Project UFO - 1x10 - The Waterford Incident
Boys at a military school become involved with a strange substance from a UFO and a hunter is attacked by a robot. Joyce Brothers stars as Dr. Paulson. Based very loosely on the Cisco Grove UFO Encounter as reported in 1964.
Note: The robot is a version of the Robby the Robot suit featuring a shorter head with a giant green eye.
Note: The robot is a version of the Robby the Robot suit featuring a shorter head with a giant green eye.
Transcript
00:00Music
00:16Ezekiel saw the wheel. This is the wheel he said he saw.
00:22These are unidentified flying objects that people say they are seeing now.
00:29Are they proof that we are being visited by civilizations from other stars?
00:34Or just what are they?
00:37The United States Air Force began an investigation of this high strangeness in a search for the truth.
00:44What you are about to see is part of that 20 year search.
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01:43Hey! What's that?
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03:35What's on the agenda, Mage?
03:37We're on our way to Waterford.
03:39Good. Waterford.
03:41Northeast Iowa. Private military school.
03:44There's a report the whole place is wrapped up in some kind of web-like substance.
03:48Web-like substance?
03:50As in spider. Only this one, we're told, was spun by a flying saucer.
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04:11I'm just thinking about that newsman who filed that report.
04:14That web-like substance.
04:16What about it?
04:17He called it angel hair.
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04:36Welcome to Waterford Military Academy.
04:38Colonel Max Delaney, United States Army, retired.
04:41At your service, Major.
04:42Thank you, sir.
04:46You're wondering about the spider web, or angel's hair, as the newspapers call it?
04:50Yes, sir. The newspaper reports said that there was something that covered this whole area.
04:54I see nothing unusual.
04:55Not anymore. You don't, and you won't.
04:57And as far as I'm concerned, good riddance.
04:59Good riddance.
05:00That's what I said, Sergeant.
05:02Andrews!
05:03Yes, sir.
05:04I'll show these gentlemen their quarters. Dismiss the details.
05:06Yes, sir.
05:09Major, Sergeant, would you follow me, please?
05:15Detail dismissed.
05:18Colonel, can you tell us what happened to the substance?
05:20Well, last night this place was covered with it.
05:22Then the rain came, and it just disappeared.
05:25And you say it came from an undenified flying object?
05:28I said nothing of the kind, Sergeant.
05:30Some of my cadets may have said that. I guess that's why you're here.
05:34But to put it bluntly, I have no use for UFOs or flying saucers or whatever you want to call them.
05:39I especially have no use for them when they impugn the reputation of this school.
05:43Is it hurting the school's reputation?
05:45I don't think we really need the kind of publicity this incident is certain to create.
05:49Can you tell us what this so-called angel hair was?
05:52I can't tell you what it was, Major.
05:55But I can show you what it did.
05:57Green hands, Major.
05:59Every one of them.
06:00Just from touching the stuff.
06:07Andrews?
06:09Company, seat!
06:12Everyone here saw that web that covered this place.
06:15How many boys are in the school?
06:17Well, uh...
06:21Normally we have a complement of 185 cadets.
06:25But this is spring break, so most of the boys are home.
06:28There are only 15 here now.
06:30How many actually saw the UFO?
06:32Three.
06:33There was Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Delaney.
06:36Delaney?
06:37That's right, Sergeant.
06:38Tim Delaney, my grandson.
06:41He was involved in this asinine nonsense.
06:44You seem upset, Colonel.
06:45Concern is a better word.
06:47Do you know how long this academy has been in existence, Major?
06:5175 years.
06:5375 years preparing young Americans to make a better contribution to this nation of ours.
06:59Parents send their sons here not only to get an education,
07:02but to instill a national pride,
07:04a modicum of discipline,
07:06an appreciation for being a gentleman and an officer.
07:09And I do not like the thought that during my eight-year tenure at this academy,
07:13I have become involved in such outright silliness.
07:16Colonel, we understand what you're trying to say.
07:19Well, if you understand what I'm trying to say, Sergeant, you'll do something about this.
07:23The newspapers are trying to make Waterford a three-ring circus,
07:27and I will not have it inferred that this academy is some kind of a freak farm.
07:31Every one of these boys is a fine young American,
07:34and I don't want them or this school held up to any form of ridicule.
07:38Nor do we, Colonel.
07:39All we're interested in is finding out the truth.
