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NARRATOR:
Mysterious orbs of light...

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BILL BIRNES:
Reagan says, "I just saw a UFO."

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He's not just being crazy.

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He knows exactly what it is.

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NARRATOR:
...strange visions...

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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
George Washington sees
this glowing,

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beautiful creature who describes

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the future history
of the United States.

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NARRATOR:
...and glowing humanoid figures,

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all reported by presidents
of the United States.

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NICK POPE:
We have an extraordinary
series of stories.

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President after president
after president

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being associated
with a sighting.

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NARRATOR:
For decades,

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the White House has denied

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having any knowledge
of alien craft visiting Earth.

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JOHN PODESTA:
Even discussing UFOs tends

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to be viewed as a career‐ender.

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NARRATOR:
But is it possible
that extraterrestrials

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have been monitoring

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and even influencing
America's presidents?

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LAURA EISENHOWER:
It's really hard for people to
wrap their heads around the fact

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that there was
all this E.T. contact going on.

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DENNIS KUCINICH:
There's a line,
"You shall know the truth,

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and the truth
shall set you free."

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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

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in the universe.

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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

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It demands we
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we have ever been taught.

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The evidence is all around us.

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The future is
right before our eyes.

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We are not alone.

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We have never been alone.

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In a wide‐ranging interview,

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Fox News commentator
Tucker Carlson asks

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President Donald Trump
his thoughts about UFOs.

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You gave an interview
the other day

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in which you said
you've been briefed

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on unidentified flying objects.

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Are they... are they real?

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Personally, I tend to doubt it.

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We have had people saying
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I don't assume
it's correct, but,

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you know,
I have an open mind, Tucker.

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NARRATOR:
To UFO experts,

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the president's response
raises a key question.

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If U.S. intelligence officials

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have secret knowledge
of alien visitations,

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are American presidents
informed or kept in the dark?

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In August 2019,

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former British Ministry
of Defense UFO investigator

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Nick Pope posed this question
to Tucker Carlson.

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Do you think he knows
more than he's letting on?

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Or do you think,
as some people say,

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even the president doesn't know?

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My impression was

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that the president does
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every president has
become mum on the subject.

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And what it tells you is

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they likely know something

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that they've decided
to keep from the public.

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Look, I don't know
what they know.

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And so perhaps they
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to lie to the public about it,

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but... I doubt it.

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as the 2020 election year
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several of Donald Trump's
presidential challengers

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are asked by New Hampshire
based reporter Daymond Steer

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of The <i>Conway Daily Sun</i>

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about where he or she stands
on the issue of UFOs

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and government disclosure.

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It's very unlikely that
we're alone in the universe.

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I think one of the things
a president could do

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is to look into what's there,

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uh, in terms of what's the...
what does the science say,

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what does our military say.

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Of course,
we have to explore that

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and look at that,
if it is true.

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NARRATOR:
Many people would be
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that 36% of all U.S. presidents

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have had encounters
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or unexplained UFO phenomena.

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This, according to a recent poll,

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is a full 20 points higher

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than the number of similar
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by average Americans.

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We have an extraordinary
series of stories.

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President after president
after president

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either seeing a UFO,

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commenting on a UFO,

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being associated
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MARTIN MORGAN:
It's not something
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in American culture briefly.

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We can date it back to 1800.

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We can date it
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This is not a new phenomenon.

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Presidents throughout history
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during almost the entire history
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NARRATOR:
Could aliens be trying
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by influencing its presidents?

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Perhaps the answer can be found

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by examining the very first
presidential encounter

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on record.

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Amid freezing conditions,

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epidemic disease

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and shortages of food,
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General George Washington's
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faces possible destruction.

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George Washington was
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The Continental Army
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of the national capital
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to a winter encampment
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to push the British out
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But that optimism
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in December 1777
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NARRATOR:
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an aide to General Washington
revealed what happened next.

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BIRNES:
Washington went out into the
woods at Valley Forge to pray.

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And he saw this image

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of this spirit garbed in white

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that assured him,
"You will win this war."

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And the spirit laid out
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the history of what would be
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Washington was‐was invigorated.

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He was inspired.

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And he realized
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for the United States to exist.

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But he first had to defeat
the British, which he did.

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NARRATOR:
Could George Washington
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an otherworldly visitation
at Valley Forge?

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If so, he isn't
the only Founding Father

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associated with an alien encounter.

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In 1801,

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Thomas Jefferson filed

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one of the country's first
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after astronomer
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about an unexplained
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at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Jefferson wrote of
a fast‐moving, luminous object

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about 70 to 80 feet long

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that flew by at about 200
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After it disappeared
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the witnesses heard a tremendous
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they found a crash site

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where everything had
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wrote up an official report

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of a UFO sighting that
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He wrote it up for the American
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where someone who
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made an official UFO report.

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NARRATOR:
The American Philosophical Society

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was founded
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who, like Thomas Jefferson,

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openly expressed his belief

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in the existence of intelligent
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MORGAN:
The Founding Fathers' worldview

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accommodated the idea that there
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And that was principled
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that you cannot limit
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just to the world
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They literally had a vision

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of not just the world
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but the world beyond it.

