The Fourth Kind and Aliens Abductions. Real or Not.
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April 23, 2010
Filed under Opinion, Uncategorized
By: Hayle Hudson
The movie The Fourth Kind started something in everyone’s mind and it’s spreading like wildfire. Leaving everyone questioning whether or not aliens are real.
The Fourth Kind is a “some what” true based alien abduction film. The story, set in Nome, Alaska is loosely based on the mysterious and unsolved disappearances of 24 people in the town between the 1960’s and 2004. The FBI was brought in to investigate in 2006 and concluded that most of the victims were native villagers and that “excessive alcohol consumption and the harsh winter climate” were to blame, and that was the end of it. Even though nine bodies were never found. Before the FBI investigation it was believed that this was the work of a local serial killer.
This movie is based on the theory that the missing-person cases were actually alien abductions. The Fourth Kind hit theaters November 6th 2009 with actual “archival footage” of the “ most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.” The “footage” is that of hypnotherapy sessions between a “Dr. Abigail Tyler” played by Milla Jovovich, and patients who claim they were abducted by aliens who, in the movie, speak the long lost Sumerian language. Sumerians are the oldest known civilians in the world. They lived in what is now the land south of Iraq in 5000 to 6000 b.c. this language is not related to any other language used on earth today. The Sumerians were highly intelligent and are believed to have developed the first written language, tools, the wheel, sailboats and a system of mathematics.
There was not much information on Dr. Abigail Tyler. But this does not rule out that Dr. Tyler could have been based on a real Dr. and according to many websites, Dr. Tyler in the “actual footage” is played by British actress Charlotte Milchard, and when compared these two do look quite similar.
The film does rely very heavily on its tagline, “what do you believe?” letting viewers decide for themselves what is real and what is Hollywood. In the beginning of the movie Jovovich informs the audience right up front that she “plays the role of Dr. Abigail Tyler” and that the images they are about to see are extremely disturbing. Giving the movie more authenticity. As for the title of the movie, it is derived from a “scale of measurement” that was developed in 1972 to categorize alien encounters. Best known through its use in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Close encounters of the third kind.’ On the scale the first kind of encounter is defined as a UFO sighting, the second is collected evidence of extraterrestrials, the third kind is contact and the fourth is abduction. There is no honest proof that this is actually a scale of measurement used in more than just science fiction movies.
According to CNN.com, mayor of Nome, Denise Michaels said that all the stories of the cause of the missing people being alien abductions is just Hollywood.
“People need to realize that this is a science fiction thriller.” She said that town residents have been getting a lot of phone calls lately, and frankly, they’re a bit tired of talking about it. “Some of the calls I am just ignoring,” said Michaels, “because the issue we had to deal with in real life was very sensitive.”
Aliens have been talked about for years; the amount of sightings reported throughout history is too large of a number to be calculated. Over 500 UFO sightings are reported per year and those are just the ones that are reported, there are probably thousands a year that are not reported simply because people don’t believe or don’t want to seem crazy. People who have had experience with UFO sightings say they are something they will never forget and people who haven’t seen one sometimes wish they might one day or they simply don’t believe. So whether you believe in UFO’s or not, keep your eyes open for anything odd in the sky because you never know when you might see something spectacular.
So now you are left with one question, what do you believe?
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