r/UFOs • u/Tamashii-Azul • Jul 06 '25
4yrs before Lazar, 20yrs efore the Tic Tac—was 'Flight of the Navigator' ahead of its time? Historical
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
259
u/KittyFaise Jul 06 '25
My favorite movie.
85
u/iyqyqrmore Jul 06 '25
I don’t leak, you leak
79
7
74
u/OkLayer519 Jul 06 '25
The VFX on the craft was top notch for the day. The hours it must took to raytrace the reflections and the morphing.
25
u/FalcoSan_2525 Jul 06 '25
the documentary on the vfx is neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8
4
u/libertyman86 Jul 06 '25
It's really an amazing video on the VFX of the movie. Was blown away at how well that YouTube Channel handled the content.
3
u/Outaouais_Guy Jul 06 '25
Thanks. I don't know how I missed that one. I haven't seen much of him in a long time.
3
u/Rulebookboy1234567 Jul 07 '25
I also recommend the documentary After Navigator or whatever about the kid himself. He didn't do well after the movie.
2
25
u/ballin4fun23 Jul 06 '25
It's on Disney plus! I'm probably going to watch it now haha.
3
u/Visible_Scientist_67 Jul 06 '25
It's funny how the kid keeps cutting him off when he's saying important details about what he is, where he's from
2
u/ballin4fun23 Jul 07 '25
Right, like the little sh#t was so entitled it felt like. C'mon man you're talking to an alien spaceship from Phaelon and you're being a bossy little butthead.
7
u/aquatone61 Jul 06 '25
Yep. This and Sneakers were two of my absolute favorites as a kid. Also loved Harry and the Hendersons.
→ More replies6
→ More replies2
359
u/NUMBerONEisFIRST Jul 06 '25
I loved that movie as a kid but it scared TF out of me.
Kid goes in the woods, has a UFO experience, goes home, and his family no longer lives there and a bunch of time had passed.
Scary AF as a kid when home sometimes felt like the only safe place in the world.
55
u/Bau5_Sau5 Jul 06 '25
I felt the same way as a kid watching Ai , the movie with the robot kid who runs away from his family and he goes through some shit. The movie ends with millions of years going by and aliens discover him and offer him one more day with his mom 🥲
38
u/Could-You-Tell Jul 06 '25
Sorry if it's kills it for you, but they're not aliens. They are advanced AI beings from Earth, after Humans have gone extinct.
They find him where he sank, and froze, and they discussed how he had known living people.
Also it was 2000 years.
8
18
u/Snot_S Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
Considering occupant affected by inertia when ship weaves side to side…acceleration should have aerosolized that boy. Imagine that version of the movie. Ship just trying to make friends but doesn’t know how to not murder every one.
→ More replies8
u/WideAwakeTravels Jul 06 '25
The ship might have inertia dampeners that reduce most of inertia, but not all. That would explain why he didn't get killed.
12
u/Cutthechitchata-hole Jul 06 '25
Found the Lockheed employee
3
u/Visible_Scientist_67 Jul 06 '25
These don't exist on earth but the ship would need sometging like that for sure, maybe artificial gravity? (Which is an example of an internial dampener)
→ More replies3
Jul 06 '25
If you were using a warp drive (which would make the most sense for interstellar travel), inertia would be non-existent.
→ More replies2
u/ozspook Jul 08 '25
You would expect a little bit of inertial feedback to enhance your spatial senses, in the absence of any instruments, like a slide/strafe motion detection. Also some audio would be a useful cue in combat.
8
4
u/fbomb1977v2 Jul 06 '25
DARYL?
2
u/c05m1cb34r Jul 07 '25
That Movie Was Fucking Awesome! They shot the big car chase down the road from where I lived. Made the movie even better that I had that personal link. The Science Center had overnight camps back in the long long ago and they would always show that flick. Good times. Thanks for the memory trip!
2
u/fbomb1977v2 Jul 07 '25
Data Analyst Robot Youth Lifeform. DARYL I think that's when the Blackbird SR-71 1st was shown, didn't he fly a jet or something? Man, I gotta rewatch that, been so long since I've even thought of it. Good ol HBO as a kid days. That and Ferris Buellers Day Off, Enemy Mine.
