EDITOR’S NOTE: Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, April 5, 1964 at 11:10 p.m.

“Many times in the history of our civilization the introduction of a new thought has brought skepticism, even ridicule. Despite this, there always has remained the duty and inalienable right to tell the people the truth. The Motion Picture you are about to see is true. It is not fiction. Much of the information in it has never been told. You will see it here for the first time.”

Man, with a title like that, you’d expect Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers to be exciting. During this, my wife said, “Is this the business side of flying saucers?”

Producer Clarence Greene (the writer of D.O.A. and Pillow Talk, as well as the producer of The Oscar) saw a U.F.O. and contacted the Air Force. He met public information officer Albert M. Chop, who answered all of the public’s questions on this matter. Chop told him that there was filmed footage of these ships, so he bought them and started making this movie.

This starts with the 1947 events that kicked off the last century’s UFO phenomena, like the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting, the Mantell incident, the Gorman Dogfight and the formation of the government’s Project Sign, which was created to monitor UAPs. Tom Towers plays Chop and he was a former captain in Army Air Force intelligence during World War II that knew Chop and was working as an aviation reporter.

Chop doesn’t believe in flying saucers and doesn’t even allow his wife (Marie Kenna) to say those words in his house. Then he meets a former Third Reich scientist (William Solomon) who tells him that they had UFOs back in Germany and are we just going to ignore the Project Paperclip stuff in this? Yes we are. Or the filmmakers are.

Want to see some real or fake UFOs? Then get ready for the Mariana UFO Incident of 1950. Yes, Nick Mariana, the general manager of the Great Falls Electrics minor league baseball team and his nineteen-year-old secretary Virginia Raunig were in Legion Stadium baseball field before a game and saw a flash. He ran to the car, got his camera and filmed two silver discs. Project Grudge wrote it off as reflections of jets but even today, this footage hasn’t been debunked fully. he film also shows U.S. Navy footage of a UFO over the Great Salt Lake.

Albert Chop has a son named Chip in this. His son’s name is Chip Chop. This is the man we trusted with our country’s UFO defense.

That said, this movie is this may be the dryest movie I have ever watched. When Harry Morgan’s voice comes in, it makes it exciting. That’s how slow it is. No one was a trained actor and I believe this was a government sponsored film that would make flying saucers so boring that no one would care about them.

You can watch this on YouTube.