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ton as well. 1974): fied craft. 14 REVELATIONS Sandler and Emenegger. It was Colonel Coleman, an Air Force spokes- man, who handled the process, but they had other contacts in Washing- Several curious things happened during the filming of the documen- tary. When the question of unidentified space objects was raised with NASA, for instance, the agency flatly informed Alan Sandler that it had no relevant footage at all. But his Washington contact quickly supplied a list of flights, dates, and frame numbers of the astronauts’ films. Armed with that information, Sandler was able to force NASA into compliance—although the unidentified objects on the films are indeed questionable. Even more interesting was the matter of a certain Holloman Air Force Base "contact with alien beings," which was first raised by the military at a production meeting in Washington. Sandler and Emeneg- ger were told in a very curious and equivocal manner that it would be nice to include footage about "an actual contact that might occur in the future, or perhaps had already occurred," between aliens and the U.S. military. Where? Well, at a large, isolated base somewhere in the desert—like Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. A man named Paul Shartle, who was security manager and chief of procurements for the audio-visual program at Norton Air Force Base, told Emenegger that he had actually seen the film of the contact, which had been shot about 1970. Here is how Robert Emenegger describes the arrival of the objects in his book UFOs: Past, Present and Future (New York: Ballantine The day is clear. It's about 5:30 A.M. Traffic is light; one recon plane is on the field ready for takeoff when the tower phone rings and Sergeant Mann is given a report of an approaching unidenti- We shift to the radar hut. On the scope several blips appear as the radar scans the sky. The radarman leans into his phone: "I'll repeat it again—unidentified approaching objects—on coordinate