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28 REVELATIONS field beyond what a well-financed production company could acquire, especially when it was harnessed to the vision of someone as gifted as Steven Spielberg. But the Sandler documentaries were another story, one in which I did become involved, as I have mentioned above. I was asked to be the narrator for the film's second release, and I helped the investigation team in gathering new material. The experience failed to convince me that the Air Force had a hangar full of scout ships, but it led me to conclude that something bizarre was happening behind the scenes. DANGLING CARROTS Early in 1985 Robert Emenegger called me about a new project. He had been approached again by Colonel Coleman, who was now retired and living in Florida. Coleman indicated the time might be right to produce a new film on UFOs; the government might release some evidence, he said, and Allen Hynek might be willing to participate again. At the time, Allen Hynek had retired from Northwestern University and was moving his private research center to Phoenix, Arizona, where he had been given hope of new funding. (This hope, unfortunately, never materialized.) He spoke to Emenegger, was intrigued by what he heard, and again sought my cooperation. Robert Emenegger had now reached a firm conclusion: the Depart- ment of Defense would, in fact, release sensational information, he told me, but only if it could be made part of a documentary that was professional enough and interesting enough to reopen the whole subject before the American public. If Emenegger could convince credible people like Hynek and myself to participate, then, and only then, would the "final" evidence be made available. The prospect of some kind of proof was being dangled in front of us again. My reaction to these feelers was negative and frankly skeptical, and I immediately cautioned Hynek. If the United States government had custody of a flying saucer, with or without little pilots, or even a piece of such a craft, that information in itself would be worth an entire