UFO Pilot Sightings (2002)
Review by Doc Ezra
Film:
DVD:

Published by Multimedia 2000

Features:

• None
  

Rating: NR, suitable for all audiences

Anamorphic: N/A

My Advice: Pass.

In UFO Pilot Sightings, we get the reports of some of the more credible individuals who claim to have seen UFOs. Pilots have a couple of distinct advantages over their ground-bound colleagues that watch for UFOs. First, they know what planes look like, in all sorts of conditions, and particularly at night, when most UFO sightings occur. Second, since they're actually in flight when all the sightings dealt with on this disc occur, they had a better angle (and often a much closer sighting) than those who spot such things from the ground.

This disc presents two interviews with pilots who have seen UFOs during their years of commercial and military flying. Each gets to relate his experience, and its particular quirks and strange behaviors that marked it as a flying craft not of this planet. Both the men seem reasonably "together," and their accounts are detailed and specific as to the things that they saw, and why they do not believe the "official" explanations offered by the FAA as to their experiences.

In addition to these interviews, the disc also contains the audio transcripts of several sightings, as documented by the recordings of the aircraft control tower. The audio is accompanied by a text transcript, so that the more garbled portions of the transmissions can be followed. In some of the instances, multiple aircraft spotted the same phenomenon from various angles, each reporting in separately to the tower and corroborating the story of the initial pilot's report. You can also listen in as the tower contacts nearby military facilities, making sure that "unannounced" military aircraft aren't responsible for the sighting, and in at least one case, to get a military presence into the air and towards the unidentified craft.

As tasty conspiracy data goes, this one's mediocre, but not great. The interviews are decent, and the audio transcripts are pretty cool to hear, but I can't help wondering how much more interesting it would have been to actually go to the controllers involved, and interview them regarding their experience in dealing with panicked pilots and undetectable alien craft cruising the airspace that they were responsible for keeping safe. In short, this one needed a little more effort sunk into it to make it a keeper, and nobody seemed inclined to lay that effort on the table.