"UFO: THE ENIGMA OF THE SKIES"

FADE IN: CLOCK (SET 6 SEC. BEFORE 9:30)

SUPER: EDWARDS

EDWARDS:

Good evening, everybody, coast to
coast. This is Douglas Edwards.

Let me re-stage a moment of history
for you. The time: 1492. The place:
the port of Palos, Spain. Three tiny
ships slip their moorings, head down
the estuary of the river of Saltes to-
wards the open sea and the unknown.

The world caught its breath. What lay
ahead for the fleet of Columbus? There
were many who prophesized calamity; they
would surely sail off the rim of the
earth, great dragons would rise from the
deep to devour them, they would be sucked
into a mighty whirlpool and never be heard
of again. No one knew.

Today, we stand in precisely the same po-
sition. Already, with man-made satellites,
we have reached the outer perimeter of our
atmosphere. And soon we will be beyond.
And what lies beyond? There are those who
claim that space is not the emptiness we
have long believed.

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

They say that intelligently-guided
objects, originating from the moon,
or the planets, or even from far-
off galaxies, already are in space
...some have even penetrated our
own atmosphere to observe life on
earth. They rest their claim on
thousands of reported sightings of
UFO...Unidentified Flying Objects
...more popularly known as Flying
Saucers.

What have they seen? Is there
really some form of life already
cruising space?

Tonight we will seek the answer.
In just a few minutes ...

DISSOLVE TO FILM

"UFO: THE ENIGMA OF THE SKIES":

SUPER FILM FOR 6 SEC.

...on the Armstrong Circle Theater!

GO THRU TO FILM LINE OPENING

ACT ONE

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FADE IN: TELOP ARMSTRONG CIRCLE
THEATER.

DISSOLVE TO:
(EDWARDS AT HIS DESK)

EDWARDS:

Tonight the Circle Theater de-
parts from its usual format.
Tonight instead of dramatizing
an adventure, we will share one.
Instead of merely observing, we
ask you to participate. We ask
you to join with us in a search
for facts...hear the evidence...
and...at the end...make your own
decision. We're going after the
story of UFO...Flying Saucers...
and we hope to nail it down once
and for all!

Are we being observed by beings
from other planets? Are Flying
Saucers real? If they are real
...if they do exist...are they
of extra-terrestrial-origin...or
are they secret weapons being
tested by our own or foreign
governments?

We have a lot of questions...

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EDWARDS: (OVER)

and we hope to get a lot of
answers as we dig deep...

(FILM: ASTRAL EFFECT... SLOW MOVEMENT OF CAMERA THROUGH SIMULATED GALAXIES)

...into the problem of UFO...

The Enigma of the Skies!

(SUPER: TITLES... TELOPS)

1. TITLE

2. COSTELLO

3. CORRIGAN

EDWARDS: (OVER)

Suddenly the world looks skyward.

A vastness beyond human conception
...distances that defy measurement,
literally paralyze the imagination.

(DISSOLVE TO FILM - PALOMAR TELESCOPE)

What do we know of the universe?

It is a bare 350 years since Galileo
invented his telescope ... against
the measure of man's existence, this
is a mere blink of time.

Yet the compulsion for knowledge has
inspired generations of dedicated
scholars to study, chart and visualize
the true nature of the universe.

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(DISSOLVE TO ARTCARD OF EARTH AND ITS MOON)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

And this is what we know.

The earth spins on its axis...
coupled with its one natural
satellite...the moon.

(DISSOLVE TO ARTCARD OF SOLAR SYSTEM)

We know that our earth is one of
nine planets circling about our
sun.

(DISSOLVE TO ARTCARD OF OUR GALAXY)

We know that the sun is but a
single star in our own galaxy
containing 100,000 million suns...

(DISSOLVE TO ARTCARD OF HEAVENS SHOW-
ING VARIOUS NEBULAE)

...and we know that there are some
2,000 million galaxies swirling
through space.

(DISSOLVE TO EDWARDS. HE IS STANDING
IN A SET SIMULATING A LIBRARY-STUDY.

BLOWUPS OF THE ART CARDS WE HAVE SEEN
ARE HANGING ON WALL IN BACK OF HIM)

We know this much about the universe
...and we know little else...for
sure...

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(HE CROSSES TO BLOWUP OF ARTCARD SHOWING UNIVERSE AND POINTS TO IT)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

But the absence of air-tight evidence doesn't preclude the freedom to speculate. There's nothing wrong with an intelligent guess... if it's backed by circumstantial evidence. So...beyond what we actually know...scientists have used the knowledge they now possess to theorize further on the nature of the universe. One question, particularly, has intrigued them. Is there life on other planets? Intelligent life...substantially like our own?

These scientists tell us that to believe that our earth alone...this tiny speck of astral existence... is unique and an absurd conclusion. Among the billions of planets in the millions of galaxies there must be many where the combination of natural forces are such that life can be sustained. Dr. Harlow Shapley, former director of the Harvard

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

Observatory tells us that there
must be 100 million planets in
the universe inhabited by intel-
ligent creatures. Some author-
ities claim they have actually
evidence that extra-terrestrial
life does exist.

(DISSOLVE TO ARTCARD SHOWING PORTRAIT
OF GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI)

In 1877, the Italian astronomer,
Giovanni Schiaparelli observed
a strange phenomenon...

(DISSOLVE TO ARTCARD OF MARS SHOWING
CANALI...)

strange, geometric lines on the
surface of the planet Mars.
Percival Lowell, a distinguished
American astronomer vehemently
claimed these lines...the canali
...were evidence of intelligent
life on Mars...the result of a
struggling population seeking to
keep alive on their dying planet
by irrigating its entire surface
with water drawn from the melting
polar ice-caps.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

The moon, our nearest space neighbor...and the only one our telescopes can really probe...provides many mysteries.

(ARTCARD OF GEOMETRIC PATTERNS ON MOON - JESSUP, Page 172)

Here is a sketch purporting to show streets and avenues in the region of Schroeter's Valley on the moon.

