Terror in the Skies

This documentary explores huge birds, pterodactyls, thunderbirds and Mothman-like (but not Mothman itself) creatures seen by witnesses since the late Nineteenth Century. Almost all of the sightings come from Illinois. The cinematography of the film is just gorgeous. The interviews with witnesses and experts are well conducted. Though it's mostly free of the didactic flamboyance that mars other Fortean documentaries, it's clear that the witnesses desperately want to be believed and that the experts are, for the most part, true believers. The animated recreations used throughout the film, though well crafted, are more distracting to the skeptical than helpful. Overall, a very well made and thoroughly engrossing documentary.