Aliens. They come in peace, they destroy our planet, they mystify, terrify, and inspire. Crop Circle Cinema explores alien movies through the decades, specifically those set in rural places. Why do ...

In college, I studied history, film, and the environment. I don’t think I could have predicted that these three fields would eventually come together in one strange topic: extraterrestrials. I ...

Alien movies have endured as a popular way to explore our anxieties about the unknown. But why do so many take place in rural America and what are they representing when they do? Art by Nhatt Nichols.

-- These comments were made in response to a recent story about last year's crop circle west of Geneseo. A research team going by the acronym BLT determined from soil samples that the crop circle was ...