Does Anyone Remember 'Alternative 3'? Seems Fitting Today

The basics:

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It’s no surprise that mockumentaries have become such a popular fixture in today’s entertainment. Their flexible format has been used to reinvent history (CSA: The Confederate States of America 2004), put a fresh spin on slasher films (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon 2006) and as a vehicle for social satire (Best In Show 2000). Television has also embraced the format in shows like The Office (UK and USA versions). Comedies like Woody Allen’s directorial debut Take the Money and Run (1969) and Rob Reiner’s brilliant This is Spinal Tap (1984) helped bring the genre into the mainstream, but mockumentaries can be traced back to roadshow extravaganzas like 1935’s Forbidden Adventure, which used the faux documentary format as an excuse to show topless native women—despite the film being shot entirely in Los Angeles utilizing off-duty African American prostitutes.

But none of these managed to grab the public’s imagination like Christopher Miles’ 1977 film Alternative 3, which honed the fiction-as-fact format to a razor sharp edge. It stands as the only mockumentary that, after forty years, still has thousands of devoted believers. This is especially remarkable considering the film’s far-fetched concept revolving around climate change, government sponsored kidnapping and a secret space program to colonize the planet Mars.
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Alternative 3 revealed a conspiracy so fantastic it was easy to refute. But four decades later facts the author exposed have proven to be true.
Global warming is accepted as happening. Presidents Obama and Putin have met to discuss climate change.
Scientists continue to disappear.
In 2010 nearly 7000,000 people simply vanished in the USA but worse was to come. The number has increased to 900,000 in 2013.
Today, Russian and American are sharing space technology at an ever increasing rate. Despite the huge advances, no manned moon landings have been made public since Apollo17 in 1972.
After announcing to the world that Alternative 3 was not true, the author wrote, "I have reason to suppose that my home telephone was being tapped and my contacts who were experienced in such matters were convinced that certain intelligence agencies considered that I probably knew too much." By then he'd emigrated to the far side of the world, moving between several continents.
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Hmmmm...people fleeing to Mars doesn't seem to be so far fetched now hey! Secret Space programs are pretty much accepted by alt-researchers everywhere. There seems to be something 'up' that goes unstated. Well...here is the 'movie', or 'documentary' (vide: They Live was a documentary according to all involved). In the immortal words of JBS Haldane "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."
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Here is the OG 'Alternative 3', the posts on this seem to have been scrubbed as pre-Nancy.



The synopsis has pretty much been stated above, but here is the synopsis from the youtube.
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The legendary pseudo-documentary fooled many viewers when it aired as part of ITV's respected Science Report slot in 1977.

It posited a top secret conspiracy to save the global elite from an ecological catastrophe on Earth by secretly constructing huge rockets to transport them to colonies on Mars.

Whilst fiction, many have argued that the events of Alternative 3 are based on a real life secret space program.
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