Ezekiel saw the wheel. This is the wheel he said he saw. These are Unidentified Flying Objects that people claim to be seeing now. Are they proof that civilizations from other stars are visiting us? Or simply what are they? The United States Air Force has launched an investigation into this great oddity in search of the truth. What you are about to see is part of that 20-year search.
The previous quote opens The UFO Project and showed footage of what real people report seeing in actual UFO sightings. The program features two United States Air Force investigators, Sergeant Harry Fitz (Caskey Swaim) and Major Jake Gatlin (William Jordan), who work with the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on what became known as Project Blue Book. Their mission is to investigate all UFO sightings.
Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Julia Kijowska
The show is a dramatization of actual sightings recorded by the Air Force as part of Project Blue Book, which ran for 17 years. Gatlin believes he saw something unexplained while an Air Force pilot, and so he accepted the assignment with Blue Book. The duo attempts to prove that each sighting was real by refuting all other possible explanations. In the second season, Gatlin is replaced by Captain Ben Ryan (Edward Winter). If I recall correctly, the show's first season was called Project Blue Book, but it was changed in the second due to ratings and because the producers felt the title didn't convey the idea of a science fiction series.
Project UFO is an American drama series created by Jack Webb and aired for two seasons on NBC, from February 19, 1978, to July 19, 1979. Jack painstakingly reviewed the Air Force Blue Book files for episode ideas. This would be his last series before his untimely death from a heart attack in 1982. Jack Webb is best known for his creation of Dragnet, in which he also played Sergeant Joe Friday. Throughout his career, he created numerous television shows, primarily focusing on emergency services in the Los Angeles area. Both Dragnet and one of his other creations, Adam-12, enjoyed the full support of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), so much so that upon his death, he received a police memorial and was buried with a replica of his LAPD badge bearing his character's number. His co-star, Caskey Swaim, didn't have much acting experience but was believed to bring diversity to the characters as a Southerner with a pronounced accent. Throughout the series, the recreation of the "flying saucers" was done primarily with miniatures from the company Brick Price Movie Miniatures, now known as Wonderworks. Most were improvised pieces from toy models.
There's a reason this show has fallen by the wayside: it was boring. This isn't a show about alien invasions or government conspiracies. It's primarily a reenactment of real witness accounts of UFO sightings. We don't see the aliens as sympathetic or villainous characters, and there's no exciting story about world domination. Each episode creates a loose plot around a single incident and attempts to generate some kind of conflict, which ends up feeling contrived and forced. I have to remind my current self what my past self was like in 1978. We didn't have as many science fiction series to choose from. There were no streaming services, and we had primarily three channels to choose from, so, watching this show from the perspective of my 1978 self, I remember loving it and being fascinated by the reenactments of real UFO sightings, giving this 9-year-old hope that life existed out there!
Although I found this show incredibly boring compared to today's media, thinking back to 1978, it was actually interesting, but we were starved for anything science fiction related.
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