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 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.120 Throughout history, mysterious lights in the sky have 4 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:22.360 sparked wonder, fear, and speculation. 5 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:27.440 Are they natural phenomena, man-made illusions, or 6 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:29.480 something far more extraordinary? 7 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:32.960 A message from life beyond our world? 8 00:00:39.080 --> 00:00:42.320 Today we explore the world's most mysterious encounters 9 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:44.360 with unexplainable lights. 10 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.800 From the chilling depths of Rendlesham Forest, the 11 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.560 Roswell incident, the haunting Martha Lights, to the 12 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.200 chaos of the Battle of Los Angeles. 13 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.000 Are these phenomena mere tricks of nature, or 14 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:03.520 could they be undeniable evidence of extraterrestrial life 15 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:04.960 visiting our planet? 16 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:11.520 Let's have a look at the aliens that might be living among us. 17 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:15.880 I've never seen anything like it before then, 18 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.920 and I've never seen anything like it since then. 19 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.520 Set against the turbulent backdrop of the devastating 20 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:44.080 attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the United 21 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:46.880 States' most baffling aerial mysteries. 22 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.560 Birds and blimps to enemy aircraft, and even 23 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.760 the possibility of visitors from another world. 24 00:01:55.080 --> 00:01:58.120 Yet one fact remains undeniable. 25 00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:01.000 What was witnessed in the skies that night 26 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:04.600 was truly an unidentified flying object. 27 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:05.840 A UFO. 28 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.240 December 7th, 1941. 29 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:22.160 A date which will live in infamy. 30 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:28.640 With confidence in our armed forces, with the 31 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:35.000 unfounding determination of our people, we will gain 32 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.480 the inevitable triumph. 33 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:39.200 So help us God. 34 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:57.320 Reports of strange flying objects in the sky are older than the United States. 35 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:00.200 Some of them reported in scientific journals that 36 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.720 date back to the 16th century, but they've 37 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.200 usually been classed with Loch Ness monsters and 38 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:06.800 relegated to the Sunday supplements. 39 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:09.960 Until World War II showed us that some 40 00:03:10.040 --> 00:03:13.880 of the most fantastic dreams can be very real. 41 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.560 Like atomic bombs, for instance. 42 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:18.600 And since the close of the war, hundreds 43 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:24.080 of reports of strange objects in the sky have been filed with the Air Force. 44 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:26.840 And most of them have been easily explained. 45 00:03:27.320 --> 00:03:32.680 Experimental jet aircraft, weather balloons, reflected ground lights, 46 00:03:32.760 --> 00:03:35.320 unusual cloud formations, and so on. 47 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.520 February 23rd, 1942. 48 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:43.560 The sighting of a Japanese submarine off the 49 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:48.880 coast of Santa Barbara, California heightened fears of a mainland invasion. 50 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:52.600 As the sun set, the shelling began. 51 00:03:55.600 --> 00:03:58.960 February 24th, 1942. 52 00:03:59.160 --> 00:04:04.080 7.18p.m. That evening, warnings of 53 00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:06.920 a further invasion by naval intelligence put much 54 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:10.400 of the Los Angeles coastline under yellow alert. 55 00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:15.734 Tensions eased over the next few hours, prompting a white alert to be issued. 56 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.960 February 25th, 1942. 57 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:25.360 Air raid sirens penetrated the night's silence. 58 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.120 Radars pinpoint an unidentified flying object approaching the 59 00:04:29.200 --> 00:04:31.320 metropolis, forcing a blackout. 60 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.120 L.A. descended into darkness as the gunners prepared for the invasion. 61 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:40.720 Was it imminent? 62 00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:52.040 It's a well-known story within UFO history. 63 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:55.240 Anti-aircraft guns went into action against unidentified 64 00:04:55.320 --> 00:04:58.400 aircraft in the Los Angeles area shortly after 65 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.040 3 a.m. Pacific wartime this morning. 66 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:04.160 The anti-aircraft guns began barking during a 67 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.360 blackout ordered by the 4th Interceptor Command at 68 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:11.840 2.25 a.m. The unidentified object, which 69 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.560 some sources thought might be a blimp, moved 70 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:16.960 slowly down the Pacific coast from Santa Monica 71 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.760 and disappeared south of Long Beach. 72 00:05:20.200 --> 00:05:23.960 They spotted an object in the sky over Los Angeles. 73 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:29.014 Basically, you know, an oval object, 74 00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:34.360 and they had anti-aircraft batteries at the ready, and off they went. 75 00:05:47.640 --> 00:05:49.680 Fired thousands of rounds at this thing. 76 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:52.840 It was caught in the searchlights, you know, of the city... 77 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:03.680 and of course, it's gone down in UFO law 78 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:07.880 because there was no attack ever on the 79 00:06:07.960 --> 00:06:10.760 mainland of the United States by the Japanese. 80 00:06:11.960 --> 00:06:17.880 So some people said, well, perhaps this oval -shaped object was a UFO. 81 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:28.120 Well, this made headlines in the newspapers, and 82 00:06:28.200 --> 00:06:32.120 the reason it didn't get hit is because it's not of this Earth. 