UFO
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202150 minEnded

UFO

Network:Showtime on Demand

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Aired on Aug 8, 2021, 4:00 PM

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UFO explores unsettling theories of a subject that recently reached national headlines, and has historically been the focus of powerful politicians and CEOs, while average citizens pursuing the very same truth have been ridiculed and ostracized.Ignited by the bombshell New York Times story in 2017 revealing that the Pentagon had been secretly tracking UFOs for years, the series examines the history of the phenomenon through cultural and political touchpoints, including shocking testimony from eyewitnesses across the country. As the conversation grows more bizarre and reaches the mainstream by virtue of credible investigations into alien encounters, UFO confronts the most enigmatic questions of all: Why do we believe what we believe? And what is the elusive truth beyond this decades long mystery? 

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Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
50 min
Premiered
August 8, 2021
Ended
August 8, 2021

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Episodes (1 Season · 4 Episodes)

Episode 1

A groundbreaking 2017 story in the New York Times reveals that the Pentagon secretly spent years studying UFOs, casting new light on decades of unexplained UFO sightings in America — like the 1997 Phoenix Lights encounters and the 2006 Chicago airport sighting. Has first contact already been made, and if so, why is the US government trying to cover it up? Series premiere.

Aug 8, 2021

52 min

Episode 2

UFO sightings don't just come from crackpots: in 2004, a team of elite Navy pilots and radar operators had one of many military encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena. As evidence mounts, the government, along with alien-obsessed billionaire Robert Bigelow, grow more interested in UFOs and the paranormal — and the conversation around them moves from the fringes to the center of the Pentagon.

Aug 8, 2021

49 min

Episode 3

As the world reeled from revelations of US government interest in UFOs, a few dissenting voices suggest that apparent interest might actually be a disinformation campaign. Is the US government covering up the existence of aliens or of something else?

Aug 8, 2021

49 min

Episode 4

Even as the New York Times brought credibility and a broad audience to the question of UFOs and extraterrestrial life, other figures challenged whether it might all be a great big lie. But when an acclaimed Harvard psychiatrist named John Mack began investigating the phenomenon now known as alien abductions, he proved that these bizarre experiences couldn't be so eagerly dismissed — and that the truth might be far more complicated than we imagine. Series finale.

Aug 8, 2021

50 min

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