First Contact: An Alien Encounter

An Unusual Transmission

A dramatized sequence depicting how the world might react, and what scientists might have learned, two days after receiving news of potential extraterrestrial life.

An Unusual Transmission

1m 56s

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    First Contact: An Alien Encounter

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    Mixing a fictional narrative with documentary interviews, "First Contact: An Alien Encounter" tells the dramatic story of an encounter with an extraterrestrial artifact and explores the new tools we have available in the search for life beyond earth.

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