List of songs about close encounters with aliens

1950s

• "The Flying Saucer Parts 1 & 2" by Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman
• "My Flying Saucer" lyrics by Woodie Guthrie 1950; recorded later by Billy Bragg and Wilco†
• "The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley
• "Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer" by Ella Fitzgerald
• "Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll" by Billy Lee Riley and Jerry Lee Lewis

  1960s

• "Let There Be More Light" by Pink Floyd
• "Mr. Spaceman" by The Byrds
• "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" by Pink Floyd
• "Voices Green and Purple" by The Bees
• "It Came Out of the Sky" Creedence Clearwater Revival

  1970s

• "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young
• "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by Klaatu
• "Childhood's End" by Pink Floyd
• "Come Sail Away" by Styx†
• "Here Come the Martian Martians" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
• "Horsell Commons and the Heat Ray" by Jeff Wayne
• "I've Seen the Saucers" by Elton John
• "Longer Boats" by Cat Stevens
• "Martian Boogie" by Brownsville Station
• "Mothership Connection" by Parliament
• "Starman" by David Bowie
• "Starship Trooper" by Yes
• "Arriving UFO" by Yes
• "Waiting for the UFOs" by Graham Parker
• "Silver Lights" Sammy Hagar
• "Children of the Sun" Billy Thorpe

  1980s

• "Books about UFOs" by Hüsker Dü
• "Flying Saucers" by Nina Hagen
• "Loving the Alien" by David Bowie
• "No Doubt About It" by Hot Chocolate
• "Nobody Told Me" by John Lennon
• "Rapture" by Blondie
• "Zero Zero UFO" by The Ramones
• "I Ran " by A Flock of Seagulls

  1990s

• "The Alien Song " by Mila Jovovich
• "El Aparato " by Café Tacvba
• "Alien " by Hawkwind
• "Aliens Exist" by Blink-182
• "Alien Visitors" by Man or Astro-man?
• "Another Sunday" by I Mother Earth
• "Fell in Love with an Alien" by the Kelly Family
• "Hangar 18" by Megadeth
• "Hat Too Flat" by Walter Becker
• "I Made Love to a Martian" by Mustard Plug
• "Martian Dance Invasion" by Brainiac
• "Men in Helicopters" by Adrian Belew
• "Motorway to Roswell" by Pixies
• "Scent of a Mule" by Phish
• "Shades of Grey" by Stuart Davis
• "Subterranean Homesick Alien" by Radiohead†
• "The Happening" by Pixies
• "Who's There?" by Smash Mouth

  Later

• "Zopilotes" by Café Tacvba
• "Aliens" by Doctor Octagon
• "And You Thought the Doctor's Probe Hurt" by Belvedere
• "E.T." by Katy Perry, featuring Kanye West
• "Jaadoo, Jaadoo" by Rajesh Roshan
• "Spaceship" by Kesha
• "UFO"† by Sneaky Sound System
• "We're Not Alone" by Nas
• "Hey Aliens" on Simplicity by The Bouncing Souls
• "they're here" by iamjakehill