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And that‐that world
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um, was populated
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NARRATOR:
Could the Founding Fathers
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of an otherworldly presence
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the success of
the American experiment?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

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and suggest that so, too,
was the man who took office

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at another crucial moment
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Abraham Lincoln.

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just hours before he
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President Lincoln made
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to General Ulysses S. Grant.

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WILLIAM HENRY:
Lincoln met with Grant,

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who was awaiting news
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about a battle
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and Lincoln assured
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that news would come
and it would be positive.

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And Lincoln told him that, on
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Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run...

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he had the same dream.

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He was in some kind
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that he was sailing
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and that this, in fact,
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that this would be a positive
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and lead to the doom
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at these pivotal turning
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the president is shown
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will ultimately triumph.

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It's a sort of galactic
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NARRATOR:
For many,

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UFO sightings and
strange encounters reported

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by U.S. presidents may seem

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like little more
than frivolous trivia.

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But could such events indicate

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that there is an unseen hand

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guiding the course
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And if so,
where is it leading us?

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At the estate of
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the 26th president
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a giant orb of light is
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hovering in the sky
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there was
a spectacular UFO sighting

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over Sagamore Hill,

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one of the residences
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Now, Roosevelt, at the time,

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was working on
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and in this speech, he would
set out a strategic vision

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for the United States
to develop a truly modern navy

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that would propel
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into the position
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Roosevelt wanted
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It could be said that
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realizing that vision
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that American intervention
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might not have been
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BIRNES:
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were the UFOs, were the strange
lights over Sagamore Hill,

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at the same time
Theodore Roosevelt was coming up

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with this vision of a world
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are they somehow linked?

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NARRATOR: Researchers find
this incident compelling,

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not only because it is connected
with a U.S. president

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at a critical moment in history,
but also because reports

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of UFO sightings
were incredibly rare

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at the beginning
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After World War II, however,
this was no longer the case.

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And it happened under the watch

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of the country's 33rd president,

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Harry S. Truman.

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LARRY HOLCOMBE:
The Truman Administration

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was really the golden years

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of flying saucers,
as they were known then.

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You had Kenneth Arnold's sighting.

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You had Roswell.

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But then the great incident was

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the great Washington
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where, in two weekends
in July 1952,

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Washington D.C. was overrun

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with strange objects
that were tracked

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by the radar at National Airport

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and radar at Andrews Air Force Base.

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This is David Brinkley
in the radar room

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at Washington National Airport.

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On these radar screens
last Saturday,

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they saw something
strange and unusual

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and, at the moment,
unexplainable.

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It was not an airplane.
It was not a cloud.

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Nobody knows what it was.

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HOLCOMBE: The second weekend,
jets were scrambled...

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...and one pilot called
and said,

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"What should I do?"
Meaning, should I fire on them?

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And the strange objects

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all of a sudden backed off
and disappeared.

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NARRATOR: When President Truman
was questioned

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about UFO incidents, like
the Washington D.C. sightings,

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he remarkably did not deny
the possibility of flying saucers.

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Oh, yes, we discussed it
at every conference

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that we had with the military,
and they never had been...

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never were able to make me
a concrete report on...

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There's always things like that
going on, uh, flying saucers.

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NARRATOR:
Many researchers point out

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that it was at
this point in history...

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the dawn of the Cold War...
that Truman established a policy

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of government secrecy
that has come to be known

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as the National Security State.

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MORGAN: President Truman
really sends us down the path

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to the modern security state,

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with the National
Security Act of 1947.

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It created
the National Security Council,

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and it created
the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Truman is responding to what
is now the oncoming Cold War,

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this new conflict that will
dominate our global politics

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for the next five decades.

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NARRATOR:
Whatever Truman's motivation

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for drastically increasing
government secrecy,

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the topic of UFOs
was caught in the web.

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UFOs were something
that people were experiencing,

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and right at the moment when
it appears that that activity

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is kind of reaching a head,
suddenly we have the creation

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of the modern
National Security State.

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Truman clamps down on the
open discussion of such things.

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STEVEN BASSETT: That's
a critical moment in history.

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Truman made a decision
that was fateful,

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and had he gone a different way,

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it would have changed
the entire 20th century.

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When we look at the relationship
between presidents and UFOs,

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we can split this
into two categories.

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The historic sightings
and encounters.

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Washington, Lincoln,
Teddy Roosevelt.

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We can say that there's almost
a benign element here.

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It's almost as if
the United States

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is being guided and helped.

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But then the development
of atomic weapons seemed to be

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the ultimate game changer.

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NARRATOR:
Harry Truman's successor,

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower,

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is on a golfing vacation

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when he fails to show up
for a scheduled public dinner.

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The press corps
is given no explanation

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until the president finally
reappears the next day,

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at which time
his staff announces

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that he had been at
an emergency dentist appointment

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for a chipped tooth.

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But curiously, Eisenhower's
medical and dental records

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contain no reference
to this dentist visit.

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Eisenhower goes to Palm Springs,

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and he actually disappears.

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There's no doubt about this
from the presidential records.

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BIRNES:
It's really an astounding story.

