Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies

Craig and space journalist Sarah Cruddas turn their attention to reports of alien abductions, focusing on the case of Yorkshire policeman Alan Godfrey in November 1980. The duo examine Godfrey's claims he was confronted head-on by a diamond shaped craft hovering in the road as he was coming off his night shift. Alan believed he `lost" 25 minutes, during which time he was on board the craft being medically examined by small beings and a tall man with a beard

In January 2008, a shadow was cast over the town of Stephenville, Texas, when a UFO passed overhead at supersonic speed. The event was witnessed by scores of stunned locals who remain desperate for answers on what exactly they saw that winter's evening. Craig and space journalist Sarah Cruddas talk to eyewitness private pilot Steve Allen who was with friends when he saw a vast UFO passing overhead at a speed estimated to be 2,000mph. He describes the craft as having an array of bright, high-intensity lights at its rear - and pursued by two US Air Force F16 fighter jets. The team discovers that the US military, who initially denied any knowledge of this event, changed their story in the weeks following the incident, adding fuel to the theory that there could be a high-level cover-up

The actor is joined by astrophysicist Sarah Cruddas to recall the events of October 2017, when astronomers at the Pan-STARRS observatory saw an object they named Oumuamua, the very first observed visitor from interstellar space. Craig and Sarah talk to Senior Astronomer Dr Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, who shares his theories of what Oumuamua could possibly be and postulates that the very fact it entered the solar system at all is the best argument of all for it being alien