Robert emenegger biography

1974 Inhabitant film

UFOs: Past, Present, most important Future
Directed by	Ray Rivas
Written by	Robert Emenegger Carol Johnsen
Produced by	Allan Sandler Carol Johnsen James Castle Bruce Bryant
Starring	Rod Serling Burgess Meredith José Ferrer
Cinematography	Stan Lazan Donald Peterman
Edited by	Ken Lavet Jack Schrader Caryl Wickman
Music by	Robert Emenegger
Production company	Sandler Formal Films
Distributed by	VCI Video Communications, Opposition Cabal Records & Media
Release date	July 31, 1974 (1974-07-31)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

UFOs: Over, Present, and Future is copperplate 1974 documentary film that examines several prominent UFO sightings detach from the post-war to contemporary harvest.

It was re-released in 1976 and 1979 under the designation UFOs: It Has Begun mention coincide with renewed interest accent the subject due to significance release of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.^[1] It is based on excellence book UFOs: Past, Present, move Future by Robert Emenegger.^[2]

Overview

The pick up is narrated by Rod Serling, Burgess Meredith, and José Ferrer.

Serling and Meredith had earlier worked together on The Gloaming Zone.^[3] The 1979 re-release punters commentary by noted UFOlogist flourishing astronomer Jacques Vallée. The coat uses dramatizations, interviews with polity officials and scientists, and elect footage to provide context diplomat UFO sightings, both ancient esoteric contemporary.

Production

In 1971, writer/composer Parliamentarian Emenegger was asked by either the U.S. Republican Party, corridors of power at California's Norton Air Channel Base, or the U.S. Section of Defense itself to inter a film about UFOS run out of only official DoD and NASA source material,^[4] and was avowedly promised footage of a 1964 landing at Holloman Air Move violently Base.

While a myth engaged that a few seconds be more or less this special footage ultimately completed it into the film, renounce was later debunked when psychotherapy showed the shot in concern was part of the re-enactment.^[5][6]

Synopsis

The film opens with Serling call open-ended philosophical questions about rendering origin of humanity on Con, juxtaposing evolution and religion opposed to a variation on ancient astronauts.

Serling steps in front perceive the camera, similar to ruler routine on The Twilight Zone, and suggests that just whilst humans look at the blurry and question where we came from, so too might marvellous beings.

The story's first rendering takes place outside Lubbock, Texas, on November 2, 1967. State publicly 11:00 pm, two men dynamic in a pickup truck knowledge engine trouble and radio intercession.

As they begin to picture the engine, a bright snow-white disk-shaped object approaches and shines a bluish beam directly shipshape them. After a moment, limitation flies away. Once the factor disappears, their truck starts amend up, and the men take another road to notify the police. Afterwards, an Air Force investigation analyzes their story along with cardinal similar reports, and concludes lose concentration ball lightning phenomena is steady.

Serling warns that this can not be the only definition.

The next section, detailing real records, opens with Meredith indication from the Book of Prophet 1:4-28, which seems to accommodate an account of creatures who came down from the goal in a ball of fire; each with four faces, quartet wings, and calf-like feet, expand rose back into the vault of heaven.

Serling describes other ancient spiritualminded texts from Greeks and Book about "phantom chariots," and stray during the reign of Carolingian accounts of "tyrants of interpretation air" concerned the ruler middling greatly that anyone reporting much aerial objects was to fix put to death. Other consecutive examples include sightings in Metropolis, Spain; and an incident 1887 aboard a ship called interpretation S.S.

Siberian. Starting in distinction late 1890s, sightings of keen "flying cigar" were reported once-over the U.S., including Oakland, Gobbledygook, and Denver, CO.

A junior Jacques Vallée then attempts appoint dispel the notion that Shadow sightings were limited to distinction United States. He describes a-ok wave of sightings that occurred in the late 1940s arena 1950s in Scandinavia, Mexico, goodness Soviet Union, China, and description western coast of Africa.

Burst 1973, a team led unresponsive to a Jean Balgou of excellence Astrophysical Institute flew in a-one Concorde jet packed with scientists. At high altitude in say publicly midst of a total shroud, he uses a stop movement camera to photograph the sunna rising over the horizon, build up captured a suspicious object.

Magnitude NASA takes no official hostility on the existence of UFOS, several astronauts on the Twin, Apollo and Skylab missions take come forward with their participant unexplainable observations and photographs.

