A technological thriller set primarily in New Zealand in a present day setting, the Blue Book story exploits events related to the highly classified 1960's USAF UFO investigation while examining a close father daughter relationship against a background of government subversion, 'fringe' science, and a hidden world political agenda. The story develops a number of complex and intriguing characters within the context of topical themes and a story concept that attempts to blur the line between science fact and science fiction invoking a sense hysteria and conjecture.

A fresh approach and key theme relates to the premise that a large proportion of the investigated sightings of the late fifties and sixties were space craft from earth's distant future. This premise developed, proposes that as a consequence of 'cosmic' misfortune (an accidental encounter with a tachyonic time domain), future space travellers would find themselves instantly thrown into the past. In a present day setting, the 'Blue Book' story follows the search for, and subsequent treatment of three occupants of such a space vehicle.

As this occurrence is the first of its type in over 20 years, a once primary USAF Project Blue Book investigator, Colonel Alan Neilson takes it upon himself to pursue the matter. Forced to team with Phillip Jenner of the FBI, Neilson attempts to discreetly investigate and action the incident as per the established Blue Book procedures. But unbeknown to Neilson, Jenner is acting on a more recent and extreme Government mandate which ultimately causes Neilson to question the infrastructure on which his entire career and ideology are based.

Neilson's mission is further complicated when his daughter (biophysicist Jackie Neilson), prompted by bizarre events coinciding in the scientific world, associates her father’s classified work with the globally occurring phenomenon. This, together with Neilson’s eventual mysterious disappearance, prompts Jackie and partner Kevin (also a USAF Officer) to set out on a search for the truth only to be implicated in a murder and an international conspiracy of silence.

At the conclusion a classic stand-off brings all key characters together where their different perspectives (science, politics and violence) vie for supremacy. The culmination comes in the realisation that the conflict dividing them is trivial in comparison to a common enigma they seek to solve. In this context, the answer is eventually revealed in a single but powerful climatic visual statement.

Knowledge: it's dissemination and misuse: In the 'Blue Book' story, a clear link is established between knowledge ownership and inferred social decay (as graphically depicted in the closing moments of the film).

Boundaries of Government Responsibilities: Impact of censorship and the control of information regarding momentous human affairs on the grounds of national and international security.

Effect on Military Balance of Power: Implications of Government controlled technology 'feed back' programs whereby selected future military technologies are introduced into the past providing foundations for further development.

World Political Implications: Reaction of World Government agencies to the possible wide dissemination of information depicting future calamitous events and a generally oppressed future society.

Impact of Future Knowledge: If the negative consequences of today's environmental and political actions were revealed, would mankind necessarily heed and / or modify present policy directions? If yes, why then are the lessons contained in even recent history totally ignored.

Although the themes as outlined are present contributing a tone of relevance to the overall feature, the story still has its basis in a 'good' verses the 'evil' government who through policies of non-information would seek to mislead and manipulate the masses. The sequence of action is not complex, the implied consequences of scientific and political reality are.

It seemed that within this relatively simple premise, there was the essential elements to form the foundation of an interesting story i.e. a mystery (where are the UFO‘s coming from), a secret that must be protected at all costs (the fact that a Government agency was risking space-time integrity by feeding back future knowledge into the past) and finally, what harm / good was such future knowledge anyway (given our inability to learn from even our recent past).

With the story primarily based around a small number of key sets / locations and with few specific SFX requirements, I believe the script (currently 119 pages US Letter) could be produced within a budget attractive to a wide range of offshore co-investors.