"My name is John Loengard. I am recording this because we may not live through the night. They're here, they're hostile and powerful people don't want you to know. History as we know it it a lie."

Did a spacecraft of unknown origin crash in the New Mexico desert outside Roswell Army Air Base on July 2, 1974?

Dark Skies is an alternative, dark look at the last five decades of history as seen through the prism of an insidious and hostile alien invasion.

On the one side: the secret and powerful covert government organisation Majestic-12, headed by Captain Frank Bach. Majestic has discovered that alien life has indeed visited earth, and is determined to keep the invasion a secret.

On the other side is Dark Skies, the resistance movement that is mankind's only hope, and its heroes John Loengard and Kimberley Sayers, two young people on the run from Bach and Majestic-12.

Dark Skies is the most imaginative TV series of the decade -an unusual and often scary blend of fact, informed speculation and high drama.

Channel 4 aired the show in 1997, hot on the heels of the American network. They have also repeated the series from 15 Novemeber 1998 to 12 April 1999. A third showing of the pilot episode The Awakening is not listed below because it was shown independently as a film and not tagged onto any of the rest of the season.

Transmission Guide

Season One

Ref: Dark Skies

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