Unannounced on an early evening in March of 1995, Disney aired possibly one of their weirdest,
strangest, and most controversial specials ever produced by the company.
Odds are you've never even heard of it because the special only managed to air in 5 major
cities across America before it was banned and pulled from the airwaves.
What was this special about, and why was it quickly pulled from nationwide release later
that same evening?
Well, it's a long story.
So join me as I investigate Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland, the banned Disney documentary
about UFOs and alien abduction.
INTRO
Imagine sitting down with your family to watch yet another Disney Special on TV.
Most of these special presentations were loosely framed documentaries that highlighted what
they were working on at the time.
Like the animals that inspired the designs of The Lion King or the brand new computer
modeling techniques behind Pixar's first feature film, Toy Story.
Light breezy stuff that anyone from one to one hundred could enjoy together.
And after Michael Eisner's goofy intro with some armed guards, this is what you first
see.
"Scientific verification of extraterrestrial life forms routinely arriving on Earth.
Top secret reports from ongoing military investigations.
Compelling home videos of alien craft captured within the past few months.
World figures who have gone public with their extraterrestrial experiences.
The shocking history of government misinformation programs designed to prevent widespread panic.
And personal accounts from those whom have been abducted and studied against their will!
"It's happened to me.
It's happened to my sister.
And I believe my mother."
"My son looks me straight in the eyes and he says, 'They took blood out of you, Mama.'"
"They don't ask permission.
They take you!"
"But it's such an incredible secret, nobody wants to believe it."
"There is valuable scientific data that would prove once and for all that Planet Earth
is being visited by highly evolved intelligence… that is not from this world."
With no warning, the documentary launches into a very frightening subjective viewpoint.
Reports of UFOs and Alien Abductions are 100% real, and the US Government doesn't want
you to know.
"From beyond the boundaries of our perceptions, intelligent beings are becoming mankind to
join the galactic community.
It's an invitation that's both wondrous and terrifying.
This is the nature of alien encounters."
This, from a company that just last week showed you how cute baby Simba is, was now telling
you in no uncertain terms that Alien contact is not only real, but inevitable and dangerous,
and those who dispute these facts are wrong or lying to you.
"Now as we approach the new millennium, mankind is in the midst of the most profound
event in history…
actual contact with intelligent life from other planets!
For nearly fifty years officials have been documenting routine alien encounters here
on Earth.
And thousands of people have seen or experienced this alien presence.
Yet many others still refuse to acknowledge the obvious evidence all around them."
So what the hell was going on?
The short story is that in 1995, Disney was in the latter stages of a major overhaul of
its theme parks, specifically its oldest two: Disneyland and Disneyworld.
Both were a little rough around the edges - but were doing a little better thanks to
a first-of-its-kind deal with George Lucas, who brought both Star Wars and Indiana Jones
to the Disney Parks.
What does this have to do with a TV special on UFOs?
Well, as with every Disney Special, this all ties back to what they're working on at
the time.
"What is it like to be confronted by a creature whose intelligence and skill is far beyond
the comprehension of mankind?
Would it be enlightening?
Would it be an exercise in terror?
Or… perhaps both?
Here in the New Tomorrowland at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, these
concepts are brought to life as guests experience their own Alien Encounter.
A sensory thriller from Disney and George Lucas.
We'll give you a sneak preview after the show."
So granted, this special tips it's hat early on by teasing footage that will appear the
end of the special from its newest attraction, The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter - but
the problem is that from here on out the special takes itself way too seriously.
"This isn't right to do the ridicule.
I mean, a lot of people suffer."
"Retired Army Officer, Clifford Stone, certainly suffered.
After he began private research into the UFO phenomena while still in the service."
"Well, I was given a lawful order while I was in the military to back off.
I refused that lawful order.
That resulted in me having to be psychoanalyzed.
Which kind of backfired on my command, but I was actually given a lawful order not to
write to members of congress without first getting it approved through my command, and
not to talk to members of the media.
Of course I went out and violated all those directives simply because I felt they had
no right.
That I had a right."
"He also has determination.
This collection of classified government documents represents years of determined effort by Stone
to open the UFO files, and offer fresh leads to investigators on the trail to the truth.
It is not surprising that this book is making top military officials very uncomfortable."
Rather than fully script out their special in a way that helps paint the exaggerated
world their new ride takes place in, complete with actors and enough winks to the camera
that even the youngest viewers could tell this special was just for fun, the producers
Jeff Scheftel and Andrew Thomas, played everything horrifyingly straight.
"Anytime a technologically superior civilization comes in contact with a technologically inferior
civilization, the technologically inferior civilization ceases to exist.
Not necessarily through conflict.
Not necessarily through invasion - but because the technology changes the underlying social
structure of that civilization, and it disintegrates."
"Those fears are reflected in a 1960 federally funded study by the Brookings Institution,
which warned that public knowledge of alien life could cause civilization to collapse."
It becomes deeply unnerving as Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland interviews some the
biggest names in UFOlogy.
Doctor Kevin Randle, Retired Sergeant Clifford Stone, co-director of the Center for UFO Studies
in Chicago Don Schmitt, and prominent figure in Alien Abduction Phenomena Budd Hopkins.
