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I always enjoy watching James Nintendo Nerd's videos on his blog Cinemassacre or on youtube. In this video he reviews some of the old classic alien invasion movies and compares them with their newer versions.

The belief that extraterrestrial beings have traveled to Earth from another planet to conduct reproductive experiments is widely held. Despite its incredible nature and the lack of supporting evidence, the belief has its believers. The believers hold as truth that there was an alien crash-landing. It is also held as fact that the alien craft recovered there along with its occupants have been hidden and the evidence covered-up.

UFO sightings have been on the rise and, as some believe, this is due to the increased number of Alien beings actively visiting the Earth for research and experimentation of the various forms of life found here. They leave their marks in the form of crop circles, they are responsible for the mutilation of cattle and they are known to provide revelations to selected individuals who are chosen as prophets. But, most importantly, they abduct human beings in order to create alien-human hybrids for purposes of preservation of their species and ours.

The initial story of alien abduction that spawned the beliefs is the Betty and Barney Hill story. They claimed to have been abducted by aliens in September of 1961. During a series of nightmares, Betty “recalled” her abduction experience and subsequently shared the information with Barney. Barney made similar claims of abduction thereafter in which he described the alien beings taking samples of his sperm. Betty recounted how they aliens had used a needle in her abdomen for purposes unknown, but though it to have been for the removal of ova. She guided curious people to the landing site where only she could see the aliens and their space craft. Under hypnosis, Barney recalled seeing an alien that had a rather unusual feature; “wraparound eyes.” Twelve days before, a similar being was featured in a televised episode of “The Outer Limits.”

Since that first accounting of the alien abduction phenomenon, there have been numerous similar reportings around the globe. The story is usually a variation on the same original accounting. Under hypnosis, counseling and psychotherapy, the “victims” can usually recount very vivid memories and detailed information about their experiences. There have been only minor changes such as scarring and device implanting. This phenomenon is most common is English speaking countries, and some of the details of the abductions will vary according to the hoe culture of the alleged abductee.

Research studies have concluded that the “victims” in these stories have similar personality traits that make them more susceptible to belief in the fantastic and surreal. Experiences where Alien abductees are held firm in their beds by some unseen force can be attributed to a condition known as sleep paralysis wherein a person is aware and awake but unable to move. Sleep paralysis can also be experienced in conjunction with hallucinations in sufferers and 40% of all people will experience this frightening ordeal at least once in their lifetime.

Are aliens abducting humans for reasons of species propagation? Or are these victims simply experiencing an occurrence with a reasonable scientific explanation? Whether or not you believe the victims or the science is up to you.

Outer space comprises the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer space is used to distinguish it from airspace and terrestrial locations.

Contrary to popular understanding, outer space is not completely empty (i.e. a perfect vacuum), but contains a low density of particles, predominantly hydrogen plasma, as well as electromagnetic radiation and neutrinos. Hypothetically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy.

Outer space is the closest approximation of a perfect vacuum. It has effectively no friction, allowing stars, planets and moons to move freely along ideal gravitational trajectories. However, no vacuum is truly perfect, not even in intergalactic space where there are still a few hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter.
(For comparison, the air we breathe contains about 1019 molecules per cubic centimeter.) The deep vacuum of space could make it an attractive environment for certain industrial processes, for instance those that require ultra clean surfaces.

All of the observable universe is filled with large numbers of photons, created during the Big Bang, the so-called cosmic background radiation, and quite likely a correspondingly large number of neutrinos called the cosmic neutrino background. The current temperature of the photon radiation is about 3 K (−270.15 °C; −454.27 °F).

Many people ask that if we put a thermometer in Space with no other light or heat source around and absolutely no background radiation there, what it would read. Would the temperature be really cold or what?

Yes, it would be really cold. Temperature measures the energy per “degree of freedom” (i.e. way something can move) of whatever molecules happen to be around. So, it becomes so cold that the molecules stop all together, and then this is the “absolute zero” temperature. On the Celsius Temperature Scale (i.e. water freezes at 0, and boils at 100), this takes place at -273 degrees C.

We usually use the Kelvin temperature scale, where Zero Kelvin is this “absolute zero” temperature -- or -273 degrees C. Water freezes at +273 Kelvin and water boils at +373 Kelvin.

If we put a thermometer in darkest space, with absolutely nothing around, it would first have to cool off. This might take a very long time. Once it cooled off, it would read 2.7 Kelvin. This is because of the “3 degree microwave background radiation”. No matter where you go, you cannot escape it -- it is always there.

