Alien Encounters - Episode Guide

What would really happen if we got a message from space? How would we react? Scientists and sci-fi writers, with cooperation from SETI and Carl Sagan's son, Nick, unravel the impact of this world changing event, forming an intriguing hypothetical scenario

How will humans react when an alien spacecraft arrives on Earth? Will humans learn from aliens, or become colonial subjects? Scientists and sci-fi writers, with cooperation from SETI and Carl Sagan's son, Nick, unravel the impact of this event.

The Arrival has ended. A swarm of small spacecraft depart their huge mothership, and hover in our atmosphere. The ships open their hatches, and deposit thousands of mysterious pods on the earth's surface. Are they are message, a gift or a weapon?

A mothership the size of Texas is hovering over Earth and we are tired of waiting. We send a rover to explore, and what we find makes us question the definition of life. On Earth, the pods multiply and get smaller, making contact with them unavoidabe.

The Season 3 premiere explores the space-trash-mining industry. Also: super soldiers at the Pentagon; blueprints for a quantum computer.

A quantum supercomputer is built, based on alleged alien instructions, that would allow human children with alien DNA to connect to it using only their thoughts.

More Brids connect to the quantum computer and they become more powerful, and the computer becomes more self-aware. The combined brainpower is able to crunch unprecedented data and calculate the future.

A U.S. attack on quantum computer Quincy is chronicled.

After a failed attack on the quantum computer, the U.S. attempts to destroy the network. Also: A mysterious box surfaces out of the alien trash orbiting Earth.

A virtual-reality simulator predicts a collision between a comet and Earth.