Lee Speigel, Close Encounters and UFO History

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Lee Speigel is a journalist who has spent much of his career covering UFOs. He has worked for ABCNews.com,AOL News, and, most recently, the Huffington Post. He is now working with filmmaker James Fox on a script for an upcoming UFO documentary. In 1975, Lee produced a documentary record album, “UFOs: The Credibility Factor,” for CBS Inc. It marked the first time that military and scientific voices came together to disclose their personal UFO encounters and to call for government recognition of the phenomenon. Soon after he aided the Prime Minister of Granada in an attempt to get the United Nations to officially investigate the UFO phenomenon. During this effort he worked with UFO research pioneers Dr. J. Allen Hyenk and Jacques Vallee, and was invited to meet Steven Spielberg, who wished to aide the group in their efforts. In this interview, we discuss the recent re-release of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lee’s visit with Spielberg, and how Hynek and Vallee felt about the movie. Hynek served as a consultant to Spielberg on the film, and Vallee was the inspiration for one of the main characters. For more information about Lee, visit: LeeSpeigel.com

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Open Minds UFO Radio.
0:44.1	I am your host Alejandro Rojas and I am with Martin.
0:49.9	What's you talking about, Willis?
0:52.7	I have had, yeah, people say that a lot of to me a lot they do i
0:57.6	haven't used it and i know you have remarkably wow it was suggested by a listener that i use it
1:04.9	i've had someone leave a you know derogative comments on youtube's after i do shows like what are you talking about what you're talking about willis and then you know go intoogative comments on YouTube's after I do shows, like, what are you talking about?
1:12.1	What are you talking about, Willis?
1:13.2	And then, you know, go into the reason they're saying that.
1:15.9	That's funny.
1:17.1	That's really funny.
1:18.5	So, and I was thinking, you know, maybe people don't even know what that is because if you're a lot younger, you might not.
1:27.6	That's right.
1:28.7	So you better tell them what it is.
1:30.5	This whole conversation means nothing.
1:32.4	Yeah.
1:32.8	So what you're talking about, Willis, was a catchphrase from a little person.
1:38.5	I think that's the word you use for them.
1:40.5	Kind of like Peter Dinklage from Game of Thrones.
1:43.1	So it was Emmanuel Lewis, I think, Gary Coleman Gary Coleman Gary Coleman Gary Coleman that's
1:48.5	right wow I met him actually I hung out with him for a day so anyway yeah it was
1:54.4	this what was the different strokes was a show huh I think you got it mmhmm. So he would always say to his brother, and essentially it was these two black kids that
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