Close Encounters Down Under

Close Encounters Down Under

Forget everything you think you know about UFOs, about Roswell and Area 51. It turns out that Australia's and New Zealand's very own backyards are a hotbed of UFO sightings - with hundreds occurring every year.

Cast:Roger StankovicRobert LeeAspa LeonarderBill ChalkerJaimie LeonarderAvi LoebBrad TuckerMary RodwellSheryl GottschallLinda Moulton HoweTerry PeckJoy ClarkePeter KhouryAndy GaultAndrew RadziewiczMike HodgesPaul SmithMatt Tones


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Queensland's Tropical Coast

Thu, Jan 5, 2023

We travel to Queensland's tropical coast to hear first-hand encounters of flying saucers landing in lush banana plantations to UFO encounters in Queensland's sugar cane fields.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ New Zealand and the Bass Strait

Thu, Jan 12, 2023

A young capable Australian pilot disappears over Bass Strait and a New Zealand entrepreneur has an extraordinary meeting as he goes to chill at his local Kapiti beach!

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Queensland & Papua New Guinea

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Travel to Queensland's farming country where rain-drenched crops meet the Great Barrier Reef. Is there a link between water and UFO activity?

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Melbourne and Regional Victoria

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

Explore Melbourne's long history of UFO sightings and hear incredible first-hand accounts from Victoria's locals of otherworldly encounters.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ NSW & NA

Thu, Feb 2, 2023

Rob and Shelley Hartland believe they live under a UFO super highway. Meanwhile, Peter Khoury claims he experienced a close encounter - of the sexual kind.

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S1.E6 ∙ Rural Australia

Thu, Feb 9, 2023

Visit Australia's vast expanses, where farmers have been finding mutilated cattle. Plus, meet Phil Tindale who believes he witnessed two UFOs in combat.