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THE PHENOMENON (2020) – Review – We Are Movie Geeks

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THE PHENOMENON (2020) – Review

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By Marc Butterfield

If you aren’t disturbed after you watch this documentary, you weren’t paying attention. You will WANT to pay attention to this information. The new documentary THE PHENOMENON, directed by James Fox, starts off like any of a hundred other UFO documentaries, cataloguing eyewitness testimonies, all of whom seem credible, but in most cases, a testimony is all you get, or some sketchy photographs that could be fake, particularly in an era of pretty convincing Photoshop. 

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still important to pay attention even at the beginning, as what you see is not just some dry documentary, but a case being built for what’s to come.  The information flow is important, and so by the time we get to the now famous recordings taken directly from US Navy fighter planes, you aren’t surprised at the footage, but at what the implications are because of it.

After decades of denial and dismissal, the government of the United States just…stops denying and dismissing, and you’re left wondering “what does it all mean”?  The slow, deliberate build up brings up questions as to what was real and what was fake in the preceding decades of denial and misdirection. Even when we had recordings of pilots on commercial jets, it took the audio and video of Navy pilots not just discussing what they were looking at in firm disbelief, but the video of their HUDS while they attempted to get target lock, and a clear view of what they were seeing.  And not just one or two.

And the thing that strikes me more than what we’ve seen from the recent footage, but how much it makes you wonder which clips from the past that we had previously blown off are actually real. Oh, and the minor point that this information has been slowly making it to the view of the public eye since 2015, and as of 2017 was FULLY in view, but was met (so far) with a collective yawn from the public. Why?

The thing I’m left wondering is while we now know that they (whoever “they” are) are out there, we still have no idea what they want, where they’re from, what they are doing. here at all. There is the one thing that this documentary can say that it does: removes doubt. There can be no further discussion about ‘if’ they are out there. We now know that they do, beyond the shadow of a doubt.

If you only see one documentary this year, THE PHENOMENON movie is the one.

4 out of 4 stars

https://geni.us/ThePhenomenon Available digitally worldwide on October 6th from 1091 Pictures