It's a three-parter, divided into segments roughly 50 minutes in length:
1. "Making Contact" 2. "Alien Life Forms" 3. "Saucer Tech"
In segment 1 the question is raised: What would happen if SETI were to receive a signal from an astral civilization? My guess would be, they'd probably be one of the last group of people to realize that contact has been made.
Segment 2 focuses in large part on the Alien Abduction phenomenon. (Budd Hopkins is featured here.)
Segment 3 is mostly tech talk and some discussion related to theoretical physics. (Stanton Friedman is featured in this one.)
How best to summarize UFOS & ALIENS: THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH?
For those just new to this area of study, it's a satisfactory introduction enough, but for those who have done their research into UFOs or who have had a close encounter experience, very little new information is presented.
The documentary examines its subject matter pretty fairly but with a slight undertone of derision. According to the majority of people that are heard from in this, UFOs are nothing more than a cultural myth, created by and for people who feel alone in the universe, and who would like very much for ETs to exist so as to fill in the emotional void. (That certainly explains horrific Alien Abduction experiences now, doesn't it?) This is the kind of overly simplistic nonsense we have to periodically listen to throughout the course of the program.
It is why I cannot give this documentary anymore than a 5 star rating. The skeptical view, clearly not all that thought out, has it grasping at straws, and sometimes to a risible extent. Answers to all the arguments used here by the skeptics are thoroughly and persuasively answered elsewhere, as with the apparent problems posed by intergalactic travel. It touches briefly on zero point energy and anti-matter, so at least it tries at times to think outside of the known scientific box.
When in segment 2, the topic of the Phoenix Lights is given some exposure, how can it not fall on the side of the amazing eyewitness reports that it includes? One eyewitness reports having seen military jets that were scrambled in pursuit of the unknown object. (Those were some flares!) Enter the expert debunker to bury his head in the sand and dismiss the entire event as a mass misperception.
The several skeptics that appear in this documentary are of the opinion that if contact is made with ET, it will be by way of space telescopes and other astronomical equipment; that the ufonauts will undoubtedly be far more advanced than humans (technologically speaking); and that the earthshaking news of the ET presence would either lead to worldwide panic or deification among the peoples of the earth.
One of the skeptical interviewees alludes to the fact of how he finds it difficult to belief in space aliens because the majority of them which are reported are described as being humanoid. (What, not little and green?) This person clearly has not done his research, otherwise he would know that of all the varieties of ETs that have been reported since about the 1960s, that humanoids are the least mentioned of all; but when they are, does it not make a strong case as to our possible alien origins?
In segment 1 the question is raised: What would happen if SETI were to receive a signal from an astral civilization? My guess would be, they'd probably be one of the last group of people to realize that contact has been made.
Segment 2 focuses in large part on the Alien Abduction phenomenon. (Budd Hopkins is featured here.)
Segment 3 is mostly tech talk and some discussion related to theoretical physics. (Stanton Friedman is featured in this one.)
How best to summarize UFOS & ALIENS: THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH?
For those just new to this area of study, it's a satisfactory introduction enough, but for those who have done their research into UFOs or who have had a close encounter experience, very little new information is presented.
The documentary examines its subject matter pretty fairly but with a slight undertone of derision. According to the majority of people that are heard from in this, UFOs are nothing more than a cultural myth, created by and for people who feel alone in the universe, and who would like very much for ETs to exist so as to fill in the emotional void. (That certainly explains horrific Alien Abduction experiences now, doesn't it?) This is the kind of overly simplistic nonsense we have to periodically listen to throughout the course of the program.
It is why I cannot give this documentary anymore than a 5 star rating. The skeptical view, clearly not all that thought out, has it grasping at straws, and sometimes to a risible extent. Answers to all the arguments used here by the skeptics are thoroughly and persuasively answered elsewhere, as with the apparent problems posed by intergalactic travel. It touches briefly on zero point energy and anti-matter, so at least it tries at times to think outside of the known scientific box.
When in segment 2, the topic of the Phoenix Lights is given some exposure, how can it not fall on the side of the amazing eyewitness reports that it includes? One eyewitness reports having seen military jets that were scrambled in pursuit of the unknown object. (Those were some flares!) Enter the expert debunker to bury his head in the sand and dismiss the entire event as a mass misperception.
The several skeptics that appear in this documentary are of the opinion that if contact is made with ET, it will be by way of space telescopes and other astronomical equipment; that the ufonauts will undoubtedly be far more advanced than humans (technologically speaking); and that the earthshaking news of the ET presence would either lead to worldwide panic or deification among the peoples of the earth.
One of the skeptical interviewees alludes to the fact of how he finds it difficult to belief in space aliens because the majority of them which are reported are described as being humanoid. (What, not little and green?) This person clearly has not done his research, otherwise he would know that of all the varieties of ETs that have been reported since about the 1960s, that humanoids are the least mentioned of all; but when they are, does it not make a strong case as to our possible alien origins?