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They came from Outer Space!

by The Library of Congress

Robots, Space Creatures, Flying Saucers, Friendly Aliens! Well, maybe not from outer space exactly, but our human imagination is out of this world. To celebrate the birthday of author H.G. Wells (Sept. 21, 1866), an early father of science fiction, enjoy a visit with a few friendly extraterrestrials, rocket ships, and robots.

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H.G. Wells (LOC)
Balloons as a space creature in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival (LOC)
Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival (LOC)
Memorable marcher in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival (LOC)
Memorable participants in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival (LOC)
Old Pro Golf, space course. Astronaut, Ocean City, Maryland (LOC)
Flying Saucer statue, Doll House Museum, Route 1, Valkaria, Florida (LOC)
Space Fantasy facade and rocket, Storyland, Route 16, Glen, New Hampshire (LOC)
Old Pro Golf, space course. Rocket, Ocean City, Maryland (LOC)
Flying saucer, Sir Goony Golf, Chattanooga, Tennessee (LOC)
Rocket hole, Holiday Golf, Daytona Shores, Florida (LOC)
Space Age Lodge sign, Gila Bend, Arizona (LOC)
"Starship Pegasus," a failed futuristic restaurant and gift shop in in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy" (LOC)
[The Earth with the Milky Way and Moon] (LOC)
Lunar animals and other objects (LOC)
Man from Planet X (LOC)
Man from "Mars" crosses 40th St. at 5th Ave. (LOC)
If it keeps a home or a whole town clean, you'll probably find it (even robots) at the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, a city in the southeast corner of the western state of Idaho (LOC)
Outer-space-themed wraparound art on wall of the Space Aliens Grill & Bar in Fargo, North Dakota, a city on the state's eastern border with Minnesota (LOC)
This outer-space-themed art on the entrance wall of the Space Aliens Grill & Bar in Fargo, North Dakota, a city on the state's eastern border with Minnesota, wraps around to another side as well (LOC)
Many U.S. cities have enormous billboards, large animal sculptures, or other landmarks on the edges of key highways that runs through town (LOC)
Space alien figures (and those who examine them) get their own room inside Fox Cave in Ruidoso, New Mexico (LOC)
[Poster for film "Plan 9 from outer space"] (LOC)
Outer-space UFOs, or at least facsimilies of what they MIGHT look like, outside the State Theatre in Falls Church, Virginia, which was showing the movie "Alien Autopsy" at the time (LOC)
For reasons not made clear, this rocket ship stands outside the Billionaire Boys Club clothing store in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, Florida, which Wikipedia calls "one of the city's most happening districts" (LOC)