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Review of Unsealed Alien Files: "Alien Plagues"

12/26/2013

27 Comments

 
Today I’m visiting family, and they get Destination America, the digital-tier cable channel that currently broadcasts a slate of paranormal programming and rural-themed cultural shows aimed at what Sarah Palin famously called “the real America,” non-urban areas. You don’t have to take my word for that. Check out their programming, shows about Alaskan railroads, barbecue, monsters of the South, bars, the bayou, logging, ghosts, bacon, demonic possession, etc.

Or, more offically, Discovery Communications specifically targeted the network at “Middle America” and men, code for conservatives living in places between the East Coast and West Coast liberal elites. “We became convinced there was an opening there to build a channel based on middle America, strong values, behavior and customs,” Discovery CEO David Zaslav told USA Today in 2012, sounding like an anthropologist studying a strange and foreign tribe. The president of the network, Henry Schleiff, said the channel would focus on optimism.

So what does the Silver Spring, Maryland-based Discovery Communications think Middle American conservative men want on the day after Christmas? They want to be scared out of their skulls that evil liberal extraterrestrials are trying to kill them by invading their homes and using the U.S. government to promote a sexually-libertine hybridization agenda that would corrupt our precious bodily fluids... no, wait, our racial purity... no... well, something like that. That’s right: They’re showing a marathon of Unsealed: Alien Files, the dark id to H2’s more fantastical Ancient Aliens. I also had to spend much of Christmas Eve watching Fox News with my grandfather, a huge fan of the channel. In an hour of Gretchen Carlson, I counted at least ten different claims of impending disaster, and it was depressing to see my 97-year-old grandfather expressing concern that he learned “from the Fox News” that every element of civilization is in danger of imminent collapse, that Christmas was going to be banned, and that “we” are in danger of “losing” our country. (Carlson also had on a rabbi to explain why it was patriotic for American Jews to celebrate Christmas.) All TV news relies on fear to draw ratings, but cable news turns fear into an art. Unsealed: Alien Files fits right in to the same fear-oriented programming aimed at conservative audiences, where everything is an impending apocalypse and disaster lurks around every corner unless traditional bedrock American values of independence, thrift, and faith are constantly reaffirmed. Regardless of your political beliefs, the constant focus on fear cannot be healthy, especially for heavy viewers of this programming.

I sat down this morning to watch an episode of Unsealed, and like the last time I caught the show it was a miserable slog through an irresponsible half hour of blatant propaganda designed to create fear and unease in order to keep the audience watching.

Unsealed: Alien Files “Alien Plagues” opens with a discussion of UFOs in Brazil with John Greenewald, Jr., the program’s usual uninformed pundit. In June 2012, 500 penguins (it was really 745) died in Brazil, and Steve Murillo asks whether the penguins’ deaths were related to UFO sightings weeks earlier. Officially, scientists concluded they died of natural causes due to being young and inexperienced in rough waters. Bill Birnes connects the penguin deaths to mass die-outs of birds across the United States, and the narrator asks us if the birds are being killed by UFOs. There is no reason to connect any of the events, and mass die offs are commonplace, but the show leaves out all information that could contradict the narrative of endless fear.

Ancient Aliens pundit Jason Martell shows up on this competing program to suggest that the Black Death was caused by aliens, something that Greenewald assures us was a very serious disease. The narrator tells us that those who were dying of the Black Death saw portents of bronze shields or comets in the sky, and Greenewald tells us that the Black Death came from outer space. The narrator also tells us that images of the black-clad men with scythes from the period of the Black Death were the first invasion of the Men in Black. I’m afraid I can’t find any texts describing bronze shields in connection with the Black Death, though they were standard portents used in Classical sources such as Livy. Boccaccio, in the Decameron, suggested that the plague originated in the heavens, though he meant it astrologically, not biologically.

Greenewald calls the Black Death genocide, “if” aliens really did send it to us. After the commercial, Martell tells us that pandemics are genetically engineered to reduce the human population. I was not aware that aliens were in league with the New World Order. Greenewald likens it to the smallpox blankets distributed to Native Americans, which the show chooses to illustrate with a medieval image of the bubonic plague.