07:42Well, that's all I can ask, Major.
07:44How can we assist you?
07:46We'd like to talk to the three boys who made the sighting.
07:48Very well.
07:49Is there someplace privately that we could talk?
07:51Well, there's classroom four. That's in another building.
07:54That'd be fine. Thank you.
07:55Mr. Andrews?
07:56Yes, sir.
07:57I want those saucer spotters, front and center.
07:59Yes, sir. Right away, sir.
08:00Mr. Brown, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Delaney.
08:04I want you men to report to classroom four, on the double.
08:07Yes, sir.
08:10Sir.
08:11Mr. Delaney?
08:12Request permission to use the latrine first, sir.
08:14Permission granted.
08:24Matty, what we like to do, boys, is to go over your story in as much detail as possible.
08:30What's going to happen to us, sir?
08:32Nothing's going to happen to you.
08:34I want you to understand that we're here doing a job, just like you.
08:37And you have your job going to school, and we have our job investigating UFO sightings.
08:42And when this is all over, nothing will have changed, except we will have all had a new experience.
08:46How's that?
08:48Gee, it really sounds great.
08:50How do you get into your line of work, sir?
08:52Well, that's sort of hard to explain.
08:55Project Bloober. I bet it's real simple.
08:58Project Bloober. I bet it's real secret stuff, huh?
09:01Well, it's not really all that mysterious.
09:03Our job is to try and find evidence.
09:06It's either there or it isn't.
09:08What kind of evidence?
09:09Put it this way.
09:10If someone claims to have seen an unidentified flying object,
09:13we look for some sign of proof that it really wasn't his imagination.
09:17You mean like a piece of their spaceship, or something like that?
09:20Yes, or not even that much.
09:22Maybe some indication of how the craft operates.
09:25What propels it?
09:27Was there any fuel residue?
09:29Impact impressions?
09:30Evidence of that nature.
09:32That's probably what we saw.
09:33What's that?
09:34What you said. Residue.
09:36Fuel residue.
09:37Yeah. Maybe it wasn't an alien spiderweb.
09:40Maybe it was just fuel residue.
09:42I think we better take it from the beginning.
09:44Who wants to lead off?
09:46I have the rank, sir.
09:47Okay. It's all yours.
09:49Well, it was yesterday afternoon.
09:52One of the landings sent us the flight details just before dinner.
09:55After we struck the colors and completed the proper folding maneuvers,
09:59we started back to the mess hall where the other cadets were getting ready for dinner.
10:03The first thing we heard was a strange noise.
10:53And that's what happened.
10:56Everybody came out and started playing on the stuff.
10:59It wasn't until later that we told them about the saucer.
11:02You know, after all their hands turned green.
11:05Then last night, it rained pretty hard.
11:07And when we got up this morning, the stuff was all washed away.
11:10Is that how you saw it, Paul?
11:12Yes, sir. Just like that. Everything. Only...
11:15Only what, Paul?
11:17When you hear somebody tell about it, well, it really sounds dumb, you know?
11:21Well, if it's the truth, stick by it.
11:23It's the truth, sir. Cadet honor, sir.
11:27Tell me.
11:32Do you believe us, sir?
11:34We believe you saw something.
11:36Now we got to try to prove it.
11:38How will you do that, sir?
11:40With your help.
11:47Mr. Delaney, I want to see you.
11:50What's your opinion now, gentlemen?
11:52Well, we went over it several times.
11:54The boys are emphatic in what they claim to have seen, Colonel.
11:57And Tim, uh, he corroborates what the other boys say?
12:00Yes, sir, he does.
12:01He doesn't have much to say, but he doesn't disagree with the others.
12:05Colonel, we noticed the NASA material you have on the bulletin boards in there.
12:09Yes, the space program is a very important part of our science curriculum.
12:13What are you suggesting, Major?
12:15It's a possibility, Colonel.
12:16The wrong study of the space program and lively classroom discussion could help feed young imaginations.
12:22That could be an explanation?
12:24Partial explanation, Colonel.
12:25We still have that angel hair and those green hands to deal with.
12:28Too bad some wasn't recovered before the rain washed it away.
12:32I've got some of it, sir.
12:35What's that, son?
12:36The fuel, whatchamacallit.
12:38I've got some of it, sir.
12:40You want to see it?
12:47I saved it.
12:48You can have some if you want it, sir.
12:55What are you playing, Major?
