1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:16,671 --> 00:00:19,157 [tense music] 4 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:32,066 - [Narrator] The modern era of UFO sightings began in 1947 5 00:00:33,688 --> 00:00:36,898 when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman and pilot from Idaho, 6 00:00:36,933 --> 00:00:39,418 spotted what he believed was a formation 7 00:00:39,453 --> 00:00:43,733 of flying saucers near Mount Rainier in Washington. 8 00:00:43,767 --> 00:00:46,460 Encounters with unidentified flying objects 9 00:00:46,494 --> 00:00:50,015 have been recorded since ancient times 10 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:53,467 but Arnold's sighting hooked the American public. 11 00:00:53,501 --> 00:00:57,160 It was the encounter that launched a thousand theories. 12 00:01:07,826 --> 00:01:12,796 Some 6,000 UFO encounters are reported every year. 13 00:01:14,246 --> 00:01:17,629 98% or more of sightings are basically misidentifications. 14 00:01:17,663 --> 00:01:19,976 They're airplanes or Chinese lanterns 15 00:01:20,010 --> 00:01:22,565 or a variety of different things. 16 00:01:22,599 --> 00:01:27,604 What's left are the truly unexplained and mysterious 17 00:01:29,019 --> 00:01:32,644 and those become the top UFO encounters of all time. 18 00:01:57,393 --> 00:02:00,361 [suspenseful music] 19 00:02:04,883 --> 00:02:09,853 We begin with the oldest known photograph of a UFO. 20 00:02:09,888 --> 00:02:12,166 The photo was taken in 1870 21 00:02:12,201 --> 00:02:14,479 at Mount Washington, New Hampshire. 22 00:02:14,513 --> 00:02:17,792 This was originally a stereo photograph 23 00:02:17,827 --> 00:02:20,450 which would be difficult to manipulate. 24 00:02:20,485 --> 00:02:23,936 At that time the term UFO didn't exist 25 00:02:23,971 --> 00:02:27,906 nor did Photoshop or other image manipulation techniques. 26 00:02:29,528 --> 00:02:32,911 The object is huge, oblong 27 00:02:32,945 --> 00:02:35,431 and flying against a cloud background. 28 00:02:36,846 --> 00:02:39,952 No more information about the photo or object is known. 29 00:02:39,987 --> 00:02:42,610 Because of the date it was taken 30 00:02:42,645 --> 00:02:45,648 and it's obvious flying capabilities 31 00:02:45,682 --> 00:02:49,962 it is one of the most mysterious UFO encounters 32 00:02:49,997 --> 00:02:51,447 caught on film. 33 00:02:56,314 --> 00:02:57,867 In the 1890's, 34 00:02:57,901 --> 00:03:01,629 other mysterious aircraft began to be reported. 35 00:03:01,664 --> 00:03:04,356 Mystery air ships or phantom air ships 36 00:03:04,391 --> 00:03:07,117 are a class of unidentified flying objects 37 00:03:07,152 --> 00:03:11,052 best known from a series of newspaper reports 38 00:03:11,087 --> 00:03:13,469 originating in the western United States 39 00:03:13,503 --> 00:03:18,405 and spreading east during the late 1896 through 1897 period. 40 00:03:20,614 --> 00:03:24,307 Air ship sightings were reported worldwide 41 00:03:24,342 --> 00:03:27,379 during the 1880's and 1890's. 42 00:03:27,414 --> 00:03:32,419 Mystery air ship reports are seen as a cultural predecessor 43 00:03:33,558 --> 00:03:36,354 to modern claims of extraterrestrial piloted 44 00:03:36,388 --> 00:03:39,702 flying saucer type UFO's. 45 00:03:41,221 --> 00:03:46,226 Typical air ship reports involved nighttime sightings 46 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:48,849 of unidentified lights, 47 00:03:48,883 --> 00:03:51,403 but more detailed accounts reported ships 48 00:03:51,438 --> 00:03:53,163 comparable to a dirigible. 49 00:03:56,546 --> 00:03:59,411 Reports of the alleged crewmen and pilots 50 00:03:59,446 --> 00:04:02,138 usually described them as human looking, 51 00:04:02,172 --> 00:04:05,314 though sometimes the crew claimed to be from Mars. 52 00:04:07,523 --> 00:04:11,216 It was popularly believed that the mystery air ships 53 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:14,461 were the product of some inventor or genius 54 00:04:14,495 --> 00:04:18,741 who was not ready to make known of his creation public. 55 00:04:18,775 --> 00:04:23,090 For example, Thomas Edison was so widely speculated 56 00:04:23,124 --> 00:04:26,231 to be the mind behind the alleged air ships 57 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:29,648 that in 1897 he was forced to issue 58 00:04:29,683 --> 00:04:34,446 a strongly worded statement denying his responsibility. 59 00:04:38,243 --> 00:04:42,627 During the 1896 to 1897 timeframe, 60 00:04:42,661 --> 00:04:46,631 numerous sightings of a cigar shaped mystery air ship 61 00:04:46,665 --> 00:04:49,806 were reported across the United States. 62 00:04:49,841 --> 00:04:54,432 One of these accounts appeared in the April 17, 1897 edition 63 00:04:54,466 --> 00:04:57,331 of the Dallas Morning News. 64 00:04:57,366 --> 00:05:02,302 Written by a Dallas Morning News stringer S E Haydon, 65 00:05:02,336 --> 00:05:05,891 the alleged UFO is said to have hit a windmill 66 00:05:05,926 --> 00:05:09,412 on the property of Judge J S Proctor 67 00:05:09,447 --> 00:05:13,796 two days earlier at around six AM local time 68 00:05:13,830 --> 00:05:15,867 resulting in its crash. 69 00:05:15,901 --> 00:05:20,699 The pilot, who was reported to be not of this world 70 00:05:20,734 --> 00:05:24,393 and a Marsian according to a reported Army Signal Service 71 00:05:24,427 --> 00:05:28,569 officer named TJ Weend from nearby Fort Worth 72 00:05:28,604 --> 00:05:30,985 did not survive the crash 73 00:05:31,020 --> 00:05:33,643 and was buried with Christian rights 74 00:05:33,678 --> 00:05:36,784 at the nearby Aurora Cemetery. 75 00:05:36,819 --> 00:05:40,754 The cemetery contains a Texas Historical Commission marker 76 00:05:40,788 --> 00:05:42,756 mentioning the incident. 77 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,487 Reportedly wreckage from the crash site 78 00:05:49,521 --> 00:05:51,834 was dumped into a nearby well 79 00:05:51,868 --> 00:05:54,699 located under the damaged windmill 80 00:05:54,733 --> 00:05:58,496 while some ended up with the alien in its grave. 81 00:05:58,530 --> 00:06:03,293 Adding to the mystery was the story of Mr. Braw-ley Oates 82 00:06:03,328 --> 00:06:08,333 who purchased Judge Proctor's property around 1935. 83 00:06:09,472 --> 00:06:11,129 Oates cleaned out the debris from the well 84 00:06:11,163 --> 00:06:13,856 in order to use it as a water source 85 00:06:13,890 --> 00:06:18,274 but later developed an extremely severe case of arthritis, 86 00:06:18,308 --> 00:06:21,726 which he claimed to be the result of contaminated water 87 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,487 from the wreckage dumped into the well. 88 00:06:25,937 --> 00:06:29,975 As a result, Oates sealed up the well with a concrete slab 89 00:06:30,010 --> 00:06:33,496 and placed an out-building atop the slab. 90 00:06:33,531 --> 00:06:38,536 To this day, the cemetery still contains the burial site 91 00:06:39,951 --> 00:06:42,471 of the alien, however the county will not allow 92 00:06:42,505 --> 00:06:44,576 anyone to dig it up. 93 00:06:50,755 --> 00:06:53,171 [soft music] 94 00:07:10,947 --> 00:07:14,882 On April 12th, 1941 in Cape Girardeau 95 00:07:14,917 --> 00:07:17,471 the Reverend William Huffman was called 96 00:07:17,506 --> 00:07:20,370 to what he thought was a plane crash 97 00:07:20,405 --> 00:07:23,960 to read the last rights of the passengers. 98 00:07:23,995 --> 00:07:26,342 A car arrived at his house and they drove 99 00:07:26,376 --> 00:07:30,208 about 18 miles or so outside of Cape Girardeau 100 00:07:30,242 --> 00:07:33,004 closer to the Chaffee area. 101 00:07:33,038 --> 00:07:36,663 When they showed up on the scene, it was not a plane crash. 102 00:07:36,697 --> 00:07:40,321 It was allegedly a flying saucer. 103 00:07:40,356 --> 00:07:43,497 Classic, silver, round disc that had crashed 104 00:07:43,532 --> 00:07:45,465 that had started a fire. 105 00:07:46,707 --> 00:07:48,675 There were police and firemen there 106 00:07:48,709 --> 00:07:50,262 to take care of the scene, 107 00:07:50,297 --> 00:07:52,782 put out the fire on a local farmer's field. 108 00:07:52,817 --> 00:07:57,822 The reverend arrived and saw a classic flying disc 109 00:07:58,754 --> 00:08:00,549 with part of the side ripped open 110 00:08:00,583 --> 00:08:03,621 and two alien bodies that were dead 111 00:08:03,655 --> 00:08:06,486 and one that may have been dying. 112 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,110 It may have been alive but couldn't breathe. 113 00:08:10,144 --> 00:08:14,114 The reverend looked inside the flying saucer 114 00:08:14,148 --> 00:08:18,808 and saw wires and components of some sort of alien design. 115 00:08:18,843 --> 00:08:22,812 There were strange hieroglyphics 116 00:08:22,847 --> 00:08:25,884 and bizarre knobs and dials. 117 00:08:25,919 --> 00:08:29,543 The reverend knew that he couldn't give the last rights. 