Download and print this free alien word search — 15 hidden words of flying SAUCERs, crop circles and little GRAY visitors. It’s a free PDF with the answer key included, sized for standard printer paper and ready for space units, sci-fi movie nights, or any kid who keeps one eye on the night sky just in case.
The word list runs easy-to-medium: UFO, BEAM and CROP land fast, while CELESTIAL, ABDUCTION and the sixteen-letter EXTRATERRESTRIAL give even confident spellers a proper hunt. It suits solvers from about 8 up — and the big one is genuinely the longest word most kids will ever find in a grid.
The 15 Words in This Puzzle
Every word comes from the close-encounter file: the MARTIAN and the MOTHERSHIP, the PROBE and the tractor BEAM, the ASTEROID belt they’d have to cross, and the GALAXY they’d be coming from. Here’s the full word bank you’ll be hunting for:
- ABDUCTION
- AREA
- ASTEROID
- BEAM
- CELESTIAL
- CROP
- EXTRATERRESTRIAL
- GALAXY
- GRAY
- MARTIAN
- MOTHERSHIP
- PROBE
- SAUCER
- SPACESHIP
- UFO