CIA advised secretly on 2009 Disney UFO movie

An active operative of the Central Intelligence Agency provided detailed, on-set advice to the makers of the 2009 Disney film Race to Witch Mountain - this according to the film's director, Andy Fickman. In a September 2010 interview, Fickman revealed to me that his CIA advisor - who had been hired "through back door channels" - personally designed the written alien language seen in the flying saucer during the film's climactic scenes. The advisor also recommended that certain UFOlogical content be removed from the script.

Along with an active Air Force Colonel (also advising uncredited on the film), the CIA man even accompanied Fickman and selected members of his production crew on a private tour of NORAD's sensitive Cheyenne Mountain facility, where Fickman discussed the UFO question with top-ranking military personnel, including the heads of NORAD themselves.

The full details of the CIA's clandestine involvement in Race to Witch Mountain will feature in the Spring 2011 issue of 49th Parallel - a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal devoted to North American Studies - in a new article co-authored by myself and Matthew Alford.

The in-depth article, entitled: A History of Government Management of UFO Perceptions through Film and Television, brings together six-decades-worth of concrete cases in which the US government and military have attempted - often successfully - to shape the content of UFO-themed film and TV products. I'll be providing a direct link to this article as soon as the journal publishes it online this April.