A team of experts separate fact from fiction to figure out the history behind the mystery of some of the most well-known and extraordinary cases of UFO sightings and alien encounters.
EPISODE 1
Summer of the Saucers
Investigate an incident during the summer of 1952, when military jets streaked over the White House on the hunt for two UFOs. Look at how the federal government fought these spectres with DC’s most powerful tools: bureaucracy and obfuscation.
EPISODE 2
The Tall Whites
Head to Nellis Air Force base in Nevada, where new recruit Charles James Hall came face to face with aliens. Investigate his claims that these extraterrestrials were working with military personnel on an advanced spaceship hidden in a secret hangar.
EPISODE 3
Billy Meier, the Plejaren and the Multiverse
Weigh the evidence in an alien-encounter story that has long been called a hoax. Review the sensational claims made by Swiss national Billy Meier, who allegedly travelled to the Pleiades star cluster to meet a race of telepathic extraterrestrials.
EPISODE 4
Project Seven Lambs
Look inside a notorious counter-intelligence program, which aimed to deceive, discredit, and disinform those who claimed to have evidence of alien activity. Investigate a series of black ops that helped the government control the messaging on UFOs.
EPISODE 5
Back from the Future
Get up close and personal with a UFO that landed near a crucial NATO base complex. Dig into a treasure trove of sketches, eyewitness accounts, radiation readings, and a microcassette recording of the craft made by a military night patrol.
EPISODE 6
School’s out for Saucer
Reconsider a schoolyard close encounter that captured the imaginations of UFO believers around the world in the 1990s. Discover how skeptics discredited the eyewitness accounts of two groups of schoolchildren and relabelled them as mass hysteria.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Nick Pope
James Penniston
Will Brood
Tomas Rotnagl
Ronan Hand
Rob Cromwell