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- Have nearly four million Americans been abducted by aliens? A poll in 1994 claimed that one in forty of the US population are the victims of abduction by an alien race called 'The Greys'. In the last ten years, thousands of people, from around the world, have come forward to describe an experience that is astonishing in its detail and consistency. 'Close Encounters' is an exploration of the paranormal alien abduction belief by psychologist Dr. Susan Blackmore and was made for the BBC's science flagship series Horizon. Sue Blackmore has spent over 20 years investigating the paranormal but, in all that time, has found nothing that really convinced her that anything paranormal was going on. Her search takes her from alien abductees to UFO researchers, then to a leading psychiatrist who believes the abductees, on to hypnotists, psychologists and victims of supernatural apparitions. Finally, Susan is shut in a sound-proofed chamber where a neuro-biologist induces a terrifying encounter by creating an hallucination using electromagnetic waves. This mimics the natural misfiring of the brain and convinces her that, rather than looking to the skies, we should look inside ourselves at the still poorly understood workings of the brain and memory for an explanation.
- This major four-part series of one hour films for the Discovery Network presents all the credible scientific evidence in the UFO debate. It is an antidote to the widespread perception of viewers that UFO reports are either hoaxes or genuine alien contacts. 'UFOs: Down To Earth' shows how natural phenomena, top-secret technology, altered states of the mind and mythology all provide much more realistic explanations for supposed encounters with aliens. However, the series is not afraid to look at those reports for which there is no easy explanation. The series features or used as advisors many talented and experienced UFO, black technology and and paranormal investigators including Greg Long, Curtis Peebles, Jenny Randles, Barry Greenwood, Andy Roberts, Bill Sweetman, Steve Douglass, Warren James, Tom Mahood and many others. Episode One - Reason to Believe - This film takes the viewer through the last fifty years of UFOs: from cover-up theories to hoaxes and to strange, puzzling evidence. Episode Two - Great Balls of Fire - The real life Twin Peaks - Yakima - home to strange earthlights followed by the extraordinary case of Travis Walton. Episode Three - Retrieval- From Roswell to Rendlesham - flying saucer crashes - mysteries and hoaxes including the first on-screen debunking of the notorious Roswell alien autopsy hoax. Episode Four - Dreamland - Deep Black aviation projects are often confused with UFOs. This film tells the strange tale of Area 51 in Nevada - Dreamland.
- A television team follows Chris Bonington's expedition to a 23,000-ft mountain in Tibet.
- Crater of Death - BBC Horizon In 1979, evidence was first uncovered of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and seven-tenths of all life on Earth. It took years of detective work to uncover the clues that led to the 200km wide crater. It is the product of one of the biggest explosions on Earth since the emergence of life. From scientific investigation of the crater itself, the story of this mass extinction is now revealed. Sixty-five million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs ended, along with seven-tenths of all life on Earth. Today, the evidence is clear that a comet struck the Earth with a force hundreds of times greater than the combined nuclear arsenals of the world at the height of the Cold War. This was the killer and Ground Zero is the fishing village of Chicxulub in Mexico. This film lays out what has been proved in the 20 years since the first appearance of evidence that an extraterrestrial impact was responsible for the death of the dinosaurs. Through CGI animation, the film gives an idea of how precisely such an explosion could have wiped out so much life on the planet. It took hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years for the climatic effects of the impact to be shaken off. However, the dinosaurs might have survived the blast but for one piece of very bad luck: the relatively rare rocks that formed much of the seabed (now part of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico) vaporised by the comet. There is also some evidence that the comet followed the plot of a Hollywood disaster movie on steroids: it may have been a very, very bad day for North America. The KT mass extinction and the crater in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico are at the centre of a vast web of research and dispute from many different branches of science: geophysics, astronomy, palaeontology, planetary science, geochemistry and remote sensing. Whilst researching this film, it became clear that the impact has been not just on the dinosaurs themselves but also on some dinosaurs of science. The discovery of a thin iridium-rich rock (the first evidence of an impact) has forced palaeontologists to look in much greater detail at the fossil record. Eighteen years ago, they widely rejected, even scorned, the idea that an impact could have caused the mass extinction; they said that the fossil record simply did not show it. What they now find is that plants and animals on land and sea were waxing and waning before the impact, then, at the impact horizon, the vast majority disappear. Considering the consequences of the impact, this is hardly surprising. The evolution of life in the ten million years spanning the impact's effects is now revealed at a much greater resolution than the rest of the fuzzy fossil record. It makes you wonder what else will be revealed if it is ever again subjected to such detailed investigation.