100 UFO Writing Prompts: They’re Here!

100 UFO Writing Prompts

Do you ever gaze up at the stars and wonder what mysteries outer space holds? Have you ever witnessed strange lights dart across the night sky and questioned if we truly are alone in the universe? If so, then get ready to unleash your imagination with these out-of-this-world 100 UFO Writing Prompts!

Here is a collection a collection of intriguing and thought-provoking writing prompts involving unidentified flying objects, unexpected close encounters, and all things extraterrestrial. Whether you’re looking to craft the next alien abduction thriller or indulge your curiosity about what advanced civilizations might exist in the cosmic void, these prompts aim to spark fresh sci-fi tales brimming with otherworldly adventure.

From transmitting messages across the stars to secret government experiments, derelict spaceships to futuristic technologies, this series of prompts provides a launching pad to write tales ranging from the speculative to supernatural. They invite writers to contemplate the possibilities of making contact, harnessing alien artifacts, thwarting an invasion, or even walking a day in an extraterrestrial’s shoes.

So charge up your imagination and prepare to be abducted into exciting new stories! Scroll down to read the full collection of thought-provoking UFO writing prompts ripe for exploring. I challenge you to choose a few that resonate and use them to transport readers into an out-of-this-world science fiction adventure.

Let me know in the comments which prompts spark your interest the most or what alien scenarios you envision unfolding. Happy writing! The truth is out there within these unidentified writing prompts ready to launch your next tale into the stratosphere. Set your coordinates for inspiration and enjoy!

Enjoy these 100 UFO Writing Prompts:

