eyes on cinema spielberg 1982 cosmic watergate uncorrelated target gRB3UhjO6J8

[00:00:00.120] I wouldn't put it past this government
[00:00:01.839] that a cosmic Watergate has been
[00:00:04.080] underway for the last you know 25 years
[00:00:08.400] and at the same time I don't think it's
[00:00:11.280] uh I think as we're growing up or from
[00:00:13.920] the government's point of view U I think
[00:00:15.799] we've you know we're we've been adults
[00:00:18.720] for hundreds of years but from the
[00:00:20.600] government's point of view uh we're
[00:00:21.760] still growing up and eventually they
[00:00:23.519] might want to tell us something about
[00:00:24.880] what they've uh discovered over over the
[00:00:27.000] decades uh there is a rumor that was in
[00:00:30.359] US News and World Report a number of
[00:00:31.880] months ago that uh Jimmy Carter might
[00:00:34.160] make a uh uh make some unsettling
[00:00:37.520] disclosures about the UFO phenomena
[00:00:39.719] sometime in December uh it's perfect
[00:00:42.360] timing I opened my movie in December so
[00:00:43.920] it's perfect timing President Carter
[00:00:45.680] reported a uo sighting twice twice has
[00:00:48.199] he seen the picture uh last uh Saturday
[00:00:51.120] what do you think he has we haven't
[00:00:52.239] heard the direct feedback we he he liked
[00:00:53.879] it quite a bit we haven't really heard
[00:00:55.719] directly from the president I was
[00:00:57.120] gathered in a in a schoolyard with about
[00:00:59.559] 20 other men and we saw a bright light
[00:01:03.960] uh appear in the distant uh Western
[00:01:06.320] Skies and it got uh closer and closer
[00:01:09.240] and when it uh was just above the
[00:01:11.799] Treetops it changed color and then it
[00:01:15.000] stayed there for a while and then it
[00:01:16.920] disappeared into the distance and none
[00:01:18.680] of us could ever imagine what it was and
[00:01:20.640] I still don't know what it was in in' 76
[00:01:23.280] he said you'd try and get release all
[00:01:25.479] information to the public and to
[00:01:27.320] scientists about other UFO sightings yes
[00:01:29.560] do you think you achieve that I I'm not
[00:01:31.240] sure but we did release a lot of the
[00:01:32.759] information but I don't know how much
[00:01:34.479] was not released in view of the fact
[00:01:37.159] that your own president has cited it
[00:01:39.200] reported it why is it that so many
[00:01:42.799] responsible people accuse the US
[00:01:44.920] government of of covering up UFO
[00:01:47.079] sightings and and why would the US why
[00:01:49.280] would the the forces or the government
[00:01:51.200] try to do that it it's very popular
[00:01:53.119] today because of Watergate to blame the
[00:01:55.399] government for anything that we think we
[00:01:57.240] should know about that we don't know
[00:01:58.719] about uh
[00:02:00.680] Dr heinik has referred to uh UFOs in
[00:02:04.079] America as a cosmic water date
[00:02:07.720] um there there are several reasons why
[00:02:09.840] the government could be you know
[00:02:11.480] withholding information beyond the the
[00:02:14.080] Freedom of Information Act uh the
[00:02:16.560] Robertson panel that convened in the
[00:02:18.720] early 50s decided that UFOs were not
[00:02:21.879] were were were not threat to our
[00:02:24.440] national security but could be a threat
[00:02:26.959] to our national security by clogging all
[00:02:28.879] the property channels of communication
[00:02:31.000] creating rumors during the Cold War when
[00:02:34.000] we were already frightened of the
[00:02:36.000] intercontinental ballistic missiles
[00:02:37.879] arriving in 18 and a half
[00:02:39.920] minutes uh and the government was afraid
[00:02:43.599] that too many UFO reports could be
[00:02:45.879] misleading could mislead our own
[00:02:48.120] facilities our own NORAD facilities into
[00:02:50.720] thinking that what looked like a
