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Alien Files: Reopened

Season 1
A team of experts separate fact from fiction to figure out the history behind the mystery of some of the most well-known and extraordinary cases of UFO sightings and alien encounters.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Summer of the Saucers

    November 3, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    In the summer of 1952, stories of US Air Force jets chasing UFOs over the White House knock the Korean War off the front pages of newspapers across America. As rumors spread, President Harry S. Truman demands to know what was flying over his house.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Tall Whites

    November 10, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    Air Force recruit Charles James Hall encounters otherworldly beings while stationed in Nevada in the 1960s. He claims these tall, glowing extraterrestrials are working with the military and house advanced spaceships in a top-secret mountainside hangar.
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  3. S1 E3 - Billy Meier and the Multiverse

    November 17, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    In 1975, Billy Meier claims he's traveled through time and space with an alien race from the Pleiades star cluster. In the decades following his revelation, both skeptics and Ufologists say it's a hoax despite Meier providing photographic evidence.
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  4. S1 E4 - Project Seven Lambs

    November 24, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    In 1978, UFO enthusiast Paul Bennewitz claims he's intercepted extraterrestrial messages. Military officials send counterintelligence officer Richard Doty to feed Bennewitz lies. But is Doty himself a pawn in an even bigger disinformation scheme?
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  5. S1 E5 - Back From the Future

    December 1, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    On December 26, 1980, US Air Force personnel spot unidentified lights over two military bases in Suffolk, England. While investigating the incident in nearby Rendlesham Forest, servicemen document their encounter with advanced non-human technology.
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  6. S1 E6 - The Belgian UFO Wave

    December 8, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    Thousands of people claim to see a massive triangular craft hovering over Belgium in the late '80s and early '90s. Scientists and government officials investigate, but the truth remains elusive about the unprecedented wave of UFO activity.
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  7. S1 E7 - School's Out for Saucer

    December 15, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    On a September morning in 1994, students at a rural Zimbabwe school witness a silver craft land in a nearby field. Numerous adults corroborate the UFO sighting, but the children are silenced. However, many maintain their account of the incident is true.
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  8. S1 E8 - Negative Energy

    December 22, 2024
    42min
    TV-PG
    In 2014, Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves records unexplained aerial phenomena off the East Coast of the United States. He goes public in 2019, sending the UFO community into overdrive and forcing the US government to confirm the sighting was legitimate.
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Cast

Maggie Aderin-PocockLaurie McDonaldRichard DotyChristopher D. BaderWill BroodEric HaseltineNick Pope

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discovery plus Unexplained
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