The Alien Files: UFOs Under Investigation

In this first episode of The Alien Files: UFOs Under Investigation, experts examine the history of UFOs, the validity of so-called UFOlogists and what the future will bring for UFO chasers.

There are hundreds of so-called religious groups across the world headed by leaders pretending to be in contact with superior beings from outer space. This episode looks into the matter while trying to distinguish between the imposters and the true cosmic visionaries.

Fixed photographs, fake flying saucer crashes, cosmic messages, film-segment showing the alleged autopsy of an extraterrestrial...this episode looks at some of the most famous masterstrokes of the kind.

Silence, cover-ups, formal denials, disinformation...anything goes when it comes to hiding the truth from the general public. In countries all over the world, the army is known to hold back top-secret information about UFOs. This episode sheds light on some of the well-guarded government secrets.

In most cases, UFO sightings are easily explained by simple scientific facts: optical illusions, atmospheric phenomena, sounding balloons, hallucinations. In this episode, researchers who specialize in the science of the unexplained look at these so-called sightings.

Many spectacular UFO sightings across the USA, Canada, Europe or South America have remained unexplained despite serious and thorough investigations. This episode makes public some of the unclassified files from these UFO investigations.

Just in the US alone, over 3 million people claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrials interested to know how the human anatomy works. This episode presents some of the most troubling accounts of alien abductions.

According to some skeptics, American astronauts never really landed on the moon; even worse, they claim that a handful of people in close contact with extraterrestrials have infiltrated our governments. This episode examines the foundation of this great cosmic conspiracy.

Mysterious manifestations like the Bermuda Triangle, crop circles, animal mutilations and bizarre creatures are consistently linked with alien intervention. This episode sheds light on some of these strange phenomena.

Some treasures of antiquity contain irrefutable proof that the human race descends directly from ancient alien beings who visited Earth. This episode relies on archeological discoveries with a cosmic twist to examine the merit of such a theory.

How is it that UFOs and aliens have changed appearances over the past 50 years? In this episode we see the effect pop culture and media had on our views of extraterrestrial life.

Did an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell? Experts have been debating over what is fact and fiction since 1947.

There are many arguments of whether alien life exists. Some wonder if there is other life, why hasn't it visited us? Others have explanations as to why our planet may not be as easy to get to as we think.