[00:02:55.120] non-specific look like a an uncorrelated
[00:02:57.560] Target could be in fact an incoming Miss
[00:02:59.959] and they didn't want to confuse UFOs
[00:03:01.560] with a threat from communist Russia I
[00:03:04.879] was there you were there okay so is is
[00:03:08.599] it the story that I heard was that when
[00:03:11.560] Reagan saw it he started talking about
[00:03:13.920] how how close to reality it was and and
[00:03:16.879] he was quickly ushered out of the room
[00:03:18.519] is that is that true no he wasn't
[00:03:20.599] ushered out of the room he was the
[00:03:21.720] president of the United States nobody
[00:03:24.040] could user Ronald Reagan out of the room
[00:03:25.640] it was in the White House screening room
[00:03:27.280] yeah and Reagan got up to thank me for
[00:03:28.959] bringing the film to show him to show
[00:03:31.920] the president the first lady and all of
[00:03:33.480] their guests which included sander de o
[00:03:36.000] Conor in her first week as as as um you
[00:03:39.319] know as as a justice as the Supreme
[00:03:41.680] Court and included some astronauts I
[00:03:43.920] believe I believe um I think Neil
[00:03:46.720] Armstrong was there I'm not 100% certain
[00:03:49.000] but it was a it was it was it was an
[00:03:50.480] amazing amazing evening and um and he
[00:03:54.280] just stood up and he looked around the
[00:03:56.000] room almost like he was Ming a headcount
[00:03:58.280] and he said I want to thank you for
[00:03:59.879] bringing ET to the White House we really
[00:04:02.599] enjoyed your movie and then he looked
[00:04:04.159] around the room and he said and there
[00:04:05.280] are a number of people in this room who
[00:04:08.040] know that everything on that screen is
[00:04:09.959] absolutely true and he said it without
[00:04:12.439] smiling um um but he but but but he he
[00:04:15.760] said that and everybody laughed by the
[00:04:17.199] way the whole room laughed because he
[00:04:18.799] presented it like a joke but he wasn't
[00:04:20.359] smiling as he said it yeah the room did
[00:04:22.639] laugh and and and then later on I'll
[00:04:24.600] never forget my conversation with the
[00:04:26.639] president he pulled me aside he said and
[00:04:28.919] I can't do Reagan but I wish I could do
[00:04:30.759] that breathy wonderful voice of his yeah
[00:04:33.560] and and Nancy Reagan was standing right
[00:04:35.120] next to him and and the president said
[00:04:36.960] to me there only one I only have one
[00:04:38.880] criticism about your movie and I said
[00:04:40.680] what's that he
[00:04:43.000] said how long were the end credits and I
[00:04:46.080] said oh I don't know maybe three three
[00:04:48.280] and a half minutes he said in my day
[00:04:50.479] when I was an actor our end credits were
[00:04:52.800] maybe 15 seconds long he said why don't
[00:04:55.560] you let everybody get a credit three and
[00:04:58.199] a half four minutes that's fine would
[00:04:59.880] only show that inside the industry but
[00:05:02.240] throughout the rest of the country
[00:05:03.800] reduce your credits to 15 seconds at the
[00:05:05.800] end and and Nancy Reagan turned to him
[00:05:08.479] and said oh Ronnie they can't do that
[00:05:10.960] you know that and he went oh yes yes I
[00:05:15.759] suppose that's awesome that was the
[00:05:17.800] extent of my conversation about about
[00:05:19.960] that that was his only criticism he felt
[00:05:21.360] the end credits were too long but I've
[00:05:23.280] often wondered what if all of us in the
[00:05:27.000] world discovered that we were threatened
[00:05:30.639] by an outer power from outer space from
[00:05:34.759] another
[00:05:36.039] planet wouldn't we all of a sudden find
[00:05:38.720] that we didn't have any differences
[00:05:40.560] between us at all we were all human
[00:05:43.199] beings citizens of the world and
[00:05:45.319] wouldn't we come together to fight that
[00:05:48.199] particular threat