(DISSOLVE TO SECOND ARTCARD OF MOON - JESSUP - Page 194)

Here's another. This is the interior of the crater Gassendi as seen by H. P. Wilkins, noted British astronomer, through Europe's largest refracting telescope. The geometric pattern...straight lines intersecting each other, is again offered as evidence by some that some type of intelligence is now on the moon.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

On the night of July 29, 1953... according to a printed version of the story...the late John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune, from his home observatory, saw a gigantic bridge...

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(DISSOLVE TO: ARTCARD OF BRIDGE)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

...stretching across the Mare Crisium on the moon. This region of the moon had been examined on countless occasions by astronomers. It was mapped and charted. Yet no such bridge had ever been noted before. But there it was. Its presence was confirmed by Professor H. P. Wilkins in August.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

Measurements show that the bridge stretches 20 miles from one side of the crater to the other...and that at one point it towers 5,000 feet (almost a mile) above the surface of the crater.

It brings up some intriguing questions. How can so gigantic a structure appear literally overnight?

If it is a natural bridge...created by natural forces of erosion...it would take millions of years to form. And its presence would have been noted long before 1953.

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

If it is a natural object...why
wasn't it seen before?

If it is not a natural object...
then what can it be?

There are those who claim that
its construction proves the ex-
istence of intelligence on the
moon...not necessarily moon-
people...but beings from outer
space who are using the moon as
a space-station for their obser-
vation of earth.

True...false? We don't know...
but we intend to find out.

(EDWARDS CROSSES AWAY FROM ARTCARDS
OF PLANETS AND GALAXIES)

Where do we start?

(EDWARDS APPROACHES TABLE CONTAIN-
ING BOOK DISPLAY)

We start with background...his-
tory. Here, collected for us
by the editors of the Encyclo-
pedia Americana, is a selected
list of books covering the ...
(CUT TO BOOKS AND PAN ACROSS TO
SHOW TITLES)

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

...whole field of celestial
phenomenon...from ancient sight-
ings...to the latest UFO reports...

(CUT TO EDWARDS. HE TAKES ONE BOOK
FROM THE COLLECTION)

For make no mistake about it...
Unidentified Flying Objects are
nothing new. The Bible gives us
a report of a sighting by the
Prophet Ezekiel...a "signe" in
the Heavens...large, brilliantly
colored, in the shape of a wheel
within a wheel.

(CUT TO PHOTO OF FIREBALL, MENZEL,
PAGE 257)

The citizens of Salon and
St. Chamas, France, dived for
their wine-cellars...for both
protection and courage...when
this mysterious object flashed
across the sky in the year 1554.

(DISSOLVE TO PICTURE OF AURORAL DIS-
PLAY - MENZEL - PAGE 50)

In 1557, the awed populace of
Basle, Switzerland, viewed
nothing less than a battle in
the sky ...

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(DISSOLVE TO PHOTO OF ESSECK - MENZEL
- PAGE 198)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

And on November 4, 1697, the burghers
of the town of Esseck in northwest
Germany were terrorized by some astral
visitation that loomed suddenly in
the Heavens.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

Nor do we have to go to the quaint
and medieval. As near our own time
as 1896, the entire country was set
on edge by a UFO sighting that began
in Oakland, California on November
22nd.

(CUT TO OAKLAND TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 23,
1896)

Mysterious Object Sails Across Sky!
First sighted in the San Francisco
Bay area a strange-cigar-shaped
object, reportedly witnessed by
thousands, sailed across the sky.
Moving slowly, but gathering head-
lines...

(DISSOLVE TO NEW YORK HERALD, APRIL
11, 1897)

...the UFO was reported from Salt
Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Kansas
City...and...finally...Chicago.

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(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

Before this still unexplained object disappeared from sight, it managed to involve none other than the Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Alva Edison. True, he was an innocent bystander...but his experience proves the danger of quick conclusions.

It happened this way:

On April 11, 1897....obviously a hoax...an alleged message from the mysterious airship was picked up on a farm near Astoria, Illinois. It was addressed to Edison himself. The message was in some kind of cipher and Edison had neither the time nor inclination to decode it. Instead he issued a statement.

(EDWARDS PICKS UP A PAPER AND READS)

It's absolutely absurd. I am not figuring on inventing an airship. I prefer to devote my time to objects which have some commercial value. At best, airships would be only toys.

(EDWARDS LOOKS UP AND SMILES)

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

End quote. Proving that there's
rarely any profit in prophesy.
Well, Edison's statement did have
the effect of banishing the UFO
of 1896-1897 to oblivion. It flew
off the headlines promptly, only
to be replaced by another sensation:
kissing bugs that attached themselves
to the lips of pretty young ladies,
biting them from Maine to California.

(EDWARDS NOW CROSSES TO ANOTHER AREA,
WITH LARGE BLOWUP OF MT. RAINER MOUNTED
ON WALL)

For the first half of the 20th
Century, UFOs withstood the lime-
light, possibly taking a dim view
of the sudden trespass of its sky-
lanes by powered aircraft of ter-
restial design.

But in 1947... Year II of the Atomic
Age... the real UFO story began...
(PAN UP OVER HIS SHOULDETER TO PHOTO OF
MT. RAINER ON WALL)

EDWARDS:

It began here ... the Pacific
Northwest... the spectacular
country lorded-over by the hulk
of Mt. Rainer...

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(DISSOLVE TO FILM OF MT. RAINER AREA)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

Here...one June morning ten years ago, a C-46 Marine Transport... with 32 Marines aboard...disappeared...presumably crashed.

An intensive air-search by service and private planes was immediately organized.

One of the searching planes belonged to Kenneth Arnold, owner of an airport near Boise, Idaho. Mr. Arnold had logged thousands of hours of flying as a bush pilot. He knew the area like a book...

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

What did he see? Why did newspapers from coast-to-coast give it front-page coverage? How did Flying Saucers get their name? We go to Boise, Idaho, to get a true account directly from Kenneth Arnold.

(CUT TO ARNOLD FILM)

(ARNOLD IS STANDING BY HIS PRIVATE PLANE AT HIS PRIVATE AIRFIELD)

ARNOLD:

It was while I was searching for this

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ARNOLD: (Cont'd)

crashed plane that I noticed a
terrific blue flash go past thru
my airplane. I noticed that the
flash came from very peculiar-
looking objects that were approac-
ing Mt. Rainer at about 107 degrees.

