Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ufo-sighting"

1. Nope (2022)

R | 130 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott

Votes: 268,759 | Gross: $123.28M

2. Color Out of Space (2019)

Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.

Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight

Votes: 56,553

3. Them! (1954)

Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness

Votes: 24,259

4. Risen (2021)

109 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area.

Director: Eddie Arya | Stars: Zahlee Moore, Izzy Bridger, Lily Brown Griffiths, Dominic Stone

Votes: 3,240

5. UFO (2018)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.

Director: Ryan Eslinger | Stars: Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, Ella Purnell, Benjamin Beatty

Votes: 11,922

6. OVNI(s) (2021–2022)

30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A light-hearted comedy drama centred on Didier Mathure, a brilliant space engineer whose aspirations are shattered when the rocket he's spent a decade building explodes on take-off.

Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Michel Vuillermoz, Géraldine Pailhas, Quentin Dolmaire

Votes: 1,138

7. Capel Green (2024)

Documentary, Drama | Post-production

Documentary containing dramatisations, focuses on the life of Larry Warren, original witness and whistle-blower in the famous Rendlesham Forest Incidents as well as other military and civilian witnesses involved in these mysterious events.

Director: Dion M Johnson | Stars: Max Easton, Lauren Stokes, Emma von Schreiber, Remy Bataille

8. HyperNormalisation (2016)

166 min | Documentary

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum

Votes: 7,397

9. Missing 411: The U.F.O. Connection (2022)

93 min | Documentary, Mystery

Dave Paulides investigates cases of elk hunters who've gone missing from specific regions of North America, and explores the theory that there could be a connection between these disappearances and sightings of UFOs.

Director: David Paulides | Stars: Daniela Salmen, John Miles, Adam Palmer, Gail Star

Votes: 729

10. Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 2,179

11. Dr. Alien (1989)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A sexy substitute teacher replaces a teacher who was killed by a UFO encounter, but her research on a nerdy student is now making him a lady magnet.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Billy Jayne, Judy Landers, Olivia Barash, Stuart Fratkin

Votes: 1,309

12. He Who Is Without Sin (2020)

74 min | Drama

A cautionary tale told in three contradicting accounts, this is a story of a broadcasting student who discovers the shady truth about the TV reporter he idolizes, a dignified newsman who is... See full summary »

Director: Jason Paul Laxamana | Stars: Elijah Canlas, Enzo Pineda, Pearl Lagman, Migs Campanilla

Votes: 395

13. The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2017)

67 min | Documentary

Learn the terrifying, true story about thirteen months that changed history! In November of 1966 a car full of kids encountered a creature unlike anything they'd ever seen before. In the ... See full summary »

Director: Seth Breedlove | Stars: Mothman, Denny Bellamy, Marcella Bennett, Lyle Blackburn

Votes: 620

14. Loners (2000)

103 min | Comedy

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of ... See full summary »

Director: David Ondricek | Stars: Labina Mitevska, Jitka Schneiderová, Sasa Rasilov, Jirí Machácek

Votes: 3,264

15. Blue Tornado (1991)

PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

While experimenting with a new flight maneuver, Colonel Alex Long and Phil encounter a mysterious light over a mountain range. Phil becomes transfixed, flies into the light and disappears. ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Bido | Stars: Dirk Benedict, Ted McGinley, Patsy Kensit, David Warner

Votes: 391

16. Visitors from the Unknown (1991 TV Movie)

47 min | Biography, Sci-Fi

A special reenacting the experiences of people who have had documented encounters with extraterrestrial life forces. A British policeman has a close encounter with a UFO, a wood-cutter ... See full summary »

Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: James Earl Jones, Karl Bakke, Stephen Held, Jon Chardiet

Votes: 44

17. Denladrans (2024)

3 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi | Completed

Cornish for 'Abduction', Denladrans is a found-footage style film made for the 2024 Straight8 competition. It follows a story of an alien sightings, pagan rituals and an occult abductions in far-west Cornwall, 1987.

Director: Peter Arthur Moon | Stars: Michael Fenner, William Pope, Ruth Cicale, Robin Falvey

18. Flying Objects: A State Secret (2020)

55 min | Documentary, History, Sci-Fi

Explore new, fascinating data gathered by military, government, and private organizations in key geopolitical countries, leading many to believe that a unified human effort should be undertaken to study extraterrestrial phenomena.

Director: Dominique Filhol | Stars: Roger Baldacchino, Pierre Bescond, Robert Bigelow, Luc Dini

Votes: 181

19. Excursie (2014)

19 min | Short, Drama

Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then ... See full summary »

Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Eric Aradits, Adrian Titieni, Maria Radu, Dan Chisu

Votes: 75

20. Anonymous Vol. 1 - The Dreamland Adventures the Mysteries of Atlantis (2020)

Action, Adventure, Mystery

1.0 - An agent in NASA receives a packet by a new nation created from Hitler's escape; has armed a doomsday device. Agent Schwartz turns to his Russian family as he tries to diffuse the weapon of mass destruction.

Director: David Christians | Stars: Lance Caver, David Christians, Tristan David Luciotti

Votes: 6

21. Déjeuner sur l'herbe (2019)

8 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi

A brilliant scientist sees his convictions crumble during a picnic at the lake.