83 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.640 Captured by a Los Angeles Times photographer, an 84 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.440 iconic image offered a chilling glimpse into the 85 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:43.040 source of Los Angeles' most terrifying air raid. 86 00:06:43.400 --> 00:06:44.680 Black-and-white picture. 87 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:50.200 You see the searchlights all converging on an object in the sky. 88 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.280 There's some anti-aircraft fire around it, and 89 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.200 it looks like when the searchlights, you know, 90 00:06:57.280 --> 00:06:59.640 are all linked together, all come together, that 91 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.440 there is some kind of object within it. 92 00:07:02.760 --> 00:07:06.080 That's fueled speculation as to what it may or may not have been. 93 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.000 But the story doesn't end in the City of Angels. 94 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.040 Our journey takes us to the windswept plains 95 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.880 of New Mexico, where another enigmatic event would 96 00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:20.720 forever change the way we view the skies. 97 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:24.800 In the small, dusty town of Roswell, a 98 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:29.440 mystery unfolded that would cement its place in UFO lore. 99 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:35.080 This is the Roswell Incident, a case shrouded 100 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.600 in secrecy, rife with rumors of government cover 101 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.680 ups, and nearly erased from public memory. 102 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:45.480 What truths lie buried in the desert sands? 103 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.080 What was being hidden from us? 104 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.160 So it is known as the Cosmic Watergate even today. 105 00:07:53.880 --> 00:07:56.560 Even the skeptics will agree that something crashed at Roswell. 106 00:07:56.640 --> 00:07:57.374 There's no denying it. 107 00:07:57.440 --> 00:07:59.960 The Air Force agrees that something crashed there. 108 00:08:00.440 --> 00:08:03.360 It's a question of what, who do you 109 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:07.120 believe, what evidence do you, you know, have to support it? 110 00:08:10.640 --> 00:08:13.840 We expect the cowboys and Indians to come riding past. 111 00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:17.320 It's rocks, sand, cactus. 112 00:08:17.640 --> 00:08:20.440 The townsfolk have a saying about Roswell, that 113 00:08:20.520 --> 00:08:24.254 it's 200 miles from nowhere, and it pretty much is. 114 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.960 Headline edition, July 8, 1947. 115 00:08:31.400 --> 00:08:33.120 The Army Air Forces has announced that a 116 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.880 flying disc has been found and is now in the possession of the Army. 117 00:08:37.160 --> 00:08:40.320 Army officers say the missile, found sometime last week, 118 00:08:40.400 --> 00:08:42.760 has been inspected at Roswell, New Mexico, 119 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.880 and sent to Wright Field, Ohio, for further inspection. 120 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:49.640 What they recovered was supposedly a vehicle not 121 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.200 of this world, a flying saucer. 122 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:58.400 The airbase that was just outside of the town was the Roswell Army Air Force. 123 00:08:58.520 --> 00:09:01.760 The Army and the Air Force were one group in those days. 124 00:09:02.040 --> 00:09:03.880 There are claims that Roswell was a significant 125 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.360 place for an alien spacecraft to be in 126 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.800 action on this planet, because it was the 127 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:10.680 home at that point of the 509th, which 128 00:09:10.760 --> 00:09:14.240 was the only, the only squadron, airborne squadron, 129 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.880 trained to drop nuclear weapons on the face of the Earth. 130 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.000 They were the ones responsible for the atomic 131 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:23.680 bombs during the Second World War, although they weren't flown out of Roswell. 132 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:35.080 They'd had a call from the local sheriff 133 00:09:35.160 --> 00:09:37.640 in the town, a chap called Matt Brazel, 134 00:09:38.160 --> 00:09:41.520 claimed to have found this strange debris on his ranch. 135 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:45.160 So they sent Jesse Marcel to investigate. 136 00:09:45.640 --> 00:09:47.560 He brought some of this debris back, 137 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.200 en route back to the base in the early hours of the morning. 138 00:09:51.280 --> 00:09:54.160 He woke up his son, Jesse Marcel Jr., 139 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.880 and spread this material on the kitchen floor. 140 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.080 His son picked this, this piece of material 141 00:10:01.160 --> 00:10:05.280 up, what they call an I-beam, with these strange symbols on. 142 00:10:05.760 --> 00:10:09.240 And his father said to him, son, you may be the first to see writing from 143 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:10.320 another world. 144 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.760 Apart from the I-beam that is described by his son, one of the most peculiar 145 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:19.920 properties of this material was what they nicknamed memory metal. 146 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:24.080 So it looked pretty much like aluminium, 147 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:28.600 but it was extremely lightweight, almost had no weight 148 00:10:28.680 --> 00:10:33.080 at all, and then when you crushed it, you could crush it easily, and then you'd 149 00:10:33.160 --> 00:10:35.360 let go, and it would just spring back 150 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:40.720 into its previous shape, with no creases, no marks. 151 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:45.720 His son, who went on to become a doctor, and also served in the military as 152 00:10:45.800 --> 00:10:48.800 a flight surgeon, said, I've never seen anything 153 00:10:48.880 --> 00:10:52.920 like it before then, and I've never seen anything like it since then. 154 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.360 Now, for whatever reason, Roswell Army Air Force 155 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:08.920 did issue an official press release saying that 156 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.000 they had discovered a flying disc on a 157 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.520 rancher's land, and some of it was being sent to higher headquarters. 158 00:11:17.640 --> 00:11:20.760 That particular press release went around the world, 159 00:11:26.760 --> 00:11:30.320 sent out a second press release saying, sorry, we got it wrong. 160 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:31.840 It wasn't a flying disc. 161 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:34.160 It was actually just a weather balloon. 162 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:41.120 They basically brought in the press photographers, and 163 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.000 there's a set of photographs, and there is 164 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:47.520 Major Marcel holding bits of this material, which 165 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:50.080 is clearly a weather balloon. 