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Subject: Three 'Bird-Colonels' & Holloman AFB




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>Bruce, why not go ahead and tell the rest of the story, how our
>buddy, William "Bill" Moore, allegedly (according to his own
>confession at the 1989 MUFON International Convention) had
>Bennewitz railroaded into a "mental hospital" where he received
>"shock treatments" for his "alleged" mental aberations.

>Moore took a specific interest in Bennewitz and decided he was
>going to get to the bottom of his claims. 

>Bennewitz not only had pictures, but he had motion picture
>movies which he had taken of these UFOs coming and going near
>the air base and in the hills in Albuquerque, NM. I guess I need
>to get my files on Bennewits out so I can quote from them
>directly, rather than from memory.

>Remember, Bruce, one man's trash is another man's Treasure....

'Speaking' of which' - Holloman came up again in my life this past
weekend.

During a phone conversation with James M. McCampbell, author of
Ufology: New Insights from Science and Common Sense' (Belmont,
Ca.: Jaymac Company, 1973) this past Saturday, November 14, Jim
dropped a new-one on me re. The Holloman 'Landing'. He almost
casually mentioned that three military "Bird-Colonels" - MDs
"left with the visitors."! On their return, one Colonel went
insane, one died and Jim didn't know what happend to the other.

I've scoured the archives here and couldn't find any reference
to the 'Bird Colonels' - does anyone have anything further to
Jim's story?

Below, for those who haven't any idea what I'm refering to are
a couple of files from the archives here...

ebk

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Date: 05-10-94 (07:32)        Number: 4615 of 4650 (Refer# NONE)
  To: ALL
From: JOHN POWELL
Subj: UFO Meeting            
Read: (N/A)                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE (Echo)
Conf: F-BAMA (955)            Read Type: READING ALL (+)

 * Originally By: Ken Bozeman
 * Originally To: All
 * Originally Re: UFO Meeting
 * Original Area: NASA Discussion and Q&A Echo
 * Forwarded by : Blue Wave v2.12 OS/2

                   The Eclectic Viewpoint Newsletter
                               May 1994

                     THE UFO LANDING AT HOLOMAN AFB
                        STRANGER THAN FICTION?

o  Does the Government have Film Footage of a UFO Landing at
   Holloman AFB

o  Did Nonhuman Entities Exit the Disk and Communicate with the
   Base Commander?

o  What was so Different about the Appearance of these Aliens as
   Compared to those We Hear about Today?
-!--------------------------------------------------------------

May, 1971.  Three disk-shaped craft appear over Holloman AFB in
the desert of New Mexico.  One craft lands, three humanoid
occupants emerge and are greeted by scientists and military
representatives.  They retire to a building where they meet for
several hours.  All or most of the landing episode is captured
on several hundred feet of 16mm. movie film.

A few years later, the film production team of Alan Sandler and
Robert Emenegger (noted individually for their work with such
well known client as Bank of America, Armand Hammer, and Richard
Nixon) are contacted by high ranking Pentagon and Air Force
personnel. The Defense Department wants to improve its image
with a series of documentaries on space science break-throughs
in areas such as atomic fusion, 3-D moving holography, mind to
computer communication, and the amazing capabilities of animals
being trained for use in warfare.

It is suggested that a documentary to capitalize on the public's
fascination with UFOs is a possibility. A carrot is dangled in
the form a promise that the Holloman landing film can be used
for the project. Sandler and Emenegger decide to use it as the
stunning climax to a full length documentary portraying the
history of the UFO phenomenon.

In an unprecedented move, full cooperation is given by the Air
Force and Pentagon as well as past Blue Book officials, NASA,
and leading sociologists and psychologists. However, at the last
minute the promised use of the Holloman film is withdrawn. It is
suggested that the landing simulated while speculating that this
event might have happened in the past or could  happen in the
future.

Despite being denied access to the actual Holloman film, the
documentary UFO's, Past, Present and Future is completed in 1974
with Robert Emenegger writing the script as well as an
accompanying paperback book of the same title.

A classic in its field, with Rod Serling, Jose Ferrer, and
Burgess Meredith hosting this well researched NBC Special, it is
nominated for a Golden Globe Award and receives a 48% share of
the viewing audience. In the lat 1970s, Emenegger and Sandler
update their documentary with new footage narrated by Dr.
Jacques Vallee, the astrophysicist and prominent ufologist who
was the model for the French scientist in Steven Spielberg's
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The updated version is
entitled UFO's: It's Begun.

Since then, rumors about the documentary have swirled through
the UFO research community- rumors fueled by the unanswered
questions: Did the producers actually see the Holloman film? 
Were they able to slip a small snippet of the film into their
documentary?  Who was Alphonso Lorenzo, an individual said to be
intimately involved in the landing-contact episode and whose
military records were later purged? Why did the military offer
the use of the film initially and why was it withdrawn?

