AudiBlog: A UFO Landing at Holloman AFB

UFO documentaries, besides being informative and entertaining, also
serve to preserve UFO history for future researchers. However, one
documentary, “UFOs: It Has Begun.” has itself become a part of UFO
history. One of its producers has claimed that the U.S. Department
of Defense offered him and his partner the use of some film footage
taken by the Air Force at Holloman Air Force Base. According to
him, it showed a UFO landing and a meeting between its occupants
and Air Force officials, and it was going to be the finale of the
documentary until the DoD withdrew the offer at the last minute.The
movie was originally released in 1974 as “UFOs: Past Present and
Future.” It was written primarily by Robert Emenegger, who also
produced it along with Allan Sandler. It has Rod Serling as its
main narrator, and there are appearances by Burgess Meredith, Jose
Ferrer, Jaques Vallée. and J. Allen Hynek. In 1976 and 1979 it was
re-released under its new title.The story of the film’s beginning
is as follows: Emenegger and Sandler had originally set out to
produce a series of films about advanced military technology but
were diverted by an intriguing piece of information offered by
their military contact, Paul Shartle, with whom they were working
at Norton Air Force Base. Shartle, Security Manager and Chief of
Requirements for the Audio-Visual Program at the base, said he had
seen a film of an alien craft landing at Holloman AFB three years
previous. As discussions about possible projects continued, the
idea that one of them be about UFOs came up and was encouraged by
military officials who offered the producers the use of the
footage. Emenegger and Sandler decided to go ahead with a UFO
documentary, and the film was made.Read more