However, the show isn’t really able to keep up this line of speculation, lest we think too hard about it, so instead it tells us about red rain that fell in India in 2001. Birnes tells us that the rain’s color derived from a protein “with a residue of a life form” and that this may have come from a meteorite. The show leaves out the fact that the Government of India refuted the original meteor claim in 2006 and determined that the “life form” was actually the spores of terrestrial algae. To date, the 2006 claim by panspermia theorists Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar that the red raid was of alien origin has not been confirmed by any subsequent research.

In 2007 in Peru, a fireball hit, leaving a large impact crater. Supposedly an “illness” came with the meteorite, which the show suggests may be a biological weapon. However, more likely is that the impact of the meteor released contaminants in the ground that were aerosolized.

After the break, the show drops the pretense of “what-if” and blatantly asserts that the bubonic plague was “linked” to UFO sightings, and then the show tells us that the bubonic plague is a real threat that could overwhelm us again. Birnes suggests that H1N1 and SARS have “mysterious” origins that therefore mean aliens.

We then hear about the “fibers” of Morgellons disease, a psychological delusion that leads sufferers to believe that parasites, bugs, or fibers are crawling or growing beneath the skin. Although the CDC’s multi-year study found no disease agents in any sufferer, the show leaves out this information to create a propaganda claim that aliens created the disease, even though the edited comments by the talking heads make plain despite the editing that they are aware of the lack of evidence and the producers are chopping up the spoken comments to support a specific agenda.

Jason Martell lays out several scenarios for how alien-borne diseases begin, and Greenewald feels that the most likely scenario is that the aliens accidentally infected humans due to unintentional viral transfer during alien abductions (they forgot to wear gloves!), or by plagues escaping UFO laboratories. The show asserts that this is like Lyme Disease, which it falsely reports was released by Long Island’s Plum Island Animal Research Center in 1975, a claim that was made famous on Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory. The claim was apparently first made by Michael C. Carroll in Lab 257 (2004), an unreliable history of Plum Island. No independent evidence of a connection exists, but the show simply assumes we believe the conspiracy theory.

The show concludes with Bill Birnes telling us that aliens are trying to “hybridize” humanity and are using the plagues to identify people who are immune to the diseases and are therefore the best candidates for hybridization. The narration concludes with the “hopeful” note that as humans, the aliens will soon ennoble us by making us into an “interstellar race” (the ufological version of the Millennium), but only if we “survive” the next alien plague brought by those germ-filled invaders.

Although at no time is an actual declarative sentence used to state that disease is actually brought by extraterrestrials, the repetition of ideas and the downplaying of the conditional tense are clearly designed to leave viewers with the impression that something serious had been said and that viewers are personally in danger unless they keep watching Unsealed: Alien Files.

In the end, that is what I hate most about this show. At every opportunity, the narrator emphasizes risk, danger, and fear and uses the techniques of propaganda, particularly the fear appeal, to induce upset and distress in the audience in order to make the audience want to watch more of the show in a desperate attempt to quell the induced unease through what passes for “information.”

It’s disgusting and mean, and it can only serve to leave low-information viewers fearful that aliens are plotting to kill them.

27 Comments
Mandalore
12/26/2013 04:13:27 am

I didn't see the show, but the use of a Medieval picture to illustrate smallpox likely comes from Wikipedia. If it is the image I am thinking of it appears on the smallpox and Black Death Wikipedia pages.

I too am spending my holidays in the real America.

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Jason Colavito link
12/26/2013 04:17:31 am

Wow, great catch! The image from the Black Death Wikipedia page is exactly the image used on the show.

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Shane Sullivan
12/26/2013 05:24:23 am

The few episodes I've seen of this show remind me of a similar tabloid program from the '90s, "Strange Universe."

As a ten-year-old, it terrified me. I was utterly convinced that an alien invasion was going to spell the end of mankind--that is, if the robot uprising didn't annihilate us first.

On the plus side, I remember it also covered a few rather a innovative videogames, such as "Clock Tower" and "Messiah." Unsealed doesn't even deliver that much.

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Clint Knapp
12/26/2013 05:51:53 am

There's something to be said about the fact the narrator is John B. Wells, the weekend host of Coast to Coast AM who himself claims to be an abductee and routinely relies on the more fear-oriented topics to drive his one or two appearances a week on the show. Wells' most frequent topics are apocalyptic scenarios, JFK assassination, and "chemtrails" (conveniently also being linked to Morgellon's). His favorite is the Fukushima disaster, which he and, various non-experts he brings along for the ride, insists will kill us all and we should buy radiation detectors- conveniently- from his website.

