Today’s movie is a docudrama with a scene that happens on July 8. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
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At a reunion of the 509th bomber group, Jesse Marcel flashes back to 1947 when there was a big thunderstorm. A few days later Mac Brazzel, a rancher brings material to the sheriff that he thinks might be from a UFO. This material displays unusual properties. Marcel and Sherman Carson go to the site. Marcel demonstrates the stuffs unusual properties to his family. On July 8, 1947 Col. Blanchard, the base commander issues a press release that a UFO had been found. [22:23 to 29:40] Marcel is ordered to fly to Ft. Worth where the story is put out that it’s a weather balloon and he’s ordered not to talk about it. At the reunion Marcel talks to a local radio announcer who says that when they tried to follow up with Brazel, Brazzel was arrested, interrogated for three days, and perhaps bribed to change his story to say it wasn’t a UFO. Marcel hears a story that a spotter plane found a second site where three alien bodies and one survivor of the crash were found. Marcel learns that a top secret commission was set up to deal with this. Sec. Forrestal went to Area 51 and the living alien passed him a mental message that others were coming just before it died. Forrestal later died under mysterious circumstances that could either have been suicide or murder. Marcel is told all this by mystery man Townsend who had been watching him and basically leaves him with the thought that Marcel has no proof, just stories.
An unusual film. It telling its story veers between a documentary and tabloid journalism. You can’t decide if it really happened or was just a story.
The Mammoth Book of UFOs by Lynn Picknett (Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York, 2001) p. 195 and in the film at 27:10 give the date of the famous press release
Producer - Jeremy Kagan
Director - Jeremy Kagan
Screenplay - Arthur L. Kopit and Jeremy Kagan
Runtime – 1 hour 30 minutes
Released - July 31, 1994
Starring -
Kyle MacLachlan as Jesse Marcel
Martin Sheen as Townsend
Dwight Yoakam as Mac Brazel
Xander Berkeley as Sherman Carson
Bob Gunton as Frank Joyce
Kim Greist .as Vy Marcel
Peter MacNico as Lewis Rickett
John M. Jackson as Colonel Blanchard
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