'The Lowe Files': Rob Lowe's mysterious new show with his sons

On TV, Rob Lowe has played a city manager (Parks & Rec), White House communications director (West Wing), wannabe lawyer (The Grinder) and doctor (Code Black). But his latest project, The Lowe Files, gives him a new small-screen role to play: Dad Rob Lowe.

In The Lowe Files, a nonfiction series premiering on A&E this summer, the actor and his two sons, 23-year-old Matthew Edward and 21-year-old John Owen, travel the country and explore unsolved mysteries.

“Since I was a kid I’ve loved unexplained legends, strange phenomena and the scary, supernatural stories told around campfires. When I became a father I shared those tales with my two sons,” said Lowe in a press release. "And we swore that someday the three of us would go on our own adventure to find out. That day has come.”

In essence, the Lowes have a show about finding UFO's. Say that five times fast.

Among the explorations in the nine-episode season: checking out an "alien base" in Malibu (which has also been called an underwater UFO), attempting to connect with spirits at an abandoned boys reformatory and training with a top-secret government operative.

Want a taste of what the father-son dynamic will be like? Here's a look at Lowe arm-wrestling John.

And here's all of the Lowe men acting like they don't notice they're in a photo shoot.