Secret Space (2005) User Reviews

I really like how they made this documentary

[telherwhy · 8/10 · 27 October 2023]

It has been almost 20 years since this came out. This documentary is one of those where they present subjects that were far removed from establishment media back in the early 2000s. They link these subjects into an overall theory that is pretty familiar now. But that's not why I like it so much. I really like the atmosphere it creates. The score adds to the feeling of an iniquitous secret, like it's unveiling the hidden. The film/video footage of ufos are very interesting throughout.

They did not make a convincing case, there are many flaws. But I don't mind, because it presented enough things worth thinking about and watching.

It's haunting;)

Does it come with tinfoil for your hat?

[NavyOrion · 1/10 · 24 October 2022]

This is typical conspiracy-theory bullshot that punches all the expected buttons: Illuminati shenanigans, Nazi references, Roswell, flying saucers, bug-eyed aliens, and more. I'm surpised Ickes didn't manage to get chem-trails and "birds aren't real" in there, but maybe he's saving those for later releases. Only the "human civilization living off-world" is even remotely original (especially since the film also claims we never went to the moon!) though no more plausible than the rest. Of course, as recommendations go, "more original delusion" is pretty piss-poor.

Of course there were Nazis were involved in our space program: you had to join the Nazi party to be in rocket research in Germany, and at the end of the war, most of Werner von Braun's team opted to defect to the west rather than be captured by advancing Soviet troops. It was these engineers who formed the backbone of the rocket developments that led to the Saturn V rocket that placed men on the moon. But to suggest anything more nefarious is delusional; Ickes hopes that simply throwing out the word "Nazi" will give his "documentary" some badly-needed credibility. Spoiler: it doesn't.

The remainder of this waste of time is even more completely useless, unless one opts to make a drinking game out of the over-liberal use of the word "secret" (warning: doing so risks the consumption of a fatal amount of alcohol.)

If you're even remotely interested in buying this film, do yourself a favor: spend the money instead to buy more tinfoil for your hats, and spend the time you'll save NOT watching to review your medication list. If you believe any of this crap, you may need to adjust your dosages.

If men in space shuttles can't make it to the Moon, what of men in flying saucers?

[take2docs · 5/10 · 17 November 2022]

You have to be either an ignoramus or certifiable to think UFOs do not exist. Consider that at least two former US presidents reported seeing UAPs (as they officially are now called), not to mention a few US astronauts...or so we are told.

ESVs (extraterrestrial space vehicles) are an entirely different matter. Has there ever been a case of a credible and sober eyewitness reporting seeing one of these? It seems very few observers, if any, have experienced these types of sightings, and perhaps with good reason.

ESVs aside, what I find quite fantastic is the number of sub-cultural fringe-dwellers who are of the opinion that the power elite have at their disposal advanced propulsion systems and knowledge of zero-point energy -- technology supposedly obtained via the back-engineering of alien spacecraft -- that, it is said, allows them not only to reach and colonize the Moon but even to journey into the deepest regions of our solar system and beyond. Science fiction? You'd be surprised just how many fans of "The X-Files" believe a space program such as this exists!

Enter SECRET SPACE, a documentary that sets out to lend weight to this alternative theory, but which ultimately fails to make a convincing case for it.

In our ultra-modern age when, as reported in the news only some months ago, a high-profile multi-billionaire launched his own private rocket ship into space, barely making it off the ground so to speak, we are supposed to accept this idea of there being a ruling cabal that possesses off world capabilities. I've heard funnier punchlines.

David Icke briefly appears in this, and as a fan of his this was for me the highlight of the film. What's interesting is that Icke's focus here is on a hypothetical Fourth Reich, as a covert temporal power we ought to be paying attention to (I concur), yet it's of note that in recent years Icke's attention has since shifted to where 'ultra-Zionists' are now the bogeymen front-and-center in his para-political worldview (something which I personally think to be a most curious transition, and a flat-out decoy, if I do say so, myself).

According to SECRET SPACE, man-made flying discs were first developed in Nazi Germany. Which leads one to ask: 1) Was it such a craft that crashed at Roswell; discs brought over to America along with von Braun and the others?, and 2) With regard to unidentified space vehicles that've been observed in our skies since, might some of these bear swastikas?

Despite the titular teaser, it's difficult to pin down what the overarching message is of this very peculiar documentary...if it has one at all. I found SECRET SPACE to be rather incoherent and opaque. It spends a lot of time discussing the clunky Apollo space program and how the Apollo 11 so-called manned 'lunar landing' was staged. That this particular event was hoaxed (either in part or entirely) is indisputable to anyone who has critically yet open-mindedly examined the wealth of damning evidence put forth by the debunkers, and listening to Marcus Allen speak as to this was another enjoyable moment for me.

Still, I cannot fully recommend SECRET SPACE, with perhaps the only ones who would find any value in it being diehard UFO buffs and saucer nuts and those who allege to be in direct telephonic contact with ET.

Granted, the forepart of the film is somewhat intriguing, as it shows (supposedly genuine) photos of UFOs taken in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany in the 1920s...prior to the Third Reich appearing on the scene. Hmm.