Product Details

• Actors: Graham W. Birdsall, Martyn Stubbs
• Directors: Graham W. Birdsall
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Russian
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: UFO Tv
• DVD Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000083C6D
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,981 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Secret NASA Transmissions - Smoking Gun" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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EBE Award Winner! Best Film – International UFO Congress Film Festival. On March 11, 2000, in front of an assembled audience of UFO enthusiasts and the media, evidence was presented that would appear to indicate the existence of, not one, but two types of unknown extraterrestrial lifeforms. Labeled ‘Phenomena One’ and ‘Phenomena Two’ by a man who spent several years recording and logging thousands of hours of NASA space shuttle transmissions, this "historic" footage and the story that lay behind its discovery can now be revealed

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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a compilation of all the greatest NASA and RSA footage, February 9, 2003

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This review is from: Secret NASA Transmissions - Smoking Gun (DVD)

Cheese aplenty with low budge production, but the footage basically speaks for itself. At times the picture quality can be horribly low due to camera quality, but even the bad ones are pretty shocking. This is a great compilation and easy to believe that it is the favorite among astronauts. Some of the shots you may have seen on Tv's UFO Files or something, but most of them were new to me. Scene after scene of incredible footage from the Russian Space Agency's MIR and NASA missions. Not to mention a little scary.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nasa UFO's, February 27, 2003

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L. Ferraro (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secret NASA Transmissions - Smoking Gun (DVD)

Definitely a low budget production which has been transferred straight from the video release is one of the worst transfers I've come across on dvd so far. Considering it was made in 2000, you would think the transfer would be decent, obviously not. When Martin Stubbs is being interviewed, the colors dont look right and very grainy picture. Cheap cameras have been used to film this documentary. Some of the nasa clips downloaded by Martin to video via satellite who has recorded every mission since the early nineties is of low quality. Dont expect the original nasa footage, this is vhs quality that is 2nd or 3rd generation copy. Besides all the technical issues, this is one of the most interesting ufo documentaries of all time, there is a lot of proof here that something strange and unusual is going on in orbit and Nasa dont want us to know. Running time 90 minutes, no extras, plain menu screen, audio pcm stereo.

Disc 3/5
Transfer 1/5
Audio 3/5
Extras 0/5

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a smoking gun, but definitely some intriguing video, July 9, 2006

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secret NASA Transmissions - Smoking Gun (DVD)

Secret NASA Transmissions: The Smoking Gun is certainly an interesting video, purportedly showing two kinds of unexplained light anomalies above the earth. These aren't just any old pictures and videos; these come right from NASA footage of space shuttle missions in the late 1990s. The title is an obvious attempt to get people's attention, as, obviously, these aren't secret transmissions at all. Martyn Stubbs, a cable access company manager in Vancouver, was able to tape earth-shuttle transmissions directly from a satellite feed. As he poured over untold hours of the footage, he quickly noticed the appearance of spherical objects, sometimes in significant number, on a number of occasions. These make for some rather striking images, as the objects are seen to perform some virtually impossible movements, including instantaneous 90 degree turns and incredibly fast movement in any given direction. You may have seen some of this shuttle mission footage on television shows such as Sightings several years ago. In one case, an object is seen to make a sudden turn in the opposite direction just before two beam-like images flash across the screen at its old position, leading to speculation that this remarkable video could perhaps show a UFO darting away from an earthbound laser beam attack of some sort. Oddly enough, this particular footage, which I found truly memorable, is little more than mentioned over the course of this documentary's 90 minutes. There's much more where that came from, though.

The video revolves around two different types of anomalies - the mysterious spheres that a number of astronauts have witnessed and a new type of anomaly that is all but invisible to the naked eye - unless you're an experienced video editor such as Martyn Stubbs. He knew he was picking up on something, but he really didn't get a good idea of what it was until he began breaking the video down into individual frames. There, on perhaps one of the sixty frames making up each second, he discovered what can only be described as streaks of light. These things move so incredibly fast that it's impossible to even conjecture what they could be, but Stubbs found them all over the place - not only on his downloaded footage from different shuttle missions but even on a CNN broadcast of a live spacewalk. I wouldn't go so far as to call these extraterrestrial life forms, but there is something there we definitely don't understand. NASA experts will readily talk about the spherical objects (which have been seen by astronauts as far back as John Glenn), seemingly in love with their ice particles explanation despite the fact it's been readily disproved, but almost no one even wants to be in the room when the second type of phenomena are discussed (one of the Hubble big kahunas literally got up and left when the subject was raised). They're really aren't any answers on this video, just questions of the most intriguing kind.

The Secret NASA Transmissions: The Smoking Gun is really quite impressive for what is basically a low-budget video. The introductory material manages to take us from the start of man's fascination with the skies all the way to the space shuttle in mere minutes - and it does so quite effectively. The overall format can be a little tiresome, however. I wanted to go ahead and see the footage, but I had to be content with short samples coinciding with Stubbs' explanation of what he saw and what he has done in order to try and understand what the anomalous objects might be. Finally, after an hour, the viewer is treated to the raw footage - not only of strange sightings from shuttle missions but several videos taken by Russian cosmonauts, as well. Stubbs is an engaging fellow (he sort of reminds me of the long-haired guy on The Lone Gunmen), but it's the raw footage that really matters here - and it's definitely unusual enough to merit attention.