That makes the Palisades fire all the more unearthly.

“It was going to be almost a vocal earthwork,” said Aitken, who tends to think and speak in floating, unearthly concepts.

I may have dozed just lightly when an unearthly moan jarred me awake.

They did not leave disappointed as the sun shrank to a crescent-like sliver of light that cast an unearthly pale gloom over the city.

That led to a weekslong hunt and an even longer court battle over an unusual question: Who owns an unearthly object that falls to Earth?