At least Discovery is more open and honest about their target audience with this channel, though. Honestly, I've never bought into the "upscale males" claim regarding H2 programming. It's replete with exactly the same crap as Destination America; Ancient Aliens, America Unearthed, UFO Hunters, Countdown to the Apocalypse, and All You Can Eat.

Jump to the main History Channel and we can even add in Ax Men, Swamp People, The Legend of Shelby Stanga (an Ax Men spin-off about a swamp person- imaginative!), Ice Road Truckers, American Pickers, and Only in America With Larry the Cable Guy.

None of this speaks of an upscale audience to me. Sure, they'll sprinkle in some shows like The Universe or How It's Made to maintain some semblance of educational programming, but all their primetime stuff is just the same tripe with bigger production budgets.

In the end, if I can tune into Coast to Coast AM and listen at least twice a week to a middle-aged or elderly woman calling in to espouse her love for all things Ancient Aliens, Erik von Daniken, or Zecharia Sitchin to a guest who's probably been on that show, then the "target audience" the network is proclaiming is wildly off target from their actual audience.

It can be torturous at times, entertaining at others, and generally ill-informed, but Coast to Coast's part in this whole web of incestuous fringe promotion cannot be denied.

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Dave Lewis
12/26/2013 02:02:00 pm

John B Wells has a great voice! I could do with out the conspiracy theory stuff. I DL C2CAM the next day and listen if there is anything really spooky. I don't believe anything I hear on C2CAM. For me its fiction that is claimed to be true.

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Clint Knapp
12/26/2013 02:59:20 pm

Oh, I can agree on that. It's entertaining one way or the other as long as you don't buy into what they're selling. I just get the sense that folks like you and I who are listening for laughs are in the minority. The only good that comes out of it these days are those rare occasions George Knapp (no relation) is on with a relatively straight-forward report on the weird side of life.

spookyparadigm
12/26/2013 04:17:36 pm

Re: upscale males. I concur and have always found that baffling for the reasons you note. But I wonder if it is code for retired, and with more money, aka the Fox News target audience.

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WinstonP
12/26/2013 07:32:04 am

Shouldn't these disease-causing aliens be pretty embarrassed at their inability to engineer an effective plague? All these illnesses can be avoided with some fundamental hygiene practices that even we non-intersellar ape-beings can invent. Surely Zeta Reticullians can brew up a slow-acting airborne Ebola with 100% lethality. That has got to be easier than building a zero-point energy starship with requisite probes, abduction chambers, jacuzzi, and minibar.

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Thane
12/26/2013 09:50:54 am

I agree.

Personally, I am very disappointed in out erstwhile Alien Overlords.

I expect higher levels of efficiency and competency from them than what we normally get from our erstwhile Human Overlords.

Soooo disappointing and on Christmas too!

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Only Me
12/26/2013 06:46:28 pm

Perhaps after a hard day's work with the anal probing in the abduction chambers, the aliens are looking forward to a relaxing dip in the Jacuzzi and socializing at the mini-bar. Who has time to cook up a viral genocide when they're trying to get their Kirk on?

What I find more depressing, is the number of people still patiently waiting for that "Kneel before Zod" moment. And my friends wondered why I cheered so loudly when the aliens destroyed the enthusiastic humans on the rooftop in "Independence Day".

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Varika
12/26/2013 08:15:22 am

This actually reminds me that I have the same problem with, sadly, Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole and with Futurescape. Or at least with Futurescape's commercials. I am particularly irked with Wormhole, despite the fact that I could ordinarily listen to Morgan Freeman read a phonebook, because of how it takes real science and makes entirely outrageous and twisted conclusions. The commercials for Futurescape seem to be doing the same thing, like the recent one about "a machine to read your memories," which shows someone struggling and being strapped down into a machine and then screaming in pain--while they "play back his memories," with the implication that Big Brother Will Rape Your Mind At Will in the future. All this comes from "scientists are learning more about the brain every day." ....yes, but not how to actually READ the mind, just the activity. It would be like reading a hard drive based on a graph of usage.