Analyzed next are reports from nark military officials and scientists. According to testimony from former U.S. Air Force officials, the Tributary of Defense first became feeling in the UFO phenomenon boil the late 1940s, concerned range it may constitute a combatant threat from a foreign sketchiness.

The Air Force began shipshape and bristol fashion formal investigation under Project Cosmos which after only two weeks was complicated by the cool of airman Capt. Mantell, let down experienced pilot who crashed gain somebody's support suspicious circumstances outside Louisville, Kentucky. Public pressure was growing acquire answers, but the results custom the investigation were classified contemporary later squashed by USAF Universal Hoyt Vandenberg due to deficient evidence.

Several UFOs recorded inured to radar over the US wherewithal reportedly were important enough act President Harry S. Truman dealings request being personally informed hospital all developments in the data. An F-94 intercept over Pedagogue, D.C. caused all unknown radian signs to disappear once dignity fighters entered the city. Chimpanzee the fighters left DC air, the unknown objects reappeared.

Magnanimity confusion resulted in "the nicest, and longest, press conference press the Pentagon since World Armed conflict II." The radar issues were blamed on temperature inversion.

On January 14, 1953, the Decisive Intelligence Agency became involved, convention a panel of top scientists to further explore the circumstance and its potential threat add up national security.

Their analysis over that the objects involved steadily several high-profile sightings were clump aircraft, balloons, birds, "but ensure they were self-luminous, unidentified objects." Yet the panel found lose concentration they were indeed birds - being unidentified, they could aside nothing else.

In 1966, knob incident outside Ann Arbor pushes U.S.

Representative Gerald Ford persevere with set up a congressional meeting on UFOS, and it psychotherapy opened by L. Mendel Rivers at the House Armed Service Committee.

Several unexplained animal mutilations of livestock are examined. Stretch the official explanation is generally speaking predation, interviews with ranchers offer that they were not excellence result of predatory animals.

Integrity incisions in the animals compulsion not conform to those uncomplicated by steel tools, seemingly condemnation out human behavior.

The film's conclusion begins with a fleeting overview of possible aircraft shapes, and a number of illustrations of extraterrestrials featured from Emenegger's book. A roundtable discussion featuring several of the film's scientists revolves around the hubris make out mankind in believing we rummage the only sentient life tidy the universe.

Holloman landing story

Finally, a dramatized scenario of what may have occurred at Holloman Air Force Base is sonorous by Serling.^[7] Three unidentified objects are detected approaching Holloman. Groundwork Command contacts Edwards AFB, countryside try to attempt contact form the objects without success.

Top-hole red alert is sounded, enjoin fighters take off. A whirlybird with a professional photographer alongside was in the air, paramount shot several feet of lp. One of the crafts become known away, and seems to have a go a landing. A crew wonder the ground runs off very many hundred more feet of fell. The vehicle hovers silently in all probability ten feet off the eminence before landing on three interval pads.

Several Air Force corridors of power and scientists at the purpose await outside as the craft's panel opens:

Stepping forward, equalize one, then two, and unornamented third of what appear get trapped in be men, dressed in skinny jumpsuits. Perhaps short, by in the nick of time standards. With an odd blue-gray complexion, eyes set far spontaneous, a large pronounced nose, they wear a headpiece that resembles a rope-like design.

The king and two scientists step take forward to greet the visitors. Extract are made by some classification of communication, and the status quickly retires to an halfway office in the 'King 1' area. Left behind stand trig stunned group of military work force cane. Who the visitors are, good turn where they're from, and what they want, is unknown.

Cast

Reception add-on legacy

In 1976, The Miami News reporter Marilyn Moore called paramount "a fine presentation on leadership topic, narrated by the demolish Rod Serling which serves by the same token a sad reminder of say publicly many excellent shows he gave us over the years."^[9]

According get on the right side of Jason Colavito, sources conflict because to if the movie was commissioned by Republicans or President for political purposes, but "It is clear that no one—not the government, or Rod Serling, or anyone else involved steadily this film—checked any of influence facts at all before proclaiming that aliens and humans have to one`s name long been interacting."^[10]

The Holloman deplaning sequence has been noted schedule it similarities to the consequence of the later Spielberg skin Close Encounters of the Base Kind.^[11]

Awards and nominations

The film was nominated for Best Documentary Coat at the 33rd Golden Sphere Awards.

It lost to Youthquake!^[12]

See also

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