Night Skies : Incompetent Aliens

Incompetent Aliens

I rented this movie wanting to like it, especially since I'm from Arizona and I saw the lights back in 1997, but it's just bad. The pacing is so painfully slow (maybe due to the creators struggling to turn 15 minutes of material into a hour and a half movie). The acting is okay, Matt is a little shaky but the rest give decent performances.

The first causality makes us wait 20 minutes, and that's just an accident because our characters are foolish enough to bring a huge block of knives along and let them go flying about while cruising a dirt road in an RV. The second death is caused by one of our characters too. It takes an hour before anyone is actually taken by the aliens, thankfully the second is taken right after that.

Overall I'm just disappointed with the aliens, they have technology advanced enough to travel across space but on Earth they resort to sneaking around the desert walking up to windows to scare our characters. That's just incompetence.

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are u sure that those lights u soo in `97 were UEFO`s ? hmmm

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Those lights were flares, not UFOs.

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Do we know they were flares? (Conclusively and without a doubt, or just because we are told they are?) The point of a UFO is that it is, by it's very nature, an Unidentified Flying Object - Funnily enough, this doesn't actually HAVE to mean it's an alien spaceship, but most people assume that is does. While this film speculates on the objects being alien craft, these lights still could be classified as UFO's if no concrete proof has been given to say what they were exactly! (With the number of experimental craft being created, it could easily be one (or more) of these flying around - Still UFO's even if terrestrial in origin!) And unless someone saw, with their own eyes, that these were flares, then they still can be called UFO's... Just not necessarily alien ships!

Then again - Why was someone letting off flares? Was it someone's party? Was someone lost at... er, desert?

It could have been hot-air balloons (unlikely, but would account for the "lights") for all we know....

Still; UFO's none-the-less, until we know more!

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Flares do not hover above the ground for hours.

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So advanced technology doesn't necessarily mean that the aliens would be friendly or "competent". Here on Earth we have gang members who drive around in advanced cars or SUVs and rob and rape folks....and they like to sneak up on people in the desert.

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I think they landed in Roswell New Mexico in 1947. I think they are among us, watching us and just observing us. I mean think about it. No real technology before 1947. And then BOOM, everything happens and it's happening so fast now. Technology invents technology.

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Or the advances in technology could be attributed to World War II and the Cold War. Competition does wonders for innovation.

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Okay,

a) he said he saw 'lights' not UFOs.

b) as the man said 'flares do not hover above the ground for hours'

c) most UFO investigators who DO NOT believe this was an alien craft believe they were actually small aircraft flying in a pattern.

All in all though, this reviewer wasn't getting into the alien theory, he was reviewing how dodgy the movie was - especially the aliens.

And it WAS dodgy - especially the aliens.

The acting was pitifully bad and I spent most of the movie wanting the characters to hurry up and get abducted so I could see the inside of their ship. I was then of course dissapointed because they ship had just ripped off Fire in the Sky, rather unsuccessfully. The ship was too...'living ship.' Therw was no real sign of technology, it just looked like they were trapped in a slimy horrible little nest. I really didn't get the whole sense of being on a spaceship as I did with Fire in the sky, thus I wasn't scared at all. Plus...leaving the gun lying next to the man? Why would the aliens do that? The man had already shot a few aliens. Stupid stupid stupid.

And yes, the aliens were bumbling and stupid. They ran around scaring them when they had beams to suck people up, they blew in windows after they had climbed all over the RV and house - WHY? I mean, the aliens were acting like drunken teenagers. They weren't even remotely menacing. They were just stupid.

The best bit of the movie, excluding the start and finish, was when the annoying woman got sucked up by the beam. That wasn't a bad use of special effects, but lasted only moments.

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Funny how I originally posted this as a review of the movie but then it flopped into a discussion of conspiracy and whether the truth is out there. Oh well.

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Maybe the aliens WERE bumbling teenagers who had stolen Dad's car LOL and they came to earth just to scare the crap out of people because they enjoy it? (like those goons in home videos who break into new houses and smash everything when the builders aren't there)

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Ah, very true, they could just be teenage aliens heading down the wrong road in life. After all, human kids do vandalize property, perform bizarre and cruel surgeries on animals, and otherwise raise a ruckus.

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teenage aliens! of course. their daddys baught them that ship too.lol

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For the person who said 'flares do not hover for hours'. The reports were from witnesses who saw lights over three hours, not the constant scrutiny of one witness. During this time, many flares can be fired, giving the illusion of constant presence. The flares were dropped by US Air Force A-10's and aligning the footage taken at night with footage from the same angle and distance in daylight shows that where the lights disappear is the summit line of the Estrella mountain range.



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While I *hated* this movie, I have to say...those were not flares in 1997. Curious to know if you saw them yourself Kitchenaut...because if you had, you would probably know they were not.
For one thing, the AF took DAYS to say, "oh yeah, we dropped flares." If there had been flares dropped that night, they would have known about it and would have been able to give this information. But no. There was no information for three days later, after they had already stated they had not dropped any flares.

Besides the thousands of "regular" people who saw the lights/whatever was in the sky that night, there were also military, pilot, and police personnel...these are people who are familiar with illumination flares and they still could not offer any explanations.

It's easy to dismiss things when you want a simpler answer, but there is no such thing in this case. I've done plenty of research and had my own PHX lights sighting...it is what it is...lights of unknown origin.
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