Directors: Jules Bourges, Jocelyn Charles, Pierre Rougemont, Nathan Harbonn Viaud | Stars: Robert Bennett, Adrian Danatt, Liya Han

Votes: 40

22. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: Uhny Uftz (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

While suffering from exhaustion at the office, Rob sees a flying saucer. Try as he might, nobody believes him.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 377

23. First Wave (1998–2001)
Episode: Second Wave (1998)

TV-14 | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Foster investigates a UFO sighting and gets involved with some local peoples problems. Then the invasion begins and they all take cover together. Is Foster too late to stop it?

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton | Stars: Sebastian Spence, Rob LaBelle, Kathryn Anderson, Gerard Plunkett

Votes: 57

24. Newhart (1982–1990)
Episode: Heaven Knows Mr. Utley (1983)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy

George becomes the joke of the town after he spies a UFO and nobody believes him.

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Steven Kampmann, Jennifer Holmes

Votes: 118

25. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: The Last Barrier (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A top secret rocket is launched from the Pacific to test a new hydrogen ion booster; the target is the moon. Inexplicably, it sets off a rash of flying saucer sightings on the East Coast. ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Truman Bradley, William Ching, Tom McKee, Bruce Wendell

Votes: 25

26. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Berkshires UFO (2020)

TV-MA | 39 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, recall their baffling, terrifying experiences with a UFO on the night of September 1, 1969.

Director: Marcus A. Clarke | Stars: Thom Reed, Nancy Reed, Jane Green, Tom Warner

Votes: 1,326

27. RichPlanet TV (2009– )
Episode: Rendlesham UFO: 40 Years of Lies (2019)

Documentary, History, News

When trying to get to the bottom of an event, we often rely heavily on words that come out of people's mouths. If physical, video, or photographic evidence is lacking, eyewitness testimony ... See full summary »

Stars: Richard D. Hall, Peter Robbins, Charles I. Halt, James Penniston

28. Cities of the Underworld (2007– )
Episode: Land of Manson (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History

He was the ringleader behind some of the most notorious murders in history. He terrified the world and plunged the city of Los Angeles into a state of paranoia and fear. He's Charles Manson... See full summary »

Star: Don Wildman

Votes: 18

29. The Proof is Out There (2021– )
Episode: Birdzilla & New Montauk Monster (2022)

TV-PG | 20 min | Documentary

Could an unidentified creature washed up on the beach be proof of animal testing at a nearby lab? Is an object seen over the skies of inner Mongolia extraterrestrial in origin? And is a ... See full summary »

Stars: Tony Harris, M.J. Banias, Cliff Barackman, Shea Steingass

Votes: 17

30. Decoding the Unknown (2021– )
Skinwalker Ranch (2022 Podcast Episode)

44 min | Talk-Show

A Utah ranch is well known for alleged sightings of UFOs and paranormal activity. Do any of these claims make sense, and are any of them true?

Star: Simon Whistler

31. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Something in the Sky (2022)

TV-MA | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Over 300 residents of western Michigan report seeing unearthly lights on the night of March 8th, 1994. Decades later the event remains unexplained.

Director: Gabe Torres | Stars: Jesse Boone, Jack Bushong, Holly Graves, William J. Konkolesky

Votes: 642

32. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Paranormal Rangers (2022)

TV-MA | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Accounts from people who believe to have seen Bigfoot, or what The Navajos would deem a Skinwalker.

Director: Clay Jeter | Stars: Jonathan Dover, Darius Eteeyan, Nya Simone Eteeyan, Brenda Harris

Votes: 424

33. Part of the Problem (2018– )
Live from Dallas (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

Add a Plot

Stars: Dave Smith, Robbie Bernstein

34. America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010– )
Episode: 25-20 (2010)

Documentary, Crime, History

We've reached the top 25 in our countdown of unsolved mysteries including a famous outlaw who escaped his grave, an infamous gangland massacre never solved, and a secret mob assassin revealed.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Rick Beyer, Paul Aron, Michael Newton, Clifford Clift

35. Encounters (2023)
Episode: Lights Over Fukushima (2023)

TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary, History

After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, survivors reported seeing bright lights above the power plant. For some, the event upholds a long-held belief.

Director: Yon Motskin | Stars: Jensine Andresen, Tomonori Izumi, Roland Kelts, Steven Lim

Votes: 140

36. Encounters (2023)
Episode: The Broad Haven Triangle (2023)

TV-14 | Documentary, History

A close encounter at a children's school in a tiny Welsh village spurs a series of sightings. An astrophysicist theorizes about aliens and water.

Director: Yon Motskin | Stars: Billy Coombs, Pauline Coombs, Tony Cowan, Dave Davies

Votes: 149

37. Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode: File: Mysteries of Mt. Shasta (2024)

TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Steeped in legend, Mount Shasta and its rich Indigenous history have attracted spiritual seekers, cult leaders and secret societies for decades.

Stars: Jim Benemann, Leaf Hillman, Karen Leigh, Kay Love

Votes: 79

38. Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode: File: Goverment's UFO Conspiracy (2024)

TV-14 | 38 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Since the '70s, US military personnel have reported strange sightings and dealt with mysterious health issues but where forced to stay silent - until now.

Stars: Cheryl Bennett, John F. Burroughs, André Carson, Ryan Graves

Votes: 96

39. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode: Alien Commies from the Future! (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A surprise leap forward in time strands Enoch in 1931 and lands the team in another unfamiliar decade; in order to stop the chronicoms from launching their future-dismantling plan, the ... See full summary »

Director: Nina Lopez-Corrado | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge

Votes: 2,050