UFOs in fiction
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Many works of fiction have featured UFOs. In most cases, as the fictional story progresses, the Earth is being invaded by hostile alien forces from outer space, usually from Mars, as depicted in early science fiction, or the people are being destroyed by alien forces, as depicted in the film Independence Day. Some fictional UFO encounters may be based on real UFO reports, such as Night Skies. Night Skies is based on the 1997 Phoenix UFO Incident.
UFOs appear in many forms of fiction other than film, such as video games ( in the Destroy All Humans! or the X-COM series and print, The War of the Worlds or Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu. Typically a small group of people or the military (which one depending on where the film was made), will fight off the invasion, however the monster Godzilla has fought against many UFOs.
[edit] Books
- H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds - Martian capsules are shot at Earth by aliens on Mars. Earth germs eventually kill the alien invaders. Written in the late 1800s.
- DNAlien, A novel by Jim West (2007).
- The Unreals, a novel by Donald Jeffries (2007).[citation needed] http://donaldjeffries.com/
[edit] Films
(in chronological order)
1950s
- The Man from Planet X - 1951
- The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951
- The Thing from Another World - 1951
- The War of the Worlds - 1953
- Invaders from Mars - 1953
- Robot Monster - 1953
- Devil Girl from Mars - 1954
- Forbidden Planet - 1956
- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers - 1956
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956
- The 27th Day - 1957
- Quatermass 2 - 1957
- The Strange World of Planet X - 1957
- Plan 9 from Outer Space - 1959
1970s
- The Disappearance of Flight 412 - 1974
- Escape to Witch Mountain - 1975
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
- Return from Witch Mountain - 1978
1980s
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - 1982
- The Last Starfighter - 1984
- Cocoon - 1985
- Flight of the Navigator - 1986
- Invaders from Mars - 1986
- Maximum Overdrive - 1986
- Predator - 1987
- *batteries not included - 1987
- Cocoon: The Return - 1988
- Mac and Me - 1988
- My Stepmother Is an Alien - 1988
- They Live - 1988
- Communion - 1989
1990s
- Predator 2 - 1990
- Fire in the Sky - 1993
- Body Snatchers - 1993
- U.F.O. - 1993
- Roswell - 1994
- Independence Day - 1996
- Mars Attacks! - 1996
- The Arrival - 1996
- Dreamland - 1996 Film won an award called "The EBE Award: Best UFO Documentary in 1996". Film made by a Bruce Burgess who also made Broken Dagger See www.digiview.com/Dreamland for more on this film
- Contact - 1997
- Men in Black - 1997
- The X-Files: Fight the Future - 1998
- Sphere - 1998
- The Second Arrival - 1998
- The Astronaut's Wife - 1999
2000s
- Men in Black II - 2002
- Signs - 2002
- Groom Lake (film) - 2002
- Visitors - 2003
- Koi Mil Gaya (Bollywood) -2003
- The Forgotten - 2004
- War of the Worlds - 2005
- Alien Autopsy - 2006
- The Invasion - 2007
- Night Skies - 2007
- Dreamland - 2007
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 2008
- The X Files: I Want to Believe - 2008
- The Day The Earth Stood Still - 2008 remake of the 1951 movie
- Monsters vs. Aliens - 2009
- Race to Witch Mountain - 2009 remake of the 1975 movie
- Knowing - 2009
- The Appearance of a Man - 2009, Directed by Daniel Pace
[edit] Television
alphabetical order
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