There is a man named Bill Knell, who has a few hours, a slide projector, and the wherewithal to expose the mysteries behind all those UFO sightings since World War II. Be careful, he also has the wherewithal to put you to sleep with this unwatchable video. Shunning such bothersome frou-frou as opening credits, "UFO's Do Not Exist!" is an hours-long presentation by researcher Knell. In the video, he gives a brief life story, justifying his expertise in the field of paranormal research, and then launches into a very long lecture about UFO sighting history. His presentation is all over the place, as the viewer must follow Bill as he jumps ahead in history, doubles back, and then forward again. Onscreen, blurry pictures of UFOs are shown without any context as to when they were taken or by whom, much less if what we are seeing has any connection to what is being talked about.
Knell covers all the old material- from Roswell to Area 51 to the Philadelphia Experiment, but also releases crazy hearsay stories about Jackie Gleason and Walter Cronkite's experiences with unidentified flying objects. I assume the title of the video refers to the fact that objects in the sky really are alien spacecraft, not unknown or swamp gas, and the government has been covering this up for years. As a film, this is lousy. Knell assumes everything he says is fact, and spends no time proving his ridiculous theories. The constant parade of smudgy photographs, misspelled words, and bad audio grated on my last nerve, and it took me three days to get through the video, which my poor DVD player gave up on with ten minutes left. I feel I can still review the film because of the preceding lies, half-truths, fantasies, and hokum. Knell consistently trips himself up. He will slam the 1980s film "The Philadelphia Experiment," and then use stills of the movie to illustrate a point. Other researchers who disagree with him are just plain stupid and wrong. During the video, he pushes other DVDs of his, including a seven hour presentation on said Philadelphia Experiment. Read that again- SEVEN HOURS. I refuse to review that, and because of this and another Bill Knell DVD, I severed ties with the releasing company that would send me these to review. "UFO's Do Not Exist!" is one of those weird little videos that you might find in second-hand stores, next to paperback copies of "Chariots of the Gods?". Bill Knell has hindered any microscopic credibility other UFO researchers have generated. UFOs don't exist, and neither does my patience for this thing.
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