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.
- 2023-2023
- 1 season
- Documentary
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.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2023
Episode 1
Queensland's Tropical Coast
43 mins
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.
Episode 2
New Zealand and the Bass Strait
44 mins
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!
Episode 3
Queensland & Papua New Guinea
43 mins
Travel to Queensland's farming country where rain-drenched crops meet the Great Barrier Reef. Is there a link between water and UFO activity?
Episode 4
Melbourne and Regional Victoria
43 mins
The most witnesses ever as a UFO hovers and almost lands near a primary school in Westall just out of Melbourne. The army and airforce also swoops in but the Australian government does not want anyone to talk about this nor share information.
Episode 5
NSW & NA
42 mins
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.
Episode 6
Rural Australia
43 mins
Visit Australia's vast expanses, where farmers have been finding mutilated cattle. Plus, meet Phil Tindale who believes he witnessed two UFOs in combat.