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He's secreted out
to this Air Force base

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where he meets with aliens.

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And he and the aliens
strike up a treaty.

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And here's the treaty:

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"You can stay in our skies,
surveil us.

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"You can study us.

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"In return,

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"we want all of your technology,

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and we agree
not to disclose your existence."

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Why?

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Because this is
after the 1952 invasion

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of the UFOs over Washington,

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so there's an urgency
to Eisenhower

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striking a treaty with them.

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NARRATOR:
Numerous whistleblowers
later came forward

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claiming that Eisenhower met
with extraterrestrial beings

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not just once but three times.

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And many who have
researched these events,

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including Eisenhower's
own great‐granddaughter,

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are convinced
a treaty was actually signed.

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I just feel like I was
just born into this family

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to be the one willing to tackle
it, willing to give it a voice,

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willing to...
kind of disseminate it.

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And I know it's really hard
for people to wrap their heads

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around the fact that, during
Eisenhower's administration,

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there was all
this contact going on.

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And it's gotten to the point

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where there's so much
information about it

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that it‐it really
can't be denied.

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NARRATOR:
Is it possible

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that, after World War II

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and humankind's development
of atomic weapons,

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alien visitors
communicated directly

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with officials within
the United States government,

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perhaps even Presidents Harry
Truman and Dwight Eisenhower?

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Ufologists say yes

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and suggest further evidence
of communication

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between extraterrestrials
and the White House

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can be found by examining
a strange incident

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that involved
President Richard Nixon

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and an alien body.

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37th President of
the United States Richard Nixon

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is entering
his fifth year in office,

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mired in a seemingly never‐ending

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military conflict
in Southeast Asia.

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MORGAN:
Richard Nixon was under a great
deal of pressure by 1973.

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He was heralded into office
with the recognition

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that he would be our
savior from Vietnam.

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He gets into office basically
promising the American people,

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"I'm gonna get you out of that."

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But I do promise action,

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a new policy for peace abroad,

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a new policy for
peace and progress

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and justice at home.

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MORGAN:
And then what does he do
when he gets into office?

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He expands
the military mission in Vietnam.

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NARRATOR:
To escape the daily rigors
of his tumultuous presidency,

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Nixon schedules a golf outing
with his friend Jackie Gleason,

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the famous actor and
comedian who starred

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in the 1950s hit TV series
<i>The Honeymooners.</i>

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Nixon and‐and Jackie Gleason...

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they were very good friends

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and frequently played
golf together,

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in Florida, usually.

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And Nixon knew that
Jackie Gleason was known to be

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a very, uh, big UFO buff.

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He had probably one
of the largest libraries

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on the subject in
the world at that time.

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EISENHOWER:
His house was designed
to look like a‐a UFO

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and same with his guesthouse.

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He was always asking,
you know, Nixon questions,

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and Nixon, you know,
disclosed a lot to him.

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NARRATOR:
According to an article written
by Beverly Gleason,

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who was Jackie Gleason's
wife at the time,

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the actor's golf outing
with the president

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led to an extraordinary experience.

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Hours after Gleason
returned home,

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a limousine arrived unannounced.

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Who's in the car?

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00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:06,622
It's President Richard Nixon.

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And, by the way,
there's no Secret Service.

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He tells Gleason to climb in.

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"This is your dream."

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They drive
to an Air Force base in Florida.

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And what does
Nixon show Gleason?

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He shows him alien artifacts,

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pieces of a UFO

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and a dead alien
in cold storage.

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When he got home,
he told his wife all about it...

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what he had seen

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and how Nixon
had taken him there.

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And he told other people.

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I actually got the interview
with Beverly Gleason.

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We actually interviewed her.

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She stayed to the story.

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Jackie was very shaken up when
he came home after this thing.

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And he was very angry
when she made public

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the fact that he
had seen these bodies.

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BASSETT:
This is extremely important,

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because it indicates
that, almost certainly,

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Nixon was fully briefed
on the E.T. issue.

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00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:07,975
And if the president wants
to go see an E.T. body,

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by God,
he's gonna get to see one.

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And if he's got Jackie Gleason
with him, fine.

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NARRATOR:
When his ex‐wife's story
was published in 1983,

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67‐year‐old Gleason
remained silent about it.

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So, too, did Nixon.

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Is it possible that
the incredible story is true?

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UFO historians suggest

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00:21:31,081 --> 00:21:33,709
that Nixon's actions
led to a clampdown

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on the information shared
with future presidents

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and what they were
allowed to say publicly.

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00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:53,270
Attendees
of a local Lions Club meeting

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00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:57,441
spot a mysterious object
hovering in the night sky.

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Among the witnesses

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is future President of
the United States Jimmy Carter.

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HOLCOMBE:
At the time,

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Jimmy Carter was standing
outside with a group of men,

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and they saw a great orb,

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00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:13,833
uh, in the sky.

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00:22:13,833 --> 00:22:16,669
Something very unusual
that changed color

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00:22:16,669 --> 00:22:20,464
from orange to a bluish
color and back again

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and‐and grew in size.

