UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

Continuing First aired 13/Feb/2023 United States English 2 season(s) 11 episode(s)
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The truth behind the U.S. government's secret Pentagon program on UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, otherwise known as UFOs, is exposed.
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Season 2 · Season 2
6 episode(s) · Air date: 08/Jan/2025
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S2E6
Citizen Scientists Tackle the UFO Phenomenon
Air date: 12/Feb/2025 · Runtime: 44 min
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No longer waiting for the government to reveal everything they know about UFOs, citizen scientists and privately funded organizations are making advances in data collection. In the air and under the seas, exploration continues to push for answers to the ultimate question: Are we alone?

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No longer waiting for the government to reveal everything they know about UFOs, citizen scientists and privately funded organizations are making advances in data collection. In the air and under the seas, exploration continues to push for answers to the ultimate question: Are we alone?

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S2E5
The Experiencers: Mystery of Alien Abduction [Part 2]
Air date: 05/Feb/2025 · Runtime: 44 min
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A revealing look at what happens when the phenomenon gets deeply personal. Beyond sightings in the sky, people relive encounters they describe as abductions. Renowned Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, comes under attack for taking them seriously.

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A revealing look at what happens when the phenomenon gets deeply personal. Beyond sightings in the sky, people relive encounters they describe as abductions. Renowned Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, comes under attack for taking them seriously.

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The Experiencers [Part 1]
Air date: 29/Jan/2025 · Runtime: 44 min
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For as long as there have been sightings of strange objects in the sky, there have been reports from those who say they've encountered entities associated with the phenomena. Despite the stigma attached to speaking out, people share stories of their extraordinary interactions.

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For as long as there have been sightings of strange objects in the sky, there have been reports from those who say they've encountered entities associated with the phenomena. Despite the stigma attached to speaking out, people share stories of their extraordinary interactions.

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Scientists on the Cutting Edge
Air date: 22/Jan/2025 · Runtime: 44 min
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Scientists across academia take matters into their own hands, employing a variety of cutting-edge tools to study UFO phenomena. Using AI, precise radar systems, advances in physics and analyses of historical images, they hope to collect data that reveals the source of these mysterious sightings.

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Scientists across academia take matters into their own hands, employing a variety of cutting-edge tools to study UFO phenomena. Using AI, precise radar systems, advances in physics and analyses of historical images, they hope to collect data that reveals the source of these mysterious sightings.

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Pilots Speak Out
Air date: 15/Jan/2025 · Runtime: 44 min
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A former Navy pilot, who helped blow the whistle on the government's secrecy around UFOs, becomes an advocate for commercial pilots who have nowhere to report the sightings their trained eyes cannot explain. Activists push for legislation to address the toll, the issue takes on pilots.

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A former Navy pilot, who helped blow the whistle on the government's secrecy around UFOs, becomes an advocate for commercial pilots who have nowhere to report the sightings their trained eyes cannot explain. Activists push for legislation to address the toll, the issue takes on pilots.

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The UFO Whistleblower
Air date: 08/Jan/2025 · Runtime: 44 min
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An explosive congressional hearing reignites a decades-long fight for government transparency on UFOs. A whistleblower provides explosive testimony. Fighter pilots and military personnel describe strange sightings, and the U.S. government is forced to consider a new approach to how they analyze and make public UFO sightings.

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An explosive congressional hearing reignites a decades-long fight for government transparency on UFOs. A whistleblower provides explosive testimony. Fighter pilots and military personnel describe strange sightings, and the U.S. government is forced to consider a new approach to how they analyze and make public UFO sightings.

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Season 1 · Season 1
5 episode(s) · Air date: 13/Feb/2023
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S1E5
Government Breaks Silence
Air date: 27/Feb/2023 · Runtime: 40 min
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Area 51, a military outpost in the desert, shrouded in secrecy for decades, has long been the focus of many Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or "UAP" rumors. A pop culture phenomenon, Area 51 prompted one Facebook group to suggest storming the facility in search for answers. Civilian UAP groups continue making progress in providing those answers. For the first time since 1969, Congress questions high level officials in the Pentagon on UAPs.

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Area 51, a military outpost in the desert, shrouded in secrecy for decades, has long been the focus of many Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or "UAP" rumors. A pop culture phenomenon, Area 51 prompted one Facebook group to suggest storming the facility in search for answers. Civilian UAP groups continue making progress in providing those answers. For the first time since 1969, Congress questions high level officials in the Pentagon on UAPs.

