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UFO's: Above and Beyond

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We get so many like this. Although the DVD version of this documentary "UFOs Above & Beyond" (narrated by James Doohan) was released in 2003, it features very little new information. There are few new ideas here. It rehashes classic events (e.g., ancient cave paintings depicting alien craft and entities) as well as more contemporary sightings and oddities (such as events seen over Phoenix, Miami and Las Vegas), but none of this is researched in any meaningful manner. It treds a safe path betweeen provocation and revelation by dealing dramatically with very little outside a few images. These are the very same stories (such as Roswell) we have all become familiar with over the past 40 years.

The one single exception which makes this documentary stand out are perhaps the moon shots, photos of UFOs on and around the moon and the space shuttles. This may be worth viewing the DVD of itself.

In conclusion, although there is some new footage, essentially there is very little new information for ufologists in this DVD. I believe that this documentary is typical in its approach to this sensitive topic--almost child-like, as if the information being presented is really new and fascinating when in reality it is not. Who or what is obfuscating serious research into this earth shattering phenomenon is simply not known by most of us at this time. Since so many UFO documentaries like this are "safe," it makes one wonder to what degree researchers in general have reached that "firewall" of information beyond which they simply cannot go. If you've never heard anything at all about UFOs, this documentary might be one of several you would choose to start with.

As the previous reviewer noted, there's little new in this program -- but it does have one of the last times we saw James Doohan, the beloved "Mr. Scott" of zillions of trekkies like me. It is worth having on that basis alone, as the UFO information is quite general and nothing we probably haven't heard before.

I bought this "documentary" 4 years ago for less than 10$. I admit, I bought it because it was cheap but also because I thought it would be a real documentary, featuring both skeptics and believers. However this is not a documentary: It's 45 minutes of so-called "UFOs" and the host of the show automatically assume that all of these "UFOs" are from another world. The Host also seems to believe that Bob Lazar is legit, when in fact most people think that Lazar is a fraud. In other words this "documentary" is for believers only, for people who see Ufology as a fun phenomena instead of seeing it as a serious phenomena. I think it's really annoying that the host/people who have produced this documentary think that all UFOs are from another world when in fact we have no evidences that these are really Alien crafts. If you want to watch a bunch of random "UFO" footage then buy this DVD, but if like me you want only serious documentary in your collection then don't buy this DVD.

Has some footage I haven't seen before. Overall it is about average for these type of documentaries that I have
seen, but I have to give it an extra star as a Trek fan. Happy to have it in my UFO collection as well as my
Star Trek collection.