A LOOK AT THE 1952 MOVIE “RED PLANET MARS”

May 10, 2011 on 8:28 pm | In extraterrestrial, History, MOVIES, RADIO, space alien | 4 Comments

RED PLANET MARS

I may be off target a bit, but I have to praise one of the most moving extraterrestrial science fiction movies ever made, 1952′s “Red Planet Mars”.

I’d seen it on television back in the late 1960s and now that I’m watching it in a new state of mind I’ve got to admit as a student of UFOlogy it’s not only socially powerful but it’s hysterically funny in it’s foresight and introspection.

It’s a movie that takes place at the beginning of the Cold War. When the United States and then Soviet Union were rapidly building up their arsenals to blow up the Earth to save it from one another’s ideologies. Typical human behavior to say the least.

The story wraps around the discovery of a young scientist and his wife who use a communications device to contact Martians. They detect the Martians via series of telescopic images showing signs of industry going on. They struggle to get a message back from the Martians but to no avail until the scientist’s son suggests the mathematical equation for Pi be used. That does the trick and soon the Martians and humans are chatting up a storm.

That may sound like a good thing but as any UFOlogist worth their salt who has read the declassified CIA sponsored Robertson Panel document, you can tell what happens next. That document exposed the drive that some in government planned to squash any UFO information, spy on UFO groups and discredit witnesses. The Martians tell about how they’ve solved the challenges of longevity and energy and peaceful relations. Needless to say as soon as the oil and insurance and banking cartels on Earth hear about it, riots break out, labor unions protest, and industries collapse sending the West into a tailspin.

It looks like the past ten years worth of global news except for the Osama Bin Laden thing.

Soon the US is forced to stop broadcasting the messages to the public as total chaos ensues. Adding more contrast to the mix is that the man who really invented the device to communicate with Mars is a drunk ex NAZI recluse living in the Andes mountains who is dealing with shady Soviet henchmen who are intercepting the US’ Martian broadcasts in order to use the information to undermine them. The crusty old drunk NAZI scientist is a movie unto himself as he’s such a character.

Things get worse for the Americans, bankers, and Soviets as the Martians answer the question as to why they’ve not blown themselves up using their technology by stating that belief in God and Christ is what kept them going and that we Earthlings had the opportunity 2,000 years ago but haven’t gotten the picture yet.

That leads to the Soviets dealing with a revolution that has the peasants in Russia upending the government.

Things go from bad to worse quickly as the evil drunk ex NAZI scientist’s secret lair is destroyed in an avalanche and he somehow makes it to America and confronts the good guy scientist with a plot twist that really spoils the milk.

I’ll leave the story there as there is an even bigger plot twist to come and I want you all to enjoy the flick.

The importance of this movie is that it addresses concepts that information about the US and foreign government’s reluctance to release UFO/ET data. It really explains it much.

The direction is fine, the performances are of surprisingly high quality with Peter Graves as the heroic scientist, Andrea King as his scientist wife who delivers a performance that may knock you out. She gives some dialogue that rips right through the mind and heart.

Herbert Berghof as the evil scientist is superb and would have made a great “Fearless Leader” from the classic “Bullwinkle and Rocky” animated cartoon by the great Jay Ward.

You just want to reach into the screen and punch Berghof’s character in the face a dozen times over he’s so rotten.

This is a must have movie for fans of sci-fi, UFOlogy, the Cold War, and religion.

Any villain who quotes from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” has got to be seen.

Some critics pan the movie because of it’s religious bend however writers John L. Balderston and John Hoare put together a tight script nonetheless.

It’s black and white but that gives it an extra sense of drama and goes hand in hand with other sci fi flicks of that era that didn’t fear to give God a voice.

So go out and get some popcorn and see a movie from the golden age of UFOlogy.

UPDATE

I’ve found out that you can watch this video online for free, yes Red Planet Mars, on Google video by clicking here, or you can watch it below.

