Unidentified ends: Not with a bang but a [kinda] Whimper

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History’s Unidentified ended its series Friday night [7/5/19], and the show provided viewers some interesting tidbits.

The show opened with Luis Elizondo and Ton DeLonge going to Italy to meet with some military men and scientists, who told them about a UFO that shot at a helicopter that was surveying (in 2004) fires in Sicily.

The UFO purportedly nailed the ‘copter with a “ray” taking it down. Photos of the ‘copters damage were shown to Luis and Tom, and Luis was given a folder of all the UFO sightings in Italy from 1901 forward.

The rest of the show was a rehash of the difficulties of getting the U.S. government and military to pay attention to the accumulating evidence for UFO incursions around the world, ending with Luis showing Tom the press release in January 2019 that said the U.S. Navy was adopting new procedures for reporting UFOs that its people encountered.

In conversations with the Skunk Works engineer on Luis team and former Senator Harry Reid the extraterrestrial (alien) explanation was broached but in almost hushed tones, no one wanting to get into that possibility.

Not a lot that was new to UFOers ended up in the program, but viewers did get so see the diligent effort(s) of Luis Elizondo (and Tom DeLonge somewhat) to get the UFO question and Navy pilot encounters into the mainstream.

The show wasn’t a headbanger but, rather, a temperate and sensible approach to the UFO phenomenon, and the relatively recent observations by Navy personnel.

It showed that the History Channel can provide programming that isn’t flush with crazy fictions, as its Project Blue Book series was (and will resume with its new season.)

That’s something.

RR