Sentence examples for extraterrestrial attack from inspiring English sources

Fast forward to Saturday night, and Cornish premieres Attack the Block, in which a gang of hoodies fend off extraterrestrial attack from their council estate, at South by Southwest.

Nite Owl and Rorschach find Veidt's logic callous and abhorrent, but Veidt has already enacted his plan - a hoax extraterrestrial attack.

As if to confirm public fears of extraterrestrial attack, one famous L.A. Times photograph (see above) emerged from the incident showing an ominous, saucer-like object hovering over the city.

The source is discovered to be an extraterrestrial base, which is attacked and destroyed when the explorers mistake a harmless sensor device for a weapon.

Under attack from the extraterrestrials, which are able to shoot fireballs from their "mouths", the Zero-X explorers are forced to effect a premature departure from the Martian surface.

In the first episode, following an unwarranted human attack on their Martian colony, a collective extraterrestrial intelligence calling themselves the "Mysterons" initiate a war of retribution against Earth; the Spectrum security organisation is mobilised to counter the Mysterons' first threat, which is to assassinate the World President.

He tells his prisoners that the human race above the fortification is dead, due to an attack by either a foreign country or extraterrestrials.

The usual scenario is a science fiction adventure in which humanity is attacked by a scourge from without -- an extraterrestrial menace -- and that common threat provides common cause, and unifies us.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times felt that the film did an "excellent job conveying the boggling immensity of [the] extraterrestrial vehicles and panic in the streets" and the scenes of the alien attack were "disturbing, unsettling and completely convincing".

See extraterrestrial intelligence.

(See the article extraterrestrial life).