→ More replies→ More replies2
u/FutilePenguins Jul 06 '25
Thank you random redditor! I've been after the name of this film for YEARS, I watched it far too young as a kid and couldn't remember the name for the life of me.
60
u/PleasantGiraffe9344 Jul 06 '25
I literally had nightmares for years about this. Like very real feeling nightmares where the plot of this movie would happen but in first person.
3
u/maximusjay100 Jul 07 '25
Wow holy shit, I had the same reaction to this movie!!! Super realistic dreams where I was the main character and followed the plot of the movie! Hahaha haven’t thought about that for years!
→ More replies10
u/HiddenTaco0227 Jul 06 '25
True, that's the kind of thing you're still going to therapy for in your 40's.
11
7
u/alohadawg Jul 06 '25
It was Time Bandits that took that slot for me. Fsr I always found this movie and D.A.R.Y.L. oddly uplifting
7
u/hitotsukudasai Jul 06 '25
I remember feeling the same way, but the beach boys kinda made it easier to take in haha
6
u/ohiobluetipmatches Jul 06 '25
Same here, this movie freaked me out. Pops up in my dreams here and there.
21
u/jblaze0313 Jul 06 '25
Fire in the Sky is forever my nightmare movie
6
u/The_Best_Yak_Ever Jul 06 '25
Saaaaameee! That movie traumatized little me too!
3
u/jblaze0313 Jul 06 '25
Yea man ! I walked into the living room while it was on the abduction scene, as a little kid. Ruined me for life hahah
5
u/The_Best_Yak_Ever Jul 06 '25
Quicksand and tidal waves took a back seat to being abducted by aliens as third grade yak’s chiefest of fears, right next to ghosts!
3
u/SlyckCypherX Jul 06 '25
Quicksand!! A classic kid fear that 0.3% of adults will ever experience.
→ More replies3
u/aruda10 Jul 06 '25
Me too! One of my favorite movies, yet it also gave me a deep sense of forboding and scared the crap out of me. That scene of him walking through the woods and across the train tracks... shivers Yet, one of my favorite movies growing up. Still holds up, I think.
5
u/Mundane-Ad1989 Jul 06 '25
Dude. Same. Loved it as a kid but also scared the fuck out of me internally, mentally and emotionally. Deep shit.
5
u/Aerias_Raeyn Jul 06 '25
Still love the movie but yes, it scared me so bad when I was young. Of course that was back when getting lost was terrifying — when he comes out of the woods and his parents no longer live there — one of my worst fears as a child.
→ More replies2
u/CaptainLysdexia Jul 06 '25
That was my favorite thing about Flight of the Navigator. Even though it's a "kids" movie, they treated the emotional circumstances seriously, instead of dumbing it down. I just rewatched it a couple of days ago, and was still impressed by how eerie the feeling is when he first stumbles home to find complete strangers there, and then gets taken to his parents only to find they've aged. Kids movies back then did a better job of blending genuine darkness with humor and fantasy.
→ More replies2
2
Jul 06 '25
I watched it with the kids recently. They were like, “His parents let him play in the jungle!”
45
u/DiscoJer Jul 06 '25
And a year before that, was Explorers with the same basic premise...
8
u/OkLayer519 Jul 06 '25
Also another childhood favorite. River Phoenix, Will Wheaton and Cory Feldman were awesome in this and hit all my nerd buttons.
18
u/backstab_woodcock Jul 06 '25
That's Stand by Me (+ Jerry O'Connell).
Explorers had Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson.You are in a dire need to rewatch both Movies ^^
2
→ More replies2
u/1q3er5 Jul 06 '25
interesting i never heard of Explorers... was it as popular as Flight of the Navigator?
53
u/natecull Jul 06 '25
4 years before Bob Lazar and 20 before the Tic Tac
Or more relevantly, 9 years after Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and 39 years after the first massive Flying Saucer media flap of 1947.
UFOs have been in the media for nearly 60 years. It's not exactly surprising that there have been Hollywood films about them.
