UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

This is more of a historical look at UFOs. If you are remotely educated on the subject, this will highly disappoint you. It's basically a rehashing of the major instances that the government and UFO organizations looked at. A whole episode on the glorification of J Allen Hyneck made me write this review. I am so disappointed they decided to barely touch on major UFO sightings and instead decided to focus on the investigators in a historical context. The show comes off as self serving and dull. I commend all these investigators for all they have done to advance research into this subject but I don't need to be force fed it.

Because of the way this short series was put together, it captured my attention when I came across it randomly, ealing intelligently with an important issue. I guess the part that got me was having Kirsten Gillibrand (sp?) talking straight to camera emphasizing that this was a legitimate topic to discuss and investigate, and more than that, was an issue of national security. Many other credible witnesses too.

This series was well-made and deserves a second (and third) series, keeping it the facts and credible. A refreshing change from the endless, over-produced History channel series on the same topic.

I'm a skeptic, I'll admit. I have always believed in the possibilities of there being "alien" life, but that this extraterrestrial life would be human, and not "little green men" or anything contrived from the last century of mankind's wild imagination.

I'm familiar with a lot of conspiracy theories about "UFOs" and "aliens," and have given the topic some thought. I've always come to the conclusion that there's always been some kind of logical, or scientific explanation. My being a Christian has nothing to do with this, I do not believe mankind has a right to limit the creative ability and supremacy that God, or our Heavenly Father, has. If He wants to introduce beings from other worlds to our own, He has every right to do so. But I sincerely doubted that He would bother to do such a thing.

But then I got to thinking. Well what about dinosaurs? They obviously existed, we cannot deny it or rule out their existence. So who's to say that we can't rule out the possibility of visitors from other universes?

So I opened up to the idea that maybe, just MAYBE we HAVE had interactions and visitations from other worlders, and that they MIGHT HAVE been documented by those who pilot our airspace. Because after all, if Bigfoot exists, why is the ONLY documentation of him a super blurry image, that could be anything? There are literally thousands of videos and photos of UFOs, no doubt most of them are either falsified, or explainable through science of which us Earthlings are already familiar. And a lot of it is told through respectable people, not just people who a lot of society would call "crazies."

This kind of thinking really helped me think about the maybes and possibilities, especially when my own boss at work is so dedicated to this conspiracy, was so adamant about the possible truth.

I wouldn't say I'm at the point of creating a mashed potatoes sculpture of the Devil's Tower, but this show, along with outside sources, have helped me AT LEAST consider the POSSIBILITY that this stuff may be true.

A lot of documentaries, and "actors" in such documentaries, are hand-picked to drive the producers' agenda, and therefore aren't trusted. And you'd think, if this stuff was all true, why would the government even be willing to allow it to be aired? There are still things to consider, there is no blatant "fact" or "fiction" here. But as a religious fellow, I understand what it's like being doubted even though the experiences you've been through are at the very least solid proof of your beliefs. These people seem very sure of themselves in their testimonies, so there's a reason there to at least give them some air time, because who knows, maybe they're all right, and something BIG is in the works.

A well done documentary, lots of questions, but it's pretty convincing.

A lot of what is being presented in this series I had no idea was going on. I was in junior high in the 60's. A lot of information that was new to me right up to the end. I watched at least two if not three parts at a time. Giving me time to think about what I had heard and processing the information. It has a lot of older interviews which I actually enjoyed. It has me thinking about other things in our world and in our lives that can't be explained. I am so glad I watched this because, even being older film viewed in it, it still had a lot to tell that does not change over time. Give it a try and see if it is worth the time for you to view. So glad I did!

This is the documentary series I had hoped J. J. Abrams recent series would be, and was not. UFOs: Investigating the Unknown is a serious, fact-based look at the subject led by the journalist who broke the story in the New York Times about the Pentagon's secret UFO programs, including admissions by DOD that videos leaked to the public were in fact real and unexplained. While I've only seen the first two episodes, it does an excellent job of looking at the subject from both an historical viewpoint and the most current events. Interview subjects are pilots, former government officials and actual scientists; not wide-eyed advocates who see a little green man behind every unexplained light in the sky, or professional skeptics who refuse to accept either the professional accounts of senior military pilots or documented, government reports. It asks the kind of questions that every real journalist should be asking in light of the fact that we have unexplained objects entering into sensitive military airspace that our most advanced aircraft are unable to keep up with. Overall, just an excellent primer for viewers and reporters alike.