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Citizens Take Charge
Air date: 20/Feb/2023 · Runtime: 40 min
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From a 1986 sighting over Alaska by Japanese Airline pilots, to a 1997 UAP sighting over Phoenix Arizona and a flying disc over the Chicago O'Hare airport in 2008, hundreds of witnesses come forward without any official feedback from the US government. Years later, many of the pilots and government officials, who witnessed these sightings, come together for the first time to share their story in a 2007 press conference.

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From a 1986 sighting over Alaska by Japanese Airline pilots, to a 1997 UAP sighting over Phoenix Arizona and a flying disc over the Chicago O'Hare airport in 2008, hundreds of witnesses come forward without any official feedback from the US government. Years later, many of the pilots and government officials, who witnessed these sightings, come together for the first time to share their story in a 2007 press conference.

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Close Encounters at Nuclear Bases
Air date: 20/Feb/2023 · Runtime: 40 min
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Project Blue Book and the investigation into UFOs closes. There is no evidence that mysterious objects represent any threat to U.S. national security. But harrowing incidents of UFO sightings continue and the unexplained malfunction of U.S. nuclear missiles after an incursion leave the U.S. defenseless. Three former Air Force officers, who served at nuclear weapons bases in the late 1960s, break two decades of silence to tell their story.

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Project Blue Book and the investigation into UFOs closes. There is no evidence that mysterious objects represent any threat to U.S. national security. But harrowing incidents of UFO sightings continue and the unexplained malfunction of U.S. nuclear missiles after an incursion leave the U.S. defenseless. Three former Air Force officers, who served at nuclear weapons bases in the late 1960s, break two decades of silence to tell their story.

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Giant UFO in Texas
Air date: 13/Feb/2023 · Runtime: 40 min
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In 2008 in Stephenville, Texas a local pilot sees lights in the sky over his ranch coming from something huge. He is not alone: hundreds of people saw the craft, and a local reporter makes it her life's work to tell their stories. From this classic encounter we head back several decades to the beginning of the UFO phenomenon in America and the launch of Project Blue Book to study the country's growing "UFO problem".

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In 2008 in Stephenville, Texas a local pilot sees lights in the sky over his ranch coming from something huge. He is not alone: hundreds of people saw the craft, and a local reporter makes it her life's work to tell their stories. From this classic encounter we head back several decades to the beginning of the UFO phenomenon in America and the launch of Project Blue Book to study the country's growing "UFO problem".

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Secret Pentagon Program
Air date: 13/Feb/2023 · Runtime: 40 min
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For more than five decades the US government has refused to discuss UFOs, but now, Navy pilots tell of seeing mysterious objects tracking their fighter jets – vehicles unlike anything they’ve ever seen before; top-secret Naval videos are leaked that captivate the world. Government officials, led by former U.S. Senator Harry Reid, demand an investigation. At long last, it looks like the truth about UFOs may finally be revealed.

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For more than five decades the US government has refused to discuss UFOs, but now, Navy pilots tell of seeing mysterious objects tracking their fighter jets – vehicles unlike anything they’ve ever seen before; top-secret Naval videos are leaked that captivate the world. Government officials, led by former U.S. Senator Harry Reid, demand an investigation. At long last, it looks like the truth about UFOs may finally be revealed.

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Leslie Kean
Leslie Kean
Self – Investigative Journalist
Chris Mellon
Chris Mellon
Self – Former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo
Self - Former Counterintelligence Agent
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
Self - Senate Armed Services Committee
André Carson
André Carson
Self - House Intelligence Subcommittee
John A. Samford
John A. Samford
Self - Dir. of Intelligence, U.S. Air Force (archive footage)
David Fravor
David Fravor
Self - Former Navy Pilot
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Alex Dietrich
Self - Former Navy Pilot
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Chad Underwood
Self - Former Weapons Systems Officer
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Helene Cooper
Self - New York Times Pentagon Correspondent
John Podesta
John Podesta
Self - Former White House Chief of Staff
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
Self - Former Senate Majority Leader
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Ralph Blumenthal
Self - Former Staff Reporter, New York Times
Seth Shostak
Seth Shostak
Self - Sr. Astronomer, SETI Institute
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Mark Rodeghier
Self - Scientific Director, Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self - Director, Hayden Planetarium
Derrick Pitts
Derrick Pitts
Self - Chief Astronomer, The Franklin Institute
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)

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Seth Keal
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Charles Miller
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Jerry Risius
Jerry Risius
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Jonathan Nastasi
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Nelson Hume
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Simón Wilson
Simón Wilson
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Nicole Coutrier
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Ricki Stern
Ricki Stern
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Patrick Miller
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David Moyes
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Derek Pons
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Joel Watson
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