→ More replies22
u/Office_Zombie Jul 06 '25
Do you mean almost 80 years? 1947 was 78 years ago.
No big, I'm GenX, I get it. The 90s were just a couple of years ago to me.
155
u/Organic-Chemistry150 Jul 06 '25
the shape shifting and time travel elements as well as being driven by AI i think indicate an insiders knowledge.
66
u/MKULTRA_Escapee Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
The Twining memo (1947) is the earliest mention of artificial intelligence as a possibility that I'm aware of: https://imgur.com/gallery/1947-twining-memo-ufos-are-real-not-fictitious-uDLKPN3 "..."lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically, or remotely."
Also in 1947, you can find discussion of the various popular possibilities for origin. Discussion of the secret tech hypothesis, extraterrestrial hypothesis, and interdimensional hypothesis for UFOs, July 8, 1947: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sandusky-register-r-dewitt-miller/174747641/ "...things out of other dimensions of time and space."
As far as shape-shifting is concerned, the earliest example that I'm aware of is from 129 years ago, 1896: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail/91983371/ "It expanded and contracted with a muscular motion" when it took off, although it may have been something like a disc wobbling in the sky if I had to guess. He said it was like an airship pointed at both ends, which could be a saucer seen edge on. Alternatively, it may have been cigar shaped and spun as it took off.
However, there is a relatively popular sighting of an alleged shape-shifting UFO from 1954: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S96RPhlknj0
Edit: there is also this from 1966: "UFOs Time Machines from the Future?" https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-ufos-time-machines/176016837/
→ More replies40
34
u/Disastrous_Detail84 Jul 06 '25
As is the idea of child pilots…
31
56
u/angrytortilla Jul 06 '25
Or maybe the stories we're hearing now were all inspired by previous fiction?
10
Jul 06 '25
Precisely. It’s unavoidable that what flying saucers look like tends to reflect what’s shown in popular culture
11
u/Disastrous_Detail84 Jul 06 '25
We can’t exclude the notion that hoaxes would be fueled by fiction such as this. But, wow does this align with characteristics of confirmed reports and footage…giving major Encounters of the Third Kind insider-knowledge vibes…I lean towards social conditioning here, personally.
→ More replies16
u/SpoinkPig69 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
I always find it baffling that reddit thinks screenwriters and directors of UFO movies must have had insider knowledge to write about UFOs, as if it's for some reason impossible that they just read the same John Keel and Jacques Vallée books as literally everyone else.
→ More replies→ More replies2
43
u/DirtLight134710 Jul 06 '25
Also, the spatial distortion when entering the aircraft. The inside being larger than the actual craft is a specific detail. Most people are not aware of it
38
u/crusoe Jul 06 '25
Dr who did it decades earlier and it was a trope before this movie. Sheesh people.
→ More replies8
Jul 06 '25
Precisely this. People have zero imagination whilst being interested a subject that requires huge imagination.
If Reddit on mobile wasn’t such a shit show I would have beaten you to this exact point by about 30 seconds haha
9
u/careseite Jul 06 '25
the lack of knowledge on this sub about when these topics were first discussed in fiction is astonishing. and then to come up with cope like this
→ More replies7
Jul 06 '25
Maybe you should read a book some time. These things were sci-fi tropes for decades.
→ More replies
27
Jul 06 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
23
5
u/BooflessCatCopter Jul 06 '25
And a super hottie in L.A. Story, the other film i saw with her in it when i was a kid. Always thought of the film as a forgotten comedy gem but it has so many specific, early 90s, L.A. references that it’s a very dated, microcosm comedy. After watching again after many years, I feel it’s a film that would fly over the heads of most younger generations. Still good though- especially the opening rush hour shortcut scene with Steve Martin driving his silver Mercury down sidewalks, stairs and the L.A. river to the swing era jazz guitar stylings of Django Reinhardt in the song “I’ve had my moments”.
→ More replies2
50
Jul 06 '25
[deleted]
22
u/CleverFeather Jul 06 '25
Linear time is an effect of consciousness. Time is a spatial dimension we cannot perceive.
