Unsolved mysteries

The long-running NBC-TV series "Unsolved Mysteries", hosted by the stoic Robert Stack, offered some excellent segments over the years on the UFO mystery. This four-disk DVD set features most of these UFO segments, complete with excellent re-creations of each incident by actors, interviews with the witnesses and/or abductees and prominent UFO researchers, and occasional interviews with UFO skeptics. Unfortunately, some of these UFO stories have lost some of their credibility over the years. The "Roswell/Area 51" segment features an interview with Bob Lazar, who claimed in the 1990's that he had worked on alien technology at Area 51. However, it has since been discovered that much of his story is suspect, and he has been largely discredited even within the UFO community. The same applies to the segment on the supposed "Face on Mars", which UFO researcher Richard Hoagland claimed was a huge monument built by aliens, and that NASA covered up evidence of its reality. But a flyby by a NASA probe a few years ago revealed that the "Face" was really just lights and shadows, and Hoagland has been exposed as something of a con artist by other UFO researchers. A few of the other UFO segments also feature "witnesses" whose stories struck me as being dubious. Even so, this DVD set also features plenty of UFO incidents which have yet to be explained, even after thorough research by "believers" and "skeptics", and I certainly wouldn't agree that all UFO cases are just a bunch of "tall stories". Among the best segments are those on the Kecksburg UFO incident, which was witnessed by dozens of people in the area around Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965; the Bentwaters/Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1980, which involved US military personnel (who are interviewed); the UFO "landing" in 1964 in Socorro, New Mexico, which was investigated by the US Air Force, who concluded that the policeman involved did see something strange (both the policeman and others involved in the case are interviewed); and the baffling Australian case in which a young pilot on a routine flight vanished while talking to a local airport controller (the controller is interviewed, and a transcript of their conversation is read by actors) - the pilot claimed a mysterious object was buzzing his plane, and then he vanished. IMO, this DVD set is worth buying simply for these few stories alone. The DVD extras feature a tribute to the late Robert Stack, and a segment describing how seriously the producers took each UFO incident they showed on the series. Overall, this DVD set is well worth the money - and any UFO buff or anyone who's interested in the paranormal will love it!

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UFO's
written by BlondieWrites on July 16, 2008

We have to wonder if UFO's and other life form appear on eath for a reason. Do they want to check us out to see what we are?

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