EDWARDS: (VO)

Where were you flying at the moment,
Mr. Arnold...can you locate it for
us on the map?

(ARNOLD HAS BEEN HOLDING A MAP IN HIS HAND. HE NOW OPENS IT AND HOLDS IT AGAINST THE FUSELAGE OF HIS PLANE)

ARNOLD:

Sure.

(WE CUT TO CU OF MAP AND SEE THE POINT
OF A PENCIL AS ARNOLD POINTS OUT SIGHT-
ING AREA)

I was about here. (NAMES AREA)

The objects were headed towards a
saddle between these peaks.

(HE PINPOINTS AREA)

They were about 9 in number and
they...well, they looked some-
thing like this:

(ON EDGE OF MAP HE DRAWS ROUGH SKETCH
OF OBJECTS)

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(CUT BACK TO ARNOLD)

EDWARDS: (VO)

When you first spotted them...
what did you think they were?

ARNOLD:

I assumed, at the time, that they
were a formation of some new type
of jet. But it baffled me because
they did not seem to have any tails.

EDWARDS: (VO)

How far away did you judge them
to be?

ARNOLD:

I'd say about 23 miles...which is
no great distance in the air. I
judged their wing-span to be about
100 feet across. I watched them
for about ________ minutes. They
were traveling from north to south,
flying in reversed echelon forma-
tion...and as they flew they weaved
in and out between the mountain
peaks. They had a kind of a skip-
ping motion as they sailed along.

EDWARDS: (VO)

After the sighting, you landed
and reported the incident to the
local representative of the CAA...
the Civil Aeronautics Administration...

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ARNOLD:

That's right. I didn't make too much of the incident...as I said, I thought they were some kind of new jet. But then the floodgates opened. The papers jumped on the report and headlined it all over the country, all over the world I guess. And, if I do say so, it was a real garbled version that they printed. It got so snarled up, then when I read about it, I didn't know if they were writing about me or Buck Rogers. To give you an example, I said that these objects more or less fluttered like they were...oh, boats on very rough water, or a very rough air of some kind. I said they flew like you took a saucer and threw it across the water. Most of the newspapers misunderstood and misquoted me. They said I said they were saucer-like. I didn't. I said they flew in a saucer-like fashion.

EDWARDS: (VO)

That was an historic misquote.

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ARNOLD:

I guess so. Because that's how
the name 'Flying Saucers' came
to be.

EDWARDS: (VO)

Now...since that June day ten
years ago, Mr. Arnold...you've
done a lot of flying. Have you
ever seen these so-called Flying
Saucers since?

ARNOLD:

Sure I have. I've seen strange
objects in the sky on at least
three different occasions. And
I know some regular airline
pilots who have made more than
a dozen sightings. But we don't
talk much about it. Making a
Flying Saucer report is like open-
ing your living room to a bob-cat.
You get clawed, scratched and spit
on. You're either a real fruit-
cake or you're out to get publi-
city by spreading lies. I saw what
I saw...and I reported it to the
proper authorities...then I went
home and got some sleep. I wasn't
looking for anything...just some
sleep.

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ARNOLD: (Cont'd)

at. We made our reports because
we believed it was our duty to
do so. I don't know what's going
on up there. I don't think it's
anything for people to get hyster-
ical about. But there's something
going on besides Sputnik, I'm sure
of that. It's something we see
but we can't explain. Now that's
my frank opinion!

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

EDWARDS:

Thanks to Kenneth Arnold for a
very frank, a very forthright
report.

This was the beginning, then,
this sighting of nine unidenti-
fied flying objects near Mt.
Rainer on June 24, 1947.

The newspapers gave the story a
big play...but, in the normal
lifespan of such things...by a
week later, two weeks, perhaps
...it should have been forgotten.

It would have been forgotten...

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

except that within the next 30
days, there were fifty-three
more reports of Flying Saucers.

There was the usual quota of
crackpots climbing on the band-
wagon. A chicago housewife
claimed she saw one with legs.
A prospector saw them with tails.
A Spokane woman saw flying wash-
tubs, big as a five-story house.
And one observer, making his re-
port, was remarkably unimpressed.
He said...quote...why, they come
through our yard all the time...
unquote.

But...making all allowances for
illusion, delusion, hoax and
hallucination...there remained
enough incredible reports by
credible observers to convince
even the most frostbitten City
Editor that Flying Saucers laid
legitimate claim to the reams of
newsprint that...almost daily...
reported sightings from coast to
coast. When a meteorologist in

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

charge of the U. S. Weather Bureau
in Louisville, Kentucky reported a
strange orange light rolling thru
the sky, this couldn't be shunted
aside. When Muroc Air Base...the
country's top-secret air testing
ground in California...reported a
sighting of "two silver objects
of either spherical or disk-like
shape"...this couldn't be dis-
counted. When two United Air Lines'
pilots reported following four or
five UFOs...somethings....for 45
minutes...the fact had to be admit-
ted that these were trained observ-
ers and their reports had to be
given most serious consideration.

And if anyone was less than serious
about Flying Saucers...the events
of January 7, 1948 must certainly
have given them cause to reflect.
(DISSOLVE TO FILM - CONTROL TOWER,
GODMAN FIELD)

This is the Control Tower of Godman
Field, Ft. Knox, Kentucky.

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

Early in the afternoon of January 7th, Kentucky State Police reported an unidentified flying object, circular in appearance, moving westward 'at a good clip'.

Godman checked, found no experimental aircraft in the neighborhood.

(DISSOLVE TO SHOT OF FLIGHT OF P-51s)

The UFO was sighted by the Commanding Officer of the field. Just at this time a flight of P-51s headed from Marietta, Georgia to Louisville, Kentucky neared the field. The flight, under the command of Captain Thomas Mantell, a veteran of the D-Day invasion was immediately vectored in on the strange spherical-shaped object.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

What happened then depends upon what version you read. There were seven witnesses in Godman Tower...and their accounts differ in many details. But this is sure. Captain Mantell... by radio...reported sighting the object above him. He said it was

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

"Metallic and of tremendous size".
Mantell's plane was not equipped
with oxygen...yet he headed up-
ward. One of his wingmen broke
off as the climb began. The re-
maining two stayed with him to
22,000 feet, then broke off.

