- Note - Special thanks to Tim for this excellent and revealing
breakdown of the program. Pay special attention to Hour Two and the Jennings
quotes... -jr
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- Individual Segment Lengths
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- Art Bell Segment : 3:40
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- Phoenix Lights Segment : 3:30
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- Center for UFO Studies Profile : 1:40
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- 2000 UFO case in Southern Illinois : 4:20
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- Early Ufology : 10:00
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- Project Blue Book, Allen Hynek : 3:30
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- Minot, ND UFO case : 6:20
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- Skeptics and SETI : 9:00
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- Roswell : 9:00
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- Abduction : 11:00
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- Space Travel Problems : 5:30
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- Peter Davenport : 3:30
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- ABC UFO Special Program Log With Notes and Quotes
- (Approximated to within 3 seconds)
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- 00:00 - 2:00 : Peter Jennings introduces the show. Mix
of film clips and clips of interviews that play throughout the remainder
of the show.
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- 02:00 : Fragmented sit-down interviews with UFO witnesses,
including one man totally in shadow. Some good UFO footage, mixed with
bad stuff. Possibly a clip of the Mexican Air Force video from 2004. Jennings
reads various survey numbers related to UFOs.
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- 03:45 : Jennings : "Real to some, fiction to others."
Interview w. NASA's Chris McKay. He called Ufologists "UFO searchers".
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- 05:20 : Art Bell segment.
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- 09:00 : Phoenix Light's segment. Interview w. witness,
including "security guard Bob Nelson, who was sitting on his porch
with his dog."
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- 11:00 : Good Phoenix Lights video
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- 12:00 : Phoenix skeptic James McGaha mispronounces "Ufology",
saying its "based on superstition, wrapped inside a fairy tale, telling
a story that's simply not true." His explanation for why the Phoenix
lights wat not a real craft, "the radar didn't see anything."
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- 13:40 : Rebuttal from Phoenix Lights witnesses.
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- 14:30 : Center for UFO Studies Profiled. Dr.Mark Rodegheir,
director of the Center, is interviewed. Dispels the "UFOs as secret
craft" theory.
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- 16:10 : Goes to 2000 UFO case in Southern Illinois. Starts
with Melvin Knowles (sp?), filmed at his mini golf course at night. Melvin
looks like a rube.
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- Good audio clips of police radio. Cops laugh at first,
but then it gets serious.
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- Numerous animations here.
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- 20:40 : Jennings : "The U.S. government is not in
the business of investigating UFOs."
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- 21:00 - 25:45 : Commercial #1
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- 26:00 : Kenneth Arnold Profiled
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- Jerome Clark, UFO Enclyclopedia is interviewed. Gives
basic background of the "Arnold Case".
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- Old media coverage of the event. Explains origins of
term "flying saucer".
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- Michael Swords, PhD, Professor at Western Michigan University
is interviewed. Gives government perspective on UFOs at the time. Not identified
as a Ufologist.
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- 30:00 : Jennings : "Since 1948, there have been
hundreds of sightings by commercial and military flight crews."
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- Six different pilots are interviewed. One French sounding
pilot sounds like a drunkard, with an unshaven face and hard to understand
accent.
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- 32:15 : Details of the Vandenburg memo
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- 33:00 : Pop culture "flying saucer" clips,
old newsreel footage of UFO witnesses.
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- 34:52 : Dr.Bruce Goldberg, PhD University of Utah, is
interviewed. Says UFO reports clogged communication channels of US goverment,
so the government is forced to take action.
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- Jennings : "It was public hysteria, not the flying
saucers themselves, that threatened the National Security."
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- 35:30 : Robertson Panel Segment
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- 36:10 : Keyhoe's book "The Flying Saucers are Real"
is shown.
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- 36:20 : Old sci-fi movie clips.
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- 37:05 - 41:50 : Commercial #2
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- 41:50 : Project Blue Book Segment. Blue Book is discussed
as a PR tool, not a research body.
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- 44:30 : J.Allen Hynek profiled.
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- 45:23 : Profile of Blue Book Case # 12548, UFO sighting
at Mina AFB, Mina, ND
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- 51:45 - 56:50 : Commercial #3
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- 57:10 : "Mainstream scientists" weigh-in
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson PhD, Director of Hayden Planetarium
says "Even if, in the court of law, eye witness testimony is a high
form of evidence, in the court of science, it is the lowest form of evidence
you could possibly put forth."
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- Michael Shermer PhD, of Skeptic Magazine, is also interviewed,
criticising eyewitness testimony.
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- 58:00 : Moon confused with a UFO story from SETI's Dr.Jill
Tarter.
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- 59:00 : Small profile of recent Hyugen's Probe and what
it means if even microbial life is found outside of Earth.
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- *********** Hour Two ************
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- 1:01:13 : Dr.Frank Drake profile, followed by profile
of Dr.Seth Shostak and Jill Tarter, all filmed very brightly in the desert.
