United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in United States. A sign reads 'Link Training Department'. Cadets enter the Link Training Department building. Men enter theater and take seats. Cadets race during the movie.
South Korean soldiers of Republic of Korea (ROK) on the road with rifle and full field packs. ROK troops moving through brush-covered terrain, with camouflage of natural materials. Shells bursting in air. ROK troops firing recoilless weapon from concealed position. Shells striking targets. ROK troops firing machine gun. Numerous shells bursting on targets with smoke rising.
U.S. General Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) conversing with British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Deputy SACEUR, as they consult map of Europe on a wall. U.S. General of the Army, Five-star General, Omar Bradley, arriving in France, on a C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft of the U.S. Military Air Transport Service. He is met by French Marshal Alphonse Pierre Juin, Commander of the NATO Central Army Group (CENTAG). General Bradley reviews an honor guard at the airport, before driving away in a car.
U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) Bombardier leaning over bombsight. Several small explosions in circular pattern on SAC bombing range in flat open desert. Mountains in background. A SAC Convair B-36 bomber in flight. Two U.S. Airmen remove camera from RB-36 aircraft and holding up large still photo aerial camera with large lens. Animation of flight of B-36 on practice bombing exercise in the United States . Formation of four B-50 Superfortress aircraft of the 43rd Bomb Wing, stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona.They are escorted by two straight-wing F-84 Thunderjets. View of single Convair B-36 in flight. Circle R tail code indicates it belongs to the 6th Bomb Group stationed at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Doughnut shaped piece of cloth suspended by wire. United States Air Force Chief General John Samford discusses the 'flying saucer' UFO because he says it is an obligation of the USAF to investigate anything in the air that might prove a threat to the nation. He credits others as the result of aircraft or meteorological and astronomical phenomena. He reveals that there is not a pattern or measurement for analysis. His conclusions are that they represent no threat to us. He adds that flying saucers are not the result of a secret development by U.S. agency.
Film opens showing Major Donald E. Keyhoe (U.S. Marine Corps, Retired) author of the 1950 book,"The Flying Saucers Are Real." He is seated, quietly, at a desk with microphones. Unseen persons are talking, as they prepare for his interview, and can be heard in the background. An unseen interviewer asks Keyhoe his opinion about new sightings of unidentified flying objects. Kehhoe expresses belief that some will prove to be of interplanetary origin.