For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

What actually happened to the Hills, who are now deceased, is unknowable. But their story has turned a mile-long stretch of remote road into the Area 51 of New England.

This has been analyzed in greater depth elsewhere by smarter people than me, but whenever I read or watch sci-fi material this issue almost invariably crops up for me.<BR><BR>On the one hand, we have ...