have Landed.” Southern California was enamored with the book’s author, who claimed to have met an extraterrestrial.

Legend has it that a strange ship was sighted off the eastern coast of Japan in the early 19th Century.

The mystery of the Shag Harbour Crash haunted the small village for decades.

In October of 1967, the sleepy fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, was the site of what dozens of spectators thought was a plane crash.

In what is considered to be the earliest recorded examples of UFOs, strange objects were sighted emerging from the sun in 1561 and 1566.

After an other-worldly revelation in 1768, Emanuel Swedenborg would draw the ire of the Swedish Lutheran Church as he tried to publicize what he’d learned.

For most of his adult life, Emanuel Swedenborg sought to reconcile his Christian faith with the values of the Enlightenment.

In 1990, after over 2 decades of retrieving downed UFOs, Clifford Stone’s military service would end in disgrace.