Apr 24 2007
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UFOs: Best Evidence
Paul Kimball’s long-awaited new UFO documentary, Best Evidence, finally airs on Canadian TV on May 10 at 10PM AST/9PM EST on the “ Space: The Imagination Station” channel.
As Space note: “Whether they believe or not, people all over the world are fascinated by the subject of UFOs. Best Evidence, a SPACE supported documentary, looks at the 10 best UFO cases to date. Many are unknown to the general public, who for years have been fed tales of crashed flying saucers and government cover-ups at the expense of real evidence that shows that there is something unexplained happening in the sky.”
Unlike a lot of UFO-driven documentaries that simply go over old ground and recycle the same old cases, the same old faces, and the same old arguments for and against this or that, I know from speaking to Paul about the film when we met up in the UK at Stuart Miller’s UFO gig last June, and at Paul’s own New Frontiers Symposium in his hometown of Nova Scotia, Canada last October that finally you are going to see something actually worth watching. And, more importantly, a substantial amount of data that you won’t have seen before. And now a word or several about Best Evidence from Paul himself:
“Warning: There are no crazy aliens in the film, and no goofy backdrops to interviewees, or anything like that. In fact, to the best of my recollection, aliens aren’t mentioned once, at least not directly. There is animation, but it’s of the Discovery-channel variety, i.e. serious, and not of the Plan 9 From Outer Space variety, i.e. not serious.
“As some UFO researchers are busy these days bashing UFO documentaries and networks and producers at UFO Updates I’d like to take a moment to thank the good folks at Space for giving me the opportunity to try something a different - a serious film about serious UFO cases. It’s a risk for them, and they deserve all the credit in the world (and beyond) for taking it, especially Charlotte Engel, who heads up their independent production section, and greenlit the film over two years ago.
“The next UFO-related film I make, assuming I ever make another, which is at best a 50 / 50 proposition, would probably focus on the tongue-in-cheek, weird and wacky world of ufology (where truth really is stranger than fiction). Something where I head out with my pals Nick Redfern, Mac Tonnies, Tim Binnall and Greg Bishop on a ufoological road trip across America maybe - definitely in an RV. Kris Lee Mcbride will be tagging along as well. At the end we meet the Court Jester of Ufoology, the one and only Jim Moseley. I’ve earned the right to look at the lighter side of it all.
“But for the moment, I’m Mr. Serious, and if Best Evidence isn’t quite Dick Hall’s The UFO Evidence (and I never claimed it would be, knowing full well that no documentary can match a book for detail), Dick was still smart enough to see the merit in the project, and contribute, as were a lot of others.
“And unlike Peter Jennings and his team, I was smart enough to recognize the contribution that Dick has and continues to make - he’s in the film, along with Nick Pope, Stan Friedman, Bruce Maccabee, Mac Tonnies, Don Ledger, and our chief consultant and my good friend, Brad Sparks - as well as witnesses Colonel Charles Halt, Captain Robert Salas, and Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Bailey.
“Is it the greatest film ever made? Hardly. But is it a film you’re going to want to see? I hope so.”
Let’s also hope the film gets a justifed airing outside of Canada, too.
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April 24th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Thanks Nick. TVNZ in New Zealand has already pre-licensed it as well, so the Kiwis will see it next, and then hopefully our British distributor, B7 Media, can get it into other markets. As always, we had a tight budget (you know about that), so it won’t be a glossy Peter Jennings quality film, but it’s still got tons of good info, and some neat tricks as well.
Paul
April 25th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Paul,
Sounds interesting. Hope it airs down south in the near future.
P.S. - I thought Phil Klass was the “court jester” of ufology. He always makes ME laugh.