

Ariel Phenomenon
2022-05-20 · 90 min · ★ 6.2
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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- Directors
- Randall Nickerson
- Production companies
- String Theory Films
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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John E. MackSelf - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author (archive footage)
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