Also, as a giggle of sorts, look for what I call the unintentional “Toy Story” reference regarding the PIXAR movie that features favorite American toys that come to life. It’s a scene where the scientist’s son is playing with toys on the living room floor. I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

Yawn! Another bogus supposed leaked Roswell zeta reticuli alien video.

May 8, 2011 on 9:12 am | In Exobiology, extraterrestrial, Flying Saucers, History, NEWS, Roswell, space alien, UFO CRASHES, UFO PICTURES, UFO VIDEOS, UFOlogy, YouTube | No Comments

Here you have another video that has been making the rounds on the internet purportedly showing a space alien from Zeta Reticuli star system. This black and white video shows the object being measured for height. Details of the subjects head and body are shown.

I for one am calling it bogus due to several factors. Some so glaring that I don’t have the time to spend on them. Just ask yourselves the relevant questions while looking at it as in why would a video make the sound of a film projector?

You can do some amazing things with computers nowadays regarding special effects imagery and as long as these videos keep being churned out every week it seems, you’ll have that cottage industry of bogus UFO and alien videos and pics streaming.

Nowadays we can’t go by pics and videos. We need physical evidence of unquestionable validity. We’ve theorized UFOlogy to within an inch of it’s life and speculated beyond what’s necessary. It’s more than past the time to do real lab work. You will never, ever get a disclosure from any government on Earth regarding this subject so don’t hold your breath. The only thing we have is good old fashioned scientific research done in a laboratory.

Salt Lake Tribune Uncovers FBI UFO Files

April 10, 2011 on 1:52 am | In Close Encounter Of The First Kind, Flying Saucers, History, NEWS, Roswell, Science | 3 Comments

UTAH FBI UFO FILES

Now here’s some homework at work.

The Salt Lake Tribune’s website focusing on Utah news has a story by reporter Lee Davidson that shows some solid, real journalism homework done.

Davidson’s article entitled “New FBI ‘vault’ discusses Utah UFOs, other secrets” focuses on the discovery using the online FBI documents archive, the archive open to the public that is, of documents pertaining to UFO incidents in Utah and more.

The UFO info should be of interest to the public and UFO researchers as they deal with official documents that one can peruse and use for reference material. some of the documents contain information long known to the UFO community but there is some new data also of interest.

It shows that the FBI was at a quandary in the early days of the UFO/Flying Saucer mystery and that then director J. Edgar Hoover was thirsty for anything regarding UFOs/Flying Saucers. UFO historians will point to previously uncovered documents that suggest several things in regard to the FBI’s involvement with UFOs/Flying Saucers and sometimes the conflict that departments had with one another such as the Army not giving information to the FBI and vice versa.

There is even an interesting paragraph regarding the famous UFO incident at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Some may find what the FBI was told by a source to be shocking if they haven’t heard or read the data before. In this case it’s data that was collected by the FBI and put into an official document.

So you can read more about reporter Lee Davidson’s well done article by CLICKING HERE.

Comedian Michael Rayner

March 30, 2011 on 3:51 pm | In | No Comments

Who says UFOs can’t be fun? Sometimes we UFOlogists have to take a break and get in some laughs. Here’s a comedian named Michael Rayner whom many of you have seen on TV like on the David Letterman Show. Michael does a juggling act as well as other funny shticks on stage. We saw him at the popular “Cartoon Dump” live comedy show in Hollywood on Monday. So this video has nothing to do with UFOs but at least it’s funny!

Videos Of UFO Over Lafayette, Colorado

March 28, 2011 on 5:40 pm | In Close Encounter Of The First Kind, NEWS, UFO PICTURES, UFO VIDEOS, UFOlogy, UFOs, Unidentified Flying Object | No Comments

VIDEOS OF UFO IN LAFAYETTE, COLORADO

Well another multiple witness Close Encounter of the First Kind has occurred over Lafayette, Colorado.

Here you can see a couple of videos taken by different people that shows a triangular formation of lights
that suggest a triangular object flying slowly through the sky. This similar type of formation and object has
been reported for decades and as usual the authorities aren’t open about it to citizen’s requests which by law
they are mandated to do.

