6.1/10 24 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/27/2012
Strange flying objects have been caught on NASA’s cameras and astronauts have reported seeing UFOs. Some can be identified; others remain a mystery. We’ll reveal NASA footage and interview the astronauts and scientists.
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6.4/10 38 votes#2 - Alien Death Ray
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/6/2014
The Viking Lander may have found life on Mars, so why don’t we know about it? What is the most destructive force in the universe? How could a starship be seen in the Aurora Borealis? And what are NASA’s mysterious Moon Pigeons?
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6.6/10 23 votes#3 - Top Secret Terror
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/2015
Was the Moon landing faked? Images of Mercury reveal massive spider-like formations on its surface. Is it a geological formation or something ominous? A classified Space Shuttle mission ends in near-disaster. What was its mission?
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6.6/10 18 votes#4 - Saturn's Moon Monsters
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2019
When NASA discovers something strange on Saturn's biggest moon, experts investigate if aliens feeding on the electric atmosphere could be the culprit. The disturbing evidence points to a grisly apocalypse if these monsters ever make it to Earth.
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6.6/10 20 votes#5 - Planet of the Metal Aliens
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2019
Experts investigate if a nearby exoplanet could be the home to a alien civilization of strange, metallic monsters, after a new discovery confirms that life can thrive on such a strange world.
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6.7/10 31 votes#6 - Interstellar Gold Rush
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/18/2014
A distant planet shows evidence of an Earth-like atmosphere, while a mysterious light suggests an atmosphere on the Moon. Have we found evidence of a crashed alien ship in the asteroid belt? Why are there "blueberries" on Mars?
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6.7/10 24 votes#7 - Hammer of Thor
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/2015
Are burning lights above Nevada and Utah signs of a secret space weapons project? What are the odd trails on the lunar surface near the Apollo landing sites? Does a strange space object spell disaster for the Space Shuttle crew?
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6.8/10 7 votes#8 - Mystery Space Squid
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/24/2014
What could make a NASA astronaut report seeing a flying saucer in the skies above a US Air Force test range? How have the swirling gases of Saturn formed a perfect Hexagon that has hovered above the planet’s pole for 30 years?
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6.8/10 21 votes#9 - Life in Hell
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/2/2015
A UFO crashes in Pennsylvania. Was it a secret Soviet satellite or something far more dangerous? On Mercury, NASA finds the impossible: frozen water. A strange object causes a skyscraper-sized shadow on the surface of Mars's largest moon. What is it?
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6.8/10 19 votes#10 - Aliens in the Amazon
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 5/9/2019
After Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, he led an expedition to the Amazon to find a legendary library that holds all knowledge of an advanced alien civilization. Experts ask if a close encounter on the moon's surface inspired Armstrong's mysterious quest.
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6.8/10 21 votes#11 - Secrets of the Alien Signals
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 5/16/2019
When NASA begins a strange experiment to communicate with dolphins, experts investigate if it's a prelude to making alien contact. But some fear that such a discovery could have apocalyptic consequences.
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6.9/10 14 votes#12 - Shadow Deathstar
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2014
Astronaut Leroy Chao’s spacewalk is interrupted by bright lights flying past. A flying saucer photographed from the Apollo capsule, dark shapes caught on camera shadowing the shuttle. The ideas are science fiction, but the incidents are science fact.
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6.9/10 11 votes#13 - Ghosts on the Moon
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/2014
Could spaceships be powered by atomic bombs? Can artificial rings encircle an entire star? why was Neil Armstrong’s transmission feed cut off when he spotted strange lights on the Moon? And how can lightning talk to itself?
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6.9/10 25 votes#14 - Spacewalk of Doom
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/29/2015
How could an astronaut on a spacewalk begin to drown? Have NASA scientists discovered an asteroid that was converted into a spacecraft? What are the strange objects spotted when NASA sends a secret payload into space?
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6.9/10 24 votes#15 - Return of the Moon Bugs
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/1/2016
Apollo 12 astronauts bring back something alive from the moon and NASA track an asteroid heading towards Earth but make a shocking discovery: it’s not an asteroid, but an object that’s artificial in nature.
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6.9/10 22 votes#16 - Rise of the Ice Creatures
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/8/2016
Neil Armstrong goes into an unexplained spin. He needs to figure out what’s causing it, or he faces certain death. An Apollo 17 photo seems to show a military outpost on the Moon & could there be alien life swimming in the oceans of Jupiter’s moons?
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6.9/10 19 votes#17 - Curse of the Full Moon
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/2016
Two cosmonauts fight for their lives while trapped inside a capsule in a frozen lake. A NASA scientist investigates the deadly Nazi secret that doomed the Hindenburg. NASA astronomers are spooked when the full moon starts affecting their experiments.
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7.0/10 30 votes#18 - Black Knight Rises
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/11/2014
A chunk of the sun appears to have vanished. An ominous dark craft beneath the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Hubble spots thousands of unidentified objects traveling faster than light. Are we being watched?
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7.0/10 25 votes#19 - Did We Nuke Jupiter?
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/6/2015
Could NASA be responsible for a nuclear explosion on Jupiter? Could new evidence finally solve the mystery of the iconic face on Mars? What unknown force crashed a spacecraft from the Apollo program into the lunar surface?
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7.0/10 19 votes#20 - Lethal Weapons
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/20/2015
How did pictures from the Hubble telescope make the comet of the century look like an alien spacecraft? Has earth already been invaded by alien organisms? What mysterious force is smashing a near-earth asteroid to pieces?
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7.0/10 23 votes#21 - Revenge of the Fireflies
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/27/2015
Something in space is attacking the brains of astronauts. What is it? Should NASA be worried about the sudden appearance of so-called space fireflies? Who is responsible for the bizarre glowing spiral in the skies over Norway?
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7.0/10 22 votes#22 - The Moon that Disappeared
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/22/2016
Recently discovered documents reveal NASA's secret plan B for failure of the first moon landing, a Soyuz capsule carrying astronaut Peggy Whitson back to Earth vanishes without explanation and NASA’s Cassini mission unravels a three hundred year old.
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7.0/10 21 votes#23 - Pluto's Stranger Things
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2016
Astronomers find evidence for incredible alien technology around a distant star. The first pictures of Pluto may show something moving across its surface. Apollo astronauts see something they can't explain as they approach the Moon.
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7.0/10 17 votes#24 - Pluto's Evil Twin
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 5/2/2019
After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto, it encounters a strange alien world that shuts down the probe's computers, and experts investigate if this mysterious object is an alien spacecraft hiding at the edge of our solar system.
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7.1/10 22 votes#25 - Nazis on the Moon
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/13/2015
A Russian probe discovers the lunar soil was disturbed before the US or USSR got there. Did Nazis arrive first? Have scientists detected a laser signal from a planet capable of supporting life? Is there a Bermuda Triangle of Space?
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The Worst Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files
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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
"Pilot" is the worst rated episode of "NASA's Unexplained Files". It scored 6.1/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/27/2012. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Alien Death Ray".