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Ariel Phenomenon (2022)
Remarkable
This is remarkable documentary for many reasons.
First of all, I can't really think of a better strictly anecdotal case of the UFO/Alien phenomenon than this case. The production team does a wonderful job capturing the event from the perspective of these children while neatly threading it through the lens of that investigation that followed. It's really quite compelling. If you think that 60 kids made this up, with zero incentive to do so, and have maintained their position almost 30 years later, well, quote the cynic you are.
What is most moving was the way this documentary captured the emotional and sociological impact this sighting had on some of the kids as they aged and became adults. To believe so strongly that you saw something which has enormous existential impact on not just you but your entire race, but with no way to prove it in any meaningful or cathartic way, is a heavy burden to wear. The documentary does a great job capsulizing this.
Alien Endgame (2022)
Watch it with independence
This was actually a decent documentary. I'm well read and researched on this topic and so I found the witness testimony to be valid. There is a clear and obvious attempt to interview military witnesses and many of these witnesses have remarkable things to say. Most importantly, their stories align with what other researches have found in books by Robert Hastings and/or Leslie Kean.
What brings this documentary down, like many other like it, is the notion that this obvious obtuse attempt to porject this phenomenon as malevolent. It may well be, but we really have no idea, and the director makes a clear choice to steer the narrative in that direction with embellishment and dramatization.
If you can watch this documentary while ignoring these obvious attempts to dramatize, its actually decent.