We’ll have to wait for the analysis of the videos to get an idea of what this object or objects are and until then
it’s best to follow my number 1 rule regarding any UFO story: Don’t get excited.

Wait until the professional analysis comes in and then we can catalog it with the other sightings. It’s a good thing
people at large now have pocket cameras and these residents of the area were sharp to whip out their cameras
and capture the event.

Good lookin’ out there Coloradans.

1953 Movie: Invaders From Mars

March 27, 2011 on 4:20 pm | In ALIEN ABDUCTION, CELEBRITIES, extraterrestrial, Flying Saucers, History, space alien, UFO PICTURES, UFO VIDEOS, UFOlogy, Unidentified Flying Object | No Comments

1953 Movie: Invaders From Mars

Last night I indulged myself by watching one of my favorite classic UFO movies called “Invaders From Mars”. It was produced in 1953, directed by William Cameron Menzies, written by Richard Blake, and starred Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, and Jimmy Hunt.

This movie, Invaders From Mars is a favorite amongst friends and family as it would be re-released in theaters while I was growing up and at the drive-ins. The television commercials were eerie as the trailer had all the elements that would make a kid want to make a bee line to the movies. It broke a lot of ground in the Martian invasion, UFO and flying saucer genres.

It featured then, what many today call the alien abduction phenomenon almost 15 years before the famous Barney and Betty Hill story that appeared in LOOK magazine in the early 1960s. The story had all the elements, people kidnapped, implants put into people’s brains, government conspiracies and the coolest, eeriest looking alien overlord type that still stands up today regarding make up and special effects. Invaders From Mars was way ahead of it’s time and on a modest filming budget still has the chills and surrealism the film achieved even in today’s high definition age.

Great plot, lots of heroic action and focuses on the story of a young boy who sees a flying saucer land in a field near his home. Soon, people begin disappearing and return with strange behavior and the boy, David, notices they’ve got a mark on the backs of their necks. David ends up at the police station after a neighborhood girl is abducted and sets fire to her home. David’s father and the girl’s father both work on a top secret project at a nearby base as do several of the people in the town. At the station David’s wild story of flying saucers and strange people puts him in a cell where a beautiful health care worker played by Helena Carter arrives and takes pity on the boy. David’s parents arrive, now under the power of the Martians to retrieve him but Dr. Pat Blake (Carter), refuses. Soon the police chief and some military brass are under the Martian’s control and it’s up to Dr. Carter, David, and Dr. Stuart Kelston, played by Arthur Franz, to race against time to alert the authorities and thwart the Martians. Yes, Invaders From Mars has it all except the mush.

If you haven’t seen Invaders From Mars you’re missing out. Yes there was a remake in the 1980s which was faithful to the original but the 1953 classic can’t be touched. I bring this up because I’ve seen several edited versions of this movie over the years and didn’t realize that it had been altered several times. There are several with different endings, one that was way ahead of the Twilight Zone and EC Comics ironic-twist-at-the-end formula, but in the version I saw last night on Netflix, there was an added scene I had not known existed and it blew me away.

In this version of Invaders From Mars, the filmmakers added footage to explain the area of UFOlogy and it was quite alarming. The sequence takes place amongst the three principal characters of David, Dr. Blake, and Dr. Kelston who runs the local observatory where Jimmy, an amateur astronomer likes to frequent. Kelston it turns out had been studying UFOs and goes into a lengthy, quite accurate and broad explanation about UFOs that looks like one of those 1950s educational films. I mean he really goes into depth to the point he actually makes a convincing argument for the alien visitation or extraterrestrial hypothesis. He covers the infamous “Lubbock Lights” story with photos, the case of Capt. Thomas F. Mantell of the Kentucky Air National Guard whose plane crashed while in pursuit of a UFO in January 1948. A highly publicized case at the time as theories of “death rays” were tossed about as an explanation to Mantell’s death. Not all the data in this particular scene is accurate science and has some speculation that by today’s standards of UFOlogy might not hold up but it’s amazing that the producers went to such lengths with this particular segment. In addition, there is something in this movie that most miss. At no time do the “invaders” state that they’re from outer space! It’s the military and the scientists who assume so. In a scene where the invaders are asked about their leader, the creepy bodiless octopus head in a bubble, the invaders state that their leader is the epitome of human evolution. Note, didn’t say “Martian”. Get the picture yet?

