Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. In 2002, Elizabeth Smart’s abduction shocked the nation when the ...

Here’s how a report on alien abductions in the United States begins: “Most alien abduction stories begin quietly — a strange light, a missing moment, something that feels off.” Sounds like something ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

After over 15 years, director Steven Spielberg is finally getting back into the world of alien invaders. Sure, as a producer, Spielberg has continued to attach his name to shows like Falling Skies and ...

More recently, McNally and Clancy introduced alien abductees to the laboratory to study trauma and recovered memory in an experimental setting. They believe their subsequent findings explain the ...

“The foolishness of the impulse to get out and run towards it, just assuming it would take off before I got very far — that was a big mistake that created a huge detour in my life,” Travis Walton says ...

Along a remote highway in New Hampshire’s White Mountains … ... a long-limbed creature greets visitors at a gas station. Inside, it’s green (and pink and purple ...

Space might be the final frontier on television, but in real life we haven't found any documented proof of any alien settlers out on the space range. Still, that hasn't stopped hundreds (even ...

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country. By Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief, ...

An Oklahoma sex offender was arrested after 13 years on the run, enrolled at an upstate New York college under an alias, having allegedly faked his own abduction in 2012 to avoid a second criminal ...