UFO's Are Real (1979)

Flying Saucers Area Real
Save your money. This is an over priced poorly made production. Nothing new here and more suprisingly no interesting video footage. Just hours of Stanton Friedman looking into the camera and re-hashing stories we have all heard time and time again. Try the Unsolved Mysteries UFO set. It is a winner, but leave this one alone. It's horrible.

It was certainly interesting, but it ain't "UFOs Are Real"
Because I was led to believe there was a connection (via the IMDB/Amazon link), I essentially bought this double-DVD to replace my worn-out VHS copy of "UFOs Are Real", a much-better-than-it-deserved-to-be documentary about UFOs from the late-70s (that Stanton Friedman was also involved with). Thinking that this DVD would simply be an updated edition, little did I realize upon watching it that, in fact, it wasn't at all! Much of the documentary footage involves Dr. Friedman merely standing in front of retired rockets at the NASA visitors' center and delivering a report on UFO information gleaned to date (the late 90s).

Okay, I'll admit that Friedman's information was interesting enough, yet there was really precious little footage from other sources, particularly from "UFOs Are Real" of which there couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 minutes worth. To be honest, that old documentary is more interesting and thorough and, despite its paltry production budget, it DOES include in-depth interviews with Betty Hill, Travis Walton and several people involved with the Roswell incident, as well as a wealth of UFO photography and movie-footage up to that point in time.

Though Friedman does address more current UFO issues in "Flying Saucers Are Real" (e.g., the Majestic Project documentation, his attempt to obtain UFO-related documents via the Freedom of Information Act, and his debunking of the alien autopsy film), there still isn't a great deal of footage beyond Friedman's ad-libbing in front of an old Saturn V rocket lying on its side. And much of the non-Friedman footage is repeated, sometimes two or three times, throughout the documentary--if I saw the Las Vegas TV news report on Area 51 one more time, I would have screamed. Honestly, you're probably better off trying to find an old VHS copy of "UFOs Are Real" if you still can.