- Witness of another world 1972 movie#
- Witness of another world 1972 install#
- Witness of another world 1972 tv#
Leach’s career also suffered greatly for paying attention to a story his bosses at the Beeb considered to be poppycock, and here it is interesting to notice how often the UFO phenomenon cause the ‘liberal left’ to act far more reactionarily than the ‘conservative right’.
Witness of another world 1972 movie#
The movie spends considerable time showing Mack –who died tragically in London in 2004, after being run over by a truck driver due to his own imprudence (he forgot to look to the opposite way before crossing the street) – as something of a martyr figure who was put under investigation and was even close to lose his tenure, until the Dean dropped all charges and issued a public apology.
All this kitschy popularity didn’t sit well with Mack’s colleagues at Harvard who felt he had gone too far with this “alien hobby” of his. Mack, whose academic credentials had turned him into the most notorious personality championing the phenomenon known as ‘alien abductions’ as something that deserved serious scientific scrutiny, also brought the Ariel case to the attention of the American mainstream media, including Oprah. It was under these circumstances that the Ariel close encounter took place, and Tim Leach (a BBC war correspondent stationed in the country at the time) was not only responsible for the international notoriety the case took initially, but also for bringing in renowned Harvard professor and psychiatrist John Mack to investigate it. The film, directed by Randall Nickerson and composed in part with historic footage along with modern interviews, gives the viewer proper context on the strange wave of UFO sightings that befell upon the fledgling African republic of Zimbabwe (which was at the time suffering from riots and protests over the dictatorial rule of President Mugabe).
Witness of another world 1972 tv#
Like almost all who are obsessed with this phenomenon I became instantly enamored with the small children which were the witnesses of this close encounter they all looked so unbelievably cute with their neat school uniforms, their sincere voices with a tinge of British accent (the remnants of African colonialism) and their impeccable manners they exhibited while doing their best to respond to the questions of investigators and TV reporters, it was almost impossible not to believe these children were sincere. I was, however, expecting something more from this particular documentary because I’ve felt a certain personal connection with it for a very long time: I was already in college in 1994 when the story of an alleged UFO landing in some remote school in Zimbabwe attained global attention.
The filmmakers are more interested in convincing skeptics (good luck with that) or tantalize undecided viewers with the possibility those silly flying saucers –which have invaded our pop culture in anything from cereal boxes to Hollywood blockbusters– might be actually real after all.
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Witness of another world 1972 install#
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