The UFO Movie They Don’t Want You to See

UFOs and Aliens have been making significant headlines around the world recently. Brian Dunning’s The UFO Movie They Don’t Want You to See investigates some of the UFO reports in those headlines as well as asking one of life’s biggest questions, “Is there life in outer space?”

As the film opens up, Brian Dunning explains that although he is fascinated by UFOs, he wants to go into this film unbiased and will examine all evidence with science, and he does just that. Throughout the film, there are various pieces of evidence that Dunning looks at with the help of astrobiologists, astronomers, astrophysicists, retired US Air Force, and even Josh Carter, President Carter’s grandson. Every person interviewed gives their expertise about certain pieces of evidence and events, and all have quite interesting things to add. Some findings are quite surprising, specifically when the Gimbal and Nimitz (tic tac) videos are analyzed. These two videos are ones that you have probably seen if you have been watching the news or been on social media within the past few years.

“…fascinated by UFOs, he wants to go into this film unbiased and will examine all evidence with science…”

Possibly, my favorite thing about this documentary is how Brian Dunning takes digs at the media when exaggerating and embellishing UFO sightings throughout the years. We all know that the media often takes liberties with how they look at things and decide how they want to tell their stories in order to push an agenda across. The UFO Movie gives an example of that when discussing the Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings from 1980. It shows the process of how the media added to the incident and distorted the event as the years went on. It does not necessarily call out any one network, but it is interesting nonetheless.

With all the positives The UFO Movie has, it does have a negative here and there. One is that there are times in the film when it feels as if I was back in high school watching an educational documentary about space, especially when Dunning is speaking straight into the camera numerous times. It is almost as if Dunning is hosting a docuseries about UFOs rather than a documentary film. I feel that Dunning’s presence would have worked better if he had narrated more of the film rather than addressed the camera every few minutes.

The UFO Movie They Don’t Want You to See does something quite interesting – it sees things from both sides of the argument. The film does a good job of analyzing the famous Gimbal and Nimitz videos to the point where it just about debunks the videos as evidence of UFOs. While doing such things as debunking widely known UFO sightings, it also does a decent job at giving some idea of their being life in outer space. I do wish that there was more evidence that was touched on in the documentary. Does this documentary make me go one way or the other in my beliefs of if other lifeforms exist? No, but it does give some hope that there can be life in outer space. It also makes you wonder who “they” are that don’t want you to see this, a question that you would have to look into and discover yourself.