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One of the important UFO documentaries ever made as it was solicited and funded by the Pentagon in 1973. (Yes, the Pentagon.) The Department of Defence approached Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler to make the film and told them they could have access to any information they wanted. Includes narration by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame, footage from military spokesmen inside the Pentagon and a short film clip of an alleged alien spacecraft landing at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964.

n 1974, American documentary producer, Robert Emenegger, was asked by the Republican Party to produce a film about UFOs, using only official, government people and files. He was promised footage of an actual ‘flying saucer’ landing that had occurred at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico back in 1964.

His film was made and given the title of UFOs: Past, Present and Future.

Unfortunately, the promised footage was never forthcoming, but Emenegger had shot the dramatized parts of the segment beforehand (air force officers answering telephones, emergency trucks driving around, that kind of thing). These would have been used as inserts into the actual landing footage. What he was forced to do instead was use paintings of the alien craft and the meeting that occurred with its occupants.

A few years later, in 1976, the documentary was re-released as UFOs: It Has Begun and again in 1979 (no doubt to cash in on the success of the Steven Spielberg smash-hit movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), with additional material added from French ufologist Jacques Vallee and sections concerned with animal mutilations.