So here we are at what might have been the climax of series 2 of "Unidentified", which has overall been a bit too Mellon-free and Elizondo-rich.
The summary of this episode is quite unreflective of the actual content, so take no notice of that. Following on from the issue with commercial flights being buzzed (perhaps the most interesting instalment of the series), we here move on to possible alien abductions and "missing hours" incidents, again with the focus on the military + Robert Hastings, whose long-term focus has tended to be events over the nuclear silos - which were to the fore here - notably Malmstrom AFB, but also with Rendlesham in the UK returned to.
Bizarrely - but in keeping with the "2 steps forward, 1 step back" motif of this series, Elizondo introduces pretty hair-raising stories, then suggests that it's mainly about sleep paralysis, before coming to his "big finish" with a suggestion that - actually - those most credible reports are not the Russians or the Chinese that are involved with these now-government-confirmed UAPs; but actually aliens...
He really slipped that in between the lines, didn't he?
And it's remarkably underwhelming - and one can only wonder if this is just what the powers-that-be want to achieve here. Oddly, here as through the 2 series, Elizondo determinedly plays the role of well-informed everyman, saying in this episode that "they" ought finally to offer us disclosure.
Since he worked on this very issue for the DoD and for the American government, it is as likely that he would be the person to do the disclosing as anybody else. It's a weird, fictional device that has been the hallmark of the 2 series. If anything, Chris Mellon is even more the insider, yet he also plays this game.
But still, if you really think about it, the second series of "Unidentified" has basically told us there are plenty of cases going back through the years and involving credible people and real reports (the peak achievement here is the transcript from Norad which bridges the civilian-military gap in a remarkable way and is FACT just impossible to undermine). These feed into the cases that the US Navy confirmed as genuine, and now we have this programme which basically does have government say-so (even it pretends otherwise) suggesting that all that Russian and Chinese or drone-swarm stuff was really a bit of a tease, as perhaps it's just aliens...
A masterpiece in how those endlessly secretive governments MUST spoil the fun with everything - even this. Just so we won't panic, or something...
Great TV it assuredly is not, but remarkable nonetheless...
The summary of this episode is quite unreflective of the actual content, so take no notice of that. Following on from the issue with commercial flights being buzzed (perhaps the most interesting instalment of the series), we here move on to possible alien abductions and "missing hours" incidents, again with the focus on the military + Robert Hastings, whose long-term focus has tended to be events over the nuclear silos - which were to the fore here - notably Malmstrom AFB, but also with Rendlesham in the UK returned to.
Bizarrely - but in keeping with the "2 steps forward, 1 step back" motif of this series, Elizondo introduces pretty hair-raising stories, then suggests that it's mainly about sleep paralysis, before coming to his "big finish" with a suggestion that - actually - those most credible reports are not the Russians or the Chinese that are involved with these now-government-confirmed UAPs; but actually aliens...
He really slipped that in between the lines, didn't he?
And it's remarkably underwhelming - and one can only wonder if this is just what the powers-that-be want to achieve here. Oddly, here as through the 2 series, Elizondo determinedly plays the role of well-informed everyman, saying in this episode that "they" ought finally to offer us disclosure.
Since he worked on this very issue for the DoD and for the American government, it is as likely that he would be the person to do the disclosing as anybody else. It's a weird, fictional device that has been the hallmark of the 2 series. If anything, Chris Mellon is even more the insider, yet he also plays this game.
But still, if you really think about it, the second series of "Unidentified" has basically told us there are plenty of cases going back through the years and involving credible people and real reports (the peak achievement here is the transcript from Norad which bridges the civilian-military gap in a remarkable way and is FACT just impossible to undermine). These feed into the cases that the US Navy confirmed as genuine, and now we have this programme which basically does have government say-so (even it pretends otherwise) suggesting that all that Russian and Chinese or drone-swarm stuff was really a bit of a tease, as perhaps it's just aliens...
A masterpiece in how those endlessly secretive governments MUST spoil the fun with everything - even this. Just so we won't panic, or something...
Great TV it assuredly is not, but remarkable nonetheless...