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Am I the only one left who sees the "Independence Day" Conspiracy?
By Glenn Campbell
Area 51 Research Center

Copyright 1996 (Version 1.0)
Las Vegas, Nevada
July 4, 1996
I write this account not knowing if anyone will ever read it. Strange things are happening that I cannot explain, and no one seems to see them but me. I am posting this message to the Internet in the hope that someone -- anyone -- might have made the same observations and know what to do.
America is now in the grip of "ID4" fever. "Independence Day," the big budget Fox movie about an alien invasion of earth, opens this week at theaters around the country. Some are showing it 24 hours a day as hordes of humans line up to see their planet nearly destroyed. Pre-release publicity has been massive. ID4 appears on the cover of the current Time and Newsweek, and ads seem to run on all the TV networks every hour. Every review I have read has been laudatory -- even in the New York Times -- and everyone I know wants to see it.
The thing I don't understand is why? I have not seen the movie myself. Something tells me I MUST NOT see the movie. I have read the script, however, and the script sucks. ID4 is a remake of "War of the Worlds," with credit neither to H.G. Wells, the author, or Orson Wells, who made history with his 1938 radio broadcast. Once you catch on that ID4 = WW, then the script becomes lifeless and holds no surprises whatsoever. Producers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin proudly acknowledge they wrote it in four weeks -- and it shows. The characters are one-dimensional and the dialog predictable. The only deviation from the "War of the Worlds" plot is that, in the end, the aliens are not killed by a natural virus after landing on earth. Instead, they are done in by a COMPUTER virus delivered to the alien mothership by our stock Hollywood heroes. That's creativity.
Here's a synopsis of the script. (Please don't read it if you think it will spoil your fun.)
FADE IN. After being detected by radiotelescopes on July 2, a huge alien ship approaches Earth and is at first thought to be benign. It splits into multiple ships which hover above Earth's major cities. Naive UFO buffs gather on rooftops with signs welcoming the aliens, but a cable TV technician sees danger in the signals emanating from the otherwise silent ships. He manages to alert the President, for whom his ex-wife happens to be press secretary. Based on this new information, the President immediately orders evacuation of all the cities. Just then, the ships unleash the WALL OF DESTRUCTION -- the main character in the film. After many futile attempts to stop it, the WALL decimates most of the world's metropolises. Billions killed. The President and a few other survivors take refuge at Area 51. In a final all-or-nothing battle, the cable guy joins forces with a fighter jock to fly a captured alien scout craft back to its orbiting mothership. The President, piloting a fighter jet, provides air support. A computer virus, designed by the cable guy, is delivered to the mothership. Mothership destroyed. Earth saved. Heroines fall into arms of heroes, as pieces of the mothership rain down in "Fourth of July" fireworks. FADE OUT. ROLL CREDITS.
In short, these are not friendly aliens. Their only significant line in the script is "Die, Exterminate... We kill you all!" (which I understand has been shortened to "Die!" in the final cut). Fortunately, the aliens move at a slow enough pace to allow the human plot to proceed. The majority of humanity is exterminated in this movie, but viewers can rest assured there is still time for romance. Of course the main selling point is not the plot but the special effects and the spectacle of seeing all those cities blown up. In the TV ads, we see the White House and Empire State building exploded from within. The aliens must have great respect for our culture to hit those landmarks first.
In half-hour promotional specials on Fox and the SciFi Channel, more clips were shown. Huge, ominous spacecraft loom over New York and Washington in prelude to the invasion. For each scene, I say to myself, "Wow, those are really great special effects!" I experience no illusion that the scenes are real, even for a moment. The Fox TV special was presented as a mock newscast, in the vein of Orson Wells' radio broadcast that caused widespread panic. This rendition, however, did not even begin to look real. The "correspondents" reporting from the field looked like actors, and the quality of the video was either too clear or had an artificial shakiness that was also unconvincing.
ID4 appears to be merely a "product," cranked out by the Fox entertainment factory according to time-worn formulas. It is a 50-cent script surrounded by $70 million in special effects and probably an even bigger marketing budget. What is a mystery to me is why the press, public and especially the community of UFO believers has fallen for it so heavily. To me, if the script is mediocre, then it is hard for the finished movie to be any better, no matter how many special effects you layer on top of it. Audiences ought to be immune to special effects by now. In the era of computer graphics, a moviemaker can suspend a spaceship over any city and blow up any landmark without leaving the office. This script seems mainly an excuse for connecting together these scenes of destruction.
With its spider-like aliens and their blandly evil intentions -- in no way resembling anything in the credible UFO literature -- it is surprising to also see ID4 on the covers of two of America's most respected UFO monthlies: MUFON Journal and UFO Magazine. Fox's money buys influence, in this case a Las Vegas junket and paid speaking engagements for UFO Magazine's editors and the MUFON director. They were brought here to visit "Area 51" - a major setting for the movie and a place you can't get to from here. In April, Fox organized a press tour from Las Vegas, cleverly timed to coincide with the National Association of Broadcasters convention attended by thousands of journalists. At least a hundred signed on for this free Fox day trip to the military border. Most of them seemed to go where they were told, reported what Fox wanted them to and asked no skeptical questions.
It is my conviction that the conspiracy runs much deeper than anyone else suspects. I cannot believe that the American press can be bought off so easily. Some other kind of influence must be at work beyond the normal money and power of Hollywood. I worry that it could be something subliminal, and this is why I have declined to see the film.

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