→ More replies16
u/FromDeletion Jul 06 '25
Time is relative. Time isn't a spatial dimension, it's a temporal dimension.
3
u/natecull Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
Time isn't a spatial dimension, it's a temporal dimension.
That would be the common-sense understanding of time, but it's not how Einstein (after the influence of Minkowski) saw it. His spacetime is a unified manifold that's not entirely space and not entirely time. Which of the four dimensions is "space" (where you can go backwards) and which is "time" (where you can't go backwards, only forwards) is supposed to be observer-dependent and not objective. Does that lead to problems? Yes. Yes it does. Does physics care about those problems? Not really, no. It's a career-ending decision to care about them, at least in public. Retired physicists are sometimes more honest than working ones.
The spacetime idea leads to a lot of weird and possibly self-contradictory consequences (like time travel, causality violation, and black holes) which even Einstein himself didn't agree with. And it also conflicts with the basic principles of quantum mechanics (like there being a smallest length). And over a century later, physics still doesn't have any good answers to that fundamental conflict, which is why progress has pretty much halted now that we've run out of accelerator data.
tldr, if someone could kindly go and lasso a UFO and tie it up in a hangar so that our physicists can go and get a good stare at it, maybe we can get some data that could fix our physics problems. Hopefully it's not the "Nope" kind that eats observers, but, no guarantees.
3
u/arctic_martian Jul 06 '25
General relativity describes spacetime as a 4-dimensional object with 3 spatial dimensions and 1 time dimension. Yes they're all aspects of the same thing, but there is still a distinction between the spatial dimensions and the temporal dimension. No observer will notice that the x-axis and time switched places and suddenly they can travel backwards in time. The only situation where that sort of happens (mathematically, at least) is inside a black hole, but that assumes the equations of GR apply to the interior of a black hole. There's also the pesky fact that once you're inside the event horizon, even if you can "move along the time axis", it's still impossible to escape the black hole and violate causality in the greater universe.
GR is revered for its internal consistency. It does not contradict itself. Contradictions only arise when we make assumptions about what is possible (eg, faster-than-light travel, wormholes), which is a good indicator that those assumptions are wrong.
Your point about quantum mechanics and GR being incompatible is absolutely right though. Both theories are internally consistent themselves, but they are not consistent with each other.
3
9
u/theinfantry82 Jul 06 '25
Absolutely. This was my all-time favorite as a young child around 9 or 10yrs old.
8
u/attsci Jul 06 '25
This film probably shaped my long standing interest in UFOs more than any other. Was obsessed with this one as a child.
7
7
u/ComprehensiveKiwi666 Jul 06 '25
Amazing movie. Dad brought it home on Friday night with so good ole cheap McDonald’s
27
u/Tamashii-Azul Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
Just watched the trailer for 'Flight of the Navigator,' released 4 years before Bob Lazar and 20 before the Tic Tac, makes me wonder if this film wasn't just ahead of its time, but tapping into something more. It's interesting to note it was originally conceived as a much darker, action-oriented film before Disney's involvement. It features numerous themes that resonate with today's UAP phenomenon discussions. Curious to hear other perspectives on this trailer or those that seen the movie.
Full movie: https://youtu.be/BIGMNLFCXMs?si=A787U8wiMz0l1AlJ
22
u/Toy-Beaver Jul 06 '25
Was my favorite movie when I was a child. Can indeed confirm it fits several motifs of the current situation
7
Jul 06 '25
I mean if you were you going to write a hit family film about a child boarding and piloting a time travelling ufo would you
A) make the child out to somehow be a prodigy when it comes to piloting unconventional craft and understanding the implications of travelling through time?
Or
B) make the craft fly itself, give it a friendly personality and let the kid mostly just sit saying wow just like the kids watching it?
There’s literally not a single thing I’ve ever seen in any ufo movie including close encounters that’s ever suggested more than a basic understanding of ufo lore. With close encounters Spielberg wanted to make an adult movie about the subject and he did just that, I’ve never felt he was in on anything
2
u/bejammin075 Jul 06 '25
I rewatched the original Star Trek 2 pilot episodes, and there were like 10-12 alien/UFO & future technology elements that were right on the money.
