President John F. Kennedy visits the SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Omaha. He presents a plaque recognizing the flights made during Cuban crisis. He visits the 'Project Rover' center in Los Alamos. He sees the steps accomplished in developing nuclear power for rockets to outer space.
Pilot, "Doctor" Valentine Newbauer, and an assistant loading cargo aboard his failed flying contraption "Stratogyro," intended to fly to outer space and the planet Mars. Pilot Newbauer wears heavy flying suit and rubber boots. Assistant helps him don a metal helmet. He shows his special gloves. Pilot enters the plane, tests his controls and cranks a starter. Engine starts and large rotors begin to rotate. The entire ornithopter-helicopter machine vibrates, but does not move. Pilot shuts it down and steps out, removing his helmet and smiling. Assistants tow the machine back toward a shed. Repeat views of rotors turning; pilot testing controls; and cargo being loaded aboard.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 130th press conference in Washington DC, United States. Newsmen from different nations arrive for President Eisenhower's 130th press conference. Men seated in a hall inside a building. President Eisenhower arrives with officials. The President speaks during the conference. Press and media representatives take notes. Chalmers M. Roberts, a pressman, asks the President that with the summit issues in the impasse between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, does the President see any initiative to break it or would the arms race go on indefinitely. President Eisenhower says that they should seek some common ground where there is a beginning made towards agreement in which they can work better co-operatively. The men gathered in the hall take down notes. View of the President speaking. Photographers taking pictures. The President unfolds a document and says that it is the list of subjects that the United States has proposed unilaterally with respect to the Allies. He cites the Baruch Plan - '46, the preparation of inspection and control measures, the Open Skies proposal, the peaceful use of outer space, the transfer of nuclear weapon stocks to peaceful use such as for power, freedom of travel and the limitation of the UN Veto. The President further says that he does not think he is being negative just by being firm and believing in what is right for the welfare of the United States.
Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. Book headlined 'Flying Saucers and the United States Air Force'. U.S. Air Force official in an interview says that the U.S. Air Force is not hiding anything from the people. Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Base in Ohio. Articles from outer space displayed on the table.
Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. Reporter interviews American astronomer and professor Josef Allen Hynek. He says that meteors, aircraft, birds and other natural objects are mistaken by people as UFOs. Host talks about the outer space and its various objects.
Exploration of UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sightings in Colorado. Host talks about outer space and its various objects. Officials receive information at the NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) center, Peterson Air Force Base. Animated map on the screen in front of the NORAD officials. Air Force official talks about objects identified in their radar systems. Air Force officer shows a picture of object identified in the radar system.