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NARRATOR:
Nearly four years later,

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Carter remained so intrigued
by what he witnessed

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that he filed an official report

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00:22:31,642 --> 00:22:35,062
with the National Investigation
Committee on Aerial Phenomena,

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or NICAP.

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CAMERON:
Jimmy Carter,

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when he was running
for president,

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he had made the promise,
"If I become president,

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I will release all the files."

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POPE:
What happened?

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He was elected president

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and then he walked it
back and he said,

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"Well, maybe there are
some UFO sightings that have

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"national security implications,

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and perhaps not everything
can be released."

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BASSETT:
The question is,

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what role have presidents played

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in maintaining
this truth embargo,

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authorizing it and so forth?

469
00:23:09,513 --> 00:23:11,849
Well, that's somewhat dependent

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upon whether they
were briefed or not.

471
00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:16,687
Truman was briefed on everything
that happened at Roswell

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and anything else E.T.‐related.

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00:23:19,273 --> 00:23:22,610
Eisenhower absolutely would
have been briefed in full.

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00:23:22,610 --> 00:23:24,111
Kennedy, maybe not.

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00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:26,155
Nixon, we think, was briefed.

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00:23:26,155 --> 00:23:29,116
Carter, stonewalled
and so forth.

477
00:23:29,116 --> 00:23:30,659
One of the stories
that's been floating

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00:23:30,659 --> 00:23:33,913
around the UFO community
is that the Democrats don't get

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00:23:33,913 --> 00:23:36,749
a proper briefing because
they don't have the connection

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00:23:36,749 --> 00:23:38,459
to the military
the way the Republicans...

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The Republicans know more.

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So, the story has always been

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00:23:41,045 --> 00:23:42,630
that Jimmy Carter
didn't get told anything.

484
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:44,298
Bill Clinton
didn't get told anything.

485
00:23:44,298 --> 00:23:48,802
But Ford, Reagan and Bush
all knew what was going on.

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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
there is a party bias

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when it comes to what
an incoming president is told

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about the UFO phenomenon?

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00:23:58,854 --> 00:24:01,857
Or could Jimmy Carter
have been denied access

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00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:03,651
to government UFO files

491
00:24:03,651 --> 00:24:06,028
because he had promised
to release them to the public

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00:24:06,028 --> 00:24:08,280
during his campaign?

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00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,200
Perhaps further
clues can be found

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00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,495
by examining what happened
to a presidential candidate

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00:24:14,495 --> 00:24:17,873
after he admitted
to his own UFO sighting.

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00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:21,251
TIM RUSSERT:
Did you see a UFO?

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00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:35,683
During the Democratic primary
debate at Drexel University,

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00:24:35,683 --> 00:24:37,935
moderator Tim RUSSERT turns

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00:24:37,935 --> 00:24:41,438
and addresses presidential
candidate Dennis KUCINICH.

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RUSSERT:
Congressman KUCINICH,
a serious question.

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00:24:43,399 --> 00:24:46,527
Shirley MacLaine
writes in her new book

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00:24:46,527 --> 00:24:48,904
that you sighted a UFO

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00:24:48,904 --> 00:24:51,198
‐over her home
in Washington State,

504
00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:54,410
that you found
the encounter extremely moving,

505
00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,704
that it was a triangular craft.

506
00:24:56,704 --> 00:24:59,748
Now, did you see a UFO?

507
00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:01,542
Uh, I‐I did.

508
00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:03,043
‐And, uh, the rest
of the account...

509
00:25:03,043 --> 00:25:04,503
Hold... I‐I didn't... I...

510
00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:06,505
It was an unidentified
flying object, okay?

511
00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:08,257
It's like... It's unidentified.

512
00:25:08,257 --> 00:25:09,842
I saw something. Now...

513
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:11,885
And, also, you have
to keep in mind that more...

514
00:25:11,885 --> 00:25:14,263
that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO

515
00:25:14,263 --> 00:25:17,016
and also that more
people in this country,

516
00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:19,601
uh, uh, have seen UFOs

517
00:25:19,601 --> 00:25:22,438
than I think approve
of George Bush's presidency.

518
00:25:22,438 --> 00:25:25,691
NARRATOR:
The debate moment
made national headlines.

519
00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:28,694
Many political commentators
speculated

520
00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:31,905
that this admission
damaged his campaign.

521
00:25:31,905 --> 00:25:33,907
PODESTA:
I think, uh,
for most people, it's been

522
00:25:33,907 --> 00:25:38,412
the‐the notion that you
are even discussing UFOs

523
00:25:38,412 --> 00:25:40,080
tends to be viewed
as a career‐ender.

524
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,875
You know, people think you're
a little bit wacky if you're...

525
00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:46,295
if you're, uh,
taking the phenomena seriously.

526
00:25:46,295 --> 00:25:50,883
NARRATOR:
But just what did
Dennis KUCINICH experience?

527
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,064
Former British
Ministry of Defense

528
00:26:05,064 --> 00:26:07,441
UFO investigator Nick Pope

529
00:26:07,441 --> 00:26:10,402
has arranged to meet with
Dennis KUCINICH at the location

530
00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:12,821
of his 1982 UFO encounter,

531
00:26:12,821 --> 00:26:14,323
the former home

532
00:26:14,323 --> 00:26:18,452
of Academy Award‐winning
actress Shirley MacLaine.

