Mirage Men (film, ~2014)

Mirage Men purports to be about disinformation techniques used in UFOology. Actually it's a film about UFO films. Consists of a series of interviews. The weakest interviews are with Mark Pilkington, the film-maker and author of the book by the same name, who makes the claim the "UFO community" had forgotten completely about Roswell until Friedman and Moore reintroduced it in the late 70s. That claim has been debunked before, not the most poorly by Kenn Thomas, America's favorite conspiracy theorist. He says other stupid things as well.

The other painful-to-watch interview is divided into several segments and inserted throughout the film with Linda Moulton Howe, who seems to be recovering from a recent stroke (slurred speech, inappropriate body language, lack of affect).

The good stuff includes commentary by Greg Bishop of radiomisterioso.com et al. and Greg Valdez, the cop at Dulce, New Mexico. Also worth watching is some really poor video of Bill Moore's famous/infamous _mea culpa_ speech at the UFO convention in Nevada, during which he admits to being a G-man. The audience noises are worth the price of sitting through the bad parts of this film.

Also worth watching for Richard Doughty, who is the main character here, whom Greg Bishop brought onto Art Bell's show once upon a time. Great comments by Walter Boseley as well, author of the strange series of books about Aleister Crowley, the Sonora Air Club and Butch Cassidy & sidekick called Wheel of the Sun or something.

Makes much use of public domain video material from archive.org