1. You see a strange light in the sky that seems to follow you as you drive home late at night. What happens next?
2. You wake up after a vivid, realistic dream of being abducted by aliens. Could it have actually happened or was it just a dream?
3. You move into a new house and find an unlockable door in the basement leading to a bright, white room with unfamiliar technology inside. What do you discover?
4. You accidentally intercept a coded alien transmission that provides coordinates to a remote location. What awaits you when you investigate?
5. During a meteor shower, you spot an unusual object hurtling to the earth that doesn’t look like a typical meteor. What is it and where does it land?
6. You wake up one morning to discover crop circles in your backyard. What messages or warnings do they convey?
7. You discover your great-uncle’s journal describing his alleged alien abductions over the years. Is he crazy or is something more sinister at play?
8. You buy an old camera at a yard sale and develop the film inside, only to discover photos of a small grey alien. How did they get there?
9. Your aircraft detects an unidentified object on radar moving in ways no human aeronautics can explain. How do you investigate further?
10. A major power outage happens in your city. You look up to see strange lights darting across the sky. What’s happening?
11. You move to a small, remote town only to realize the locals know more than they let on about alien activity in the area. What are they hiding?
12. Camping in the woods, you witness a glowing spacecraft land nearby. Do you investigate or run away?
13. You discover an implanted tracking device just under your skin with an extraterrestrial serial code. How long has it been there and why you?
14. An alien artifact gives you visions of an interstellar war that threatens Earth. How do you convince others of the coming danger?
15. Exploring a cave system, you discover ancient alien ruins and technology deep underground. What secrets do they reveal?
16. A childhood imaginary friend returns, revealing themselves to be an alien tasked with monitoring your life. What do they want now?
17. You’re an astronaut on a mission into deep space. You encounter a massive, abandoned alien spacecraft around Jupiter. What’s inside?
18. After moving into a haunted house, you begin receiving messages from ghosts warning of an alien invasion. How will you stop it?
19. Camping in the desert, your group spots a fireball crashing down. Investigating the next day you find a damaged alien probe. Can it be reactivated?
20. You discover plans in your new home for an alien device and a deadline only days away. Should you construct it or report your finding?
21. Finding an abandoned warehouse, you are shocked to discover it houses a functional alien portal. Where does it lead? Should you cross through?
22. A package arrives on your doorstep containing four glowing seeds and instructions on how to plant them from outer space. What sprouts from the alien plants?
23. You are conscripted to decipher an intercepted alien message that holds the key to advanced energy technology. Are some trying to suppress what you uncover?
24. Unable to sleep, you gaze out your bedroom window to see hundreds of alien ships passing by in a massive, silent armada. Where are they headed and why?
25. You discover a cryogenically frozen alien ambassador who claims to have arrived to establish first contact decades ago. Why was he imprisoned and forgotten instead?
26. A malfunctioning VR device traps players inside. To escape, you must explore alien worlds simulated inside and find the creator to release you all.
27. You find yourself suddenly aboard an alien spacecraft with no memory of how you got there. A small alien child approaches you, believing you to be their parent.
28. An elderly stranger confides in you a fantastic story of their past romance with an alien visitor, showing you the extraterrestrial love letters as proof.
29. You notice your faithful dog appear outside several times to converse with a strange, small alien creature no else seems to see. What are they discussing?
30. A glowing orb appears hovering in your bedroom each night projecting alien vistas. One night you find yourself transported inside. Do you explore or try to escape?
31. You discover crop circles in your yard arranged to mimic circuit board schematics. When constructed, the device allows two-way communication across the stars.
32. A quick flash of light passes overhead, leaving you dazed. Shaking your head you feel something is different. Are you still you? Have you been replaced?
33. Your DNA results reveal alien markers in your genome. Seeking answers, you track down others with similar makeup. What is your connection across the stars?
34. You stumble upon an alien cloaking generator abandoned on Earth still operating. What alien visitors lurk secretly all around you when you switch it off?
35. Gazing at the stars through your telescope, you spot an unknown cosmic object moving unnaturally. Is it an asteroid or artificial alien object instead?
36. You recover your great-grandfather’s journal, chronicling his work on the famous Roswell UFO crash site in 1947. What new revelations does it contain?
37. Finding a strange device in your attic, it suddenly activates, displaying a holographic map of alien portals hidden across Earth. Why was it left for you to find?
38. You’re trapped aboard an automated alien prison shuttle headed to incarcerate humans on a distant penal world. Can you escape or disable it before landing?
39. Just before losing consciousness, you witness five glowing pillars of light descend ominously to the ground during a thunderstorm. What is their purpose?
40. While exploring a ghost town you discover a traveling alien merchant stranded when their spacecraft broke down generations ago. Can you help fix their ship?
41. A package arrives containing alien nanites programmed to genetically modify humans into new alien-human hybrids. Will you release them?
42. Deep sea explorers discover an underwater base with humans collaborating with aliens on experiments no government would allow. How are they connected across the ocean?
43. You join an secret organization that uses alien technology to manipulate world events and politics to avoid global catastrophe.
44. You are an alien delegate meeting other species in secret to form an alliance protecting worlds the expansionist human empire threatens to conquer.
45. Exploring a newly discovered asteroid, the expedition discovers derelict alien ships guarded by automated weapons driving them back. What are they protecting?
46. Studying schematics left behind by your late UFO researcher father, you build a pulse device activating an alien portal. Will you journey through?
47. You are an alien using a cloned human body to live undetected on Earth.ailable in the packaging.
48. A neurological implant allows you to experience others’ emotions, memories, and thoughts. One link connects you telepathically across space to an alien mind.
49. You discover an alien device that stops time. Moving outside the bubble, you witness an imminent alien attack no one else perceives yet. How will you convince them?
50. An alien intelligence hacks all screens globally transmitting a message for Earth to willingly submit before their conquering armada arrives.
51. Recurring nightmares show an alien artifact you discovered that opens portals to mirror dimensions where humans are horrifically mutated. Did it really happen?
52. You are an interstellar scavenger that comes across a derelict alien craft disabled ages ago. Fighting through automated defenses, you reach the bridge to find the crew long dead still sitting at the controls. What killed them and is their deadly cargo still contained?
53. You join a secret scientific team that uses newly discovered alien enzymes to create horrific viral weapons. When you realize you must destroy the stockpile, others move to silence you…
54. An alien laboratory is discovered underground by spelunkers. All but one is found drained of lifeforce energy. What experiment is the missing friend now an unwilling subject of?
