Plot Synopsis

Executive produced by J.J. Abrams, UFO is a four-part documentary series that explores our fascination with UFOs and the influence government, private companies and the military may have in shielding the truth. Ignited by a bombshell story revealing that the Pentagon had been tracking ?UFOs for years, the series examines the history of the phenomenon through cultural and political touchpoints, including testimony from? eyewitnesses across the country, asking the most enigmatic questions of all: Why do we believe what we believe? And what is the elusive truth beyond this decades-long mystery?

A groundbreaking 2017 story in the "New York Times" reveals that the Pentagon secretly spent years studying UFOs, casting new light on decades of unexplained UFO sightings in America -- like the 1997 Phoenix Lights encounters and the 2006 Chicago airport sighting. Has first contact already been made, and if so, why is the US government trying to cover it up?