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.

Clifford Stone was a military veteran with a lifelong relationship with extraterrestrial lifeforms, who claimed he was tasked with retrieving downed UFOs in the 1960s.

In 1941, government forces collected all traces of wreckage from what is widely believed to be an extraterrestrial spaceship crash.

Did three extraterrestrials crash-land their spaceship on a Missouri farm in 1941?

After tens of thousands of people witnessed the so-called Miracle of the Sun, the Catholic Church tried to suppress and later control testimony regarding the miracle.

In 1917, tens of thousands of people watched as the sun arced and dipped through the sky before it dried the area’s water and bathed a field in shifting colors of light.

If Jimmy Carter and Steven Spielberg wanted the American public to believe that aliens were friendly, Ronald Reagan and James Cameron wanted them to believe that the aliens wanted to destroy us all.

In 1938 in New York City, soon-to-be-acclaimed-filmmaker Orson Welles delivered his infamous broadcast of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds.

Upon hearing the news of the B-25 crash at Kelso, Kenneth Arnold begins to question what exactly happened at Maury Island in June 1947.

At the end of June 1947, aviator Kenneth Arnold saw nine flying saucers near Mt. Rainier in Washington state and helped spark the UFO craze at the beginning of the Cold War.

After the madness in Pascagoula, Calvin Parker attempted to lay low and live a normal life.