Mark (Star Mariner)
18th January 2016, 20:34
I think this old film has been posted before somewhere, and possibly not for a while, but it's definitely worth another look. It's actually a very important film for the information it contains, and all the more startling when you note the date it was made: 1977.
VnUy-naD0Yw
If you read a transcript for it, you would perhaps be forgiven for believing it was some recent offering from the History Channel, or NatGeo - I mean that seriously. Perhaps only William Shatner's sideburns, and epic polyester suits with their massive collars, tells us that this really was made in '77. And for that fact it hits home all the more harder, if you take into consideration the context of the information, the severity of how it's delivered, and the important, underlying theme of it all - which you'll understand when you see it, taking into account afterwards how little progress has been made over some 40 years insofar as ETs and UFOs are perceived by your everyman.
Discussed are many matters you might only have seen or heard about recently, such as on 'Ancient Aliens', and probably because that in itself is based largely on Von Daniken's theories, who I believe inspired this film in the first place. We get to hear different (balanced) sides of the argument, both civilian and academic – even NASA speaks up, and surprisingly in favour of ET reality, and even a genetic connection with 'men from space'. We are presented with numerous examples of extraterrestrial visitation in our dim, distant past. A Crystal Skull is shown and discussed with its owner; and we hear a number of philosophical standpoints on the subject of not just UFOs, but science and metaphysics, and our wider, grander place in the Universe. An 'exo-sociologist' is interviewed, (a forerunner of Exopolitics?), and we are told what to expect in mankind's future. Multiple UFO cases are examined, photos displayed, and it is all constructively presented, quite different to how mainstream documentaries (mocumentaries) do so today, and Shatner even looks at cases of UFOs sighted over nuclear facilities.
All in all it's an excellent piece for its day, and well worth a watch. But I couldn't help thinking, throughout the whole thing, that it was almost, somehow, a preparatory piece. In other words, it was like a film specially made for the public's education, in light of possible, imminent First Contact.
I've asked myself many times over the years, 'what if'? And not 'what if it happened', but what if it could have happened, or was meant to already have happened in the past - yet, due to some force, was blocked? Personally, I think that is the case. I believe the event of disclosure is something that could very well have happened, had it not been postponed, postponed perhaps several times. Probably Military, Intelligence, or Government forces were responsible for this. They do so love their secrets. And to keep on controlling the black technology those secrets must be kept at all costs...
Obviously the predictions made in this film did not pan out. I wonder how much longer we have to wait until disclosure really does happen? Consider Shatner's in many ways profound words at the end of this film:
"Are beings or intelligences from beyond our galaxy listening to us, as we are trying to listen to them? ...And a most disturbing, unsettling question, echoed by scientists and layman alike: Are we in some inexplicable way being prepared by an intelligence beyond our own, for our first encounter with extra-terrestrial beings? Think of it. Am I being prepared for this encounter? Are you? How soon?
"This is not a work of fiction, this is not a work of dreamers ... Behold: there are even greater wonders than we dream…"
VnUy-naD0Yw
If you read a transcript for it, you would perhaps be forgiven for believing it was some recent offering from the History Channel, or NatGeo - I mean that seriously. Perhaps only William Shatner's sideburns, and epic polyester suits with their massive collars, tells us that this really was made in '77. And for that fact it hits home all the more harder, if you take into consideration the context of the information, the severity of how it's delivered, and the important, underlying theme of it all - which you'll understand when you see it, taking into account afterwards how little progress has been made over some 40 years insofar as ETs and UFOs are perceived by your everyman.
Discussed are many matters you might only have seen or heard about recently, such as on 'Ancient Aliens', and probably because that in itself is based largely on Von Daniken's theories, who I believe inspired this film in the first place. We get to hear different (balanced) sides of the argument, both civilian and academic – even NASA speaks up, and surprisingly in favour of ET reality, and even a genetic connection with 'men from space'. We are presented with numerous examples of extraterrestrial visitation in our dim, distant past. A Crystal Skull is shown and discussed with its owner; and we hear a number of philosophical standpoints on the subject of not just UFOs, but science and metaphysics, and our wider, grander place in the Universe. An 'exo-sociologist' is interviewed, (a forerunner of Exopolitics?), and we are told what to expect in mankind's future. Multiple UFO cases are examined, photos displayed, and it is all constructively presented, quite different to how mainstream documentaries (mocumentaries) do so today, and Shatner even looks at cases of UFOs sighted over nuclear facilities.
All in all it's an excellent piece for its day, and well worth a watch. But I couldn't help thinking, throughout the whole thing, that it was almost, somehow, a preparatory piece. In other words, it was like a film specially made for the public's education, in light of possible, imminent First Contact.
I've asked myself many times over the years, 'what if'? And not 'what if it happened', but what if it could have happened, or was meant to already have happened in the past - yet, due to some force, was blocked? Personally, I think that is the case. I believe the event of disclosure is something that could very well have happened, had it not been postponed, postponed perhaps several times. Probably Military, Intelligence, or Government forces were responsible for this. They do so love their secrets. And to keep on controlling the black technology those secrets must be kept at all costs...
Obviously the predictions made in this film did not pan out. I wonder how much longer we have to wait until disclosure really does happen? Consider Shatner's in many ways profound words at the end of this film:
"Are beings or intelligences from beyond our galaxy listening to us, as we are trying to listen to them? ...And a most disturbing, unsettling question, echoed by scientists and layman alike: Are we in some inexplicable way being prepared by an intelligence beyond our own, for our first encounter with extra-terrestrial beings? Think of it. Am I being prepared for this encounter? Are you? How soon?
"This is not a work of fiction, this is not a work of dreamers ... Behold: there are even greater wonders than we dream…"