Hollywood-acteur en UFO-consultant Dan Aykroyd over nieuwe UFO-documentaire op CNN
TT-REPORT (14 juni) Acteur Dan Aykroyd werd in 2004 aangesteld als Hollywood-consultant voor MUFON, het wereldwijde Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network. Aykroyd geeft toe dat hij ontzettend gelukkig is met zijn nieuwe baan, omdat hij een langdurige passie voor het onderwerp koestert. De Canadese acteur is nu de man, waar filmmakers naar toe gaan, wanneer ze films over buitenaardse voertuigen maken.Hij vertelde aan ContactMusic.com: "Er staat op de MUFON website materiaal van meldingen die we uit Californië krijgen; enkele objecten die zeer geloofwaardig zijn. 54% van de wereldbevolking gelooft dat UFO's bestaan volgens enkele recente peilingen. Als je een schrijver of regisseur bent en onze UFO database wil raadplegen, zullen we de dossiers open gooien."
Op de MUFON-site valt te lezen dat de acteur van o.a. The Blues Brothers en Ghostbusters recentelijk kopieën van de MUFON UFO Journal aan een lijst van prestigieuze Hollywood contacten heeft geleverd, vergezeld met een persoonlijke brief waarin hij MUFON's werk aanprijst:"...De lectuur is altijd interessant en uitdagend, aangezien MUFON bekend staat als wereld's voornaamste verzamelaar van gegevens over - wat zeker beschouwd moet worden als - één van de meest belangrijke en fundamentele mysteries van ons bestaan."
Eigen sighting
Dan had zijn eigen UFO-waarneming in september 1986. Hij bevond zich met zijn vrouw Donna en twee gasten in zijn woning in Chilmark, Massachusetts. 's Nachts om 2 uur zag hij op grote hoogte twee heldere stralende witte punten, die zich achter elkaar met hoge snelheid voortbewogen. Door zijn geschreeuw werd zijn vrouw wakker, die op haar beurt de mysterieuze vliegende objecten zag. Aangetrokken door de opwinding van de twee, stonden de gasten ook op, die eveneens de perfect ronde lichtgevende objecten door het luchtruim zagen verplaatsen. Het viertal kon geen verklaring voor hun waarneming vinden.
Luister hier naar een interview met Aykroyd.
UFO-documentaire
Op 9 juni j.l. was Aykroyd te gast bij CNN's Anderson Cooper '360 degrees'. Hier volgt een transcriptie van de uitzending, waarin hij openlijk spreekt over UFO's, alien abductions en zijn documentaire Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs. Hierin spreken onder meer militairen, de Canadese ex-defensieminister Paul Hellyer en NASA-astronaut Gordon Cooper openhartig over het UFO-fenomeen.
Source: CNN - Altlanta, Georgia, USA http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/09/acd.01.html Aired June 9, 2006 - 22:00 ET Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees J.D.Roberts [Subsitute Host]: For (INAUDIBLE) of flying saucers, June is a very special time. It was 59 years ago this month that modern reports of UFOs and aliens among us began filtering in. A number of opinion polls suggest that as many as 48 percent of all Americans believe that aliens visit earth. That could mean that there's a ready market for Dan Aykroyd's latest film, but this is no cone head reunion. It's a documentary. Dan Aykroyd, unplugged, on UFOs. Anderson recently spoke with Aykroyd and producer David Sereda. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) Anderson Cooper, CNN Anchor: So you really believe that UFOs exist. Why? Dan Aykroyd, Unplugged On UFOs: Well, I think the preponderance of anecdotal evidence from pilots, from law enforcement people, from people who have had experiences and sightings, I think also my own experience. I've had a high altitude sighting with three other people. It definitely wasn't a helicopter, a jet. Now of course, you know, a professional would discount my sighting and say, well, you don't really know. I can't sit here and tell you 100 percent that I saw a craft that was created by beings from another planet outside of our sphere of technology. I can't tell you 100 percent. I can just tell you what I saw and what I feel. They're here. They're looking at us in a Petri dish and I've got to say, the way mankind is behaving, they're probably very disappointed. Cooper: David, why did you make this documentary? David Sereda, Producer, Unplugged On UFOs: Well, actually, in 1968, I was 7 years old, walking home from elementary school. And all of these people were pointing up in the sky at this metallic disc-shaped UFO with a little, you know, knob on the top. And it was clear. This thing was down low, you know 3500 feet. If I had a video camera back then, it would have been some of the best footage we've ever seen to date. And when you see one of these things, I mean, 20 clear minutes people were pounding on the neighbor's doors, get out here. Look at this thing. And when you look at it and you replay that in your memory, it's beyond all the videotapes and the photographs. It's so real to me. It was so real to me at such a young age that I just couldn't ignore it. So I was engaged at 7 years old into this phenomenon. Cooper: In the film Dan, you talk about a personal experience that you had. I just want to play some of that from the movie. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) Aykroyd: I woke up in the middle of the night and I said to my wife, they're calling me, they're calling me. I want to go outside, they want me to come outside and see. Something outside wants me to come out and see. Oh, just go back to bed. I went back to bed but the next day in the media - in newspapers and radio - all over upstate New York and Ontario and Quebec and Vermont, people spoke about this urge they had to go out of their houses at 3:00 in the morning and look up into the sky. (END OF VIDEO CLIP) Cooper: Come on, is that for real? Aykroyd: Yeah, you could research, that was in the mid-80s. In fact it was a pink spiral that appeared in the sky. People went out, telepathically urged like I was, I didn't go, shmuck. They went out, in the sky they saw this pink spiral in the sky, huge, miles, like two miles long. And the Air Force said it was a Chinese rocket. Cooper: Isn't this sort of one of those things that's like the Kennedy assassination? I mean there are people, no matter what evidence is put forward, there is no evidence or that, you know the lights turn out to be, you know, a plane or a helicopter or something