Pennsylvania, USA. En dag opdager familien Hess en række af store mystiske cirkler og linier aftegnet i deres kornmark. Det bliver begyndelsen til en stor test for familieoverhovedet Graham, der forsøger at finde en forklaring for mysteriet.
En aften, da Roy Neary er på arbejde, bliver han vidne til ankomsten af væsener fra en anden verden. Han ser en UFO, men denne gang er han ikke den eneste. Hele verden bliver vidne til den egentlige ankomst, og mens myndighederne forsøger at holde sandheden skjult, er der - som Roy - en række mennesker rundt omkring på kloden, der er blevet specielt udvalgt til at følge de fremmede til en anden verden. Dette er grundhistorien i Steven Spielbergs banebrydende science fiction film fra 1977, der på én gang markerede genrens genfødsel og intelligente fornyelse.
In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
An exploration of potential extraterrestrial encounters, centered on a series of events in 1996 when citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing one or more strange creatures and a UFO crash.
Ariel Phenomenon explores an African extraterrestrial encounter witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in 1994. As a Harvard professor, a BBC war reporter, and past students investigate, they struggle to answer the question: "What happens when you experience something so extraordinary that nobody believes you?"
Space Case follows Bobbie Almond, a social outcast who has dreams to escape her small town life. She has a ticket to Mars! But when Bobbie's ticket to a new life gets stolen by her super Preppy sister, she's forced down a road of conformity, to be a part of the town's Beauty pageant! Will she conform? Or will she bail and follow her dreams!
A young man, convinced aliens are communicating with him, journeys out to the desert for a close encounter, but what he finds might hit too close to home.
The alien abduction phenomenon, told by those who experienced it, with the weight of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist at their back.
In the spring of 1958, the UFO scare hit Huron County, Michigan! Farmers, housewives and school children lived in fear as numerous eye-witness sightings of an alien creature were reported in remote stretches of the county
An alien decides to find out how much humans actually know about extra-terrestrials. The directorial debut of Mykhailo Titov, a master of chimerical animation of the 80s, is based on the story of the Ukrainian science fiction writer Volodymyr Zayets.
The famous Italian encounter
New revelations about the events at Fatima