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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Spilling the
Beans
On certain
occasions it does seem the US government have prior to the Disney affair
attempted to spill the beans on extraterrestrials.
In 1972 to ’73 Colonel
Robert Coleman, former USAF Project Blue Book spokesman, and former ATIC
Commander Colonel George Weinbrenner, made an offer of 800 feet of film… as well
as several thousand feet of additional material of UFOs to documentary film
producers Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler at the Pentagon. They were to be
allowed to use the footage in a special film project they had been asked to
join.
The promised film was
reportedly dramatic footage of an encounter between the occupants of a landed
UFO and officials at Holloman Air Force Base.
It impressed Emenegger, who
described what he saw in 1988, “What I saw and heard was enough to convince me
that the phenomenon of UFOs is very real.”
The whole idea was put to
the two producers as a documentary on a secret government project. When they
discovered the project covered UFOs, they were surprised, assuming the subject
had been closed with Project Blue Book in 1969.
The documentary was to be
sponsored by the Department of Defence in a claimed attempt to do a public
relations turnaround, all in connection with the Vietnam War. At least that is
the story given to Emenegger and Sandler by Bill Coleman.
A number of different
subjects were proposed for the documentaries, but no other subject, other than
UFOs was ever brought up.
The two producers assumed
that the government were now ready to reveal all the facts concerning alien
presence on earth, the evidence included:
Photographs and films of
UFOs – Pictures of grey skinned aliens.
A 16mm film of an alien in
the company of an Air Force Officer. The producers were told that this alien had
survived a 1949 crash and it had been kept at a Los Alamos safe house until its
death in 1952.
800 feet of film showing a
landed encounter between three aliens and Holloman Air Base officials during a
landing that had reportedly occurred there during 1971.
Several thousand
feet of additional material was offered.
Photos of UFOs taken by
astronauts, which NASA had formerly ignored the existence of.
As the documentary drew near
completion, Bill Coleman withdrew his offer, his statement to the effect it was
politically insensitive at that time due to the Watergate scandal.
1983, the US government made
another offer of dramatic film material for a UFO documentary, the same Holloman
footage. The offer was made to documentary film producer Linda Moulton Howe and
HBO.
While preparing to make a
documentary for HBO, Howe was given information by Richard Doty, a special agent
with Air Force OSI at Kirtland AFB (Albuquerque). Doty claims that higher ups
were willing to release special confirming UFO information for her documentary.
Howe described the film offer,
“The government intended to
release to me several thousand feet of colour and black and white film taken
between 1947 and 1964 showing crashed UFO discs and extraterrestrial bodies in
historic footage to be included in the HBO documentary supported with official
government confirmation.”
The film was never released
to Howe. The excuse was put as ‘political delays’. HBO cancelled the
documentary.
Robert Emenegger got in on
the act again in 1985, when yet again he was offered historically documented
film archive of UFOs, Colonel Robert Coleman, now retired from the Air Force
Public Relations Department, indicated to Emenegger that, yes, again, the time
was now right to go ahead and show this material.
The government might be
willing to release key confirmation information confirming extraterrestrial
presence on earth. Suggestions were made that Senator Barry Goldwater, and
former President Jimmy Carter “would help obtain the release” of the promised
film.
There was a condition,
prominent UFO researchers Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek had to be involved
in the production. The reason for this is that a key to getting the information
promised by the government is that the film had to be “professional enough and
interesting enough” to reopen the whole subject before the American
people.
Emenegger
believed this time the information would be released, while Vallee remained
sceptical about the offer being made. He felt if the government wished to
release information they could simply go to the National Academy of Sciences for
an example and release it quite freely.
Vallee and Hynek did not
support Emenegger, but did state – “if there was any chance of uncovering
genuine evidence they would pursue it but behind the scenes…” The deal was
finally withdrawn.
The late eighties…
Information from the government, more promises of true footage were aired again.
This time an interview with the keeper of the alien at Los Alamos.
The man had been a Captain
in the early fifties, now a colonel, near death and willing to talk.
Those presented with the
exclusive were Robert Emenegger, Linda Howe and Bill Moore.
It was later withdrawn after
many delays.
Someone crying wolf in top
government or is there hard evidence out there which surely would be worth
spilling the beans for!
Spilling the
Beans written by Bill Barber
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