or just a natural phenomenon. Aykroyd: The moon, all the old excuses. Cooper: There's nothing - this argument can never be settled. Aykroyd: Half the world believes in the latest polls and half doesn't. And those who don't will never believe. We can show them everything and they're not going to - until they're taken up themselves or the guy walks up and shakes their hand or probes them or whatever they do. Cooper: I mean look, do you believe there's people who - there's all these people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. Aykroyd: I believe them. Cooper: You do, really? Aykroyd: I don't believe all of them, but I was in a room at the Fifth Avenue Medical Institute with John MacK and his staff and his assistant, his clinical assistant got up and gave a 15- minute presentation that was absolutely riveting. Here is what people are telling us. John MacK was a Harvard psychiatrist, he discovered this through work in hypnosis and he saw people were regressed and telling these stories. It's all the same. Now is it a mass hallucination? Some people say its sleep terror. Cooper: Right. There are people who said, well, you know, I woke up, I couldn't move, I was paralyzed. It was the aliens who did it and the doctors say well that's sleep terror. You wake up, you feel you can't move. Aykroyd: It could be. But I have people that I believe are credible that claim they've been taken that have the scoop marks and that have been implanted. Cooper: If they came by in the middle of the night - Aykroyd: Yes, I'd go. Cooper: You'd go really? Aykroyd: Yeah, as long as I wasn't a probed. As long as they let me drive. Cooper: And as long as you'd be back in the morning or else your wife would kill you. Aykroyd: Well that's right. Or she can come, too. (END OF VIDEOTAPE) Roberts: I've just been doodling a little here. It's all easy to laugh about, of course, unless it happened to you. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) Unknown: Touching me. Quit touching me. Ah! (END OF VIDEO CLIP) Roberts: Under hypnosis, some people vividly recall what they claim are alien abductions. We're going to have their stories for you. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) Roberts: Before the break, we cited poll numbers indicating that up to 48 percent of Americans think that UFOs are real. If that number surprises you, well, wait until we dig just a little bit deeper. A stunning number of people not only believe in UFOs, they're convinced that they've been taken along for a ride. Here's CNN's Gary Tuchman. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) Gary Tuchman, CNN Correspondent: Clayton and Donna Lee consider themselves a happy couple. How long have you guys been married? Donna Lee: 18 1/2 years, it will be 19 years January 2nd. Tuchman: But not an ordinary couple. Clayton Lee: I want to go home. I want to go home! Tuchman: Under hypnosis - Relax completely and listen to the sound of my voice. Tuchman: It's apparent the Lees are quite out of the ordinary. Donna Lee: Oh, no. I just need to go. I just need to go. Tuchman: What's going on here? Clayton and Donna Lee are trying to retrieve memories about being kidnapped by creatures from another world. Donna has drawn a picture of an alien who she says captured her. Clayton says one of his capturers looked similar. How many times have you been abducted by aliens? Clayton Lee: More than 10. Yeah. More than 20 probably. We have come to visit you in peace. Tuchman: For most people, visions of alien abductions are limited to the movies and TV. But in a CNN/Time magazine poll in 1997, 2 percent of respondents said they had been abducted by aliens or knew someone who was. Based on the sample that correlated to more than 5 million Americans. Clayton Lee says he was a child in this Houston park the first time he was abducted. Saying he was lifted in the air. Clayton Lee: And I remember just floating up, higher and higher, until all that was around me were stars and blackness. And then I blacked out. Tuchman: The hypnotist tries to retrieve further memories of that day. Clayton Lee: Quit touching me. Quit touching me. Ah! What is that, Clayton? Oh! What's the reason for all this? They gave me something. What was it they gave you? They gave me something. Tuchman: The hypnotist, who's a private investigator, also claims to have been an abductee. You can understand how a lot of people would think, this is really far out. Unidentified Male: Well I think it's far out. I think it's bizarre. And I wish it had never happened to me. My life would be a lot better. Tuchman: Susan Clancy is a Harvard psychiatrist who decided to do research on people's abduction claims. Susan Clancy, Harvard Psychiatrist: When I ran the first add looking for people who thought they had been abducted by aliens, I thought we'd get very few calls, but we were inundated with calls for a month after we ran one ad. Tuchman: The ads were for subjects who wanted to be included in her new book about people who believed they were kidnapped by aliens. But Clancy is determined she is not a believer. Clancy: So people have symptoms like psychological distress, anxiety, sexual problems, nightmares. And for better or for worse, today being abducted by aliens is a culturally available explanation for why you might have some of these symptoms. Tuchman: With all the reported alien abductions, you might think there would be one high-quality photograph or videotape that would indisputably show aliens in action. Until that happens, most people will have their doubts. But not all people. Clayton remains convinced this scar is a remnant of an experimental operation to collect his DNA. Donna believes a fetus was taken from her body. Is it possible - possible that you just have a vivid imagination? And that this really didn't happen? Donna Lee: No. I mean, I have a vivid imagination, but I know it happened. Tuchman: And they both say they expect to be abducted again. At any time. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Houston. (END OF VIDEOTAPE)
Dan's documentaire is te bestellen, winnen en deels te bekijken op www.DAUFO.com. Bekijk hier de trailer in hoge resolutie.
Bronnen
Contact Music, april 2004DAUFO.com
MUFON.com
CNN - Anderson Cooper 360 degrees, 9 juni 2006