Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee tells the Mirror he’s certain he captured a UFO in his new Amazon documentary Encounters of the Fifth Kind
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He’s been studying space for more than two decades, and now a self-confessed UFO expert reckons he’s well and truly hit the jackpot.
Mark Christopher Lee is convinced he has captured a truly unexplainable phenomenon on camera after carrying out a bizarre ritual in a bid to «summon aliens». The filmmaker from Hertfordshire is now hoping experts will analyse his footage after releasing his findings in a brand-new free-to-watch TV documentary on Amazon Prime.
Chatting exclusively to the Mirror ahead of its release, Mark tells us he and a group of pals were sat in field behind his garden moments before the strange sighting. They were attempting to film a «CE5 protocol», short for Close Encounters Of The Fifth Kind.
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The bonkers theory was initially widely circulated by a Dr. Stephen Greer who believes, with the help of meditation, anyone can contact life in Outerspace. «I decided to put it to the test,» Mark, who studied science at university, explained. «I gathered some of my friends, UFO experts, we got together and hung out in the field at the back of my house.
«We were just chilling out, meditating, to see to see if it would work really. We sat in a circle and we played a bit of music. Basically, just putting our thoughts out there, this is what you’re supposed to do and then that would supposedly attract UFOs etc.»
He was filming the experiment for his new documentary, aptly titled UFO Encounters of the Fifth Kind, and was trying to summon spaceships for some time before some of Mark’s more sceptical pals decided it was time to give up – they’d captured nothing.
«We had a good time, we saw planes and stars, obviously,» Mark explained. But moments after the group decided to stop documenting their failed attempt to contact aliens, something supernatural began to happen. «It was getting quite dark so we turned the cameras off,» Marks tells us. «Then we started seeing unexplainable stuff.»
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«There was some lights moving very, very fast, which we couldn’t explain. Luckily, they got the cameras back on. Right at the end so we did catch some of that on film, which is in the documentary. So, we’ve yet to explain these lights. It’s not satellites. It’s not planes. We don’t know what it is. It is unexplained at the moment,» Mark said.
He says lights were also spotted miles away in Bristol at the exact same time as his strange sighting. «I don’t know if they’re connected, it could just be coincidence. At the time, we did have certain apps so we can rule out stars, satellites. So yeah, I mean, so we put it out there but let people make up their own minds.»
Mark added: «I mean, I can’t be quite explain it. I’m happy for the sound to be analysed by experts. You know, we haven’t done that yet. At the moment, we’re just saying something appeared. It was weird how it appeared just as we stopped filming.»
The director and producer says he’s «still sceptical» about aliens after getting into space studies all the way back in the 1970s. «I watched Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World on TV and that kind of opened my mind a bit, especially to see him as a proper scientist investigating these things, then I went on to the science degree at university. There’s definitely something there in my opinion. I don’t know. I don’t know what it is.»
UFO Encounters of the Fifth Kind is streaming on Amazon Prime
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