About That UFO Documentary

 Last night, via ZDF (Channel 2, public TV), they ran a 45-minute documentary piece entitled: "UFOs - The Facts With Harald Lesch".  You can probably watch it (in German) at least for the next four weeks off their media site.

So, what they did....they took the UFO report from the Pentagon from late summer 2021, and blended a few things into it.

I would say that it was 50-percent factual and without any skepticism, and the rest was hoax-material (proven) with a fair amount of skepticism.  On the positive side, at least they didn't bring up Bob Lazar.  

The problem is....almost none of the German news media from late summer of 2021....carried any of the Pentagon-produced report.  It was simply not mentioned.  Unless you viewed CNN, or BBC, or read the NY Times.....you didn't know anything much about the episode.

Why cover this now?  That would be a primary question to ask....but I suspect that the ZDF management looked at everything and finally said....'we have to at least lay down the basic story even though we are 90-percent skeptical'. 

Are there UFO sightings in Germany?  Yes....there's probably at least one sighting report per week, and sometimes a dozen reports in a week.

Back in the spring of 1948, the Bavarian state government issued directions to the public on how to report 'saucers'....because of a number of newspapers having sightings reported.

If you divided the German population up....I'd say there are three groups: (1) the folks who've seen enough to be somewhat believing in UFOs, (2) the group that is 100-percent skeptical, and (3) the group which doesn't really care either way....they've got real work to be done, with no time to waste on little green men or crashed alien craft.   

Likely criticism to come over the ZDF documentary piece?  Yeah....I would imagine at least a thousand complaints occur....that they are wasting valuable air-time covering hoax-material.  But the same thousand would complain about little green alien-men appearing live on ZDF's public chat forums....saying they are right-wing, non-intellectuals, or have some agenda.  

(note: if you were trying to figure my angle out....out of a thousand UFO-related stories, there's only about two dozen that I generally put some interest into and regard with honest curiosity.  If you bring up Erich von Däniken, he lays out a lot of curious things but the bulk of them don't lead anywhere and lack genuine facts.)