"It was supposedly 300 years old, this alien, because they live a lot longer than we do": Q&A with Bird's Eye View's Cybela Clare

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"It was supposedly 300 years old, this alien, because they live a lot longer than we do": Q&A with Bird's Eye View's Cybela Clare

POSTED: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:22 PM

Filed Under: Movies screening

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Cybela Clare

Cybela Clare walks around in public with a big red parrot on her shoulder talking about alien abductions and government conspiracies. "I think this is the most fun, amazing, amusing, exciting subject on this planet," Cybela says. It's also the subject of her upcoming quasi-fiction documentary, Bird's Eye View (read Molly Eichel's review), about Cleo (played by Cybela, who also wrote and directed the feature length film), who goes on an investigatory mission after her favorite parrot mysteriously disappears. Eighteen years of research culminates in the film's world premiere this Friday at the Roxy.

Cybela on how to protect yourself from aliens:
I think basically, if they really want to abduct somebody, it's very, very hard to avoid it.

Cybela on why extraterrestrials are invading our planet:
If you were going to go to the best resort in the universe, it would probably be planet Earth.

Cybela on not being crazy:
I've interviewed people in Brazil, all over Brazil, and there are judges and lawyers and doctors in Brazil who claim they've been aboard spacecraft and they've been put in some kind of nitrogen liquid and they've been on other planets and, and ' you think I'm crazy, right? I mean, I'm not, I'm just telling you the truth.

Cybela on where to learn more:
There's just so much information out there that anybody who really wants to know should just go on the Internet and write in "UFO" or "extraterrestrial cover-up" or anything and they're going to get thousands and thousands of Web sites of people who know a lot more than I do.

Cybela on angel figurines made by Yanni Posnakoff, who plays the spiritual guru living in a cave and communicating with alien life forms:
A lot of them have gold on them, and like, you know, real gold paint, you know, like gold, that looks like gold and the wings are gold and they glisten ' they're real gold.

Cybela on government intelligence:
There are a lot of presidents who tried to get this information for themselves, even Clinton couldn't find out ' Jackie Gleason, um, Nixon ' he was a good friend of Nixon's and Nixon knew about these aliens and these underground bases and he took him to Florida ' I think it was called Holmes Airforce Base in Florida, and he showed Jackie Gleason in a special base there, a dead alien behind glass, you know, inside of a place, and Jackie Gleason ' he made a house in upstate New York that looks like a flying saucer.

Cybela on aliens in Philadelphia:
But to be honest with you, I don't know anybody in Philadelphia, anything that's happened in Philadelphia having to do with UFOs or abductions. I think it's a very unknown subject here ' I hardly knew Philadelphia until now. And now that I'm back promoting my movie and that I have a place here now, I am totally in love with Philadelphia and I'm just thinking, how could people in New York not know how amazingly beautiful Philadelphia is and how much cleaner the city is than New York and how much sweeter the people seem to be, how much more mellow the people seem to be, how much more beautiful the people seem to be? People are so beautiful and attractive here and they're so friendly and they all seem to love my bird, which I really like, and they're so kind about my bird. I mean in New York, you can walk down the street with a bird on your shoulder, nobody will even look at the bird, won't even notice you have a bird, they'll scowl at you like you're crazy. [Giggles] I'm serious.

Cybela on alien life expectancy:
It was supposedly 300 years old, this alien, because they live a lot longer than we do.

Cybella proving that biblical angels were really aliens:
There are all these paintings in the Vatican that have UFOs in the paintings.

Cybela on the Q&A format of this interview:
In other words, what do you mean, like, you give a question and I just give an answer, right?

Bird's Eye View, Fri., Oct. 2-Thu., Oct. 8, Roxy Theater, 2023 Sansom St., 215-923-6699, birdseyeviewthemovie.com.

Posted 2009-10-02 13:49:43

awesome interview with a very complex person

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