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Movies, series and documentaries, from Close Encounters to Skinwalker Ranch on TV. 178 events, newest first.
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Media12 Jun 2026
Universal released Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day in U.S. theaters. Emily Blunt plays a weather forecaster drawn into a federal cover-up of decades of UFO sightings and alien contact, a plot built on the government-disclosure theme of post-2017 UFO news.
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Media21 Nov 2025
Dan Farah's documentary The Age of Disclosure went worldwide on Prime Video with a limited run in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. It features 34 current and former U.S. officials asserting a decades-long cover-up of non-human intelligence; those claims have not been confirmed.
Sightings31 Oct 2025
Berlin Brandenburg Airport suspended takeoffs and landings for almost two hours after a drone was reported nearby, diverting a series of flights. Police sent a patrol car and helicopter; officers saw a drone but its operator was not found.
Photo: Roy Zuo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military3 Oct 2025
Belgian broadcaster VRT reported that 15 drones flew over the Elsenborn army camp around 1:45 a.m. and were also seen by police in Dueren, Germany. Defence Minister Theo Francken's office confirmed an investigation; who flew them was not known.
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Skinwalker Ranch3 Jun 2025
History began the sixth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, 14 episodes centered on what the show calls an invisible 'Bubble' anomaly, with drone and radar flights, rocket launches and tests of material found on the mesa. No independent confirmation of its claims has been published.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media9 Mar 2025
Dan Farah's documentary The Age of Disclosure had its world premiere at SXSW in Austin. It features 34 current and former officials, including Marco Rubio and Luis Elizondo, asserting a hidden government UAP effort; reviewers noted it offers testimony rather than new proof.
Skinwalker Ranch4 Jun 2024
History aired the second season of its spin-off Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, eight episodes with Andy Bustamante and Paul Beban. Episodes covered a ranch linked to Robert Bigelow, a Colorado cattle-mutilation site, a petroglyph site and a California desert.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Skinwalker Ranch23 Apr 2024
History began airing the fifth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, its series on investigations at the Utah property. The network's episode listing shows weekly episodes from April 23 into late July 2024.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media22 Sep 2023
Hulu released Brian Duffield's nearly wordless thriller No One Will Save You, starring Kaitlyn Dever as a young woman defending her home from alien invaders. Reviews were mixed, with praise for Dever and the creature design.
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Skinwalker Ranch6 Jun 2023
History launched Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, a spin-off in which owner Brandon Fugal, Travis Taylor, Erik Bard and others investigate reported phenomena at other U.S. sites, including Bradshaw Ranch in Arizona and the Bridgewater Triangle in Massachusetts.
Photo: US Army, Public domain
Skinwalker Ranch18 Apr 2023
History began airing the fourth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, continuing the team's investigations on the Utah property. The network's episode listing shows weekly episodes from April 18 through early August 2023.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media18 Oct 2022
James Fox's documentary on the 1996 Varginha, Brazil reports was released digitally by 1091 Pictures. Narrated by Peter Coyote, it presents townspeople, former military personnel and figures such as Christopher Mellon; the 1996 creature reports it revisits remain disputed.
Photo: Felipe Trombini, CC BY 3.0
Media22 Jul 2022
Universal released Jordan Peele's 'Nope', in which a brother and sister try to film a hostile object hiding in the clouds over their California horse ranch. The AP described it as a flying saucer horror about spectacle. It grossed about $171 million worldwide.
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Media20 May 2022
Randall Nickerson's feature documentary Ariel Phenomenon was released for streaming. It revisits the 1994 Ariel School case in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, through interviews with former pupils who, now adults, still describe seeing a craft and beings near their school.
Skinwalker Ranch3 May 2022
History began airing the third season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, the series following owner Brandon Fugal's team as it runs tests on the Utah property. The network's episode listing shows weekly episodes from May 3 into July 2022.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media30 Sep 2021
Peacock premiered Unidentified with Demi Lovato, a four-part unscripted series in which the singer, their sister and a skeptical friend talk with UFO eyewitnesses and experts, look at government reports and run their own UFO experiments.
Photo: Soho Media Group, CC BY-SA 3.0
Media8 Aug 2021
Showtime debuted 'UFO', a four-part documentary series from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and Zipper Bros. Films directed by Mark Monroe and Paul Crowder. It covered cases such as the Phoenix Lights and O'Hare, the Pentagon's AATIP study and the leaked Navy videos.
Photo: Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0
Media27 Jan 2021
Syfy premiered Resident Alien, adapted by Chris Sheridan from a Dark Horse comic, starring Alan Tudyk as an alien who crash-lands near the small Colorado town of Patience and poses as a local doctor while hiding a mission to wipe out humanity.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media11 Jan 2021
French pay channel Canal+ began airing OVNI(s), a period comedy created by Clemence Dargent and Martin Douaire. Set in the 1970s, it follows a CNES rocket engineer reassigned to run GEPAN, the real French space agency office that studied UFO reports.
Media5 Jan 2021
History launched The Proof Is Out There, hosted by journalist Tony Harris, in which a team of experts examines viral videos, photos and audio of UFOs and other claimed phenomena. The network said each item is analyzed to judge whether it is authentic or fabricated.
Media13 Nov 2020
Apple TV+ released Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, a documentary directed by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer on how shooting stars, meteorites and impacts have shaped human imagination and science.
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Media6 Oct 2020
James Fox's documentary, narrated by Peter Coyote, surveyed UFO cases since the 1940s alongside the newly released Navy videos. It featured former Senate leader Harry Reid, ex-New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and researcher Jacques Vallee. It was released for digital download.
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WhistleblowersOct 2020
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon said in the documentary The Phenomenon that he received the three Navy videos from a Defense Department contact and gave them to the Times for its 2017 story. The Times said DoD was its on-record source.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Media31 Mar 2020
History premiered The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, a series following a team funded by owner Brandon Fugal, including astrophysicist Travis Taylor, as it investigates reported phenomena at the Utah ranch. It has continued for several seasons.
Photo: US Army, Public domain
Media19 Jul 2019
History launched The UnXplained, a nonfiction series on unexplained mysteries hosted by William Shatner and produced by Kevin Burns of Ancient Aliens. It joined a Friday block that included Unidentified and Project Blue Book.
Photo: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0
