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welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
alien movies that were based on true
events little guy i mean you yes it's
sweetie for you okay there you go eat
your sweetie
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for this list we'll be looking at alien
movies that were inspired by strange
occurrences that allegedly happened let
us know in the comments which one you
believe is the closest to the
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number 10 hanger 18
the most well-known ufo encounter in
history ever since a mysterious object
crashed to earth near roswell new mexico
it's captured the public's attention
this movie was inspired by the
government cover-up rumors that have
surrounded roswell for decades featuring
a crew of astronauts whose shuttle
crashes into a ufo
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the astronauts are scapegoated for an
unfortunate incident and it's down to
them the only ones truly suspicious of
the air force's story to solve the
mystery of the titular hangar 18. hangar
18 itself is a nickname for a usaf
building in an ohio base that's the east
coast's answer to the southwest's area
51. just what are you asking gordon
keep the lid on hangar 18. number nine
hangar 10. here we are in reynoldson
forest
um
just waiting for it to get dark do a bit
of
night hawking dubbed the british roswell
the rendelsham forest ufo incident is
possibly the most famous alien encounter
in the united kingdom over a few nights
at the end of december 1980 personnel at
an american air base in england
encountered a bizarre ufo in rendelsham
forest something now commemorated in the
forest by a sculpture of a spaceship the
movie is found footage and follows a
group of friends who uncover evidence of
aliens in the woods set years after the
original ufo incident
unfortunately it was very poorly
received and compared unfavorably to the
blair witch project but it's still based
on an interesting story
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number eight alien autopsy
in 1995 after decades of speculation
about roswell a strange film surfaced
that claimed to be a genuine recording
of an alien autopsy conducted on a
specimen from the crash ultimately the
creator revealed it was a hoax but it
also inspired a movie of its own all
about how and why the convincing fake
was actually made can you imagine
what'll happen if they ever find out
it's a fake
you know strictly speaking
it's not actually a fake it's more of a
remake you can't remember that this is a
little-known british comedy starring one
of the uk's most popular entertainment
duos ant and deck as well as america's
bill pullman and it definitely brings
the laughs hoping for some close
encounter probably just came out of
nowhere
alien spacecraft no a green land rover
knocked
after all it must have been a pretty
bizarre experience to conduct an autopsy
on a fake alien and makes fertile ground
for comedy everyone on the planet is
going to know a liars
yeah
rich liars though number seven the
mothman prophecies hello
who is this
my name is carl
richard gere stars in this movie
dramatizing the 1967 collapse of the
silver bridge in pleasant point west
virginia fans of the supernatural will
know that the mysterious bridge collapse
has been widely attributed to an entity
called the mothman in american legend
the nocturnal butterfly
in ancient cultures the mouth represents
a form of a psyche
or the soul immortally trapped in the
hellish death realms
mothman
so the story goes the mothman was
sighted in and around point pleasant in
the lead-up to the bridge collapse and
was supposedly spotted on the bridge
itself mothman is now a major part of
modern ufo mythology with many believing
that the strange creature was
extraterrestrial in origin
seeing a ufo was one thing
what do you do when someone comes into
your office tells you they saw this in
their backyard if you're interested in
the legend this is one of the best
movies to watch
number six the blob
yes it's true 1958's the blob may
actually have a kernel of truth in its
amorphous antagonist how do you get
people to protect themselves from
something they don't believe in the
movie follows the growth of an alien
entity that absorbs and destroys various
towns in rural pennsylvania becoming a
threat to america but it's been claimed
that the film is based on a real event
when two cops came across an
extraterrestrial ooze that had fallen
from the sky just outside philadelphia
in 1950
the ooze disappeared overnight according
to witnesses and it's never been
explained though if it had grown to the
size of a building and wiped out entire
towns it would certainly be a more
well-known story there is a monster we
saw it again in that store
dude it's bigger now number five
district nine
unlike other alien movies based on true
events district nine isn't based on any
ufo myth it's actually a very clear and
very well done allegory for apartheid in
south africa they're spending so much
money to keep them here when they could
be spending it on other things but
yes at least
at least they're keeping them separate
from us on enormous alien ship lands
above johannesburg and eventually the
insecticide aliens within referred to
diminutively as prawns end up living in
ghettos as second-class citizens
i can't believe i get paid to do this
i love watching the prawns die
apartheid in south africa is still a
fresh memory for a great many people
since it didn't end until the 1990s
despite ongoing action from the united
nations this was less than 20 years
before district 9 was released
specifically it's about the forcible
relocation of black south africans to a
slum in the 60s
the people of johannesburg and of south
africa are going to live
happily and safely knowing that that
prawn
is very far away number four indiana
jones and the kingdom of the crystal
skull
god
though this movie is often mocked for
its over-the-top ridiculousness just
like the other indiana jones movies it
does some things from real life
it opens with the soviets searching area
51 for an alien corpse from the roswell
incident with indy explaining that he
was actually drafted in to investigate
roswell back in 1947.
the crystal skulls are also the core
macguffin and though all the crystal
skulls have been debunked as hoaxes they
are still real objects that are striking
to look at and fake or not they're now a
legitimate part of modern history and of
course the maya did build stunning
cities though they almost certainly
didn't communicate with aliens
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number three battle los angeles
in 1942 the usa had just entered the
second world war following imperial
japan's attack on pearl harbor hawaii
the previous december the battle of los
angeles was a strange ufo incident where
anti-aircraft guns and defenses were
activated to fight against an incoming
threat believed to be the japanese air
force once again yo what's your take on
this place
i don't know extraterrestrial
give me like from space no mla from
canada the problem was that it wasn't an
attack from japan at all in fact the
usaf claimed that it was a misidentified
weather balloon a story nobody believes
this has led to speculation that the
incident was in fact an attack from
alien spacecraft and that there was a
subsequent cover-up by the american
authorities that's the line this aaron
eckhart vehicle takes looks like we're
getting into some heavy [ __ ] it's been
my experience lieutenant
heavy [ __ ] is highly overrated number
two communion
the strange events communion was based
on only became widely known because of
the movie the supposedly true events
portrayed actually happened to the
movie's writer whitley strieber who also
wrote a novel about them christopher
walken's character even shares
streaver's name he decided not to come
up with a different one strieber claimed
to have been plagued by unusual dreams
until eventually being visited by a ufo
events which haunt him in his sleeping
life
he finally undergoes hypnosis and
regains his lost memories of the
abductions echoing many similar ufo
abduction tales from the 20th century
though it seems the aliens don't want to
hurt him
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number one fire in the sky
travis walton is another alien abductee
who disappeared for five days in arizona
in 1975 while working as a logger a
large manhunt was unable to find him
until he mysteriously reappeared at a
roadside after being returned to earth
by his captors
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he wrote a book about the experience
which was made into a movie 15 years on
fire in the sky which shows walton's
experience aboard an alien spacecraft
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however the real-life case is plagued by
controversy largely because walton and
the additional loggers he was with
though they only claims to have seen the
ship rather than been abducted by it
claimed a cash reward for the year's
best ufo sighting we told you everything
we know and if that's not good enough
that's too damn bad cause that's all
there is
let's get the hell out of here
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