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UFOs in fiction

This 1929 cover of Science Wonder Stories, drawn by notable pulp artist Frank R. Paul, is one of the earliest depictions of a "flying saucer" in fiction

Many works of fiction have featured UFOs. In most cases, as the fictional story progresses, the Earth is being invaded by hostile alien forces from outer space, usually from Mars, as depicted in early science fiction, or the people are being destroyed by alien forces, as depicted in the film Independence Day. Some fictional UFO encounters may be based on real UFO reports, such as Night Skies. Night Skies is based on the 1997 Phoenix UFO Incident.

UFOs appear in many forms of fiction other than film, such as video games in the Destroy All Humans! or the X-COM series and Halo series and print, The War of the Worlds or Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu. Typically a small group of people or the military (which one depending on where the film was made), will fight off the invasion, however the monster Godzilla has fought against many UFOs.

Books

Radio

  • "War of the Worlds" a radio play by Orson Welles, caused all manner of panic in 1938

Films

See also: List of films featuring extraterrestrials

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

  • Skyline - 2010
  • Apollo 18 - 2011
  • Battle: Los Angeles - 2011
  • Cowboys & Aliens - 2011
  • Mars Needs Moms - 2011
  • Paul - 2011
  • Super 8 - 2011
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 2011
  • UFO in Her Eyes - 2011
  • Battleship - 2012
  • Prometheus - 2012
  • U.F.O. - 2012
  • The Avengers - 2012
  • Area 51 - 2015

Television

UFOs in television programs fall into three basic categories: real UFOs, hoaxes, and misidentified terrestrial spacecraft (often landing in a backward rural area or traveling back in time as in Lost in Space and Star Trek).

Shows depicting real UFOs include: The Outer Limits, The Invaders, The Monkees, The Bionic Woman, Dark Skies, Roswell, Wonder Woman, V, and The X-Files.

Hoax stories include: Batman, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, The Green Hornet, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, and The Wild Wild West (a hoax story with a real sighting at the end)

Earth ships mistaken for UFOs appear in: I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters, Lost in Space, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (Pyle witnesses the location filming of a science fiction film).

Alphabetical Order

(2012)

In video games

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Ninjaturtles". 1989. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Ninjaturtles". 1990. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
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