Mantell was in a maximum climb at
22,500, his plane under perfect
control. From this point on,
there is nothing but mystery. Trans-
mission was garbled and attempts to
contact Mantell went unanswered.

Mantell's plane began to level off
at 30,000 feet...began a gradual
turn to the left...then it nosed
downward...and...at full power...
began to dive. Between 10 and 20
thousand feet, the plane literally
tore apart. Mantell was killed.
Parts of his plane were found more
than half a mile from the central
wreckage.

There are questions that must be
answered about this tragic inci-
dent. Why did an experienced pilot

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

like Mantell break one of the
cardinal rules of flying: never
go above 20,000 without oxygen?

What did he see that forced him
to throw caution to the winds?

What about reports that the wreck-
age was strangely radioactive? Be-
fore this program is over, we hope
to have many...if not all of the
answers!

(EDWARDS CROSSES TO ANOTHER AREA WHERE
WE SEE A MODEL OF AN EASTERN AIRLINES
DC3)

After the Mantell crash, UFO re-
ports continued to pile in. During
January and February of 1948 the
sightings took on an international
flavor. "Balls of fire, traveling
slowly across the sky" were re-
ported from Norway, Denmark, Sweden
and Germany. Then Southern Europe
chimed in...then South America.

On July 21, a report came in from
Holland of a UFO, rocket-shaped,
with two rows of windows along
the sides. This might have been

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

fast forgotten, except for what
happened just one week later.

(BEGIN TO MOVE IN ON PLANE MODEL)

On July 24, 1948, an Eastern
Airlines DC3 flying from Houston,
Texas to Atlanta was 20 miles
southwest of Montgomery, Alabama...

(DISSOLVE TO FILM - AN EASTERN AIRLINES PLANE STANDING IN FRONT OF A HANGAR. OPEN ON PLANE, THEN PAN TO CHILES STANDING NEXT TO IT)

We go to __________ for
that story...and Captain Clarence
S. Chiles of Eastern Airlines.

CHILES:

It was 2:45 in the morning. I was
at the controls and my co-pilot,
John B. Whitted was in the flight
deck with me. The first thing I
saw was a light, dead ahead, and
closing in fast. My first thought
was that it was a jet...but then
I quickly realized that it was
closing in too fast, much too fast
for a jet. I reached over and
pointed it out to Whitted. The

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CHILES: (Cont'd)

thing was almost on top of us.
I racked the plane into a tight
turn. This thing flashed by
about 700 feet to our right...

EDWARDS: (V.O.)

Did you have enough time to get
a good look at the object...what-
ever it was, Captain Chiles.

CHILES:

The thing slid by fast...faster
than you can imagine...but I was
able to get a pretty good impres-
sion of what it looked like. So
did Whitted...and one of the pas-
sengers who happened to be awake.
When we got down, after we had
made our report to the authorities,
Whitted and I went over to the Henry
Grady Hotel. Without discussing it
further between us...we both sat
down in our own rooms and drew rough
sketches of what we saw...

EDWARDS: (V.O.)

We'd like to see those sketches.

CHILES:

All right...I've got copies.

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(CHILES TAKES SOME PAPERS OUT OF HIS POCKET AND UNFOLDS THEM. WE CUT TO CU OF SKETCHES)

CHILES: (Cont'd)

Here's my sketch...

(HE PLACES ANOTHER ON TOP OF IT)

Here's Whitted's.

(NOW HE SEPARATES THEM SO THAT WE CAN SEE THE SKETCHES SIDE BY SIDE)

Neither of us figures to win an art prize, but you can see that there's much alike between the two drawings: the cigar-shape, the stream of flame from the rear...and two rows of what appears to be windows of some kind.

(CUT BACK TO CHILES)

EDWARDS: (V.O.)

Any idea of the size?

CHILES:

The fuselage appeared to be about 3 times the circumference of a B-28. I'd say it was about 100 feet in length. We heard no noise when it passed, nor did we feel any turbulence.

EDWARDS:

And you had no idea of what it was.

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CHILES:

Had no idea then. Still have no
idea. I made my report. I've
read what some authorities say it
was...a fireball or something...
I still say it was cigar-shaped,
it had two rows of some kind of
windows, large and square. Now
if this is what a fireball looks
like, then maybe it was. But I
don't think it was a fireball. On
the other hand, I haven't any other
explanation that I'd like to give.
I just don't know what it was. I
made my report. I feel that it's
up to the experts in the field to
tell me what it was...if they can.
So far, nobody has told me. I know
it was fully investigated. If the
Air Forces, or anyone, has an ex-
planation, I'd like to hear it.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

EDWARDS:

Thanks to Captain Clarence Chiles
of Eastern Airlines for his state-
ment. Is there an answer...what
did the Air Force investigation
turn up on the Chiles sighting...

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

...the Mantell tragedy...and on literally thousands of Flying Saucer reports that have been made during the past 10 years? We're going to the very center of Air Force Intelligence activity to get the facts...get them directly from the "Restricted" files that have been thrown open to us...thrown open for the first time for public examination. What they reveal will be our story for the second act of UFO...THE ENIGMA OF THE SKIES!

We will be back in just a minute.

(FADE OUT EDWARDS)

(DISSOLVE TO COMMERCIAL)

END OF ACT ONE

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ACT TWO

(FADE IN)

(EDWARDS - WORK AREA)

EDWARDS:

For ten years plus six months...
from every state of the Union...
and from virtually every country
on the globe...there has been an
unending flood of reported sight-
ings of UFOs...Unidentified Fly-
ing Objects...Flying Saucers! The
idea that this was some type of
mass hallucination...a delusion
...was quickly discarded.

People were seeing something...
something was there...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-1. ARTCARD OF
THICK RUDDERED SAUCER PBB-86)

An employee of a supersonic lab-
oratory saw a thick-ruddered ob-
ject like this...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-2. ARTCARD OF
SAUCER WITH LIGHTED PORTHOLES, PBB
88)

A round object, with portholes
and flashing lights was spotted
by two airline pilots.