In 1947, in New Mexico, a radio operator receives a signal following patterns and while investigating the occurrence, he vanishes. In the present day, the same signal is transmitted from a base on the Falkland Islands to the United States, and a satellite captures images of an unknown object in Antarctica. The cryptologist Julien Rome is invited to investigate the mystery in the South Pole, and he flies to a research base. While a team tries to open a weird shell probably from outer space, Julien solves the message.
Because Sci-Fi's “Showdown at Area 51” was not enough, The Asylum brings us another exciting rip-off in anticipation of “AVP R”. Since the “Alien vs. Predator” sequel is set in a small American town, “Alien v Hunter” is set in a small American town. After some helicopter shots, we are treated to a middle-aged man jogging, completely oblivious to a huge smoking object crashing behind him. From there we are introduced to an alien and a “hunter” and people die and run around and shoot at stuff.

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This particular effort is punctuated by some nice derivative designs. The alien resembles Giger's “Alien” (except for the whole spider thing) and the hunter is a safe re-imagining of the "Predator". In this respect The Asylum have really outdone themselves. This kind of production design could really have helped them on movies like “Alien Abduction”.

The characters are a real low point, though. Our heroes have a few very superficial clichés that pass for character and they are played off one another in a way that makes you wish the monsters would win. There is some solace in watching people get killed off, but it was never the ones we really wanted dead.

We are almost used to these quirks by now, even the worst one of never quite getting everything in frame. It is odd watching these because the little flashes of competence give you the feeling that it would have been a solid movie if only they bothered to get the coverage. However, down to brass tax, this thing advertises itself on its special effects and there really is not anything wrong with those. In addition, the film wisely avoids much reference to “Alien vs. Hunter” and instead liberally rips off the original “Alien”, “Predator” and “Aliens”.

Without giving anything away, the final twist is irritating. Apart from this, “Alien vs. Hunter” is an essential for any fan of The Asylum.

From the Earth, to the Moon and beyond, people have been documenting and reporting strange sightings and unexplained phenomenon for centuries. It is only in the last half century or so that the UFO craze has really gripped us. From mysterious lights in the sky and crop circles, to the Loch Ness monster and Sasquatch, to the “Eye of God” the list of strange sightings is a long one. Let’s explore some of these.

Many have witnessed the lake monster from Loch Ness in the Scotland Highlands, though few were actually spry enough to get the elusive beast on film. And what film and picture evidence there is lacking to say the least. Descriptions of “Nessy” vary from person to person, and are hazy at best. This creature’s popularity has waxed and waned over the years since first brought into the public eye back in 1933. Cryptozoologists really have their work cut out for them with this one.

Sasquatch has a number of names; Big Foot, Abominable Snowman and Yeti are a few of the more notable. Sasquatch, or Big Foot, is a large ape-like creature that inhabits the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. A famous somewhat grainy film has placed the image of what Big Foot looks like into the minds of many people. Accounts and eye-witness reports, along with strange foot prints and other findings make this creature almost seem plausible. Its cousin the Abominable snowman, or Yeti, inhabits the Himalayan region of Tibet and Nepal. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury tells of his experience with the Yeti in his book Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921. He found tracks in the snow that he took to be those of a loping wolf, creating the elongated double-footprint. The Sherpa guide mentioned the “man-bear,” and the legend soon spread.

The “Eye of God” is gaining in popularity as the proof of the existence of God in the universe. The Helix Nebula bears a striking resemblance to the structure of an eye. Although scientists can explain its appearance, images of the Helix Nebula have struck a chord in the human imagination and have made people start to question their beliefs.

There have also been accounts of a secret Alien base on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were said to have witnessed it first-hand. In fact, the Apollo mission and any subsequent Missions to the Moon are believed to have been cancelled to do the Alien presence. Crop circles and crash reports, stories of abduction and visitation are perhaps the most famous and numerous of the strange sightings. From flying saucers, discs and cigar-shaped objects to pilots reporting close encounters with spacecraft, we get the sense that we are not alone in the universe. Jimmy Carter was known as the “UFO President due to his fascination with them and as a result of a sighting he and a few others witnessed.

Perhaps we will one day uncover the truth behind these strange sightings. Or perhaps it’s true that we would rather leave the mysteries alone so that we can happily imagine the possibilities.

