After months of trying to find a proper commercial venue for a lifetime’s worth of research, Robert Hastings has given up on trying to put his documentary in multiplexes and living rooms. Beginning Monday, his “UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed” will go online as a $4.99 rental at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ufosandnukes. A disappointment, to be sure.
“I tried to find some network to license it but to no avail,” Hastings states in an email to De Void. “I am told that indy producers have virtually no chance of getting their work picked up by most networks. Some (including History) won’t even accept emails from producers, only distributors. So, a month ago, I contacted Gravitas Ventures – a major film distributor – which did indeed offer us a contract. But its terms were terrible and so we passed. Finally, we just decided to go the Vimeo On Demand route.”
Here’s hoping the new Vimeo listing will draw the sort of traffic that’ll make the suits rethink their omniscience, because the story is well told, no frills. To reiterate, Hastings adapted the documentary from his 2008 nonfiction book UFOs and Nukes. Some 150 military veterans and missile engineers have now stepped up to charge that, for decades, America’s weapons of mass destruction have been monitored and tampered with by what Hastings describes as “technologically advanced observers whose identities and intentions remain unknown.” Hastings followed it up in 2010 with a Washington press conference, where half a dozen of those eyewitnesses discussed the ease with which some of the world’s most restricted air corridors had been repeatedly violated, again and again, in brazen fashion. The story made a quick sploosh! of headlines before sinking like a pebble.
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