re: US Army signs contract to develop advanced technologies based on UAPs (UFOs)

Or intraterrestrial

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Parmen

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Check this out

They get into mythology a bunch (Greek and others)
They have a segment on Antarctica, Lovecraft and "At the Mountain of Madness"

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/aliens-origin-story-chestbursts-anew-in-stirring-new-documentary/

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Alien’s origin story chestbursts anew in stirring new documentary
Surprising new stories, insight uncover a refreshing take on Scott’s classic.

JENNIFER OUELLETTE - 10/11/2019, 1:20 PM

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Memory opens with an odd, almost theatrical sequence depicting the three Furies at the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece—our first clue that Philippe is exploring much more than just a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a film (much of which is detailed on the film's extensive Wikipedia page anyway). According to Philippe, opening with such an idiosyncratic scene, so atypical of your standard documentary, was a means of conveying his central theme of our shared cultural dreams and collective mythological unconscious. Certain images, narratives, and other elements in the film resonate with us in ways we can't quite put a finger on.

At one point, Philippe likens the concept to cymatics, in which plates or membranes vibrate in resonance with sound waves to produce patterns on their surface that reflect the substrate's modal vibrations. (Chladni plates are the most well-known example of the phenomenon, where sand is sprinkled on the surface and the grains arrange themselves along those nodal lines.) For Philippe, cultural resonances work in a similar way. "None of this is conscious, for Scott, for Giger, or for [screenwriter] Dan O'Bannon," he said. "To me, this proposes the idea that myths are alive on a certain level and that stories periodically come back to us at times when we need to see them or to be told them again. And there are storytellers out there who can tune in on the frequency of a particular myth."

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Weird and fascinating stuff indeed

I have rifted on Aliens, Prometheus and Ridley Scott in other threads...