Mirage Men (2013)
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How the US government created a myth that took over the world. UFOs: weapons of mass deception... For over 60 years teams within the US Air Force and Intelligence services exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and ET visitations as part of their counterintelligence programmes. In doing so they spawned a mythology so powerful that it captivated and warped many brilliant minds, including several of their own. Now, for the first time, some of those behind these operations, and their victims, speak out, revealing a true story that is part Manchurian Candidate and part Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Special extended 2-disc version including the full length feature, 8-page booklet with essays by the filmmakers on The Genesis of Mirage Men, Tricksters, Saucers and Cyber Magicians, The Enigma of Richard Doty and The Unreliable Narrator, and over an hour and half of previously unseen additional material comprising of 22 short films giving background history, extra interviews and an exclusive Urthona music video. - Actors:
- Rick Doty, Paul Bennewitz, Greg Bishop, Walter Bosley, Stephen Broadbent, James Carrion, Richard Dolan, Robert J. Durant, Robert Emenegger, Peter Gersten, Christopher Green, George Hansen, Víctor Martínez, William Moore, Linda Moulton Howe
- Directors:
- John Lundberg, Roland Denning
- Writers:
- Mark Pilkington
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
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IF YOU BELIEVE IN NOTHING, YOU WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING - Mirage Men review by Frank Talker™
White culture lives-off delusions of genetic superiority and, thus, White people frequently imagine that they would be singled-out for special attention by extra-terrestrials.
This White racialised wishful-thinking leads to the Caucasian gullibility we witness in this documentary "Mirage Men". With little evidence for the reality of flying saucers, White people are almost always the ones reporting a belief in the reality of such UFO phenomena.
This neurotic neediness ties-in with the White cultural belief in such things as White supremacy, the inferiority of White women, endemic homophobia & rigidly-hierarchical societies. Such attitudes make the believer feel distinctly superior, but without evidence, and this is much like the attention-seeking ploy that the loneliest kids in the school playground used to play: "I know something that you don't!"
Turned-out they didn't know anything of substantive value and that underneath all of their feigned excellence there lay a yawning inter-personal emptiness which seeks fulfilment in a belief in that which does not properly exist and a corresponding belief in themselves as the ones chosen to allegedly-enlighten others about that which does not exist. A blind faith which attempts to replace a similarly-blind religious faith because the latter was never genuinely practised by them to begin with for thousands of years.
Scientific rigour and self-respect are distinctly lacking here and helps explain why Western governments find it so easy to engage in disinformation operations - in order to conceal their actual behaviour and intent - by carefully implying to the unworldly among them exactly what the latter want to hear.