I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is you can't make this up. You Can't Make This Up is the Podcast where we uncover the True Stories behind

your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series encounters.

Maybe people don't want to know what this phenomena is. Maybe people don't want to know the truth. Maybe it scares them a little bit

somehow. Today we're talking to Executive Producer and Director Jan Motkin. It's common

folklore, a sole witness to a mysterious flying object whose

tale of their encounter is met with skepticism. But what if dozens, if not hundreds of people say they all saw something in the sky at the same time?

A town in Texas, a village in Wales, school children in Zimbabwe, or survivors of a nuclear disaster in Japan.

The Netflix series encounters goes beyond the reported incidents of unidentified aerial

phenomena or extraterrestrial contact?

Why would groups of unconnected people claim to see the same oddities?

And how is telling their stories affected their lives?

Through interviews with witnesses and experts, encounters explorers whether their sightings were shaped by superstition

and pop culture, or whether they truly witnessed something out of this world.

Nothing I am saying is anything new.

It's just a matter of are you going to believe it or not? And I'm joined by Executive Producer, Jan Motkin. Welcome to you can make this up,

Jan.

Thanks for having me.

So your serious deals with mass

sightings and other kinds of encounters with unexplained origins potentially

extraterrestrial nature so this is really different from other films you've done that deal with crime and

swindles. How did you get involved with this subject matter?

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