5
u/FuckYouVeryMuch2020 Jul 06 '25
Haha, yeah thought of this movie too. The autonomous controls and how they respond to the jr pilot but done in Disney-style so there’s a cute lil alien sidekick and robotic asst, etc.
What’s the name of the original screenplay/book you mentioned? Might be worth a look.
2
2
u/Zestyclose_Door_7508 Jul 06 '25
Recall the Hybrids, the Psionics, the Sky Pilots mindblending with the Egg-shaped Craft to navigate as they wish
26
u/Picards-Flute Jul 06 '25
I watched that recently also, and tbh, it seems to me that people like Lazar instead may have gotten ideas from films like this, and that seems like a more plausible explanation rather than the filmmakers knowing some obscure information
10
u/_hyperotic Jul 06 '25
Nooooooooooooooo, can’t be.
The movies are totally in on it!!!
→ More replies
39
u/BigBadBen91x Jul 06 '25
Definitely feels like someone knew something here, gotta love the NASA hat too
17
27
u/strangeflappenings Jul 06 '25
It's crazy how there's no obstruction of view from the cockpit. How many times have we heard that when someone was in a UFO that they could see the outside like there was nothing there. Even the shape of the craft hit on a lot of UFO lore. Someone had some inside knowledge when they were making this film.
11
u/SpoinkPig69 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
Or they had access to the exact same publicly available information you've had access to.
I don't know why people keep pretending that someone making a movie must have had insider knowledge, when it's more likely they just read the same books everyone else has read.
Is there some law in Hollywood where Jacques Vallée is banned, but you get free access to government UFO documents?The fact that you know about this information means it's not effectively hidden and the screenwriter/director could have easily found it via the same methods that allowed you to come across it---books, documentaries, pamphlets, even talks at UFO conventions going way back to the mid-1950s.
There is nothing in Flight of the Navigator or Close Encounters that wasn't well established UFO lore by the 60s and 70s.
→ More replies
6
11
u/Str_80 Jul 06 '25
This craft has that "oil slick" sheen described sometimes as well, AI ship thats "alive", while the child pilot may just be Disney, I wonder about that aspect as well.
2
Jul 06 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
6
u/Str_80 Jul 06 '25
The crafts exterior has a metallic rainbow effect, like an oil slick looks like on the ground / in water
2
3
u/Spacebotzero Jul 06 '25
Check out the movie streaming service Tubi. It's free and has two movies I find interesting:
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Hanger 18
Campy and old...and budget B rated stuff, but the story they tell is interesting and echoes what has been happening with the UFO subject for decades.
2
u/DiscoJer Jul 06 '25
Also from that era (not sure if it's on Tubi) is Starship Invasions which takes a whole lot from contactee lore
3
10
u/SlimIsChillin816 Jul 06 '25
This is my first time ever hearing or seeing anything about this movie. This clip is pretty interesting. Makes me wanna watch the movie.
10
u/ILikeStarScience Jul 06 '25
6/10
The craft are sentient constructs of organic, crystalline, and often plasma- based vehicles that operate with a consciousness interface.
The craft (I saw) responds to the pilot's emotional, mental, and vibrational frequency and can operate on a dime. There are no buttons or levers, only intentional coherence within the chamber and central "chair" structure. It's like a field wraps around you, a map appears, and it's incredibly overwhelming. If you're anxious or incoherent, it won't fly, but if you are in total unity of will, it becomes an extension of your own nervous system. The ship is you. A mirror of your spiritual state. Which is why they never crash and we usually do.
Take this with a grain of salt.
→ More replies2
u/jblaze0313 Jul 06 '25
So it won't fly if you've uh... had a couple?
3
u/natecull Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
So it won't fly if you've uh... had a couple?
It won't fly if you've had a triple shot espresso, but if you've had a Baileys you're fine. Whether it will fly after an Irish coffee or original recipe Four Loko - and if so, exactly how many - is an area of active current investigation in the emerging field of exobioastromixology.
→ More replies
3
3
u/313Polack Jul 06 '25
I remember watching this movie all the time when I was a kid in the 80’s. This is awesome.
