Alien 👽
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The alien emoji, depicting a typical 'Grey alien' with greenish face and large black eyes. Common usage includes 'Alien👽' 'UFO catcher👽' or 'Extraterrestrial👽' Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. This is the iconic 'Grey Alien' stereotype known worldwide—gray body, large black eyes, small nose and mouth. Since the 1947 Roswell incident, this image has become globally famous through UFO sighting reports, alien encounter stories, and government conspiracy theories.

The emoji is perfect for representing alien characters from sci-fi works like 'E.T.,' 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' 'Independence Day,' 'Mars Attacks!,' 'Men in Black,' 'Cocoon,' games like 'XCOM,' and many other alien-themed media. On social media, it's also used humorously to describe 'looks alien,' 'abnormal behavior,' 'weird person,' or 'eccentric' in casual contexts. The emoji is widely used in posts about UFOs, extraterrestrial life, space mysteries, sci-fi, conspiracy theories, and cosplay.