Close Encounters at Devils Tower - That's WY
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Joe Alves, Production Designer and Location Scout for 1977's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', takes us back to the days when he first felt the magic of Devils Tower.
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Close encounters of the third kind is one of my favorite movies of all time. It made me believe that there is something else out there and that we are truly not alone in the universe. Devils tower has a spiritual meaning to the theme of the movie. Love it
IF seeing a mere movie could make you wonder about other intelligent life within our vast universe, you should witness a classic 'flying saucer' fly directly over your house...like I witnessed in the late 60's. Although it was about 10pm and dark, my unshielded front porch light lit up quite well. It wasn't until the next day, as I was telling some coworkers about it, I suddenly realized that although that craft was really low, it never made a whisper.
This single sighting motivated me to attend the McMenamins UFO Convention in McMinnville, OR, even though for me it is a 1600 mile drive round trip. There, we met and chatted with many others with similar experiences.....and, my wife attended with me. This is but ONE OF FOUR sightings I've had, but is the one which stays with me and will not go away....close my eyes and 50 years later still 'see' it.
Her heart doctor is a HUGE UFO fan, and every time we visit, he and I spend more time chatting about UFOs then we do her heart. If this bothers her, she's never said anything.
On the wall in one of his consultation rooms hangs a photo of his best friend standing alongside a ST 1100 Blackbird, which he flew while in the Air Force. The good doc loves to tell about the time when his buddy, while on a routine flight, a classic 'flying saucer' pulled alongside, toyed with them for a bit, then first shot ahead at an 'impossible speed'....it repeated this three times and then flew straight up and out of sight.
Many believe our government knows fully well what is going on, but is withholding full UFO disclosure out of fear of upsetting the 'Delicate Religious Rght'.....that we are not the sole intellgence and propriators within this vast universe. I say, Disclose, and let the chips fall wherever they may.
Besides, it's way past the time for the 'Delicate religious' to become more farther and much better educated! BHE
The devil's tower is my favorite giant tree stump of them all.
It looks like the stump of a super giant tree!! So awesome.🌲🌳🌵
There are flat earther types who believe it actually IS the stump of a giant tree 🙄
As an avid fan of the movie, this is so fantastic. Thank you!
Watching this video in January of 2020 means something.
Devils Tower is a foot heel Achilles that is worn off, when the flood came they sank into the ground and they broke off one leg after losing their balance, there are many of them in the USA. you see the fracture zone at the top ,this is from a Titan's, this cud be up to 3000 ells or over 11000 tousen foot tall.
@@janbrubakken9598 There is ZERO evidence supporting a simutaneous world wide flood ever have occuring, despite what the bible (100% written by man) claims.
Question....If God wanted us to follow some sort of strict regemin, why didn't he simply snap his fingers and provide man with an instruction manual? (Bible...which was written by many MEN)? Would have been so much simpler than creating this two trillion galaxy universe, each packed with 100's of billions of stars we have gradually come to realize we all reside within.
Currently, there exist over 2500 religions on this planet....close your eyes and pick one, for it will be just as relaveant as is another. Also, I have, on four separate occasions, going all the way back to the late 60's, witnessed four crafts which were NOT made on this earth....and, I mean up close. This has motivated me to attend the McMenamins UFO convention three times within the last six years, where I've met and chatted with many others who have had similar experiences.....even though for me it is a 1600 mile drive round trip. BHE
Going there this summer, Wyoming is so underrated
I loved it different from humidity and tourism in Florida roots of the Native American ⛺️ 😎
@@patriciasullivan4820 I visited this site over 40 years ago via motorcycle. However, after the movie, had to return, but with an entirely different perspective.
Wow, I would love to see this awesome Tower, no wonder it was in Close encounters of the third kind!
I have one just like it in my living room
Hahahahahahah. Cheers.
Perfect
Loved that movie, most people don’t know that is was based on factual events. Movie producer Robert Emenegger was supposed to get footage of a UFO landing on a military base for a presidential campaign commercial back in the 60’s, at the 11th hour they pulled the plug on it as they felt the public wasn’t ready. Story has it that Spielberg ended up seeing it and it inspired him to make the movie, at the end scene you’ll see Dr Allen Hynek (he was hired by the military for project bluebook), helping Spielberg make the final scene with the exchange of pilots and sending astronauts with the aliens.
