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The Phenomenon (2020)

Review by johndmillican

The Phenomenon

10/10

Brilliant. Exceptional documentary - for the sceptics like me

It's impossible for a rational, intelligent person to dismiss the enormous volume of mounting evidence that even a sceptical, inquiring mind would be startled to learn.

The film makers collected a seemingly unimpeachable list of scores of corroborating witnesses who described the same account. Dozens who saw the same thing and experienced actual first contact. Career military and public servants who have a lot to lose. Scientists, pilots, clergy, career military, investigators, ordinary people and children.

Whether these are extraterrestrial or the "future us" that in 100 or 1000 years have harnessed quantum mechanics like Einstein, Hawking and others had explored and asserted possible. Existence of new technology has been characterised into the stuff of Science Fiction, moulded into a comedy routine, a cartoon, a Will Smith blockbuster. When you reflect that science fiction has a habit of turning into fact. Reflect how far technology has advanced in the last 20 years and how amazed if we had much of what we do now 20 years earlier. Imagine what our great, great, great grand children will be able to achieve in 150 to 200 years. Who knows if these are really humanoids from space, another dimension or are we being visited by our own future custodians.

If you're a sceptic, at the very least you'll take pause. If you're a believer your thirst won't be quenched.

One thing is crystal clear - we truely are not alone, and that is strangely comforting.
  • johndmillican
  • Dec 9, 2020

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