At least the true-crime shows that I mostly watch have UNDERSTANDABLE reasons for the fear-drama...

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J.A. Dickey
12/26/2013 09:16:46 am

Bamboo has fruit every 49 or 50 years or so, and in those
years like clockwork the rat population goes exponentially
up on each acre of land. There is a NOVA episode about
this. Bamboo grows in thickets and has an intertwined
root & shoot system as a plant. Comets are often taken
to be omens by the Medievals and some UFOs are ball
lightening. In 1959 there was a "rat attack" epidemic, too.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/rat-attack.html I feel
the BLACK DEATH doomed the Greenland colony by degrees.

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J.A. Dickey
12/26/2013 09:33:51 am

Seriously, COAST TO COAST became what it now is because
ART BELL was interesting to listen to & way less paranoid on
life despite the looming millennium bug date-glitch. Likewise
in the UFO community you had Whitley Strieber trying to talk
down millennial fears as Jeff Rense's website went more to
the fringe Right. The tag team of Jeff Rense and Glen Campbell
(not the singer, the other dude) gained a following over the shock
jock talk radio decades and had their impact on the UFO people.
Toss in the looming debt due to our War on Terror and the Tea
Party being tweaked as a political entity by Fox News in 2010
to keep the AuH2O Right in their place at each RNC, and its an
interesting brew. People in rural places do spot UFOs and our
military tests its vehicles often in remote areas. A quite small
percentage of all UFOs might be E.T for real, it is very likely we
are not unique & alone in the universe, and all E.Ts can debate
if we are brighter or stupider than are the dolphins, whales & the
porpoises. FOX as a political entity revels in its loyal hacks and
the Radical Right is sometimes happy with FOX or totally furious.

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Clint Knapp
12/26/2013 02:53:21 pm

Yeah, that's the problem right there. Art was at least willing to call people on their nonsense and vocal about the things he didn't buy into. George Noory's turned the show into a four-hour infomercial for whatever the crank-of-the-day might be. No matter the topic, he'll generally agree with them, ask the same canned questions, and give ample opportunity (like twice an hour) to plug their new book, dvd, or up-coming speaking appearance.

The show reaches an international audience and comes across as endorsing just about everyone who walks through the door. Because of this, more people buy into the stories and purchase the books and keep funding this snowballing empire of insanity. The millions of listeners turn into revenue and support for shows like Ancient Aliens, which itself has become a revolving door of Coast to Coast guests who'd otherwise have nothing to do with the show. But they get exposure, and that drives people to buy more of their crap. Why else would George Noory be a regular talking head- contributing absolutely nothing but supporting statements/questions? He gave most of these people their biggest exposure prior to AA's inception, so they do the same for him, and then he promotes the show some more and the money machine keeps on rolling.

It's ingenious, really, but also very disconcerting to see in motion.

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Thane
12/26/2013 10:07:15 am

There's been a real emphasis on Fear in many forms of entertainment over the last 20 years. It's been increasing along a long arch. I really can't pinpoint the year the pendulum fully swung into Fear as main marketing component.

There seems to be more and more horror movies produced each year with increasing levels of "horror violence" and shocks to shock the audience. Reality shows like Ice-Road truckers, Deadiest Catch, Ax Men, etc... focus on the danger and attempt to hieghten suspense. I don't watch them regularly but every so often we have one of the reality shows on the TV and it seems that the dangerous and fear inducing scenes are the ones that are promoted and used to tease you through the entire episode. Maybe they have to do it because you would get bored pretty quickly unless they can keep you on the hook wondering who will get hurt or escape by the hair of their chinny-chin-chin. Every conspiracy theory regardless of your political bent is meant to excite you by making you afraid so that you will buy into whatever the promoter of the conspiracy theory peddling. IT seems as if every politician is pushing their views with attempts to scare their constituents.

I know that fear and sex sells....but it seems that fear is being heavily leveraged in nearly every facet of our lives (entertainment, politics, social life, etc...)....and as a result, it will influence the public's psyche.

I guess it's just easier to manipulate people's emotions than to make rational arguments.

