I wasn't previously familiar with this film and only recently stumbled across it on Google Video. Notable I think in that it has quite a bit of straight interview footage of Hynek, Vallee, Kenneth Arnold, Ray Palmer and others, much of which was entirely new to me. Also of interest is the appearance at the 26 minute mark of the incredibly energetic Sartorially Splendiferous Soul Brother Stan Friedman, a good number of minutes with a rather young Steven Spielberg and the visual delight of state of the art CGI graphics.
The linked video starts with a modern introduction by Stan Deyo who is also the star of the latter part of the documentary. If nothing else I was immediately struck by specific details Deyo mentions and how closely they match the foundation of Nick Cook's Hunt for Zero Point book with specific references to electrogravitic research news stories from the 1950's. It's been a number of years since I read that book but I was wondering if Cook has ever referenced Deyo's story or commented on it? Deyo wrote a short book, The Cosmic Conspiracy, that references quite a bit of those old articles and I would be somewhat surprised if this isn't where Cook started from.
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As my understanding of the anthropology of ufology is an ongoing study I'd be interested in what is known about Deyo as I haven't heard his name mentioned much. When I first watched this it immediately occurred to me that Deyo seemed like the archetype for Lazar's story with it's references to Edward Teller. I'm intrigued by Deyo I suppose because he seems to be exactly 50% straight paranoid crank and 50% really smart guy. Did he ever get any mileage out of his story back in the 1970's?
Note: It appears you can download this video as an mp4 file as well but the file seems to be corrupted. If you are looking for a higher quality version there are torrents out there.
The linked video starts with a modern introduction by Stan Deyo who is also the star of the latter part of the documentary. If nothing else I was immediately struck by specific details Deyo mentions and how closely they match the foundation of Nick Cook's Hunt for Zero Point book with specific references to electrogravitic research news stories from the 1950's. It's been a number of years since I read that book but I was wondering if Cook has ever referenced Deyo's story or commented on it? Deyo wrote a short book, The Cosmic Conspiracy, that references quite a bit of those old articles and I would be somewhat surprised if this isn't where Cook started from.
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As my understanding of the anthropology of ufology is an ongoing study I'd be interested in what is known about Deyo as I haven't heard his name mentioned much. When I first watched this it immediately occurred to me that Deyo seemed like the archetype for Lazar's story with it's references to Edward Teller. I'm intrigued by Deyo I suppose because he seems to be exactly 50% straight paranoid crank and 50% really smart guy. Did he ever get any mileage out of his story back in the 1970's?
Note: It appears you can download this video as an mp4 file as well but the file seems to be corrupted. If you are looking for a higher quality version there are torrents out there.
