On Friday, we covered the Pentagon’s UFO file because a filmmaker first showed the world a spaceship in 1902 (Georges Méliès) Journey to the moon) Since then, Hollywood has produced thousands of films and television shows depicting an endless array of UFOs and aliens. The entertainment industry helped invent the genre. We made it big, and we own it.
Now, suddenly, the US government wants to intervene. The Pentagon has gone from denying the existence of UFOs to dumping documents, photos and videos related to “anomalous” phenomena. The Ministry of Defense promised to provide more files on a “rolling” basis. It comes after Donald Trump teased “very interesting” UFO discoveries, with members of Congress suggesting proof of alien life is just around the corner if they can only convince nefarious Deep State bureaucrats to let them release it.
But if the Pentagon expects to play on Hollywood turf, it will have to up its game. Last week’s UFO series premiere was a huge letdown; A mysterious, grainy, refined mess. There was no cohesive plot, there were no characters worth rooting for and the effects were terrible. This release will have a lower Rotten Tomatoes score than the infamous and pandemic Prime Video War of the Worlds remake, where Ice Cube spent 90 minutes responding to an alien invasion while on Zoom calls.
At best, these 162 files provide enough material for an entire season Ancient aliens. For the less gullible among us, we’re unimpressed by watching a single pixel, which looks like an escape from an Atari 2600, float across the screen (this has been described as one of the best clips).
These videos are often recorded by US Navy fighter aircraft using the AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Infrared (ATFLIR) pod. This is impressively described as a “multi-sensor electro-optical device” that includes “a high-power (thermal/infrared) camera, a low-light television camera and a laser rangefinder.”
But another way to describe this device – which certainly cost taxpayers a fortune – is a camera that can’t be a camera. Each video looks like a 1940s TV broadcast that someone recorded with a Super 8 camera and then left in their attic for 70 years. We are used to the new Jurassic Park and star wars The movies magically look worse than they did decades ago, but even NASA footage from the first lunar voyage in 1969 is somewhat sharper than government videos of UFOs today. So let’s ask Christopher Nolan to install some Imax cameras on F/A 18 Super Hornets and then maybe get out of bed and look at these squiggly blobs.
If the government is indeed hiding high-quality videos from visitors from another world, then let me reassure you on that point. There’s something no one seems to understand about this so-called revelation: Our entire concept of what might happen next if the government confirmed the existence of alien life depends on an era of government trust that no longer exists. If Trump declares aliens are real, who will believe him? Not the Democrats. Not half the Republicans, at this point. Everything Trump said about tariffs is wrong, no one believes him about aliens. The Pentagon could release 4K video of a massive object Close encountersA mothership-style hovering over Chick-fil-A and Americans will say: “Pfft, fake news, AI, distraction.”
One wonders if all this hype in the era of revelations might end up hurting Steven Spielberg Disclosure day More than helpful. The buzz about the real-life reveal there, combined with Universal’s “We’re hiding a bunch of this movie from the trailers” campaign, has gotten to the point where UFO buffs are starting to think the movie will end with Spielberg and Barack Obama entering Area 51 and revealing a frozen alien or something.
Meanwhile, documentarian Jeremy Corbel has a new documentary out this week, Sleeping dogpromoting new, previously unreleased UFO videos (fuzzy orbs? You bet!). Rep. Tim Burchett, a front-line whistleblower advocate (whose haunting and comforting phrases could be used in a sleep-aid app), says last week’s dossier drop is “just a drop in the bucket” and that Something coming almost That would be a real “holy crap” moment.
Maybe, just maybe…it would be the color of an orb.
