Speaking of that horrid documentary by Larry Lowe, I had begun a critique of it when I first watched it but never got around to finishing it. I took the time today to review what I had put together previously and add to it. This is related to the first part linked by The MacGuffin today. My commentary is in blue text.
Rough Transcript:
Listen to the ridiculous way that the narrator over emphasizes what Larry Lowe has done by 'tracking down' Mike Krzyston... LOL
Narrator:
But UFO investigator Larry Lowe has tracked down a witness with hard evidence.
A video tape of a mysterious light show... captured that night.
Mike Krzyston:
See this light flickering over ?? mountain over here. What have we got here?
The formation of an arc.
Narrator:
Mike Krzyston lives atop a mountain, overlooking the Phoenix valley. In the 30 years he's been here, he's often seen lights in the distance. From the city. From the airport. And a nearby military base (LUKE).
But on the night of March 13, 1997... the lights looked different to him. So he video taped them.
Mike Krzyston:
Take a look at this! (from his original taping)
My Commentary:
Why is this ridiculous? Anyone who has ever looked into this case knows who Mike Krzyston is and knows that his video is the most famous one from the event. For Lowe to represent himself as some kind of incredible investigator who tracked down Mr. K would be like me making a documentary about the JFK assassination and having the narrator say "But JFK assassination investigator booNyzarC has tracked town a witness with hard evidence. A motion picture of the horrifying event... captured that day.
Abraham Zapruder:
See, he was riding in the car over there with his pretty wife... then..."
See what I mean? Anyone who knows about the JFK assassination knows about the Zapruder film. If I were to represent myself as an investigator who tracked him down, it would be disingenuous at best, and outright fraud at worst. Ridiculous. But it gets better.
Larry Lowe:
What was unusual about that particular night? Why did these stand out the way they did that made you get the camera out?
Mike Krzyston:
Well, they were farther to the east than I'd ever seen them before. I'd never seen them in this area before.
My Commentary:
Note here the first thing that Mike mentions about these being different. They were farther to the east than he'd seen them before. Okay... This is relevant how?
Narrator:
To understand the lights significance requires a look at the geography.
Krzyston's house sits atop a ridge line in north Phoenix.
To the south of them, 25 miles away is the Estrella mountains.
On the other side of the ridge, to the southwest, is the Barry Goldwater military range.
There, Air Force jets practice maneuvers day and night.
So lights to the south west wouldn't normally have caught Krzyston's attention.
But around 10 o'clock, these (showing clip of array) lights did.
Mike Krzyston:
So I went to get the camera and as I was starting to video tape it, it disappeared, and a light, almost, at the same time it disappeared another light appeared to the right of it and lower.
My Commentary:
I agree with most of this, but his footage doesn't support what he's saying here. The second light in the right hand portion of the array to appear was not lower than the first one which quickly disappeared. It was higher. Have I watched his footage more times than he has?
Narrator:
Could they have been related to something going on at the Barry Goldwater Military Range?
The range sits roughly 75 miles southwest of Phoenix.
My commentary:
Starting around this time we get to see flares being launched from jets at relatively close range. Of course, all of the samples they show us are NOT LUU2B illumination flares and are NOT launched in the same way that LUU2B flares would be launched. Instead, the flares they show footage of are "rippled" off in quick succession by the dozens. This is known as sleight of hand and is intended to convey to the viewer that these are the types of flares being suggested were used that night. These are nothing like the LUU2B flares that were actually used that night. This is deceptive, pure and simple. And skeptics are accused of spinning smokescreens? Hilarious.
Narrator continues:
According to the United States Air Force, they were holding a training exercise that night as they often did. They started around 10 o'clock, the same time Krzyston saw the lights. A10 aircraft were dropping flares to illuminate the mock battleground below.
Could these flares have been the lights Krzyston saw and video taped?
Larry Lowe:
You've seen, uh, as I understand it, flares come out as delivered by the A10s.
MK:
Yes.
Larry Lowe:
And what's characteristic about that process?
MK:
Well the flares are generally in a cluster and they come out in bunches and are sort of a rag tag type of formation
My Commentary:
Note here the second thing that Mike mentions about these being different. Their arrangement. Well yes, you'll get a variety of configurations over time with flare drops like these. Sometimes you'll even have two A-10s flying next to each other dropping flares at the same time, resulting in a staggered appearance. Sometimes it will be a straight horizontal line, and sometimes curved.
Larry Lowe:
Kind of like a cluster.
MK:
Yeah, like a cluster type of things and they're dropped differently.
And this was a very precision display. And they also appeared to be quite a lot dimmer, maybe because they were much farther away. And their color might not... is not quite to that orange brightness that these particular lights appeared to be...
My Commentary:
Note here the third thing that Mike mentions about these being different. The flares he has seen in the past aren't quite as orange as these ones appeared. Okay, fair enough. Different atmospheric conditions could easily account for that, as has been discussed at length by Dr. Bruce Maccabee.
Narrator:
Descending slowly on parachutes, flares normally appear to drop in altitude and drift in the wind.
But Krzyston noticed something different.
MK:
It's just that the way they kept their formation. They almost formed a perfect arc.
They were much more patterned... they held their position... and as you look at the footage, uh, it doesn't appear that any of them are drifting out of position.
My Commentary:
Note here the fourth thing that Mike mentions about these being different. They formed an 'almost' perfect arc, and appeared to him as though they maintained their formation. Well, as he himself notes by his description, they weren't a perfect arc, only almost one. Also, they didn't actually maintain their relative positions as precisely as is suggested. They acted exactly as flares suspended by parachutes would act, all drifting down in the same general direction, but with slight variations at times, independently.
Narrator:
So what did he observe that night?
Narrator:
Many have suggested that the lights could simply have been the A10s flying in formation as they returned to Davis Montham AFB in Tucson.
My Commentary:
This is complete BS. As far as I'm aware, nobody has made such a ridiculous assertion that the K video was of the A10s flying in formation. This is a strawman, pure and simple. Who is spinning smokescreens here again? The skeptics? Riiiiiiigggghhhhhttttt......
End rough transcript.
As you can hopefully see from just this tiny portion of the documentary, Larry Lowe does not present an unbiased accounting of what happened with his documentary. He uses deceptive techniques and completely omits any kind of information that is non-mysterious. When he does try to represent an opposing view, it is a completely manufactured and inaccurate version of it (commonly known as a strawman argument...)
I know for a fact that he contacted Dr. Bruce Maccabee when he was developing this documentary project, which should tell us that he is at least aware of the extensive analysis that was performed by the good doctor. Yet he doesn't even mention it. Neither does he mention the Cognitech analysis, or any other valid analyses of the 10 PM footage. These are not the hallmarks of unbiased review and investigation.
These are the hallmarks of someone who's very intention is to deceive rather than inform. He deserves to be in the UFO Hall of Shame.
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TheMacGuffin, on 13 October 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:
