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Movies like UFOTOG (2014)

The best movies like UFOTOG (2014) are The Phoenix Tapes '97 (2016), Osiris (2025) and The Wild Blue Yonder (2005). If UFOTOG hooked you with its science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. The Phoenix Tapes '97 (2016)

    In 1997, four campers went missing during the Phoenix Lights incident and their bodies were never found. The Phoenix Tapes 97 is comprised of their final footage. This film is dedicated to the lives lost during the events displayed. To their families and friends and to the authorities who continue to search for answers. ​ The tapes were found by Dustin Miller's father two years after Dustin was mysteriously shot and killed at a traffic stop in Texas. Peter Miller believes his son was acting as a whistleblower and had smuggled the tapes from his classified government agency in an effort to expose the truth as to what really happened to the four missing campers seen in the tapes. ​ After searching every newspaper and media publication around Phoenix during that time period, we only found one initial announcement that four campers were reported missing, as well as a formal police report folder with local PD but the folder had no files inside.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  2. Osiris (2025)

    Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  3. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

    An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  4. The X-Files (1998)

    Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  6. Europa Report (2013)

    A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  7. The 27th Day (1957)

    Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  8. Phoenix Forgotten (2017)

    Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  9. The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

    A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  10. Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)

    After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  11. Spaceman (2024)

    Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  12. Project: ALF (1996)

    Six years ago, the lovable intergalactic fugitive Gordon Shumway, best known as ALF, was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught up with him. Now, he is being studied at a top-secret military base where he finds allies who feel that ALF's existence should be announced to the world to ensure his safety... especially when they learn that the abrasive Colonel Milfoil wants ALF, and all Alien Life-Forms, destroyed.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  13. Serenity (2005)

    A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  14. The Asphyx (1972)

    Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  15. Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

    When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  16. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  17. Space/Time (2025)

    After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

  18. This Island Earth (1955)

    Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  19. Occupation: Rainfall (2020)

    Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  20. Alien Nation (1988)

    A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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  21. Mars Attacks! (1996)

    A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

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  22. El hijo del hombre perseguido por un O.V.N.I. (2020)

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  23. Skyline (2010)

    When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  24. Laserhawk (1997)

    250 million years ago, a carnivorous species 'planted' a crop of humans on an uninhabited planet known as Earth. Now, the alien life form has returned to harvest its yield. With total destruction looming just moments away, a futuristic warrior and a prophetic mental patient join forces against the creatures, but with mortal weapons no match for the superior alien technology, the duo's only hope for victory lies in finding a 250 million year-old spaceship known as Laserhawk. The future of the world depends on it.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  25. The X from Outer Space (1967)

    The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  26. A Message from Mars (1913)

    A Martian is sentenced to visit earth to cure a selfish man.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  27. Starship Invasions (1977)

    Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  28. Super Ninja Squad Inazuma!! SPARK (2007)

    A year after the prequel's events, Jun is now producing a sequel to her original show and has the daughter of Magical TV's president as her female lead. However, Tsubame is unable to keep herself from helping those she feels are in need, and she is accidentally sent to the Edo period where she tries to befriend a ronin shinobi. Hosomatsu and Kankichi are trying to find out who is killing all of daimyo, but Kaguya is traveling with Tojiro, so they are down one member as Inazuma.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  29. The Human Duplicators (1965)

    An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

  30. The Misty Green Sky (2016)

    A young girl on a far off planet in another solar system discovers that all she has been told is not true, her search for truth and love is an adventurous and cautionary tale.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like UFOTOG?

The closest matches to UFOTOG are The Phoenix Tapes '97 (2016), Osiris (2025) and The Wild Blue Yonder (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after UFOTOG?

Start with The Phoenix Tapes '97 (2016), the closest match to UFOTOG.

What is the highest-rated movie like UFOTOG?

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998), rated 7.5/10 by 216 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like UFOTOG?

Osiris (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like UFOTOG?

Yes: The Phoenix Tapes '97 (2016), Osiris (2025) and The Wild Blue Yonder (2005).

How are movies similar to UFOTOG chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside UFOTOG, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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