''UFO'' is a 2018 American

science fiction film Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar ...

written and directed by Ryan Eslinger, and starring

Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson ( ; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series ''The X-Files'', ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film ''The House of Mirth'' ...

and

Alex Sharp Alexander Ian Sharp (born 2 February 1989) is an English actor. He is known for originating the role of Christopher Boone in the Broadway production of ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''. After graduating from the Juilliard ...

. The story focuses on college student Derek Echevaro's attempts to prove the existence of

extraterrestrials Extraterrestrial life, colloquially referred to as alien life, is life that may occur outside Earth and which did not originate on Earth. No extraterrestrial life has yet been conclusively detected, although efforts are underway. Such life might ...

with assistance from his mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks.

Plot

Derek Echevaro believes that, when he was younger, he saw a

UFO An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are id ...

. A UFO incident at the Cincinnati International Airport in 2017 motivates him to prove the existence of UFOs being of extraterrestrial origin. As a college student he seeks assistance from his girlfriend, Natalie, and mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks.UFO 2018
letterboxd.com In conclusion, the protagonist resolves UFO's mathematical riddles, and gets to a place to briefly see the UFO again. Right away, he gets detained by government forces who tell him they are already aware of aliens, have resolved some of their riddles, but they appear to be far more complicated and there are far more to resolve.

Cast

as Derek Echevaro *

as Dr. Hendricks *

Ella Purnell Ella Summer Purnell (born 17 September 1996) is an English actress best known for her roles as Jackie in the Showtime drama series ''Yellowjackets,'' Jinx in the Netflix animated television series ''Arcane'', and Gwyn in the Paramount+/Nickelod ...

as Natalie *

David Strathairn David Russell Strathairn (; born January 26, 1949) is an American actor. Known for his leading roles on stage and screen, he has often portrayed historical figures such as Edward R. Murrow, J. Robert Oppenheimer, William H. Seward, and John Dos ...

as Franklin Ahls * Benjamin Beatty as Lee * Cece Abbey as Cecelia Abbey (Young Girl) * Ken Early as Dave Ellison * Brian Bowman as Roland Junger

Release

The film was released directly to video on September 4, 2018. Sony released a trailer on "UFO Day". The film has been described as delving "into math of universe navigation". Nigel Watson of ''Starburst'' gave the film 5 out of 10 stars stating it was "all done in Spielberg's ''

Close Encounters of the Third Kind ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story ...

'', ''UFO'' promotes further study of the

fine-structure constant In physics, the fine-structure constant, also known as the Sommerfeld constant, commonly denoted by (the Greek letter ''alpha''), is a fundamental physical constant which quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between ele ...

to give us a leg-up in the hierarchy of civilisations and that’s as good as it gets".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:UFO 2018 films Ufology Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport American science fiction action films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films 2018 science fiction films UFO-related films

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