The documentary UFO’s Are Real attempts to convince viewers that we are not alone in this universe. And no, I didn’t make a typo with the title – there’s an apostrophe in the title both on the video box and in the opening credits, and it’s just the start of many problems to be found with this documentary.
#1 by RogerBW on May 16, 2014 - 5:52 am
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I can’t draw either, but that didn’t stop me from starting a webcomic.
The fuzzy thinking in this film is tremendous. If the evidence is really there, there shouldn’t be any need for emotive arguments such as “lots of smart people believe it”. But part of the problem is that UFOlogy runs inevitably into conspiracy theory: if these things are all over the place being seen by people, why haven’t they been caught on radar or by military or even professional civilian observers? “Well, obviously they must have been.” So why haven’t we heard about it? “THEY must be covering it up.”
The idea that a government cover-up of such amazing could actually hold, given the number of people who’d have to be involved and the incentive to blab, may have seemed more plausible before Watergate, I suppose.
Is that really a re-render of the Adamski fake saucer on the front cover? Looks awfully like it.
#2 by lyzard on May 18, 2014 - 6:24 pm
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HA!!
Logging in, my immediate reaction was “An apostrophe!!??” Before I read your blurb, that is. π
#3 by Jason farrell on May 18, 2014 - 9:34 pm
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Plural, possessive…whats the diff?
#4 by Ken on May 18, 2014 - 11:51 pm
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I think http://xkcd.com/1235 is definitive on this.
(Here’s hoping I don’t end up in moderation purgatory.)