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  1. 5. Invisible monster that plagues the crew of United Planets starship C-57D.
  2. 6. Major international airport where at least a dozen airline employees observed what they described as a “flying saucer” during one November afternoon in the early 2000s.
  3. 7. The hillside outside this community’s fire hall displays an acorn-like model of a ship supposed to have crashed near there in 1965; this is the same model that appeared in the corresponding episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
  4. 9. Theirs was the first widely publicized case of alien abduction in the United States. (Last name)
  5. 11. Alien hunters that share a common cinematic universe with xenomorphs.
  6. 12. Name of a brand of small, hard mints also used to describe an unknown fast-flying craft filmed in the vicinity of the U. S. S. Nimitz.
  7. 13. Count of Fort Lauderdale’s vanished Avengers. (Craft not crew)
  8. 19. In this low(er)-budget thriller from the early 2010s, blue lights from the sky enthrall and then vacuum up most of the inhabitants of Earth.
  9. 21. Unincorporated NJ community that serves as the fictional beachhead for a Martian invasion in H. G. Wells’s War of The Worlds.
  10. 24. Peruvian geoglyphs, some comprising figurative designs of plants and animals that can only be seen from several hundred feet in the air. (Two words, plural)
  11. 25. A 1947 sighting of multiple discs flying past this Washington state natural landmark is largely credited for popularizing the term “flying saucer.”
  12. 27. Swiss author whose work effectively serves as the foundation for all ancient alien theories.
  13. 28. In the 1988 remake, this amorphous horror was actually the result of government experiments and not extraterrestrial in origin.
  14. 29. Real-life CIA project conducted through the 1950s and 1960s; inspiration of Stranger Things.
  15. 32. Fictional Massachusetts city which shares its name with an institution from DC’s Batman mythos.
  16. 33. Suffolk forest location of a series of sightings and encounters labeled by some as the UK’s Roswell incident.
  17. 37. Nickname applied to eyeless other-dimensional predator of popular Netflix show set in 1980s Middle America. (Singular)
  18. 38. Name of the salt flat next to Area 51’s airfield. (Two words)
  19. 39. Town along the WV/Ohio border where various residents claim to have seen “a large flying man with ten-foot wings” near the site of a local World War II munitions plant. (Two words)
  20. 41. While this popular term was coined in the 1980s, there is some controversy around how far back the mysterious flattening of stalks of grain has been documented.
  21. 42. Purported to intimidate witnesses to incidents of high strangeness. (Three words)
Down
  1. 1. What Mulder and Scully are. (Slang.)
  2. 2. Name of 1946 U. S. military operation conspiracy theorists believe to have involved clashes with aliens in Antarctica.
  3. 3. Title of a recently discovered 45-page expansion of “Who Goes There?,” the novella upon which John Carpenter’s The Thing was based. (Two words)
  4. 4. More sinister name popularly applied to Utah’s Sherman Ranch. (Two words)
  5. 8. Clue left carved into palisade, presumably by missing Roanoke colonists; former name of what is now known as Hatteras Island.
  6. 10. Mirror universe version of 1980s Indiana. (Two words)
  7. 14. AKA Jane Ives.
  8. 15. The creature reported to have landed in this WV community in 1952 was said to have claw hands, a spade-shaped hood, and glowing red eyes.
  9. 16. College featured in the works of H. P. Lovecraft, likely modeled in part on Brown University.
  10. 17. Famous Mason County, WV visitor that largely owes its popular name—albeit indirectly—to Bob Kane and Bill Finger.
  11. 18. Term used to describe the aliens who reportedly besieged 8 adults and 3 children as part of a 1955 close encounter in the Bluegrass State. (Plural)
  12. 19. England’s most famous prehistoric landmark has 52 remaining stones of this type out of what may once have been more than 80.
  13. 20. Air Force project conducted from 1952 to 1969 to study UFO sightings across the United States. (Two words)
  14. 22. While the air force officers who responded to the incident were from a base at this location, the UFO crash at the center of America’s most famous urban legend actually occurred on a ranch closer to the village of Corona.
  15. 23. Name assigned to the unusual formation of lights seen by students and faculty of a Texas university in the early 1950s.
  16. 26. Believed to have been the site of a 12-megaton blast resulting from a mid-air meteor explosion.
  17. 30. Species introduced in 1970s Ridley Scott space horror classic.
  18. 31. Disappeared on a training flight over the Bass Straight after reporting being shadowed by an object that was “not an aircraft.” (Last name)
  19. 34. Setting of both John Carpenter’s The Thing and Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness
  20. 35. Slang expression used to describe the emotionless duplicates of 1956’s The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, its remakes, and other such alien replacement narratives. (Two words, plural)
  21. 36. Superlative applied to a group of 12 stakeholders believed to be responsible for covering up alien encounters at Roswell, NM and elsewhere.
  22. 40. M. Night Shyamalan movie depicting an alien invasion as seen through the eyes of one Pennsylvania farm family.