Netflix’s New UFO Series Aims to See if the Truth Is Out There

With all the buzz aboutUFOs—extra lately dubbed “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” or UAPs—coming from sources not involving shadowy Men in Black today, it’s inevitable {that a} Netflix collection was going to come alongside to seize the second. Enter Encounters, which is produced partly by Amblin Television—a bona fide that one may interpret as which means it’s E.T.-approved.

Amblin Television, together with Boardwalk Pictures and VICE Studios, launched a primary trailer for Encounters at present.

Here’s extra about the collection, courtesy of Netflix:

“Explosive new revelations from military whistleblowers of alien encounters, UFOs, and clandestine Pentagon programs, as well as coverage from major news sources, have breathed a fresh urgency into a topic that, for decades, we’ve relegated to the realm of conspiracy. Encounters, directed by Yon Motskin (Generation Hustle) and executive produced by Amblin Television, Emmy-winning Boardwalk Pictures and Vice Studios, is a landmark four-part series that travels the globe to explore four extraordinary true stories of encounters with otherworldly phenomena. Each cinematic and deeply-researched episode tells a single story: strange lights in the sky over small-town Texas; submersible space crafts haunting a coastal Welsh village; an alien encounter with schoolchildren in Zimbabwe; non-human intelligence reportedly interfering with a nuclear power plant in Japan.

As told from the perspective of firsthand experiencers—in the places where the sightings occurred—and guided by cutting-edge scientists and military personnel, the series goes beyond the science to highlight the profoundly human impact of these encounters on lives, families, and communities. A timely and timeless cosmic detective story, what will be revealed from this puzzle of seemingly unrelated encounters across different places, times, and cultures is a set of uncanny similarities, and one astonishing truth: extraterrestrial encounters are global, awe-inspiring, and unlike anything we’ve ever imagined.”

While there have been quite a lot of documentaries purporting to reveal the “truth” about UFOs—together with beloved collection like In Search Of… and Unsolved Mysteries—Encounters sounds prefer it’ll be thoughtfully crafted and hopefully might be one thing each skeptics and believers (and everybody in between) can get pleasure from. The four-episode collection drops September 27 on Netflix.

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