Aliens

Meet Mazlan Othman, the United Nations ambassador to extraterrestrials

The United Nations has appointed Earth’s ambassador should aliens touch down in the near future. Their selection? Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, who heads the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs. UPDATE: Boo! It was a hoax. https://gizmodo.com/the-u-n-has-no-liaison-for-extraterrestrials-after-all-5650039 From News.com.au: During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 26

Awesomely detailed spaceship schematics created by an Oregon UFO witness

There is nothing better than a detailed visual aid to help me really understand what a UFO looked like. Here you can see what one person witnessed, over an Oregon town. Some, the artist admits, is extrapolation. According to Lights In The Sky, a Texas blog about UFOs, these images come from a MUFON report…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 23

Webcomic Shatters Fermi Paradox

There’s a very good reason we haven’t heard a peep from an alien civilization, and probably never will. I think it has something to do with lewd remarks made to a nuclear superpower. Or something. [SMBC – Thanks, Eric]

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Sep 19

Roswell: the best late 90s alien teen soap opera on the WB EVER

For those of you who weren’t thirteen-years-old and female in 1999, Roswell was on after 7th Heaven in the pre-CW golden days of the WB, and almost nobody watched it. That isn’t to say Roswell didn’t have its glory days — the pilot debuted strong but began tanking fairly quickly. Executive producer Jason Katims (My…

Television Anna Breslaw Sep 18

New Monsters preview gives a first glimpse of Mexico’s intergalactic horror

The new trailer for Gareth Edward’s indie kaiju flick is up, and it’s a doozy. Check out a spoiler-filled first look at the titular abomination, and laugh as the puny Earthmen try to contain the creature. For those readers who need a crash course on this shoestring-budgeted flick, here’s the synopsis: Six years ago NASA…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 8

New images from Hustler’s Avatar porn promise Na’vi blue balls

Get ready to “make tsaheylu” in your trousers. Brand new images from the Hustler Avatar porn spoof, This Ain’t Avatar XXX, have been released. We give them props for showing naked avatars in the hibernation vats — sexy! Possibly NSFW. We say that this will give you blue balls, not only because we’re assuming that…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 8

Syfy is making a Billy Ray Cyrus UFO show

Syfy’s latest TV series is called UFO: Unbelievably Freakin’ Obvious. It stars country singer (and Miley Cyrus’ father) Billy Ray, and his emo son Trace. Together the two will travel the globe investigating paranormal phenomena. We’re not making this up. According to Variety aliens have been a long time passion for BRC… who knew? “The…

Television Meredith Woerner Sep 7

The curious Chess City of the Russian steppe

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the eccentric president of the Russian federal subject of Kalmykia, stepped down from office today. Ilyumzhinov believed he’d been visited by aliens and poured an estimated $50 million into building a “Chess City” at the Kalmykian capital Elista. https://gizmodo.com/russia-investigating-whether-or-not-regional-president-5532553 Ilyumzhinov, a fanatical chess fan, has also been the President of FIDE (a.k.a. World…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 7

Is this your new Ripley for the Alien prequel?

Is this the new Ellen Ripley? Rumors are starting to spread over an interview that actress Gemma Arterton gave regarding Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel. Will Bond’s oil-coated Quantum of Solace conquest be playing the new Ripley? In an interview with the Sunday Times, Arterton revealed that she was meeting with Scott about the a role…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 7

Enemy Mine: the B-movie that is a parable for absolutely everything

1985’s Enemy Mine is a complex tapestry of heartwarming double-you-tee-eff. Dennis Quad is Willis Davidge, human fighter pilot who hates Draks. Lou Gosset Jr. plays Drak fighter pilot Jerry. Together they teach us to live, love, and laugh. On the surface, Enemy Mine is a mostly forgotten scifi flick with an asexual birth scene and…

io9 C.J. Silva Sep 6

Rumor patrol: Is Eminem really playing Batman 3’s Riddler? Plus Ridley Scott talks about the Alien prequel’s big questions!

Ridley Scott will be digging deep into the nasty origins of the aliens for his prequel. Duncan Jones talks Source Code, director Mark Romanek explains why Never Let Me Go doesn’t feel scifi, and some awesomely convoluted Transformers rumors. Spoilervana! Alien Prequel: Ridley Scott explains the central questions his two-part, 3-D prequel will address: “The…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 6

Websites for scifi’s most famous evil corporations, based on real-life corporate websites

The best science fiction movies are only as good as the evil corporations they feature. But what sort of websites would Weyland-Yutani or OCP have? Artist Mikko Vartio imagines their websites, with a noticeable resemblance to some real-life corporate sites. I like evil movie corporations, and for a long time I’ve wanted to do a…

io9 Mikko Vartio Sep 3

Look – it’s a baby Mi-go caught by divers off the coast of Japan!

