They Tried To Warn Us: Days of Our Lives’ Alien Invasion Turns 23—And Fans Can’t Stop Laughing (or Crying!)

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They Tried To Warn Us: Days of Our Lives’ Alien Invasion Turns 23—And Fans Can’t Stop Laughing (or Crying!)

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It was July 8, 2002—a date that left Days of Our Lives fans questioning everything they thought they knew about Salem. That summer, while Shawn Brady and Belle Black gazed at a meteor shower, something far stranger happened: a spaceship landed, and out stepped two nearly naked, tinfoil-clad “aliens.

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But Rex and Cassie Brady weren’t visitors from another planet. They were the product of one of Days’ most outrageous, audacious, and unforgettable storylines. On the 23rd anniversary of that eyebrow-raising moment, let’s take a journey back through the alien invasion—and explore how it cemented Days as the soap that would dare to do anything.

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