Himself
Col. Phillip J. Corso, a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and Head of the U.S. Army's Foreign Technology Division at the Pentagon speaks candidly of overseeing the recovery of alien spacecraft and the harvesting of technology from recovered crash debris of extraterrestrial origin.
Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell reveals that the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 was a real event and discusses the 50 years of cover-up that followed. Command Sgt. Major (ret.) Robert O. Dean, former intelligence analyst, discusses a top secret study conducted by NATO in the 1960s entitled 'An Assessment', classified as 'Cosmic Top Secret'. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Reagan and Bush confirms the existence of Area 51.
Himself
A look at the possibility of contacts with aliens
Man Smoking Pipe at Landing Site (uncredited)
Roy Neary, um empregado de uma companhia elétrica, é profundamente marcado pelo encontro com um OVNI, que lhe deixa uma queimadura na mão e o faz ficar obcecado com o fenómeno. Ao mesmo tempo que se sucedem diversos acontecimentos misteriosos pelo mundo, e que as autoridades dos EUA se mobilizam para um grande evento extraterrestre que querem que permaneça secreto, Roy e outras pessoas começam a ser inexplicavelmente atraídas para uma montanha no Wyomming, de onde todos os residentes são evacuados pelo Governo.
Self
Australian-made film with Steven Spielberg, Stan Deyo, Stanton Friedman, Dr. Alan Hynek, Jacques Vallee, Ken Arnold, Betty Hill and Ray Palmer (publisher of the Shaver Mystery). This rare TV documentary gave birth to The Cosmic Conspiracy and contains clips of the first episode of Star Wars and Jaws.
