Actress Milla Jovovich says that the director (Olatunde Osunsanmi) included actual archive footage in the film.
The footage is purported to be from the real Nome psychologist Jovovich portrays.
The script and the film are entirely fictional.
Actress Milla Jovovich (left) and the “real” Dr. Abigail Tyler on the right.
There was no low key alien invasion of Nome, Alaska.
Dr. Abigail Tyler does not exist.
Writer Mike Clelland wrote about the connection in his bookThe Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO.
While indigenous people make up 51% of the town, there are no indigenous characters in the film.
The only way in or out of Nome is by flight.
Whether or not those objects are directed or related to alien life is another question.
By having the actress appear as herself, the audience is led to believeThe Fourth Kindwill be a different kind of movie based on important actual events.
Purported footage of director Olatunde Osunsanmi interviewing the real life Dr. Abigail Tyler is actually British actress Charlotte Milchard. The watermark shown is for Chapman University, a real college in southern California.
An alien abduction is considered a “close encounter of the fourth kind”, giving the film its title.
Switching between “archival footage” and the dramatization, Dr. Tyler asks one patient about the owl.
A sign warning of the real dangers of travel near Nome, Alaska. Photo courtesy ofra64via Wikimedia Commons.
