Visitors 101 Our most distant cousins have been visiting us for millennia. It is only in relatively recent history since the invention of the camera that their surprisingly friendly visitations have been documented on film. Previously humans relied on written accounts or artistic depictions, some of which we hope to show you should they be released to us soon. However this evidence, when it occasionally surfaces is quickly confiscated or ridiculed and labelled as a hoax, so amazingly these visits remain merely a myth until this day. In dusty boxes hidden in shady museums and secure facilities these pictures are mostly hidden away indefinitely until someone discovers them and is brave enough to leak them onto the internet and into public consciousness. Here is our first batch of pictorial documentation of these visitors throughout the ages. Visitor 029 - c1970s I was only five, a child of the 70s, lost in the endless fields of my parents' farm in the heart of Spain, when I first encountered the giant brown beetle-like alien. My memories of that summer day are a chaotic blur of colours and sensations, a fever dream from the mind of a young boy who'd read too many comic books and stayed up too late watching old sci-fi movies. The sun was an oppressive overlord in the cloudless sky, casting long shadows that danced with my imagination. I stumbled upon it by accident, chasing a particularly elusive grasshopper through the tall, sun-bleached grasses. There it was, towering and surreal, a creature straight out of a Kafkaesque nightmare. Its carapace shimmered with an otherworldly sheen, a mosaic of earthy browns and ochres, its antennae twitching in what I can only describe as curiosity. I remember standing there, heart pounding in my tiny chest, as it turned it’s gaze upon me. The air seemed to hum with an unspoken connection, a bridge between species. I was terrified, yes, but also inexplicably drawn to this bizarre visitor. It didn't speak—didn't need to. In that eternal moment, we communicated in the universal language of the cosmos, an understanding that transcended the boundaries of our worlds. Then, as quickly as it appeared, the creature vanished into the golden expanse, leaving me with a story too wild for the skeptical ears of adults. But then i received this photo in the post and the memory of that encounter has re-ignited, a testament to the beautiful madness of our universe.