In H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos, the Mi-go are tentacled crustacean aliens who dwell deep in our planetary history – and deep in the oceans. Looks like some Japanese divers may have found the real-life inspiration for the creature. Apparently one of the divers who found the creature commented on how suggestive it looks, almost like a…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 2

Norway’s massive Troll cover-up exposed!

There just aren’t enough serious movies about trolls (Best Worst Movie aside). Thankfully, Norway is remedying this shortage with an interesting mockumentary Troll Hunter. Troll Hunter Twitch directed our attention to this fascinating troll picture. Directed by Andre Ovredal, this Norwegian movie is a mockumentary all about Norway’s secret dealings with trolls. Shot shaky-cam style…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 29

You too can wear Ripley’s sneakers from Aliens

Ellen Ripley’s “Alien Stomper” Reeboks from were showcased in Aliens for a split second, were sold in limited quantities in 1987, and have been remade sporadically since then. Next month, Ripley’s clodhoppers hit shelves once again (in Japan). In the history of totally obscure product placement, the Alien Stompers might just take the cake. They…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 28

First gooey footage from Vessel’s in-flight alien attack

We’ve been following the work of Clark Baker’s short film Vessel ever since we laid eyes on his monster on a plane creations. But now the film has wrapped, and we’re got first ever footage of the mile-high alien. https://gizmodo.com/down-with-crappy-cg-aliens-support-a-real-monster-5540362 Since we last reported on Vessel, they’ve wrapped principal photography (check out a few stills…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 26

David Goyer’s alien armageddon book series gets a movie deal

The Dark Knight co-writer David S. Goyer just landed a movie deal for his still yet-to-be-published book trilogy about aliens careening towards the Earth, called Heaven’s Shadow. According to Deadline. Goyer is writing the novel, which will be in stores in the summer of 2011, with Michael Cassutt: The trilogy begins when an object is…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 24

Worst rip-off of E.T.’s flying bicycle scene in movie history

If you’re making a movie about kids meeting an alien, it’s probably semi-compulsory to include a flying-bicycle scene, as an E.T. shout-out. But nowadays, you can make the effects look way cooler. Right? Right Or… not. Witness this hideous example. This clip comes from 2005’s No Place Like Home, which features an all-star cast, including…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 23

The extraterrestrial life that we’re looking for might be artificial intelligence

Our search for intelligent alien life depends on picking up the radio waves of a reasonably advanced extraterrestrial civilization. We had assumed these aliens would be biological life like us – but logic says that’s probably not the case. The only way we can probe for intelligent life in other star systems is to look…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 23

Battle of Los Angeles takes fellow LA alien invasion film Skyline to court

Two upcoming alien-invasion flicks might have a lot more in common than aliens and a Los Angeles setting. Turns out the directors of Skyline worked on the VFX for Battle: Los Angeles. And Sony is none too happy about that. According to Deadline, the directors of Skyline, the Brothers Strause were both hired, via the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 18

Meet Mazlan Othman, the United Nations ambassador to extraterrestrials

Awesomely detailed spaceship schematics created by an Oregon UFO witness

Webcomic Shatters Fermi Paradox

Roswell: the best late 90s alien teen soap opera on the WB EVER

New Monsters preview gives a first glimpse of Mexico’s intergalactic horror

New images from Hustler’s Avatar porn promise Na’vi blue balls

Syfy is making a Billy Ray Cyrus UFO show

The curious Chess City of the Russian steppe

Is this your new Ripley for the Alien prequel?

Enemy Mine: the B-movie that is a parable for absolutely everything

Rumor patrol: Is Eminem really playing Batman 3’s Riddler? Plus Ridley Scott talks about the Alien prequel’s big questions!

Websites for scifi’s most famous evil corporations, based on real-life corporate websites

Look – it’s a baby Mi-go caught by divers off the coast of Japan!

Norway’s massive Troll cover-up exposed!

You too can wear Ripley’s sneakers from Aliens

First gooey footage from Vessel’s in-flight alien attack

David Goyer’s alien armageddon book series gets a movie deal

Worst rip-off of E.T.’s flying bicycle scene in movie history

The extraterrestrial life that we’re looking for might be artificial intelligence

Battle of Los Angeles takes fellow LA alien invasion film Skyline to court

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