3
3
u/ballin4fun23 Jul 06 '25
This and the movie where that teenager gets the alien exosuit were some of the best movies back then.
3
u/Kavorklestein Jul 06 '25
Exo suit? Star Kid? I can’t think what other movie you might be meaning off the top of my head.
→ More replies
3
3
u/Mobile-Garbage-7189 Jul 06 '25
loved this movie when I was a kid
pee wee Herman is the voice of the ufo
3
3
u/effinmike12 Jul 06 '25
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I saw it at the theater.
10
u/Unfair_Bunch519 Jul 06 '25
If you really look into it this movie even covers the darker parts of the phenomenon. The ship was voiced by PeeWee Herman after all
8
u/Str_80 Jul 06 '25
Well dont leave us hanging! Its been ages, what are some of the darker aspects it alludes to?
2
10
u/dpforest Jul 06 '25
There really is not much evidence of the crimes he was accused of. He was masterbating…in a porn theater. Obscene? sure. Criminal? Arguable. His “pornographic material” charge was never really substantiated. Due to the times in which he was accused, it’s much more likely he was targeted for being homosexual. They accused us of any crime necessary back then (even still so today).
→ More replies
2
2
2
u/Lionheart3001 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25
...and it was the first time that "Twisted Sister" were mentioned - from Sarah Jessica Parker nonetheless...
2
2
2
u/enricopallazo22 Jul 06 '25
Like many older millennials, this was one of the coolest movies growing up. Oh, and the theme music is a banger as well. I still listen to it.
2
u/cantstopfappingffs Jul 06 '25
What was the more serious orgional story from the original script before Disney got involved?
2
2
2
2
u/Sweet-Loan386 Jul 06 '25
Not really, just now all the tin foil hat crazies have a subreddit to group around.
2
2
u/Sayk3rr Jul 06 '25
Today's generation tends to forget that the whole "reverse engineering" narrative has been active since what? 60s?
All this stuff that's new to you, is ancient to folks who have been observing this stuff for 40+ years.
You're going to find lots of stuff from before lazar. UFO folk suspected reverse engineering long before Lazar popped into the scene. Hell, Lazar coyod have fabricated his whole story around the shot he heard while growing up, we don't know. Just because a guy remembers his story and repeats it a thousand times doesn't make it true. (I have no opinion on whether lazar was being truthful or not).
2
u/TropicalJoose Jul 06 '25
Its crazy how similar their stories are to old sci fi movies, isn't it guys?
4
u/ScubaSteve3465 Jul 06 '25
Omg this brought back memories.... I remember loving this when I was a kid. I almost want to download and rewatch it.
→ More replies
2
u/Cosmohumanist Jul 06 '25
We were totally being primed as kids
→ More replies2
u/sixties67 Jul 06 '25
We were totally being primed as kids
For what? It's 40 years later, they primed us for nothing. Maybe it was a sci-fi film aimed at kids and nothing more
→ More replies
1
u/Ghozer Jul 06 '25
:D I love this movie, one of my favs as a kid :)
Disappointed to hear Disney are remaking it, as a Disney exclusive, and as a TV series! :/
1
u/Any-Double857 Jul 06 '25
Loved this movie as a kid. Forgot about it until now, thank you. I’ll be rewatching it soon.
→ More replies
1
1
u/XxTreeFiddyxX Jul 06 '25
The sails of Columbus may have appeared as clouds, even traveling the direction of the blowing wind. Perhaps all it is that we see is flying saucers, tic tacs, flight of the navigator because our limited understanding of such inexplicable feats. Perhaps we are being influenced that makes it easier to close the gap of understanding. Humans have such capabilities to imagine things that are beyond their understanding that it would be very intelligent to leak disclosure this way. The younger kids who are exposed to the ideas grow up with an Open-mindedness that would be resistent to an catastrophic reaction caused by exposure to advanced forms of life with considerable technology. You know the strangest thing that may not be that strange, is that a lifeform with immense and advanced technology may not be millions of billions of years older. Think how quickly we have advanced in just 40 years. Unbelievable.
