The Fascinating '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult

[palitoy]

I don't believe in UFOs personally but I have always been fascinated by these folks ever since "Real People" gave them national attention.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fascinating-80s-public-access-films-produced-by-a-california-ufo-cult?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

[Godzilla]

The Unarians are some great 70s viewing. They made 1 "movie" (apart from the public access stuff) which is a classic of bad movie cinema.

[palitoy]

The Unarians are some great 70s viewing. They made 1 "movie" (apart from the public access stuff) which is a classic of bad movie cinema.

What's it called? I hope I haven't seen it!

[LonnieFisher]

The Unarians are some great 70s viewing. They made 1 "movie" (apart from the public access stuff) which is a classic of bad movie cinema.

The article says the made three feature films.

"...resulting in three feature films, 80 television shows, as well as scores of student paintings, hundreds of handmade costumes, thousands of photographs, and over 200 self-published books."

[LonnieFisher]

I got literature from them for years trying to recruit me. I didn't join.

[Hector]

I don't believe in UFOs personally

That does belief extend to not believing in other lifeforms existing anywhere else in the universe?

I personally also don't think aliens have visited us...however I do believe life does exist beyond Earth.

But we are vastly too far apart to ever meet. We are like an ant farm in Ohio...and our nearest extraterrestrials friends are a termite colony in the Serengeti.

[palitoy]

That does belief extend to not believing in other lifeforms existing anywhere else in the universe?

It doesn't, I can't wrap my head around the universe's overall "bigness", so I can't possibly put a cap on something like that.

I just don't believe in the view that groups like this try to sell.

[Hector]

Agreed ^^^^^

[TrekStar]

The heck with the Unarians, I belong to the Mooronians and we know for a fact UFO's exist.

[megomania]

What about those who believe we are living in a computer simulation....if aliens aren't real maybe we aren't either.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...er-simulation/

[darklord1967]

As whacked-out as these folks may seem, I personally DO believe that highly advanced extraterrestrials have visited this planet and they have done so for thousands of years.

I believe that governments around the world know the truth of this and have kept it classified. I believe that the evidence of these visitations is pretty compelling and abundant. With the contact that hundreds of thousands of people around the planet claimed to have had with these beings (almost all similarly described), these people cannot ALL be drunken, or doped up idiots with overactive imaginations.

By all scientific data, the human race is incredibly young compared to just the age of this planet... much less our solar system and Galaxy. Cosmically-speaking we are not infants... not even newborns... We are barely fetuses.

If we look at the wondrous technological advances that humans have made in just a few short decades, just imagine what scientific marvels a civilization might be capable of if they were hundreds of thousands or even millions of years more advanced than we are.

It seems to me that the incredibly vast distances between us would not make any difference to them... especially if they had the advanced technological ability to manipulate space and time. They would still be curious about us, just as we would be about them (if we knew where they were). Given enough scientific and technological advancement, those distances would be as insignificant to them as crossing from one room to the other is for us in our homes.

The seeming insurmountable obstacle of tremendous distance has NEVER been a factor that discourages the quest for scientific knowledge or advancement. It has certainly not been a factor for primitive mankind, so I have difficulty believing it would be a factor for a greatly advanced extraterrestrial species. Tremendous distances have NEVER stopped puny primitive little Earth humans from marshaling their greatest minds, and tremendous resources to launch space probes that have travelled light years from this planet, in a relatively short amount of time to photograph distant planets and even our Galaxy. And again, we are a primitive child-like race who's technology is barely more advanced than sticks and chiesels... cosmically speaking.

I believe it was President John F Kennedy who said (of the pioneering efforts to go to just our moon) "We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard".

Indeed.

[Godzilla]

The one I'm familiar with is called "The Arrival" and tells the story of aliens visiting primitive man.

[Confessional]

Someone needs to make a Ruth Norman custom in her cosmic generator costume. Clearly Thierry Mugler has been stealing her ideas for decades!

[comicmike]

I get this flavour of 70s tv Paradise Island, and maybe smoking something grown there too....I dunno...