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The Extra-Terrestrial Guide to the Galaxy
A free pixel-art zine about our neighbours in the cosmos, and about what’s really happening down here on Earth. Every issue mixes real UFO news, hearings and famous cases (with sources) with alien dossiers, channelled messages, Galactic Federation announcements, one very tired Grey called Derek and a deeply suspicious man called Kevin.
Funny where it can be. True where it counts. Look for the Earth Desk badge.
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ISSUE 04 · NEW
Derek does Blackpool
Derek takes his first holiday in four hundred years, and falls for a donkey called Barbara. Plus: the fifth and sixth Pentagon file drops, and four famous British cases.
- Earth Desk: files five and six, the NDA waiver and the Disclosure Act
- British cases: Calvine, Berwyn, Broad Haven and Cosford
- Five tinfoil hats, tested (with real MIT science)
- Lady Scaleworth blinks. A memo from Sandra. Dear Derek
20 pages · PDF · 0.5 MB
ISSUE 03
Dinner with the Draconians
Our reporter goes undercover at a Draconian dinner party, disguised as a fern. Plus: 2026, the year the Pentagon started posting its UFO files online.
- Earth Desk: the 2026 UFO files and the new disclosure laws
- Famous cases: Westall, Ariel School and the Hessdalen lights
- Are Pleiadians single? The Kevin files. Dear Derek
- Reasons to hope: 6,000 planets and counting
20 pages · PDF · 0.7 MB
ISSUE 02
Derek speaks
Our first ever interview, with Derek, a Probe Logistics Co-ordinator from Zeta Reticuli. Plus: how the Pentagon admitted it.
- The Derek interview (partly redacted)
- Earth Desk: from AATIP to the hearings under oath
- Famous cases: the Tic Tac, the Phoenix Lights, the Belgian triangles
- Channelled messages, crop circles and a spotter’s checklist
20 pages · PDF · 0.7 MB
ISSUE 01
They’re here!
The one that started it all: a welcome pack for truth seekers, now fully remade.
- Famous cases: Kenneth Arnold, Roswell, Blue Book and Rendlesham
- Meet the Pleiadians, the Draconians and the Greys
- Who really built the pyramids?
- Your field guide to the night sky and how to report a sighting
20 pages · PDF · 0.6 MB
Sneak peek
Meet the neighbours
Every species gets a dossier: where they’re from, what they want and whether you should hide. Every real event gets an Earth Desk page, with dates, witnesses and sources.
ISSUE 04
Derek does Blackpool
ISSUE 04
Five tinfoil hats, tested
ISSUE 04
Calvine
ISSUE 04
Lady Scaleworth blinks
ISSUE 03
2026: the year of the files
ISSUE 03
Are Pleiadians single?
ISSUE 03
The Kevin files
ISSUE 03
Dear Derek
ISSUE 02
The Derek interview
ISSUE 02
The “Tic Tac”
ISSUE 02
Lyrans
ISSUE 02
How to read a crop circle
ISSUE 01
The Pleiadians
ISSUE 01
The Draconians
ISSUE 01
The Greys
ISSUE 01
Blue Avians
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No. Once you’re on The Signal, new issues arrive in your inbox automatically.
How often do new issues come out?
Whenever the intel is good enough. Subscribers hear first.
Is any of it true?
Some of it! Anything under the lilac Earth Desk badge is real reporting: dates, hearings, laws, named witnesses and official findings, with sources at the bottom of the page. The species dossiers and channelled messages report what people believe. Derek is, as far as we know, made up.
Can I print them?
Of course. They’re A5, so they print nicely as little booklets.
Is there anything for kids?
Yes: the free ET Guide Field Kit, with colouring, puzzles, codes, a board game and a real science experiment, all based on the zines. It’s in the subscriber vault.
Who makes the zines?
TJ Hayes, author of The Galactic Zoo picture books and The Hollow War.