118 00:08:32,857 --> 00:08:37,551 About that time the Army Corps arrived from Sikeston Field 119 00:08:37,586 --> 00:08:42,591 and cordoned off the area and swore everybody to secrecy, 120 00:08:43,626 --> 00:08:45,835 then tried to confiscate all cameras. 121 00:08:45,870 --> 00:08:49,287 There were pictures allegedly taken that night 122 00:08:49,321 --> 00:08:52,255 of men holding one of the alien bodies 123 00:08:52,290 --> 00:08:56,466 and somewhere out there those pictures exist. 124 00:08:57,709 --> 00:09:00,505 The story came through Charlotte Mann 125 00:09:00,540 --> 00:09:02,576 who was the reverend's granddaughter 126 00:09:02,611 --> 00:09:06,615 who began to give accounts of the story in the late 70's. 127 00:09:06,649 --> 00:09:10,032 It was a document of a deathbed confession 128 00:09:10,066 --> 00:09:11,965 by the reverend himself. 129 00:09:13,414 --> 00:09:16,763 Reverend Mann told the story to his granddaughter 130 00:09:16,797 --> 00:09:19,697 and she had seen some of the pictures. 131 00:09:19,731 --> 00:09:24,322 To this day, no one knows where the photos are now 132 00:09:24,356 --> 00:09:29,120 but many families in the area remember the event. 133 00:09:29,154 --> 00:09:34,159 It could be the first UFO crash in North America 134 00:09:35,609 --> 00:09:39,648 and certainly is one of the top UFO mysteries of all time. 135 00:09:41,235 --> 00:09:43,721 [tense music] 136 00:10:34,737 --> 00:10:37,844 A photo published in the Los Angeles Times 137 00:10:37,878 --> 00:10:42,883 on February 26, 1942 has been cited by some ufologists 138 00:10:44,126 --> 00:10:47,957 and conspiracy theorists as part of evidence 139 00:10:47,992 --> 00:10:51,651 that an extraterrestrial visitation happened. 140 00:10:52,859 --> 00:10:55,171 They assert that the photo clearly shows 141 00:10:55,206 --> 00:10:59,279 searchlights focused on an alien spaceship. 142 00:11:04,008 --> 00:11:07,597 The Battle of Los Angeles is an incident that occurred 143 00:11:07,632 --> 00:11:11,187 less than three months after the United States 144 00:11:11,222 --> 00:11:13,638 entered World War Two in response 145 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:17,918 to the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack 146 00:11:17,953 --> 00:11:22,958 on Pearl Harbor and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood 147 00:11:23,717 --> 00:11:25,098 on February 23rd. 148 00:11:26,478 --> 00:11:29,827 Initially the target of the aerial barrage 149 00:11:29,861 --> 00:11:33,623 was thought to be an attacking force from Japan. 150 00:11:33,658 --> 00:11:38,421 The photo clearly shows a saucer craft 151 00:11:38,456 --> 00:11:40,976 in the searchlight's crossed beams. 152 00:11:42,184 --> 00:11:44,911 Several buildings and vehicles were damaged 153 00:11:44,945 --> 00:11:48,535 by shell fragments and five civilians died 154 00:11:48,569 --> 00:11:52,746 as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire, 155 00:11:52,781 --> 00:11:56,232 three killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos 156 00:11:56,267 --> 00:11:59,339 and two of heart attacks attributed to the stress 157 00:11:59,373 --> 00:12:01,617 of the hour long action. 158 00:12:03,239 --> 00:12:07,968 The incident was front page news along the US Pacific coast 159 00:12:08,003 --> 00:12:10,453 and across the nation. 160 00:12:10,488 --> 00:12:14,768 To this day, no one knows what they were shooting at 161 00:12:14,803 --> 00:12:17,391 and no wreckage was ever found. 162 00:12:18,254 --> 00:12:21,775 Many believe this was a UFO 163 00:12:21,810 --> 00:12:26,366 that appeared at the wrong place and at the wrong time. 164 00:12:34,270 --> 00:12:38,792 The modern day UFO phenomenon began in 1947 165 00:12:38,827 --> 00:12:43,072 with the aforementioned Kenneth Arnold UFO sightings. 166 00:12:43,107 --> 00:12:45,523 Private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed 167 00:12:45,557 --> 00:12:47,974 that he saw a stream of nine 168 00:12:48,008 --> 00:12:52,357 shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Ranier 169 00:12:52,392 --> 00:12:56,361 at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum 170 00:12:56,396 --> 00:12:59,779 of 1,200 miles per hour. 171 00:13:01,194 --> 00:13:04,853 This was the first post-war sighting in the United States 172 00:13:04,887 --> 00:13:07,614 that garnered nationwide news coverage 173 00:13:07,648 --> 00:13:11,721 and is accredited of being the first of the modern era 174 00:13:11,756 --> 00:13:16,209 of UFO sightings, including numerous reported sightings 175 00:13:16,243 --> 00:13:18,521 over the next two to three weeks. 176 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,599 [tense music] 177 00:14:08,330 --> 00:14:11,333 [adventurous music] 178 00:14:22,482 --> 00:14:25,174 Of all the top UFO encounters, 179 00:14:25,209 --> 00:14:30,110 one would be remiss without mentioning Roswell, New Mexico. 180 00:14:30,145 --> 00:14:35,150 In July 1947, something happened northwest of Roswell 181 00:14:36,013 --> 00:14:38,118 during a severe thunderstorm. 182 00:14:38,153 --> 00:14:39,948 Was it a flying saucer? 183 00:14:39,982 --> 00:14:42,157 Was it a weather balloon? 184 00:14:42,191 --> 00:14:43,572 What happened? 185 00:14:44,953 --> 00:14:48,059 The answer is nothing, for many years, 186 00:14:48,094 --> 00:14:51,131 until leading UFO researcher Stanton Friedman 187 00:14:51,166 --> 00:14:54,479 came across the story in the early 1980's 188 00:14:54,514 --> 00:14:58,725 and began to search for information and witnesses. 189 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:01,970 That research brought him to Roswell, 190 00:15:02,004 --> 00:15:04,213 looking for the public information officer 191 00:15:04,248 --> 00:15:09,253 who had been at Roswell Army Airfield in 1947. 192 00:15:10,323 --> 00:15:13,740 That officer was Lieutenant Walter Haut. 193 00:15:13,774 --> 00:15:17,226 He still lived in Roswell and remembered the press release 194 00:15:17,261 --> 00:15:20,574 and the orders from his commanding officer. 195 00:15:20,609 --> 00:15:25,614 Friedman's investigation also led to many others, 196 00:15:26,995 --> 00:15:29,998 both military and private, who had information 197 00:15:30,032 --> 00:15:33,484 to add to the Roswell incident story. 198 00:15:33,518 --> 00:15:37,246 Stepping into the picture very strongly in the late 1980's 199 00:15:37,281 --> 00:15:41,492 were Don Schmitt, Kevin Randall and Tom Carey. 200 00:15:41,526 --> 00:15:43,563 Since then, Schmitt and Carey 201 00:15:43,597 --> 00:15:47,291 have dedicated their research to Roswell. 202 00:15:47,325 --> 00:15:52,330 The debris recovered by rancher WW Mack Brazel 203 00:15:54,056 --> 00:15:58,302 was gathered by the military from the Roswell Army Airfield 204 00:15:58,336 --> 00:16:01,029 under the direction of base intelligence officer, 205 00:16:01,063 --> 00:16:04,101 Major Jesse Marcel. 206 00:16:04,135 --> 00:16:08,001 On July 8th, 1947, public information officer 207 00:16:08,036 --> 00:16:12,592 Lieutenant Walter Haut issued a press release 208 00:16:12,626 --> 00:16:14,594 under the orders from base commander 209 00:16:14,628 --> 00:16:17,907 Colonel William Blanchard which said basically 210 00:16:17,942 --> 00:16:22,947 that we have in our possession a flying saucer. 211 00:16:24,293 --> 00:16:28,021 The next day another press release was issued, 212 00:16:28,056 --> 00:16:31,162 this time from General Roger Ramey 213 00:16:31,197 --> 00:16:34,579 stating it was just a weather ballon. 214 00:16:34,614 --> 00:16:37,651 That was the start of the best known 215 00:16:37,686 --> 00:16:41,586 and well documented UFO cover up. 216 00:16:42,967 --> 00:16:45,349 Once it became public 217 00:16:45,383 --> 00:16:49,042 the event known as the Roswell Incident, 218 00:16:49,077 --> 00:16:51,493 the crash of an alleged flying saucer, 219 00:16:51,527 --> 00:16:54,323 the recovery of debris and bodies 220 00:16:54,358 --> 00:16:57,913 and the ensuing coverup by the military 221 00:16:57,947 --> 00:17:02,573 was of such magnitude and so shrouded in mystery 222 00:17:02,607 --> 00:17:04,678 that 70 years later 223 00:17:04,713 --> 00:17:08,579 there's still more questions than answers. 224 00:17:08,613 --> 00:17:09,821 Books have been written 225 00:17:09,856 --> 00:17:12,307 and TV documentaries have been filmed. 226 00:17:12,341 --> 00:17:14,481 Witnesses have come forward, 227 00:17:14,516 --> 00:17:17,312 skeptics have issued rebuttals to the incident 228 00:17:17,346 --> 00:17:19,486 and the debate continues. 229 00:17:19,521 --> 00:17:21,661 The tiny town of Roswell flourishes 230 00:17:21,695 --> 00:17:24,767 due to the incident to this day. 231 00:17:24,802 --> 00:17:29,220 It is a mecca for UFO enthusiasts and truth seekers. 