Alien Collection

Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover, Shadow out of Time
THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (H P Lovecraft) - Peaslee encounters the Great Race

Ufo / Masse / Valensole
Working early in the morning in his Lavender field, Maurice Masse, comes across an alien craft and its occupants

Journal / Giant Alien
GIANTS FROM THE UNKNOWN Flying Saucers have been associated with giant figures such as Bigfoot, while other reports suggest the aliens themselves are very tall

UFO abduction in New Hampshire, USA
A UFO abduction in New Hampshire, USA. Betty and Barney Hill, driving at night, see a UFO. Later they are stopped by the aliens, taken on board the flying saucer and subjected to a medical examination

Meteorolites and meteorites
An engraving of meteorites by J. Sowerby, 1812. Illustration comes from the Sowerby Collection

The Nakhla meteorite fell as a shower of stones in Egypt in 1911. SNCs (Sherogtty, Nakhla and Chassigny) are a group of stony meteorites thought to come from Mars

Scene from movie The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
A scene from the Gaumont film adaptation of the H. G. Wells book, The First Men on the Moon, in which the author approved all dresses and supervised the production

Ufos / Roswell Crash
At the Foster Ranch, New Mexico, debris supposed to be from a crashed UFO is found, alien bodies allegedly retrieved from second site on the Plains of San Agostin

The Roswell Incident
At the Foster Ranch in New Mexico, debris supposed to be from a crashed UFO is found, with alien bodies allegedly retrieved from a second site on the plains of San Agostin

Abductions / Hill / Map
Betty Hill abducted aboard an alien UFO is shown a star map by her abductors which is later shown to be accurate

By Jove, Alien Entity, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
By Jove! - denizens of Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter Date: 1937

Amazing Stories Scifi magazine cover, The Golden Planetoid
THE GOLDEN PLANETOID - A mysterious alien spacecraft lands in the Russian steppes Date: 1935

Red Hell of Jupiter, Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover
THE RED HELL OF JUPITER - The Planetary Explorers disintegrate the Rogans with the death tube Date: 1931

The Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite
Murchison fell in September 1969, in Victoria, Australia. It is rich in indigenous (i.e. not terrestrial contaminant) amino acids and other organic molecules

Wold meteorite
Watercolour of the Wold meteorite, Yorkshire by Hariet Topham, 1797. Image from Sowerby Collection

Meteorite in Antarctica
A large meteorite found in the MacAlpine Hills, Antarctica in 1988

Elk Abducted by Ufo 1999
In Washington State, USA, two men watch in amazement as an alien disk lifts an elk from the ground and carries it away

The War of the Worlds - Despair - Surrounded by martians
"My imagination was haunted by these fast metal monsters and the memory of the dead body smashed against the fence." Date: First published: 1898

Startling Stories - The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph J. Millard. A tentacled alien grips a man and woman in its clutches. The man tries to defeat the monster by attacking it with a taser

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungle
An unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters

Immigrants Awaiting Outside Court-Room, Blackwall Pier 1906
The Immigration Act of 1906 was the first legal mechanism for enforcing a policy of selective categories of prohibited immigrants

Man shows identity papers to gendarmes, September 1939
Man suspected of being a foreigner presents his papers of identity to two paramilitary police officers for inspection in Paris, shortly after the outbreak of war. Date: 1939

Irish nationals outside the Irish Embassy, September 1939
Irish nationals waiting outside the High Commission for Ireland in an attempt to return home, following the outbreak of war, September 1939. September 1939

Enemy aliens queue to register outside church, Sept 1939
A church in Hampstead helps to register crowds of enemy nationals just after the outbreak of war, September 1939. The Sphere emphasises that " all cases are examined with care and consideration

Enemy aliens queue to register in London, September 1939
German nationals living in Britain, described by the Sphere as enemy aliens, queue to register themselves in Golders Green, carrying gas masks and monitored by police

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The narrator is invited to an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw, where he meets astronomer Ogilvy and they observe Mars. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The Martian Fighting- Machines wreck the railways. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Lunar meteorite
Da La Gani 400, a lunar meteorite found in the Sahara Desert

Aliens from a UFO
At their home at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the Sutton family are besieged by alien creatures who are not hurt even when shot at 21-22 August 1955

UFOS / AZTEC
Alleged alien remains from a UFO crash near Aztec, New Mexico. Possibly a monkey used in a military rocket test which failed. Date: 7 July 1948

Imjarvi, Finland 1970
Woodman Aarno Heinonen and farmer Esko Viljo, skiing, see a domed UFO land so near I could have touched it with my ski-stick : an alien entity appears in a light beam

Ufos / Pelotas, Brazil
A private aircraft encounters an alien mother ship near Pelotas, southern Brazil

The Raid from Mars, Amazing Stories SciFi Magazine Cover
The Raid from Mars - Martians raid Earth in search of radium

La Rubia alien abduction, Paciencia, Brazil
At Paciencia (near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), bus driver Antonio La Rubia is abducted by robot-like entities on board a UFO

The War of the Worlds - Quietly observing a martian
" I began to closely observe this fighting machine, making sure, first, that the hood (cap) contained a species which was actually Martian." Date: First published: 1898

Startling Stories - When New York Vanished by Henry Kuttner. A large robotic alien insect is imprisoned under a glass dome and is being experimented on by two male scientists

Ufos / Bethurum Contact
The scow - an alien spacecraft from the planet Clarion, with whose occupants Truman Bethurum became quite friendly Date: 1952

Madame Bertha Trost, an unusual figure in the undercurrents of London society, who went about dressed in Victorian clothes and riding in a carriage

Shargottite Sayh al Uhaymir 008 meteorite
Shargottite Sayh al Uhaymir 008, found in Oman in 1999. The specimen is about 10cm long. SNCs (Sherogtty, Nakhla and Chassigny) are a group of stony meteorites thought to come from Mars

The Stannern achondrite
A piece of the Stannern achondrite which is thought to have originated on the asteroid Vesta

Nickel-Iron meteorite
This cross-section through a nickel-iron meteorite shows the metallic lattice structure

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Robot Aliens
THE ROBOT ALIENS - The Earth is invaded by Martian robots who hope to succeed where H G Wells Martians failed... Date: 193

Tetrahedra of Space, Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
TETRAHEDRA OF SPACE (P Schuyler Miller) Natives of South America are attacked by alien invaders Date: 1931

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Between Dimensions
BETWEEN DIMENSIONS - The space traveller is seized for examination

Tailors Sweat Shop, East End of London, 1904
Engraving showing a dark, cramped tailors sweat shop with Jewish immigrants sewing at a bench or asleep in beds in same room, London, 1904

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