Documentary · 8 January 2025
The Alien Perspective
Written and directed by Dean Alioto · two-part documentary series · animation by Arvid Steen
A 2025 two-part documentary by Dean Alioto that tries to turn the usual question around: rather than asking what an encounter with extraterrestrials would mean for us, it asks how visitors might see us. It mixes interviews with scientists and commentators, among them Michio Kaku, NASA's Elisa Quintana and the journalist Leslie Kean, with first-hand witness accounts, including of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, and animated sequences by Arvid Steen.
Like other documentaries here, it presents interviewees' views and witnesses' accounts; what they say is testimony, marked as claimed until an official record backs it. The official trailer plays here from IGN's YouTube upload.
Sources: producers' description (trailer, 2024); IMDb and streaming listings.
Facts and claims
- claimed A two-part documentary series written and directed by Dean Alioto, released digitally worldwide on January 8, 2025. Its producers describe it as exploring the UFO phenomenon with insights from NASA, France's space agency CNES and Oxford, first-hand witnesses, and the possible viewpoint of extraterrestrial visitors. Source: The Alien Perspective: official trailer
- claimed Interviewees named by the producers include the physicist Michio Kaku, the comedian and UFO researcher Dave Foley, the journalist Leslie Kean and NASA's Elisa Quintana, deputy project scientist for the TESS mission. Alioto previously consulted on James Fox's The Phenomenon (2020). Source: The Alien Perspective: official trailer
Connected files
People
- Leslie Kean (features)
Incidents
- Rendlesham Forest incident (features) — Includes first-hand witness accounts of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident
Documentaries
- The Phenomenon (shares crew with) — Alioto previously consulted on The Phenomenon (2020)
Videos
- The Alien Perspective: official trailer (trailer)
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- NASA (Organization)