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Secret NASA Transmissions - Smoking Gun

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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.

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

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.

It's a bit long winded and technically dull. It isn't an action packed UFO thriller designed to entertain you and it isn't a big budget film. It's not intended to be.

This is a documentary. Much of the footage consists of NASA's own video feed from various space flights, being transmitted back to earth in real time. Anyone carrying on that this video is a waste and/or contains no "proof" must fall into one of two catagories.

In the first catagory are those that were expecting to see some "huge, UFO break-through" like a space ship landing on the White House lawn with aliens stepping out saying "Take me to your leader!" and being dissappointed can't be bothered trying to understand the very dry facts being explained and so just blow it all off as a waste of thier time.

In the second catagory are those that as they began to understand what this video proves, had a fight or flight response to sudden fear and must dissmiss the evidence as "space dust" or "whatever", in order to maintain thier rationalized view of a reality in which all is well. (By the way... many in this catagory are unaware of this automatic response.)

This video proves the existance of an "unknown and intelligent" life form! Even I was unaware of them until I watched this video. It's not as glamorous as seeing proof that "Gray" aliens exist but does fully document and prove the existance of more than one type of E.T.!

Want icing on the cake? NASA doesn't deny it, nor can they explain it! The same goes for the Russian Space Agency.

You don't need to take my word for it......

First off, do NOT purchase the DVD version of this show because the transfer absolutely sucks. It is too dark and a green tint screws up the space footage. I've spoken to the manufacturer of the disc a few years ago about fixing the problem, but they still have not gotten around to making the DVD as good as the video.

As for the two negative reviews posted, ignore them. They do not know what they're talking about. The phenomena in this video's footage is NOT ice crystals or dust or easily explainable things, this is true non-terrestrial life that exists both in the atmosphere of our planet and out in space around it. I've known about these creatures for many, many years from passing remarks told to me from relatives and various friend's who had family working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Everything concerning them was very hush hush. Gladly this video was released to support Space Phenomena 1 & 2's existence. The best footage on the whole tape is the massive congregation of Space Phenomena 1 around the broken STS satellite tether. After you view this tape, you'll have a new understanding of space itself. That it has never been a void of life, but is actually a vast sea of life, full of creatures we know nothing about. Now it is up to NASA to stop hiding from the truth and get a branch of xenobiology going to study these lifeforms.

First of all, the feeds are live from NASA but they are also being recorded by Martyn Stubbs, a cable access company manager in Vancouver, who uses his own vision mixer to enhance the broadcast at times. While some of the footage is being tweaked, a lot of it remains untouched, except for the fact that the transmission system and recording equipment is very different to the quality of feed NASA was getting and recording. This means that there is some interference present on the tapes that the NASA tapes will not have. Asking us to call video interference space anomalies is far-fetched. However it does show some obvious artefacts that are not part of the feed but are in space and moving. These lights all have the same characteristics. They reflect light and they move in a straight line. The only light not to move in a straight line is one sequence which shows a light suddenly change angle. However this light is entering the upper atmosphere of our planet which can create this skipping stone effect. Other than this, all of the lights are moving in a straight line. Some fast, some slow, but they all follow a straight line. Between space debris and just particles of ice in space this stuff does not seem impressive enough to warrant anything other than what NASA calls ice particles, space debris and meteorites. I would expect this stuff to be there and so, hey presto, here it is caught on camera when the sun is shining on them. And in every instance it is precisely the sun or moon-glow which illuminates these objects. Given that we currently monitor 150,000 pieces of space trash, some about 6cm wide, that meteorites do enter out atmosphere, that moon-glow and the sun causes reflection on ice particles, why do we need to explain these artefacts as signs of intelligent life? The scientific answer is that we do not have to do this to understand what they are. Nobody in NASA is phased by this stuff. There are many scientists who describe what these are and have always gone on the record saying they are ice crystals, debris or meteorites. Instead this DVD just asks some new SETI director to comment and he starts yaking about a conspiracy against planet Earth. I am sorry but the UFO explanation is not in the least bit scientific. Think of Sherlock Holmes.

Interesting footage of ice crystals, space debris and meteorites though.

1. INTRODUCTION

Never before have I been so appalled at how deluded, degraded, deceived, and utterly embarrrassing, an analysis can be, except with those "rods," and the pathetic balloons of Mexico, which also must someday become remembered as the lowest point in UFO history, and the mark of some kind of mass hysteria, or mass delusion, where people seem willing to believe anything.

Never before have I agreed with the phrase, "I want those 2 hours of my life back," someone says when he sees a bad movie.

I truly knew the meaning of that phrase with this farce of all things intelligent.

2. F' ALL EVIDENCE.

The fact he calls these phenomenon spheres is indicative of his thoroughness and discernment.

Never is there a sphere.

Even worse, there is never any clear flat circle. There are just countless out of focus, over-exposed (therefore apparently enlarged) blurs that at no time (but one) change course or speed. You can clearly see the unmistakable look of being out of focus some of them have, indicating how small and close these ice fragments or particles are, set aglow by the overexposure.

This is how much definition this sad character has.

More alarming, is this dude IS intelligent, and more thorough than 100 men put together, in his amassing of videos.

Most alarming is that many scientists have seen it, he said, and not one thought it was natural!!?!?! Someone advised him: duplicate it. Find more evidence. And his aghast reaction to it: Yep, sure enough, it was always there.

