Alien 3 Documentary

[Colleen Bramham]

Werethese experiences simply misidentified weather balloons? Could those mysterious crafts have travelled millions of light years to investigate our own tech and aircraft capabilities? Was it all just an elaborate classified operation carried out by the Americans on the neighboring Air Force base?? The documentary leaves space for all possibilities and allows you the ability to draw your own conclusions.

The documentary is essentially a story about manipulation. Which can be an incredibly powerful thing. People have been manipulated into pushing a stranger off a building, stabbing a friend, and allegedly assassinating a public figure. But even knowing the degree to which people are susceptible to being controlled by external forces, I found it impossible to understand or empathize with the actions of the family at the center of Abducted in Plain Sight.

The film first first hit the festival circuit back in 2017, but has gotten renewed attention since being added to Netflix at the start of the year, with hundreds of people tweeting some version of this tweet in the last few weeks:

VICE: How did you find the story?

Skye Borgman: The Brobergs wrote a book in the early 2000s. I was completely shocked by all of it and I really wanted to figure out how something like this could happen.

Friends, over the weekend I had one of my oldest friends staying with me. The dynamics of our relationship have not budged for 25 years, and so of course I tried to find something weird to put on TV to watch the last morning she was in town (under my watch, she saw Con Air approximately 10 times from 1997 through 1998.) Enter in what by all accounts should have been Kate-catnip: Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story.

So, when they share a pic or a video on this doc, they make a very odd choice to show the image in an emboss effect (from, what I imagine to be a free version of Photoshop) as if putting it in emboss will somehow make us believe it more?

Per The Reporter-Herald

Loveland alien abduction author Stanley Romanek on Thursday was sentenced to two years in a halfway house and ordered to register as a sex offender at the conclusion of a child pornography case that began nearly five years ago and entangled a Loveland Police Department detective in a lawsuit.

Romanek, 55, was found guilty by a jury in August of felony possession of child pornography on a computer in his Loveland home and not guilty of a more serious felony charge of distributing child pornography.

From extraterrestrial beings to UFOs, there's countless theories and reported sightings of life from other galaxies. Whether you believe in Grays or are simply interested in learning more, below are some stories that might spark your interest. You can check out these otherworldly programs here or on the PBS app.

Ultra-sensitive telescopes have transformed alien planet-hunting from science fiction into enthralling hard fact. Join NOVA on a visit to exotic worlds orbiting distant suns to answer an age-old question with thrilling new science: are we alone?

Mixing a fictional narrative with documentary interviews, "First Contact: An Alien Encounter" tells the dramatic story of an encounter with an extraterrestrial artifact and explores the new tools we have available in the search for life beyond earth.

In early quarantine, a Pakistani couple in northern Virginia bicker and ruminate about extraterrestrial and terrestrial border-crossings of multiple kinds, after spotting what they believe is a UFO outside their home. 'There Was Nobody Here We Knew' is as much about finding answers as it is about looking inward to understand how we arrived at where we are and where we are headed.

I found a kindred spirit in Fox Mulder, the UFO-obsessed FBI agent working paranormal cases with his skeptical partner, Dana Scully. Like Mulder, I was a bit of a loner, especially at school, where it was decidedly uncool to be interested in UFOs and the paranormal. But I didn't care. The truth was out there, and I was prepared to find it on my own if I had to.

I spent my time reading every book on UFOs I could find, familiarizing myself with popular cases like the Roswell, Falcon Lake, Shag Harbour and Rendlesham Forest incidents. I watched documentaries and TV shows about the paranormal. I dreamed of the chance to investigate my first case.

Then, one night in 1993, I saw a videotape that would not only give me that chance, but would also change the course of my entire life. This story would also become the focus of a CBC documentary, UFO Town.

The packages contained a typewritten story about a UFO crash that allegedly took place in West Carleton, which was a rural township outside of Ottawa. There were also photographs of what Guardian claimed was an alien being.

Most investigators dismissed the material as a hoax. The story of the UFO crash read like bad science fiction, while the alien photos looked like nothing more than someone standing in a field in a dark outfit and a hockey mask.

In addition to more reports of UFO crashes in the West Carleton area, they also sent documents allegedly from Canada's Department of National Defence (DND), diagrams explaining how alien spaceships evaded our radar systems, and a series of playing cards covered with ramblings about religion and government conspiracies.

This new material from Guardian was even stranger than the first batch. The so-called DND documents didn't read like government papers, but instead told a rambling story about an ideological war involving "Red China," "Iraqu" (sic) and "Grey Aliens." There was also a bit about a secret project test centre in Carp, Ont.

The footage takes place at night and shows a large brightly lit object sitting on the ground next to a cluster of four red flares. There's no sound except, at one point, the distant bark of a dog. At the end of the tape were several still images of a humanoid figure dressed in black with a luminescent white head and hands. An alien, presumably.

The video didn't show the arrival or departure of the object, and freeze-frame close-ups show what looked like the cab of a very earthly pickup truck, complete with a partially raised windshield wiper. Also, the supposed extraterrestrial spacecraft, which was capable of flying many light years to reach Earth, required the aid of road flares, as seen in the video, in order to land.

Despite all of this, I decided to check out the case for myself. I can't explain why I was interested in something that most other investigators felt wasn't worth their time. It wasn't that I thought the case was legitimate. In fact, I was fairly certain it was a hoax. And yet, I was still curious about Guardian. Who were they? How were they able to perpetuate a hoax that managed to get the attention of major U.S. television programs? And more importantly, why did Guardian go to such lengths to convince people that UFOs were landing in rural Ontario?

I travelled to the area several times over the following year, exploring towns like Almonte, Carleton Place and Carp, where the UFO landing was alleged to have taken place. I met a number of colourful characters and tromped through farmer's fields and mosquito-infested swamps searching for signs of a UFO landing.

If this were an episode of The X-Files, I'd tell you I managed to track down Guardian and discovered they were a government agent working out of the decommissioned Diefenbunker, where they had a secret editing suite in which they worked on their UFO videos.

Looking back 25 years later, I wonder why I bothered to investigate the case. There were several reasons, but it boiled down to a perfect storm of events in my life when my interests and my aspirations converged with one of the most infamous cases in Canadian UFO history.

Eventually, I grew up and became a writer. Today, I create mysteries of my own. If I learned anything from that strange period in my life when I was a teenage UFO investigator it's that not all questions need to be answered.

Ian Rogers, profiled in the CBC documentary UFO Town, is the author of the award-winning collection Every House Is Haunted. His work has been selected for several "best of the year" anthologies, and many of his stories have been optioned for film and television. He lives with his wife in Peterborough, Ont.

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