Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope, National Astronomy And Ionosphere Center, Arecibo, Puerto Rico

• Fox Mulder was sent to the Arecibo Observatory in The X-Files episode "Little Green Men".
• Songwriter and author Jimmy Buffett mentions the "giant telescope" in his book Where Is Joe Merchant? and in the lyrics to the song "Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship".
• The musicians Boxcutter, Lustmord, and Little Boots have all released albums named Arecibo.
• The observatory is featured in the film Species, the James Gunn novel The Listeners (1972), the Robert J. Sawyer novel Rollback, and the Mary Doria Russell novel The Sparrow.