Overlords of the UFO (1976)

Hosted by W. Gordon Allen. Featuring: Stanton Friedman, Robert Gribble, Trevor James Constable, Uri Geller. Very campy and hokey, but, in fairness, with good intriguing parts as well, such as a segment on the Air Force Academy textbook mentioning UFOs, early postulations on the interdimensional theory of UFO origins, and invisible flying critters (er, uh, atmospheric fauna).
Other topics covered:
UFO still and motion pictures
pilot and astronaut sightings
sightings around test flights
abductions
Space Voyage from UMMO

[@smithrs]

Thanks so much for posting a cleaned up version. This qualifies as "cultural ephemera" and needs to be preserved. The main thing I notice is how little the UFO discourse changes over time.

[@Dementropy]

One of my favorite "worst documentaries." I'm both proud and sad to say I've watched this in its entirety multiple times.

[@tonytafoya6217]

At least two hammers.

[@gca3532]

Some incredible information though!! I had to watch several times to get it all. I feel so much info we get today has an agenda such as money, or disinformation, but this is different from what we get today, and still spot on!

[@cjc363636]

Back in the 90s I worked 3rd shift. So weekends I stayed up late and my roommate came in and we flipped on the TV at like 3am and TBS had this gem running. We were literally stunned. What the f'n @(!*)$) is this??? It was so cheap, stupid, strange and utterly honest in its own presentation I felt we'd found the Plan 9 of documentaries! I've loved it ever sense. So wacky.

[@CubanPete1990]

CJC 3636 it was on TNT back in the mid 1990’s!

[@sledgehammer9739]

Corny? Yep! Cheesy? You Betcha! Silly and Over the Top? Guilty as Charged! But it's still one million times more entertaining than Ancient Aliens or any UFO program on the History channel today.

[@Miler97487]

I first saw this on TNT around 1989 along with Mysteries from Beyond Earth and I would see this several times throughout the 1990s, always aired together. I eventually taped both on my VCR, then I bought VHS copies of both. I love the '70s vibe of this and the strange electronic music. I particularly like that psychedelic light show during the Space Voyage from UMMO sequence. This documentary screams low budget complete with tons of stock footage and library music. I was surprised one of the electronic pieces heard here is by George Martin called "Eary Feary".

[@ikd3240]

I absolutely LOVE this movie! So cheesy and fun!

[@gocars3210]

Oldie, but a goodie.

[@craigmcdowall492]

Late in the 'documentary', they credit "invisible flying predators" with cattle mutilations. This show grabs a few pieces of legit UFO sightings, then gets wildly speculative. I still don't understand the whole UMMO alien section. Wild wild stuff.

[@MaliciousChickenAgenda]

This is what i would call awesome nonsense. I love the segments of over the top suspenseful background music. So stupid but funny and entertaining :)

[@KoopaHigh]

We appreciate uploading the video thank you

[@keithphilbin3054]

Well said, Stanton 👍

[@johnnolan33177]

But who are the Overlords of the UFO?

[@dianneD27]

Here I go , wonder if I can get through the whole show ....hilarious

[@darrenbrown636]

I love the cheesiness

[@FilthyWeeb1]

POPCORN TIME !

[@gristamshackleford2102]

Stanton friedman looks like hes 50 back then and today 43 years later he looks 65.

[@Greg_Chase]

At time 44:41 there is a readout from a 'pulse analyzer' - it was designed to receive high frequency radio signals. In this case, at time 44:41, the video shows that the pulse analyzer picked up a microwave frequency of 3 gigahertz coming from a UFO. Just fyi, Einstein in part of General Relativity in 1915 mentioned "accelerating matter objects create gravity". At the time he was thinking of 'matter objects' as planets. The atom still had not been fully explained, not until the late 1920s. Recall that atoms ARE matter. Matter is 100% made of atoms. After the atom was fully discovered as electron, proton, neutron, in 1938 Isadore Rabi created a way to align the atoms of certain materials and then oscillate them at high frequency. He aligned all the atoms in the material then used an oscillator to ACCELERATE the atoms. Acceleration is a change in motion. Oscillated atoms move back-and-forth repeatedly - a repetitive change in motion applied to the aligned atoms - thus an acceleration. Rabi won the Nobel Prize in Physics for that discovery of the ability to align atoms and oscillate them. That tech is used in a few different civilian situations - spectroscopy, MRI, and other uses. There is a technique called NQR - nuclear quadrupole resonance - developed as a refinement to Rabi's 1938 invention. NQR uses a very strong DC electric field to align/polarize the atoms in solid objects like **metal** NQR then oscillates - accelerates - the aligned atoms. From General Relativity they knew, in 1938, "accelerated matter creates gravity." Since atoms are matter - that's what matter is, atoms - Rabi's invention and then the NQR process was probably put to use to test that part of General Relativity. Recall that the science community made many efforts to test and verify Einstein's predictions in General Relativity. They probably used Rabi's work to test the "accelerated matter creates gravity" and it worked. This is probably what they (the government) has been refining since the late 1930s/early 1940s. Nuclear Quadupole Resonance applied to the metal hull of gravity vehicles. Use a strong electric field to align/polarize the atoms in the hull - then use a microwave-frequency oscillator to create immense accelerations in the aligned atoms. Recall all the electric effects witnesses report around UFOs. . .

[@mcondor2510]

nice touch at the end It says...the beginning instead.

[@infinityuniverse]

What’s the soundtrack for this film? Who are the composers? When were the songs made?

[@johnnolan33177]

11:13 look at the size of that thing! Took me a while to figure out thats a shadow.

[@tonytafoya6217]

Can you detect the toy saucer Wobbling on the mono filament line?

[@tonystephen6312]

cant miss it! you mean the pan lid and fishing line.

[@CubanPete1990]

When it will be out on DVD 📀

[@paulmurphy42]

Medical deterioration in spaceflight at 1:28:04 to 1:29:30 - is this statistic true? No source is given. Where can we check this?

[@johnnolan33177]

49:31 Bingo

[@paulmurphy42]

Who's the girl at 20:09?

[@mcondor2510]

i thought it was pretty good.

[@gristamshackleford2102]

I don't think its that cheesy. todays programs are cheesy with the rap style drum beats and techno music,corny jokes, and scientists that try to be actors.

[@che4568]

2am doob rolled yass lets have it 👽

[@sledgehammer9739]

Stanton is wrong when he says we have no one that speaks for the planet. We have Chuck Norris!! And that's why the aliens will never invade! They know, you don't muck with Chuck.

[@paulmurphy42]

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