Suffolk, England: In December 1980, two senior US Air Force officers claimed to have experienced prolonged UFO encounters and to have come face to face with non-human technolgy. They made a record of all they witnessed. Alien Files Reopened s1e5: Rendlesham Forest: Back from the Future
The most famous UFO sighting on British soil. ibid.
Penniston made extensive notes on what he was seeing. ibid.
‘There is no doubt about it. This is weird!’ ibid. Halt
From November 1989, over the course of two years, Belgium was overwhelmed by thousands of UFO sightings witnessed by hundreds of credible observers. Alien Files Reopened s1e6: The Belgium UFO Wave
It appears to have returned several times since. ibid.
In 1994 West Africa was gripped by UFO fever after Zimbabwean school-children claimed to have directly interacted with extraterrestrials. Top-secret investigations were launched. Alien Files Reopened s1e7: School’s Out for Saucers
And whatever it was, it keeps coming back. ibid.
The accounts [62] had a lot in common. According to the children, an extraterrestrial craft had landed in a field just 100 yards from the school. And many pupils saw multiple non-human lifeforms emerge from it. ibid.
Across scores of homes in the suburbs of Harare an eerily similar story was being told. ibid.
In 2017 the Pentagon shocked the world by confirming that previously leaked UFO footage was real. Committees were launched, hearings held, and witnesses interviewed. But the truth remains elusive. Alien Files Reopened s1e8: Negative Energy 2014
Congressional hearing on UAPs, Capitol Hill, Washington DC 2023. ibid.
They upgraded the onboard software systems on their fleet of F-18 fighter jets. But the contacts keep coming so pilots went in for a closer look. ibid.
They appear around the globe – unidentified objects streaking across the sky. Home video cameras capture it all. But why do these supposed UFOs keep appearing in the same places? Mexico, Brazil, even United States’ nuclear bases. Is it a coincidence? Or are these places, these events, proof of UFO hotspots? UFO Files s1e1: UFO Hot Spots, History 2004
With 549 sightings Brazil was second only to the United States in reported UFO activity in 2001. ibid.
Over the course of the next six years more than 1,500 videos and photographs of UFOs surface throughout Mexico. ibid.
Strange lights in the night sky. Mysterious crafts hovering over the countryside. Even reports of UFOs over America’s Capitol building. The inexplicable sightings have been happening for decades. This is not a drill: it’s real. UFO Files s1e2: When UFOs Arrive
Does the US government have an official protocol to deal with UFOs and extraterrestrials? Yes it does. And it’s outlined in JANAP146. ibid.
Brookings Report, 1960, prepared for both NASA and United States’ Congress. ibid.
What if that force wasn’t God? What if it was a UFO? In Ezekiel what was that gleaming wheel within a wheel that descended on the prophet? In the Sodom & Gomorrah of Genesis where did the devastating fire and brimstone come from? UFO Files s1e3: UFOs in the Bible
Elijah: The Biblical account of his encounter with Chariots of Fire is a detailed description of what might be termed a UFO. ibid.
The Pillar of Cloud shadows the Israelites every move. ibid.
Inside these boxes our experts discovered new evidence of a controversy over the handling of the Roswell incident that raged behind the scenes. UFO Files s1e4: Roswell: Final Declassification
One of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century: what really happened in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947? ibid.
Within hours the material was flown to Fort Worth, Texas, for inspection by high-ranking Air Force experts. ibid.
Are now convinced that a Project Mogul radar target like this one is at the heart of the Roswell mystery. ibid.
The true mystery is the lack of any discernible access trail. UFO Files s1e5: Crop Circle Controversy
The phenomenon is so popular that it obscures the history … Old chronicles contain mentions of strange formations that come by night. ibid.
In samples taken from some crop circles the nodes are blown out. They have been exploded from within … The plants have been zapped but by what? ibid.
Crop circles often appear in conjunction with UFO sightings. ibid.