166 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:54.400 However, Major Marcel said, that is not the 167 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:59.200 material that I collected from Matt Brazel's ranch. 168 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:02.960 The allegation is that they did somehow a swap. 169 00:12:03.760 --> 00:12:07.040 The peculiar thing is that Major Marcel was 170 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.960 quite well qualified to identify weather balloons, because 171 00:12:12.040 --> 00:12:14.720 they used to launch weather balloons from their 172 00:12:14.800 --> 00:12:18.360 own base every day, because they needed to 173 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.520 know the weather, because they had aircraft in 174 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.240 and out of there, and it was only, 175 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.320 I think, two months before this incident, he'd 176 00:12:25.400 --> 00:12:28.040 actually been qualified to do this work. 177 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:33.200 He knew a weather balloon when he saw it, and he was adamant until his dying 178 00:12:33.280 --> 00:12:37.920 day that the material he collected was certainly no weather balloon. 179 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.360 In the stillness of the Rendlesham forest, hazy 180 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:49.360 lights pierced through the treetops, witnessed by military 181 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.360 personnel stationed nearby. 182 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.800 It was late December 1980, just after Christmas, 183 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.720 when this extraordinary event unfolded, becoming the most 184 00:13:00.800 --> 00:13:04.720 famous UFO encounter in British history. 185 00:13:07.160 --> 00:13:11.840 But was it a hoax, or a visit from beings beyond our solar system? 186 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.960 Eyewitness accounts tell of strange lights, and even 187 00:13:16.040 --> 00:13:17.880 physical contact with an otherworldly craft. 188 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:22.320 Yet sceptics propose alternative explanations, natural phenomena, or 189 00:13:22.400 --> 00:13:23.920 perhaps an elaborate prank. 190 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:28.560 The biggest cases in the UK, often given 191 00:13:28.640 --> 00:13:33.400 the name, you know, Britain's Roswell, happened in 192 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.280 Rendlesham forest in Suffolk. 193 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.920 Rendlesham forest lay between the twin bases of 194 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.080 RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters. 195 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:47.880 Now in 1980, they were an American base. 196 00:13:49.400 --> 00:13:53.320 It's not a backward little, you know, RAF station. 197 00:13:53.400 --> 00:13:55.374 It had nuclear weapons stored there. 198 00:13:59.520 --> 00:14:01.800 Now in 1980, they were on high alert 199 00:14:01.880 --> 00:14:06.280 because there was tensions throughout Russia and some 200 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:07.880 of the Soviet bloc countries. 201 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:15.080 Some events happened in late December 1980 over a period of three nights. 202 00:14:16.680 --> 00:14:19.600 There was apparently a sighting of a UFO there. 203 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:23.480 There's subsequently a document came to light, which 204 00:14:23.560 --> 00:14:26.400 is known as the Holt Memo, because Charles 205 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:30.920 Holt, who was the acting base commander that night, wrote up the events. 206 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:35.120 And he said that his men went out to investigate strange lights in the forest. 207 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.320 And what's subsequently being claimed is that they 208 00:14:37.400 --> 00:14:39.480 encountered a UFO, and that there were aliens 209 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:42.080 involved, and that this may actually have been 210 00:14:42.160 --> 00:14:44.680 some collusion between the American military and the 211 00:14:44.760 --> 00:14:46.400 aliens to do with a craft that needed 212 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.160 to come down somewhere to affect its own repairs. 213 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.574 First night, some strange lights were seen in 214 00:14:52.640 --> 00:14:55.720 the forest, and one of the security police... 215 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.720 saw this and asked if he could go and investigate. 216 00:15:04.560 --> 00:15:08.600 So three base security personnel were sent. 217 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.960 They traveled into Rendlesham forest, which was then public land. 218 00:15:14.040 --> 00:15:15.640 It was not military land. 219 00:15:16.560 --> 00:15:18.840 One stayed with the vehicle because they were 220 00:15:18.920 --> 00:15:21.560 having problems with their communications. 221 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.520 Jim Pennington and John Burrows were the two airmen that went into the forest. 222 00:15:26.400 --> 00:15:29.160 They could see this thing in amongst the trees. 223 00:15:29.760 --> 00:15:31.600 They claimed that as they approached it, what 224 00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:34.960 they saw was not just lights, it was 225 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:42.680 a triangular-shaped craft, either hovering or on legs just above the ground. 226 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:48.000 Red lights on the top, blue lights underneath. 227 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.760 It wasn't that big, you know, maybe the size of a medium-sized car. 228 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:55.240 Jim Pennington claims he touched it. 229 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:56.800 It felt warm and smooth, and there were 230 00:15:56.880 --> 00:15:59.840 these strange markings down the side of it. 231 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:05.440 They walked around it, and then it moved off through the trees. 232 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.320 They were then accompanied by their third colleague, 233 00:16:09.280 --> 00:16:12.854 and they tried to chase it through the trees, but it was gone. 234 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:20.320 So they reported this in the incident log when they returned to base. 235 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.000 Then on the third night, the deputy base 236 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:29.400 commander, Colonel Holt, was on site, and they 237 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.880 were having a post-Christmas dinner. 238 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.920 Awards were being given out, you know, the base commander was there. 239 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.560 And one of the, again, the security came 240 00:16:38.640 --> 00:16:40.640 and said, you know, Colonel, Colonel had heard 241 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.880 about what had happened, and they said to him, it's back. 242 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:47.000 What's back? 243 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:48.840 This is the UFO. 244 00:16:50.680 --> 00:16:53.040 So the colonel thought, I'll take some men 245 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.120 into the forest, and I'll do away with this nonsense. 