Unknown Skies Podcast

Unknown Skies: UFO Case Files Episode 3: Ariel School In this episode of Unknown Skies, we examine one of the most unsettling and widely discussed UFO cases of the 1990s: the Ariel School incident in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. On 16 September 1994, more than sixty schoolchildren reported seeing a strange craft near their school grounds. Some described small beings. Some said they received a message. Decades...

In this special episode of Unknown Skies, we review Disclosure Day, the new UFO-themed film directed by Steven Spielberg, the filmmaker behind Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. We look at how the film handles disclosure, government secrecy, public fear, first contact, and the long shadow of Spielberg’s earlier work in the UFO genre. Does Disclosure Day feel like a...

On 13 March 1997, thousands of people across Arizona looked up and saw something they could not explain. A vast formation of lights moved silently across the night sky. Some witnesses described a huge V-shaped craft. Others saw rows of bright lights hanging over Phoenix. The official explanation came later, but for many who were there, it did not close the case. In Episode 2 of Unknown Skies, we r...

Unknown Skies: UFO Case Files begins with one of Britain’s most documented UFO incidents, the Rendlesham Forest case. In December 1980, US Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters reported strange lights in the forest outside the base perimeter. What began as a possible downed aircraft call became a multi-night military incident involving trained witnesses, formal reports...