Now, in 1994, Robert Emenegger is prepared to publicly describe
his involvement in these projects. Full of twists and turns,
this "stranger than fiction" episode in the UFO saga will be
explored in depth. As anyone can attest who witnessed his
"coming out" at the 1994 Ozark UFO Conferen Bob Emenegger offers
a fascinating account of his discussions and relations with
military personnel regard  the documentaries made with Sandler,
the military's involvement with UFO-related matters, and the
Holloman film itself. Mr. Emenegger's presentation is not only
provocative and informative, but enlivened with his own wry
sense of humor.

A screenwriter and director for many documentaries, television
specials, and feature films for TV syndication, Robert Emenegger
is a 1965 UCLA graduate in film and winner of numerous First
Place awards and Gold Medals in domestic and foreign film
festivals.

He is the producer and director of ten original science fiction
feature films and four 2-hour documentaries for TV: laboratory;
PSI Factor; Captive; and Time Warp.

Other samples of Emenegger's works from Who 's Who in
Entertainment include: The Day the Silence Came; Hypnosis and
Beyond; Is Everyone Happy But Me?; and Death, The Ultimate
Mystery.

Before the lecture (7:30 p. m.), there will be a showing of the
film UFO Past, Present and Future. At the conclusion of his
talk, Emenegger will also show some interesting clips from
Hypnosis and Beyond, including how a "Manchurian Candidate" can
be created.

Don't miss this fascinating lecture. (A special thanks to Tom
Adams for background information used in this article.)

-!--------------------------------------------------------------
        When:  Friday, May 20. 1994
       Where:  Radisson Hotel
               LBJ Freeway at Midway Rd.
               Dallas, TX
   Admission:  $15.00
Hotline Info:  (214) 601-7687
       Times:  7:30 PM - Film
               8:15 PM - Lecture
-!--------------------------------------------------------------

Be sure to watch Prime Time Texas, Ch-8 on Tuesday, May 10, 1994
to see segment on the Eclectic Viewpoint and its founder,
Cheyenne Turner.

See EV_MEET.GIF for map to the Radisson Hotel.

--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.12 OS/2 [NR]
 * Origin: Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence BBS (1:261/408.0)
<<<>>>

Two excerpts from:

'UFO's Past, Present And Future'

Adapted by Sandler Institutional Films
from an original screenplay by Robert Emenegger,
Copyright pc 1974 by Sandler Institutional Films, Inc.

Research by Alan Frank Sandler
Special art and graphics by Celso Barroso

Cover design by Con Pederson
Copyright =A9 1974 by Sandler Institutional Films, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and
Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
SBN 345-24189-4-150

First Printing: October, 1974
Printed in Canada

BALLANTINE BOOKS
A Division of Random House, Inc.
201 East 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022
Simultaneously published by
Ballantine Books, Ltd., Toronto Canada


Pages 127-29

Let us look at an incident that might happen in the future -- or
perhaps could have happened already. The premise is that contact
is made by extraterrestrial beings with representatives of the
United States Air Force at Holloman AFB in the deserts of New
Mexico.

Early morning is breaking over the cool gray New Mexico desert.
We are in the operations tower of Holloman Air Force Base at the
landing field.

We hear, over an intercom, a voice: "Check list April ...
Charlie four standing by." From within the tower, we hear a
control operator giving some data to a pilot: "Wind,
northeasterly -- two knots. Temperature sixty-eight degrees,
visibility ten miles and clearing." Behind the operator's voice,
airmen are making small talk about the lousy coffee.

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 unidentified craft.

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'11 repeat it again -- unidentified approaching objects -- on
coordinate forty-niner -- thirty-four degrees southwest
following an erratic approach course..."

The controller, sipping his coffee, responds: "Probably a stray
-- civilian maybe? Keep me informed." He turns to his associate.
"Check with Edwards." He scoots his chair up next to the
radioman's. "Make contact with him, Bill."

The radio operator depresses the talk button and flicks a
control switch: "This is Holloman Air Force Base Control Tower.
Identify yourself. You are encroaching on military air space --
warning -- identify yourself -- what is your tail number? You
are in a restricted military air corridor." There is a pause and
the airman turns to the controller: "No response."

The controller searches the airman's face for a reaction. "My
god, what the hell do you make of it?" He pushes the intercom,
connecting him to the base commander. He passes his binoculars
to the airman, saying, "Here, look through my glasses."

Inside the commander's pale green office, a sergeant picks up
the phone: "Base commander's office, Sergeant Whitmore speaking.
Yes, yes -- hold on. Colonel, for you."

