Jan 31 2007
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Jamie Shandera And Proof Of UFOs (Pt. 1)
Shandera on “UFO Coverup Live!” - October 14, 1988
In December of 1984, Jamie Shandera, (pronounced JAY-mee SHAN-dehr-ay) a Los Angeles television producer, received a manila package on his doorstep. He and writer/researcher Bill Moore had been looking into government knowledge of UFOs. Moore had made a deal with elements of U.S. intelligence community that was supposed to net him classified documents and information in exchange for his services as a “mole” in the UFO community. The package was not delivered with the regular mail, even though it bore a postmark from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shandera had already retrieved his other mail when he heard his screen door closing and found a bulky envelope in the space between the screen and front door.
He called Moore and they opened the package together. In the envelope were two more envelopes. The last one contained a roll of black and white 35mm film. They went straight to Moore’s darkroom to develop the roll. What they found was a series of pictures of an official-looking report which came to be known as the Eisenhower Briefing Document. The rest is history.
Throughout 1998, I talked with Shandera almost monthly by phone, even though we both lived in the Los Angeles area at the time. Before the end of our conversations, Shandera said that he knew that aliens were here, the government knew about it, and had been involved in some sort of interaction with them for some time. Stunned by this, I asked him how he knew this to be true.
“I was shown something” he said.
He said that he could not tell me what it was, but that if I guessed right, he could affirm the fact. I wracked my brain, and those of my friends to figure this out. It was not a document, a picture, a film or video, a UFO in a hangar, or even a dead alien (all of which could be faked) and no, he hadn’t shaken hands with one.
He agreed to an interview for my magazine before he went off to the east coast for a trip. That was in December of 1998. I never heard from him again, and his phone number was reassigned very quickly. When I called again in January, a woman’s voice on an answering machine mispronounced his name and said that she didn’t know who he was, or where he had gone.
Next: What did Shandera see, and where did he see it? Also, was he just a TV producer, or was there another side to his background?
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January 31st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
he saw a live alien, who promptly gave him the backrub of his life!
January 31st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
right?
j/k
January 31st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Nope. What actually happened (if true) is even stranger than a joke! I’ll post part 2 tomorrow.
Stay tuned,
Greg
January 31st, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I was shown “something” too, and I asked them to put that thing away. . .
in all seriousness I am very much looking forward to the next installation. Way to build the suspense Mr. Bishop!
Jess
January 31st, 2007 at 9:52 pm
dang it Greg!
I can’t take the suspense!
I’ll be tuning in tomorrow for sure.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:14 pm
‘“I was shown something†he said…and no, he hadn’t shaken hands with one.’
Greg, You add that last bit on almost as if it’s a clue: did he shake tentacles with them?
You’ve suddenly got my mind reeling in horror here, as I try not to picture parts of the body that shake, or can be made to shake, two of which spring to mind sounding not too dissimilar to ‘tentacles’.
I mean, is there anything anyone could show someone that’d convince them beyond the point of trying to find a more ‘rational’ explanation, no matter how ridiculous that explanation might actually be?
I mean, I’ve seen a few weird things in my time - and that was just you and Nick!
January 31st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
alanborky et. al.,
Like I said, if true, it was pretty damned weird. Like any discovery, it produces more questions than it answers! I didn’t see it, and there’s no way any of us here could, without the proper clearances.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:39 am
Greg
Did you read the article that appeared by Bill Birnes in the October 2006 issue of “UFO Magazine” that was titled “Connecting the Coincidences”?
It makes interesting observations about Shandera.
According to Birnes: “…one late afternoon at my Hollywood office during a meeting concerning the work of Uri Geller, Mossad, the CIA, and other agencies dabbling in paranormal research, Jaime Shandera blurted out: ‘You’re going to be the one to disclose the UFO secret.’”
Birnes continued: “I looked up, profoundly distressed by the news. ‘It’s true,’ Jaime said. ‘The extraterrestrials have said that you will be the one to disclose the truth.’
‘Yes, Jaime’s female friend said. ‘It’s true.’ Then she looked around the room. ‘And they’re telling me this right now.’”
Of course, Birnes would later become co-author with Colonel Philip Corso of “The Day After Roswell” - which, for believers of Corso, at least, could be considered that “truth” having finally been disclosed.
Birnes continues in his “UFO Mag” article: “Our book ‘The Day After Roswell’ had just been published. We were actually releasing it at the Roswell Fiftieth Anniversary amidst the rounds of publicity and parties and celebrations. And who do I see walking along amidst the crowds? It was my old friend Jaime Shandera and his female friend. They walked by me. Stared at me. Saw Corso in the background answering questions from some of the guests at a reception. And I said to them, ‘You were right. This is the disclosure.’ Not a word as they disappeared into the crowd.”
Definitely a weird addition to the story!
Nick
February 1st, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Nick,
As we know, Corso’s book disclosed nothing that could be proved, but did work the UFO people into a froth. Shandera divorced his first wife, apparently right around the time of the 1997 Roswell bash. This new woman seemed exert quite an influence (or at least agreed with him) and he started talking about the aliens as if he actually believed they were here. The major reason for this is what I am writing about now. Did Shandera and his girlfriend actually believe what they were telling Birnes, or did they just want him to think so? Who knows?
February 1st, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Yep, it’s a difficult call. Frankly, I view most of the Corso story as disinformation (not lies or fabrication by Corso, however). Whether Corso knew it was disinfo, I’m not sure.
The fact that he was big buddies with Charles Willoughby (who arranged for Japan’s Unit 731 materials to reach the US after WW2) is intriguing, given what I wrote about 731 in “Body Snatchers.”
Did Corso know about Willoughby and 731 and possible Roswell links? Maybe.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:32 pm
[…] But why did he believe so strongly in the alien presence? As covered in the last post, he told me that he was “shown something.” Since he wouldn’t tell me what it was, I asked him where he had seen it. Shandera replied that he had been told to go to the crypt in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and to wait for a man who would talk to him. I am led to believe that he told of an artifact that was given to the government by the aliens. […]