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Former president Barack Obama this weekend appeared to drop an otherworldly bombshell: extraterrestrials exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama said in a podcast released Saturday.

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'Alien: Earth' premiered its first two episodes on Aug. 12 Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities, entertainment, reality TV stars and news for five years. Alamy ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...