246 00:16:57.280 --> 00:16:59.280 Now he wasn't in military uniform at the 247 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:01.800 time, so he went, got changed first, picked 248 00:17:01.880 --> 00:17:04.680 up his small tape recorder, a little handheld 249 00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:07.934 thing, selected a few men, off they went. 250 00:17:11.320 --> 00:17:13.360 First problem they had, they had these sort 251 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.360 of diesel-powered lights, they're called light holes, 252 00:17:17.040 --> 00:17:18.160 and they wouldn't work. 253 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:19.598 They were arguing that there was no diesel 254 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:21.200 in them, but of course they were full. 255 00:17:22.040 --> 00:17:26.374 So they proceeded into the woods, into the forest. 256 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.480 The colonel was first taken to the location 257 00:17:31.560 --> 00:17:34.880 of the first night's encounter, and one of 258 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:36.920 his colleagues had brought a Geiger counter along 259 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.080 with him, and he waved it over the 260 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.800 area, and he got higher readings, not dangerous, 261 00:17:42.040 --> 00:17:45.160 but higher readings where this object had supposedly been. 262 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.000 He looked up in the tree canopy, it 263 00:17:47.080 --> 00:17:49.240 looked as if the branches were broken, because 264 00:17:49.320 --> 00:17:51.800 the trees were quite densely packed, looked like 265 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:53.880 something had descended through the trees. 266 00:17:54.800 --> 00:17:56.800 Then out in the distance the colonel could 267 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.520 see this red-orange light, not high in 268 00:18:00.600 --> 00:18:04.920 the sky but low down, it looked almost like an eye blinking at you 269 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:07.414 and all the while he's recording. 270 00:18:12.520 --> 00:18:15.920 Approximately 0-1-25 hours. 271 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:18.920 The indentations look like something twisted, you know, 272 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.200 has it sat down on them? 273 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:21.920 Looks like someone took something and sat it 274 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:23.800 down and twisted it from side to side. 275 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.000 Very strange. 276 00:18:27.280 --> 00:18:28.440 Hey, this is Erie. 277 00:18:30.280 --> 00:18:31.160 Foxtrot. 278 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:33.400 This is strange. 279 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.640 Erie, someone want to look at the spots in the ground? 280 00:18:36.320 --> 00:18:40.680 0148, we're getting very strange signs out of the farmer's barnyard animals. 281 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.160 Very, very active, making an awful lot of noise. 282 00:18:46.120 --> 00:18:50.080 They came to the edge of the forest, and then there was a farmer's field. 283 00:18:50.560 --> 00:18:52.160 Beyond the field was the farmhouse, and they 284 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.760 said this orange thing was in the field, 285 00:18:56.080 --> 00:19:00.120 and it was so bright it lit up the, it reflected off the glass in the 286 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:04.880 windows of the farmhouse, and it made the farmhouse look like it was on fire. 287 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:09.560 The lighting is gone now, it was approximately 120 degrees from the site. 288 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:10.520 Is it back again? 289 00:19:10.600 --> 00:19:11.200 Yes, sir. 290 00:19:11.280 --> 00:19:12.640 We'll douse the flashlight, sir. 291 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.678 Let's move out to the edge of the clearing so we can get a better look 292 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.840 at it, see if we can get the star scope on it. 293 00:19:19.360 --> 00:19:22.600 The light's still there, and all the barnyard animals have gotten quiet now. 294 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:25.600 Yeah, we're heading about 110, 120 degrees from 295 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.320 the site out through to the clearing now, 296 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.040 still getting a reading on the meter, about two clicks. 297 00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:32.320 Maybe three to four clicks, getting stronger. 298 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:37.634 Now, some people have said what the colonel 299 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.400 and his party were looking at was the lighthouse. 300 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.400 There's a lighthouse out on the coast at Orford Nest. 301 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:47.480 The colonel said I could see the lighthouse as well as this. 302 00:19:47.560 --> 00:19:49.800 I knew what the lighthouse looked like anyway, 303 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.560 and this thing was in the field. 304 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:54.080 Okay, we're looking at the thing. 305 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:56.120 We're probably about 200 to 300 yards away. 306 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:57.600 It looks like an eye winking at you, 307 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.280 still moving from side to side, and when you put the star scope on it, it's 308 00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:05.120 sort of a hollow center, a dark center. 309 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.920 It's like a pupil of an eye looking at you and winking. 310 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.280 This thing moved closer to them. 311 00:20:11.360 --> 00:20:15.320 They all got a bit edgy, and then it burst, and it was gone. 312 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:18.480 When they looked, somebody notified the colonel, and 313 00:20:18.560 --> 00:20:23.840 there was three or more objects in the sky, and they said at one point a 314 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.080 beam of light was shot down towards them. 315 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.000 Okay, here he comes from the south. 316 00:20:29.080 --> 00:20:30.240 He's coming towards us now. 317 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.360 Now we're observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground. 318 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:37.000 This is unreal. 319 00:20:38.280 --> 00:20:40.640 And it landed, you know, it was aiming towards them. 320 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:41.598 I don't mean a long way off. 321 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:43.640 It was just a few yards away from them. 322 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:46.120 He didn't know if this was a weapon or warning. 323 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:50.454 You know, some of these lights were also seen over the weapon storage area. 324 00:20:50.520 --> 00:20:53.480 3400 hours, one object still hovering over Woodbridge 325 00:20:53.560 --> 00:20:55.480 base at about five to ten degrees off 326 00:20:55.560 --> 00:20:57.920 the horizon, still moving erratic and similar lights 327 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.960 and beaming down over here. 328 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.800 So they chased these lights through the forest 329 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:09.560 for a couple of hours or more, and 330 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:12.280 then he thought, well, I'm, you know, I'm wet. 331 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:16.400 There's nobody come, you know. 332 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.520 He expected that, you know, there might be 333 00:21:18.600 --> 00:21:22.440 an aircraft intercept or a helicopter, nothing, nobody. 334 00:21:22.800 --> 00:21:25.400 So he decided to return to base. 335 00:21:26.520 --> 00:21:29.200 He reported it to his commanding officer. 