232 00:17:29,255 --> 00:17:34,260 Some say the government still has the saucer and aliens 233 00:17:35,433 --> 00:17:38,505 hidden away in some bunker somewhere. 234 00:17:38,540 --> 00:17:42,785 Deathbed confessions continue to get reported 235 00:17:42,820 --> 00:17:47,100 by people who were there and Roswell has a firm place 236 00:17:47,135 --> 00:17:51,415 in the top UFO encounters. 237 00:18:03,806 --> 00:18:06,464 [intense music] 238 00:18:47,712 --> 00:18:50,715 [suspenseful music] 239 00:18:56,652 --> 00:19:01,588 On January 7th, 1948, 25 year old Captain Thomas F Mantell, 240 00:19:03,383 --> 00:19:06,006 a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, 241 00:19:06,041 --> 00:19:10,218 died in the crash of his P-51 Mustang fighter 242 00:19:10,252 --> 00:19:12,116 after being sent in pursuit 243 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,912 of an unidentified flying object. 244 00:19:16,810 --> 00:19:19,503 The event was among some of the most publicized 245 00:19:19,537 --> 00:19:22,091 early UFO incidents. 246 00:19:22,126 --> 00:19:25,336 Later investigation by the United States Air Force 247 00:19:25,371 --> 00:19:29,064 Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell may have died 248 00:19:29,098 --> 00:19:32,274 chasing a Skyhook balloon, 249 00:19:32,309 --> 00:19:35,726 which in 1948 was a top secret project 250 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,350 that Mantell would not have known about. 251 00:19:39,385 --> 00:19:42,457 Mantell pursued the object in a steep climb 252 00:19:42,491 --> 00:19:46,875 and disregarded suggestions to level his altitude. 253 00:19:46,909 --> 00:19:50,913 At high altitude he blacked out from a lack of oxygen. 254 00:19:50,948 --> 00:19:55,263 His plane went into a downward spiral and crashed. 255 00:19:59,025 --> 00:20:04,030 In 1956, Air Force Captain Edward J Ruppelt, 256 00:20:05,169 --> 00:20:06,895 the first head of the Project Blue Book, 257 00:20:06,929 --> 00:20:10,933 wrote that the Mantell crash was one of three 258 00:20:10,968 --> 00:20:14,385 classic UFO cases in 1948 259 00:20:14,420 --> 00:20:18,286 that would help to define the UFO phenomenon 260 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,358 in the public mind and would help convince 261 00:20:21,392 --> 00:20:24,292 some Air Force intelligence specialists 262 00:20:24,326 --> 00:20:28,848 that UFO's were a real physical phenomenon. 263 00:20:30,090 --> 00:20:32,921 The other two classic sightings in 1948 264 00:20:32,955 --> 00:20:35,579 were the Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter 265 00:20:35,613 --> 00:20:37,650 and the Gorman dogfight. 266 00:20:38,858 --> 00:20:43,621 Historian David M Jacobs argues the Mantell case 267 00:20:43,656 --> 00:20:46,521 marked a sharp shift in both public 268 00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:50,110 and governmental perceptions of UFO's. 269 00:20:50,145 --> 00:20:54,391 Previously the news media often treated UFO reports 270 00:20:54,425 --> 00:20:57,670 with a whimsical or flip attitude 271 00:20:57,704 --> 00:21:00,949 reserved for silly season news. 272 00:21:00,983 --> 00:21:03,296 Following Mantell's death, however, 273 00:21:03,331 --> 00:21:07,093 Jacobs notes the fact that a person had died 274 00:21:07,127 --> 00:21:09,923 in an encounter with an alleged flying saucer 275 00:21:09,958 --> 00:21:14,756 dramatically increased public concern about the phenomenon. 276 00:21:15,895 --> 00:21:19,278 Now, a dramatic new prospect entered 277 00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:21,935 throughout the UFO community. 278 00:21:21,970 --> 00:21:25,939 They may not be only extraterrestrial 279 00:21:25,974 --> 00:21:29,667 but potentially hostile as well. 280 00:21:29,702 --> 00:21:32,429 [dramatic music] 281 00:21:39,815 --> 00:21:42,818 [adventurous music] 282 00:21:50,239 --> 00:21:53,484 The Aztec, New Mexico UFO incident, 283 00:21:53,519 --> 00:21:56,763 sometimes known as the other Roswell 284 00:21:56,798 --> 00:22:01,561 was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948 285 00:22:01,596 --> 00:22:04,253 in Aztec, New Mexico. 286 00:22:04,288 --> 00:22:09,258 The story was first published in 1949 by Arthur Frank Scully 287 00:22:10,156 --> 00:22:12,365 in his variety magazine columns 288 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,336 and later in his 1950 book, Behind The Flying Saucers. 289 00:22:19,752 --> 00:22:22,237 Beginning in the 1970's, 290 00:22:22,271 --> 00:22:25,551 some ufologists resurrected the story in books 291 00:22:25,585 --> 00:22:29,313 claiming the purported crash was real. 292 00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:34,318 In 2013 and FBI memo claimed by some ufologists 293 00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:37,666 to substantiate the crash story was dismissed 294 00:22:37,701 --> 00:22:41,325 by the Bureau as a second or third-hand claim 295 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,914 that we never investigated. 296 00:22:46,434 --> 00:22:47,987 According to Scully, 297 00:22:48,021 --> 00:22:52,647 in March 1948 an unidentified aerial crash 298 00:22:52,681 --> 00:22:55,374 containing 16 humanoid bodies 299 00:22:55,408 --> 00:22:58,929 was recovered by the military in New Mexico 300 00:22:58,963 --> 00:23:03,105 after making a controlled landing in Hart Canyon 301 00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:06,695 12 miles northeast of the city of Aztec. 302 00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:14,496 The craft was said to be 99 feet in diameter, 303 00:23:14,531 --> 00:23:16,774 the largest UFO to date. 304 00:23:18,086 --> 00:23:20,433 Scully named as his sources 305 00:23:20,468 --> 00:23:23,885 two men identified as Newton and Gebauer, 306 00:23:23,919 --> 00:23:26,439 who reportedly told him the incident had been covered up 307 00:23:26,474 --> 00:23:31,444 and the military had taken the craft for secret research. 308 00:23:34,585 --> 00:23:38,347 Scully wrote that the crashed UFO 309 00:23:38,382 --> 00:23:42,144 along with other flying saucers captured by the government 310 00:23:42,179 --> 00:23:45,044 worked on magnetic principles. 311 00:23:45,078 --> 00:23:46,321 According to Scully, 312 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:50,014 the inhabitants stocked concentrated food wafers 313 00:23:50,049 --> 00:23:53,397 and heavy water for drinking purposes 314 00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:55,779 and every dimension of the craft 315 00:23:55,813 --> 00:23:57,919 was divisible by nine. 316 00:23:59,714 --> 00:24:03,407 In the late 70's author Leonard Stringfield purported 317 00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:05,927 that not only was the incident real 318 00:24:05,961 --> 00:24:09,206 but that the craft involved was one of many captured 319 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,864 and stored by the US military. 320 00:24:13,244 --> 00:24:16,075 In later years, many alleged first hand accounts 321 00:24:16,109 --> 00:24:20,976 of the Roswell crash contained the Aztec crash story 322 00:24:21,011 --> 00:24:23,220 with some claiming the craft was made of a material 323 00:24:23,254 --> 00:24:26,430 impervious to all heat 324 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:30,089 while other claiming the craft was damaged by the crash. 325 00:24:32,263 --> 00:24:36,475 The supposed humanoid bodies were said to measure 326 00:24:36,509 --> 00:24:40,651 between 36 inches and 42 inches in height 327 00:24:40,686 --> 00:24:42,826 and weighed about 40 pounds. 328 00:24:44,241 --> 00:24:47,037 Ufologists claim that shortly after the craft was downed 329 00:24:47,071 --> 00:24:50,350 the military cleared the area of evidence 330 00:24:50,385 --> 00:24:55,390 including the bodies, subsequently taking it to Hangar 18 331 00:24:56,529 --> 00:24:58,289 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 332 00:24:59,463 --> 00:25:03,950 The Aztec UFO crash is certainly one of the top 333 00:25:03,985 --> 00:25:07,471 UFO encounters of all time. 334 00:25:09,093 --> 00:25:11,751 [intense music] 335 00:25:53,103 --> 00:25:56,106 [adventurous music] 336 00:26:04,424 --> 00:26:08,256 The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm 337 00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:13,295 near McMinnville, Oregon, United States in 1950. 338 00:26:14,607 --> 00:26:16,713 The photos were reprinted in Life Magazine 339 00:26:16,747 --> 00:26:19,301 and in newspapers across the nation 340 00:26:19,336 --> 00:26:21,510 and are often considered to be among 341 00:26:21,545 --> 00:26:26,239 the most famous ever taken of a UFO. 342 00:26:26,274 --> 00:26:30,623 UFO skeptics believe that the photos are a hoax 343 00:26:30,658 --> 00:26:33,453 but many ufologists continue to argue 344 00:26:33,488 --> 00:26:35,317 that the photos are genuine 345 00:26:35,352 --> 00:26:39,563 and show an unidentified flying object in the sky. 346 00:26:41,254 --> 00:26:44,706 In 1975 the negatives were found 347 00:26:44,741 --> 00:26:48,676 in files of the News Register by Bruce Maccabee, 348 00:26:48,710 --> 00:26:53,094 an optical physicist for the US Navy and a ufologist. 