The colonel swivels around in his chair and picks up the line:
"This is Colonel Horner. Yes... yes, an unidentified vehicle.
You warned the craft again? It's a what shape?... Check
Edwards?... The civilian patrol? OK, right." The colonel sits
for a moment with the phone in his lap, then makes a decision.
Pushing a line on the squawk box, he leans forward: "Sound a red
alert -- unidentified craft approaching." He rises and calls to
his aide, "Bill, make a quick check with Wright-Patterson and
Intelligence -- it may be an experimental craft from nearby.
Alert the fire chief and security and safety." Searching for the
plausible explanation, he mutters, "Sounds like a damned lunar
module experiment."

Two military interceptors are dispatched to escort the
unidentified craft out of the area.

By chance, cameramen, a technical sergeant and a staff sergeant,
of the base photographic team, are aboard a base helicopter on a
routine photographic mission at the time, and they run off
several feet of film of three objects in the sky over Holloman.
One of the objects breaks away and begins a descent. A second
high-speed camera crew, set up to photograph a test launch, turn
their camera toward the object and run off approximately six
hundred feet of 16mm color film.

The cameras continued to roll as the extraordinary vehicle comes
into view. It hovers, almost silently, about ten feet off the
ground for nearly a minute, and yaws like a ship at anchor. Then
it sets down on three extension arms.

The commander and two officers, along with two base Air Force
scientists, arrive and wait apprehensively. A panel slides open on
the side of the craft.

Stepping forward, there are one, then a second, and a third --
what appear to be men dressed in tight-fitting jump suits.
Perhaps short by our standards, with an odd blue-gray
complexion, eyes set far apart. A large, pronounced nose. They
wear headpieces that resemble rows of a rope-like design.

The commander and the two scientists step forward to greet the
visitors. Arrangements are made by some inaudible sort of
communication and the group quickly retires to an inner office
in the King I area. There they are met and guided to the end of
Mars Street to the west area building number 930. Left behind
stand a stunned group of military personnel. Who the visitors
are, where they're from, and what they want is unknown.


Page 138-40

The third and most comprehensive report was from a highly
regarded psychologist in the field of social behavior. For
reasons of his own, his name will remain confidential His
analysis was peppered with enough levity to make it not only
informative but enjoyable.

He begins with the statement that available theory and research
can be quite useful, but in a very limited way. He then dubs the
Holloman Air Force Base incident as the
"Humanoid-Organisms-Allegedly-Extraterrestrial -- HOAEX, for
short." This he feels would be the reaction of the many eminent
scientists, statesmen, journalists, and educators that were not
asked to be present to witness the incident. The doctor states:

The initial skepticism, and outright disbelief publicly
expressed by many eminent scientific authorities as well as by
other prestigious leaders of the national community who were not
insiders will have a marked effect on the reactions of the U.S.
public. They will call attention to the improbabilities of the
TV press conference scenario such as:

-- How likely is it that creatures from another world with the
capability of sending emissaries here would do so without radio
contact first'?

-- How likely is it that the creatures could survive in the
earth's atmosphere -- or are they in a sealed environment that
they brought along with many years' supply of the gases they
need, etc.?

-- Would the representatives of a vastly superior civilization
allow themselves to be kept at an Air Force base for three
years?

The announcement will also get a very ba' press from leading
scientists and politicians in the Soviet Union and in other
countries where the U.S. government, and especially the U.S.
military establishment, is not trusted. Some of them will
point out that the U.S. would not be wasting its time on
presenting the HOAEX on TV unless they were up to no good. For
example, they may speculate that the U.S. Air Force is planning
to use a new destructive weapon against the S.U. and claim to
the world, on the basis of its HOAEX show, that it was done by
remote control.

In the absence of any clear-cut demonstration that would be
utterly convincing to the majority of scientists outside the
little circle of the AFB, the authenticity of HOAEX will
continue to influence the public's views and actions, even if
supposedly convincing evidence is continuously being presented
on later TV shows and in documentary movies by the AF and its
scientists (and by other scientists invited to join the
prestigious university lab to which the HOAEX visitors have been
transferred- to counteract charges of an AF plot). Many of the
scientists who initially attacked the credibility of the original
TV show will have publicly committed themselves. And public
commitment is a great source of resistance to persuasive
communications that might otherwise change a person's mind; it
leads the person to reduce dissonance or con6ict by bolstering
his original position with new arguments. (Such studies have
been made by: Deutsch, Krauss and Rosenau, 1962; Festinger,
1964; Gerard, Blevans, and Malcolm, 1964; Janis and Mann, 1968;
Kiesler, 1968; McGuire, 1968.) So the public will continue to be
treated to a wide variety of impressive negativistic comments
during the months following the upcoming TV show, which will
make for considerable ambiguity.

[End of Excerpts]