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Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction
Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction

Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction

—UFO experts Mitch Horowitz and Chrissy Newton use scientific data and research to dissect real life encounters with extraterrestrial activity and determine whether they can be explained.
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Season 17 of 7 Episodes

  • After the death of his father, a farmer believes he witnessed a UFO; a geologist uncovers debris at the Roswell crash site; after seeing an orb in the sky, a mother suffers radiation-like burns on her body.

  • Tormented by childhood memories of abduction, a woman discovers an implant in her body; a sailor captures lights over the Pacific Ocean that he believes are alien craft, and a couple finds unusual footprints in the woods.

  • A lobsterman from Maine relives a harrowing encounter that has haunted him for years; a family witnesses a strange string of lights in the sky; a man believes he can communicate with alien crafts.

  • A musician captures a strange object flying over a highway in California; a tourist takes the most compelling UFO photo ever; two friends fear they were abducted on a road trip.

  • A man shares an original Area 51 video from 1992 for the first time; multiple people capture a Texas UFO sighting; a man films an unusual hovering object in Utah.

  • A man captures a beam of light in the desert; a couple is convinced they communicated with a UFO; a military man thinks he discovered a portal.

  • A Nevada man sees an object ejecting something in the sky; concertgoers believe they saw a UFO; two brothers recover material from an alleged UFO crash site in Needles, Calif.

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4 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    You Saw a UFO
    Alien Inside Me
    Vanished in a Portal
    Abduction in the Desert
  • You Saw a UFO

    After the death of his father, a farmer believes he witnessed a UFO; a geologist uncovers debris at the Roswell crash site; after seeing an orb in the sky, a mother suffers radiation-like burns on her body.
    Upcoming
  • Alien Inside Me

    Tormented by childhood memories of abduction, a woman discovers an implant in her body; a sailor captures lights over the Pacific Ocean that he believes are alien craft, and a couple finds unusual footprints in the woods.
    Upcoming
  • Vanished in a Portal

    A man captures a beam of light in the desert; a couple is convinced they communicated with a UFO; a military man thinks he discovered a portal.
    Upcoming
  • Abduction in the Desert

    A musician captures a strange object flying over a highway in California; a tourist takes the most compelling UFO photo ever; two friends fear they were abducted on a road trip.
    Upcoming
Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction

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UFO experts Mitch Horowitz and Chrissy Newton use scientific data and research to dissect real life encounters with extraterrestrial activity and determine whether they can be explained.

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Mitch Horowitz, Chrissy Newton

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