Would you recognize an alien if you saw it?

Movie characters often fail to see aliens for what they are - but would we fare any better in real life?

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A common trope in sci-fi movies is characters at first mistaking aliens for something familiar. "That's an odd-looking bear," or, "it must be a big lizard." But rarely do people in these films immedia…