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(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-3. ARTCARD OF WINGED SAUCER. PBB 79)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

A naval aviation student, his wife, and several others attending a drive-in movie saw a winged saucer surrounded by a deep red glow.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-4. ARTCARD OF BOOMERANG SAUCER. PBB 78)

Two rug-cleaners saw a boomerang-shaped saucer with cup-like projections.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

World reaction to sightings such as these ranged from the cynical to the sensational...from attempts at calm appraisal...to excursions into fantasy calculated to create a maximum of hysteria and confusion.

Charges have flown as thick and fast as the Saucers.

Authorities have been accused of dropping a paper curtain on the problem...issuing statements hiding

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

the true facts from the public.
On the other hand, the proponents
of Flying Saucers...those who say
they truly exist...have been labeled
sensationalists, hoaxers...and down-
right liars.

What are the facts? Where is the
evidence? Where do we go for our
story?

(FILM - EST. SHOT WRIGHT-PATTERSON
AIR-BASE, DAYTON, OHIO)

We begin here... Wright-Patterson
Air Base, Dayton Ohio... headquarters
of the Air Technical Intelligence
Center... charged with the responsi-
bility of investigating all Flying
Saucer Reports.

Here... ten years ago... the Air
Forces began...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-5. PULL-OUT CHART
THAT FOLLOWS EDWARDS' NARRATION)

...their Flying Saucer analysis
program with Project Sign...

(PULL-OUT CHART SHOWS "PROJECT SIGN")

In time, this became...

["2 - 33", "(PULL-OUT CHART SHOWS ARROW POINTING\nTO PROJECT \"GRUDGE\")", "EDWARDS: (Cont'd)", "...Project Grudge...which, in\nturn...", "(PULL-OUT CHART SHOWS ARROW POINTING\nTO \"PROJECT BLUE BOOK\")", "...became Project Blue Book...the\npresent title under which the pro-\ngram operates. Since January, 1955,\nthe investigation work of Project\nBlue Book has had the services of...", "(PULL-OUT CHART REVEALS \"4602ND AIR\nINTELLIGENCE SERVICE SQUADRON\" CON-\nNECTED BY LINE TO \"PROJECT BLUE BOOK\")", "...the 4602nd Air Intelligence\nService Squadron (Air Defense\nCommand)...a highly-trained\nfield investigation outfit\nwith ...", "(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-6, SHOWING LOCA-\NTION OF FIELD UNITS OF AISS)", "...field units scattered around\nthe country so deployed that they\ncan arrive \"on the spot\" almost\nimmediately that a sighting is\nreported.", "(MORE)"]

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

This is the Air Forces setup...

(EDWARDS CROSSES TOWARDS WALL-CHART)

...and here's why they're in business...

(CUT TO CHART. EXHIBIT II-7, SHOWING UFO SIGHTINGS BY YEAR SINCE 1947)

...over 6,000 reported Flying Saucer sightings since 1947... each sighting investigated and analyzed by specialists and top-notch scientific personnel.

From 100 sightings in 1947, the reports zoomed to 1165 in 1952... then dropped to about the 420 level in 1953...more or less holding at that figure to 1955... when, once again, a bull market on Flying Saucers began.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

At Wright-Patterson, we get the promise of full cooperation from the Air Forces. Doors are open to us...files, hitherto classified as "restricted"...are thrown open to us.

(MORE)

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(EDWARDS CROSSES TOWARDS TABLE WHERE
FILES ARE HEAPED)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

Whatever we ask for...specific
cases...details...intelligence
reports...photos...films...so
far as we know, nothing is with-
held.

And here they are.

(CUT TO TABLE)

The raw files...just as they ex-
ist in the office of the ATIC at
Wright-Patterson.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS. HE CROSSES
OVER A BIT SO THAT WE SEE CAPTAIN
JONES - TRUE NAME TO COME - STAND-
ING BY THE TABLE)

And this is Captain Jones,

( [TITLE]) here to explain
how the Air Forces distills the
information contained in these
reports...then determines the
probable nature of the object
sighted.

Ready to roll, Captain?

JONES:

Yes, sir.

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EDWARDS:

O.K.

(EDWARDS LIFTS A FILE FROM TABLE)

This case attracted nationwide attention just this past year...

(CUT TO CU OF FILE TAB. IT READS:

"EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA,
2 MAY 1957")

Edwards Air Force Base, California
...May 2nd, 1957.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS. HE OPENS FILE)

Here's a copy of an INS dispatch direct from the Air Base.

(READS) Officers at Edwards Air Force

Base today were studying films made of a purported "UFO" seen over the Base. The object was photographed by two civilian technicians who used special equipment to track and record it. Unofficial sources said the object appeared circular and glinted brightly in the morning sun. Intelligence officers at Edwards Base, a hush-hush Air Force Test Center, would say almost nothing of the incident. (HE LOOKS UP)
What about it, Captain?

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JONES:

The Intelligence Officers would say
nothing about it because they were
waiting for information.

Immediately upon report of the
sighting....

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8A. MESSAGE FORM
REQUESTING RADAR INFORMATION)

...radar, aircraft and nearby
flight-test units were checked.
All response was...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8B. TELETYPE
FORM SHOWING NEGATIVE RESPONSE)

...negative.

Meantime, the photos were devel-
oped. They showed that the object...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8C. PHOTO OF
ELLIPTICAL OBJECT)

...went from elliptical shape to...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8D. PHOTO OF ROUND
SHAPE)

...round...and then back to...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8E. PHOTO OF
ELLIPTICAL SHAPE)

(MORE)

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JONES: (Cont'd)

...elliptical. This proved to our analysts that it was definitely a spherical shape with the sun rays hitting its surface at an angle.

(CUT TO JONES AND EDWARDS)

We were still waiting on reports from weather stations at Palmdale Airport, George Air Force Base, Mojave, China Lake Naval Air Station and Edwards.

All but Edwards were negative. But Edwards Air Force Base reported a weather balloon released at 0740 hours and tracked by instruments until 0820 hours.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8F. SKETCH OF LOCALE OF SIGHTING)

Here's a sketch of the locale of the sighting.

(PENCIL COMES INTO SKETCH POINTING OUT FEATURES)

Edwards Air Force Base. Observer's location. The horizon. The sun's position. First sighting of UFO at 0802 hours. Last sighting at 0810 hours.

