Welcome back to Nerdist Camp, the podcast where we set up camp at the crossroads of curiosity and the stories that won’t stop haunting us.
Today, we’re talking about UFOs, lights in the sky, strange happenings and alien abductions.
Why do so many people claim to have seen strange lights, saucer shaped craft, lost hours of time, or even been taken aboard for probing?
Is it evidence of extraterrestrial contact… or are the answers closer to Earth?
We’ll discuss psychological theories to ask which one explains why people say they’ve been abducted by aliens. Is it temporary illness, mass hysteria, or is it something simpler — a desperate need for attention, weaving a fantasy around a script we’ve all learned from books and movies? Or have they indeed been taken in the night?
Grab your flashlight, because here on Nerdist Camp, we’re investigating all things unidentified, unexplained and unclassified after 50 years.
Film and TV we discussed:
- Travis Walton / Fire In The Sky
- Whitley Strieber / Communion
- Gerry Anderson UFO
- Heaven’s Gate cult
- Dark Skies
- The X Files
- Close encounters of the Third Kind
- Contact
- Signs
- District 9
- The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951, 2008)
- This Island Earth
- This week we are watching and recommend:
Kris:
- Alien Earth (Disney+)
- Unsolved Mysteries (2024, Netflix) (V3E2, Something in the Sky, V5E4, The Roswell UFO Incident).
- Encounters (2023, Netflix).
- Batman & Robin – Sun Ra.
- Opeth – Ghost Reveries
- Philip Glass – 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
Andi:
- Alien Earth
- Platonic – Apple TV+
- Resident Alien (Sky/Now)
- “Leaving Through The Window” – Something Corporate
