Episode 1: Summer of Saucers
Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting gives us the flying saucer, with stops at the 1896 airships, WWII foo fighters and the 1952 Washington radar blips along the way.
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Episode 2: What Fell in Roswell?
Two weeks after Arnold, something comes down in the New Mexico desert. We sort the 1947 record from the story that grew around it.
Episode 3: The Book Is Opened
The Air Force starts keeping files on flying saucers, and Project Blue Book begins.
Episode 4: True Believers
Contactees, saucer clubs and civilian investigators build a movement of their own.
Episode 5: Case Closed
The Condon Report and the end of Project Blue Book in 1969.
Episode 6: Close Encounters
Two fishermen in Pascagoula, a logger missing for five days in Arizona, and the former 'swamp gas' scientist who gave us the three kinds of close encounters.
Episode 7: Fax or Fiction?
Airmen chase lights into an English forest, secret 'Majestic 12' papers surface, and Communion puts the gray alien on the bestseller lists.
Episode 8: The Truth Is Out There
The X-Files hits prime time, Fox airs an 'alien autopsy,' and thousands of people watch lights over Phoenix.
Episode 9: Back on the Radar
A Navy pilot's 'Tic Tac,' a secret Pentagon program and the 2017 New York Times story that restarted the conversation.
Episode 10: Disclosure
Congress holds hearings and witnesses testify under oath. What we know now, and what's still claim.