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Poll: World UFO Day — Solo Alien Contact Movies

World UFO Day is an international awareness day for like-minded people to gather and to participate in skywatching parties for unidentified flying objects (UFO), while fostering discussions about the existence of intelligent life beyond the earthly confines of our planet. In honor of the date, a fictional movie poll that depicts contact between a single or collective extraterrestrial traveler and earth-based humans.

Which of these select movies with a plot centered around alien contact between a single extraterrestrial entity and humans on the planet Earth is your favorite alien encounter?

Discuss the topic here. #WORLDUFODAY

Results of 134 votes:

  1. 1.

    The Thing (1982)

     
    * depicted as a single crash-landed alien earth visitor Reboot: The Thing (2011) and Original: The Thing from Another World (1951)
  2. 2.

    E.T. (1982)

     
    * depicted as a single stranded alien that is rescued at movie's end
  3. 3.

    Predator (1987)

     
    * depicted as a single alien earth visitor

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