Capturing The Light - DVD Review: The Dorothy Izatt Story:  I'd heard of the Dorothy Izatt case for a year or so prior to the release of a new DVD by director/producer Frank Longo. The book by Peter Gutilla is one of the many on my Amazon 'Wish List' which I'll now try and obtain and read [the wishing aspect has remained just that]. Capturing the Light is a short but remarkable film which shows many of the less well known aspects of the UFO and experiencer phenomena.

Although things are changing rapidly now, the majority of the global populous tended to view the UFO issue and exopolitics generally as a side-issue to life. What's more important is that even those who have an interest in such things tend to assume a UFO sighting is just that -  a glimpse. In fact there are many regular experiencers who actually interact with these various forms of intelligence from other realms and create a conscious awareness that changes not only them as people but those close to them and maybe, if we think of the work of Carl Jung and Rupert Sheldrake, the 'meta' consciousness of the collective psyche.  Since the mid 70s, Dorothy has gradually created a shared system of communication with the type of entities appearing to her in Canada to the point where we drop in at the present day and the "ships" appear, by some strange twist, for the camera of the director. This is beyond the Hynek scale close encounter level 5 -  human initiated contact - as we move past the point of just appearing to regular interaction. On a national level, we could suggest Mexico has achieved this kind of amplification of contact.

The book by Peter Gutilla

On a practical level creating a UFO or contactee documentary has always been problematic. Once you've got footage of the lights-in-the-sky you're left to create a context for those directly involved and perhaps the wider cultural or political issues too. Both Dorothy and Carlos's cases are far more than lights in the sky when you see the visual evidence but it takes a bit of experience to wrap the 'moneyshot' of the UFO sightings with the often complex relationships the phenomena throws up for human nature.

The film does a good job of helping us understand that this sort of communication is taking place and more to the point it ensures we see Dorothy as a valid and truthful witness to her mission. What Dorothy's case achieves that other, similarly dramatic and visual cases struggle to do, is convince 100%. The Swiss one-armed farmer Billy Meier interacted with the Plejaren race along a similar timescale -  publicly from the mid 1970s onward yet many countthis case as flawed. It seems to me that the ETs are purposeful in selecting their contactees. Both Meier and Izatt share that unique position of simultaneously being the most useful and the least likely for the role. Meier, like Dorothy,is a humble, publicity shy person. To me this criteria is what most sceptics fail to account for. By the end of Capturing the Light, I challenge anyone but the most hard-headed pseudo-rationalist to accuse this gentle lady of any form of hoax or delusion. The idea that the likes of Izatt, Meier and South American witness Carlos Diaz actually want this publicity is simply ludicrous and neither are any of them profiteering from their encounters. The film also covers another crucial point - Dorothy had previously struggled with her ET liasions and become disillusioned and fearful. She eventually moves on from this point but it highlights the point we're making that these contacts are often a burden to those directly involved.

After providing us with Dorothy's background and some excellent analysis by Light Beings author Peter Gutilla the film proceeds to a peak, purposeful moment which essentially sums up the experience on many levels. Whilst Dorothy has been open regarding her contacts with her family -  most of them have seen little of the amazing light-ships that regularly arrive for her filming. Then during a final moment of filming where Dorothy's daughter is being interviewed a distinct series of lights appears above her shoulder and is caught on film. Not only was this snippet used for analysis by a film effects expert but it turns out that Dorothy had asked her ETs to "show up" because the film team had "come a long way" and the show was "really for them" [I presume she meant the ETs as part of their PR mission?!].

From the odd snippets I've heard about this case, there is a lot more going on than a film could cover in one go. Rumour has it that some footage from the hard-to-hoax Cine-8 style film was not included as the public are being introduced gently. Certainly it seems that the main meme or metaphor going on here has to do with light, communication and awareness of the human condition. We have a new phenomena going on where the light from the ships/beings is delvering some form of communication we are perhaps yet to process. The phenomenal streaking effects these craft deliver in one frame of film appears to be some sort of modern, abstract painting effort but some of you will be aware of video of the recent Stevenville UFO encounters where similar symbols and formations were also seen and recorded.

  Clips from Dorothy mirror those of Stevenville Texas

  Just one of several images of entities

Youtube video removed after $250,000 lawsuit threatened by Frank Longo who has nothing better to do.

Lightships -  part 1

Youtube video 2 removed after $250,000 lawsuit threatened by Frank Longo who has nothing better to do.

Lightships -  part 2

You can see a non-youtube version by clicking on the "lightships"  link in Media Objects.

The other LightShip case -  Carlos Diaz