What are UFOs? Where do they come from? And when did governments begin to study them? In 1947 a series of American UFO sightings triggers an unprecedented analysis of the UFO phenomenon. Alien Files Unsealed s4e13: Summer of Saucers
The UFO phenomenon is about to descend on to the world stage. ibid.
A series of sightings at an important US Air Force Base has the government on high alert: The Muroc Incident. ibid.
UFO sightings happen almost every day. But not all sightings are equal. In the court of public opinion the most credible witnesses come from the military and law enforcement. Men and women trained to observe and investigate. Alien Files Unsealed s4e14: Police Sightings
The Zamora Incident, April 24th 1964, Socorro, New Mexico: Police office Lonnie Zamora is in hot pursuit of a speeding can when something catches his attention. Zamora breaks off his pursuit, and is concerned the roaring sound in a local dynamite shack exploding. But then he sees an object above him.
‘He describes it as this white in colour with a spherical or saucer-shaped craft. It definitely landed on the ground. And then hs sees bodies actually exit the craft, walk out into the field, and as he approaches, whatever these beings were, he describes it as like he startled them or kind of scared them. And then they got back into the craft and took off.’ ibid. Greenwald
Between 1981 and 2011 Nasa’s space shuttles flew 135 mission. The space shuttles’ cameras, manned and unmanned, recorded astounding footage of UFOs that many experts find hard to explain. What do Nasa’s films really show? Explainable phenomena or something else? Alien Files Unsealed s4e15: Space Shuttle Encounters
Many famous UFO sightings occur in remote locations with just a single eye-witness. But not all of them. Some sightings have taken place over large cities and hundreds of people have watched. Alien Files Unsealed s4e16: Mass Sightings
August 16th 1954, Antananarivo, Madagascar: Dozens of Air France personnel have just received a large mail delivery and are quietly chatting near one of the busiest streets in Madagascar’s capital. Suddenly, someone point to the sky, and eveyone on the street is stunned by what they see … ‘but then a second metallic-shaped UFO object … well over a thousand witnesses.’ ibid. Greenewald
By the mid 2030s Nasa plans to send a manned mission to Mars. We now know Mars was once covered by oceans of water, and carbon-based molecules have been found in Martian sandstone. Scientists have never been closer to proving that life once lived on Mars. Alien Files Unsealed s4e17: Mars the Final Frontier
If aliens exist, how can we communicate with them? If we send a message, what should it say? How should we sent it? Alien Files Unsealed s4e18: Alien Communications
The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence began in the late 1950s with the birth of SETI. ibid.
Capturing the radio waves from an alien species is not as easy as it sounds. ibid.
Many people who report a close encounter claim they see UFOs with advanced technology studying the Earth. But is there a biological entity behind the controls? Or are some UFOs sentient machines? Alien Files Unsealed s4e19: Artificial Alien Intelligence
Many scientists believe the survival of our species depends on our ability to innovate. And there is one technological advance that promises to change our place in the universe for ever: Artificial Intelligence. ibid.
If we find a civilisation that is more advanced or perhaps even less advanced than our own, how should we act? And how would an alien civilisation react? Alien Files Unsealed s4e20: First Contact