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Flying Saucers Come From Beneath The Earth - And Other Hollow Earth Mysteries by Ross Marshall
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DVD detailsActor: Admiral Byrd Director: Ross Marshall DVD: Region Code 1 Format: Collector's Edition, Drama enhanced, Full Screen, NTSC Running Time: 200 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-10-10 Studio: Global
DVD Reviews of Flying Saucers Come From Beneath The Earth - And Other Hollow Earth MysteriesDVD Review: An Entertaining Alternate Theory of UFOs Summary: 5 Stars
It is popularly assumed that UFOs or flying saucers visit Earth from somewhere in outer space, like tourists stumbling upon an uncharted tropical island tucked away from the normal flow of extraterrestrial traffic. It is the contention of this informative DVD from Abulard/Global that the word "extraterrestrial" may not even apply in the case of UFOs. They may instead be quite unnervingly "terrestrial" after all!"Flying Saucers Come From Inside The Earth" opens with a camera panning a marvelous, surreal underground landscape that sets the stage for what is to follow--a lecture by researcher and author Dennis Crenshaw in which he endeavors to demonstrate that the conventional wisdom about UFOs originating somewhere off the Earth is a myth propagated by the government to lead believers away from the actual truth. He points out that UFOs have never been sighted anywhere except within the atmosphere of Earth, and that descriptions of the craft and their sometimes amazing capabilities are nevertheless inconsistent with what we know would be the requirements for space travel. Meanwhile, the government, beginning in the 1950s, began to mount an enormous campaign, using Hollywood science fiction movies as a primary tool in that effort, to popularize the notion that UFOs come from the unknown depths of space in order to cover-up the more logical assumption that they really come from inside the Earth. The truths implied by that understanding of the reality of the phenomenon were deemed too strange for the general public to cope with, and thus the outer space theory was made to dominate the discussion. Crenshaw covers a great deal of the history of the early days of Ufology in making his argument that flying saucers come from the Inner Earth, and the sweep of time is further augmented by the inter-cutting of newsreel footage of important moments in the development of the Inner Earth Theory, such as Admiral Byrd's early 20th Century exploration of the Arctic Circle. Byrd's fateful excursion yielded up the possibility that one could enter a passage to the center of the world through openings at the top, which are visible in photos Crenshaw obtained after years of wrangling with government officials. Crenshaw also reveals that official NASA photos of the Earth, taken from outer space, deliberately show only an equatorial view of our blue planet, and the hollow openings at the poles are purposely censored from such photos in order to maintain the utmost secrecy about their existence. And if one agrees that there is such an Inner Earth, what would one expect to find there? Crenshaw answers by saying, "There exists below everything you see above." In other words, one would see mountains, rivers, even a sun-like source of light. And likely also whatever race of aliens we now assume to come from without, but who instead are occupying the space deep within the hollow earth. Crenshaw's lecture is followed by a documentary called "Underneath the Polar Seas," narrated by the famous actor Richard Basehart. Although it doesn't grapple with the topic of Inner Earth UFOs, it does manage to give an excellent history of the exploration of the North and South poles as necessary background for a more complete study of the Inner Earth Theory. But the icing on the cake here is a low-budget science fiction movie called "Unknown World." It's a little like an old Ed Wood movie, with its cheesy special effects and dialogue, but there are some familiar faces in the cast, the kind of character actors you recognize but don't know the names of. It opens like the cinematic classic "Citizen Kane," with a fictitious newsreel that tells the story of Dr. Morley, a scientist who believes mankind to be doomed by nuclear weapons and who advocates building a new world down in the Inner Earth. While he is at first ridiculed for his radical ideas, he manages to obtain the funding necessary to build a ship that can bore through to the Earth's core and leads a team of fellow explorers to what seems at first a virtual paradise undreamed of by the cynics on the surface. You'll have to get the DVD to learn the rest of the story, which like everything else in "Flying Saucers Come From Inside The Earth," plays with fascinating possibilities that, while they remain unproven, are at the very least enormously entertaining.
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