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...Bell promoted the notion that Mayan mystics predicted some great cataclysm to befall the earth on Dec. 21, 2012, and next week Roland Emmerich has a thriller on that very theme: 2012. Bell lived near Area 51, the Nevada military base that may be a giant freezer warehouse for alien bodies; in two weeks there's a Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson movie called Planet...
...favorite topic of Bell and his listeners was alien abduction: the belief that hostile extraterrestrials were stealing humans, performing obscure experiments on them and returning them to earth. Over the years, callers by the hundreds testified to this astral felony, and though direct evidence is, oh, sketchy, alien abduction remains an enduring urban legend. Rather, a rural one, since the human victims are usually out in the boonies, far from help or, for that matter, from scientists who might investigate and challenge their stories. But isolation is a prime factor in horror stories - the fear of being alone...
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind popularized astronomer J. Allen Hynek's classification of alien encounters. The third kind was contact. The fourth is abduction. We're reminded of this at the beginning of the new movie. Then Milla Jovovich (taking a big step down from her celebrity-making role as the gorgeous automaton in The Fifth Element) tells us she'll be impersonating a Nome psychiatrist, Abigail Emily Tyler. At times a split screen shows Jovovich as Tyler on the right, consulting with her patients, and "actual footage" of the allegedly actual Dr. Tyler...
...engineer a recovery. The Black Sea has begun to recuperate, but only after a convergence of several unlikely occurrences: many of the region's fisheries shut down when their stocks fell, the breakup of the Soviet Union sharply cut the amount of fertilizer in the sea, and another alien jellyfish, the Beroe ovata, which preys on the Mnemiopsis, not fish, was accidentally introduced to the water. "It's taken three separate events," Richardson says. "The point is you can't just stop overfishing and expect the fish to come back...
...Only the head remains, a brown, distorted thing, its features drooping after chemical alterations and years underground. The process of mummification altered the face so much, a panel informs, that the priest in charge of preparing the body would recreate the face before burial. Today, the head looks more alien than human...