I can remember jokes with coworkers about being taken over by "The Grays". There are elements of this in this show, that goes toward the edge.
It starts by reviewing Roswell, the 1947 event in New Mexico. The military tried to claim "spy balloon". Researcher Richard Dolan talks about famous witness Jesse Marcel, and that over 400 other witness picked up crash pieces. In the 1990s the Pentagon would try other explanations for the "bodies", such as crash dummies. In the 1990s, a famous short film called "Alien Autopsy" would also circulate. There were also stories that the bodies were taken to Wright Patterson in Dayton, Ohio, and in 1984 I would see the biology building exterior where they were supposedly taken. I've always imagined that some day there would be a big budget movie called "Oliver Stone's Roswell". A good idea?
The show then covered the famous Betty and Barney Hill abduction in New Hampshire on September 19, 1961. (That was my second day of college, and first day out Quant in chemistry. I still remember it.) The first encounter was followed by a "road block". The late Betty Hill described her medical examinations, which included body shaving for samples and then reproductive examinations, which were painful.
It then covered a famous incident in New Mexico in 1964.
The show discussed "Project Blue Book", where the Air Force tried to discredit abductee claims as mass hysteria and a desire for fame and attention. The Project was suspended in 1969. I visited the Archives in the late 1980s. A typical web reference is here.
The show then covered the "Majestic 12 Documents" in the UFO Casebook, here.
The show presented the term "extraterrestrial biological entities" or EBI's, and characterized them as being of four morphologies.
The film concluded with some studies of abductees. One woman claimed meeting her "hybrid" daughter. Women claimed to have miscarriages at about eight weeks without blood, apparently in second abductions. Harvard University researchers McNally and Orr did a thorough psychological (an neurological) study of some abductees and described a phenomenon of "absorption". Other researchers describe the abductee accounts as similar to dreams at the end of REM sleep.
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