A common argument amongst the historians is about when the UFO and Alien craze actually began. Purists believe that the first encounter was around 500 B.C. when we had the first reports of a man named Ezekiel claiming to have witnessed a wheel of fire descending from the heavens. Some cite H.G Wells and his vision of interplanetary war and Martian invasion as the Victorian-age beginning of Alien lore. Still others believe that UFO culture began in the late 1940’s with a report by a pilot of a mysterious aircraft that triggered numerous similar reports from all over the United States. Whenever it began, authors have been imagining very interesting things to write about in their alien books.

War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells was the first true appearance of invading aliens in writing. Though not typical fare, the message in this science fiction fantasy was clear; the aliens were winning due to incredible technologically advanced weaponry, weapons of mass destruction and unmerciful use of chemical weapons. This was a book full of carnage and calamity. There were detailed descriptions of cities reduced to rubble and decimated armies with corpses strewn about. The invading Martians were using tanks with three legs and heat rays. This was the beginning, and most probably the inspiration for other alien books to come.

The UFO panic created by the War of the Worlds-inspired radio broadcast in 1938 and narrated by Orson Welles is probably one of the main reasons that authors began writing their alien books. Thousands of listeners were terrified by the seemingly real news reports of a terrible alien invasion and this, along with the alien invasion meme planted into to Western culture by the book, began the distinctly American alien panic that would echo through the years and into today’s pop culture. Besides alien books, there are now movies and television programs, comic books and conventions that allow us to express our vision of life on other planets and the contradiction in our hope that we may one day get to meet them face-to-face and the fear that we actually might see that happen.

But, alien books aren’t limited to fictional writing. There are a number of books that capture the imagination with tales of the unexplained and even others that attempt to prove the existence of aliens and UFO’s, citing reports, studies and sightings. There are books that present data such as the shapes of flying saucers and the coloring of lights, their purposes and what they mean. There are books dedicated to breaking the truth about government conspiracies regarding alien technology and research into flying saucers. There are even groups that study the Bible in search of clues about ancient alien visitors and UFO sightings. The phenomenon has grown to encompass the entire world.

Whatever your interest might be on the subject of extra-terrestrial life, you can be sure that there is plenty of information to be had and opinions to mull over in the form of alien books.

Aliens are known to be quite enamored of our species, and because of that they will stop at nothing to breed with us, experiment on us, perform terrible mind tricks and test us in our altered states of reality and if that doesn’t beat all, they’ll erase our memories of the events and do a shoddy job of it. If you suspect for any reason that you have been the victim of alien abduction, you need to read through this list of symptoms very carefully. Here are the signs of alien abduction that everyone should be aware of.

(1) Have you experienced any periods of missing time? Periods that cannot be accounted for? (Not to be confused for high time, borrowed time, bed time, overtime, killing time or the like…)

(2) Do you have any odd markings, unusual scars, designs or wounds for which you have no explanation? Of the many signs of alien abduction, this is probably the most important.)

(3) Have you or are you currently having flying, levitating, falling or floating dreams? And if so, is it your belief that Aliens were responsible? If you can’t recall, skip to number 4.

(4) Do you give credence to spurious information being posited as credible science?

(5) Do you feel as though you are the special chosen one; chosen by some unknown cosmic entity and appointed to save the planet and all of its inhabitants? Or, have you felt the compelling desire to join environmental groups who have the same “save the planet” mentality?

(6) Have you been receiving telepathic messages or channeling entities that claim to be the High Priest of some such planet, or the Overlord of All Mankind? Or do you believe Cher, Elvis, Queen Elizabeth and Michael Jackson are reptilian invaders?

(7) Do you find yourself spending too much time in the shower dreaming about the mother ship?

(8) Do you believe that you can safeguard your thoughts from Alien Super-beings by wearing hats made from tin foil?

(9) Have you experienced any highly vivid or lucid dreams in which you could not move your extremities and were completely helpless while being probed by beings of unknown origin, which had a penchant for making insensitive remarks about your private areas?

(10) Do you recall having been given a tour of crying, green-skinned, twelve-eyed babies in a nursery and being informed that they were yours?

(11) Are you unable to control your urge to surf the net for websites on the unexplained, mysterious and unsolved? Do you root around their forums looking for other people who show signs of alien abduction and find yourself posting information as if you personally knew the aliens yourself?

If you show any or all of these signs of alien abduction, you should know that it is very serious. You are probably being repeatedly abducted and probed and sexually assaulted by some Alien life forms looking for a way to take over the planet. There’s nothing you can do.

Astonishing reports are surfacing of eye-witness accounts and information that there may be a hidden alien base on the moon. There’s a far side of the moon that is forever hidden from our view, anything could be back there. Why have we stopped going to the moon? Shouldn’t we build that moon base we’ve always talked about? It seems a lot more logical than putting a space station out in the middle of nowhere; cut off from resources, supplies and raw materials.

