Movies like The Phenomenon (2020)
The best movies like The Phenomenon (2020) are The Alien Perspective (2025), Moment of Contact (2022) and Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers (2018). If The Phenomenon hooked you with its documentary, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- NewestS4: The Bob Lazar Story (2026)Released 2026
The Alien Perspective (2025)
Discover the UFO phenomenon like never before, with insights from NASA, CNES, Oxford, compelling firsthand witnesses, and even the possible viewpoint of extraterrestrial visitors.
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Moment of Contact (2022)
An exploration of potential extraterrestrial encounters centered on a series of events in Varginha, Brazil in 1996. Residents reported seeing one or more strange creatures and a UFO crash.
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Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers (2018)
Area 51, flying saucers from another world - and the program to create a fierce technology. Bob Lazar remains the singular most famous and controversial name in the world of UFOs. The reason you know about Area 51 is because Lazar came forward and told you about it. His disclosures have turned his life upside-down and he has tried to stay out of the spotlight. For this reason, he has never let any filmmaker into the private world of his daily life - that is - until now. Corbell’s film explores Lazar’s claims through the lens of thirty years - providing rare and never before revealed footage - guaranteed to alter the landscape of the debate.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSirius (2013)
Dr. Steven Greer—an Emergency room doctor turned UFO researcher—discloses top secret information about classified energy and propulsion techniques, investigates new technology and sheds light on criminal and murderous suppression. He does so by accumulating over 100 Government, military and Intelligence-community witnesses who testify on record about the cover-up.
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The Program (2024)
Explores the unprecedented bipartisan congressional effort to uncover what intelligence agencies really know about UFOs, now referred to as UAP.
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Unacknowledged (2017)
Dr. Steven Greer presents brand new top-secret evidence supporting extraterrestrial contact, including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage, while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly enforcing such secrecy.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClose Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020)
Dr. Steven Greer’s previous works, SIRIUS and UNACKNOWLEDGED, broke crowdfunding records and ignited a grassroots movement. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIFTH KIND features groundbreaking video and photographic evidence and supporting interviews from prominent figures such as Adam Curry of Princeton’s PEAR Lab; legendary civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan, and Dr. Russell Targ, who headed the CIA’s top secret remote viewing program. Their message: For thousands of people, contact has begun. This is their story.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Age of Disclosure (2025)
Director Dan Farah got 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community to come on camera. He says they reveal an 80 year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin. The film explores the profound impact the situation has on the future of humanity, while providing a look behind-the-scenes with those at the forefront of the bi-partisan disclosure effort.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisHunt for the Skinwalker (2018)
This documentary is an intimate and unnerving portrait of the events surrounding the most extensive scientific study of a paranormal hotspot in human history.
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Mirage Men (2013)
For over 60 years teams within the US Air Force and Intelligence services exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and ET visitations as part of their counterintelligence programs. In doing so they spawned a mythology so powerful that it captivated and warped many brilliant minds, including several of their own. Now, for the first time, some of those behind these operations, and their victims, speak out, revealing a true story that is part Manchurian Candidate and part Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations (2023)
The truth can no longer be contained by those duty-bound to hide it. The truth about another intelligence engaging humanity becomes undeniably clear. Witness UFO revelations from true insiders that have never been shared with the public.
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UFO Conspiracy: Hunt for the Truth (2017)
In the 70 years since the famed Roswell UFO crash, there is a long history of allegations involving alien phenomena and their supposed government cover-ups. This special takes a hard look at the most famous, and lesser known, UFO reports that some believe have been purposely hidden from the public.
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Watchers 1: UFOs are Real, Burgeoning, and Not Going Away (2010)
LA Marzulli examines the leading questions about UFOs, entities, and related unexplained mysteries in this video documentary, with special guest Dr. Roger Leir, the surgeon who has removed implants from 16 patients.
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A Tear in the Sky (2022)
A Tear in the Sky takes you on an unprecedented journey into the UAP/UFO phenomenon as we follow a team of world-renowned experts, scientists, and military personnel who will attempt to unravel the UAP/UFO mysteries using state-of-the-art, military-grade equipment, and technology. While the UFO phenomenon has existed since the dawn of recorded history, very little scientific research is accessible to the public. Most of the serious research is conducted by various governments and militaries across the planet; this film is a documentary on how a team of military veterans, scientists, and researchers come together and launch an investigation into this fascinating world of the unknown while providing the data and results to the public.
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Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters (2025)
For the first time in history a neurosurgeon describes communication with a live captured alien. This expanded version of Moment of Contact, New Revelations of Alien Encounters sees James Fox return to Brazil in the wake of congressional hearings in the United States. Ground-breaking interviews with former police chief, pathologists, and Dr Ítalo Venturelli who communicated with the alien.
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Ariel Phenomenon (2022)
Ariel Phenomenon explores an African extraterrestrial encounter witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in 1994. As a Harvard professor, a BBC war reporter, and past students investigate, they struggle to answer the question: "What happens when you experience something so extraordinary that nobody believes you?"
