Mirage Men

This engagingly deadpan documentary flips the script on UFO conspiracy theories, positing that the US intelligence services found it convenient during the 60s and 70s to encourage these beliefs as a cover for their more clandestine activities.

This engagingly deadpan documentary flips the script on UFO conspiracy theories, positing that the US intelligence services found it convenient during the 60s and 70s to encourage these beliefs as a cover for their more clandestine activities. Stirring mutilated cattle, Apache folk tales and sci-fi movies into the mix, the filmmakers (including Mark Pilkington, whose book of the same name forms the basis of the story) draw us into a vortex where the truth becomes increasingly slippery. And with fracking, unmanned drones and NSA surveillance also playing their part, there’s no denying Mirage Men’s resonance in 2014.

*Recommended