History Channel's Project Blue Book – Program 4

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The History Channel’s fourth program in its Project Blue Book series was ostensibly about the 1948 Chiles-Whitted sighting of a cigar-shaped UFO.

But the opening sequence depicting that event was shorn of anything about the sighting as we UFO people know it.

This paltry series descended into a swipe at Wernher von Braun, played by a shrimpy actor whereas von Braun was a strapping fellow.

There was an alien floating in a glass vat, purportedly there at the behest of or because of von Braun’s secret flying saucer work, and an Air Force pilot was forced to get into place in a saucer that disappeared when the disk fired up.

A pig-farmer was involved and Allen Hynek even found a crop circle on the pig-farmer's land, which was affected, apparently, by the Chiles-Whitted cigar-shaped "thing" flying over. The farmer's pigs were killed by the fly-over, and he (the farmer) was reimbursed by von Baun.

And the writers continue to imply a lesbian relationship between Mrs. Hynek and a fetching blonde “spy.”

The fourth show, like the series itself, was a joke, but when Kevin Randle corrects the Chiles­-Whitted portrayal, Kevin still entertained by the series I’m guessing, some of his dopey followers, like Brian B, will write how much they were entertained by the dreck.

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