Aliens. They come in peace, they destroy our planet, they mystify, terrify, and inspire. Crop Circle Cinema explores alien movies through the decades, specifically those set in rural places. Why do ...

In college, I studied history, film, and the environment. I don’t think I could have predicted that these three fields would eventually come together in one strange topic: extraterrestrials. I ...

Alien movies have endured as a popular way to explore our anxieties about the unknown. But why do so many take place in rural America and what are they representing when they do? Art by Nhatt Nichols.

Mysterious crop circles have been discovered etched into fields in one of the world's most famous UFO hotspots. Wiltshire in the UK has become the epicenter of the phenomenon since the 1970s, and the ...