Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. Men wearing Bell Rocket Belts fly in the air. They fly over traffic on road and land on roadside. Single engined biplane bomber Hawker Horsley British aircraft taxis and takes off. German jet fighter EWR VJ 101, United States Ryan XV-5A aircraft and M2-F2 Lifting Body in flight. NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Lunar Landing Research vehicle and XB-70A in flight.
Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.
American President Woodrow Wilson heads for France to negotiate peace between Germany and Allies. U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain John W. Davis and his wife on a ship deck. John W. Davis looks through binoculars. Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss, Mrs. David H. Miller and Arthur Bullitt converse with each other standing on the deck. French Ambassador to the U.S. Jules Jusserand with his wife, G. F. Close and R. C. Sween, confidential secretaries to President Wilson aboard USS George Washington.
East Meets West in Germany during World War II. U.S. Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commander of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division and Russian officer Major General Rusakov, Commander of the 58th Guard Division meet with their respective forces. They shake hands with each other.
The 14th Monaco Grand Prix race in Monte Carlo. Top Formula One car racing drivers of Europe drive their race cars at great speed on the streets of Monte Carlo. French, British and Italian F1 drivers compete in the race. Britain's Stirling Moss wins the race in his Maserati.
U.S. Navy and Marine life fire exercises at sea. Opening scene shows Destroyer USS Decatur (DD-936) accompanying Aircraft Carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43)at high speed. Navy and Marine pilots scramble to A4 Skyhawk aircraft readied on deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Ranger (CV-61). Green shirt operator seen at controls below ship's catapult, as an A4 is launched. F4 Skyray aircraft being launched simultaneously from different catapults. Destroyers firing 8-inch guns. Closeup on deck, of an 8-inch gun being fired. Battery of antiaircraft guns installed beside flight deck on an aircraft carrier. missiles being lauched from deck of a ship and from aircraft in flight. Marine aircraft dropping napalm. Flames and black smoke from the bombing.