Friday, 29 November 2024

Alien Interview- Case Closed, a Review

         
In my country we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. (We do have Black Friday, ironically, because we're so materialistic, but the spiritual family side of this season we ignore.) For those in nations which do celebrate it, such as across North America, this Thanksgiving has been different. On that day Jon Stewart's documentary has finally been released. It has the hubristic subtitle Case Closed; does it live up to that? The one hour forty-nine minute film begins with an introduction to the case and some brief clips, including the two-minute fifty-five second piece of footage that is the centre of this entire mystery. Jon posits the points that he has made before in my own productions, and which I agree with, that this footage is very likely to be genuine. Despite its long recap act, aimed at people with no previous knowledge, the film does contain a huge amount of new information though; including the cherry on the cake, the alleged identity of "Victor" himself. The anchor of this programme is a studio interview with Jon hosted by the Rev. Michael J Carter, renowned for his role in the Ancient Aliens TV series. Jon describes how this investigation gave him a new lease of life when he was going through a bad patch. He called people and wrote to them, looking for information on the various features of the footage, as he also explains in the above links. Whitley Strieber is quoted. He believes that the "blip" device visible in the footage is not a specialized medical monitor, as most researchers think, but a communications method the ET's use. This is because he saw the same light pattern in his vision while writing his own alien abduction book Communion. Jon reports facing considerable opposition. His emails were deleted just before he was due to be interviewed by Jeff Rense and he was warned not to mention John McCain even though Jon is well-connected politically; because of his run for Illinois Governor and his support for Senator Mark Kirk who was so shocked by the information Jon gave him. More controversially, however, Jon has worked closely with Richard Doty. Doty's activities in the UFO community are notorious; he ran the "Aviary" spy ring in the 1980's. I have described this is more detail elsewhere, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-aviary-film-review.html. Some UFOlogists have totally denounced Jon for this reason. I, on the other hand, do not think we should ignore Doty's testimony; however we should treat it with enormous caution. Jon has also used statement analysis on Victor's original 1996 interview. As I've often said, statement analysis seems to be most popular among people who have essentially given up on all other forms of scholarship. This does not make it useless, but it should never be employed as a replacement for other methods. To be fair, Jon never tries to do that. Doty gives him the codename "Bird Dog". This is encouraging because real secret agents are never told their own codenames, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-obscurati-chronicles-chapter-8.html. Jon draws significantly on an anonymous source, a practice that has caused numerous fingers of ridicule and suspicion to point at all of us, especially in recent years. However, before anybody does so now, bear in mind that skeptics like Annie Jacobsen did the same thing when she investigated her Roswell horror story and nobody criticized her for that, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/09/area-51-by-annie-jacobsen.html. This anonymous information may one day be proven true by other means so we shouldn't reject it as a reflex.

Jon Stewart believes his own inquiries might have set in motion the process that led to David Grusch coming forward. This cannot be proved, but I've often found that apparently unconnected events can initiate synchronistically, as if there is "something in the air". I won't reveal the identity of Victor in this review because I would consider that a terrible spoiler, but when I found out I was very surprised. I assumed Victor would be an ordinary person without a public profile, somebody I'd never heard of, but he is not; at least not within the Conspirasphere. His is a name I'm very familiar with and have been for a long time. He is well-known in the community of conspiratorial UFOlogy and has written several books, one of which I've read more than once. I think the imagery matches are not distinct enough for certainty, but there is a noteworthy resemblance. There are also some examples of Victor's voice being demodulated and he does sound similar to Jon's nomination; but further study will be needed there. Victor does not have this person's "Deep South" accent. I also know somebody who has spent some time with this person and they reported to me that his personality can be agitated and sullen, just like Victor. This is as close as anybody has ever got to a positive ID on Victor. I know exactly what the skeptics and backslappers will say in response to Alien Interview- Cased Closed; in fact I could almost write the script for the next Steven Cambian livestream. "Where's the evidence?" These people will never be satisfied unless somebody wheels a dead alien into Congress on a trolley, and Grusch and Elizondo are frogmarched away in handcuffs. Ross Coulthart explains the situation with typical Australian bluntness; Disclosure is not some kind of entertainment set up for the benefit of UFO Twitter. It is a serious and crucial process that sometimes has to be done privately in the background and can take quite a while. We social media users are not always entitled to be told every single thing that's going on as and when it happens. We need to be patient. I also dispute the common slur that UFO cinema is a "grift!", just a way of making money. I know enough about film-making to realize that the kind of production Alien Interview- Cased Closed is compared to its estimated revenue means it's unlikely Jon will ever make a net profit on this venture. Jon has written to Senator Chuck Schumer, the man who bravely tried to amend the NDAA25 to include "the Disclosure bill". I hope Schumer will share it with Tim Burchett, Nancy Mace, Anna Paulina Luna and the other decent politicians now on the side of UAP transparency. The film ends with a touching tribute segment in the credits that includes Jon's father. I think anybody with an interest in UFO's and aliens will get something out of this movie. As for deserving the "case closed" part? No, in my view the case is not yet closed, but Jon's research has certainly inched us much closer to that goal. Alien Interview- Cased Closed can be watched on this pay-per-view website: http://huntingvictor.com. It cost US$8.88 which is £5.40 at the current exchange rate.

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