J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot to explore UFOs in new Showtime docu-series inspired by recent reports

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot to explore UFOs in new Showtime docu-series inspired by recent reports US government is taking the phenomenon seriously


J.J. Abrams is set to produce a four-part documentary for Showtime dealing with UFOs (unidentified flying objects) set to air later this summer. 

The special will explore ongoing interest in extraterrestrial beings, and what roles entities such as private contractors and the U.S. government and military might have in the ongoing quest to discover more about extraterrestrial existence.

UFOs have been in the headlines in recent years amid probes from the Pentagon amid a 2017 New York Times report that naval pilots have reported witnessing seeing objects in the sky that could not be identified.

The latest: J.J. Abrams, 54, is set to produce a four-part documentary for Showtime dealing with UFOs (unidentified flying objects) set to air later this summer

Recent declassified reports from the Pentagon indicated that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) remains a mystery to government officials.

According to the Showtime, the series will take a closer look at ‘unsettling theories of a subject that recently reached national headlines, and has historically been the focus of powerful politicians and CEOs, while average citizens pursuing the very same truth have been ridiculed and ostracized.’

The network said that the show will take a longview of ‘the history of the phenomenon through cultural and political touchpoints, including shocking testimony from eyewitnesses across the country.

‘As the conversation grows more bizarre and reaches the mainstream by virtue of credible investigations into alien encounters, UFO confronts the most enigmatic questions of all: Why do we believe what we believe? And what is the elusive truth beyond this decades long mystery?’

Recent declassified reports from the Pentagon indicated that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) remains a mystery to government officials

Recent declassified reports from the Pentagon indicated that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) remains a mystery to government officials 

UFOs have been in the headlines in recent years amid probes from the Pentagon amid a 2017 New York Times report that naval pilots have reported witnessing seeing objects in the sky that could not be identified

UFOs have been in the headlines in recent years amid probes from the Pentagon amid a 2017 New York Times report that naval pilots have reported witnessing seeing objects in the sky that could not be identified

The Showtime special comes amid multiple headlines on the phenomenon, as a former Pentagon official told The Washington Post earlier this week that UFOs have tapped into the country’s U.S. nuclear technology at times, knocking them offline.

Luis Elizondo, who once headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told the paper the U.S. has ‘had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities.’

Elizondo said ‘there does seem to be some sort of congruency or some sort of intersection between these UAP or UFO sightings and our nuclear technology with nuclear propulsion, nuclear power generation, or nuclear weapons systems.’

‘Furthermore, those same observations have been seen overseas in other countries. They too have had the same incidents. So that tells us this is a global issue.’

The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force is slated to deliver a report of their research to the U.S. congress June 25.

Mark Monroe and Paul Crowder are teaming up to direct the special, which will drop in its entirety August 8 at midnight.