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"The True Story Of Flying Saucers

This marvelous black-and-white 1956 film has long been considered a "classic" UFO documentary-movie by those who are interested in the UFO phenomenon. The movie is based on the real-life experiences of Al Chop, a former journalist for the "Dayton Daily News" in Ohio. After World War Two he was hired as the Public Information Officer for Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, and in that capacity he became intimately involved with the UFO mystery. If you're interested in seeing an historically-accurate account of how the UFO phenomenon started in America, then this film is easily the best one you can buy. It starts out by recounting the first widely-publicized UFO sightings in America in 1947 and 1948 - from pilot Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine "flying disks" over Mt. Rainier in Washington State to the "Mantell Incident" in January 1948, in which a veteran fighter pilot was killed while chasing a UFO over Ft. Knox in Kentucky. It also describes how UFOs quickly became a popular "fad" and national craze. We then follow Air Force PR man Chop as he becomes involved with UFOs, first by answering numerous requests for information from pesky newspapermen about recent UFO sightings and what the Air Force knows about them, to his discussions with military officers and scientists.