What Have We Learned from the Holloman Air Force Base UFO Landing?
In 1974, a UFO film documentary had been released titled, UFOs: past, present and future. Produced by Robert Emenegger and narrated by Rod Serling, it explored the history of UFOs from the post war era to the present time (present for the early 1970s). The film was re-released in 1976 and 1979 as Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind catapulted the American population into a UFO craze.
The ending of the documentary by Emenegger provided what was supposed to be a hypothetical situation of a UFO landing at an Air Force base. It was a dramatized re-enactment without actors—only voices and sound effect—and video of an empty Air Force radio control room, rotating radar dishes, and a couple of jets taking off to explore an unidentified flying object that had invaded the airspace of Holloman Air Force base. At one point, a several second video revealed a mysterious light in the sky coming in from over the mountains.
The actual UFO landing in the film documentary was presented as detailed drawings of an alien spacecraft that descended and landed on the Air Force base, followed by two military police officers who approached the craft. In further drawings, non-human beings emerged from the craft wearing what appeared to be Sumerian head dresses, one of the beings holding a staff with a coil of wire.
In watching the supposed hypothetical situation and seeing the detailed drawings of the alien craft and alien creatures, you get the feeling that someone is trying to relay the idea that this is not hypothetical. You can't help but think, "Wait a minute... This isn't a what-if scenario made for the movie. This really happened!"
Well, in the early 1990s at a Eureka Springs conference, Robert Emenegger broke his silence on his experiences as the movie producer and writer during his two year project to create this UFO documentary. According to Emenegger, the documentary was made at the request of the Department of Defense with the requirement that the documentary use only government-provided material. And the DoD promised actual video footage of a 1964 UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base!
But when the documentary was completed, the promised UFO video footage was removed prior to its release. And to satisfy the DoD's promise, there were a meager 14 seconds worth of video revealing a barely discernible flying light over the mountains of the Air Force base.
The supposed hypothetical drawings used in the first edition of the book, UFOs—past present and future, were never published in subsequent editions. Emenegger explained that the drawings were made in the presence of the DoD officials who possessed 16mm film photographs taken from two cameras at Holloman Air Force base. These photos were taken on that fateful morning in 1964 when a UFO landed on base.
It's unclear if Emenegger [and whoever else involved] observed video footage as well. But descriptions go on to say that the incident appeared to have been a pre-arranged landing at the base in the White Sands missile range area in which three disks descended, one of them that seemed to have trouble and appeared to be wobbling.
What emerged from one of the crafts were beings who looked Sumerian and wore pleated head dresses over their bulging heads. Their eyes had vertical pupils which were often referred to as "cat eyes". One of the beings held a rod in the left hand as shown in the drawing with a coil wrapping around it. There were RF expert(s) present during the viewing of the photos [and video?] who understood the rod to be a communicator and also may have had the ability to paralyze people if they were threatened in some way. Emenegger made reference to a vague individual named Alfonzo Lorenzo (not the 1930s Argentine football player) who was some sort of scientist. His impression was that the beings who emerged from the spacecraft were scientists, themselves. There was a feeling of the beings being ancient Sumerian gods that are often seen in ancient stone statues.
The craft that had trouble and wobbled while landing was transported for repair by being placed on a truck and covered with a tent. It was brought to a building at the end of a street that was called Mars Avenue which no longer exists.
Robert Emenegger publicly described this in detail for the first time at the Eureka Springs Conference. He felt he could tell the story twenty years later because he checked with contacts in Washington DC about discussing this, and no one said that he couldn't. This speaking out 20 years later officially transcended the hypothetical event shown in the film documentary to that of reality.
But what can we learn from the Holloman Air Force base UFO landing? What can we take away from this?
Consider that in the late 1960s the government set forth a 20 year plan to gradually make the American population aware of extraterrestrial existence and their dealings here on Earth. The plan included the creation of documentaries that would bring to light historic visitations by extraterrestrials along with what their agenda currently is here on Earth.
Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released only a few years after Emenegger's UFOs—past, present and future with ET being released only a few years after Close Encounters. If the suggestion of a UFO landing on an Air Force base wasn't enough, the two Spielberg classics dove into some pretty heavy topics such as the alien exchange program (12 humans to spend time on Planet Serpo in exchange for extraterrestrials here on Earth). ET hints to a benevolent extra terrestrial that as stranded here on Earth (Area 51 crash and living being who was kept on base for a number of years).
The three movies certainly appeared to have fulfilled the plan of subtly suggesting to the public of what the government had known for some decades. Although not many younger people saw the Emenegger documentary, the Spielberg classics have been widely viewed by all three currently living generations. And the movies thrived through the 80s as those who hadn't seen them at movie theaters were able to view them at home on cable TV or video cassette. To this day in the 21st century, they continue to be watched. And what was once a topic belonging to sci-fi horror movies—space monsters invading Earth—was now a widespread understanding that there are civilizations throughout the universe of benevolent beings who visit Earth with various agendas.
We certainly can't say that Spielberg was approached by the DoD like Emenegger. There are indicators that the DoD was faced with a panic some time around the late 70s/early 80s with whatever was known about extraterrestrials. Some theorize that out of urgency of communicating the existence of extraterrestrials to the American public, the DoD simply substituted the Spielberg classics for the planned upcoming documentaries. They “hijacked” the Spielberg films and did whatever promoting they could to keep the public interested. This, in no way, discredits the masterpieces by Spielberg. There is no doubt that the movies would have continued to live on to this day as masterpieces, regardless of the DoD possibly “hijacking” them.
Resources
UFOs: Past, Present and Future (documentary) by Robert Emenegger
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (movie) by Steven Spielberg
ET (movie)
by Steven Spielberg