Melody Quartararo was an alien pilot.
When their ship got shot down, she and Parker Theroux escaped. They adopted human identities and got government jobs, eventually becoming CIA agents. They investigated unusual cases in hopes of recovering the Stormcore so they could repair their ship and leave.
Unfortunately, to prevent an an extradimensional ice creature from expanding across the Earth and destroying all life, they had to destroy the Stormcore. Whether they were ever able to leave Earth is unknown. (PROSE: Drift)
They were still on Earth in 1981, encountering both Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Major Grigory Bugayev. (PROSE: Scary Monsters)