UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

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.

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 have been open to various rabbit holes. For instance, I think that Vietnam was a pretty bad idea, despite that "we" had been "attacked" in the Gulf of Ton-kin. I was skeptical that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and it turns out they didn't.

I was a little bit worried that the caves beneath Tora Bora were a massive Bin-Laden-engineered super-complex of jet aircraft controlling, tower-dropping, WMD slinging, freedom-crushing, civilian-killing death aimed at all us all us good freedum loving folks in Amurka...

But I was a little let down when that turned out to be false.

The thing I always told myself was that, having waded through all that M5M crap about Iraq having WMD's, etc., at least I never fell for the gummint UFO psy-op.

Well, I think this show is a very understated, non-alien-ascribing, fact-based, take on the issue of unidentified things that fly around in sky. I have no horse in this race, because I've been bust getting used to all the other crap in the M5M narrative that turns out to be totally false,. This show is actually very impartial and neutral and interesting. There are no quacks in it. Nobody whatsoever is arguing that these phenomena are aliens or anything like that.

It's just tight, minimalist reporting and is pointing out things that are obvious and non-controversial. You will not hear any "Greys sodomized me" or any other deranged BS in this program. It's a clean, impartial, scientific, journalistic look at UFOs / UAPs or whatever.

Having said all that, I don't think they are aliens. Not for a minute! But neither does anyone in this program. All they are saying, is that stuff i going on in the sky that is difficult to explain.

Check it out. It's very acceptable, fact-based journalism. It's not WOO at all,

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.

Without drawing outlandish conclusions, this very thorough documentary reviews the overwhelming evidence supported by scientists and highly trained military and aeronautical witnesses, and the complete lack of response (to the point of obfuscation) by the US government. In addition to detailing many of the most prominent sightings, this report notes that other countries around the world do indeed consider this phenomenon worth serious investigation and have set up government agencies to accumulate and evaluate the data.

There are no actors, only the actual people involved in dealing with UFO'S, be it as witnesses, as scientists, or as government responding (or not) to these incidents. Very informative and up-to-date chronicle of what we do know and what we have been allowed to know.

Tha Truth IS out there!