Alien Files Reopened

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.

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.

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.

In 1978, UFO enthusiast Paul Bennewitz claims he's intercepted extraterrestrial messages. Military officials send counterintelligence officer Richard Doty to feed Bennewitz lies. But is Doty himself a pawn in an even bigger disinformation scheme?

In 1980, a UFO detected on military radar, landed near crucial NATO bases. A group of military personnel claim to have seen a shiny metallic object with coloured lights and hieroglyphic inscriptions.

On 16 September 1994, sixty two pupils at the Ariel School in rural Zimbabwe said that they saw a silver craft descent from the sky and land on a field near their school. The children claimed that the beings telepathically communicated with them.