What Do We Know About UFO?

What do we know about the mysterious UFO aliens featured in this 1997 LEGO Space subtheme? Quite a lot actually! Discover their homeworld, their heroes and villains, and their connection to the equally notorious Insectoid faction! Join us as we receive a deep space datafile download from the galaxy’s foremost alien experts, the Exploriens.

(Apologies for the less-than-stellar VO here, I tried recording and re-recording a number of times but ended up fighting colds, dental work, or sore throats nearly every time.)

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Researching this episode wouldn’t have been possible without the galactic-level archivists here and at these incredible sites:

Eurobricks Sci-Fi Forum
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/inde...

Brickipedia
https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/L...

The Internet Archive’s LEGO Club collection
https://archive.org/search?query=subj...

The Time Cruisers resource at the Emily Internet Zone https://emilyinternet.zone/realms/oge...

Brickset
https://brickset.com/library/catalogues

Alpha Draconis’s excellent photography for his Eurobricks reviews:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1923747...

UFO (and Bionicle!) designer Christian Faber’s excellent presentation on the “Well of Time”:
   • What if all LEGO themes are connected?  
(UFO is not actually mentioned, but the use of the black hole and crystals in the UFO material was too close for me not to mention, even if the Well of Time described here doesn’t 100% match up with Chamon’s adventures.)

DuckBricks uncovers the English version of the UFO booklet with Christian Faber:
   • Unboxing Secrets with the Creator of ...  
(Faber gets very excited about a UFO/Bionicle connection here, but try as I might I couldn’t find a good explanation about what he meant here. If you get it, let me know!)

The Hungarian version of the UFO booklet on the blog Játékok a polcról:
https://jatekokapolcrol.blog.hu/2018/...

@heroseriesofficial returns as the voice of that Explorien who's been trying to contact us from a holographic sticker for all those years. ;)

Music:
“Lyra Mortis” - Loopop, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Landing” - Godmode, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Lens” - Bobby Richards, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Prism” - Bobby Richards, YouTube Audio Music Library
“To Pass Time” - Godmode, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Alpha Mission” - Jimena Contreras, YouTube Audio Music Library
“To Have to in Least Water” - pATCHES, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Time to Go” - Max Surla, YouTube Audio Music Library
“80’s Vampire Car Chase” - Sir Cubworth, YouTube Audio Music Library
“The Quantum Realm” - The Whole Other, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Cavern” - HOVATOFF
“On the Hunt” - Andrew Landon, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Danger Snow” - Dan Henig, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Christmas Homecoming” - Aaron Kenny, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Beside Me” - Patrick Patrikios, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Final Boss” - Myuu, YouTube Audio Music Library
“Faceoff” - Kevin MacLeod, YouTube Audio Music Library

“Faceoff” by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/