Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings
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Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings is a 2007 documentary purporting to show the 10 "best" (i.e. most inexplicable) UFO sightings. This was made by asking UFO enthusiasts for their 10 best/favourite cases and sightings, assigning them arbitrary point values and averaging to get a final list of 10. Science!
[edit] Description
If you like your UFO documentaries on the unpolished side, look no further. The graphics have a late-90s Nintendo game feel. The interviews are an endless parade of wrinkly old men. The narrator sounds as if she's doing an impression of Dana Scully dosed with codeine, which renders it all but unwatchable. At one point, someone pronounces the word "nuclear" as "new-cu-lar". And there's plenty of awkward panning over military stock photos. The documentary makes the usual claims. For instance, noting that "UFO" sightings go back to antiquity, but were simply called something else or noted as miracles or demonic sightings. When asking a question on why UFO sightings have increased over the last half century, instead of proffering a sensible answer like "higher population" and "wider record-keeping" or "more effective media", Stanton Friedman suggests that it's obviously aliens checking up on us in case we nuke them.
Incredibly, the "#1 best UFO sighting" is awarded to a 1957 report by the crew of an RB-47 military aircraft on a training mission out of Forbes AFB, Kansas who said their aircraft was followed by a UFO for a distance of over 700 miles. UFO non-believers (such as the Air Force) long ago concluded that the RB-47 crew had tracked an airliner.[1][2] This documentary treats it as if it's unsolved and very mysterious. The film features the ubiquitous Stanton Friedman (who's cheerfully appeared in every UFO documentary made since the Boer War) along with UFO "expert" Nick Pope and several other equally earnest UFO proponents.
[edit] External links
- Best Evidence on Vimeo (free to watch in all its 47-minute glory)