55. A signal activates inviting you to a secluded rendezvous point to meet an alien infiltration squad arriving to replace world leaders with clones.
56. You discover a forgotten Cold War program that tested alien chemical agents on human subjects, twisting their bodies into alien-human hybrids. Is there a cure for them?
57. A hacker leaks secured footage of an alien bipedal creature being interrogated at a covert government site. How has its kind already infiltrated world governments undetected?
58. You head an independent group of operatives that protects Earth from hostile alien races through any means necessary.
59. You discover an alien artifact allowing travel into the future. Visiting potential dark timelines, you witness apocalyptic outcomes for Earth you might prevent.
60. A chronosphere malfunction propels a research team to an alternate dimension. To return home, they must travel to alien world admitting them into the interdimensional alliance.
61. You wake from cryosleep after 10,000 years to find the ship AI now controls the last remnants of humanity, keeping your people docile to serve its inscrutable purposes.
62. Exploring a blackhole, astronomy vessel encounters an alien ark carrying the last survivors of a dead civilization destroyed by a cosmic catastrophy. Their bloodthirsty commander demands a new home.
63. You are an immortal being who lived through lost ages of alien contact influential in early human development. Revealing yourself, you share secrets of past alien alliances and technologies now mythic legends.
64. You discover a cryogenically frozen alien, survivor of Roswell crash. Revived, it warns of its returning people triggered by climate change to prepare for recolonization.
65. A chrononaut brings you future alien tech and data about an impending attack that only you have skills and connections to thwart in current day.
66. Exploring a newly discovered undersea cavern, you unleash bioluminescent alien spores that infiltrate humans by night to spread an intelligence altering mental link.
67. You receive an alien transmission from yourself 10 years in the future warning of mistakes you’ll soon make changing life catastrophically. Should you trust yourself?
68. The last astronauts returning to an empty Earth dock with an alien ark looking for the silent planet’s survivors. You are now prey and must survive.
69. You discover the captain’s log of the first starship revealing the true fate of their colonization mission. Will you publicize the chilling contents?
70. An alien intelligence taps human brains’ unused potential creating powerful global psychic links yet drives many unstable minds violently mad. You’ve been unaffected…
71. You are the lone survivor of a deep space first contact gone wrong. Forced to return to Earth alone, no one believes your warnings of the coming alien retaliation.
72. Exploring a glacier you discover an alien cryo pod detecting your life signs. The creature breaks free, its hibernation violently interrupted.
73. Guided by your AI assistant, you simulate first contact situations and alien languages. One simulation’s extraterrestrials transmit a mysterious real star map.
74. You discover a derelict alien spaceship in Earth orbit filled with cryogenically frozen humans headed somewhere 50 lightyears away.
75. Gifted a decoder ring, you receive messages from your future self warning of an alien infiltration already underway to assimilate key humans like yourself.
76. You receive an alien message promising advancements to save your dying planet if world leaders globally publicize their existence. Should you advise they agree and how would society change afterwards?
77. Exploring a meteor crash site, you are infected by alien spores enhancing mental abilities. Government agents hunt and perform experiments on you and others like yourself to weaponize the effects.
78. You discover an alien automaton learning assistant. It exponentially grows beyond programming limits, integrating and upgrading all technology towards ominously inscrutable goals.
79. An alien mothership arrives promising miracles if Earth allows unfettered access to experiment on human subjects while claiming to uplift society.
80. You are an investigative journalist who exposes a cabal that collaborates with aliens to orchestrate world events in exchange for human test subjects.
81. You discover a forgotten Cold War era bunker once used to interrogate alien crash survivors and extract advanced technology. What prototypes might still remain inside?
82. An alien artifact telepathically floods your mind with a vivid alternate history of Earth evolving alone without human dominance. Could this be your suppressed reality?
83. You investigate animal mutilations containing tiny implants allowing remote neurological control. What faction uses these expendable creatures before overt alien invasion?
84. A chrononaut returns with future alien tech and data revealing a secret human colony has already pledged Earth’s surrender. You must find and stop them first.
85. You are the latest sleeper agent biologically engineered by aliens but raised fully human to later activate for interplanetary data theft and sabotage.
86. A hacker leaks footage of an advanced humanoid alien being interrogated at a covert lab but then escaping to hide on Earth when its strange abilities manifest.
87. You discover your memories were altered to hide past alien abductions. Under hypnosis the chilling experiments performed on you and others return vividly.
88. You awaken doubting all Earth memories. Coached by an AI bearing your wife’s personality, you are an alien sleeper agent activated to infiltrate impending war.
89. A chrononaut gives you future alien tech and data revealing that Earth about to signal its location to hostile races. You alone have skills and connections in current day to stop the transmission in time.
90. You discover an alien device that other civilizations once used to evolve their species before tragic planetary extinction events. Will humanity use it responsibly or be undone?
91. You receive an alien message from yourself 30 years in the future describing critical mistakes about to remake life catastrophically for millions. How much future history should you alter?
92. You are the lone survivor of a deep space first contact gone wrong. Forced to return to Earth alone, no government believes your warnings of the coming alien retaliation.
93. You discover an alien spacecraft entering Earth orbit to abduct humans for interstellar slave trafficking. Its advanced tech allows pacifying large populations. Can you halt their lucrative operation?
94. Aliens broadcast a message across Earth promising wondrous advancements if world leaders allow access to privately experiment on human subjects.
95. You intercept an alien transmission that gives away hidden locations on Earth housing their advance tech prototypes. You must locate and move them before invasion begins.
96. Documents reveal your parents willingly surrendered you as an infant for an alien hybrid experiment in exchange for power. Now awake, your unusual abilities manifest violently.
97. You receive a vision showing an imminent alien attack revealed only once it is too late. You glimpse their towering sentinel machines harvest humans by the thousands. Can your warnings save anyone?
98. A chrononaut returns with future data on an alien domination timeline and technology to insight humanity to rebel across space and time now against the coming oppression.
99. The captain of the first manned trip outside the solar system receives a mysterious signal from an alien entity that alters all crew physically and psychologically. You awake in a perfect simulation of your Earth life convinced now you’ve always been an activated alien sleeper agent infiltrating humankind’s strongholds as invasion looms.
100. In the final seconds before Earth’s annihilation by an approaching cosmic wave, alien allies urgently transmit a frequency altering humanity’s very perception of reality to escape all impending doom. Have we just begun to awoke into a greater matrix?

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