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On July 3, 1996, Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic Independence Day paid off months of hype to become an instant box-office smash. It was not just the highest-grossing film of the year, but one of the ...

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From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.