Phenomenon: The Lost Archives

Recently released government documents indicate that over the past 50 years, American military operations have been responsible for the loss or disappearance of 12 atomic weapons.

A closer look at the launch of Sputnik, the workers who went unpaid for months, the thefts of rations for cosmonauts, and the mass exodus of Russian rocket scientists to unfriendly nations interested in developing weapons of mass destruction.

The brainchild of controversial Nikola Tesla, High-Frequency Active Aural Research Project, or H.A.A.R.P., is a combined effort of the Air Force and Navy ostensibly designed to influence the weather, and has been associated with everything from the breakdown of the ozone layer to electromagnetic warfare.

In a small Arkansas town, two young men are found dead on the train tracks. But upon investigation it becomes unclear whether they were hit by a train or the operators of a major drug ring with ties to the Iran-Contra scandal.

From the martyrdom staged at Masada against the Romans, to the carnage perpetrated by Jim Jones in Guyana, take another look at the motivations and social attitudes towards the history of mass suicide.

On March 23, 1989, respected chemists, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman made an announcement that challenged many basic scientific concepts: their discovery of cold fusion. See for yourself whether their "discovery of the century" was too good to be true.

In 1960, a joint US/Turkish expedition sets out to investigate the aerial sighting of a boat shaped object located in the Mountains of Eastern Turkey.

During the Wilson Presidency, the U.S. Government sanctioned the creation of the Federal Reserve. Thought by many to be a government organization maintained to provide financial accountability in the event of a domestic depression, the actual business of the FED is shrouded in secrecy.

Caught up in a greedy, divisive race to power the world at the end of the 19th century, famed inventor Nikola Tesla claimed he could provide everyone with free, unlimited energy.

Just prior to the Russian Revolution a mysterious 40 megaton explosion lays to waste nearly 200 square kilometers of Earth in the desolate northlands of Siberia. Was it an asteroid? Or could it have been the explosion of an extra terrestrial craft?

With the collapse of communism and the rise of the Russian Federation, recent access to documents in the Kremlin archives reveal a story intended to remain buried forever: Yuri Gagarin, the icon of triumphant communism known across the world, was not the first man in space.

The Cold Fusion Debacle and the purported discovery of the Piltdown Man stand as two of the greatest shams perpetrated over the course of scientific history. But have the people of science learned anything from the alleged goldbricks of the past?

Historian and Archeologist Zecharia Sitien uncovers the lost archives of the Annunaki: extra-planetary visitors who over 6,000 years ago inspired what is thought to be the earliest civilization known to man; Sumeria.

Supported by interviews with Barry Taft, one of the nations leading para-psychologists, Unknown Encounter chronicles the six year haunting of a California woman and the researchers committed to finding out the truth about the her unwelcome visitor.