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(CUT BACK TO JONES)

JONES: (Cont'd)

Based upon the actual track of
the weather balloon...as recorded
by instrument...we made a time-
track-bearing plot.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-8G. TIME-TRACK BEARING PLOT OF BALLOON)

The balloon passed over the exact
spot of the sighting at precisely
the time recorded by the observers.

Our conclusion: there is no com-
pelling reason to conclude that
the object sighted was other than
the balloon released only a few
minutes prior to the sighting.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS AND JONES)

EDWARDS:

This information was given to the
press...

JONES:

Certainly. But, as always, the
denial or explanation never gets
the publicity of the original
story.

A good example of that is the

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JONES: (Cont'd)

tragic Mantell Case you mentioned
earlier. Unfortunately, the Air
Force must accept some blame for
this. Working fast, under tremen-
dous pressure from the newspapers
...and without the benefit of the
present experienced personnel and
advisers, the initial explanation
stated that Mantell mistook the
planet Venus for a UFO and crashed
when he blacked out from lack of
oxygen.

We still believe he crashed be-
cause he blacked out. But in 1952,
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, then
head of Project Blue Book, re-
opened the investigation.

The Air Forces now believe...based
on good evidence...that this is
what Mantell was chasing....

(CUT TO FILM - SKYHOOK BALLOON)

...a skyhook balloon. In 1948
these giant 100-foot balloons,
designed to explore the upper
air...were top secret. Few
knew about them. Investigation

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JONES: (Cont'd)

revealed that in January, 1948...
the time of the Mantell crash...
these sky-hooks were being launched
from Clinton County Air Force Base
in Southern Ohio.

Ruppelt obtained a weather-map show-
ing wind direction on January 7, 1948.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-9. MAP OF OHIO-
TENNESSEE-KENTUCKY REGION. NOT AT HAND)

Starting here at Clinton County Air
Force Base...

(PENCIL NOW COMES INTO FRAME AND BEGINS
TO SKETCH ROUTE AS JONES DESCRIBES IT)

...prevailing winds would have car-
ried the balloon west for a while
as it climbed. At about 40,000 (?)
feet, the balloon would have en-
tered the wind jet-stream flowing
south. It would move rapidly south,
still climbing. At a point some-
where south or southwest of Godman
Air Base...here...it would have
climbed through the jet stream into
a calm belt..and then it would slowly
drift south or southeast...directly
over the area where the UFO was spotted.

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JONES: (Cont'd)

You believe it's possible for
trained observers...pilots like
Capt. Mantell...to see a balloon
and not recognize it as such.

JONES:

Certainly.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-10. PHOTO OF
BALLOON IN NEAR HORIZONTAL POSITION)

Strong wind currents can send a
balloon into an almost horizontal
position.

Visibility can play tricks. Dur-
ing the day a balloon can look...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-11. PHOTO OF
BALLOON IN DAY)

...like this. The same balloon
at twilight or dawn can look...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-12. PHOTO OF
BALLOON AT TWILIGHT)

...like this.

Angle of vision is important.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-13. PHOTO OF
BALLOON FROM GUN CAMERA)

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JONES: (Cont'd)

This was a reported sighting
from over Minneapolis. An F-86
fighter took this picture with
its gun camera.

(CUT BACK TO JONES AND EDWARDS)

Before we had our investigation
techniques worked out, we were
often stymied because we had no
report of any balloons launched
in the vicinity of a reported
sightings. We now know that
balloons...sky-hooks particularly
...can appear thousands of miles
from the original launching area.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-14. CHART OF SKY-HOOK FROM JAPAN TO ATLANTIC)

Here's a skyhook that was launched
in Japan...tracked by ______ all
the way across the pacific...it
meandered all over the country be-
fore it finally sailed off into the
Atlantic. This resulted in liter-
ally dozens of UFO reports.

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

EDWARDS:

On that basis, then, some large

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

percentage of Flying Saucers reports are actually nothing but balloons.

JONES:

Right.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-15. THIS IS THE TABULATED UFO REPORT. IT NOW SHOWS: "BALLOONS - 26.4%")

Latest figures show that balloons account for 26.4% of all UFO sightings!

EDWARDS:

Let's take another case, Captain.

(HE REACHES ON TABLE AND PICKS UP FILE AND OPENS IT)

This sighting occurred about nine months ago and stirred up quite a hornet's nest.

I'll read from the first teletype report.

(HE READS) Three objects observed. Round-shaped, steady white light. No trail or exhaust. Moving slowly well above horizon, southwest of Macon, Georgia. Sightings

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JONES: (Cont'd)

Part of the operation was the dropping of parachute flares from aircraft...as well as jet-support for ground operations.

We obtained the photographs mentioned in the report.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-17. NIGHT PHOTO FROM MACON)

Enlargements of the black-and-white pictures gave us no clues.

Luckily, we also received some color slides. Using a new photo-analysis technique developed by the FBI, we managed to get some surprising results.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-18. COLOR SLIDE OF MACON SIGHTING (SMALL)

The first slide showed little more than two bright dots...with some indefinite green shading around them.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-19. COLOR SLIDE OF MACON SIGHTING (LARGE))

But...on further enlargement...the wings and body of jets come into view. The bright object is the flame from the jet's after-burner.

(MORE)

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(CUT TO EDWARDS AND JONES)

JONES: (Cont'd)

Case solved.

Conventional aircraft often seem
to be what they are not.

Here's an example.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-20. JET IN FOG)

This is a jet flying at high-speed
in a fog-shrouded sky. The speed
causes a moisture condensation around
the wings which give the appearance
of a disc or saucer.

Planes of unorthodox figuration...
swept-wing and delta jobs...
give rise to many UFO sightings.

And...just to complicate things
further...here's what you may be
seeing in the sky in the near
future:

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-21. FLYING PANCAKE)

...the Flying Pancake...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-22. FLYING DISC)

...and a true Flying Disc...
now under development by AVRO,
Ltd.of Canada.

(MORE)

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EDWARDS:

How large a percentage of UFO sightings does the Air Force attribute to conventional aircraft, Captain?

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-23. TABULATED UFO REPORT. NOW ADD "AIRCRAFT 28.8%")

JONES:

Very high. 28.8%

EDWARDS:

All right, Captain....let's have another go at a case taken directly from the Air Technical Intelligence Center Files.