It may not be so far-fetched. A naval Intelligence Officer, Milton Cooper, reports that not only does the Alien Base exist on the Moon, but we’ve got a name for it! “Luna” is a mining operation on the moon and aliens make trips to Earth in flying saucers every now and again. The Apollo astronauts actually filmed the base. There are huge machines and large alien craft.

Shortly after making their historic landing on the Moon, both Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Neil Armstrong saw UFO’s. Anonymous radio hams received broadcasts that bypassed NASA using their own VHF receivers that corroborate the report.

The first to confirm the incident (allegedly) were soviet scientists. NASA censored the message in which one scientist, Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University stated that Neil Armstrong relayed the message that two large objects were watching them after they had landed. Buzz Aldrin supposedly recorded it on color film. The UFOs departed after a few minutes.

So why all the hush, hush? What is the reason that we are not allowed to know about the Moon UFO’s? When it is obvious that reasonable activity of some extra-terrestrial civilization showed up unexpected and nearby, why do we get shut out of knowing something that amazing? Experts say that we are not psychologically ready for it. There are masses of books, literature, and other publications that beg the question of “are we alone?” According to those who believe the reports, there is actual physical proof waiting for us just behind the moon.

When the film about the astronauts trip to the Sea of Storms was shown in 1969, the astronauts again saw strange objects. These were explained as “striped glasses” by NASA officials. An astronaut, after returning, explained his feeling of not being alone. He said that he kept feeling the need to look over his shoulder.
An expert at the Houston Space Center studied photos and videos from the Apollo missions and during discussions had mentioned that NASA was terribly annoyed by the number of anomalous objects discovered on the Moon.

There are astonishingly geometric structures that resemble ancient ruined cities. A mission control specialist noted the structures in photos and said that there were ruins of Lunar cities, pyramids that appeared to be transparent, domes and so much else. The photos themselves are locked away in NASA vaults. Geologists and scientists agree that they cannot be natural formations as they are too regular.

It’s up to you to decide what is fact and what is fiction. Are we really not ready to handle it if there exists life outside our own planet?

There is a theoretical new and unique form of life now actively flying through the air in our environment. Some believe that they are all around us. So what are they? Is there any evidentiary support?

Some of the characteristics of these flying rods are quite intriguing. They are shaped like rods and can vary in size from just a few centimeters to many meters in length. They are zipping through the air at enormous speeds. They are nearly invisible to the naked eye, but can be captured via video or film. Some have appendages along the torso that resemble fins. And they do not appear to be mechanical, they seem to be alive and possibly have intelligence.

So, how have these Flying Rods caught the public attention? They brought into the public eye in 1994, thanks to filmmaker Jose Escamilla. He filmed some mysterious and unexplainable objects in Midway, New Mexico. On March 5, 1994 Escamilla filmed about 16 minutes of footage that contained UFOs. On March 19, 1994 he had the Flying Rods caught on film. This was the first recording of the phenomenon ever documented. Since then, many people have had these Flying Rods caught (or what they think are Flying Rods) on film, in pictures and videos.

Theory proponents say that there is no possibility that the Flying Rods can be known objects. All of the evidence centers around the photographs and the Flying Rods caught on tape and on film. There are also non-photographic pieces of evidence like ancient cave drawings that can be depicted as the Flying Rods. But, no one has the desire to make an active case for the evidence so it doesn’t get attended to much at all.

Since the evidence is based only upon the photographs and video, the theory of this phenomenon isn’t well supported because the evidence is flawed. With the motion-blue effect of “fins” on a Flying Rod is consistent an inset beating its wings very quickly.

After analysis of the footage, it is clear that the objects cannot possibly be as big as reported or they could easily be seen without the use of any specialized equipment. And in addition to that, it just isn’t possible for video to be able to capture something like that without being visible.

There is plenty of information to find online and in the media regarding the Flying Rods caught on tape and in photographs. In 2002 there was a television documentary called Rods! The documentary is produced and directed by John Moffet who was also responsible for such titles as Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (2001) and World's Scariest Ghosts: Caught on Tape (2000). The footage used in Rods!, primarily focuses on the video footage by Jose Escamilla. There are also interviews with Escamilla and various other rod researchers, along with mentions of other UFO reports.

This theory’s main problem is that these Flying Rods caught on tape and in video can easily be explained by naturally occurring phenomena; such as birds and insects. This theory, in short, just doesn’t “Fly.”