Expanse

Nov 25 2024 24 ep. 27 mins 636
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Season three of Expanse dives into the murky world of spies, lies and secrets that surrounds the most secretive place in Australia.

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05 Uncropped | The legacy

Nov 25 2024 38 mins  
A bombshell is dropped in US Congress that makes a lot of people start thinking about UFOs, now called UAP, differently. Danielle O’Neal tries to understand the implications of everything she’s heard and grapples with the unanswered questions.

04 Uncropped | UAP in the USA

Nov 25 2024 31 mins  
Despite an alarming coincidence being uncovered in the government’s UFO files, a young intelligence officer recommends the files are closed and investigations shut down. Decades on, while the U.S. is taking a serious look at unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) the legacy of that decision has kept UFOs in the sneered-at periphery in Australia.

03 Uncropped | The UFO files

Nov 25 2024 35 mins  
The Tully phenomena spreads, with unexplained circles starting to crop up around the country. Reports of them all are filed away by the RAAF in the secret UFO files. But, one young UFO researcher is determined to get access to those files and see just what they hold.

02 Uncropped | Who is visiting?

Nov 18 2024 35 mins  
Hoards of people descend on the Pennisi property to take a look at this ‘saucer nest’, sending the family running for cover. Turns out, in the years to come that would be the least of their worries. Rumours of covert surveillance and odd happenings leave the people at the heart of this mystery looking over their shoulders.

01 Uncropped | The sighting

Nov 18 2024 26 mins  
On a hot morning under blue skies, a young banana farmer saw something he couldn’t explain that sent his pulse racing. It looked like a flying saucer and it left behind a mysterious mark. The chain of events it set off would change everything.

INTRODUCING – Expanse S4: Uncropped

Nov 11 2024 3 mins  
In 1966 a Queensland farmer thought he saw a UFO that left behind a real physical mark in some reeds. That sighting set off a chain of events that would haunt him for decades and leave a lot of unanswered questions. Danielle O’Neal delves into what happens when people say seemingly unbelievable things.

05: Spies in the Outback | The secrets of Pine Gap

May 14 2024 43 mins  
Host Alex Barwick hears just how far Pine Gap’s reach is today, uncovers the secrets of stolen land and explores what it means for Australia to have a spy base hidden in the heart of the country. Host: Alex Barwick Supervising producer: Piia Wirsu Sound engineer and producer: Grant Wolter Executive producer: Blythe Moore Additional production and research: Elsa Silberstein

04 Spies in the Outback | The spy who loved Alice

May 07 2024 30 mins  
The Cold War has finally ended but Pine Gap, or ‘The Base’ as it’s become known, is expanding and it’s getting involved in conflicts across the world. Host Alex Barwick finally goes inside Pine Gap and meets a spy who has spent years working within the perimeter.

03 Spies in the Outback | The women get wild

Apr 30 2024 31 mins  
Nuclear fear prompts thousands to flood to Alice Springs in the 1980s to try and close Pine Gap and reveal its secrets. This time the woman are in charge and they don't want Australia involved in nuclear war.

02 Spies in the Outback | Politics, pressure and protest

Apr 23 2024 31 mins  
As the Cold War enters the 70s, it becomes clear that Pine Gap is really a spy base with eyes on the Soviets – and it's putting Alice Springs in the nuclear crosshairs.