UFO (1956 film)

Unidentified Flying Objects is a 1956 semidocumentary about the development of the UFO phenomenon in the United States. Video clips from the documentary have often been used in other UFO documentaries and television episodes related to UFOs.

The documentary starts in 1947, with the first widelypublicized UFO sightings in the United States, including recreations of the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting, the Mantell UFO incident, and the Gorman Dogfight. It then traces the development of UFOs as both a popular fad and a serious concern for the US Air Force. The history of Project Sign, the first Air Force study of the UFO phenomenon, is discussed. The documentary then focuses upon Albert M. Chop and his growing involvement with UFOs. Chop is assigned as the public information officer at WrightPatterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, in the late 1940s. In that position he is required to answer numerous news media queries about UFO sightings and what the Air Force knows about them. Although he is initially portrayed as a UFO debunker, Chop gradually changes his views as the movie progresses, and he comes to believe that UFOs are unknown, and possibly extraterrestrial, aircraft. By 1952 Chop has moved to Washington, DC, where he is the press spokesman for Project Blue Book. The documentary analyzes two famous pieces of UFO footage the Mariana UFO Incident of 1950, in which the manager of the Great Falls, Montana minorleague baseball team claimed to have filmed two UFOs flying over the baseball stadium, and the 1952 UFO film taken near the Great Salt Lake in Utah by a US Navy photographer, Delbert Newhouse. The documentary concludes with the famous 1952 Washington DC UFO incident, in which Albert Chop played a central role. The documentary recreates Chops experiences during the incident, and at the end of the documentary Chop states his belief that UFOs are a real, physical phenomenon of unknown origin.Actor Harry Morgan, who would later become famous for his role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on the television series MASH and on for his role as Detective Bill Gannon on the television series Dragnet 1967 portrays the voice of Air Force pilot Red Dog One during scenes describing the 1952 Washington, DC UFO incident

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