3. THE SMOKING DUM

These "spheres" clearly going in front of and behind the space shuttle tether clearly means he hasn't the first understanding of photography, as demonstrated in the moon landings conspiracy: as over exposure can erase a cross-hair, or brightness of the moon obsure the stars, the overwhelming brightness of the tether makes some blurs appear to go behind. Hither and thither, feather and tether - in the heather.

4. FLASHING COLOURED LIGHTS

1) When a hatch to the spacecraft got stuck, this guys insists these flashes gather always when something is happening, as with the satellite tether breaking. This is just below the bottom of irrationality. They happen because that is when the camera is on! It is truly that simple.

At the point of the hatch, they show 3 or so photos, each with a different light streak in a different place.

At this point, does this give your instincts, or just intelligence, a creepy weird feeling that something is very wrong? Like you are talking to someone who is from a mental hospital?

5. THE NEXT MISTAKE

He was surprised NASA gave no resistance to him downloading all their videos of this guff.

What also killed me was he never took it to either a photography or optical expert, or a film expert. Obviously the first answer may lie there.

But you haven't seen the video footage of the hatch, yet, when he is so convincinly explaining. Finally, at the end, you do. It dawned on me straight away. Of course, it's video. You can't mistake the scratches or flashes. This was the final evidence which committed this crazy. They don't even have to be particles. So the flashes may all be film scratches. Wow. Or, ironically, particiles on the video.

I felt like I was watching Play School. It was one of the lowest points of Earth. Not the highest like he says.

Along this solo journey where the only other person who speaks besides the invisible interviewer is some wild-looking Russian Australian in charge of a new telescope or something in the outback to back him up, he never indicates what these spheres and flashes logically can be in the real world, so carefully investigated, he has separated them into two separate phenomena.

If I didn't know better, I'd say this is either one of those April Fool pranks, or a true farce to test how gullible people are. It is brilliant in one of those categories of phenomena.

The use of this film becomes one other: to show how deceived or influenced a person can become, even with the most simple and obvious of things.

What's so hard to understand about all the satellite debris, meterorites, or particles of ice?

Even the title is crap: Secret NASA Transmissions. There is nothing secret. It's false as well.

Lucky I spent just 5 box on this in the bargain Cheap as Chips store, which is an insult itself. The pic quality was excellent on that though - apart from the videos.

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6. DISCREDITS

EBE Award Winner! Best Film - International UFO Congress Film Festival.

The favorite among astronauts. What clip, or idea, exactly was he referring to? Doesn't mean a thing either, except those as well makes my faith in humanity lessen a bit and my faith in apes increase.

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Also, of course, as with most of the bogus UFO TV productions or whatever similar company it is, they have no idea how to put the DVD together in an ordered, logical (no surprises there) way.

Instead of having the mild madman rave on about one particular video and THEN show that video, while he is quiet, hopefully, then go back to him for the next, they just have him raving for half an hour, now and again interspersing confused video bits in a messy way with no explanation.

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By the way, those famous firelies of John Glen in space were just natural too, not mysterious or living things this guy believes are still an ongoing mystery. It was the first orbital flight in space and Glen didn't understand what was going on there.

They were proved to be tiny white pieces of frost from the side of the spacecraft which had condensed, then released in the sun. Simple.

This has to be the absolute rock-bottom lame 'UFO' video. The author has recorded a bunch of publicly-available footage from NASA Select, NASA's satellite channel (there's nothing 'secret' about any of it, for starters) and then every little glint of sunlight off a metal surface or ice crystal that floats by, this nut case presents as some kind of 'evidence' of extraterrestrial intelligence and a NASA coverup. Well I used to work at NASA and indeed there are things they cover up, but none of the crapola on this DVD is worth your time or money. It includes some long interview sequences with a Canadian back-country hick that I presume is the author of this awful DVD, but he is so dumb that he doesn't even get the name of his own country's astronaut right (he says she's 'Elizabeth Bondar', but ROBERTA Bondar is a personal friend of mine and Canada's token astronaut).

There's not one single bit of evidence on this DVD to back up the claim made by the author ("From Space Shuttle cameras comes starling evidence that we are not alone"), it is all sprung from his imagination and glints of light off of reflecting surfaces. Nothing changes direction, there is zero evidence of anything, this DVD is just a bad joke. Save your money folks, or at least spend it on something better like Philip Corso's book if you are interested in extraterrestrial intelligence, which by the way I believe in. This DVD will do nothing for you.

I would say this wasn't the best "production", but hey, who orders stuff like this to be "entertained?" The footage is a bit long winded in some parts during the interview, but the space footage is REALLY good in my opinion. How can anyone explain "shooting stars" turning at right angles instantaneously?
There's more than that though. It's very interesting to hear the astronauts or NASA officials describing what they are seeing and then sorta dropping off because they don't know what to say to describe what they are seeing. Now that's entertaining!:)

If you are seeking truth, I believe there is some in this DVD. But, as with all information, take the good and leave the bad.

NASA owns footage exposed.. The way the astronauts talk in codes, and MIR astronauts coming out clean about how they have witnessed these objects. Now if people after these footages and comments from the astrounauts themselves still not believe, I guess just an actual sighting will make them believe.

very intersting how these ice particles that NASA seems to insist on.. all of the sudden speed up and slow down, make turns appear and dissapear in an incredible speed... hmmm NOT ALL OF THAT ARE ICE PARTICLES or dust in the lenses.. they need to come out clean. It is very important for us to realize that the government will not come out anytime soon to tell us the Truth. "The truth is out there" and the Nasa footage brings it straight to your tv screen.