WEBVTT FILE 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.