Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26749 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-09-07
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 360 minutes

Customer Reviews

Watch the skies!
A good boxset from Unsolved Mysteries. This one is about UFOs and contains some excellent stories like "Allagash Abductions" and "Hudson Valley UFO". Most of the segments are pretty good and a couple segments like "Nazca Lines" and "The Blob" have nothing to do with UFOs and don't belong on this boxset, but are still interesting. You'll see alot of the same footage used over and over again in some segments. This isn't a bad thing but it does get a little repetitive. Also, Raymond Burr, Karl Malden, Keely Shaye Smith and Virginia Madsen do not appear anywhere on this boxset despite having their names listed on the Amazon page. Robert Stack is the only host!

The following is a rating of each segment:

1/5 = boring
2/5 = fair
3/5 = good
4/5 = very good
5/5 = excellent

Disc 1

1. Bentwaters UFO 4/5
2. Allagash Abductions 5/5
3. Crop Circles 3/5
4. Phoenix UFO 3/5
5. Nazca Lines 2/5
6. Mexico UFO 3/5
7. Vancouver Lights 2/5

Commentaries on segments 2 and 4.

Disc 2

1. Roswell 4/5
2. Roswell/Area 51 Connection 3/5
3. Hudson Valley UFO 5/5
4. Belgian UFO 5/5
5. Falcon Lake UFO 4/5
6. UFO Healing 2/5

Commentaries on segments 1 and 4.

Disc 3

1. Australian UFO 3/5
2. Missing Time 4/5
3. Socorro Close Encounter 3/5
4. Kecksburg UFO 4/5
5. Texas UFO 4/5
6. Face on Mars 2/5

Commentaries on segments 2 and 5.

Disc 4

1. Men in Black 4/5
2. Canadian UFO 5/5
3. Wheatfields Visitations 4/5
4. Life on Mars 2/5
5. Interceptors 3/5
6. The Blob 3/5
7. UFO Odyssey 4/5

Commentaries on segments 2 and 4.

Engrossing and Entertaining ...
Eminently watchable collection of UFO stories which run the gamut from the sighting of strange lights in the sky to the disturbing cases of alleged alien abduction. It also delves into some mysteries associated with ufology such as crop circles and interesting features on the Martian landscape. Though some of the segments are now nearly 20 years old, they retain a certain timeless relevance and this collection should be enjoyed well into the future. I've owned this set for nearly a year, and still find myself popping in one of the discs at least a couple of times a month to watch a few of the more engaging stories.

Robert Stack is the embodiment of understated excellence as the host/narrator of the segments and the show does a great job of getting the actual witnesses and other relevant parties featured in the episodes. While I found all of the episodes watchable, a couple of them (Hot Wheels-sized UFOs eradicating a woman's cancer and the cartoonishly-bad segment on Men In Black running amok in Central Texas) didn't seem to measure up to the rest of the collection. Still, it's a great DVD box set and anyone with even a passing interest in ufology should thoroughly enjoy it.

UFOs Well Documented by Robert Stack
Robert Stack did a great job of trying to maintain a balance between skepticism and sincere witness testimony. The UFO encounters on this DVD set are all food for thought. My own opinion though, is that no serious consideration was given to the possibility that our military may actually have this technology. It doesn't seem likely to me that "aliens" couldn't find something better to do that "experiment" in much the same ways that Nazis and other eugenic fanatics would do. After all, they would have to be "light years" ahead of us in science and technology in order to get here. Right? But most of the encounters smack of "mind control" experiments which our own Pentagon would be interested in right now -- at our current level of technology. Any super-advanced civilization would surely be far past this stage by now! That even applies to some of the medical technology used in the "abduction" scenarios. Nevertheless, considering the impossibility of pointing the finger at the Pentagon and still getting it on the air, I would say Robert Stack and his staff did an outstanding job.