"They came from outer space -- and posed for portraits."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.

A precursor to Close Encounters of the Third Kind?  From Mount Wachusett Community College's 1971 yearbook.

"Were fairies the aliens of the past?"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2004.

From GEOS International, 1969.

UFOs, aliens, and things that go gzpxllztt in the night: this vintage UFO gallery is worth an encounter. (For the meaning of "gzpxllztt," see the dictionary of all-consonant words.)

"Chances are, you don't believe in aliens -- unless you've been taken by them."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.

Similarly, "UFOs don't exist ... until you bump into one" (2005).

Alliens [sic]?  Unless that's a contraction of "all aliens," we don't believe it.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.

Q: "Is anybody out there?"

A: If our own viewership stats are indicative, nope: there's nobody out there.  That's why we had to resort to a Spirit Applause-O-Meter.

Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.

"Big canal on Mars is growing.  Astronomers claim this is proof of work of inhabitants."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.

We sought to independently verify this, and we, too, had trouble finding any intelligent life anywhere.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.

"They HAVE landed."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.

"Encounters with the unknown."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.

"I thought I might have gone to heaven."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.

Though the context is extraterrestrials, this sounds like some parties we've been to here on earth.  "They were nice; they said relax ... Later, one particular being was not so nice."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.

Here's a precursor to our 2020 photo in which we're scouting for fireballs in the night sky.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.

From Kent State's 1976 yearbook.

"E.T. charged in kidnap."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.