space alien

Visitor from beyond

A space alien is an intelligent being from another planet or celestial body—the extraterrestrial of science fiction and UFO speculation.

The term distinguishes such creatures from the earthly sense of alien (a foreigner or outsider): The movie features space aliens landing in rural Iowa.

Often shortened to just alien when context makes the meaning clear.

Related

extraterrestrial · being · little green man · flying saucer · astrobiology · non-human · first contact · close encounters · UFO sightings · science fiction · Roswell incident · astronaut · antennae · tentacles · ray gun · exoplanet · Klingon · cosmology

Opposites
terrestrial origin

space alienearthling

Inhabitant of this planet

terrestrial · human · Earthman · human being

familiarity/belonging

space aliennative

Originating from a place

local · insider · citizen · one of us · countryman

familiarity/knowability

space alienregular folk

Average everyday people

Family

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