Saucer-like space animals in popular culture, as shown by the 1948 illustration of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Horror of the Heights (top) and the 2022 Jordan Peele film Nope (bottom)
The space animal hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers or UFOs might be caused not by technological alien spacecraft or mass hysteria, but rather by animal lifeforms ("space critters") that are indigenous to Earth's atmosphere or interplanetary space.[1][2][3]
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