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OMNI Magazine
April 1993
PHANTOM OF THE
MOVIES
Remember the horror
flick that gave you
nightmares as a kid?
You know, the one about
aliens putting implants
into people's necks.
What was its name? Joe
Kane will toll---Invadors
from Mars. For those
who care, Kane can also
give a scene-by-scene
rendition of It! The Terror
from Beyond Space, the
black-and-whito saga of
a monster that offs a
spaceship crew.
If you're looking for an
expert on those old SF
movies, Kane's your
man. As "The Phantom
of the Movies," or the
"B-movie" critic for New
York's Daily News,
Kane reviews, among
other things, horror,
science fiction, and
film noir. And, ho
confesses, he's
addicted to the
movies he
reviews.
His all-
time fa-
vorite?
Carni-
val of Souls, in which a
woman at a carnival is
chased by ghouls,
followed by classics
like The Day the Earth
Stood Still and
Terminator. What
does he hate? "A real
atrocity called So-
larbabies, about a roller-
skating team of the future
and a guru.
The best part of his
job, says Kane, is
"finding something great,
such as The Dark Side, a
Canadian movie made in
the Eighties about a cab
driver caught up in a web
of weird people. It would
have been totally unno
ticed unless a reviewer
like myself bothered to
look at it." The down side
of the job is watching
movies that turn out to be
junk. Anita Baskin
The Day the Earth
Stood Still: A
B-movie" great
FORBIDDEN SCIENCE
Valler
Is the
U.S. govern-
ment with
holding infor-
mation on
UFOs? Yes.
according to
computer
scientist and
UFO expert Jacques
Vallee, whose new book
Forbidden Science (North
Atlantic Books, 1992)
reveals the diary he kept
from 1957 to 1969.
According to Vallee, he
was organizing the private
files of astronomer and
UIO pioneer J. Allen
Hynek back in 1967 when
that UFO research would
have taken a different
course had the panel seen
the data reviewed by
Pentacle. "The scientific
approach to a complex
new phenomenon is to
look for patterns," he says,
"and that is exactly what
Pentacle did."
Bul aerospace writer
and UFO skeptic Phillip J.
Klass believes that Vallee
places too much empha-
sis on the Pentacle memo.
"The more than twelve
thousand UFO reports
that were submitted to
Project Bluebook, some of
which this memo refers to,
are now available in the
National Archives, in the
IF PENTACLE'S MEMO HAD BEEN RELEASED, SAYS
VALLEE, THE HISTORY OF UIOLOGY
MIGHT HAVE BEEN RADICALLY CHANGED.
he discovered a memo
marked "SECRET---
Security Information,"
signed by a project
manager Vallee has
dubbed "Pentacle." The
memo cited some unusual
UFO patterns and sug
gested a serious scientific
investigation
for some reason, the
Pentacle memo never
reached the so-called
Robertson Panel, made
up of top-level scientists
investigating UFOs for the
Air Force and the CIA. The
panel ended up debunking
UFOs. But Vallee believes
public domain," Klass
says. "I invite Vallee to
pick out what he believes
are the best of those
reports and demonstrate
that they cannot be
explained in prosaic
terms."
Vallee, however, says
this approach would not
be useful. "It is unlikely
that any single case or
group of cases will
demonstrate anything," he
says, noting that research
ers would have benefited
most from studying the
pattern as a whole.
----Keith Harary
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