The full name of the festival is: Unidentified Anomalous Pictures – International Film Festival. Unidentified Anomalous Pictures is the new term for what previously UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) were mentioned.
“The Film Festival is a low -threshold way to put the subject. The Netherlands is nice and Calvinistic:” Just do it, then you are doing crazy enough. ” But the UFO phenomenon also plays with us. “
Roza mainly notices this at his UFO Meldpunt Nederland. He sees around a hundred reports that come in every month. “It is not only something American. It is here too, but there is a very big taboo on it. It would only be for Gekkies, but that is not true. Entire layers of the population ‘they see flying’.”
Alien life?
But the fact that an entire film festival is all about UFOs does not mean that all visitors believe in alien life and aliens. “About 95 percent of those reports can be explained by natural phenomena or technology. But we cannot identify the 5 percent that remains. What is the origin is a second,” explains Roza. “But the alien hypothesis is a very popular one, but says nothing. There is no evidence for it.”
Some visitors come for serious documentaries and speakers, but others come for the children’s and feature films such as ET that are also played. “So we try to review all hypotheses at the festival. It is for skeptics, for Full Blown Believers and for people who are open to the romance of something more.”
Large light above Gouda
Roza has also had experience with a UFO. “On the dike above Gouda I saw a large light that took all kinds of shapes. Triangular, star -shaped, from small to large,” Roza outlines. “That lasted fifteen minutes and then it was gone.”
“I couldn’t explain it at the time and still not. But who knows that we will ever say that it was a freaky weather phenomenon or something that we cannot yet imagine.”
Listen to the entire interview about the UFO film festival with Bram Roza back via this link.