A chronological infographic traces science-fiction portrayals of unidentified aerial phenomena and non-human intelligence from late-19th-century Martian invaders through pulp saucers, Cold War body snatchers, motherships and Greys, black-triangle conspiracies, linguistic heptapods, and contemporary orbs and tic-tac UAP, citing key films and cultural motifs along the way.

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