The Secret KGB UFO Files

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Summary: Shocking truths, unethical film making, bad for UFO research
Review: For entertainment value this documentary should get a ten. Full marks! For reality value it now earns a big 0 in more ways than one. This video, purports what it claims to be KGB footage of a crashed UFO. That is probably why you want to watch it right? Well that part of the video is wow! Again, full marks to the makers of this documentary for putting something like this together. I would highly recommend viewing this video, even if the Video was a hoax, but it turns out that there is much more going on that just this and this is what makes the story very sad.

The miserable truth is that much has been exposed since the video's release including what appears to be the exploitation of real people, real doctors and real investigators who thought they where participating in something else other than a KGB UFO video analysis. They had been duped and according to the very quick work of Russian investigator - Boris Shurinov - are quite annoyed at the way they have been treated by what they thought where serious American film makers. The newspapers that appear in this documentary are not Russian nor do they exist. Some of the Russian UFO researchers in this video are not real nor has anyone since located them. The books in the video written by these non-existent 'researchers' do not exist in Russia. Further more there are Russians who worked on the production of an 'American advertisement' which has since turned out to be this very same KGB UFO video. Where Blair Witch and Fargo get off is in the fact that these films starred actors and not real people who where paid to do a job and received the acclaim for their work. However there are real Russian professionals in this video who are totally 'boiling' at being abused for profit in this manner. It all goes to show the actual mind set of the documentary film makers who thought that if they did this video in Russia staring real Russians that no one would notice a thing. In my opinion this is why this documentary should be treated as a work of extreme prejudice. If you like exploitation material like 'Bum Fight', 'Jerry Springer' or 'Cannibal Holocaust' then this video is for you. If are interested in UFO footage then go elsewhere. There are plenty of other videos on the UFO phenomena that you will enjoy much more and are done by better film makers with much much higher ethical film making standards.

Roger Moore should have more sense than to present these film maker's garbage.

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Summary: Russian Exploitation and Faked UFO Video = Dangerous Conmen
Review: I watched this and I thought - "Wow, What a great documentary about UFOs". The UFO footage of a crashed saucer did look very real and very convincing. Even if it was all a hoax the documentary interviews with Russian scientists is still very good and is a very valuable lesson for us all. However when I learned the truth this production went from being the real thing, to being a Blair Witch Project with some real elements to being very dangerous filmmaking with some questionable exploitation of real people that is borderline criminal.

The filmmakers interviewed REAL Russian scientists but did not tell them that they where making this documentary. Then they re-arranged their interviews and edited them to suite their agenda. The Russian scientists believed that these people where authentic American filmmakers, but these guys where out to cheat, deceive and exploit. They even hired actors to play Russian scientists who did not exist. The books and newspaper clippings in this DVD do not exist either. Then the American filmmakers paid a bunch of local villagers peanuts to dress up as KGB agents for an advertisement they said they where making. That is the KGB UFO footage that headlines this DVD.

The Russian scientists in this DVD are all over the web and have condemned this DVD to the last. It was pure exploitation through and through.

Keep your bucks in your pockets. Don't support this gutter that is a sham in the fields of science, documentary filmmaking and UFOology.

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Summary: phoney, hokey and lame
Review: Some years ago, FOX did good business with "Alien Autopsy" a disinfotainment show masquerading as a documentary. The whole time, the narrator maintained a disingenuous "look, we don't know whether this footage is real or a hoax, you be the judge" posture. Now, SciFi channel has followed suit, and even upped the ante with "Secret KGB UFO Files." I'm not sure whether the producers put out a call for anyone to submit any footage they could come up with, no questions asked, or whether they actually produced in their studios some of the clips we see. They look fishy, they smell fishy, and, well, you get the picture. I expected to see coverage of well-known, documented Soviet cases. Instead, we are shown supposed gun-camera footage that has somehow never appeared anywhere else (exclusive!), and which looks amazingly like cheap, computer-generated special effects of the kind that abound in SciFi channel's original programs. Three examples especially stand out for sheer audacity: one shows a cylindric object outpacing the aircraft it is filmed from, another shows a saucer dipping from high to low altitude through clouds in the distance behind a flying jet (with its shadow looking artfully drawn in for "realism" on one of the clouds), and yet another shows two unidentified objects merging into one. Over the years we have all seen many authentic UFO clips, we know what they look like. The footage in this show has an unmistakably phoney look to it. The only question is whether the producers themselves are the ones who hoaxed it, or whether they were just looking the other way, nudge nudge wink wink. This show seems to be a sad reflection of a contemporary viewing audience that doesn't care whether a documentary is authentic or imitation, and perhaps doesn't have the intelligence to recognize the difference. Isn't it hard enough to sort fact from fiction in a subject like this? Must we have counterfeit documentaries like this now also? Shame on you, SciFi, they should pull your licensing. For the most undiscriminating viewers only.

