Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s upcoming sci-fi thriller The Fourth Kind.

Starring Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, and Elias Koteas, The Fourth Kind is a thriller based upon documented case study evidence that points to alien abduction.  The film is woven with real-life archive footage of this evidence – in context the term “sci-fi” might be arguable.  Regardless, just like Communion or The Mothman Prophecies this one’s definitely thought provoking and disturbing.

A full synopsis is included after the trailer which you can watch after the jump.

Synopsis:

1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document … until now.

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 of the region, the truth has never been discovered.Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.

Using never-before-seen archival footage that is 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.

Heres a couple of images via Sci Fi Wire:

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The Fourth Kind will be released November 6, 2009.

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