Alien Disclosure Files

The Doorway programme explores how and why Mars evolved into a barren desert wasteland, scrutinising the planetary changes that led to its current aridity. It underscores that the Red Planet once possessed numerous Earth‑like qualities, making the contrast a central focus of the investigation.

The Doorway is a programme presented as a single episode. It falls within the genre of an episode‑type broadcast and is listed simply as “The Doorway” without any further attribution to cast, crew or production year. In this episode the central focus is on the question of how Mars ended up as a barren desert world, and why this happened, given that the planet once shared many characteristics with Earth. The narrative centres on the transformation from a planet that resembled our own to the stark, arid landscape we now observe. The piece walks viewers through the factors that could have driven that shift, probing the processes that altered Mars’s surface and atmosphere. It asks what mechanisms were responsible for stripping the planet of its earlier Earth‑like qualities and turning it into the desolate environment seen today. By the end, the episode leaves the audience with a clearer picture of the contrast between Mars’s past and present states, highlighting the puzzling journey from a potentially hospitable world to the desert wasteland it has become.