349 00:26:53,128 --> 00:26:56,615 After completing his own study of the photos, 350 00:26:56,649 --> 00:26:59,997 Maccabee assured that the original negatives 351 00:27:00,032 --> 00:27:02,897 were finally returned to the Trents. 352 00:27:02,931 --> 00:27:07,177 Maccabee analyzed the photos and concluded 353 00:27:07,211 --> 00:27:10,490 that the photographs were not hoaxed 354 00:27:10,525 --> 00:27:14,046 and showed a real physical object in the sky 355 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,186 above the Trent farm. 356 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:21,225 Much of his analysis is based on densitometric measurements, 357 00:27:22,710 --> 00:27:26,161 similar to the photometric analysis done by Hartmann. 358 00:27:26,196 --> 00:27:28,923 Maccabee argued that the brightness 359 00:27:28,957 --> 00:27:32,133 of the object's underside suggested it was 360 00:27:32,167 --> 00:27:34,618 at some distance from the camera, 361 00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:37,069 not a smaller object close to it. 362 00:27:39,243 --> 00:27:41,936 Maccabee also analyzed the position 363 00:27:41,970 --> 00:27:43,696 of various objects in the image 364 00:27:43,731 --> 00:27:46,872 as well as an image prepared by Hartmann 365 00:27:46,906 --> 00:27:50,703 when he visited the site in June of 1967. 366 00:27:50,738 --> 00:27:55,570 Based on this, Maccabee argued that the line of sight 367 00:27:55,604 --> 00:27:58,953 of the two images intersected some distance 368 00:27:58,987 --> 00:28:02,163 behind the power lines seen in the photos 369 00:28:02,197 --> 00:28:04,890 provided further evidence in his opinion 370 00:28:04,924 --> 00:28:09,032 that it was not a small model suspended from the lines. 371 00:28:10,205 --> 00:28:13,001 Maccabee stated that his analysis of the object 372 00:28:13,036 --> 00:28:16,591 did not find any evidence of a thread or strings 373 00:28:16,625 --> 00:28:18,697 suspending it from the power lines. 374 00:28:21,147 --> 00:28:24,116 The McMinnville UFO photographs remained 375 00:28:24,150 --> 00:28:28,361 among the best publicized in UFO history. 376 00:28:28,396 --> 00:28:31,537 Skeptics continued to explain the two photographs 377 00:28:31,571 --> 00:28:34,333 as being hoaxes and or faked. 378 00:28:34,367 --> 00:28:38,130 Ufologists continue to argue that the Trent photos 379 00:28:38,164 --> 00:28:42,272 are credible evidence that UFO's are real, 380 00:28:42,306 --> 00:28:44,412 a physical phenomenon. 381 00:28:45,827 --> 00:28:50,590 Evelyn Trent died in 1997 and Paul Trent in 1998. 382 00:28:51,764 --> 00:28:54,284 Both insisted until the end of their lives 383 00:28:54,318 --> 00:28:58,426 that the sighting and the photos were genuine. 384 00:28:59,807 --> 00:29:03,396 The interest surrounding the Trent UFO photos 385 00:29:03,431 --> 00:29:06,848 led to an annual UFO festival 386 00:29:06,883 --> 00:29:09,264 being established in McMinnville. 387 00:29:09,299 --> 00:29:13,303 It's now the largest such gathering in the Pacific Northwest 388 00:29:13,337 --> 00:29:17,445 and is the second largest UFO festival in the nation 389 00:29:17,479 --> 00:29:20,966 after the one held in Roswell, New Mexico. 390 00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:26,765 [suspenseful music] 391 00:29:32,701 --> 00:29:36,533 The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights 392 00:29:36,567 --> 00:29:38,949 seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas 393 00:29:38,984 --> 00:29:42,159 in August and September 1951. 394 00:29:42,194 --> 00:29:46,819 The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity 395 00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:51,375 in the United States a genuine UFO sighting. 396 00:29:51,410 --> 00:29:53,377 The Lubbock Lights were investigated 397 00:29:53,412 --> 00:29:56,449 by the US Air Force in 1951. 398 00:29:56,484 --> 00:29:59,142 The Air Force initially believed the lights 399 00:29:59,176 --> 00:30:02,731 were caused by a type of bird called a plover. 400 00:30:02,766 --> 00:30:07,012 Eventually concluded that the lights weren't birds 401 00:30:07,046 --> 00:30:08,841 but they weren't space ships. 402 00:30:08,876 --> 00:30:12,017 The Lubbock Lights have been positively identified 403 00:30:12,051 --> 00:30:15,261 by a very commonplace and easily explainable 404 00:30:15,296 --> 00:30:17,816 natural phenomenon. 405 00:30:17,850 --> 00:30:21,267 However, to maintain the anonymity of the scientist 406 00:30:21,302 --> 00:30:23,580 who had provided the explanation 407 00:30:23,614 --> 00:30:27,756 the Air Force refrained from providing any details 408 00:30:27,791 --> 00:30:31,139 regarding their explanation for the lights. 409 00:30:32,727 --> 00:30:35,385 The first publicized sighting of the lights 410 00:30:35,419 --> 00:30:40,424 occurred on August 25th, 1951 at around nine PM. 411 00:30:41,805 --> 00:30:44,497 Three professors from Texas Technological College, 412 00:30:44,532 --> 00:30:48,294 now Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, 413 00:30:48,329 --> 00:30:51,780 were sitting in the backyard of one of the professors homes 414 00:30:51,815 --> 00:30:55,508 when they observed the lights fly overhead. 415 00:30:55,543 --> 00:30:59,512 A total of 20 to 30 lights as bright as stars 416 00:30:59,547 --> 00:31:02,964 but larger in size flew over the yard 417 00:31:02,999 --> 00:31:04,966 in a matter of seconds. 418 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:07,831 The professors immediately ruled out meteors 419 00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:09,902 as a possible cause of the sighting 420 00:31:09,937 --> 00:31:11,835 and as they discussed their sightings 421 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:16,253 a second, similar group of lights flew overhead. 422 00:31:16,288 --> 00:31:21,293 The three professors, Dr. AG Oberg, chemical engineer, 423 00:31:22,777 --> 00:31:27,057 Dr. WL Ducker, a department head and petroleum engineer 424 00:31:28,127 --> 00:31:32,028 and Dr. WI Robinson, a geologist, 425 00:31:32,062 --> 00:31:35,065 reported their sightings to the local newspaper, 426 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:37,826 the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. 427 00:31:37,861 --> 00:31:39,690 Following the newspaper's article, 428 00:31:39,725 --> 00:31:41,485 three women in Lubbock reported 429 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,972 that they had observed peculiar flashing lights 430 00:31:45,006 --> 00:31:49,700 in the sky on the same night of the professors' sightings. 431 00:31:49,735 --> 00:31:54,740 Dr. Carl Hemminger, a professor of German at Texas Tech, 432 00:31:55,844 --> 00:31:58,123 also reported seeing the objects, 433 00:31:58,157 --> 00:32:02,058 as did the head of the college's journalism department. 434 00:32:03,991 --> 00:32:07,166 The three professors became determined 435 00:32:07,201 --> 00:32:09,030 to view the objects again 436 00:32:09,065 --> 00:32:12,344 and perhaps discover their identity. 437 00:32:12,378 --> 00:32:16,486 On September 5, 1951, all three men 438 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,523 along with two other professors from Texas Tech, 439 00:32:19,558 --> 00:32:22,664 were sitting in Dr. Robinson's front yard 440 00:32:22,699 --> 00:32:25,495 when the lights flew overhead. 441 00:32:25,529 --> 00:32:27,704 According to Dr. Grayson Mead 442 00:32:27,738 --> 00:32:31,501 the lights appeared to be about the size of a dinner plate 443 00:32:31,535 --> 00:32:35,574 and they were greenish-blue, slightly fluorescent in color. 444 00:32:35,608 --> 00:32:38,991 They were smaller than the full moon at the horizon. 445 00:32:39,026 --> 00:32:42,615 There were about a dozen to fifteen of these lights. 446 00:32:42,650 --> 00:32:45,894 They were absolutely circular. 447 00:32:45,929 --> 00:32:49,519 It gave all of us an extremely eerie feeling. 