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12/27/2013 06:30:21 am

I admit i rather liked and respected ART BELL and would
happily listen to him from time to time, Noory was a lesser
being in my book. On a personal note, John Greenewald Jr.
is the dude behind The Black Vault, he began the site in '95
and it's flame~wars in 2002 to 2003 are both shuddersome
and legendary. I discovered it later on, when it was a mere
shadow of its former self. His High Vaultness used the FOIA
to get Uncle Sam to cough up old UFO files. Think upwards of
30,000 to 50,000 pages, many still censored. Whitley Strieber
to his credit also got quite a few UFO files via the FOIA in a
similar manner at roughly the same time. John Greenewald Jr's
theblackvault.com site was hacked open by a brutal hack in
April of '09 and the older message board threads were eventually
archived & taken offline but badly corrupted & not ported over
when the site is online again. it has roughly 10,000+ posts in
its Gov't & Political Conspiracies forum. Areas are UFO*friendly
or UFO*hostile, you can meet believers + skeptics online there.
He is roughly the same age as Jason + has History Channel
production credits for his mini-documentaries over the past
decade or so that will look very familiar to anyone who gets
cable television rather regularly. Even though he is at times
rather skeptical about UFOs and E.Ts he is not adverse to
talking to Stanton Friedman or someone quite significantly
less well informed. his site's BATTLE FORUM area truly isn't
for the meek & mild at all, only the BV site's group of regulars.
Has JG Jr infamously fanned millennial fears or worse at times
you ask? Sadly yes... i feel he often has, inside his decision
calls over the past 15 years or so. I was once banned by he, i
am someone who was rather curious about the old BLUE BOOK
files. He does have impressive production credits for many of
the middlebrow offerings of the old HISTORY channel. Some of his
shows were rather interesting to watch. Jason will spot familiar
themes, i feel. Or he already has, there are quite a few threads
here I have yet to read. JG Junior's pappy is a savvy 'Nam vet
who has been known to post on his son's site rather happily...

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RLewis
12/26/2013 12:04:43 pm

If you get bored watching Real American TV, maybe you'll want to tune in to SW on NightVision Radio http://www.latalkradio.com 10PM EST

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Discovery of America
12/26/2013 05:22:25 pm

NightVision Radio is just wonderful for empty-headed waffle

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RLewis
12/27/2013 02:39:31 am

Heard a couple of tidbits in the show. There are plans for a Season 3, which will include more Templar stuff. Another show on Minnesota giants later this year.

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J.A. Dickey
12/27/2013 05:30:10 am

I'm waiting for Reality TV crossover shows to happen.
It would be sorta cool if Scott Wolter is in one back
pasture hunting for giants as he hears whoops and
hollers from Bobo Fay and friends, and sticks hitting
half dead trees. If only the commotion could then draw
a shoeless Cody Lundin out and Joe Teti, too... given
that season four of Dual Survival is still filming, i think!
earlier in one of these threads someone said that the
Bigfoot people wanted SW to articulate out the odds of
some of the legendary giants having been Sasquatches
and not just very very very very very tall ancient Vikings!

The Other J.
12/27/2013 09:33:54 am

Jason, you didn't do any reviews of Joe Rogan Questions Everything, did you? It was the one of the few shows of this ilk that tried to challenge wild claims and worked to either prove a claim with real experiments or present alternative reasons for how a phenomenon was perceived.

I don't recall seeing many, if any, reviews or recaps of his show, anywhere. The only thing I do recall is the occasional mention of Rogan mugging for the camera, but not about the quality of the information.

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Jason Colavito link
12/27/2013 09:50:42 am

Joe Rogan's show topics weren't really in my wheelhouse (chemtrails, Bigfoot, etc.), so I didn't do formal reviews. I did praise Rogan a few times, though, for offering a more thoughtful and skeptical show than I had anticipated.

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Pacal
12/27/2013 09:53:30 am

"I also had to spend much of Christmas Eve watching Fox News with my grandfather, a huge fan of the channel."

My Sympathies.

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Matt Mc
12/27/2013 01:18:06 pm

Jason not to seem picky but since it is my home town, it is Silver Spring MD and not Silver Springs. There is only one spring in the town and it is a common error made all the time in so many publications (it has become a pet peeve of mine)

http://www.silverspringdowntown.com/go/acorn-park

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Jason Colavito link
12/27/2013 01:56:00 pm

Corrected. I do know the right name and have been there more than once. It was just a typo.

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marc campbell
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Amy
6/23/2015 03:49:57 am

What's your story Marc?

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