336 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:31.280 He was later asked to write a memo, 337 00:21:31.600 --> 00:21:35.920 which was just a one-page thing that he wrote, and he sent that to the 338 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.000 Ministry of Defence. 339 00:21:37.360 --> 00:21:40.400 Unbeknown to him, the Ministry of Defence sent 340 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:43.680 one to the United States Air Force, and 341 00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:46.640 a few years later, that memo surfaced in 342 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:49.360 the United States under the Freedom of Information 343 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.560 Act, and the story then was made public. 344 00:21:52.760 --> 00:21:56.320 The colonel himself would never wanted anything made 345 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:01.720 public, but once it was made public, more of those on site came forward. 346 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:04.280 There is no doubt these people were genuine. 347 00:22:04.360 --> 00:22:09.040 There is no sense of a hoax or anything like that at all. 348 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:10.720 He has no idea what it is. 349 00:22:10.800 --> 00:22:12.400 He's gone on the record, he's written an 350 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.760 affidavit, as have many of the other airmen that were involved as well. 351 00:22:20.320 --> 00:22:23.120 From the dense greenery of Surrey, we travel 352 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.560 to the arid plains of Texas, where a 353 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.800 century-old mystery dances across the desert. 354 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.840 Known as the Marfa Lights, flickering orbs of 355 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:37.760 illumination have been reported since 1883, mystifying locals 356 00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:39.974 and baffling scientists. 357 00:22:42.760 --> 00:22:45.640 First documented by Robert Reed Ellison, a young 358 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.480 cowhand, the lights were initially thought to be 359 00:22:48.560 --> 00:22:54.640 Apache campfires, yet no evidence of fire or human presence was found. 360 00:22:55.280 --> 00:22:59.920 Since then, countless witnesses have seen these supernatural orbs. 361 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:03.840 They move against the wind, shimmer in various 362 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:08.360 colours, and sometimes defy explanation entirely. 363 00:23:12.600 --> 00:23:13.960 The Marfa Lights. 364 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:19.280 Marfa's in Texas, in the United States, and 365 00:23:19.360 --> 00:23:22.120 it is one of several locations around the 366 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.240 world where these strange lights are observed. 367 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:31.600 There's no houses there, there's no roads, there's no cars, no streetlights. 368 00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:33.800 To give you an example, there's a place 369 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:38.400 in Norway called Hestalen in central Norway, and 370 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:41.174 they too have these strange lights. 371 00:23:44.080 --> 00:23:46.760 The Norwegians have studied this, and there is 372 00:23:46.840 --> 00:23:50.680 a 24-hour monitoring station in Hestalen even now. 373 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.574 In Australia, they call them the Min Min Lights. 374 00:24:04.080 --> 00:24:07.400 In the UK, they've got various names, but 375 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:10.040 they generally go under the term of the Spook Lights. 376 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:13.640 And there's places in the Pennine chain of 377 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:19.120 hills where these lights are seen on a fairly regular basis. 378 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.240 There may not be lots of them, but they turn up year in, year out. 379 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:24.600 And we have Bala in Wales. 380 00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:27.200 So there's locations in different parts of the 381 00:24:27.280 --> 00:24:31.960 world where these strange lights are seen, and Marfa is one amongst them. 382 00:24:34.520 --> 00:24:38.120 Scientists have proposed theories ranging from tectonic stress 383 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:42.080 beneath the Earth's crust, creating glowing Earth lights, 384 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:44.960 to gases igniting in the desert air. 385 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:49.560 Some claim superior mirages caused by temperature differences 386 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:51.160 might be to blame. 387 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:57.040 Others suspect the answer lies in natural gas reserves below the Marfa desert. 388 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:00.760 How many people have seen the Marfa lights? 389 00:25:00.840 --> 00:25:03.480 You know, certainly hundreds down the years. 390 00:25:03.560 --> 00:25:06.560 I've worked with a colleague by the name of Dr. Irina Scott. 391 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:08.560 She lives in Ohio. 392 00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:10.360 She's seen the Marfa lights. 393 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:15.040 She went to visit a friend near there, and she too saw them. 394 00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:17.760 You know, she was as puzzled by them as anyone else. 395 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.720 I've been to Hestalen in Norway, didn't see 396 00:25:21.800 --> 00:25:24.400 the lights, but they have caught the lights 397 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.840 on radar, they've taken video of them, and 398 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.654 lots and lots of photographs of them. 399 00:25:33.320 --> 00:25:35.640 What you find about these locations, like Marfa, 400 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:40.000 they go back if not decades, even centuries, 401 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:42.800 and you usually find folk tales or ghostly 402 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:46.454 paranormal tales originally associated with these lights. 403 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.360 Despite the scientific scrutiny, no single theory explains it all. 404 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:57.840 To this day, the Marfa lights remain a 405 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.134 captivating mystery on the Texan horizon. 406 00:26:05.280 --> 00:26:09.600 The early hours of February 25th, 1942. 407 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:13.840 Air raid sirens shattered the calm as radar 408 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:17.414 tracked an unidentified object over Los Angeles. 409 00:26:19.560 --> 00:26:22.040 This is, you know, downtown Los Angeles. 410 00:26:22.520 --> 00:26:24.320 You know, high above it, there must have 411 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:27.440 been thousands if not tens of thousands of 412 00:26:27.520 --> 00:26:30.880 people at least saw some part of it that night. 413 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:32.960 You know, by its very nature, with the 414 00:26:33.040 --> 00:26:36.640 searchlights and the anti-aircraft fire, you couldn't hide it. 415 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:39.960 The civilians in Los Angeles panicked somewhat. 416 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.974 They thought this was an attack by, you know, the armed forces of Japan. 417 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:51.200 Anti-aircraft guns filled the night with thunderous fire. 418 00:26:51.280 --> 00:26:53.360 The city plunged into chaos. 