533
00:26:18,452 --> 00:26:20,746
The home,
which has since been sold,

534
00:26:20,746 --> 00:26:23,082
overlooks Mount Rainier,

535
00:26:23,082 --> 00:26:27,044
the site of the infamous Kenneth
Arnold flying saucer incident

536
00:26:27,044 --> 00:26:30,172
that ignited the UFO craze
in 1947.

537
00:26:30,172 --> 00:26:32,966
‐Hey there! Welcome!
‐Hi.
‐Hi.

538
00:26:32,966 --> 00:26:35,636
NARRATOR:
The current owner agreed
to allow Nick and Dennis

539
00:26:35,636 --> 00:26:37,638
to take a look around.

540
00:26:37,638 --> 00:26:39,640
‐Come on in.
‐Go ahead.
‐Thank you.

541
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,016
Wow.

542
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:43,769
‐Yeah, really.

543
00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:44,812
What a fabulous view.

544
00:26:44,812 --> 00:26:47,523
Oh, look,
there's nothing like this.

545
00:26:47,523 --> 00:26:51,443
This is, of course, the location
where you had your UFO sighting.

546
00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,153
Can you tell me about it?

547
00:26:53,153 --> 00:26:54,988
Well, uh, Nick, I was seated

548
00:26:54,988 --> 00:26:58,617
at a dinner table with
myself and two friends.

549
00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:01,703
And I noticed a light
in the distance.

550
00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:03,163
Came from the hill
directly over the house.

551
00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:05,249
‐Come on. Let me show you, okay?
‐Okay.

552
00:27:07,209 --> 00:27:09,586
‐Wow. Fabulous.
‐So, I was standing out here.

553
00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:11,088
The‐the scope was here.

554
00:27:11,088 --> 00:27:13,590
I‐I brought it up here...

555
00:27:15,092 --> 00:27:18,345
...so that I could get
a look at the light.

556
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:20,973
And when I looked at it, I saw
it wasn't just, uh, one light.

557
00:27:20,973 --> 00:27:23,308
It was a series of lights,
like a grid,

558
00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:25,519
one stacked on another.

559
00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:26,979
I went back and I looked

560
00:27:26,979 --> 00:27:29,857
and then I saw something
that was extraordinary.

561
00:27:29,857 --> 00:27:32,693
I‐I said the lights were separating.

562
00:27:32,693 --> 00:27:34,319
They were definitely
moving in this direction.

563
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:36,530
So, at that point,
I came right to the edge here,

564
00:27:36,530 --> 00:27:39,992
and I looked out into
the hills to watch

565
00:27:39,992 --> 00:27:43,495
what proved to be three crafts
moving in this direction.

566
00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:45,163
Just to be clear,

567
00:27:45,163 --> 00:27:46,540
first seen over there

568
00:27:46,540 --> 00:27:49,501
‐to directly over the house.
‐Right.

569
00:27:49,501 --> 00:27:52,004
Right in the hills
in the distance

570
00:27:52,004 --> 00:27:54,756
and then in a straight line.

571
00:27:54,756 --> 00:27:59,094
That straight line would
just go right overhead here

572
00:27:59,094 --> 00:28:02,514
and then above
the house and then...

573
00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:06,351
‐and then quickly accelerating
out of sight.
‐Right. And then whoosh.

574
00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:08,186
Just like that, gone.

575
00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:10,188
‐And that was the last
you saw of them?
‐Oh, yeah.

576
00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:13,025
NARRATOR:
The next day,

577
00:28:13,025 --> 00:28:16,570
KUCINICH described the
experience to Shirley MacLaine.

578
00:28:16,570 --> 00:28:21,575
He would say nothing more
about it for 26 years.

579
00:28:21,575 --> 00:28:25,662
And then, when running for the
Democratic nomination in 2008,

580
00:28:25,662 --> 00:28:29,625
his private UFO sighting
would become a public event,

581
00:28:29,625 --> 00:28:33,670
affecting presidential politics
in a most unexpected way.

582
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:37,174
When the question was asked,

583
00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:41,136
I‐I think there was mention of,
you know, feeling almost a...

584
00:28:41,136 --> 00:28:43,096
an emotional connection,

585
00:28:43,096 --> 00:28:44,681
that it spoke to you.

586
00:28:44,681 --> 00:28:47,351
I mean, not in a literal
sense but feelings.

587
00:28:47,351 --> 00:28:50,103
I don't know that I ever
communicated that to anyone.

588
00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:51,271
But I will tell you this,

589
00:28:51,271 --> 00:28:53,690
that it‐it was extraordinary.

590
00:28:53,690 --> 00:28:54,775
It was exciting.

591
00:28:54,775 --> 00:28:56,652
How could it not be?

592
00:28:56,652 --> 00:28:58,904
I mean, anybody who
would see anything like that

593
00:28:58,904 --> 00:29:00,280
would have to be excited.

594
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,406
And was I?

595
00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:02,741
Uh, yeah.