448 00:32:49,553 --> 00:32:53,281 Mead claimed that the lights could not have been birds 449 00:32:53,316 --> 00:32:56,491 but he also stated that they went over so fast 450 00:32:56,526 --> 00:33:00,012 that we wished we could have had a better look. 451 00:33:00,047 --> 00:33:04,327 The professors observed one formation of lights 452 00:33:04,361 --> 00:33:08,469 flying above a thin cloud of about 2,000 feet. 453 00:33:08,503 --> 00:33:10,471 This allowed them to calculate 454 00:33:10,505 --> 00:33:15,476 that the lights were traveling at over 600 miles per hour. 455 00:33:16,925 --> 00:33:20,584 The photo was taken well before drones existed 456 00:33:20,619 --> 00:33:22,828 and remains one of the most mysterious 457 00:33:22,862 --> 00:33:27,695 and top UFO encounters of all time. 458 00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:34,012 [intense music] 459 00:34:20,851 --> 00:34:25,304 The 1952 Washington DC UFO incident, 460 00:34:25,339 --> 00:34:29,377 also known as the Washington National Airport sightings 461 00:34:29,412 --> 00:34:32,035 or the invasion of Washington 462 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,900 was a series of unidentified flying object reports 463 00:34:34,934 --> 00:34:39,939 from July 12th to July 29th in 1952 over Washington DC. 464 00:34:44,496 --> 00:34:48,672 UFO's flew over and around the White House and Capitol. 465 00:34:48,707 --> 00:34:52,193 The most publicized sightings took place 466 00:34:52,228 --> 00:34:55,852 on consecutive weekends, July 19th through 20th 467 00:34:55,886 --> 00:34:59,338 and July 26th through 27th. 468 00:34:59,373 --> 00:35:03,377 UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident 469 00:35:03,411 --> 00:35:07,864 the climax of the 1952 UFO flap. 470 00:35:09,072 --> 00:35:12,662 Never before or after did Project Blue Book 471 00:35:12,696 --> 00:35:17,632 and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of UFO reports. 472 00:35:19,047 --> 00:35:23,466 At 11:40 PM on Saturday, July 19th, 1952, Edward Nugent, 473 00:35:25,295 --> 00:35:29,886 an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport, 474 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,614 which is today Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 475 00:35:33,648 --> 00:35:36,996 spotted seven objects on his radar. 476 00:35:37,031 --> 00:35:39,654 The objects were located 15 miles 477 00:35:39,689 --> 00:35:42,174 south-southwest of the city. 478 00:35:42,209 --> 00:35:44,728 No known aircraft were in the area 479 00:35:44,763 --> 00:35:46,696 and the objects were not following 480 00:35:46,730 --> 00:35:49,871 any established flight paths. 481 00:35:49,906 --> 00:35:52,391 Nugent's superior, Harry Barnes, 482 00:35:52,426 --> 00:35:55,394 a senior air-traffic controller at the airport, 483 00:35:55,429 --> 00:35:58,604 watched the objects on Nugent's radarscope. 484 00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:02,090 He later wrote we knew immediately 485 00:36:02,125 --> 00:36:05,370 that a very strange situation existed. 486 00:36:05,404 --> 00:36:07,751 Their movements were completely radical 487 00:36:07,786 --> 00:36:10,375 compared to those of ordinary aircraft. 488 00:36:10,409 --> 00:36:15,380 Barnes had two controllers check Nugent's radar. 489 00:36:15,414 --> 00:36:17,865 They found that it was working normally. 490 00:36:17,899 --> 00:36:20,385 Barnes then called National Airport's 491 00:36:20,419 --> 00:36:22,628 radar-equipped control tower. 492 00:36:22,663 --> 00:36:26,874 The controllers there, Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko, 493 00:36:26,908 --> 00:36:29,773 said that they also had unidentified blips 494 00:36:29,808 --> 00:36:33,363 on their radar screen and that they had seen 495 00:36:33,398 --> 00:36:36,228 a bright light hovering in the sky. 496 00:36:36,263 --> 00:36:40,267 It took off, zooming away at incredible speed. 497 00:36:40,301 --> 00:36:43,028 Cocklin told Zacko, "Did you see that? 498 00:36:43,062 --> 00:36:44,650 "What the hell was that?" 499 00:36:47,274 --> 00:36:49,552 At this point other objects appeared 500 00:36:49,586 --> 00:36:51,830 in all sectors of the radarscope 501 00:36:51,864 --> 00:36:53,694 when they moved over the White House 502 00:36:53,728 --> 00:36:56,075 and the United States Capitol. 503 00:36:56,110 --> 00:36:58,664 Barnes called Andrews Air Force Base, 504 00:36:58,699 --> 00:37:01,874 located 10 miles from National Airport. 505 00:37:01,909 --> 00:37:05,395 Although Andrews reported that they had no unusual objects 506 00:37:05,430 --> 00:37:08,295 on their radar, an airman soon called 507 00:37:08,329 --> 00:37:10,952 the base's control tower to report 508 00:37:10,987 --> 00:37:13,852 the sighting of a strange object. 509 00:37:13,886 --> 00:37:16,786 Airman William Brady, who was in the tower, 510 00:37:16,820 --> 00:37:19,409 then saw an object which appeared to be 511 00:37:19,444 --> 00:37:21,480 like an orange ball of fire. 512 00:37:21,515 --> 00:37:25,312 It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. 513 00:37:25,346 --> 00:37:29,143 As Brady tried to alert the other personnel in the tower, 514 00:37:29,177 --> 00:37:33,596 the strange object took off at an unbelievable speed. 515 00:37:33,630 --> 00:37:37,116 On one of National Airport's runways, 516 00:37:37,151 --> 00:37:40,844 S.C. Pierman, a Capital Airlines pilot, 517 00:37:40,879 --> 00:37:44,089 was waiting in the cockpit of his DC-4 518 00:37:44,123 --> 00:37:46,298 for permission to take off. 519 00:37:46,333 --> 00:37:49,439 After spotting what he believed to be a meteor, 520 00:37:49,474 --> 00:37:52,684 he was told that the control tower's radar 521 00:37:52,718 --> 00:37:57,309 had detected unknown objects closing in on his position. 522 00:37:57,344 --> 00:38:00,623 Pierman observed six objects, 523 00:38:00,657 --> 00:38:05,662 white, tailless, fast-moving lights over a 14-minute period. 524 00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:10,115 Pierman was in radio contact with Barnes 525 00:38:10,149 --> 00:38:12,980 during his sighting and Barnes later related 526 00:38:13,014 --> 00:38:15,189 that each sighting coincided 527 00:38:15,223 --> 00:38:18,813 with a pip we could see near his plane. 528 00:38:18,848 --> 00:38:20,436 When he reported that the light 529 00:38:21,885 --> 00:38:25,130 streaked off at a high speed, it disappeared on our scope. 530 00:38:25,164 --> 00:38:28,340 At Andrews Air Force Base, meanwhile, 531 00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:32,068 the control tower personnel were tracking on radar 532 00:38:32,102 --> 00:38:34,760 what some thought to be unknown objects 533 00:38:34,795 --> 00:38:39,800 and others suspected might be simply stars and meteors. 534 00:38:40,973 --> 00:38:42,665 However, Staff Sgt. Charles Davenport 535 00:38:42,699 --> 00:38:46,254 observed an orange-red light to the south. 536 00:38:46,289 --> 00:38:49,154 The light would appear to stand still 537 00:38:49,188 --> 00:38:52,606 then make an abrupt change in direction and altitude. 538 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,780 This happened several times. 539 00:38:54,815 --> 00:38:59,129 At one point both radar centers at National Airport 540 00:38:59,164 --> 00:39:01,477 and the radar at Andrews Air Force Base 541 00:39:01,511 --> 00:39:05,653 were tracking an object hovering over a radio beacon. 542 00:39:05,688 --> 00:39:09,105 The object vanished in all three radar centers 543 00:39:09,139 --> 00:39:10,417 at the same time. 544 00:39:11,901 --> 00:39:15,560 At three AM, shortly before two United States Air Force 545 00:39:15,594 --> 00:39:20,185 F-94 Starfire jet fighters from New Castle Air Force Base 546 00:39:20,219 --> 00:39:22,739 in Delaware arrived over Washington, 547 00:39:22,774 --> 00:39:25,535 all of the objects vanished from the radar 548 00:39:25,570 --> 00:39:27,434 at National Airport. 549 00:39:27,468 --> 00:39:30,609 However, when the jets ran low on fuel and left, 550 00:39:30,644 --> 00:39:34,026 the objects returned which convinced Barnes 551 00:39:34,061 --> 00:39:38,272 that the UFOs were monitoring radio traffic 552 00:39:38,306 --> 00:39:40,239 and behaving accordingly. 553 00:39:41,551 --> 00:39:45,590 The objects were last detected by radar at 5:30 AM. 554 00:39:46,867 --> 00:39:49,939 UFO's flying over our nation's capital 555 00:39:49,973 --> 00:39:54,978 is of course very disturbing and makes this sighting 556 00:39:56,083 --> 00:40:00,087 one of the top UFO encounters of all time. 557 00:40:23,041 --> 00:40:25,526 [tense music] 558 00:40:31,981 --> 00:40:36,986 First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr, presumed dead, 559 00:40:38,125 --> 00:40:39,471 was a United States Air Force pilot 560 00:40:39,506 --> 00:40:43,751 who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept 561 00:40:43,786 --> 00:40:47,548 over Lake Superior in 1953. 562 00:40:47,583 --> 00:40:50,793 This is sometimes known as the Kinross incident 563 00:40:50,827 --> 00:40:54,106 after Kinross Air Force Base where Moncla 564 00:40:54,141 --> 00:40:56,868 was on temporary assignment when he disappeared 565 00:40:56,902 --> 00:41:00,734 chasing a UFO radar blip. 566 00:41:00,768 --> 00:41:05,083 On the evening of November 23, 1953, 567 00:41:05,117 --> 00:41:08,707 Air Defense Command Ground Intercept radar in Michigan 568 00:41:08,742 --> 00:41:13,091 identified an unusual target near the Soo Locks 569 00:41:13,125 --> 00:41:14,610 designated a UFO. 570 00:41:16,266 --> 00:41:20,892 An F-89C Scorpion jet from Kinross Air Force Base 571 00:41:20,926 --> 00:41:24,240 was scrambled to investigate the radar return. 