These well published men, who are not actors - nor do they read visually as actors - add
an additional layer of verisimilitude to the narrative the special tries to paint.
Couple this with the painstakingly researched footage, which repeatedly highlights actual
archived UFO evidence.
From shakey home video, to blurry photographs, to news footage, to actual pulls from declassified
government documents from Project Bluebook,
So what starts as a hokey fake documentary about an upcoming theme park ride turns on
its heels and starts becoming chillingly real, as it's blended with actual research from
real experts in the field and documented evidence, all smoothed over by the host, Robert Urich's,
constant narrative that this is all shockingly real and you best be prepared for the terrifying
future.
"Indications are that government, military, and scientific leaders will soon release nearly
a half century of official documentation of ongoing alien encounters here on Earth.
Perhaps they feel it would be too embarrassing not to reveal the truth… before the truth
reveals itself!
But these FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act outline nearly 50 years
of UFO reports investigated by Federal Agents all across America.
Overwhelming evidence that something sinister is at work."
The first half of Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland is dedicated to explaining the
many documented and unexplained encounters with UFOs Earth has had over the years.
From well known pop culture touchstones like the Roswell crash, to lesser known events.
"I glanced up, and there were three flying saucers in a V. With what appeared to be a
dome on top with - I can't be sure - but I believe I saw the sun glinting off, well,
windows or observation portholes of a sort."
"I think it was from outer space, but friendly."
"Army fighter planes are on patrol for flying saucers!
Cameras installed to photograph them!
Portland, Oregon, from which the first WEIRD reports.
This flying saucer patrol shows how the Air Force is, while not putting too much stock
into the mysterious things in the sky, are investigating!
Control tower is in touch, and on the watch!
So are a lot of people these days.
They're seeing flying saucers everywhere!
Lots of fantastic disks flying through the air!"
This is all backed up with the chilling reminders of Cold War tensions and our troubling history
with nuclear weapons.
"Most alien activity on Earth in this century seems to have been sparked by the single most
profound technological achievement in human history.
The atomic bomb did more than wipe out every conventional notion of combat.
It also saddled mankind with the awesome responsibility of life and death for the entire planet.
But what the world didn't know in 1945, was that the atomic bomb's brilliant burst
of energy would also be mankind's cosmic calling card.
Announcing to the universe that a technological society had evolved on a small blue planet
in the backwaters of the stars."
Impossibly, the special moves to even darker and weirder territory in the second half,
as the narrative changes to alien abduction and first hand accounts from abductees.
"There are some that are very - um - they talk about - um - the 'reptilians' being,
like, sexually aggressive.
And then there's some that look like praying mantis that are very mean.
And very violent."
"It is a violation of your body.
It's a violation of your space.
They don't ask permission.
They take you.
On this Earth, when you are raped, when you are mugged, even if you don't see that person
that is doing you bodily harm, you have somewhere to go.
You can go to the police and at least give a report - whether they do something or not.
You have somewhere to go.
But in this case, you have no one to talk to.
You have no one to say, 'this has happened to me.
I've been so violated - you don't even know.
And it - you're not ready.'"
Yeah, I don't think the audience was quite ready for frank discussions about rape in
a primetime Disney special theoretically fit for the whole family.
And it somehow gets even worse from there.
"And it's terrifying.
It's not fun.
It ruins your life, because you have nowhere to go."
"Twinkle twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high.
Like a diamond in the sky...
Makes me want to cry."
"Part of the trauma involved in this is our government telling us that these objects
don't exist.
And I seem - and other members of my family, and other people seem to have these experiences…
It makes you - It makes you doubt your sanity."
As you can see, the camera lingers on these people and their anguish.
Even if these first hand abduction accounts are lead by interviewers, or are partially
scripted, or fully performed by actors, it's not presented as such.
This is dark and frightening territory for a prime time Disney special - with no trigger
warnings or on screen raiting - to explore, especially when at every turn Robert Urich
is quick to remind you that this is all real, and it is likely to happen to you.
"But most Americans will likely explore outer space aboard crafts of alien origin.
Statistics indicate a greater probability that you will experience extraterrestrial
contact in the next five years than the chances that you will win a state lottery… but how
do you prepare for such an extraordinary event?"
So what happened when Disney aired the special early in five cities?
What do you think happened?!
People freaked out!
They called the TV stations and complained, and threatened, and demanded that they pull
it from the air.
And in turn, the TV stations did just that.
While the special did fully air in those five cities, everyone else aired a repeat to cover
the dead airtime.
Officially Disney doesn't acknowledge Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland exists.
It was banned from airing ever again on TV, and the masters have been destroyed.
But thanks to a few stalwart VCR captains who were able to tape the special, evidence
of its existence still lingers to this very day.
In fact, you can watch the whole video right now on YouTube!
I highly recommend you check it out by clicking the card on your screen, or by clicking the
link in the about section below this video!
Alien Encounters From New Tomorrowland is one of the weirdest things you can see online,
but the full story behind the making of the infamous ride it's attached to is even stranger
and more interesting.
So join me next week as I tell the tale of Disney World's ill fated ExtraTERRORestrial
Alien Encounter.
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