419 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.320 Captured in a haunting photograph by the Los 420 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:59.040 Angeles Times, the events of that night became 421 00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:03.414 etched in history as one of the most infamous UFO mysteries. 422 00:27:07.280 --> 00:27:11.640 Explanations ranged from weather balloons to enemy aircraft, 423 00:27:11.840 --> 00:27:16.080 but declassified documents later suggested the military had 424 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:21.320 fired at nothing more than a weather balloon carrying a flare. 425 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:34.280 It was a weather balloon. 426 00:27:37.560 --> 00:27:40.880 You know, a weather balloon is something that is launched even today. 427 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:41.960 We still use them. 428 00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:44.400 It goes into various parts of our atmosphere 429 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.720 and does, you know, what it says on the tin. 430 00:27:47.800 --> 00:27:50.160 It reads the weather, not just from its 431 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:53.000 location, but it can carry equipment, you know, 432 00:27:53.080 --> 00:27:57.760 sometimes to test the weather in other areas or other parts of the atmosphere. 433 00:27:57.840 --> 00:27:59.974 And of course, that goes back to the ground. 434 00:28:03.120 --> 00:28:05.040 Well, there was thousands of rounds of flares. 435 00:28:05.120 --> 00:28:09.000 Of anti-aircraft, fired at whatever this may or may not have been. 436 00:28:09.360 --> 00:28:11.320 And of course, nothing was shot down. 437 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.080 You know, nothing. 438 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:16.694 Not weather balloon, not Japanese bomber, no flying saucer, nothing. 439 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:24.480 Yet no wreckage was ever found, and Japanese involvement was ruled out. 440 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.280 Theories of extraterrestrial visitors have persisted, fueling the 441 00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:31.920 enigma of the Battle of Los Angeles, a 442 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.600 mystery that to this day defies definitive explanation. 443 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:42.320 Roswell died for decades. 444 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.720 Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman met quite by chance 445 00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:50.200 Major Marcel in the late 1970s. 446 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:53.600 And that's really when the investigation began. 447 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:59.120 In the 1990s, it hit the headlines again for a whole host of reasons. 448 00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:04.320 And another investigation took place, this time on an official level. 449 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:06.880 And the United States Air Force provided a 450 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.520 huge great tome, a huge massive book about Roswell, 451 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.920 saying that it was now still a weather balloon, 452 00:29:15.280 --> 00:29:16.880 but these weather balloons were part 453 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:22.160 of a secret monitoring device, which was called Project Mogul. 454 00:29:22.600 --> 00:29:26.920 Basically, Project Mogul launched some equipment into the 455 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:32.680 higher atmosphere to check for Soviet nuclear experiments, tests. 456 00:29:33.360 --> 00:29:35.160 It was discontinued for two reasons. 457 00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:38.720 First of all, because it was only limited in its effectiveness. 458 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.200 And secondly, because the Americans managed to find 459 00:29:42.280 --> 00:29:44.000 better ways of spying on the Russians. 460 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:49.080 So Project Mogul was top secret, but the 461 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:52.480 equipment that they were using was just ordinary. 462 00:29:52.560 --> 00:29:54.800 It was still weather balloons. 463 00:29:57.360 --> 00:29:59.720 Somebody said, well, according to some of the 464 00:29:59.800 --> 00:30:04.080 eyewitnesses that have subsequently come forward, there was 465 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:07.200 also dead bodies found at the crash site. 466 00:30:08.800 --> 00:30:10.320 I never talked about it again. 467 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:11.760 I never mentioned it to anybody. 468 00:30:12.560 --> 00:30:14.640 Not by Major Marcel, but others. 469 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.720 And when they were saying dead bodies, they meant aliens. 470 00:30:23.560 --> 00:30:26.480 One theory links the incident to Operation Paperclip, 471 00:30:26.560 --> 00:30:29.360 suggesting the craft was a secret Nazi flying 472 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:34.480 machine brought to the U.S. after World War II, called the Bell. 473 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:40.840 This experimental craft allegedly failed during a test flight. 474 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.120 Grainy hoax footage of alien autopsies and government 475 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:46.920 cover-ups have blurred fact and fiction. 476 00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:50.840 While some believe the crash was extraterrestrial, others 477 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:53.880 maintain it was a failed military experiment. 478 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:58.640 Whatever fell from the skies in Roswell, its 479 00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:04.040 secrets remain tightly guarded, leaving the truth tantalizingly out of reach. 480 00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:16.120 Press release, i.e. the press release put 481 00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:19.080 out by Walter Holt, said that they'd captured 482 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:24.640 a flying saucer was probably a pretty bad error of judgment in the heat of the 483 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.880 moment because they realized that they'd got some 484 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.840 of their own technology and they didn't want 485 00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:31.560 people to know there were experiments going on locally. 486 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:34.440 And they completely over-egged the press release, 487 00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:36.880 which meant that they had to retract it very, very quickly. 488 00:31:37.040 --> 00:31:40.400 But that's the only major mistake I think they made. 489 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.360 You know, if you wanted to hide something 490 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:51.240 that you were testing, then it's the perfect place. 491 00:31:51.320 --> 00:31:53.520 You know, Trinity, the place where the first 492 00:31:53.600 --> 00:31:57.280 atomic bomb was tested, is not that far away in the desert. 493 00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:59.640 And of course, when they exploded the first 494 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.920 atomic bomb, they just told the locals it 495 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.880 was a dynamite shack that had blown up. 496 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.560 You think, well, if any UFO event has 497 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:13.040 the possibility of being an alien spaceship, then 498 00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:15.720 you would put this in that category. 