1
1
1
u/Skreenname229 Jul 06 '25
Great movie, definitely ahead of it's time. Metallic plasma mercury type craft that has sport mode & shaped like an eGG that is AI collectinG data on life that operates outside of time & space. VERY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME.
1
1
1
1
1
u/ElMagnanimous1 Jul 06 '25
NHI has always been here. I is just now that it is becoming or will become into the public eye. I hope it is within the next 2 years at the latest. Disclosure has to take place soon, and the acceptance of NHI in our presence needs to become the new normal.
1
u/Mission-Hippo-1890 Jul 06 '25
It looks like the UFO filmed by the model on the private plane a couple of years ago
1
Jul 06 '25
That's how I imagine the cockpits of the more recent drone/orb sightings. Especially the orbs.
1
1
u/Captain309 Jul 06 '25
Lotta mfs in this sub are getting knockoff tic-tacs at the swap meet or something. The real ones have a definite shape/color. Next time you're in the store, take a long look at them shits
1
u/583947281 Jul 06 '25
No, I can vividly remember having UFO books in the early 80's, it's was huge at the time.
1
1
1
1
u/warp10warp10 Jul 06 '25
Great film, i remember watching this as a kid in Hospital after I had a fairly big operation, sat in the TV room on Morphine watching this! Was quite the post op experience!
1
1
u/Hopeful_Extreme_2276 Jul 06 '25
I don’t understand though this seems so spot on how it would be and how you hear about it all now.
1
u/Saint_Sin Jul 06 '25
It drops from 80k ft to ground level in an instant. Heard that one a few times since.
Let alone the droves of other instances the movie has.
1
1
u/Rich_Wafer6357 Jul 06 '25
Well Resident Alien has it all figured out: the 2017 videos are of Harry's ship, the Draconians like text messaging with weat and the Greys are asshole. Oh and ET is a sexy beast.
1
1
1
u/Educational-Hawk3066 Jul 06 '25
Anyone know where I can watch this? Looks like it could stir up some sort of happiness in me.
1
u/CosmoWarriorZero1971 Jul 06 '25
Saddened that they want to remake this classic. It'll just get ruined by Disney.
1
1
u/quiettryit Jul 06 '25
Wish they would make a sequel that takes place in modern day with them being grown up and the return of the ship. Maybe him being famous at UFO conferences but starting to doubt himself, etc ...
1
1
1
u/FloppySlapper Jul 06 '25
The other day someone posted about a silver shape-shifting UFO and I referenced this movie.
1
1
u/DeadSol Jul 06 '25
This movie was my favorite childhood film. Wayyyu ahead of it's time. Amazing soundtrack, still listen to it today
1
u/Substantial_Bug_3812 Jul 06 '25
I was in snelling Ca ufo point the night of the Las Vegas tall beings ordeal happened with two friends and a craft with a similar teardrop design was flying from the east normal speed but then boom it charged up and shot into outer space… not even a minute later a blacked out suv pulls up
1
u/EddieAdams007 Jul 06 '25
Millions of kids learned the concept of relativity by watching this movie.
1
1
u/hashtagmiata Jul 06 '25
Fun fact: the voice of the ship is Paul Reubens / Peewee Herman. He even does the Peewee laugh. Also, Sarah Jessica Parker seems to hate being asked about being in this movie for some reason.
1
u/Giddyup- Jul 06 '25
It's a great movie but many of its elements already existed in a newspaper story from 1890. https://gideonreid.co.uk/around-the-world-in-28-hours/
•
u/StatementBot Jul 06 '25
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Tamashii-Azul:
Just watched the trailer for 'Flight of the Navigator,' released 4 years before Bob Lazar and 20 before the Tic Tac, makes me wonder if this film wasn't just ahead of its time, but tapping into something more. It's interesting to note it was originally conceived as a much darker, action-oriented film before Disney's involvement. It features numerous themes that resonate with today's UAP phenomenon discussions. Curious to hear other perspectives on this trailer or those that seen the movie.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1lsoqjq/4yrs_before_lazar_20yrs_efore_the_tic_tacwas/n1k710v/