(HE REACHES FOR FILE AND OPENS IT)

I'll read excerpts from an Air Forces Messageform dated March 13, 1957 and sent from ATIC to Commander, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida... Dept. of Naval Operations, Washington ...Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Forces Base, Nebraska... Commander, Eastern Air Defense Force, New York.

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(CUT TO SHOT OVER EDWARD'S SHOULDnder
SHOWING HIM READING FROM FILE)

EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

High Headquarters USAF levels
request immediate action to obtain
further details or explanation re-
garding UFO observed by Pan American
World Airways Pilot, Captain Mathew
Van Winkle, Flight 257 to San Juan,
Puerto Rico on night of 9 March
1957. Background information:
Flight was at 19,000 feet, when
object resembling large, bright
spotlight appeared coming directly
towards airliner. Van Winkle
made abrupt pull-up to avoid
collision. Co-pilot describes
object as resembling "a magnesium-
flash in color with pale green
tint." Crew insists not meteor.

Expediency of action regarding
this matter would be appreciated.

(EDWARDS LOOKS UP)

This sighting caused quite a news-
paper stir ...

JONES:

It did.

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EDWARDS:

Well, what does the Air Force
have to say about it?

JONES:

Reports from the wire you just
read were completely negative.
There was no aircraft or guided
missile activity in the area that
could account for the sighting.

However, CAB...the Civil Aero-
nautics Board did report six other
commercial flights over approxi-
mately the same area at the time
of the sighting. Five of the six
planes reported similar sightings.
So we plotted out their position
on a map ...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-24. MAP OF OCEAN SHOWING PLANES. HAND WITH POINTER POINTS OUT FEATURES AS JONES CONTINUES)

JONES:

The plane involved....Pan American
World Airways Flight 257 was roughly
in this position...347 nautical
miles southwest of Bermuda...705
nautical miles east of Jacksonville,

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JONES: (Cont'd)

53 miles south...and 100 miles
east was Pan American Flight 215.
The pilot reported a white light
surrounded by a greenish glow
traveling at a high speed in a
southeast direction. Its tra-
jectory suddenly dipped and it
disappeared from sight.

Pan American Flight 215A...here...
saw brilliant white blue light
that suddenly broke into distinct
parts and disappeared.

Eastern Air Lines Trip 839 ...here
...reported bluish green object,
west, southwest of their plane.

TransCaribbean Flight 600...here...
saw very small white light that
became greenish white ball of
fire as it descended.

Pan American Flight 261...here...
saw a very bright white light with
greenish tint on a descending
trajectory.

Pan American Flight 215A..here...
saw bright green colored light

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JONES: (Cont'd)

that split apart.

Pan American Flight 257A...here...
reported no sighting.

JONES:

Plotting the various sightings
showed that all the planes had
sighted the same object. The fact
that one plane 175 miles away was
able to see the object at the
same time as PAWA Flight 257 took
evasive action proves that it was
far too large to be either a plane
or a guided missile.

The major clues, however, were the
color, the trajectory and the
fact that it seemed to split apart.

This description coincides with
the known features of what are
known as "bolides" or "fireballs"
...a rather rare astronomical
phenomenon....but reported from
time to time, especially from the
Southwest.

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EDWARDS:

So the Air Forces attributes the
sighting to a "fireball"...

JONES:

It was not only our findings.
We submitted all the data to the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa-
tory and they affirmed our con-
clusions completely.

EDWARDS:

Do these astronomical phenomena
play a large part in the UFO story?

JONES:

Quite a bit. The moon and the
planets, observed through haze,
light fog or moving clouds can
play optical tricks. And then
there are the rarer celestial
sights: mirages, auroral displays
...or, how about this...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-25. AERIAL PHOTO-
GRAPH OF SUBSUN)

JONES:

...a beautiful flying disc caught
by an Air Force photographic
mission near Richmond, Indiana.

EDWARDS:

And actually......

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JONES:

A surprisingly high figure.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II.27. UFO SIGHTING CHART.)

JONES:

We attribute 24.4% of current UFO sightings to astronomical phenomena.

EDWARDS:

All right...we'll move on to another case.

(EDWARDS TAKES A FILE FROM THE TABLE)

The date: August 21, 1955. The
place: Hopkinsville, Ky. Now...
according to press reports and
a coast-to-coast radio broadcast...
an entire family in the little village
of Kelly...8 miles north of Hopkins-
ville...were besieged for an entire
night by goblin-like creatures re-
ported to have emerged from a Flying
Saucer that landed nearby.

(HE LOOKS UP)

And...to make it all more binding
...here is a sketch of one of these
extra-terrestrial visitors, sworn to
as accurate by the family.

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(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-28. SKETCH OF
LITTLE GREEN MAN)

EDWARDS:

One of your investigators didn't
get to interview him, by any
chance?

JONES:

No...but we did interview the
family. They had spent the
evening....

JONES: (Cont'd)

...attending a religious meeting
at the local Holy Roller Church.
They had all undergone a tremen-
dous emotional experience which,
quite possibly, might account for
the incident.

The Hopkinsville creature, by the
way...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-29. SKETCH OF
BEARDED SPACEMAN)

JONES:

...has a cousin in our files.

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EDWARDS:

I suppose this whole UFO situation
is complicated by the crackpots
and hoaxers who insist on getting
into the act.

JONES:

It definitely is. One of the
roughest areas involves the so-called
"contact" sightings. People who
claim to have spoken to creatures
from Flying Saucers...some who
claim to have ridden in them...
and one, at least, who was wished
off to Venus and there married into
Venusian royalty. A whole cult has
grown up around these 'contact'
incidents...and woe to him that
dares to question.

EDWARDS:

Doesn't the Air Force question?

JONES:

Air Force policy is merely to ex-
amine the stories for evidence
that might be construed as repre-
senting a threat to the national
security. So far, we have no such
evidence. And we don't brush these
things by...we really go into them.

(MORE)

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JONES: (Cont'd)

Here...for instance...is an illustration from one of the most widely-distributed books relating to a 'contact' sighting. It's supposed to be a photo of the Flying Saucer as it took off.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-30. ADAMSKI PHOTO)

JONES:

This might be anything, of course ...so our experts set about trying to reproduce it...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-31. AIR FORCES VERSION OF ADAMSKI SAUCER)

JONES:

And they did...with the top of a tobacco humidor...three ping-pong balls...and the nipple from a baby's bottle.

