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a ufo landing at holloman air force base

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by charles lear

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ufo documentaries besides being

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informative and entertaining also serve

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to preserve ufo history for future

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researchers however one documentary ufos

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it has begun has itself become a part of

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ufo history one of its producers has

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claimed that the u.s department of

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defense offered him and his partner the

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use of some film footage taken by the

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air force at holloman air force base

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according to him it showed a ufo landing

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and the meeting between its occupants

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and air force officials and it was going

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to be the finale of the documentary

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until the dod withdrew the offer at the

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last minute the movie was originally

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released in 1974 as ufos past present

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and future it was written primarily by

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robert emeneger who also produced it

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along with alan sandler it has rod

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serling as its main narrator and there

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are appearances by burgess meredith jose

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ferreira jacques filet and j allen

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heineck in 1976 and 1979 it was

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re-released under its new title the

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story of the film's beginning is as

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follows emanager and sandler had

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originally set out to produce a series

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of films about advanced military

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technology but were diverted by an

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intriguing piece of information offered

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by their military contact paul shardle

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with whom they were working at norton

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air force base shardl security manager

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and chief of requirements for the audio

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visual program at the base said he had

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seen a film of an alien craft landing at

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holloman air force base three years

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previous as discussions about possible

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projects continued the idea that one of

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them be about ufos came up and was

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encouraged by military officials who

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offered the producers the use of the

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footage emmenaeger and sandler decided

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to go ahead with a ufo documentary and

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the film was made watching the film the

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cooperation of the dod is apparent

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former air force public information

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officer for project blue book colonel

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william coleman usaf describes the

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military's involvement with ufos while

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walking through the inner ring of the

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pentagon former head of project blue

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book robert friend makes an appearance

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and tells of a bizarre contact d case

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involving a naval intelligence officer

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investigating it going into a trance and

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channeling a group of aliens according

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to friend the aliens produced a flying

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disc for the officer's fellow

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investigators on request friend is later

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seen interviewing the four-man army

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reserve crew who were involved in the

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coin helicopter incident and the story

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is told of how their helicopter was

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seemingly pulled up by a ufo from

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seventeen hundred feet to thirty eight

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hundred feet in a matter of seconds what

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should be of interest to historians is a

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discussion among jl and heineck robert

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friend al chop and hector quintanilla

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quintanilla was a project blue book

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director heineck was a scientific

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consultant for the project and al chop

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was a press liaison at the pentagon who

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dealt with ufo inquiries and was in the

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radar room during the 1952 washington dc

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ufo incident they all give their

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speculations on what might be behind the

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ufo mystery ranging from hynek's

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interdimensional theory to chop's belief

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that creatures from other planets are

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visiting earth quintanilla noted skeptic

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and debunker says he believes e.t is out

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there at the end of the film is an

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illustrated sequence that is described

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by rod serling as an event that might

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happen in the future or perhaps could

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have happened already what is shown as a

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ufo landing in an air force base and a

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meeting between alien beings and us

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military officials according to

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emmanager this was based on the film

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footage that was promised by the air

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force

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emmenaeger has spoken about his

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experience working on the film on

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different occasions and one version of

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his story can be heard during an

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interview with mel fabregas emmenager

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begins by giving his background which

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seems to offer credence to his being

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offered film footage that would most

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likely be highly classified according to

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him he was the creative director at the

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gray advertising company which had done

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work for the nixon administration he

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brings up his and sandler's earlier

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relationship with the us government

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saying they had made a film for the navy

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to help sailors recognize an alcohol

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problem and had also made a series of

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promos in support of public funding for

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nasa's shuttle program he says he was a

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friend of nixon's chief of staff bob

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haldeman and that he emeneger received a

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letter from nixon asking for names of

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people he'd recommend to be part of

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nixon's administration researcher robbie

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graham who wrote about this story for

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the website mysterious universe provides

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some additional information about

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sandler according to graham emmanager

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told him that sandler had very strange

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connections and that he did things for

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the cia and maybe even the fbi they all

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seemed to work together in the fabregas

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interview after giving the background

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information eminence goes into the

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details of how the dod's offer of the

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film footage came about he says that

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charles took him and sandler into a

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clean room which is a room free of mics

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and cameras and told them about the

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holloman film and how it had been sent

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to norton according to emmanager shardle

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said that if they were interested they

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should talk to a certain captain

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emmanager doesn't remember his name who

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would put them in touch with the

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pentagon emmenager says he and sandler

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visited the pentagon repeatedly and

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never signed in which had also been the

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case at norton he speculates that this

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was for the purpose of plausible

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deniability he says they met with

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colonel william coleman who okayed the

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use of the film and told them that the

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air force would sponsor the documentary

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this was according to emmanager for the

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purpose of improving public relations

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with the military in the aftermath of

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the vietnam war emanager says there were

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production meetings at the pentagon

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where no one questioned the section of

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the script dealing with holloman he said

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i couldn't believe it but i said well

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and went along with it according to

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emmenaeger after a long wait coleman

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told the producers that the climate

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created by the watergate scandal made it

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an inappropriate time to release the

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holloman footage the movie was finished

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and released in 1974 and the illustrated

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sequence was used in place of the

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hallman film it's quite a story but the

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main source is eminencer one might

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dismiss it if there were any doubts as

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to emanager's credibility but as with

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many ufo tales there is a twist the

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twist in this tale came in 1988 on the

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television program ufo cover-up live

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hosted by mike farrell near the

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beginning of the program coleman and

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friend appear and coleman tells of being

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in a b-25 while chasing a 70-foot disc

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over alabama in 1955.

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later just after the 46-minute mark

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after talking with william moore stanton

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friedman and jesse marcel jr about

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with eminencer and shardle emeniger

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tells the story of how shardle brought

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up the holloman film and then farrell

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asks what did you see mr shardle shardle

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describes seeing three disc shaped craft

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according to him one seemed to be having

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problems and it landed while the other

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two left he says that three aliens came

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out at which point a chuckle escapes

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from pharaoh as he asks what they look

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like shardl describes them this way well

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they were human size had an odd gray

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complexion and a pronounced nose they

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were type-fitting jumpsuits thin

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headdresses that appeared to be

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communications devices and in their hand

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they held a translator i was told a

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holloman base commander and other air

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force officials went out to meet them

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emanager tells farrell well although the

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pentagon had been very very cooperative

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all the way at the last minute the film

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was confiscated and we lost the whole

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finale of our show he says that what he

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saw and heard convinced him that the ufo

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phenomenon is real pharaoh asks shardl

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what he was told by his superiors and

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charles tells him he was told the film

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was theatrical footage purchased by the

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air force to make a training film

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farrell suggests this is a plausible

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explanation and charles tells him it was

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his job to keep accurate records of such

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purchases and that he didn't have one

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for the footage in question as far as

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this writer can find helen sandler has

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never commented on this story as for his

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involvement with any sort of

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intelligence organization there's one

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that is definite he was the producer of

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lancelot link secret chimp a show he

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describes as like get smart with an

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entire cast of chimps emmenegger worked

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on the show as a composer both men were

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also involved in the creation of several

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b-grade science fiction movies so their

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choices of creative involvement puts

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their background in this writer's mind

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in a less serious light than that

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portrayed by eminencer when talking

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about holloman while it might seem

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likely that emanager made up the story

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why would charles back him up in front

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of a television audience if the story is

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true does the dod actually have footage

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of aliens and their craft or did they

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just say they did and if so to what

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purpose what adds to the mystery is that

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ufo cover up live has also become part

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of ufo history because of the

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involvement of richard doty a

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self-confessed disinformation agent