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Spielberg, Speigel and the UN UFO Initiative

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Channel: OpenMindsTV · 2017 · News & Politics

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In 1978, the United Nations was discussing the creation of an official UFO department. An initiative brought to the organization by Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, who had his own spectacular UFO sighting. Behind the scenes the United Kingdom rallied against the effort, while the United States remained mostly neutral. Meanwhile, an intrepid young New Yorker, our protagonist, Lee Speigel, offered to aid Sir Gairy by organizing a presentation featuring credible UFO researchers such as Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr, Jacques Vallee. Excited by their efforts, famed director Steven Spielberg invited the group to his office in Hollywood to discuss how he could help. His movie Close Encounters of Third Kind had just been released a few months prior.

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