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UFOs & Aliens: Making Contact

50 minutes 35 seconds

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Old photograph of a space shuttle launching. Caption: It also fueled new interest in alien life.

Documents efforts to contact and communicate with potential extraterrestrial life and interstellar space. Attempts to answer the question: Are we alone? Looks at the Drake equation, the standard for anyone seeking to find the number of planets with intelligent life in the Milky Way galaxy. Discusses the pioneering research at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) based in Mountain View, California.

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Illustration of an alien standing in a beam of light. Caption: of alleged alien abductees.
UFOs & Aliens
Episode 1
52 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Old photograph of a space shuttle launching. Caption: It also fueled new interest in alien life.
UFOs & Aliens
Episode 2
50 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of Earth with a spaceship in front of it. Caption: (narrator) If alien starships really are shooting across the cosmos,
UFOs & Aliens
Episode 3
52 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12