“We have visitors.” This simple remark by a nuclear scientist sends filmmaker Guylaine Maroist on a ten-year quest. She wants to know whether the many reported sightings of UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) provide evidence that we’re being watched by non-human intelligence.
Maroist begins in the Canadian mountain village of Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, where dozens of residents have reported UAPs. Their descriptions are always the same: a flying triangle moving in complete silence. Her investigation expands into a journey around the world, taking in scientists, military experts, and politicians. She also consults sociologists, who dismiss the sightings as confirmation bias—not “seeing is believing,” but “believing is seeing.” Only after the Pentagon reveals that it has been seriously monitoring UAPs for years does the scientific community’s attitude appear to shift.
The Message is vividly brought to life by Jean-François Perreault’s cinematography, which repeatedly finds inventive visual ways to evoke this mystery.
