Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 21h55
Genre: Documentary Series
Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction? takes you inside a local watering hole in Roswell, New Mexico, where real people search for answers about their strange, unexplainable encounters with UFOs.
With reports of UAPs (unexplained aerial phenomena) on the rise, UFO experts Mitch Horowitz and Chrissy Newton use scientific data and research to dissect real life encounters with extraterrestrial activity and determine whether or not they can be explained.
Posting up at a local watering hole in Roswell, New Mexico, a town infamous for its UFO past, Horowitz and Newton meet with individuals who have experienced strange and unexplainable encounters.
After listening to each firsthand account, the duo taps into the latest intelligence, technology and tools to investigate the reported activity.
Using recently declassified UFO documents, databases and more, the pair closely analyze the visual and physical evidence to separate fact from fiction.
They'll then render a final verdict on whether each individual experience has a verifiable explanation, or if they believe it to be a real alien encounter.
In the series premiere, "You Saw a UFO": Mitch and Chrissy meet with a farming couple from California who believe they've captured video evidence proving the afterlife is real.
Then, a geologist believes he may have unearthed the most important piece of evidence to ever come from a UFO crash site - leaving even the experts speechless.
Finally, they speak with a mother who is struggling to make sense of a harrowing UFO encounter that she believes caused her neurological damage and left radiation burns on her body.
Additional stories this season include:
A woman seeks to understand her childhood abduction experience, which yields shocking results.
A husband-and-wife bigfoot hunting team believe they have physical proof of an alien presence on Earth.
While miles apart from each other, a couple experience the same UFO encounter.
A Maine lobsterman who had a harrowing experience while camping is finally ready to relive the story.
Two friends who believe they were abducted by an otherworldly force on a drive through the California desert.
A woman traveling to Machu Picchu in Peru captures what might be the most critical photo of a UFO ever taken.
Brothers uncover a piece of metal that they believe came from a crashed UFO.
Nicobar Islands: A Monkey's Long Tale
Channel: Nat Geo Wild (DStv 182 / StarSat 221)
TX Time: 18h50
Genre: Nature, Wildlife, Documentary
A captivating exploration of nature's ability to adapt to millennia of gradual changes and a sudden natural disaster in a world few people get to see.
Sitting on a treacherous tectonic fault at the edge of Asia's continental shelf, the Nicobar archipelago meets the eye with the flourish of a tropical paradise, boasting endless beaches, palm trees, mangroves, evergreen forests and coral reefs bustling with a diverse and unique fauna.
Barred to visitors for the greater part and strictly protected as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the Nicobars are a window into the primeval past of South-East Asia's tropical islands.
They are also an extreme testing ground for the resilience of life.
The submarine earthquake and tsunami of 2004 which devastated coasts of Thailand, Sumatra and Myanmar, also dealt severe destruction to the Nicobars.
Nature's recovery has been remarkable. We see ravaged remnants of coastal forests and vibrant new growth.
Surely the most fascinating islanders are the Nicobar long-tailed or crab-eating macaques.
Led by these notso-primitive cousins of ours, we meet a range of other species sharing their various habitats.
As a family group of macaques roams the mangrove forest along the coast, we hold our breath as young monkeys learn to avoid huge pythons lurking in the swamp.
Nicobar Islands: a Monkey's Long Tale is a privileged guided discovery tour led by long-tailed insiders meeting up with Megapodes, unique endemic birds named after their huge feet, Nicobar pigeons, saltwater crocodiles, mudskippers, swiftlets, fiddler crabs, pythons and many other species.
What we will take away is a fascination with and deep appreciation of life in a tropical climate under monsoon skies.
Catfish: The TV Show 8
Channel: eReality (Openview 108)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Reality
Hosts Nev Schulman and Max Joseph head to Los Angeles to detangle the deepest, darkest Catfish webs in franchise history as they track down online daters and bring them face-to-face for the first time.
The new season will take viewers on a thrilling ride of mystery and deceit.
In each episode, Nev and Max will dig deeper with each person in the relationship, revealing shocking truths and unexpected twists.
Viewers won't only be on the hunt for the "Catfish" - the one who created the fake identity to lure the other person, the "Hopeful," into the relationship - but will be on edge as Nev and Max expose other secrets both have kept.
From investigations leading to the couple being exes and both acting as the Catfish, to the Hopeful revealing they're in another serious relationship, this promises to be the biggest season of shocking revelations and betrayal yet.
In the Season 8 premiere, "Angel & Antonio": Laura joins Nev to help Angel find her online love, Antonio.
He claims to live in Angel's small town, yet is never able to meet her.
Expedition X 5
Channel: Discovery Channel (DStv 121)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Reality, Paranormal
Josh Gates investigates the truth behind the world's most iconic and captivating legends.
Leaving no stone unturned, his adventures take him around the globe as he immerses himself in the core locales linked to each tale.
This season welcomes new host Heather Amaro to the team, a third-generation paranormal researcher who has spent decades investigating mysterious phenomena.
Together with scientist Phil Torres, they delve far beyond the unknown and on a spine-tingling expedition into the unexplained.
This season, Torres and Amaro tackle the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness to examine new evidence of the legendary sea creature; hit the haunted streets of Savannah, Georgia, where they brazenly spend the night among hostile spirits; investigate frightening accounts of a mysterious seven-foot monster known as the skunk ape who prowls the Florida Everglades; go deep into the woods of Michigan to hunt for a blood-hungry beast that is believed to be part of a shocking government cover-up; and more.
In the Season 5 premiere: Josh joins Torres and Amaro in West Virginia for a two-part investigation at one of the most haunted buildings in America: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a sprawling abandoned psychiatric hospital with a tragic history and countless reports of paranormal activity.
During the chilling investigation, they discover shocking secrets from the asylum's sinister past and battle frightening forces beyond our understanding.
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