JONES:

We never go on the assumption that anything is a fraud. We put all material sent to us through the analysis mill.

Here's one of the classic Flying

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JONES: (Cont'd)

Saucer photos...printed time
and again in their publications...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-32. SAUCER AND
SHRUBBERY)

JONES:

A California High School student
took the picture.

Well...we received it...and did
an analysis...

(DISSOLVE TO EXHIBIT II-33. SAUCER
PICTURE ANALYSIS - THREE SHOTS.
START AT TOP AND PAN DOWN)

JONES:

The original photo showed every-
thing in focus except the object.
It also showed us the shadows
on the foliage.

Second photo shows that the shadow
on the saucer is opposite to the
direction of the shadows on the
foliage.

The third photo reveals a thumb-
print at the left of the photo...
undoubtedly that of the individual
who carefully concocted the hoax.

(MORE)

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JONES: (Cont'd)

Cleverness knows no end in this
Flying Saucer business.

Here's a beauty ...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-34. LAMP SAUCER)

JONES:

Enlargement reveals ...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-35. ENLARGEMENT
OF LAMP SAUCER)

JONES:

...strange lines coming from the
base....

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-36. FURTHER
ENLARGEMENT OF LAMP SAUCER)

JONES:

...and further enlargement show
these lines to be part of a stand-
ing floor-lamp...the saucer turn-
ing out to be the globe.

JONES:

We get all kinds of pranks.

(HE REACHES UNDER TABLE AND BRINGS
UP THE COPPER BALL)

...here's a lulu... supposedly a

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JONES: (Cont'd)

UFO picked up by an Ohio science
teacher. This had pretty good
newspaper and TV coverage....

EDWARDS:

Looks very formidable. A genuine
sputnik, Captain?

JONES:

Afraid not. Someone tried to put
Russian words on the interior...
but they overlooked the English
printing on the tubes...

EDWARDS:

How did it get this Florida-tan?

JONES:

Blow-torch.

(EDWARDS RETURNS TO COPPER BALL TO
JONES)

EDWARDS:

Very neat job.

JONES:

The point that should be made here
is that it costs the government
some $2,000 per UFO investigation.
The smart-alecks who send in this
stuff might think twice if they
remember its their own tax money
they're wasting...money that can

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JONES: (Cont'd)

go into serious research, so badly
needed at this time.

EDWARDS:

In the total picture, Captain,
what percentage of UFO reports
are classified as hoaxes?

JONES:

We lump this category into a general
heading, along with sightings that
turn out to be birds, searchlights,
and so on ...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-37. UFO SIGHTING CHART. ADD "OTHER - 6.4%")

JONES:

...and they add up to 6.4%.

EDWARDS:

And can ATIC solve all UFO reports
referred to it?

JONES:

No. Many sightings come to us
with insufficient data...pertinent
items of information missing...
these ...

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-38. UFO SIGHTING

2 - 63

CHART. ADD "INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION - 12.1%")

JONES: (Cont'd)

...add up to 12.1%.

EDWARDS:

Doesn't this last category represent rather a large loophole?

JONES:

No. Without precise description of size, shape or color of the object...without knowing direction and altitude...time and location...wind and weather conditions...we cannot reach a valid conclusion based on legitimate evidence. The Air Force provides every observer of a UFO with a detailed questionnaire. This is kept in confidence if it is so desired. But we must have full information if a sighting is to get a complete analysis.

EDWARDS:

Well...thank you for your very fine presentation of the Air Force's analysis of Flying Saucer reports, Captain Jones.

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JONES:

Glad to have been able to be here
Mr. Edwards.

(JONES MOVES OUT OF PICTURE AND WE
MOVE IN ON EDWARDS)

EDWARDS:

Can all UFO reports be attributed
to objects or phenomena strictly
earthly in nature.

Let's have another look at that
UFO Sighting chart.

(CUT TO EXHIBIT II-38. UFO SIGHTING
CHART)

If you add up the percentages...
(HAND WITH GREASE-PENCIL COMES INTO
FRAME AND PUTS TOTAL...."98.1%")

...you find you've got 98.1%.

That leaves a little balance...

1.9% exactly.

(HAND WRITES IN: "UNKNOWN...1.9%")

1.9% of all sightings still listed
as "unknown".

(CUT BACK TO EDWARDS)

EDWARDS:

Not too many...just a little less
than 2%. Yet if even only one
out of every 100 UFO Saucer reports

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EDWARDS: (Cont'd)

represented an object of inter-
planetary origin...then we still
would have the biggest news story
of the century. What about that
remaining 2%. What about the
"unknown" still in the ATIC files?
There are motion pictures in ex-
istence purporting to show real Flying
Saucers. What about them? And what
about the evidence of the proponents
of the extraterrestrial origin of UFO?

This will be our story for the next
act of UFO...THE ENIGMA OF THE SKIES
...which will continue in just a
moment.

(FADE OUT EDWARDS)

END OF ACT TWO

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"UFO ... THE ENIGMA OF THE SKIES"

ACT THREE

1. Showing of the "Trementon" and "Montana" films.... the only motion pictures in existence purporting to show Flying Saucers in action.

2. Evidence for UFO...Major Donald Kehoe. Major Kehoe is the outstanding proponent of the extra-terrestrial origin of Flying Saucers. He has published two books on the subject and lectures on the subject from coast-to-coast. He is the head of the National Aerial Phenomenon Investigating Committee.

3. The scientists point-of-view...Professor Donald Menzel. Prof. Menzel has been the most outspoken critic of the "extra-terrestrial" theory. His book entitled 'Flying Saucers' is considered definitive. He is Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

4. An impartial evaluation...Ed Ruppelt. Mr. Ruppelt was at one time the head of the Air Force investigation, Operation Blue Book. After his departure from service, he published a book entitled "Unidentified Flying Objects".

5. Air Force Decision of True Nature of UFO...Sec. of Air Donald A. Quarles. Mr. Quarles will release for the very first time the findings of a panel of distinguished scientists on UFO.

6. Final Summary by Doug Edwards...it's up to you!