596
00:29:04,409 --> 00:29:06,244
NARRATOR:
After the debate,

597
00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:08,830
commentators like
Chris Matthews questioned

598
00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:12,250
whether Kucinich's admission
had, in effect, disqualified him

599
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:14,086
from the presidential race.

600
00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:17,923
But he was surprised by the
reaction of another candidate,

601
00:29:17,923 --> 00:29:20,926
New Mexico Governor
Bill Richardson.

602
00:29:20,926 --> 00:29:23,470
Is that disqualifying
for a presidential candidate,

603
00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:25,847
‐to say you've seen UFOs?

604
00:29:25,847 --> 00:29:27,641
You know, I've never seen one.

605
00:29:27,641 --> 00:29:31,103
Uh, you know, Roswell, New
Mexico, is the hotbed of UFOs,

606
00:29:31,103 --> 00:29:34,064
‐and I promote Roswell
as a tourism issue.
‐I know.

607
00:29:34,064 --> 00:29:37,275
The federal government has not
come clean on all that issue,

608
00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:39,569
and it should.
But, no, I've never seen one.

609
00:29:39,569 --> 00:29:41,655
‐It's an incredible...
‐Wait a minute! Stop the music!

610
00:29:41,655 --> 00:29:43,407
‐Stop the music, Governor.

611
00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:46,243
Did you say the United States
government is covering up

612
00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,413
a history of the UFO sighting
in your state?

613
00:29:49,413 --> 00:29:52,040
‐You said the government
hasn't cleared this up yet.
‐Well, the answer there is...

614
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,876
‐What are they hiding,
that you say about a UFO?
‐No, they haven't.

615
00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:57,713
Well, they‐they don't produce
documents, Chris.

616
00:29:57,713 --> 00:29:59,506
They should just get it all out.

617
00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,758
‐And there's a known history
about this.
‐What...

618
00:30:01,758 --> 00:30:03,385
‐What is the conspir... What is
your belief that they're hiding?
‐I think if they came clean,

619
00:30:03,385 --> 00:30:05,679
if they released all documents...

620
00:30:05,679 --> 00:30:07,764
Look, I don't believe
there are UFOs,

621
00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:09,683
but the government
has not handled this well

622
00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:11,768
over the years.
That's a historical fact.

623
00:30:11,768 --> 00:30:14,896
NARRATOR:
Three months after
Kucinich's admission,

624
00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:17,357
he withdrew from
the Democratic race,

625
00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:21,862
but he remains committed
to a policy of disclosure.

626
00:30:21,862 --> 00:30:26,324
KUCINICH:
Information ought to be
open for people to see

627
00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:28,827
so we know what our
government's actually about.

628
00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:31,246
Let the people know.
Let the people know

629
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:35,459
what's going on with
unexplained aerial phenomenon.

630
00:30:35,459 --> 00:30:38,128
NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrials
have been monitoring

631
00:30:38,128 --> 00:30:41,048
and perhaps guiding
the course of the United States

632
00:30:41,048 --> 00:30:43,675
since the time of
George Washington,

633
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,261
where is it all leading?

634
00:30:46,261 --> 00:30:49,848
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the president

635
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:52,434
who was most vocal
when it came to speculating

636
00:30:52,434 --> 00:30:54,728
about an alien invasion,

637
00:30:54,728 --> 00:30:57,189
Ronald Reagan.

638
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:11,203
California Governor
Ronald Reagan,

639
00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:13,080
along with his security detail,

640
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,333
boards a Cessna aircraft bound
for a fundraising event

641
00:31:16,333 --> 00:31:17,918
in Bakersfield.

642
00:31:17,918 --> 00:31:22,214
As the aircraft reaches
an altitude of 35,000 feet,

643
00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:25,550
Governor Reagan is startled
by a mysterious orb of light,

644
00:31:25,550 --> 00:31:28,887
which appears to be flying
alongside his plane.

645
00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:32,224
Ronald Reagan was
flying in an airplane

646
00:31:32,224 --> 00:31:36,019
and had an encounter with
an unidentified flying object.

647
00:31:38,063 --> 00:31:39,856
He asked the pilot to follow it.

648
00:31:39,856 --> 00:31:42,692
They followed it
for a period of time.

649
00:31:42,692 --> 00:31:46,071
Reagan is enthusiastic
about this.

650
00:31:46,071 --> 00:31:47,364
When he lands,

651
00:31:47,364 --> 00:31:50,158
he says, "I just saw a UFO."

652
00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:52,494
He's not just being crazy.

653
00:31:52,494 --> 00:31:55,372
He saw the UFO.

654
00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:57,415
He knows exactly what it is.

655
00:31:57,415 --> 00:32:00,252
NARRATOR:
The pilot that corroborated
Reagan's sighting

656
00:32:00,252 --> 00:32:02,796
was Air Force Colonel
Bill Paynter,

657
00:32:02,796 --> 00:32:05,549
who claimed that the UFO
appeared to elongate

658
00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:08,218
and then rapidly
shoot up into the sky.

659
00:32:08,218 --> 00:32:10,262
HOLCOMBE:
Some years later,

660
00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:12,013
the pilot was asked,

661
00:32:12,013 --> 00:32:16,560
did he really think
that Reagan believed in UFOs?

