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Forget Gentrification, It’s An Invasion! ‘UFOs’ Spotted Over Prospect Heights

Ross Barkan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:38:40 -0400

They came for the coffee. (YouTube)

No, there isn’t a hip noise-rock band called UFO tearing up the Brooklyn scene.

But there are literally unidentified flying objects burning across the borough’s sky, according to the intrepid folks over at UFO Sightings Daily. The website alleges that three “glowing UFOs” were spotted at the corner of Dean Street and Vanderbilt Avenue on Dec. 3. The video, hazy in that dubiously alluring way, shows three little dots moving through the night sky.

"This seems totally crazy but we saw strange lights over Brooklyn again tonight," an "eyewitness" told the website.

"There were three orbs glowing like fire and again flying in formation. Each of the three finally stopped at the same point in the sky, hovered, and then disappeared."

The slow-moving dots could be carrying the conquerors of the human race or even celestial fairies come at last to liberate our germ world, unleashing eons of fifth-dimensional bliss.

Or they could be airplanes. The choice is yours!

Alien Prequel Teased With Faux TED Talk

Daniel D'Addario — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:55:17 -0400

We finally believe New York's claim that TED talks have reached their logical endpoint, with this new video of Guy Pearce's character in the upcoming Alien prequel Prometheus delivering a fake TED talk in 2023. It's about his plans to "change the world"--plans that presumably shall result in the events of the Alien franchise. "We are the gods now," says the character--not that that's so terribly different than the highfaluting self-back-patting that goes on yearly at TED.

Tonight in DVR: Alien! Just in Time for Valentine’s!

Daniel D'Addario — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:26 -0400

Sigourney Weaver

Stop everything, Alien is on IFC tonight! And we're aware it's Valentine's Day--so what if our take on love privileges enormous man-eating aliens over schmoopy special episodes on broadcast TV? This is Sigourney Weaver's kickoff to a series that started great, got great, then--whatever, who cares... It's characterized by lady-fighting action that Angelina Jolie can only watch enviously as well as a broody, foreboding tone, and we can hardly wait to save it for Saturday afternoon (why stay up late watching and give ourselves nightmares)?

Set your DVR for IFC at 8pm.