My perfect holiday Jackson hole.Yellowstone Teton park Grand Canyon and Monument valley and Devils tower.all in two states hopefully one day I will get there .❤️
I have visited ALL of these sites, and been in ALL 50 states, mostly via motorcycle. In a couple of months, my wife and I are going to visit the Devil's Postpile on the eastern side of the Sierras, a natural geologic site I first visited when my two sons were quite young (NOW in their 50's).
The Devil's Tower took on an entirely different persona after the movie, Close Encounters.
This is an incredible incredible video. Its so lovely to see the glint in the eyes of Joe Alves when he talks about Mato Tipila. Let's call it that now shall we?! Its a beautiful tower not a devil's one for sure!
Seems like so many unusual geologic sites puzzled our ancestors and so they tagged them with the name of Devil. In about a month or so, my wife and I are going to drive from our northen CA coastal home on a primary mission to visit Devil's Postpile, a geologic site on the eastern side of the Sierras I visited almost 50 years ago, but which my 2nd wife hasn't yet seen. BHE
@@blackholeentry3489Amazing! Have fun.
I saw this movie when I was a sensitive boy. It was then that I knew it was a real place.
I arrived in North America 26 years ago, but unfortunately I couldn't go here. I definitely want to visit this time.
@Sylvain Daly
Thank you. I would like to visit this place someday. Maybe you'll be taken to a UFO like Mulder?
You couldn't pick a more appropriate landmark to instigate contact with ET's...movie or no movie. Perfect!
Ahhh the mother tree of the earth that was cut down
This video in itself is serene.
Thank you for sharing this. Great experience. Definitely on my bucket list of places to visit!
Excellent, Uptown! Hit us up when you decide to visit! -Charles
She is a Tree. An ancient megafauna tree 'stump'. The Native American tribes that lived along side her for thousands of years know and speak of her as a tree- literally speaking- and there is no question.
Used to live in Deadwood SD we would go up there and climb all the time. Same with Mt Rushmoore
It looks like an ancient redwood tree, ginormous one
Perfect place for a gigantic mothership to land.
It is the mothership
Very worth visiting!!
Make a wish came true🧘🏻
That's why I have to visit that place!
That movie made me want to see Wyoming. 👽
It’s a giant Cedar stump. It’s plain as day if you have eyes that see.
When I was young, I had never seen anything like that before. But a lot of people had seen it already.
A wonderful Movie
Awesome video sir 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you for sharing
this is beautiful.
Thanks! Come and see us sometime! -Charles
Devil's Tower looks like it was once a tree
Agree huge tree.
@@아우구스트스트린드베 You never know.. Our mainstream science can't be trusted, because they view everything with a preprogrammed point of view, so reject any evidence or ideas that don't align with theview the WANT to be true.
The devils tower is the tendons of mile high Giants and you can see where it ruptured at the top and blood stains in various parts. Mudfossil University youtube and a Master Biologist. Dare you.
I saw this ad before Caliber Corner #13. I usually skip the ads. I didn't with this one. This was a well done commercial for You Tube. Caliber Corner is broadcast out of western Nebraska. Wyoming is not far away. How appropriate.
Thanks, James. Check out the tower if you're out this way! -Charles
To the Indigenous peoples of the area, this is Bear Butte. The deep scores in the rock were created by the claws of a giant bear.
Pico Cão Grande in Obo National Park brought me here 😊🌴🍃🌴
It looks like a giant tree broken or snapped during the flood
Maybe it's a fossilized prehistoric tree that didn't grow branches quite like ours do today?
Maybe it's robin,who is really batman
WOW!!!!!!
Really wonder if when scouting locations for the film did you also consider Pilot Mountain in Surry County, North Carolina?
Jack and the beanstalk...
it's the remains of ancient tree trunks
Devils Tower = Giant Petrified Tree Stump
Imagine how tall it was before jimi got there
desde niño no puedo evitar hacer esa torre con el puré de papas :-)
Inspiration rock
Read the book of Enoch and he tells of the giant Nephilm that cut down all the trees. Is this the stump of one of those felled tree's??? Same as the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland. Is this the remnants of massive tree roots??
Hilarious 🤡 giant's causeway is basalt/volcanic rock
@@ianmangham4570 is it really.. Did u do a survey on it or are u led by what science says it is?? Check out forbidden archeology. 2 side's to every story.
