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Interviews and documentary footage combine with the story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.Interviews and documentary footage combine with the story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.Interviews and documentary footage combine with the story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.
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Willis Sperry
- Self
- (as Captain Willis Sperry)
John Samford
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Dr. John A. Sandford)
Olan Soule
- Narrator
- (voice)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaAl Chop refers to his son as "Chip." This would make his son Chip Chop.
- GoofsThe July 1, 1952 issue of Look magazine did not have Eisenhower on the cover as depicted, but a group of six pictures. One was of an Air Force fighter plane with the same blurb as the film's magazine: 'Flying Saucers - The Hunt Goes On'.
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Scared the Pants Off Me 40 Years Ago
This documentary features, among several incidents, the re-enactment of the 1950's flying saucer encounters over Washington DC and recordings from the Mantell crash. Very scary stuff at the time. I saw this on television when I was around 10 years old. It gave me quite a few sleepless nights thereafter. My father, who was a radar expert with the Army at the time, confirmed to me that everyone in the Signal Corps was well aware of the Washington incident. Further, he described to me their "hunting" UFO's with radar in the White Sands, New Mexico desert. He was there frequently in the 1950's. They were launching captured German V-2 rockets, doing above-ground A bomb tests, sending men into the stratosphere with ballons. THERE CERTAINLY WERE ALL KINDS OF WIERD STUFF GOING ON WITH THE ARMY IN THE SOUTHWEST DESERT. To me, at age 10, this seemed to be proof that the flying saucers were real. I spent much of my teenage years searching for the truth - What were the UFO's? Why were they here? As an adult, I've finally accepted that the aliens are NOT here, no Roswell crash, no attack on DC, no death ray shot at Mantell. I sometimes wonder WHY they're not here. In the 1950's and 60's, flying saucers were not the silly stuff of abductions and other talk show nonsense. No, in the 50's and 60's the military feared that there really was something beyond our own technology in the skys. I guess that our more mudane modern reality disappoints me. I recently captured this movie on tape. I had not seen it in 40 years. The production was certainly made on a shoestring. Still, the DC incident is gripping. It captures beautifully an important chapter in our history. one characterized by cold war paranoia, fear, but also a sense wonder and mystery. I miss it.
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- Jun 16, 2001
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- U.F.O.: The True Story of Flying Saucers
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956) officially released in Canada in English?
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