499 00:32:16.080 --> 00:32:19.640 So you cannot prove it conclusively one way or another. 500 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:24.414 But I would say the odds lie in the favor of it looking like that. 501 00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:29.080 I'm truly skeptical about the alien thing. 502 00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:31.680 And there are a number of reasons to be skeptical about it. 503 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:34.640 First of all, let's just do a reality check on this. 504 00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:36.880 There were lots and lots of UFO books 505 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:40.920 published between the early 1950s and about 1980. 506 00:32:41.760 --> 00:32:43.600 And a number of those played up certain 507 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:46.320 cases that were taken to be hugely important 508 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.640 and hugely spectacular, including the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case. 509 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.640 Roswell's virtually non-existent in those books. 510 00:32:54.760 --> 00:32:57.120 There are other crashed saucer cases around then. 511 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:01.094 So I'm skeptical because it just doesn't turn up, 512 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:04.600 that no information appears to leak from it. 513 00:33:05.040 --> 00:33:07.440 However, you have to keep an open mind. 514 00:33:07.520 --> 00:33:09.400 Me personally, I sit on the fence. 515 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.560 I believe something peculiar happened there. 516 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.360 I don't believe the Weather Balloon or Project Mogul, it doesn't fit. 517 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.680 The evidence that the Air Force have provided 518 00:33:18.760 --> 00:33:21.400 doesn't fit, would not surprise me. 519 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.640 However, if it wasn't something that the military 520 00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:26.720 themselves were experimenting with that was quite gruesome, 521 00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:29.080 hence the reason to keep it quiet. 522 00:33:30.040 --> 00:33:34.254 But I don't believe any of the balloon, balloon baloney it's called. 523 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:40.320 When it comes to UFO cover-ups, if 524 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:43.120 you think about it from a military perspective, 525 00:33:44.840 --> 00:33:47.520 if you are testing something that for whatever 526 00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:50.240 reason strays into an area where it comes 527 00:33:50.320 --> 00:33:53.200 in contact with the public, the general public, 528 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:57.280 then the perfect cover-up is to call it a UFO. 529 00:33:57.720 --> 00:33:59.560 Because people would go running around looking for 530 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:03.120 something that simply didn't exist at that time. 531 00:34:03.360 --> 00:34:07.934 And in reality, it was something that the military had been messing with. 532 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:14.320 The authorities in any country, it is their 533 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.120 duty to keep secrets in the first place. 534 00:34:17.240 --> 00:34:18.760 That's part of what they do. 535 00:34:19.080 --> 00:34:22.120 So they can keep things very secret. 536 00:34:23.600 --> 00:34:25.240 Things happen that shouldn't. 537 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:29.920 It would never surprise me that some of the UFO events that we perhaps look at 538 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.200 in different parts of the world are not 539 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:36.694 something that's man-made and has gone, not as planned, sort of thing. 540 00:34:44.720 --> 00:34:47.520 In the world of British ufology, no case 541 00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:51.280 is more enticing than the incident at Rendlesham Forest. 542 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:54.480 In the 40 years since the alleged extraterrestrial 543 00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:57.600 encounter took place, many researchers have attempted to 544 00:34:57.680 --> 00:35:00.520 uncover the truth surrounding Britain's Roswell. 545 00:35:01.080 --> 00:35:03.960 Investigations into the event has given rise to 546 00:35:04.040 --> 00:35:08.240 both sceptical and scientific conclusions, riddled with their 547 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:09.600 own contradictions. 548 00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:12.960 What gave off these strange lights? 549 00:35:13.080 --> 00:35:17.894 Were they man-made, a natural phenomena, or visitors from a distant world? 550 00:35:20.600 --> 00:35:22.640 One of the things about all the witnesses 551 00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:26.840 at Rendlesham, including Colonel Holt, is their credibility. 552 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:31.720 He wasn't sent to England for an easy ride. 553 00:35:32.040 --> 00:35:37.734 He'd been involved with returning prisoners from Vietnam, for example, you know. 554 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.960 So he had a long and illustrious career in the military. 555 00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:43.000 They had all kinds of training, not just 556 00:35:43.080 --> 00:35:46.480 walking around with a dog and a flashlight. 557 00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:51.200 You make up your own mind, was this something that the military were testing? 558 00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:55.414 Orford Ness has a history of military testing. 559 00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:57.014 It's where some of the first radar was 560 00:35:57.080 --> 00:36:01.040 tested, beginning in the Second World War, for example. 561 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:05.614 But would you test something where there's a storage of nuclear weapons? 562 00:36:05.680 --> 00:36:07.640 I'm not so sure you would. 563 00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:10.520 So then you look at the other alternatives. 564 00:36:10.600 --> 00:36:13.040 The sceptics will say that they, over the 565 00:36:13.120 --> 00:36:16.640 three nights, a number of things happened that they all misidentified. 566 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:21.400 There was, you know, the lighthouse, the re-entry of a satellite, or whatever. 567 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:26.134 But the witnesses said, no, I saw this up close and personal. 568 00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:29.520 You know, and I've met the Colonel, listened to what he had to say. 569 00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:33.120 I think it's highly unlikely that he would 570 00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:37.320 misidentify anything, let alone the lighthouse. 571 00:36:38.520 --> 00:36:40.720 He went to speak to the lighthouse keeper. 572 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.800 And he says, the lighthouse has three coloured lights on it. 573 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:51.200 The red one goes out to sea, because red means don't come here. 574 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:54.520 So if you were seeing a red light, you must have been out at sea. 575 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:56.360 He has no idea what it is. 576 00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:57.974 He's gone on the record, he's written an 577 00:36:58.040 --> 00:37:01.560 affidavit, as have many of the other airmen that were involved as well. 578 00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:06.560 One little intriguing thing, as I mentioned, the 579 00:37:06.640 --> 00:37:10.560 first two airmen that went into the woods were Pennyston and Burroughs. 