New book uncovers secrets of government funded UFO investigation program: exclusive interview

The Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program was the largest government-funded UFO investigation in history, ...

As Trump orders UFO data released, a question hangs: If aliens exist, what would they think of us?

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?
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Ben Lerner and the Impossible Interview

In an interview with Andrew Marantz, the novelist and poet Ben Lerner discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” ...

2001: A Space Odyssey originally had a 20-foot-tall green alien and a 'crap' script

58 years ago, 2001: A Space Odyssey hit screens. Read SFX legend Douglas Trumbull on the movie's original "crap script" and ...

Staff Picks: An interview gone wrong and a new game with frogs

Staff Picks returns this spring with selections from News Editor Drew Gillis, who just devoured Ben Lerner’s latest novel, ...

‘The Drama’ review, Adivi Sesh interview

Popular Bengali film industry actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee died by drowning on Sunday (March 29, 2026). The film fraternity ...

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source ...

'I dreamed it...I expected it': Arsenio Hall talks about his career and new memoir

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with America's beloved late-night TV host Arsenio Hall who writes of the ups and downs of his remarkable career in his new memoir, "Arsenio." ...