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- 1:06:00 : Montage of the three scientists saying that
they don't "make claims" like Ufology.
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- 1:06:40 - 1:11:20 : Commercial #4
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- 1:11:25 : Roswell Segment
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- Dr.Bruce Goldberg tells the Roswell story.
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- Jesse Marcel, Jr. interviewed.
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- Karl Pflock, author of Roswell, interviewed.
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- Jennings : "Jesse Marcel's story of a flying saucer
that crashed might still be forgotten were it not for a Ufologist named
Stanton Friedman."
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- 1:15:21 - 1:15:41 : Stanton Friedman interviewed, total
time 20 seconds.
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- Archival interview with Jesse Marcel, Sr.
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- 1:16:25 : Jennings : "But what is the truth ? The
wreckage hasn't been seen since 1947, so there was no way to prove Jesse
Marcel's claims, which never stopped Stanton Friedman and his fellow Roswell
promoters."
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- Clips of old "In Search of ..." episode, complete
with campy scene of a goverment agent handling Roswell "wreckage".
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- Pflock : "This all came together at a time when
people were ready to buy into conspiracy."
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- 1:17:35 : Jennings : "Jesse Marcel's story about
a day, long ago, was becoming an article of faith, and the promoters [Friedman
pictured] were busy spinning it every way they could."
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- Old clip of Friedman on a talk show alleging government
cover-ups.
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- 1:18:01 : Jennings : "A parade of new witnesses
came out of the woodwork to share in the limelight"
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- Clip of Larry King Roswell show.
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- Dr.Bruce Goldberg : "The people who are promoting
Roswell realize that there is a gold rush to Roswell. There is money to
be made. But your book is only gonna sell if your charges are more grandiose,
more exaggerated, more powerful"
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- Clips of FOX's Alien Autopsy.
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- Clips of X-Files.
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- Jennings : "Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now
primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It
didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support
the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there
were no credible witnesses to alien bodies."
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- 1:20:30 : Clip of government Mogul Press Conference
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- Animations of Roswell debris matching up with Mogul balloon.
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- 1:20:35 : Jennings : "They [Roswell supporters]
cling to a myth."
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- 1:22:38 - 1:27:38 - Commercial #5
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- 1:27:50 : Abduction segment
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- Abductees shown in shadow and fragmented shots, interspersed
with drawings.
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- 1:29:55 : Budd Hopkins profiled.
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- Jennings : "Budd Hopkins is an artist who spent
the last 25 years exploring his belief that aliens are among us and have
been abducting people."
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- Budd Hopkins interview.
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- 5 abductees interviewed, again in shadow, with dark backgrounds,
fragmented shots, and with drawings interspersed.
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- 1:25:34 : Dr.Susan Clancy from Harvard is interviewed,
"There is no evidence that hypnosis will help retrieve memories. Or,
if it does retrieve memories, that the memories are, in fact, accurate."
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- 1:36:10 : Sleep Paralysis explained by Dr.Richard McNally,
Professor of Psychology at Harvard.
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- 1:39:11 - 1:44:05 : Commercial #6
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- 1:44:35 : Problem of space travel segment.
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- Sci fi film clips run over Shostak, McGaha, and de Grassa
Tyson saying it's impossible to travel such distances in real life.
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- Dr.John Gibbons, Science Advisor to Clinton : "I
think the notion of transporting people, as some people think, to other
planetary systems, beyond our solar system, is so far beyond plausible
reality that its a waste of time."
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- 1:46:47 : Michio Kaku segment
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- Kaku : "Some people slam the door on the question
of other civilizations visiting the Earth because distances are so far
away. I say, 'Not so fast.' "
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- Kaku profiled.
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- Kaku : "The fundamental mistake people make when
thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence is to assume that they're
just like us except a few hundred years more advanced. I say 'Open your
mind. Open your consciousness to the possibility that they are a million
years ahead.' "
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- Kaku : "When you look as this handful, handful of
cases that cannot be easily dismissed. This is worthy. This is worthy of
a scientific investigation. Maybe there's nothing there. However, on the
off chance that there is something there, that could change the course
of human history. So I say, ' Let the investigation begin.' "
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- 1:50:00 - 1:54:30 : Commercial #7
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- 1:54:30 : Peter Davenport profiled.
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- Jennings : "The National UFO Reporting Center is
really one man, Peter Davenport, sitting alone at his desk in the corner
of his living room. Davenport is the only person we met who devotes himself
full time to collecting reports and investigating UFO sightings."
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- 1:56:25 : Davenport takes UFO reports
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- Jennings : "It is left to Peter Davenport and only
a few others to investigate this mystery."
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- Jennings : "Ultimately only contact is going to
resolve the mystery."
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- 1:58:35 : Jennings signs off.
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- Montage of "UFO believers" saying "I believe"
and skeptics dismissing UFOs as credits roll.
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