Then the first of the pictograms, or elaborate designs, begin to appear. ibid.
In 1989 a man called Bob Lazar walked into a Las Vegas TV station and gave a remarkable interview. He said that he’d worked out in the Nevada Desert at a top-secret facility known as Area 51. He said he worked in a highly classified project – reverse engineering recovered alien space craft. UFO Files s1e6: Area 51: Beyond Top Secret
He says that within a few days of working out at S4 he was shown an actual flying disc in one of the hangars. ibid.
Lazar agreed to take a polygraph test which he passed. ibid.
Lazar says that on one occasion he was escorted into the flying disc he saw in the hangar to analyse its propulsion system. ibid.
They appear as sleek metallic discs in daylight skies or mysterious shapes that illuminate the night. Where do UFOs come from? What do they want? Are they merely inventions of the modern age? UFO Files s1e7: UFOs: Then and Now? The Innocent Years
This fresco from a 14th monastery in Kosovo features what appears to be a flying vehicle. ibid.
An Air Force insider actually characterised Project Grudge as ‘the dark ages of UFO investigation’ … After three years of debunking UFO reports Grudge was reorganised into the supposedly more objective Project Bluebook. ibid.
What followed was a craze in the 1950s known as the Contactee Movement. ibid.
May 2002: In a remote area 200 miles outside of Moscow … ‘The destination of different types of UFOs.’ UFO Files s1e8: Soviet UFO Secrets, Russian investigator
The 13-year Soviet UFO study scrutinised some of the most puzzling sightings in Russian history. ibid.
An underground army of Soviet Ufologists began to form in the USSR. They kept their studies concealed. ibid.
Large numbers of UFO sightings are reported near top-secret installations … What are UFOs looking for? UFO Files s1e9: UFOs: Then and Now? Cause for Alarm
Washington, 1952: After a few minutes the UFOs pulled back and then disappeared. The stand-off was over. However, the extended episode had stunned the nation. ibid.
In 1967 a dramatic UFO incident upended Shag Harbour’s quiet ways … Suddenly the luminous object turned on its side and plummeted into the harbor waters … A small gathering of spectators: the witnesses stood and stared mesmerised by the strange light on the water. Then just as suddenly as it had appeared it vanished … A thick layer of an unknown substance: ‘a great bubbly foam and it was yellow’ … This left the small town of Shag Harbour to become big news … ‘The UFOs start moving again while still submerged under the water and move down the coast to Nova Scotia and over the Gulf of Maine. Once in the Gulf of Maine they surface and fly away. This was a genuine UFO event. ibid.
Half nightmare, half science fiction these harrowing accounts first surfaced in 1961 when a New England couple claimed they were taken aboard against their will. Other stories began to surface. Like the four friends who said they were medically examined by creatures not of this earth. UFO Files s1e10: UFOs: Then & Now? Nightmare
Betty & Barney Hill: They were driving home to New Hampshire from a vacation in Canada when their encounter began. As they motored down Route 3 … Betty noticed a curious star in the sky that appeared to be following their car. The Hills stopped the car as the star got closer to them … The trip had taken two hours longer than expected. Within days of their sighting Betty Hill began having nightmares in which she and Barney were taken aboard a flying saucer and then medically examined. ibid.
Few stories were as sensational as the experience reported by four friends who took what was supposed to be an ordinary camping trip … known as the Allagash Incident … ‘I remember paddling as fast as I could and Jack saying, It’s getting closer! It’s getting closer!’ And then it was gone. The next thing they remembered they were back on shore. Exhausted, the four men stumbled back to their campsite … In 1978 memories of the sighting began to resurface. ibid.
Some of the Mexican videos show large clusters of objects hovering in the sky … The tape was made during an unprecedented multiple sighting, perhaps the most widely witnessed UFO incident in history. UFO Files s1e11: UFOs: Then & Now? Aliens & Contact