What if first contact happens before any government makes an announcement? Our new film, 2027: What If They Make Contact First?, is live on YouTube. Watch the full 14-minute film in 4K: https://youtu.be/Qu_hLDZxUc8 John Ramirez, Chris Bledsoe and Project Engagement bring us to a disturbing possibility: a presence already here deciding to be seen. Then we follow an imagined family into a question that becomes bigger than a date on a calendar. What changes when an encounter becomes shared?...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Jay Stratton ran the government's UAP investigations for years. In his new memoir, Out of the Shadows, he becomes the witness: at 4 a.m. on March 12, 2014, he says something stood outside his window, looking at his sleeping son. Our new film takes his account seriously and follows it from the Pentagon to Skinwalker Ranch to his own home. ▶ Watch the film (15 min): https://youtu.be/_zEWAJxle10 THREE THINGS WORTH NOTICING Stratton is careful about what he saw himself versus what his...
17 days ago • 1 min read
The encounter ends. The rest of a life begins. That is the question at the heart of Episode 005: After the Encounter. When the questions stop and the cameras leave, there is still a working day, a family, and a life to return to. This episode follows Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker after their reported Pascagoula encounter, then turns to Betty and Barney Hill. It asks what public attention, memory, and the passage of time can do to a story—and to the people carrying it. Watch the full film...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey everyone, One light was still on the water. By the time the boat could reach it, it was gone. That detail in the early Shag Harbour paperwork stayed with me. A disappearing light in the sky leaves you looking up. A disappearing light in the ocean leaves you standing over the place where it might still be. Something Under the Water, Episode 003 of Unknown Origin, is now ready to explore. Watch the full episode: Watch Something Under the Water Listen or read the transcript: Listen and read...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello, Six characters on a computer printout: 6EQUJ5. They look like something waiting to be decoded. But they record the measured strength of a signal—not an extraterrestrial sentence. That difference is where the new Unknown Origin episode begins. Episode 004, What If We Only Hear Them Once?, is now available in 4K. We follow the Wow! signal from the work of listening into a stranger problem: what happens after receiving something we cannot explain? Watch the full episode on YouTube → Watch...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
A man leaves the path and pushes into thorny palms. Whatever is behind him, the shelter he chooses tells you something about how badly he wants to disappear. That is where Episode 2 begins. With a person trying to hide. What Do They Want From Us? follows reported encounters in Argentina and Brazil, then enters Whitley Strieber’s accounts and a much darker question: when people call humans “soul containers,” what are they actually claiming—and where did that claim come from? I wanted this...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
What if the most important part of an encounter was the part we did not know how to describe? Welcome to Unknown Origin Field Notes. I’m Bill Van Nort. This is a place for the details that stay with us after an episode ends: the source trail, the uncertainty, and the questions that get bigger the longer we sit with them. Our first episode follows four reported experiences in Italy, New Zealand, Australia, and Finland. None establishes extraterrestrial contact. Each challenges the assumption...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read