572 00:41:24,274 --> 00:41:28,313 The Scorpion was piloted by First Lieutenant Moncla 573 00:41:28,347 --> 00:41:30,591 with Second Lieutenant Robert L Wilson 574 00:41:30,626 --> 00:41:34,422 acting as the Scorpion's radar operator. 575 00:41:34,457 --> 00:41:37,840 Wilson had a difficult time tracking the object 576 00:41:37,874 --> 00:41:39,738 on the Scorpion's radar, 577 00:41:39,773 --> 00:41:43,224 so ground radar operators gave Moncla directions 578 00:41:43,259 --> 00:41:45,779 towards the object as he flew. 579 00:41:45,813 --> 00:41:48,609 Moncla eventually closed in on the object 580 00:41:48,644 --> 00:41:51,750 at about 8,000 feet in altitude. 581 00:41:51,785 --> 00:41:54,891 Ground Control tracked the Scorpion 582 00:41:54,926 --> 00:41:58,481 and the unidentified object as two blips 583 00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:00,138 on the radar screen. 584 00:42:00,172 --> 00:42:04,245 The two blips on the radar screen grew closer and closer 585 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,316 until they seemed to merge. 586 00:42:06,351 --> 00:42:09,492 Assuming that Moncla had flown either under 587 00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,218 or over the target, 588 00:42:11,252 --> 00:42:14,255 Ground Control anticipated that moments later 589 00:42:14,290 --> 00:42:17,086 the Scorpion and the object would again appear 590 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,053 as two separate blips. 591 00:42:19,088 --> 00:42:22,574 Donald Keyhoe reported that there was a fear 592 00:42:22,609 --> 00:42:25,473 that the two objects had struck one another 593 00:42:25,508 --> 00:42:29,201 but the single blip continued on its previous course. 594 00:42:32,342 --> 00:42:35,760 Attempts were made to contact Moncla via radio 595 00:42:35,794 --> 00:42:37,589 but without success. 596 00:42:37,624 --> 00:42:39,902 A search and rescue operation by both 597 00:42:39,936 --> 00:42:43,181 the United States Air Force and the RCAF 598 00:42:43,215 --> 00:42:46,356 was quickly mounted but failed to find a trace 599 00:42:46,391 --> 00:42:48,876 of the plane or the pilots. 600 00:42:48,911 --> 00:42:52,190 Weather conditions were a factor in hampering the search. 601 00:42:52,224 --> 00:42:56,608 To this day, Moncla is presumed dead 602 00:42:56,643 --> 00:43:00,336 and his aircraft was never recovered. 603 00:43:00,370 --> 00:43:04,202 Did First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Junior 604 00:43:04,236 --> 00:43:06,722 encounter a UFO? 605 00:43:06,756 --> 00:43:10,035 Was he taken by the occupants of the UFO? 606 00:43:10,070 --> 00:43:13,591 No one knows and this one remains a mystery 607 00:43:13,625 --> 00:43:17,456 in the annals of top UFO encounters. 608 00:43:23,014 --> 00:43:25,672 [intense music] 609 00:44:05,746 --> 00:44:08,749 [adventurous music] 610 00:44:17,793 --> 00:44:21,003 Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple 611 00:44:21,037 --> 00:44:24,696 who claim they were abducted by extraterrestrials 612 00:44:24,731 --> 00:44:27,837 in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire 613 00:44:27,872 --> 00:44:32,877 from September 19th to September 20th of 1961. 614 00:44:33,981 --> 00:44:36,708 It was the first widely publicized report 615 00:44:36,743 --> 00:44:40,125 of an alien abduction in the United States. 616 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,957 The incident came to be called the Hill Abduction 617 00:44:43,991 --> 00:44:46,753 and the Zeta Reticuli Incident 618 00:44:46,787 --> 00:44:51,136 because the couple stated they had been kidnapped by aliens 619 00:44:51,171 --> 00:44:55,037 who claimed to be from the Zeta Reticuli system. 620 00:44:55,071 --> 00:45:00,076 Their story was adapted into the best-selling 1966 book 621 00:45:00,801 --> 00:45:02,285 The Interrupted Journey 622 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:07,325 and the 1975 television movie The UFO Incident. 623 00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:12,192 In September 2016, plans were announced to make a film 624 00:45:12,226 --> 00:45:15,885 based on the events with an unknown release date. 625 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,925 Most of Betty Hill's notes, tapes, and other items 626 00:45:22,064 --> 00:45:23,962 have been placed in the permanent collection 627 00:45:23,997 --> 00:45:28,035 at the University of New Hampshire, her alma mater. 628 00:45:28,070 --> 00:45:33,075 In July 2011, the state Division of Historical Resources 629 00:45:34,421 --> 00:45:37,631 marked the site of the alleged craft's first approach 630 00:45:37,665 --> 00:45:39,426 with a historical marker. 631 00:45:40,841 --> 00:45:45,190 According to a variety of reports given by the Hills, 632 00:45:45,225 --> 00:45:50,230 the alleged UFO sighting happened on September 19th of 1961 633 00:45:51,645 --> 00:45:54,510 around 10:30 PM. 634 00:45:54,544 --> 00:45:57,409 The Hills were driving back to Portsmouth 635 00:45:57,444 --> 00:46:01,482 from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal. 636 00:46:01,517 --> 00:46:04,520 Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, 637 00:46:04,554 --> 00:46:07,661 Betty claimed to have observed a bright point of light 638 00:46:07,695 --> 00:46:10,871 in the sky that moved from below the moon 639 00:46:10,906 --> 00:46:14,806 and the planet Jupiter upward to the west of the moon. 640 00:46:14,841 --> 00:46:18,603 While Barney navigated US Route three, 641 00:46:18,637 --> 00:46:22,400 Betty reasoned that she was observing a falling star, 642 00:46:22,434 --> 00:46:24,229 only it moved upward. 643 00:46:24,264 --> 00:46:28,095 Since it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter, 644 00:46:28,130 --> 00:46:32,410 Betty urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look, 645 00:46:32,444 --> 00:46:35,033 as well as to walk their dog, Delsey. 646 00:46:36,207 --> 00:46:39,141 Barney stopped at a scenic picnic area 647 00:46:39,175 --> 00:46:40,936 just south of Twin Mountain. 648 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,043 Betty, looking through binoculars, 649 00:46:45,078 --> 00:46:49,703 observed an odd-shaped craft flashing multi-colored lights 650 00:46:49,737 --> 00:46:51,843 travel across the face of the Moon. 651 00:46:53,327 --> 00:46:56,330 Through binoculars, Barney observed what he reasoned 652 00:46:56,365 --> 00:46:59,575 was a commercial airliner traveling toward Vermont 653 00:46:59,609 --> 00:47:01,439 on its way to Montreal. 654 00:47:01,473 --> 00:47:03,890 However, he soon changed his mind 655 00:47:03,924 --> 00:47:07,272 because without looking as if it had turned, 656 00:47:07,307 --> 00:47:10,828 the craft rapidly descended in his direction. 657 00:47:11,932 --> 00:47:15,246 This observation caused Barney to realize 658 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,077 this object that was a plane was not a plane. 659 00:47:20,216 --> 00:47:22,978 They quickly returned to the car 660 00:47:23,012 --> 00:47:25,394 and drove toward Franconia Notch, 661 00:47:25,428 --> 00:47:28,431 a narrow, mountainous stretch of the road. 662 00:47:28,466 --> 00:47:33,160 Approximately one mile south of Indian Head, 663 00:47:33,195 --> 00:47:37,440 they said the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle 664 00:47:37,475 --> 00:47:41,030 causing Barney to stop in the middle of the highway. 665 00:47:41,065 --> 00:47:46,070 The huge, silent craft hovered approximately 80 to 100 feet 666 00:47:47,209 --> 00:47:51,213 above the Hills' 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 667 00:47:51,247 --> 00:47:55,182 and filled the entire field of view in the windshield. 668 00:47:55,217 --> 00:47:58,599 It reminded Barney of a huge pancake. 669 00:47:58,634 --> 00:48:00,843 Carrying his pistol in his pocket, 670 00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:02,949 he stepped away from the vehicle 671 00:48:02,983 --> 00:48:05,503 and moved closer to the object. 672 00:48:05,537 --> 00:48:08,368 Using the binoculars, Barney claimed to have seen 673 00:48:08,402 --> 00:48:11,750 about eight to 11 humanoid figures, 674 00:48:11,785 --> 00:48:14,305 who were peering out of the craft's windows, 675 00:48:14,339 --> 00:48:15,789 seemingly looking at him. 676 00:48:17,135 --> 00:48:20,069 Red lights on what appeared to be bat-wing fins 677 00:48:20,104 --> 00:48:23,935 began to telescope out of the sides of the craft, 678 00:48:23,970 --> 00:48:28,112 and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. 679 00:48:28,146 --> 00:48:32,254 The silent craft approached and Barney observed 680 00:48:32,288 --> 00:48:35,464 the beings were not human. 