@@ianmangham4570 nah youre just a science is settled 🤡
I’m not sure why but I’ve become fearful of large things. Devils Tower, huge thunderstorm clouds, nuclear bomb mushroom clouds. I’ve just been flying around the Devil’s Tower in Microsoft Flight Simulator and had to quit. Too perturbed. Odd.
ts a pre ice age gigantic organic life form.... frozen and crystalized in to stone. Most of the times its hexagon shape and breaks it to similar size blocks. That's is crystalized organic cells.
Would you believe the tower was once one of many trees..
It does make you wonder. Maybe the movie Avatar was inspired by ancient human memories.
No because trees decompose and when it decomposes, it will be full of organisms which breaks it a part into soft compost which will destroy the shape of the tree
Eroded volcano.
I agree ...huge tree trunk. Prehistoric
Ah, no I wouldn't. But if you do, I have a vast Ocean front property in Kansas that I would love to sell you, Cheap!!
Petrified ancient silicon based tree stump... Probably made it even thru the stoning of the ages back wen ev thing was turned to stone instantly. INSTANTLY
what if the devils tower is a massive tree?
It's the fossilised foot of a titan, according to Mud Fossil University.
It’s made out of mashed potatoes 😂
Guess what DVD I just got out?
It's not 'Men in Black'! - Charles
W.O.W.
More! I loved Close encounters of the third kind. I would love to visit Devils Tower, but the fear of men in masks, dead birds and cattle make me a bit trepidatious. Jk. Beautiful! How can I see more of your journey filming this piece of art?
Thanks, Chas! Take a look at this page for more on the story. www.travelwyoming.com/devils-tower-landmark
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It’s amazing those guys and gal in the movie could climb to the top, in the dark, with no ropes!
In the movie, they never climbed to the top. They were only at the bottom of it. Watch the movie again.
@@neskire you’re right! I always thought they were at the top, lol. That’s like finding out I spent 1/2 my life calling a “light sabre” a “life saver”
Its an ancient volcanic tube.
Timothy Bovasso Yeah that's what they all say lol 😏
Yes because volcanic lava form straight lines right. 🤡
I kind of bristled when Mr. Alves said "You see the tower, it represents Close Encounters".
That's not what I personally think of when I see the tower, and that film (while entertaining) is *not* what that tower represents in my mind. That tower represents a sacred Native American place to me, as well as the setting for wonderful tales from Native American folklore (namely, the tale of the bears and the seven sisters).
I know it's just one man's opinion depicted in that spot, but I genuinely feel really sad to think the Wyoming tourism board might be choosing to highlight the tower's Hollywood connections over its spiritual history among Native Americans. I understand that maybe you feel more people would be attracted by the fact it was used as a location in a classic Spielberg film, but it makes me sad to think that's the primary definition the tower will have in the future. It's so much more than just a movie location.
This is just one person's opinion written here, too. I'm not "outraged" or "hating" here. Of course the movie connection is a valid point of attraction for tourists, I just wish Alves hadn't made such a bold statement there. The tower is *so much more* than one movie.
If there's another commercial highlighting the tower's rich spiritual history and I've missed it, I will gladly eat my humble pie. If there isn't, perhaps you'd consider making another? I do believe people really would be interested in visiting your beautiful state for that history, too.
Thank you for your time.
Hi Laurie Ann. As a Wyomingite, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Native American aspect of it as well; however, we went this route with the video in cooperation with the 40th Anniversary of the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie. We didn't intend to bristle. :)
Gloriana Lauriana thanks to close encounters i want to travel 4000miles in business first class just to live my film fantasies..
petrified tree stumpp on my life
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looks it's the tree from avatar
IT was a very big tree.......
its not a stump its a stemonitis
It's a tree stump. Prove me wrong.
travelwyoming.com/places-to-go/destinations/national-parks-monuments/devils-tower-national-monument/#:~:text=Prepare%20to%20be%20awed%3A%20the,feet%20above%20Wyoming's%20rolling%20prairies.
Igneous Rock (former volcanic rock)
- Charles ;)
You sound like Michael Douglas
Soros Tower. It’s full of high powered antenna used for MKULTRA.
ancient petrified tree stump
Devils tower is a big tree
Please let me understand why the name, Devil? Devil is anti GOD!
it's a giants FOOT!