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UFOs: Above and Beyond

UFOs: Above and BeyondStar Trek’s Scotty hosts this overly earnest, yet engaging, rapid-fire exploration of UFO lore. Doughy James Doohan emotes from the very beginning, "We must warn you! If the footage and testimony you’re about to see is REAL, it’s perhaps the most IMPORTANT discovery of our time!"

From there the documentary crisscrosses the globe and time itself, with cave paintings of flying whatchamadoodles, the U.S. government’s Project Bluebook (called a disinformation campaign), mass sightings over Mexico City in 1991, the mysterious MJ-12 group and Ronald Reagan‘s famous United Nations speech where he hypothesized about "an alien threat from outside this world." Throughout it all there’s oodles of blurry shots of glowing something or anothers zigzagging across the screen.

What adds to this disc’s appeal, is the inclusion of "UFO Top Secret: The Bob Lazar Interview." For nearly an hour, the controversial "former government scientist" chatters about his work back-engineering alien flying saucers at an even more SECRET base just south of Area 51 known as S-4. But don’t tell anyone I mentioned it.