Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is a provocative thriller set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where mysteriously since the 1960s a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations, the truth has never been discovered. Using never-before-seen archival footage integrated into the film, The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film.