A TEAR IN THE SKY – Review

By Marc Butterfield

You couldn’t be blamed for thinking that the documentary A TEAR IN THE SKY was just another UFO offering in the same vein as History channels “Ancient Aliens”, after all, Caroline Cory is the writer and directory, and is deeply involved with that show. Cory gives the vibe of a wide-eyed believer at all times, but not so wide-eyed that she isn’t a truly thoughtful observer who wants to get proof of her beliefs. However, A TEAR IN THE SKY is a horse of a completely different color. It is about the search for UFO, or UAP’s as they are now called (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), but in this documentary, they are putting in to play not just Cory, as the writer and director, and William Shatner as a guest, but the group UAPX, a team of engineers and scientist, who don’t rely on anecdotal evidence and wild theories, but rather the data they can gather from finding a spot known for regular sightings, and then set up and work to triangulate their data collection points, with surprising and encouraging success.

Mixed with interviews of renowned scientists like Michio Kaku to shore-up some of the theories (but REAL scientific theories) about what is going on in the sky, the UAPX team uses a variety of collection equipment including standard video capture, along with radiation tracking, infrared, and gamma sensors, and then coordinate with each other at three locations to see if they can not only visually SEE the tic-tac shaped objects (made famous from the US Navy fighter pilot and US Navy ship videos) can be spotted, tracked, and what impact these objects are having on the space around them. It was truly fascinating to see the teams discuss in detail how they plan to do this, where they set up, and how they stayed in close radio contact to ensure optimum success with their mission.

In the end, the results were even more surprising than I thought I would see in the documentary A TEAR IN THE SKY, a short one-hour 28 minutes. The answers were, unsurprisingly inconclusive, however the things they were able to capture were very surprising, and they actually caught at least on thing that I don’t think anyone else has ever seen, certainly not in the standard “look, do you see that” blurry image you normally get that could be anything from a mylar balloon to who knows what. They saw the tic tacs, they got radiation readings, they brought up a host of salient points that anyone with even the tiniest hint of an open mind would have to mentally chew on for a bit to wrap their brain around. You won’t walk away knowing any absolutes, but you also can’t just leave what you see here still in one hundred percent denial, either. The UAPX team shows that given proper funding with a competent team, and current technology, we humans may actually be on the cusp of finding out exactly what these unidentified Aerial phenomenon really are. After all, Cory only had a week to get her team together and get this much, imagine what a team with real funding and a more realistic time frame could get?

Watch the skies, keep an eye out for those UFO’s… A TEAR IN THE SKY is an engaging film.

3 1/2 out of 4 stars.

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