UFO's Are Real

Sensational sky watcher Edward Hunt's lazer-bright, cigar-shaped documentary 'UFOs Are Real' (1979) is still keepin' it real, man! I happily remain an unapologetically obsessive, astronomically objective fan of Extraterrestrial truth-seeking titillation, dude! Come on, who can't dig on a terrestrially grainy, terrifically zany vintage UFO docco every now and again! I still got a lotta spare inner Space for outrageously out-there outta space ruminations, dude!!! I galactically groove on this frequently far-out, cosmically crucial, wormhole wicked, closely encountered, fabulously factoid-engorged 'look-to-the-skies' phantasmagoria!! Right on! And I can righteously testify to it being a Universally Funky Offering, dude! Praise be to wunderkind Von Daniken! Hey!!!!! The Buck Rodgers stops here, man!!...as I believe in space Jebus, baby! It's okay bein' grey, M'kay!!!!!!

Frankly, I was surprised to find such extremely LIMITED commentary on this film! I'd RATHER have extensive ADVERSE judgements, rather than such a big SNORE! I guess that this film is basically, "pre-Internet", hence, lacks the "big review" number of responses! Based upon my "to date" research, I have garnered a lot of respect for Stanton Friedman, and know he DESERVES a much larger VOTE, regardless of whether UP or DOWN.

As far as I can tell, this is something of a "masterwork" for Friedman, and, within the limitations of the UFO format, a brilliant execution! Interest in UFO's seems to come and go in "waves".

Hence, two things I know for sure. First, we seem to be at the bottom of the current cycle, in terms of interest by the American public.

Two, it will take only a a "slight nudge", to rocket this topic back to, "the top of the charts."

This is just a correction of a previous comment. I agree with the information in the review but the final sentence has an error. His name is Bob Lazar not Paul Lazar.

And still creeping people out today. 1979's "UFOs Are Real" is one of those grainy but still spooky paranormal documentaries that everyone seemed to be making in the 70's. Featuring top Ufologist Stanton Friedman, "UFOs" shows some of the best UFO photos and films as well as written accounts from such distant times like ancient Rome that may very well have been UFO sightings. But it also features people who have seen fantastic things that cannot be explained only to be discarded and laughed at in most cases. This factor, more than anything else, is what gives the show its power. From pilots who have encountered UFOs to people who claimed to be abducted, this documentary has it all. Listen as Betty Hill tells her tale of her and her husband, Barney, being abducted from a lonely New England road and taken onto a craft manned by beings not of this world. Their tale never fails to send shivers down my spine every time I hear it. Adding to the creepiness of it all is the chilling music score used throughout the film. As I said earlier, the film quality may be grainy but the message is no less important today than it was then. After all, even though it has been over thirty years since this was made, the truth about UFOs is still out there and just as far from our grasp as it has ever been. So, if the subject of UFOs and anything strange interests you in the least, I urge you to look up "UFOs Are Real" on you tube-since this is the only way one can view it-and be sure to type UFOs are real since the cover shown on IMDb is of a different documentary. And as I always like to say when writing on such productions, keep watching the skies!

Though the production budget looks extremely limited, and the narration is a bit ripe, this still manages to be an interesting and informative (and even a bit creepy) documentary on the UFO phenomenon up to the late seventies. In other words, it succeeds despite itself. It does suffer from a bit too much pomposity now and then (note the frequent questioning by the narrator: "Could this be proof of...", "Is this evidence of...", and so on). But it does have in its favor a significant amount of UFO still and movie footage, not to mention in-depth interviews with Betty Hill, Travis Walton and several people involved with the Roswell incident. Highly recommended as a primer for those just starting out in their search to find "what's out there".

NOTE: The link to Amazon is misleading. While an interesting and more up-to-date report on the UFO phenomenon (and also featuring Dr. Stanton Friedman), the "Flying Saucers Are Real" DVD/VHS contains only a few minutes of footage from "UFOs Are Real". The "UFOs Are Real" VHS is likely long out-of-print since it was first released in the 80s, but you're still better off trying to find an old copy if you can.