John Shepherd's Alien Music Broadcasts Documented in Netflix Film

The documentary 'John Was Trying To Contact Aliens', directed by Matthew Killip, is now streaming on Netflix. It chronicles John Shepherd, a Michigan man who spent 30 years building homemade equipment to transmit music into space, hoping to communicate with extraterrestrial life. Shepherd invested all his resources into the project, driven by a childlike passion. The film explores his belief that music is a universal language. Killip's short but intense film offers a portrait of an extraordinary individual.