681 00:48:35,498 --> 00:48:38,122 Barney tore the binoculars away from his eyes 682 00:48:38,156 --> 00:48:39,951 and ran back to his car. 683 00:48:39,986 --> 00:48:42,885 In a near hysterical state he told Betty, 684 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,922 "They're going to capture us!" 685 00:48:44,956 --> 00:48:47,959 He saw the object again shift its location 686 00:48:47,994 --> 00:48:50,341 to directly above the vehicle. 687 00:48:50,375 --> 00:48:52,412 He drove away at high speed 688 00:48:52,446 --> 00:48:54,932 telling Betty to look for the object. 689 00:48:54,966 --> 00:48:56,934 She rolled down the window and looked up. 690 00:48:56,968 --> 00:49:01,904 Almost immediately, the Hills heard a rhythmic series 691 00:49:01,939 --> 00:49:04,251 of beeping or buzzing sounds, 692 00:49:04,286 --> 00:49:06,598 which they said seemed to bounce off 693 00:49:06,633 --> 00:49:08,842 the trunk of their vehicle. 694 00:49:08,876 --> 00:49:12,087 The car vibrated and a tingling sensation 695 00:49:12,121 --> 00:49:14,365 passed through the Hills' bodies. 696 00:49:14,399 --> 00:49:18,093 The Hills said that they experienced the onset 697 00:49:18,127 --> 00:49:20,647 of an altered state of consciousness 698 00:49:20,681 --> 00:49:23,305 that left their minds dulled. 699 00:49:23,339 --> 00:49:26,791 A second series of beeping or buzzing sounds 700 00:49:26,825 --> 00:49:29,552 returned the couple to full consciousness. 701 00:49:29,587 --> 00:49:33,556 They found that they had traveled nearly 35 miles south, 702 00:49:33,591 --> 00:49:38,596 but had only vague, spotty memories of this section of road. 703 00:49:40,908 --> 00:49:45,637 After the encounter Betty began to have a series of dreams 704 00:49:45,672 --> 00:49:49,538 where she remembered details of the UFO incident, 705 00:49:49,572 --> 00:49:53,645 including being abducted and a medical examination. 706 00:49:54,784 --> 00:49:58,305 Through hypnosis, both Betty and Barney 707 00:49:58,340 --> 00:50:02,896 separately recalled vivid memories of the encounter 708 00:50:02,930 --> 00:50:07,935 as well as a star map Betty was shown by the aliens 709 00:50:09,316 --> 00:50:12,561 and a pregnancy test that didn't exist in 1961. 710 00:50:14,321 --> 00:50:19,326 Barney passed away in 1969 while Betty lived to 2004. 711 00:50:21,052 --> 00:50:25,229 The Hill abduction is one of the most extensive 712 00:50:25,263 --> 00:50:30,268 and exhaustive UFO investigations of all time. 713 00:50:31,614 --> 00:50:35,618 The star map Betty described was proven to be 714 00:50:35,653 --> 00:50:40,071 an actual map of the Zeta Reticuli star system. 715 00:50:40,106 --> 00:50:44,317 She drew it well before any astronomers on earth 716 00:50:44,351 --> 00:50:47,113 knew it existed. 717 00:50:47,147 --> 00:50:52,152 Many have tried and failed to debunk the Hill case 718 00:50:53,395 --> 00:50:57,019 and it remains one of the top UFO encounters 719 00:50:57,054 --> 00:50:58,952 of modern times. 720 00:51:03,439 --> 00:51:05,924 [tense music] 721 00:51:46,379 --> 00:51:49,382 [suspenseful music] 722 00:51:53,972 --> 00:51:57,321 On the evening of October 11th, 1973, 723 00:51:57,355 --> 00:52:01,566 coworkers 42 year old Charles Hickson 724 00:52:01,601 --> 00:52:03,879 and 19 year old Calvin Parker 725 00:52:03,913 --> 00:52:07,917 told the Jackson County, Mississippi sheriffs office 726 00:52:07,952 --> 00:52:11,197 they were fishing off a pier on the west bank 727 00:52:11,231 --> 00:52:14,061 of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi 728 00:52:14,096 --> 00:52:16,719 when they heard a whirring, whizzing sound. 729 00:52:16,754 --> 00:52:19,791 They saw two flashing blue lights 730 00:52:19,826 --> 00:52:24,348 and an oval shaped object 30 to 40 feet across 731 00:52:24,382 --> 00:52:27,005 and eight to 10 feet high. 732 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,664 Parker and Hickson claim that they were conscious 733 00:52:30,699 --> 00:52:33,805 but paralyzed while three creatures 734 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,705 took them aboard the object and subjected them 735 00:52:36,739 --> 00:52:40,191 to an examination before releasing them. 736 00:52:40,226 --> 00:52:43,953 Within days, Pascagoula was the center 737 00:52:43,988 --> 00:52:46,024 of an international news story 738 00:52:46,059 --> 00:52:48,889 with reporters swarming the town. 739 00:52:50,063 --> 00:52:53,308 Ufologist James Harder of the Aerial Phenomena 740 00:52:53,342 --> 00:52:57,035 Research Organization and J. Allen Hynek 741 00:52:57,070 --> 00:52:59,210 interviewed the two men. 742 00:52:59,245 --> 00:53:00,970 Harder attempted to hypnotize them 743 00:53:01,005 --> 00:53:04,215 and concluded Hickson and Parker 744 00:53:04,250 --> 00:53:08,323 experienced an extraterrestrial phenomena, 745 00:53:08,357 --> 00:53:12,119 while Hynek believed they had a very real, 746 00:53:12,154 --> 00:53:15,019 frightening experience. 747 00:53:15,053 --> 00:53:17,124 Hickson later appeared on talk shows, 748 00:53:17,159 --> 00:53:20,507 gave lectures and interviews, and in 1983 749 00:53:20,542 --> 00:53:25,547 authored a self-published book UFO Contact at Pascagoula. 750 00:53:26,927 --> 00:53:30,759 Hickson claimed additional encounters with aliens in 1974, 751 00:53:30,793 --> 00:53:34,487 alleged that the aliens told him they were peaceful. 752 00:53:34,521 --> 00:53:38,180 Parker later attended UFO conventions 753 00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:41,218 and has written two books about his encounter 754 00:53:41,252 --> 00:53:44,773 as well as appeared in a documentary including others 755 00:53:44,807 --> 00:53:48,846 who witnessed the UFO that night. 756 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:53,195 Charles Hickson died of a heart attack at age 80 757 00:53:53,230 --> 00:53:56,233 on September the 9th, 2011. 758 00:53:56,267 --> 00:53:59,443 Charlie told his story until he died, 759 00:53:59,477 --> 00:54:04,102 claiming it was in fact all true. 760 00:54:04,137 --> 00:54:08,245 Calvin continues to make appearances at UFO conventions 761 00:54:08,279 --> 00:54:11,386 and his story remains solid. 762 00:54:11,420 --> 00:54:14,596 He says he will tell the truth of the encounter 763 00:54:14,630 --> 00:54:17,219 till the day he dies. 764 00:54:17,254 --> 00:54:21,672 The Pascagoula UFO abduction continues 765 00:54:21,706 --> 00:54:24,537 to baffle debunkers to this day. 766 00:54:56,293 --> 00:54:59,226 [mysterious music] 767 00:55:06,164 --> 00:55:08,581 The Travis Walton UFO incident 768 00:55:08,615 --> 00:55:10,652 was an alleged alien abduction 769 00:55:10,686 --> 00:55:14,103 of an American forestry worker, Travis Walton, 770 00:55:14,138 --> 00:55:19,039 by a UFO on November 5th, 1975, 771 00:55:19,074 --> 00:55:22,491 while he was working near Snowflake, Arizona. 772 00:55:22,526 --> 00:55:27,254 Walton reappeared after a five-day search. 773 00:55:27,289 --> 00:55:31,604 The Walton case received mainstream publicity 774 00:55:31,638 --> 00:55:36,298 and remains one of the best-known alien abduction stories. 775 00:55:36,333 --> 00:55:40,544 Walton wrote a book about his purported abduction in 1978 776 00:55:40,578 --> 00:55:42,753 called The Walton Experience, 777 00:55:42,787 --> 00:55:47,792 which was adapted into the 1993 film Fire in the Sky. 778 00:55:48,966 --> 00:55:52,314 According to Walton, on November 5th, 1975, 779 00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:55,938 he was working with a timber stand improvement crew 780 00:55:55,973 --> 00:55:58,665 in the forest near Snowflake, Arizona. 781 00:55:58,700 --> 00:56:01,910 While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers 782 00:56:01,944 --> 00:56:04,878 they encountered a saucer-shaped object 783 00:56:04,913 --> 00:56:09,538 hovering over the ground approximately 110 feet away 784 00:56:09,573 --> 00:56:12,403 making a high-pitched buzz. 785 00:56:12,438 --> 00:56:15,475 Walton claims that after he left the truck 786 00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:16,752 and approached the object, 787 00:56:16,787 --> 00:56:19,859 a beam of light suddenly appeared from the craft 788 00:56:19,893 --> 00:56:22,724 and knocked him unconscious. 789 00:56:22,758 --> 00:56:25,623 The other six men were frightened and supposedly drove away. 790 00:56:25,658 --> 00:56:29,903 Walton claimed that he awoke in a hospital-like room, 791 00:56:29,938 --> 00:56:33,873 being observed by three short, bald creatures. 