Alien Encounter

Alien Encounter is a Tomorrowland attraction at the Magic Kingdom theme park within the Walt Disney World Resort. It is a "theater-in-the-round" experience starring the famous alien Xenomorph from 20th Century Fox's 1979 film Alien. It opened October 20th, 2024, and is the fifth attraction to occupy the site in Tomorrowland. The attraction is a replacement of the Stitch's Great Escape!, which formerly occupied the building the attraction is housed in.

First pre-show area
Guests are ushered into the "Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Center" (mentioned as such in the Tomorrowland Transit Authority narration) for a demonstration of new technology from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The corporation has been working on special-made teleportation technology, which they intend to use to teleport people and other beings across planets easily. The corporation's chairman, Jason Ripley, explains how the technology works by sending a special signal that could send things to other places with the press of some buttons. Other employees that explain the technology, and other things about the corporation include Eli Dallas, Amelia Lambert, and Jeremy Burke.

Second pre-show area
Guests proceed into a second area where they are introduced to a robotic assistant named Teleportation Experimentation Computerized Helpbot, or T.E.C.H. for short. He proceeds to show a demonstration of Weyland-Yutani's teleportation technology, using an unnamed cute alien creature as an example. However, when using the teleportation tech, the alien ends up as nothing but a skeleton when transported from one tube to another. T.E.C.H. assures the audience that the alien's body must not have been able to handle the technology, saying "This is why we test things, people.".

Main show
Finally, guests are seated in harnesses within a circular chamber surrounding an enormous plastic cylinder, the "teleportation tube". Jason, Eli, Amelia and Jeremy communicate "live" from across the galaxy via video screens. Jeremy announces that he is going to send himself down to the audience, as to avoid overloading the machine by sending multiple people to where they are. As he is being sent to Earth however, the teleportation signal picks up something else floating through space, and instead of Jeremy, a Xenomorph is sent to Earth instead.

As the employees of Weyland-Yurani panic, the Xenomorph escapes the tube as 2 agents are sent in to get rid of the Xenomorph. By the time they arrive, the Xenomorph hides inside the vents, and the agents explain to the audience how they plan to take on the Xenomorph, and what they need to do in order to survive. The Xenomorph eventually pops out from the vents, as the agents shoot it with lazer guns, and as it runs around the room, leaving the audience to feel their seats rumble and shake, a spray of fluid onto their faces, and even the "breath" of the Xenomorph on the back of their necks. The agents eventually manage to send the Xenomorph back into the tube, as it is sealed and destroyed. Guests are then released from their seats as Jeremy returns to apologize for the inconvenience, and orders the agents to escort them out.

References to past attractions

 * In the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Center, the TV Monitors are labeled as TV X-S, which references X-S Tech, the alien corporation from ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.
 * On the wall of the 2nd preshow area, a silhouette of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch can barely be seen. This references the former Stitch's Great Escape! attraction.