That added footage came after the main story had been filmed and one can see that the character David had grown a bit during the time period. This scene is just the extra punch that makes Invaders From Mars that must-have UFO movie alongside such classics as “Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story Of Flying Saucers”, “The Bamboo Saucer”, and “Earth vs The Flying Saucers” featuring the great Ray Harryhausen’s special effects.

So hunt around for the version of Invaders From Mars that I’m mentioning which according to the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) which you can read by clicking HERE. I won’t go into the endings of the three versions, American, European, and re-edited American versions as the endings are a surprise. So do yourself a treat and hunt for all three versions and enjoy a classic in UFO culture that stands the test of time.

Here you can see the original theatrical trailer for Invaders From Mars:

Here you can see a tribute to the movie and it’s eerie musical score. One of the scariest music scores as it’s deceptive. It starts off in some form of military march but soon evolves into a melody that suggests hidden mystery and a haunting otherworldly menace.

Join The UFO MAFIA’s FACEBOOK Page!

March 20, 2011 on 10:30 pm | In | No Comments

JOIN THE UFO MAFIA FACEBOOK PAGE! CLICK HERE!

Remember gang, you can join the UFO MAFIA’s FACEBOOK page! Just reminding….

UFOs and Japan’s Damaged Nuclear Power Plants

March 12, 2011 on 1:15 am | In | 7 Comments

As you may know by now that one of the concerns regarding the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, is about the country’s damaged nuclear power plants.

As of present four of these plants not only shut down but two are in a higher state of alert and some venting of radioactive gas has occurred. I bring this up in the UFO field as it’s been noticed that on occasion UFOs are seen near nuclear power plants when disasters happen. Some quite startling UFO or flying saucer events happened at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Sightings of UFOs has occurred at nuke plants worldwide including a few highly publicized events at the Indian Point Nuclear power plant on the Hudson River back in the 1980s.

So you sharp eyed UFOlogists out there keep an eye peeled and ear to the ground for civilian issued reports of UFOs prior to and during this Japanese earthquake and tsunami as well as nuclear power plant damage issue.

Live Video Of Earthquake Japan Thanks to BBC

March 11, 2011 on 7:53 am | In | No Comments

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE VIDEO OF JAPAN EARTHQUAKE

Thank goodness you can get live breaking news video of the latest earthquake in Japan. The BBC website link will take you there. Also, there is a pop up video window that you can watch the live feed.

Analysis Of UFO Video In Devon, England

March 10, 2011 on 8:11 am | In Flying Saucers, NEWS, UFO VIDEOS, UFOs, Unidentified Flying Object | No Comments

Well another high profile UFO video has surfaced that has the web all abuzz. It shows a flying saucer hovering and traveling between some trees in Devon, England.
You can see this video of the UFO in Devon, England below.

As you can see it’s a good video and I would have to call this UFO video from Devon, England a fake for two reasons. One, I use and work with CGI and it has that signature all over it. Two, you see the object surrounded by trees and it shoots straight up into the air at an astounding speed and doesn’t disturb the trees surrounding it. That’s just too obvious. These UFO videos that pop up now and then on YouTube are really good but all you need do is pass them by experts in the special effects and computer animation field and they can spot them for what they are right off the bat. So again, my rule about any UFO story or sighting is that do NOT get excited. That’s your worse enemy. Instead analyze it carefully and if you can, pass it by some experts in special effects and there are lots of them on the web nowadays. All you need do is just search for their forums and ask them politely to examine them. They’ll not only tell you what it is but which software was used to achieve the effects.

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