Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies - Season 1

In 2016, multiple witnesses in and around the village of Pentyrch, south Wales, saw a vast triangular UFO appearing in the night sky, ejecting smaller red and green craft before engaging in a battle with the RAF, culminating in its apparent shooting down. The presenter and astrophysicist Sarah Cruddas examine video evidence of the alleged UFO crash site and consider natural phenomena before speaking to UFO investigator Gari Jones from the Swansea UFO Network, who has failed to get a clear explanation from the military of these events.

Craig and space journalist Sarah Cruddas scrutinise an astonishing case that took place in November 2018 off the west coast of Ireland, in which multiple pilots saw bizarre lights through their cockpit windows. Ted Roe, Director of Research at the National Aviation Reporting Centre shares extraordinary insights into the sighting, while an ex-Nato air traffic controller - under the cover of anonymity - acts as a whistle-blower, spilling more secrets of the sky and the shocking lengths that governments are prepared to go to hide the truth.

The actor joins forces with world-renowned space journalist Sarah Cruddas to investigate some of the most perplexing UFO encounters of recent times.

Craig joins forces with space journalist Sarah Cruddas to investigate some of the most perplexing UFO encounters of recent times. Here the duo recall the infamous Rendlesham Forest incident of 1980. The sightings occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force.

Craig and co-presenter Sarah Cruddas head to central Scotland, which has its own `Area 51", known as the Falkirk Triangle, encompassing the now infamous village of Bonnybridge, which claims the highest concentration of the region's UFO activity. They also investigate the alleged abduction of forestry worker Robert Taylor in 1979, the only British UFO incident to have been officially investigated by the police

In 1997, over the city of Phoenix, Arizona, one of the most spectacular mass UFO sighting of all time took place. Thousands of people witnessed a series of bright orange orbs moving in formation silently overhead. Despite hours of video and photographic evidence this case remains unexplained. Craig and space journalist Sarah Cruddas talk to eyewitness nurse David Parker who provides a vivid description of his close-up encounter with a huge boomerang-shaped UFO that passed directly overhead. They also investigate the response by the authorities in the days following the UFO event

Craig and co-host Sarah Cruddas examine the Chicago O'Hare International Airport case of November 2006 - the sighting of a flying saucer hovering over a United Airlines airport gate. The incident was witnessed by multiple aviation professionals, pilots and passengers. The immediate aftermath of the event was captured in real time by audio recordings of communication between the airport's Air Traffic Control tower and airline staff, but the sighting was dismissed by the US government's Federal Aviation Administration as a weather phenomenon. Craig and Sarah talk to UFO investigator Robert Powell, who reveals the UFO punched a circular hole in the clouds as it departed upwards after hovering over the terminal. Craig and Sarah also learn astonishing details about how aviation authorities handled the incident

Craig and space journalist Sarah Cruddas turn their attention to reports of alien abductions, focusing on the case of Yorkshire policeman Alan Godfrey in November 1980. The duo examine Godfrey's claims he was confronted head-on by a diamond shaped craft hovering in the road as he was coming off his night shift. Alan believed he `lost" 25 minutes, during which time he was on board the craft being medically examined by small beings and a tall man with a beard

In January 2008, a shadow was cast over the town of Stephenville, Texas, when a UFO passed overhead at supersonic speed. The event was witnessed by scores of stunned locals who remain desperate for answers on what exactly they saw that winter's evening. Craig and space journalist Sarah Cruddas talk to eyewitness private pilot Steve Allen who was with friends when he saw a vast UFO passing overhead at a speed estimated to be 2,000mph. He describes the craft as having an array of bright, high-intensity lights at its rear - and pursued by two US Air Force F16 fighter jets. The team discovers that the US military, who initially denied any knowledge of this event, changed their story in the weeks following the incident, adding fuel to the theory that there could be a high-level cover-up

The actor is joined by astrophysicist Sarah Cruddas to recall the events of October 2017, when astronomers at the Pan-STARRS observatory saw an object they named Oumuamua, the very first observed visitor from interstellar space. Craig and Sarah talk to Senior Astronomer Dr Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, who shares his theories of what Oumuamua could possibly be and postulates that the very fact it entered the solar system at all is the best argument of all for it being alien