Giant UFO in Stephenville, Texas January 8, 2008 - "UFO: Investigating the Unknown" - National Geographic documentary

 

This is an excellent documentary on UFO phenomena and the U.S. government's coverup on the subject.

Start: 3:17, The documentary talks about the history of UFO's in the late 1940's, and how the era of of secrecy around UFO's is related to the Cold War.

"It's extremely important to understand that the Cold War affected both the perception of UFOs and how it was handled by the military."... "It was only natural that during the Cold War, UFOs got folded into this overriding fear of what might attack us at any given time."

Also, Leslie Kean is the documentary.

@18:30 It talks about the Robertson Panel. "The Robertson panel was a group of hand-picked scientists who came together to try to determine a way to damp down public interest in UFOs." "The mission given by the Robertson panel was essentially to make people stop filing UFO reports."

@24:47 Talks about the Dexter Michigan sighting in 1966.

"This was a huge National story everyone was demanding that Blue Book solved the case, and so they called in Heinek. His Air Force Project Blue Book boss said 'get out there and put a lid on this.'" His response is where the term "swamp gas" comes from. It later talks about how citizens were getting upset at having enough of these bogus explanations for these events. "The public was outraged."

@31:11 They have radar data on the Stephenville Sighting, and multiple eye witness reports, and talk about the Stephenville Sighting throughout the documentary.

@33:38 Condon Project. "Edward Condon had no interest in the subject and had to be talked into it." @34:55 Explanation of the Condon Report, and the closure of Project Blue Book.