12:56I don't recall ever seeing anything like it.
13:00All the other boys got scared when their hands turned green from that stuff.
13:03But I knew it wouldn't hurt nothing.
13:05Anything, the lady?
13:06Yes, sir, anything.
13:07I'm sorry, sir.
13:08I'm sorry.
13:09I'm sorry.
13:10I'm sorry.
13:11I'm sorry.
13:12I'm sorry.
13:13I'm sorry.
13:14I'm sorry.
13:15Yes, sir, anything.
13:17What do you mean, son?
13:21I just knew that's all.
13:22Mr. Delaney, you can go now.
13:24You're dismissed.
13:25Yes, sir.
13:34Sir?
13:46Excuse me.
14:04Do you mind if I join you?
14:06No, it's okay, sir.
14:09Timmy, how did you know that the angel hair wouldn't hurt anyone?
14:15You trust me, don't you?
14:20Whatever you tell me, it's just between us.
14:22Nobody else.
14:24Would the colonel have to know about it?
14:26Not unless you want to tell him.
14:29I saw them.
14:30Up close.
14:32They hurt me, so I knew they wouldn't hurt anyone else.
14:35Let's go in here.
14:37You can tell me all about it.
14:43Pick your spot.
14:44Where do you want to sit?
14:47Okay, good.
14:51Have you told any of the other boys?
14:53No, sir.
14:54Did you have a reason for not telling them?
14:56Well, they would have said I made it up.
14:58But I didn't.
14:59I didn't make it up.
15:00Go on, Tim.
15:01Tell me what happened.
15:03Well, all the boys were so busy playing in that stuff.
15:05I knew it had to be what you said it was.
15:08You mean fuel residue.
15:10Yep.
15:11Because the spaceship had this crystal-like motor.
15:14All full of lights and everything.
15:16And I knew if the motor looked like that,
15:18it'd have to be the kind of stuff that'd come out.
15:21You know, like smoke in a car.
15:23You got a crystal engine, that's the kind of stuff that'll come out.
15:26Don't you think?
15:28Go on, son.
15:30Well, anyway, I kept looking over there towards the school.
15:33And I saw this light.
16:11Hello?
16:12Hello?
16:40Hello?
16:41Is anybody there?
16:43Do you hear me?
16:47Are you friendly?
16:48Let me see you.
16:49Come out, please.
16:53Can you please come out?
16:58You're nice, aren't you?
16:59You're not here to hurt anybody.
17:11No.
17:39No, don't go.
17:40Please don't go.
18:07Then it went.
18:08The old dog scared it away.
18:10That's quite a story, Tim.
18:12Yes, sir.
18:13I never saw anything like it.
18:15I read a lot about flying saucers,
18:17but this is the first time in my whole life I ever saw a real one.
18:21Your whole life, huh?
18:22Yes, sir.
18:23And I bet it's the first time for you, too.
18:25What's that, son?
18:26The angel hair stuff.
18:28I bet it's the first time you ever got some real evidence, isn't it?
18:32Well, we don't know for sure yet.
18:34What are you gonna do with it?
18:36We'll send it to our lab, they'll take a look,
18:38and then they'll send us the report.
18:40Oh.
18:43Anything wrong?
18:44What you said about this just being between us,
18:47you meant it?
18:48Well, I sure did.
18:51Well, Grandpa, I mean the Colonel,
18:53I got a feeling you'd like it a lot better
18:55if I hadn't told you what I just told you.
18:57You know?
19:07Yes, Libby?
19:08I know question number one.
19:10The answer's no.
19:11The lab has not finished their run on that angel hair stuff.
19:14How much longer will they be? Do you know?
19:16Well, they're pretty well booked up,
19:18but I told them this is top priority.
19:20Good. What else?
19:21We just received a call from one of the astronomers
19:24at Ashcroft Observatory in Wisconsin.
19:26The astronomer's not the one who made the sighting.
19:29Okay. Who did?
19:30A man contacted the astronomer,
19:32said he was attacked by an alien being,
19:35but the man insists on remaining anonymous.
19:37Did you tell the astronomer that we do have problems
19:40investigating anything on a hearsay basis?
19:42Sounds like it might turn out to be more than hearsay.
19:45Just a guess, of course,
19:46but the brass are strongly suggesting
19:48that you get over there right away.
19:50Okay. We'll do that.
19:51Do we still have a contract with Ashcroft?
