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Close Encounters Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

13 Episodes 2014 - 2014

Episode 1

Northern Lights/Faded Giant

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Episode 2

Fire in the Sky/Arizona Objects

21 mins

It's early evening in rural Pennsylvania when several dozen witnesses report seeing a fiery object falling through the sky and landing in nearby woods. In Arizona thousands are watching the sky for the Hale-Bopp Comet but many see something else.

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Episode 3

Second Coming/Space Rock

21 mins

Betty Cash, Vickie and Colby Landrum are driving home on a country road when they encounter a diamond-shaped craft shooting fire out of its base. Stephen Michalak is a geologist searching for quartz when a disc- shaped metalic object lands yards away.

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Episode 4

JAL/Crash Course

A cargo plane Japanese Airline flight 1628 flying over Alaska encounters a craft the size of 4 aircraft carriers. The bright light a deputy sees on a dark county road crashes into his windshield, giving him cracked ribs and a concussion.

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Episode 5

School's Out/Christmas Lights

21 mins

SCHOOL'S OUT: APRIL 6, 1966 - It's 11am at a school in Australia when a classroom of students playing outside see a saucer-shaped object in a field. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS: NOVEMBER 25, 2009 -- On a short drive home from his work hen he notices strange lights.

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Episode 6

Blind Date/Flying House

21 mins

16-year-old Ron Johnson is feeding the family sheep when he suddenly sees a mushroom- shaped object appearing in the field. Three police officers from a number of small towns in southern Illinois track an unknown object flying in the sky.

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Episode 7

Rendelsham Forest/High Tide

21 mins

TRIANGLES IN THE FOREST: DECEMBER 25-27, 1980: Strange lights are reported by security near a U.S. Air Force base on England's east coast. HIGH TIDE: OCTOBER 4, 1967: 18-year-old Norm is driving back from a dance when he sees an object fall from the sky.

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Episode 8

Nuclear Reaction/Ghost Rocket

22 mins

Officials must decide how to confront a massive, unidentified object hovering over one of America's most secure Air Force bases. A priest interacts with four beings on a saucer-shaped metallic craft hovering over his missionary in Papua, New Guinea.

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Episode 9

Saucerful of Secrets/Lights Out

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Episode 10

Men in Black/A Room with a View

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Episode 11

Water Proof/French Connection

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Episode 12

Holy Ship/Belgian Wave

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Episode 13

Crop Circles/Boomerang

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