662
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,021
And the pilot said,
"After what we saw

663
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:22,399
"in the sky that night,

664
00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:25,193
how could anybody
<i>not</i> believe in them?"

665
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:28,113
NARRATOR:
According to historians,

666
00:32:28,113 --> 00:32:29,614
it was this incident

667
00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:31,908
that sparked Ronald Reagan's
lifelong interest

668
00:32:31,908 --> 00:32:34,119
and belief in UFOs.

669
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:36,246
But unlike other politicians

670
00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:38,290
who suffered ridicule
for such beliefs,

671
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:41,793
Reagan did not,
and for a very simple reason.

672
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:45,630
His closest aides kept him
from speaking publicly

673
00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:47,424
about his UFO experience

674
00:32:47,424 --> 00:32:50,760
and his belief
in extraterrestrials.

675
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,680
HOLCOMBE:
The people that worked
for him really tried

676
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,350
to keep Reagan under control,
so to speak,

677
00:32:57,350 --> 00:32:59,978
because they knew that
he was very interested

678
00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:03,273
in this subject and wanted
to talk about it publicly.

679
00:33:03,273 --> 00:33:08,486
So they had to kind of keep
the lid on it, if you will.

680
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:10,572
NARRATOR:
But did the UFO sighting

681
00:33:10,572 --> 00:33:12,991
influence
Ronald Reagan's policies

682
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:16,745
after he became the 40th
president of the United States?

683
00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:20,332
And, if so,
could this have also been due

684
00:33:20,332 --> 00:33:22,334
to the fact that, once elected,

685
00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:24,461
he was given even
more direct knowledge

686
00:33:24,461 --> 00:33:27,464
of an extraterrestrial
presence here on Earth?

687
00:33:27,464 --> 00:33:31,509
Ancient astronaut theorists
say "yes," and for proof,

688
00:33:31,509 --> 00:33:37,224
they point to a mysterious
document that surfaced in 2005.

689
00:33:37,224 --> 00:33:39,392
I became exposed

690
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:42,020
to a very,
very important document

691
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:47,984
that March 6 to 8, 1981,

692
00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:50,904
then brand‐new
President Ronald Reagan

693
00:33:50,904 --> 00:33:54,032
was taken by his new CIA director,

694
00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,992
William Casey, to Camp David.

695
00:33:55,992 --> 00:34:01,206
With them were analysts
from the CIA, the NSA, DIA.

696
00:34:01,206 --> 00:34:05,627
And this briefing boiled
down to an introduction

697
00:34:05,627 --> 00:34:09,214
to Ronald Reagan
of extraterrestrial species

698
00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:12,217
that William Casey was saying,
"Sir, you need to understand

699
00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:16,554
that we are dealing
with others on this planet."

700
00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:19,224
NARRATOR:
Curiously,

701
00:34:19,224 --> 00:34:20,976
throughout his presidency,

702
00:34:20,976 --> 00:34:23,353
Ronald Reagan brought up
the subject of what would happen

703
00:34:23,353 --> 00:34:25,563
in the case of an alien invasion

704
00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:29,234
most famously in 1987,
when addressing

705
00:34:29,234 --> 00:34:32,362
the United Nations
General Assembly in New York.

706
00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:35,907
Perhaps we need some
outside universal threat

707
00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:39,244
to make us recognize
this common bound.

708
00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:40,829
I occasionally think,

709
00:34:40,829 --> 00:34:46,251
how quickly our differences
worldwide would vanish

710
00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:50,255
if we were facing an alien
threat from outside this world.

711
00:34:50,255 --> 00:34:53,258
And yet, I ask you,

712
00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:56,511
is not an alien force
already among us?

713
00:34:58,138 --> 00:34:59,889
TSOUKALOS:
Reagan was the first one

714
00:34:59,889 --> 00:35:01,766
who said publicly,

715
00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:05,103
"It just needs one
extraterrestrial threat,

716
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:08,940
and that would bring
together the entire planet."

717
00:35:08,940 --> 00:35:11,109
So, you have to ask
yourself the question,

718
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:13,445
"Did he know something?"

719
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:15,822
POPE:
Both in discussions

720
00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:20,410
with the Soviet premier,
Mikhail Gorbachev,

721
00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:24,414
Reagan alluded
to an alien presence.

722
00:35:24,414 --> 00:35:26,791
And Gorbachev says

723
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:30,920
he was quite taken aback
when Reagan said this to him

724
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,381
at the critically‐important
point of

725
00:35:33,381 --> 00:35:35,925
pivotal arms negotiations.

726
00:35:35,925 --> 00:35:38,470
And‐and suddenly,
Ronald Reagan starts talking

727
00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:40,388
about extraterrestrials.

728
00:35:40,388 --> 00:35:43,141
NARRATOR:
Years later, during a symposium

729
00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:46,811
in New York, President Gorbachev
recounted the incident.

730
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:14,589
NARRATOR:
Is it possible

731
00:36:14,589 --> 00:36:16,591
that Ronald Reagan
knew the truth

732
00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:19,177
about extraterrestrial
activity on Earth,

733
00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:21,388
and then kept the facts a secret

734
00:36:21,388 --> 00:36:24,224
for fear of creating
a global panic?

