Enduring Allure: How Aliens Mirror Our Fears, Hopes, and Culture

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Humans are drawn to aliens because the idea lets us face our fears, hopes, and wonder, with stories spanning H.G. Wells to Arrival and Stranger Things splitting into hostile invasions and benevolent contact, and the mystery enduring even without definitive proof.

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For decades, film and TV fascination with aliens has reflected ourselves – our fears, anxieties, hopes – long before a Senate report took them seriously