Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136781 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-18
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 54 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
In July of 1996, Rocket Pictures was called to ask if they'd distribute a video showing an interview with an EBE (Extra-Terrestrial Biological Entity). Throughout this documentary, both the President of Rocket and Victor--the video supplier--evade explaining why the tape came forward when it did. Not even hammy show host Steven Williams ("X" from The X-Files) seems to connect with the fact that the notorious Roswell autopsy footage came out only a year earlier. For a supposedly unbiased chronicle, there's a fair amount of debunking and abstaining from straight answers in the course of the 52 minutes. There's a lot of preliminary information regarding "Dreamland", the mysterious Area 51 airbase in Nevada purported to be a test site for more than just US stealth planes. Through skewed camera angles, goofy computer graphics, cheesy re-creation footage, and teeth-grating electronic music a vague history of the base is knotted together. All the important elements are dutifully name-checked: Project Sigma, Majestic 12, Project Blue Book, and Ronald Reagan. The actual interview footage is silent and lasts less than three minutes. Far more interesting is the interview with Victor who appears disguised, blacked out, and with a manipulated voice answering the antagonistic and accusatory tone of questions obviously dubbed over later. The experts brought in to offer opinion all seem a bit embarrassed about how to react to the tape, but it only takes movie make-up king Rick Baker saying it's unquestionably a fake to knock the other opinions aside. The programme-makes suggest that you decide for yourself. Just don't watch MIB or ID4 too soon afterwards. --Paul Tonks

Customer Reviews

A well-made documentary, but the footage is highly suspect
My favorable rating of this particular video reflects my opinion that this is a well-made documentary; it does not mean that I believe the "alien interview" (which amounts to only three minutes of silent footage in this hour-long program) is authentic. Even though I am what you would call a "believer" (for lack of a better term) in the existence of UFOs and alien beings, my own opinion is that this footage is fake. Fake or not, though, the makers of this documentary did some good things in terms of framing the story.

The documentary begins with a quick description of Area 51, the world-famous super-secret military facility in Nevada that, up until a few years ago, the government insisted, quite incredibly, did not exist. I don't think anyone can deny the fact that very sensitive things are going on inside Area 51, especially in terms of the military testing of top-secret aircraft such as the U-2 spy plane and the Stealth Bomber. A number of individuals have come forth in recent years to make incredible claims as to what is really going on inside Area 51, work classified up to 36 levels above top secret. The most famous Area 51 whistleblower is Bob Lazar, who claimed he performed reverse engineering work on an alien ship. This video refers to Lazar's story and then proceeds to mention a number of claims regarding living aliens being interviewed and/or working at Area 51 over the last forty years. This quite naturally leads into the matter of the Majestic-12 documents made public in the 1990s; this video seems to assume that the MJ-12 documents are real, and this is a problem because I and many ufologists do not put any faith in these documents. In a sense, this extended section of the videotape does a disservice to the alien interview tape because all of these claims are highly suspect. No serious ufologists put much stock in these claims of previous alien interviews, and Bob Lazar himself has some very real credibility problems. One's assessment of the actual alien interview's believability should not hinge on such questionable background material.

One must forget the assumptions made by the documentary writers and study the alien interview tape in an intellectual vacuum in order to form an opinion of its authenticity. There is not much to go on here; to many, including myself, the alien appears to be a puppet, and the darkness of the interview setting serves to hide all but the alien's face. Toward the end of the three-minute footage, the alien begins moving its head erratically, and doctors rush in to "treat" the creature - many of the alien's movements are quite jerky and unnatural, I would argue. What do we know of the origins of this tape? Not much. A mysterious man calling himself "Victor" insists he smuggled the tape out of Area 51, but he refuses to reveal his identity and agrees to be interviewed only if his face is hidden and his voice distorted. This in itself does not mean he is lying; if the tape were real, the man who went public with it would definitely find himself in mortal danger. The interview we see with "Victor," however, seems staged and unreal to me. The interviewer's voice does not reflect the seriousness of the subject matter, and "Victor" insists several times that he will end the interview if he is asked more questions than those he approved of before the meeting. The interviewer does ask some smart questions, though, such as why "Victor" sold the video instead of releasing it to the news media, what he really knows about Area 51, why he removed the audio portion of the tape, etc. "Victor" gives some good answers, but I'm just not buying what he is selling here. A series of "experts" voice their opinions on the alien interview footage, and, to the video's credit, there are as many doubters as believers - but that does not mean this is real.

Let me repeat the fact that the video of the alien interview in question lasts only three minutes and has no audio ("Victor" removed the audio in order to protect the identities of the humans appearing in it). I could swear there is a microphone in front of the alien, though, even though he is said to communicate telepathically. Even though I think the video is clearly a hoax, I did enjoy the documentary quite a bit. I would just caution viewers not to believe all of the background information they are presented with here, as much of it is highly questionable. As for the alien interview itself, that is something you should watch and judge for yourself.

Something in our skies.......
Area 51 holds the interest of many curious minds. Shrouded in a thick
layer of secrecy and denial Area 51 operates behind heavily closed doors
UFO hunters determined to explain the existence of alien visitors firmly

believe that within the workings of Area 51 the proof of alien life can
be found. The American government have always denied the allegations
made by countless individuals and organisations that Area 51 has
sinister operations and connections with alien studies.
Area 51-Alien Interview
offers the viewer an insight into the strange and compelling search for the truth behind the real motives and workings of this elusive site. The video contains footage and interviews which aim to cast a true light on the enigma known as Area 51.
This video is an excellent introduction to the UFO phenomenon. You will want to watch this film again, just in case you missed something.
If there's questions you want answering then Area 51-Alien Interview
may have them....!

Interesting.
The one big question is -

Is it real?

Well you're pretty much left to make up your own mind on that one. The expert opinions lean one way & then the other at times, and the 'mole' who supposedly leaked the footage from the infamous 'non-existent' US military base 'Area 51' underplays his role very well. Whether this means he's telling the truth or is just a very good actor is for you to decide!

Well worth a look for anyone interested in the age old topic 'are we alone in the Universe?'