A British Air Force officer is stunned when a cylindrical object sends a beam of light toward him school children witness multiple UFO sightings over a three-day period.
A triangular craft beelines toward a husband and his pregnant wife a disc-shaped craft emits a solid beam of light that releases a blast of flame.
Most accounts of UFO sightings can be explained by and attributed to normal earthly phenomena. Those that cannot be solved, however, have police investigators, government officials and researchers puzzled, even decades later in some cases. In each episode of "Close Encounters," two stories of alien phenomena around the world are investigated, re-created and reviewed by researchers. In the telling of each one, the program reveals to viewers facts about thousands of reported occurrences.
In Brazil, three men escape a close encounter that lasted hours longer than they realized in Canada, a thirteen-year-old boy is blinded temporally after investigating a bizarre object near his home.
A policeman discovers an oval-shaped object without windows or doors a woman spots an aura of light surrounding a small tree.
A star lands in France, emitting solid beams of light Belgian police officers follow a triangular craft that shoots out that are red balls of light.
A father and son see mysterious lights near their property and call the sheriff's office Six police cars try to chase down the object A large craft covers a French town in an odd material.
A silent, orange football-shaped object is spotted over Loring Air Force Base in Maine a Swedish farmer witnesses a crash into a lake.
A teen views a mushroom-shaped object that leaves a glowing ring on the ground police officers witness a large triangular object.
Two brothers witness something extraordinary that defies explanation while hunting in Idaho a strange metal craft passes over Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Students in Australia witness a saucer-shaped object touch down a man's car and cell phone stop working when a cigar-shaped object passes overhead.
In Ohio, two officers see a bizarre bright light flying in the night sky, Police dispatch advises them to follow the object, triggering a huge car chase An ex-Military outdoorsmen tries to communicate with a UFO in the Florida Everglades.
Aliens, UFOs and close encounters are examined in detail in this revealing documentary.
Aliens, UFOs and close encounters are examined in detail in this revealing documentary.
Several dozen witnesses in Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery object fall through the sky and land in nearby woods hundreds of people stargazing in Phoenix, Arizona witness strange lights flying in a V-formation.
A bizarre trend happens in Ireland in the 1980s.
Patterns in fields, which appear overnight and without any warning examining crop circles, why they appear and what they could possibly signify.
A look at why so many people see a vision of Jesus in seemingly normal things such as a tree stump or an antique cabinet.
Experts investigate the otherworldly origins of crop circles and a never-ending stream of ghost sightings in a picturesque English town.
A look at this English town in Buckinghamshire and why so many spirits of the past haunt its streets.