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Nova: Kidnapped By Ufos [VHS]

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I've shown this video many, many times in my classroom, and I am glad to finally buy a "new" copy of it. Great critical, scientific thinking abounds in this video.

This is a very subjective work on the subject. Can't be better in a skeptical way. If you are skeptical and subjective then you are destructive. If so you better shut your mouth. People need to learn and to know by themselves, they don't need somebody to know for them. This is not information but disinformation of course.
There was a good one, made before this one and called: "Kidnapped by UFOs", without the "?".
Strangely it seems impossible to find it anymore... If it is still possible, it is much harder anyway. And that's not understandable for a much better made documentary.

This is the NOVA special most famous for being so biased an inquiry that PBS had to recut it days before broadcast under threat of legal action. Even with their trims, the documentary as a whole is not the kind of exploration of a subject which NOVA is known and loved for. Rather than exploring the subject of alien encounters with a variety of learned people who could comment on different aspects of the experience - sociologists, psychologists, theologians, etc., who could compare this phenomenon to other human experiences - the program instead takes the unusual track of trying to assasinate the characters of those who have dedicated their lives to studying the phenomenon and helping people who have experienced it. Dubious interviewees (including the woman who allegedly embezzled funds from Dr. John Mack's organization) lend the whole affair a rather icky tone, well below what is typical for NOVA.

A better choice would be the documentary film Touched by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Laurel Chiten, not yet (at the time of this review) on video but coming.

i seen 90 to 100 out in my back yar