“SNL50” delivered another Kate McKinnon-led alien abduction sketch, with some especially big names making a surprise appearance, including Meryl Streep, who showed up as McKinnon’s similarly ...

Two people on a road trip in New Hampshire in 1961 were at the center of one of America’s first high-profile alien abduction cases. Their account of that night set the tone for how we imagine ...

At “SNL50,” Kate McKinnon reprised her popular character Miss Rafferty from her series of Close Encounter sketches, surrounded by the all-star ensemble of Pedro Pascal, Jon Hamm, Woody Harrelson, Aidy ...

Callum Murray is a writer based in the North of England. His love of movies and television formed as a young child, and it continues to flourish. Woman claims alien abduction in Manhattan in 1989; and ...

The first “Close Encounter” sketch had a simple premise where three friends — two played Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong, the other played by that week’s host (Ryan Gosling in this case) — are ...

Saturday Night Live mainstay Kate McKinnon said goodbye to the show during its season finale on Saturday. In the process, she revisited one of her classic characters: Ms. Rafferty, the blunt-talking ...

Since the days of classic movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and War of the Worlds, aliens have been a cornerstone of the science fiction genre. Covering everything from humanity making first ...

In the last two posts I discussed the general nature and history of alien abduction reports as well as a number of issues related to conceptualizing how to think about them. I now want to address ...

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