MidWest WeirdFest has announced its first programming wave for 2023 today. The cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird, is now in its 7th year. The festival takes place March 3-5, 2023 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Says MidWest WeirdFest founder and programming director Dean Bertram:
The weirdest festival of the season is less than two months away, and I’m delighted to announce some of the genre, underground and esoteric gems we’re offering audiences this year. From brand new UFO and Bigfoot documentaries, through offbeat and ultra-violent comedies, to nightmare inducing films featuring an assortment of witches, cyber terrors, and gore-splattered serial killers… and that’s just in the fest’s first programming wave!
Discounted festival passes are now on sale here: https://filmfreeway.com/MidWestWeirdFest/tickets
Individual tickets to each film will go on sale closer to the festival...
Says MidWest WeirdFest founder and programming director Dean Bertram:
The weirdest festival of the season is less than two months away, and I’m delighted to announce some of the genre, underground and esoteric gems we’re offering audiences this year. From brand new UFO and Bigfoot documentaries, through offbeat and ultra-violent comedies, to nightmare inducing films featuring an assortment of witches, cyber terrors, and gore-splattered serial killers… and that’s just in the fest’s first programming wave!
Discounted festival passes are now on sale here: https://filmfreeway.com/MidWestWeirdFest/tickets
Individual tickets to each film will go on sale closer to the festival...
- 1/18/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
HarperCollins imprint William Morrow signed up North American publishing rights to a new memoir from Luis Elizondo, the former head of the U.S. Government’s UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Aatip). Elizondo was recently featured in a CBS 60 Minutes story about the potential existence of UFOs.
Following the Pentagon’s recent report to Congress regarding UFOs, Elizondo was quoted saying, “The American people now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to: That these Uap (unidentified aerial phenomenon) are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries, and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles. This conversation is only just beginning.”
Elizondo spent the majority of his military career as a senior Intelligence Officer, hunting drug traffickers, terrorists, and spies...
Following the Pentagon’s recent report to Congress regarding UFOs, Elizondo was quoted saying, “The American people now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to: That these Uap (unidentified aerial phenomenon) are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries, and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles. This conversation is only just beginning.”
Elizondo spent the majority of his military career as a senior Intelligence Officer, hunting drug traffickers, terrorists, and spies...
- 9/13/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
The former director of a secretive U.S. government UFO program is ready to tell his full story.
Luis Elizondo, who headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’s effort to study UFOs around the world, has signed a book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after a competitive bidding war for the U.S. publishing rights.
The memoir “promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot-topic globally.”
In May, Elizondo was featured on ...
Luis Elizondo, who headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’s effort to study UFOs around the world, has signed a book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after a competitive bidding war for the U.S. publishing rights.
The memoir “promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot-topic globally.”
In May, Elizondo was featured on ...
- 9/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The former director of a secretive U.S. government UFO program is ready to tell his full story.
Luis Elizondo, who headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’s effort to study UFOs around the world, has signed a book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after a competitive bidding war.
The memoir “promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot-topic globally.”
In May, Elizondo was featured on CBS’ 60 Minutes segment on the UFO ...
Luis Elizondo, who headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’s effort to study UFOs around the world, has signed a book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after a competitive bidding war.
The memoir “promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot-topic globally.”
In May, Elizondo was featured on CBS’ 60 Minutes segment on the UFO ...
- 9/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: New Line and HBO Max and producer Laura Bickford have teamed up to frame a movie around fact-based modern government investigations into UFO’s. Bryce Kass has penned the script.
Based on investigative reporter Leslie Kean’s journey while investigating and covering unexplained aerial phenomena for over many years, the movie will also tell the story of Luis Elizondo while he was the head of the Pentagon Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Aatip) and Christopher Mellon, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who helped bring the previously secret Pentagon program and its official UFO videos to light in 2017.
Recent coverage by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Politico, Fox News and CNN have brought the U.S. Defense Department’s long secret UFO program into the public eye.
Bickford originally optioned Kean’s 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government...
Based on investigative reporter Leslie Kean’s journey while investigating and covering unexplained aerial phenomena for over many years, the movie will also tell the story of Luis Elizondo while he was the head of the Pentagon Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Aatip) and Christopher Mellon, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who helped bring the previously secret Pentagon program and its official UFO videos to light in 2017.
Recent coverage by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Politico, Fox News and CNN have brought the U.S. Defense Department’s long secret UFO program into the public eye.
Bickford originally optioned Kean’s 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government...
- 5/14/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
“These objects are potentially a very grave threat to nation-states,” Tucker says about UFOs
Aliens are on Tucker Carlson’s mind again this Friday evening, and he spent a few minutes on his Fox show questioning if the intelligence community should be devoting more resources and paying more attention to aliens.
Tucker is of course frequently fascinated by the upcoming UFO report the U.S. government is supposed to release to the public this June. Last October, Tucker spoke with self-proclaimed UFO ‘expert’ Nick Pope about the report and said he was eager to see it. “How long do you think the US government can continue to keep up the pose and the veil of secrecy?” Tucker asked Pope at the time. “How long before we can just know what our leaders know?” In January, he complained again about the wait for the alien information.
On “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Tucker called...
Aliens are on Tucker Carlson’s mind again this Friday evening, and he spent a few minutes on his Fox show questioning if the intelligence community should be devoting more resources and paying more attention to aliens.
