Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport
Mixing a fictional narrative with documentary interviews, explore the dramatic story of an encounter with an extraterrestrial artifact and the new tools we have available in the search for life beyond earth.
In this dramatized sequence, the world responds to the US Voyager receiving an mysterious radio signals of extraterrestrial origin.
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Where did it come from? In this dramatized sequence, we explore how the world might react after an extraterrestrial artifact passes through our solar system.