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
In the summer of 1952, stories of U.S. Air Force jets chasing UFOs over the White House knock the Korean War off the front pages of newspapers; as rumors spread, President Harry S. Truman demands to know what was flying over his house.
EPISODE 2
The Tall Whites
A young recruit encounters aliens in the Nevada desert in the 1960s; he claims they were working with the US military and housed a spaceship in a secret hangar nearby.
EPISODE 3
Billy Meir, The Plejaren and the Multiverse
Billy Meier claims he's traveled through time and space with an alien race from the Pleiades star cluster; in the decades following his revelation, both skeptics and ufologists say it's a hoax despite Meier providing photographic evidence.
EPISODE 4
Paul Bennewitz and Project Seven Lambs
In 1978, UFO enthusiast Paul Bennewitz claims he's intercepted extraterrestrial messages; military officials send counter intelligence officer Richard Doty to feed Bennewitz lies; questioning whether Doty himself is a pawn in an even bigger scheme.
EPISODE 5
Rendlesham Forest, Back from the Future
In 1980, a UFO detected on military radar, lands near crucial NATO bases; a group of military personnel claim to have seen a shiny metallic object with coloured lights and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
EPISODE 6
School's Out for Saucer
On a September morning in 1994, students at a Zimbabwe school witness a silver craft land in a nearby field; numerous adults corroborate the UFO sighting, but the children are silenced; many maintain their account of the incident is true.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Nick Pope
James Penniston
Will Brood
Tomas Rotnagl
Ronan Hand
Rob Cromwell