The tangled web of deception and self-deception that the film uncovers is dizzying.
Indeed, Mirage Men is less interested in resolving the UFOs question than in exploring ‘how we know what we know’, a much more complex and fundamental issue. Talking to a colourful gallery of characters that includes two shady former special agents, UFO obsessives, a passionate investigative journalist, a CIA analyst, an aviation historian and a parapsychologist among others, the filmmakers allow them to air conflicting views, letting the audience make up their own mind about what to believe. In Mirage Men, the truth is not so much out there as a question of ‘perception management’, as one of the former special agents interviewed in this fascinating documentary puts it.ĭirected by John Lundberg, Roland Denning and Kypros Kyprianou as a companion piece to Mark Pilkington’s book of the same title (who also co-produced the film), Mirage Men upends the usual conspiracy theories to show that, far from covering up the truth about the existence of extra-terrestrial UFOs, the American government has in fact actively manipulated beliefs about them to create a myth that would serve its counterintelligence objectives. Think you know the truth about UFOs? Or the difference between truth and myth? Well, think again. However, I don’t believe that friendship impairs critical faculties and this is as fair a review as any. She has been surprised to find old friends, enemies, and even a target in the halls of glory.Screening date: 13 June 2013 (world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest)ĭirector: John Lundberg, Roland Denning, Kypros Kyprianouįull disclosure before diving into this story of bluffs and double bluffs: Mark Pilkington is a friend of, and contributor to, Electric Sheep, as well as the publisher of our book. In Valhalla, she is at home amongst the strange collection of characters who battle in the highest ranks of the Great Tournament. On 'Bax' her flying camel, she led the Panther People to victory over the slave caravans of the ram-headed god Khnum. She learned the language of the Merfolk to better parley with the Atlantean ambassador. She slew the mad Pharaoh Eh'zath who called plagues of snakes from the sky. She hitched a ride on a passing Zhaktari star cruiser, and stole the Scythe of Horus from a one-eyed alien. She learned from a forty-foot Sphinx the martial discipline he called sand-weaving. She discovered Darkah, the city of assassins under the desert dunes, and was inducted into their mystic society. The Nile River Valley of 2000 BC was a nexus of magic, aliens, technology, and living myth beyond the wildest speculations of her time. She assumed, as a magic-wielding time-traveler, she would be the strangest thing in Ancient Egypt. In 1923, occultist, martial artist and spy Fatima Sabiq, codenamed agent Mirage, pursued the nefarious Professor Price back in time through a gate in the pyramid of Pharaoh Amenemhet the Great. What are you calling yourself these days?" – Mirage to Orion Lore The Dune Weaver "Scholars have long puzzled over why the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for "badass" is a combination of magic, scythe, and woman." – Journal of Archaeology "Of all the afterlifes, you had to walk into this one.
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