Sentence examples for be of alien origin from inspiring English sources

An international group of astronomers has detected an interesting radio signal spike, one that could possibly be of alien origin, from a star system located 95 light-years away.

Mulder believes the craft to be of alien origin, recovered by the Talapus.

'Some people think crystal skulls are of alien origin,' he continues, pointing to a photograph taken through the Skull of Doom, which appears to show a shadow of a 1950s-style flying saucer through the middle of it.

Quatermass suspects it is of alien origin, but Roney is certain the apemen are terrestrial.

They discover a strange metallic orb that acts as a highly-destructive weapon, and deduce that it is of alien origin.

In 2003, van Lenteren and Tommasini estimated that 45% of the species used in augmentative biological control were of alien origin.

SIGI-HMM [ 47] was used to infer if genes in the genomes were acquired through horizontal gene transfer (HGT); this program uses a codon usage based hidden Markov model to infer if genes are of alien origin (i.e., have been introduced into the genome from a divergent gene pool by HGT).

Therefore, while a high number of genes could be found of alien origin, these studies, as discussed above, could not be qualified as whole genome studies.

As usual, the only real flashes of cleverness are the mentions of technology and celebrities that are actually of alien origin to show the hidden but profound contributions aliens have made to our society.

The Church of Scotland and Scottish Unionist MPs complained that Irish Catholic immigrants were a "completely separate race of alien origin", demanded a halt to immigration and even advocated repatriation.

In this case, no native pathway having a sophisticated history of amelioration is present to out-compete a pathway of alien origin.