For Fact's Sake: The Sci-fi Circus and Fluid Flirtations

The Sci-fi Circus and Fluid Flirtations

By Murray Stewart

The For Fact’s Sake columns are, according to Google and The Duck ‘n Fiddle’s archives, based in truth.

They saw what? For over 60 years, many movies have been made about man’s interaction with alien beings, either here on earth, or out in the dark emptiness of space. They’ve been clumped together as ‘Sci-fi’ movies, and blockbusters like Star Wars, Star Trek and ET, among others, have had us enthralled for decades.

Many of those amazing ‘supernatural’ gadgets and concepts portrayed back then are realities today. Top scientists in projects involving inter-planetary exploration and potential interaction with ‘other-worldly’ beings, operate with technologies 50 years ahead of what we’re allowed to know.

One wonders if some Hollywood film producers had an inside track with a few of these scientific types, because they obviously didn’t just thumb-suck things like death rays, anti-gravity propulsion, harnessing electro-magnetic energy, skin-tight armoured bodysuits or teleportation (beam me up, Snotty).

Anyway, meet Bob Emenegger, a Hollywood film director / producer / composer / writer. In 1972 he and producer Allan Sandler were approached by a consortium of high-ranking scientists and top officials from the CIA, the military, and Nixon’s inner circle. They were ushered into a bug-proof room where they received their secret briefing…

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