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The UFO Conclusion (2016)
What is the alien agenda? And why has the government gone to such great lengths to stifle the overwhelming evidence that otherworldly creatures exist? Some of our greatest minds unveil the truth behind this massive cover-up.
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UFO Endgame to Disclosure (2023)
Now that the Department of Defense acknowledges that the UFO phenomenon is real, what does that really tell us? Award-winning documentary filmmakers Blake and Brent Cousins who brought you "Countdown To Disclosure" and "Above Top Secret" now bring you the latest shocking film, "UFO Endgame to Disclosure," and travel across America to speak with the top experts regarding the cosmic cover-up to reveal the secret technology that can change the world. Dr. Steven Greer comes forward with explosive information about the deadly game of suppressed technology that could eliminate the need for fossil fuels and save our planet from ultimate destruction.
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Out of the Blue (2003)
Narrated by Peter Coyote, Out of The Blue is widely considered the best documentary ever made about Unidentified Objects. The producers traveled around the world to investigate some of the most famous UFO events on record. Through exclusive interviews with high-ranking military and government personnel, this award-winning film supports the theory that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.
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Above Top Secret: The Technology Behind Disclosure (2022)
We're at a tipping point in history, the hidden technology that could change everything has been suppressed for decades. Dr. Steven Greer presents mind-blowing information along with never before seen access into the crusade behind disclosure. Retired FBI special agent John Desouza, Aerospace Historians James C, Goodall along with Michael Schratt breakdown the implications of the cover-up, and the false UFO narrative created by the major media. How much does the President of the United States really know about the UFO phenomenon, and the Above Top Secret projects involved with exotic technology? Billy Carson presents the real motivation behind the major media, and the U.S. Military role out of the UAP phenomenon.
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The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear (2018)
Unlock a decades-old mystery that included a government-ordered military examination of a purported alien crash-site, and multiple UFOs seen by countless residents of Braxton County, West Virginia.
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Secret Space UFOs: Apollo 1-11 (2023)
The UFO phenomenon has been recorded far beyond the boundaries of Earth with hundreds of sightings during the Apollo missions 1-11. James Fox, Darcy Weir, Mike Bara and Richard Dolan discuss this hidden history of UFOs in space and structures on the Moon. A history of NASA's early Apollo missions as astronauts endeavor to set foot on the moon and go further in space than any man has before.—Darcy Weir
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S4: The Bob Lazar Story (2026)
Over 35 years after Bob Lazar's revelations, this documentary exposes secrets of a facility the government still denies. Featuring Lazar's testimony, recreations, and new evidence, it reopens a case that continues to spark global curiosity
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Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMissing 411: The U.F.O. Connection (2023)
In Missing 411: The UFO Connection, David Paulides continues the story of people who vanish in the wild without a trace. In his third documentary, David reveals the first evidence documenting a link between UFOs and missing people.
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The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It (2023)
A century of illegal UFO secrecy has cost humanity hundreds of years of spiritual, cultural and technological development. This film, presented by Dr. Steven Greer, will expose the cost of the coverup to the planet, and the human race, and how we can reclaim control of our collective destiny.
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Above Majestic (2018)
A look at the origins, history and conspiracies behind the "Majestic 12", a clandestine group of military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisExtraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story (2013)
Stan Romanek is the center of the world's most documented extraterrestrial contact story, and the multitude of evidence accumulated over the past decade has convinced thousands around the world that his story is true. This documentary film takes audiences on a journey through Stan's past, present and future with one goal in mind: help the world understand that no one knowingly chooses the challenges Stan and his family have endured. This film's intention is not to prove the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials, but it does pose the question' What if this is all true? extraordinary: the stan romanek story is about one man's evolution through a life he did not choose and the messages he is driven to deliver to mankind.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Unknown Compelling Force (2021)
The truth of Russia's greatest unsolved mystery, the Dyatlov Pass Incident, is uncovered in this compelling documentary.
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Aliens Expanded (2024)
Exploring James Cameron’s beloved science-fiction epic from teeth to tail, Aliens Expanded is truly the most in-depth, passionate and innovative celebration of a movie ever attempted.
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The Visit: An Alien Encounter (2015)
“This film documents an event that has never taken place…” With unprecedented access to the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans’ first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself. “Our scenario begins with the arrival. Your arrival.”
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Phenomenon?
The closest matches to The Phenomenon are The Alien Perspective (2025), Moment of Contact (2022) and Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Phenomenon?
People who watched The Phenomenon most often go on to The Alien Perspective (2025), Moment of Contact (2022) and Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers (2018).
What is the newest movie like The Phenomenon?
S4: The Bob Lazar Story (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Phenomenon?
Yes: The Alien Perspective (2025), Moment of Contact (2022) and Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers (2018).
How are movies similar to The Phenomenon chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Phenomenon, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.