Tucker is of course frequently fascinated by the upcoming UFO report the U.S. government is supposed to release to the public this June. Last October, Tucker spoke with self-proclaimed UFO ‘expert’ Nick Pope about the report and said he was eager to see it. “How long do you think the US government can continue to keep up the pose and the veil of secrecy?” Tucker asked Pope at the time. “How long before we can just know what our leaders know?” In January, he complained again about the wait for the alien information.
On “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Tucker called...
- 5/1/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
The Pentagon can be quite the tease, especially when it comes to UFOs. They’ve claimed the phenomenon doesn’t exist, that they looked into it and lost interest, and they disbanded the unit they had investigating it. Now The New York Times is reporting the top military office never stopped looking at the skies. They just stopped telling us about it. The program, called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, is not classified, though some subjects contained in it are, but the Pentagon still prefers not to discuss it. A Senate committee has given them 180 days to tease us with more.
The covert UFO program came up in a Senate committee report last month while going over the annual intelligence agency budget. Among the details uncovered, the UFO Unit revealed unexplained Aerial Vehicle sightings had been made by a Navy Intelligence Task Force. Also, ex-advisor Eric W. Davis, told...
The covert UFO program came up in a Senate committee report last month while going over the annual intelligence agency budget. Among the details uncovered, the UFO Unit revealed unexplained Aerial Vehicle sightings had been made by a Navy Intelligence Task Force. Also, ex-advisor Eric W. Davis, told...
- 7/24/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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Talk of the “unidentified” was once relegated to backchannels, joked about in tabloids, and kept shrouded in mystery by government agencies. But recently the UFO phenomenon has come to the forefront of national news. Headlines are ablaze with news about three UFO videos released by the U.S. Navy. While it is true that these videos have been made available for download by the Department of Defense (Dod), the videos themselves began making waves back in 2017. One of them has been online since 2007. However, perhaps more surprisingly, the Navy admitted that the objects in the videos remain “unidentified.”
In popular culture, depictions of UFOs have blurred the lines between fact and fiction for dramatic effect. While this has evolved from “The Invaders” of The Twilight Zone to the little green men in The X-Files, sci-fi storytelling has long explored the potential existence of “extraterrestrial” beings.
It...
Talk of the “unidentified” was once relegated to backchannels, joked about in tabloids, and kept shrouded in mystery by government agencies. But recently the UFO phenomenon has come to the forefront of national news. Headlines are ablaze with news about three UFO videos released by the U.S. Navy. While it is true that these videos have been made available for download by the Department of Defense (Dod), the videos themselves began making waves back in 2017. One of them has been online since 2007. However, perhaps more surprisingly, the Navy admitted that the objects in the videos remain “unidentified.”
In popular culture, depictions of UFOs have blurred the lines between fact and fiction for dramatic effect. While this has evolved from “The Invaders” of The Twilight Zone to the little green men in The X-Files, sci-fi storytelling has long explored the potential existence of “extraterrestrial” beings.
It...
- 5/29/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
Alejandro Rojas Sep 20, 2019
We talk with UFO hunters Luis Elizondo and Sean Cahill from History's Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation about season 1.
Seasons one of History's Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation wrapped up on July 5th. UFO shows come and go, but what was unique about this one was the caliber of the investigators. Lead investigator Luis Elizondo formerly worked at the Pentagon, and one of his duties was to investigate UFOs as part of the Advanced Threat Identification Program (Aatip).
Now that Elizondo has left the Pentagon, he is working with former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge's To the Stars Academy. This organization is made up of several other highly credentialed individuals who investigate the UFO subject and are the focus on Unidentified. Two of his team members were former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon and former head of Advanced Systems Directorate for Lockheed Martin Steve Justice.
We talk with UFO hunters Luis Elizondo and Sean Cahill from History's Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation about season 1.
Seasons one of History's Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation wrapped up on July 5th. UFO shows come and go, but what was unique about this one was the caliber of the investigators. Lead investigator Luis Elizondo formerly worked at the Pentagon, and one of his duties was to investigate UFOs as part of the Advanced Threat Identification Program (Aatip).
Now that Elizondo has left the Pentagon, he is working with former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge's To the Stars Academy. This organization is made up of several other highly credentialed individuals who investigate the UFO subject and are the focus on Unidentified. Two of his team members were former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon and former head of Advanced Systems Directorate for Lockheed Martin Steve Justice.
- 8/6/2019
- Den of Geek
A video that the U.S. Navy shot back in 2015 has just surfaced showing a jet fighter pilot finding and locking on to a UFO. This comes a few months after we learned that the Pentagon actually pumped $22 million into a UFO research program and that is now being run by a few people on their spare time.
There's an organization called To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which is currently leading the charge on identifying unknown objects in aerospace. That organization is being run by former head of the now-defunct Pentagon program,Luis Elizondo, and it was co-founded by former Blink182 musician Tom DeLonge.
The group said the video below is Defense Department footage taken from an F/A-18 Super Hornet's video of the "high-speed flight of an unidentified aircraft." Elizondo talked to CNN, and they say "newly released video provides further evidence of what he said is...
There's an organization called To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which is currently leading the charge on identifying unknown objects in aerospace. That organization is being run by former head of the now-defunct Pentagon program,Luis Elizondo, and it was co-founded by former Blink182 musician Tom DeLonge.
The group said the video below is Defense Department footage taken from an F/A-18 Super Hornet's video of the "high-speed flight of an unidentified aircraft." Elizondo talked to CNN, and they say "newly released video provides further evidence of what he said is...
- 3/14/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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