Extraterrestrials exist, the U.S. government knows it, has kept this information hidden for decades and stores remains of both vehicles and "non-human" bodies on its military bases. In 2023 in the U.S. Congress, three former U.S. military officers confirmed under swearing oath that the government possesses information about Uap, unidentified aerial phenomena that it has never revealed to the public.

Suddenly the existence of extraterrestrial life that until recently was considered the prerogative of weird credulous people is cleared through customs and legitimized as real by the contemporary media system.

Insects have fascinated writers and readers of SF ever since the genre’s early days, when Earthlings battled bug-eyed monsters in pulp magazines. Insects provide the perfect template for alien biology. Hence Morucchio's idea, as part of the Puzzling Pop project, to use as subjects for a new series of works precisely portraits of aliens in the appearance of insects or arachnids.