Documentaries

The 5 Best UFO Docs Beaming Down on Streaming

These five documentaries dissect the UFO phenomenon from multiple POVs — including that of the aliens.

With two recent Congressional Hearings on UFOs, the establishment of both a Pentagon-run UFO office and an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) study group by NASA, the world is feeling more and more like a science fiction movie every day — and it’s about to get much weirder.

I have been researching UFOs for over 25 years. I’ve read almost every book, seen almost every documentary, and have personally interviewed hundreds of people claiming to have seen UFOs. Hell, I’ve even interviewed former — possibly still active … — intelligence officials who have claimed to have worked on UFO programs within the United States that have retrieved wreckage from crashed flying saucers. And if there’s one thing I’m certain of, it’s that something is most definitely happening in our skies — and it’s happening now more than ever.

To put it bluntly: UFOs are hot right now, and that’s proven by the dozens of UFO-related documentaries that have recently dropped or will be dropping within weeks or days of you reading this. With my personal interest in the topic, I thought I’d help you save some time, sift through the mysterious muck, and find the best UFO-centric documentaries and series invading streaming platforms right now and in early 2025.

Investigation Alien

Investigation Alien follows investigative journalist George Knapp. Knapp is best known for his work with KLAS, a prominent news station in Las Vegas. He’s been on the UFO beat for many years, racking up some of the highest-rated news segments in the history of the network.

In 1989, Knapp broke the controversial story of a man named Bob Lazar, a physicist who claimed to have worked at a secret facility in Nevada that attempted to reverse-engineer an alien craft. That facility was a facility called Site 4, which was an offshoot of a little place you might know better as Area 51. That’s…