Hi, Philip here, your humble narrator. In the wake (ahem) of the US Navy Tic Tac UFO's being in the news again, and following up on our awesome show last week with Mick West, I wanted to repost this very popular special episode. I am a documentary filmmaker and have made a number of science oriented films, including an extensive investigation into UFO's which I edited with Peter Jenning's at ABC News. One of the chapters I edited in that 2 hour documentary was a scientific investigation of the "alien abduction" phenomena, which included interviews with self-described "abductees" as well as scientists at Harvard University who studied the claims, and discovered a fascinating scientific explanation.

In this solo episode, I take you on a deep dive into alien abduction, and I offer some PRO TIPS for what to do to BE PREPARED to document your CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND. Because, frankly, all the abductees so far have been doing a pretty terrible job of getting evidence, especially anything that I could use in a real documentary like, ya know, good pictures... please!

I also take you behind the screen (well, behind the keyboard at least) to see how UFO documentaries are edited, and how they have, intentionally or not, perpetuated the sense of "mystery" because of their editing techniques. I hope this will give you a way to more critically understand news and documentary stories about UFO's, and also give ya some laughs from some of the crazy things that happened to me while editing the Peter Jennings program, "UFOs: Seeing Is Believing".

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