May 1, 1973🇺🇸Disclosure

Emenegger-Sandler: USAF Offers UFO Documentary Footage, Then Withdraws

Film makers Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler, producing a UFO documentary, are contacted by Colonel Robert Coleman (former Project Blue Book spokesman) and Colonel George Weinbrenner (former ATIC commander at Wright-Patterson). The colonels promise extraordinary material: film footage of alien accompanied by Air Force officer (survivor of 1949 crash, kept at Los Alamos safe house until death in 1952), memo about six CIA officers meeting alien 'Affa,' secret astronaut UFO photos, and 800 feet of film showing encounter between three aliens and officials at Holloman AFB (May 1971 or April 1964). They visit CIA's NPIC and Norton AFB where Paul Shartle (head of security/audiovisual) promises the Holloman footage. Months later, Coleman calls off the deal — 'the timing was politically inappropriate, due to the Watergate scandal.' Weinbrenner later tacitly confirms the Holloman film's reality. In 1988 documentary 'UFO Cover-up: Live!', Shartle describes the Holloman footage: 'three disc-shaped craft,' one landed on three pods, three human-sized aliens with grey complexions, pronounced noses, tight jump suits, thin headdresses. Grant Cameron concludes this was an abortive insider-driven disclosure attempt.

Date
May 1, 1973
Type
Disclosure
Country
🇺🇸 United States

Background

1. In 1973, film makers Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler were contacted by two former Air Force officers regarding a UFO documentary they were producing. The officers initially promised film footage of alien craft, but the offer was later withdrawn.

The Incident Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler, who were working on a UFO documentary, were approached by Colonel Robert Coleman and Colonel George Weinbrenner. Coleman was a former spokesman for Project Blue Book, and Weinbrenner was a former commander at the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The colonels offered Emenegger and Sandler film footage depicting alien craft.

Investigation The provided text does not describe any official investigation into the withdrawal of the footage.

Significance The Emenegger-Sandler incident is significant within the UFO context because it suggests potential official interest in, and then subsequent backing away from, public disclosure of UFO-related information. The involvement of former high-ranking Air Force personnel lends credence to the idea that the government possesses significant UFO-related materials. The withdrawal of the promised footage raises questions about the motivations behind government secrecy regarding UFOs.

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