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Summary: phoney, hokey and lame
Review: Some years ago, FOX did good business with "Alien Autopsy" a disinfotainment show masquerading as a documentary. The whole time, the narrator maintained a disingenuous "look, we don't know whether this footage is real or a hoax, you be the judge" posture. Now, SciFi channel has followed suit, and even upped the ante with "Secret KGB UFO Files." I'm not sure whether the producers put out a call for anyone to submit any footage they could come up with, no questions asked, or whether they actually produced in their studios some of the clips we see. They look fishy, they smell fishy, and, well, you get the picture. I expected to see coverage of well-known, documented Soviet cases. Instead, we are shown supposed gun-camera footage that has somehow never appeared anywhere else (exclusive!), and which looks amazingly like cheap, computer-generated special effects of the kind that abound in SciFi channel's original programs. Three examples especially stand out for sheer audacity: one shows a cylindric object outpacing the aircraft it is filmed from, another shows a saucer dipping from high to low altitude through clouds in the distance behind a flying jet (with its shadow looking artfully drawn in for "realism" on one of the clouds), and yet another shows two unidentified objects merging into one. Over the years we have all seen many authentic UFO clips, we know what they look like. The footage in this show has an unmistakably phoney look to it. The only question is whether the producers themselves are the ones who hoaxed it, or whether they were just looking the other way, nudge nudge wink wink. This show seems to be a sad reflection of a contemporary viewing audience that doesn't care whether a documentary is authentic or imitation, and perhaps doesn't have the intelligence to recognize the difference. Isn't it hard enough to sort fact from fiction in a subject like this? Must we have counterfeit documentaries like this now also? Shame on you, SciFi, they should pull your licensing. For the most undiscriminating viewers only.

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Summary: Don't Believe the Hype
Review: Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but the "real" footage contained herein is in NO WAY real. The ugly truth is simply this: the producers of this program hired a small crew (including one of the assistant editors) who shot all of the Russian footage segements, and the autopsy. It's all fake, shot in The Valley, and I personally know two people who were involved in the charade. Even worse, much of the other footage in this "documentary" was not licensed from its owners, and is thus STOLEN. The worst, absolutely, the worst kind of garbage. Just because this was shown on television doesn't make it real.

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Summary: Don't Believe the Hype
Review: Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but the "real" footage contained herein is in NO WAY real. The ugly truth is simply this: the producers of this program hired a small crew (including one of the assistant editors) who shot all of the Russian footage segements, and the autopsy. It's all fake, shot in The Valley, and I personally know two people who were involved in the charade. Even worse, much of the other footage in this "documentary" was not licensed from its owners, and is thus STOLEN. The worst, absolutely, the worst kind of garbage. Just because this was shown on television doesn't make it real.

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Summary: This alien autopsy is real, and most likely so is the UFO
Review: The sound is fair, and the DVD transfer is poor, but this shows a film obtained from the Soviets during a short time period when everything in that country was for sale, because of the power vacuum between the CCCP to CIS transition. I wish the four reels of film had been shown in their entirety, however in that film they did show an alien autopsy. What the producers did not mention, nor notice, is the alien hand. It exactly matchs the drawings of an alien hand from the book "The Alagash Abductions", by Bud Hopkins. I almost fudged my shorts when I saw it. That four digit hand was wonderful, and lends credence to the images of a crashed UFO on the other reels. Most UFO literature descriptions of the small craft typically cite a diameter of 18 feet, which looks about right for this craft. You can further see that it is a manufactured object. The Soviets where able to exactly copy our best bomber immediately after WWII, however really advanced technology is another matter. I think we still don't have the tools to build the tools to build the tools to build one of these. In my opinion this is the best pictoral example of a real UFO and real Alien available today. Most of the rest of the program is filler, eye-wash, what the producers had to do to create something to sell. However, the parts which are definitely worth watching can be obtained nowhere else.

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Summary: Great NATO UFO footage
Review: This documentary contains some excellent footage of NATO planes tracking unknowns (cigar shaped object/and saucer w/gondola). The sequence showing a crashed saucer in the Russian woods, is quite convincing. Stanton Freidman gives an excellent and impartial, evaluation of the evidence. Well worth your time and money - a good documentary.

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Summary: Don't buy this. It's fake.
Review: This was a documentary originally produced for TNT. All of the footage that is supposedly "real KGB UFO footage" is fake.

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Summary: Don't Believe the Hype
Review: Why on earth did Moore decide to take part in this special ?. -He was probably paid well, otherwise I see no reason. I have never witnessed a programme so obviously faked from start to finish. The scientists and authors interviewed come across as being instructed what to say. (Apart from Stanton Friedman I've never heard of any of them.) Don't believe any of it is to be taken seriously just because some of them apparently are russian. One of these "specialists" even wears a rather false looking beard. (-They have actors in Russia too, you know !.) The footage supposedly showing a 1968 crashed u.f.o. somewhere in the Soviet Union, and the subsequent autopsy of a green (!) alien is in my view NOT authentic. -This is in all likelihood someone shaking the camera about, trying to make it look like an old piece of film. They've shot it in color, having learned from that other infamous fake alien autopsy film (the Ray Santoni one), not to do it in b/w. But all to no avail. A so-called film-expert claims it could not have been made in the 80's or 90's - rubbish; it's extremely recent. Several others naturally agree with him, even Friedman think it's "worth looking into". -Trust me, it's not. For all I know, the "secret" documents shown might also be falsified; we just have no way of knowing. Everything brought forward is treated in such a positive manner, making it all look highly suspect. Moore circles around the same questions time and again, only presenting them differently through-out the 90 minutes. -Way too long, the whole subject matter could've been dealt with in 45 minutes and you wouldn't have missed a thing. Now, THAT's a fact. Sincerely.