792 00:56:33,907 --> 00:56:35,944 He claimed that he fought with them 793 00:56:35,978 --> 00:56:40,397 until a human wearing a helmet led Walton to another room, 794 00:56:40,431 --> 00:56:44,849 where he blacked out as three other human looking beings 795 00:56:44,884 --> 00:56:47,714 put a clear plastic mask over his face. 796 00:56:47,749 --> 00:56:51,442 Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else 797 00:56:51,477 --> 00:56:54,169 until he found himself walking along a highway 798 00:56:54,203 --> 00:56:57,828 with the flying saucer departing above him. 799 00:56:59,899 --> 00:57:02,971 The encounter was extensively investigated 800 00:57:03,005 --> 00:57:07,147 as Walton was missing for five days 801 00:57:07,182 --> 00:57:11,324 and his coworkers came under scrutiny of murder. 802 00:57:11,358 --> 00:57:14,707 All took and passed lie detector tests 803 00:57:14,741 --> 00:57:18,469 and remained solid that their encounter did happen 804 00:57:18,504 --> 00:57:22,197 even though many of the parties do not get along. 805 00:57:26,166 --> 00:57:30,067 The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting 806 00:57:30,101 --> 00:57:33,208 and alien abduction claimed to have occurred 807 00:57:33,242 --> 00:57:37,315 in Allagash, Maine, United States, in 1976. 808 00:57:37,350 --> 00:57:39,973 Brothers Jim Weiner and Jack Weiner 809 00:57:40,008 --> 00:57:43,770 with friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rak 810 00:57:43,805 --> 00:57:46,463 claimed that they were abducted by aliens 811 00:57:46,497 --> 00:57:49,638 during a camping trip in Allagash, Maine, 812 00:57:49,673 --> 00:57:53,021 on August 20th of 1976. 813 00:57:53,055 --> 00:57:54,505 According to the four men, 814 00:57:54,540 --> 00:57:57,335 hypnotic regression enabled them to recall 815 00:57:57,370 --> 00:57:59,406 being taken aboard a circular UFO 816 00:57:59,441 --> 00:58:04,135 and being probed and tested by four-fingered beings 817 00:58:04,170 --> 00:58:07,622 with almond-shaped eyes and languid limbs. 818 00:58:07,656 --> 00:58:11,039 The men all claimed that when they set out fishing 819 00:58:11,073 --> 00:58:14,905 on Big Eagle Lake the evening of the UFO sighting 820 00:58:14,939 --> 00:58:18,736 they had left a large fire burning at their campsite 821 00:58:18,771 --> 00:58:21,705 as a beacon to guide them back to shore 822 00:58:21,739 --> 00:58:24,708 during the pitch black night. 823 00:58:24,742 --> 00:58:28,090 However, when they returned to the campsite, 824 00:58:28,125 --> 00:58:30,576 the fire had burned down much faster 825 00:58:30,610 --> 00:58:32,232 than they thought it should have 826 00:58:32,267 --> 00:58:34,476 given the amount of time that they thought 827 00:58:34,511 --> 00:58:36,927 they had spent out on the water. 828 00:58:36,961 --> 00:58:38,791 This led to understanding the men 829 00:58:38,825 --> 00:58:41,587 had experienced missing time 830 00:58:41,621 --> 00:58:44,762 and the encounter occurred during that time. 831 00:58:46,453 --> 00:58:49,905 In a later interview by St. John Valley Times, 832 00:58:49,940 --> 00:58:51,838 Charles Rak changed his story, 833 00:58:51,873 --> 00:58:55,290 saying he saw strange lights during the camping trip, 834 00:58:55,324 --> 00:58:58,811 but the abduction part of the story was a total fabrication 835 00:58:58,845 --> 00:59:02,677 and he went along with the narrative for financial gain. 836 00:59:02,711 --> 00:59:07,198 The other members of the group stand by the abduction story. 837 00:59:07,233 --> 00:59:10,547 According to Jim Weiner, Jack, Charlie, and I, 838 00:59:10,581 --> 00:59:13,860 after all these years, are still in agreement 839 00:59:13,895 --> 00:59:18,037 with the Eagle Lake event as we three remember it. 840 00:59:18,071 --> 00:59:20,108 We also accept the results 841 00:59:20,142 --> 00:59:23,145 of the hypnotic regression sessions 842 00:59:23,180 --> 00:59:25,320 and subsequent polygraph tests 843 00:59:25,354 --> 00:59:28,979 as supportive of an abduction scenario. 844 00:59:36,814 --> 00:59:39,817 [adventurous music] 845 00:59:48,792 --> 00:59:51,380 The government had three official projects 846 00:59:51,415 --> 00:59:55,453 to investigate UFO's and in 1969 847 00:59:55,488 --> 00:59:57,628 they closed Project Blue Book 848 00:59:57,663 --> 01:00:01,977 and claimed they did not investigate UFO's any longer. 849 01:00:02,012 --> 01:00:04,014 This was not true. 850 01:00:04,048 --> 01:00:08,328 The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, 851 01:00:08,363 --> 01:00:11,642 or A-tip, was a secret investigative effort 852 01:00:11,677 --> 01:00:14,749 funded by the United States government 853 01:00:14,783 --> 01:00:17,683 to study unidentified flying objects 854 01:00:17,717 --> 01:00:20,617 or unexplained aerial phenomena. 855 01:00:20,651 --> 01:00:25,622 The program was first made public on December 16th of 2017. 856 01:00:27,071 --> 01:00:31,248 The program began in 2007 with funding of $22 million 857 01:00:32,698 --> 01:00:35,528 over the five years until the available appropriations 858 01:00:35,562 --> 01:00:38,358 were ended in 2012. 859 01:00:38,393 --> 01:00:41,845 The program began in the US Defense Intelligence Agency. 860 01:00:41,879 --> 01:00:45,607 Although the official A-tip program has ended, 861 01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:49,162 a related group of interested professionals 862 01:00:49,197 --> 01:00:51,544 have extended the effort founding 863 01:00:51,578 --> 01:00:54,823 a public benefit corporation and entertainment company 864 01:00:54,858 --> 01:00:58,793 named To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science. 865 01:00:59,897 --> 01:01:02,520 A-tip came to a broader public attention 866 01:01:02,555 --> 01:01:07,111 on the 16th of December, 2017 in three news stories 867 01:01:07,146 --> 01:01:11,737 in the Washington Post, Politico and the New York Times. 868 01:01:11,771 --> 01:01:16,673 Gun camera footage of a UFO known as the Tic Tac UFO 869 01:01:18,088 --> 01:01:21,885 came to light and the pilot confirmed it was a UFO. 870 01:01:23,231 --> 01:01:26,717 At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual 871 01:01:26,752 --> 01:01:31,618 or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14th, 2004. 872 01:01:33,068 --> 01:01:36,071 Later, under pressure, the government had to concede 873 01:01:36,106 --> 01:01:38,833 that it did indeed run the program 874 01:01:38,867 --> 01:01:41,836 and that all the footage leaked or released 875 01:01:41,870 --> 01:01:44,701 was in fact genuine. 876 01:01:45,874 --> 01:01:48,808 Since then, a plethora of government officials, 877 01:01:48,843 --> 01:01:51,155 politicians, military personnel 878 01:01:51,190 --> 01:01:53,951 and those who worked on the project have come forward. 879 01:01:53,986 --> 01:01:58,991 It's pretty clear the government takes UFO's seriously. 880 01:02:00,475 --> 01:02:03,202 What is not known is if the government will finally admit 881 01:02:03,236 --> 01:02:07,447 UFO's are alien and what measures are being taken 882 01:02:07,482 --> 01:02:12,004 to ensure our air space is protected. 883 01:02:12,038 --> 01:02:16,525 Captain Max Clark, commanding officer of the USS Nimitz 884 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:20,564 has said it is important his ship and everybody on it 885 01:02:20,598 --> 01:02:24,188 is kept safe from UFO's. 886 01:02:24,223 --> 01:02:27,778 From my perspective we have an obligation 887 01:02:27,813 --> 01:02:30,470 to make sure the air space is clear 888 01:02:30,505 --> 01:02:34,958 whether it's UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon, 889 01:02:34,992 --> 01:02:38,685 or UAV's, unmanned aerial vehicles. 890 01:02:41,102 --> 01:02:45,244 This comes just weeks after the Office of Naval Intelligence 891 01:02:45,278 --> 01:02:48,143 revealed the existence of a classified, 892 01:02:48,178 --> 01:02:51,629 unreleased UFO video. 893 01:02:51,664 --> 01:02:54,391 The video was related to the notorious 894 01:02:54,425 --> 01:02:58,291 USS Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 encounter 895 01:02:58,326 --> 01:03:01,018 with a Tic Tac shaped UFO. 896 01:03:01,053 --> 01:03:03,814 The encounters remain a mystery 897 01:03:03,849 --> 01:03:06,679 and the object's incredible speed and movements 898 01:03:06,713 --> 01:03:11,684 have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial. 899 01:03:13,065 --> 01:03:17,310 Could it be we're getting closer to a complete disclosure 900 01:03:17,345 --> 01:03:20,831 that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth? 901 01:03:20,866 --> 01:03:23,869 Are we on the verge of a worldwide acknowledgement 902 01:03:23,903 --> 01:03:27,010 of the true nature of the flying craft? 903 01:03:27,044 --> 01:03:30,254 As more UFO encounters occur, 904 01:03:30,289 --> 01:03:34,811 eventually the truth will be told. 905 01:03:34,845 --> 01:03:39,056 When it does, that will be the greatest 906 01:03:39,091 --> 01:03:42,577 UFO encounter of all time. 907 01:03:45,891 --> 01:03:48,583 [intense music] 908 01:04:24,722 --> 01:04:28,623 - [Man] 10, nine, ignition sequence start, 909 01:04:28,657 --> 01:04:31,419 six, five, four, three, two, one.