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, questioning whether Doty himself is a pawn in an even bigger scheme.

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 colored lights and hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Thousands claim to see a massive triangular craft hovering over Belgium in the late 80s and early 90s.