19:54We do. Why?
19:55All right.
19:56Set up an appointment with the astronomer at the observatory.
19:59What's his name?
20:00It's, uh, she.
20:02Paulson. Dr. Virginia Paulson.
20:04Dr. Paulson?
20:11Yes.
20:12Gatlin and Fitz, Project Blue Book.
20:14Yes, I was expecting you.
20:15How are you?
20:16You're right on time, Major Sergeant.
20:18Ma'am.
20:19As we understand it, Doctor,
20:20you're not the one who made the reported observation.
20:22No, no, I wasn't the one.
20:24But you wouldn't think that after all these years
20:27of squinting at stars,
20:28I would have seen something out of the ordinary,
20:30beside my bloodshot eye.
20:31Maybe not.
20:32Maybe not.
20:33After all, you're a trained observer.
20:35You know what you're looking at.
20:36Perhaps.
20:37But there have been trained observers
20:38who have made UFO sightings,
20:40haven't there, Major?
20:41It's been known to happen.
20:43What is this reported encounter all about?
20:45Well, this man came to us,
20:47I guess because I'm an astronomer.
20:49I never did understand
20:50why the general public relates us to UFOs and aliens.
20:54Well, like the Major said,
20:56you know the territory.
20:57Well, this man said that
20:59if he didn't tell someone,
21:00he was going to go out of his mind.
21:02He had the most incredible story.
21:04He was virtually attacked
21:06by some kind of device from a spaceship.
21:08You know, Doctor Paulson,
21:09it's very difficult for us
21:10to conduct any kind of investigation secondhand
21:12without hearing it from the principal.
21:14Well, I realize that.
21:15But he's terrified of any kind of publicity.
21:18Doctor, if you could introduce us to this man,
21:20we don't have to assure you
21:21that anything he said to us
21:22would be held in strictest confidence.
21:25Major?
21:27I don't know why we're having this discussion, Doctor.
21:30This institute holds a government contract
21:32with Project Blue Book,
21:33and I'm sure you're aware of our policies
21:35as well as we are.
21:37Is that sufficient, Mr. Biggs?
21:50Daryl Biggs?
21:52Major Gatlin?
21:53Hello.
21:54Sergeant Fitz.
21:56I heard what you said.
21:59I hope I have the assurance
22:00that I feel is necessary.
22:02You do, Mr. Biggs.
22:04I'd like to take you to the location
22:06where I had this encounter.
22:09Could we go first thing in the morning?
22:11Sure. Where is it?
22:13It's about a two-hour drive from here,
22:15a place called Devil's Lake.
22:17There's one problem.
22:19What's that, Mr. Biggs?
22:20Well, after the two-hour drive,
22:22we run out of road.
22:23Then we go on foot from there.
22:26How far?
22:27Well, it's not too bad.
22:28It's about five miles.
22:35All right, do this for me, Libby.
22:37Have one of our chemists
22:38check for any possible manufacture of that compound.
22:44Right.
22:45We're going to be out of touch
22:46for the rest of the day, then.
22:47Watch out for snakes.
22:49We don't expect to see any.
22:51And watch out for whatever you do see.
22:53See you.
23:01The lab has the angel hair
23:02broken down to identify chemicals.
23:05You're getting somewhere.
23:06Well, we know what the chemical compound is,
23:08but nobody has a hint of any earthly purpose
23:10that it could be used for.
23:12Why is it nothing can be something?
23:15Careful, Sergeant.
23:16You're talking about our means of making a living.
23:21APEK
23:44Man, I thought I'd left
23:45all this back in base training.
23:47Well, we're here.
23:48This is the place.
23:49This is where I saw everything.
23:50is where I saw everything. Like I told you, I was hunting with a couple of
23:55buddies from work and we got separated. It started to get dark and I, I just kind
24:00of lost my orientation. I don't blame you. I've been confused ever since we left the
24:04road. Yeah, I can appreciate that sergeant. One of the reasons they call this area
24:08Devil's Lake is because of so many people getting lost up here. Things are
24:13familiar and then again they're not. I've been hunting in this area since I was 15
24:18years old. I hunt with bow and arrow. I never, never carry a gun. But you were
24:23lost. Yes, Major, I was. But like I said, I had enough sense to stay put and build
24:29a campfire. I was just about to settle down until morning. That is until I heard
24:36this weird throbbing sound.
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