580 00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:16.360 Jim Penniston is the one that said they saw a craft, touched it, et cetera. 581 00:37:18.240 --> 00:37:21.040 His colleague, John Burroughs, who was standing just 582 00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:26.560 a few yards away, looking at the same thing, said, I never saw any craft. 583 00:37:26.640 --> 00:37:27.880 I only saw lights. 584 00:37:32.600 --> 00:37:35.200 Lord Hill Norton, former admiral of the fleet, 585 00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:40.480 said that either these gentlemen saw what they 586 00:37:40.560 --> 00:37:43.894 claimed to have seen, or they were all 587 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.240 under the influence of something illegal. 588 00:37:46.680 --> 00:37:51.374 Which either way, surely that must be of defence significance. 589 00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:58.134 Could these unexplainable lights cutting through the darkness 590 00:37:58.200 --> 00:37:59.840 be more than just phenomena? 591 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.654 Could they be the silent beacons of extraterrestrial 592 00:38:04.720 --> 00:38:07.720 life reaching out across the void? 593 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:12.520 We just might never actually find out. 594 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:17.000 Well, originally, of course, you know, it was 595 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:20.774 fear and superstition that was, you know, that 596 00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:25.734 were accountable ghosts, you know, phantoms this, phantom of that. 597 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:28.760 As we moved into the 20th century, perhaps 598 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.400 they were phantom airships, you know, and as 599 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.494 we moved further into the century, perhaps there 600 00:38:35.560 --> 00:38:37.360 were beings from another world. 601 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.120 But basically, all you're seeing is lights, and 602 00:38:40.200 --> 00:38:44.120 it depends on your own perception as to what you make of them. 603 00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:50.240 Studies have been done at various locations. 604 00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:55.734 As we mentioned previously, the Ministry of Defence 605 00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.520 in the UK did a study on UFOs called the Condine Report. 606 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:07.040 It came to the conclusion that UFOs were unidentified atmospheric phenomena. 607 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:11.280 In other words, strange balls of light, they're common plasmas. 608 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:16.280 So the number of scientists and scientific studies 609 00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:19.974 claim that these could be as yet an 610 00:39:20.040 --> 00:39:23.214 unidentified type of aerial phenomena, natural. 611 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.280 But are those, certainly when you look at 612 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:49.560 Marfa, they think there is a sceptical solution, 613 00:39:49.640 --> 00:39:54.334 if you want to go down that route, that it is, you know, caused by traffic 614 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:59.334 cars in the distance, and these lights are somehow reflected in a certain way. 615 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.720 And that's what people are seeing, even though you can't see the cars. 616 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:04.240 And that could be a possibility. 617 00:40:04.640 --> 00:40:06.840 But when you go to places like Hestaland, 618 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:09.200 these lights are seen down in the valley. 619 00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:12.520 There's only about 200 people live there. 620 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.800 The locations where they've been seen, there are no roads. 621 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:22.240 And in the winter, it gets down to minus 20, and about 10 feet of snow. 622 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.560 I know I was there in the winter, I can guarantee that. 623 00:40:25.720 --> 00:40:27.640 And they have caught them on radar. 624 00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:32.760 They have filmed them, both in movie film, you know, and still photographs. 625 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:35.054 So there is a very real phenomena there. 626 00:40:37.600 --> 00:40:39.560 Perhaps we are not alone. 627 00:40:40.200 --> 00:40:44.120 Perhaps these lights, objects and encounters are glimpses 628 00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:47.774 of a greater cosmic reality, or simply reflections 629 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:51.854 of our curiosity, our fears, and our imagination. 630 00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:58.654 Until science or transparency brings definitive answers, 631 00:40:58.720 --> 00:41:01.934 the question will remain, what's out there? 632 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:07.774 The Air Force then said, well, they will 633 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:12.000 actually crash test dummies, not related to Project Mogul at all. 634 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.454 But we used to have these large wooden 635 00:41:15.520 --> 00:41:19.014 mannequins that we dropped from high altitude, 636 00:41:19.080 --> 00:41:21.280 you know, to test parachutes and so on. 637 00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:23.374 But the only thing that was wrong with 638 00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:26.640 that is they didn't start using those until the 1950s. 639 00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:31.214 And of course, the Roswell incident happened in 1947. 640 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:33.654 So they got the wrong decade as well. 641 00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:45.480 In all, the Air Force had given out four different aspects of what this was. 642 00:41:45.560 --> 00:41:47.000 First of all, it was a flying disc. 643 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:49.174 Then no, it was a weather balloon. 644 00:41:49.240 --> 00:41:52.654 Then, oh sorry, no, it was Project Mogul, which was still weather balloons. 645 00:41:52.720 --> 00:41:55.160 Oh, all the dead bodies were crash test dummies. 646 00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:58.040 Oh, we forgot they were from the 1950s. 647 00:41:58.240 --> 00:42:01.960 So they have four different interpretations of what happened. 648 00:42:02.040 --> 00:42:05.854 That's why, one of the many reasons why 649 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.374 people are suspicious of the official version. 650 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.720 The various mysterious lights will probably turn out 651 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:18.160 to be some kind of atmospheric phenomenon that 652 00:42:18.240 --> 00:42:25.454 as yet is understood by mainstream science, nothing to do with ETs at all. 653 00:42:27.640 --> 00:42:28.480 Unknown. 654 00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:30.734 The official position is unknown. 655 00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:36.014 Could these unexplainable lights cutting through the darkness 656 00:42:36.080 --> 00:42:37.520 be more than just phenomena? 657 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:41.054 Could they be the silent beacons of extraterrestrial 658 00:42:41.120 --> 00:42:43.560 life reaching out across the void? 659 00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:46.360 We just might never actually find out.