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This is an odd watch. Like most things that come to western screens, it follows the classic America-the-great routine. We have a big focus on the grieving family and friends of the US soldiers that lost their lives as well as the retold accounts of the troubled US soldiers that were there that day. There are also good segments throughout from the Somalian people sharing their thoughts and recollections from that day - combatants and civilians alike.

I found this one hard to rate, it's near impossible to relate with the heavily American sympathy card when some of the former US soldiers openly admit to shooting at anyone on the streets. As ever, the American military is made to look the victim, but as the final frames tell us, US fatalities amount to 18 souls, Somalian fatalities range between 300 and 500 souls. If you didn't know these figures before watching this series, the way the story is retold, you'd think the numbers were reversed.

Firstly, if you're taking this documentary in with the anticipation of disclosure come the credits - seriously, what are you doing? If there had been disclosure about intelligent life not from Earth you'd have already heard about it.

This documentary serves as an as-good-if-not-better instalment following on from Fox's previous release "The Phenomenon". Regardless if you're a keen and up to date enthusiast of the subject, it's a great piece that brings some smaller details to the table, little bits of info or an intriguing sentence here and there that you wouldn't have heard or read about otherwise.

For those new to the world of UAP's / UFO's / NHI etc. Kick back and enjoy, because we're in a wild time when it comes to something that was ubiquitously ridiculed until recently.