Cosmic Vistas investigates the incredible scientific advances that have helped mankind achieve a better understanding of our universe. With a visually breathtaking perspective on our solar system and galaxy, viewers will be taken to places they have never been while getting an immersive look at current and future technology of space exploration.
UFO sightings are at an all time high. Every eight seconds, someone, somewhere is seeing something highly unusual in the skies above our planet. But what happens when hundreds or even thousands of people witness the same UFO event? The mass sighting might be the most exciting, compelling type of UFO experience. They have happened all around the world, and in an era where everyone carries a camera, they give us an opportunity to examine a sighting that has multiple eyewitnesses and an array of POVs. From the lights that terrorized Phoenix to the disappearance of an object into the Atlantic Ocean, these events amaze and profoundly unsettle witnesses. What makes these mass sightings incredible is also what makes them completely terrifying: if these UFOs stick around long enough to be seen, then what might happen next?
Look up as a Chicago suburb gets a Halloween visit from some unidentified lights in the sky and a witness spots a horseshoe-shaped, house-size vessel. Then study the Buck’s County Wave, a cluster of more than 200 UFO sightings in Pennsylvania.
In a post-scarcity civilization where material needs are met, black markets don’t vanish—they evolve. Explore why scarcity shifts to identity, risk, privacy, and desire.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:09 Why Black Markets Exist When Everything Is Free
8:25 Abolish everything
9:25 What Gets Trafficked in a Post-Scarcity Civilization?
19:42 The Ecosystem of Shadow Commerce
25:10 Enforcement and Tolerance
Catch a strange hissing sound right before a 25-foot-wide object emerges from a swamp in front of an Australian farmer. Then get dizzy when a weird beam transforms into an inexplicable multicolour light show, causing a driver to veer off the road.
Hang back as a flame rises into the air and reveals a shiny oval-shaped craft to a New Mexico patrolman. Then peer at a bright light that engulfs a tree in Germany, setting off a strong wind and unmasking a large luminous object in the distance.
Every year countless UFO sightings are reported from thousands of regions around the globe. Many of these sightings are documented and investigated. Most of them can be accounted for by weather patterns, flight schedules or extraordinary imagination. But a select few are still considered unsolved…extra-terrestrial puzzles that police investigators, government officials and even medical communities cannot explain. These are the unique, often untold stories that have captivated UFO experts and researchers imaginations for decades. These are the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. By combining first-rate dramatic recreations, live action CGI and dynamic expert interviews, each episode of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is a fast-paced, action-packed and above all, suspenseful look at the intriguing and convincing UFO stories on the planet. From Alberta to Australia, from Texas to Tokyo – every half hour of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS will unpack the incredible details from two stories per episode of the more mystifying and international sightings around the world.
Flying a plane is said to be stretches of endless boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. But whoever coined the cliché was imagining mechanical issues and bad weather, not a frightening encounter with a UFO. Being on an aircraft, as a pilot or a passenger that comes in close proximity to an object that doesn’t appear on radar, accelerates at dizzying speeds and then stops on a dime, is a scary experience. Trapped at high altitudes, it’s a helpless feeling. Who are they and what do they want? They’re questions with unparalleled stakes, both emotional and practical, when you’re 30,000 feet above the earth.
Billy Meier is Swiss national who in 1975 claimed he traveled on a beamship through space with his extraterrestrial friends. He claimed to have been in contact with these extraterrestrials telepathically since the age of five years old and that they allowed him to take photographs and videos of their spacecraft. Billy Meier also claims he met the real Jesus Christ who was in fact an extraterrestrial named Jmmanuele and that major religions and government agencies have been trying to undermine him by stealing his evidence and replacing it with falsified photographs. Since 1975, Billy Meier’s story has been widely characterized as fraudulent by skeptics and most ufologists who say that his photographs and films are hoaxes. His story is considered taboo for anyone who wants to be taken seriously to speak of in a positive light.
Flying a plane is said to be stretches of endless boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. But whoever coined the cliché was imagining mechanical issues and bad weather, not a frightening encounter with a UFO. Being on an aircraft, as a pilot or a passenger that comes in close proximity to an object that doesn’t appear on radar, accelerates at dizzying speeds and then stops on a dime, is a scary experience. Trapped at high altitudes, it’s a helpless feeling. Who are they and what do they want? They’re questions with unparalleled stakes, both emotional and practical, when you’re 30,000 feet above the earth.