735
00:36:24,224 --> 00:36:27,102
As far as many researchers
are concerned,

736
00:36:27,102 --> 00:36:29,562
further evidence that
President Reagan had knowledge

737
00:36:29,562 --> 00:36:32,691
of an alien presence
can be found

738
00:36:32,691 --> 00:36:34,651
by examining one of
his most high‐profile

739
00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:38,530
and controversial initiatives...
Star Wars.

740
00:36:44,119 --> 00:36:47,747
NARRATOR:
On March 23, 1983,

741
00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:49,749
U.S. President Ronald Reagan

742
00:36:49,749 --> 00:36:52,419
launches the Strategic
Defense Initiative.

743
00:36:52,419 --> 00:36:55,672
Nicknamed "Star Wars,"
its stated purpose is

744
00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:57,424
to deter a Soviet attack

745
00:36:57,424 --> 00:37:00,135
by basing defensive
weapons in outer space.

746
00:37:00,135 --> 00:37:03,722
I have approved a research
program to find, if we can,

747
00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:07,016
a security shield that will
destroy nuclear missiles

748
00:37:07,016 --> 00:37:08,852
before they reach their target.

749
00:37:08,852 --> 00:37:10,812
MORGAN:
Isn't it interesting

750
00:37:10,812 --> 00:37:13,606
that this man who had
this encounter in 1974

751
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:16,568
is the man who then,
less than a decade later,

752
00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:18,903
authorizes the Strategic
Defense Initiative,

753
00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:21,030
also known as "Star Wars"?

754
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:23,241
If you will pardon
my stealing a film line,

755
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:25,410
"The force is with us."

756
00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:27,412
NARRATOR:
But was defending
the United States

757
00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:29,456
against Soviet
nuclear aggression

758
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:32,417
Ronald Reagan's only motivation?

759
00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:36,045
Some believe that
the real purpose

760
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:41,092
of the Star Wars campaign
was to fight extraterrestrials.

761
00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:44,846
It's all about arming
planet Earth so that

762
00:37:44,846 --> 00:37:47,599
if the extraterrestrial presence

763
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:50,518
suddenly turns hostile,

764
00:37:50,518 --> 00:37:54,063
we have the military
hardware to resist.

765
00:37:56,107 --> 00:37:58,067
NARRATOR:
While Ronald Reagan's

766
00:37:58,067 --> 00:38:01,279
Star Wars program
was dissolved in 1993,

767
00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:04,991
some researchers believe
it set the nation on a course

768
00:38:04,991 --> 00:38:07,285
for taking the next crucial step

769
00:38:07,285 --> 00:38:09,662
towards connecting
with other intelligences.

770
00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:22,509
President Donald Trump
reveals the official logo

771
00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:26,346
for the newest branch of the
armed services... Space Force.

772
00:38:26,346 --> 00:38:28,890
With my signature today,

773
00:38:28,890 --> 00:38:32,602
you will witness the birth
of the Space Force.

774
00:38:32,602 --> 00:38:36,731
And that will be now
officially the sixth branch

775
00:38:36,731 --> 00:38:38,691
of the United States
armed forces.

776
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:40,318
That is something
really incredible.

777
00:38:42,237 --> 00:38:44,072
NARRATOR:
The USSF,

778
00:38:44,072 --> 00:38:45,865
an offshoot of the Air Force,

779
00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,409
was established by
the Trump administration

780
00:38:48,409 --> 00:38:52,622
to oversee military operations
beyond the Earth's atmosphere.

781
00:38:52,622 --> 00:38:54,207
POPE:
One of President Trump's

782
00:38:54,207 --> 00:38:58,169
most famous initiatives
relates to the Space Force.

783
00:38:58,169 --> 00:39:02,340
Inevitably,
the UFO community have said,

784
00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:03,716
"Well, this is
about the aliens."

785
00:39:03,716 --> 00:39:08,972
This is almost a carbon copy

786
00:39:08,972 --> 00:39:12,892
of what happened under Reagan's
presidency with Star Wars.

787
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:14,561
MORGAN:
Trump's announcement

788
00:39:14,561 --> 00:39:16,688
that the United States is going
to have a Space Force

789
00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:20,275
says something important
about what he knows

790
00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:22,068
as the president
of the United States.

791
00:39:22,068 --> 00:39:24,737
There have been disclosures
since he became president

792
00:39:24,737 --> 00:39:27,448
that seem to suggest
that his move

793
00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:31,911
in‐in establishing
a Space Force has merit.

794
00:39:31,911 --> 00:39:34,414
Space.

795
00:39:34,414 --> 00:39:37,917
There'll be a lot of things
happening in space.

796
00:39:37,917 --> 00:39:42,046
Because space is the world's
newest war‐fighting domain.

797
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:44,841
NARRATOR:
The final push
to create a Space Force

798
00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:48,052
came just months after
three leaked military videos

799
00:39:48,052 --> 00:39:53,057
of unidentified aerial phenomena
became widely circulated online.

800
00:39:55,101 --> 00:39:58,146
CAMERON:
The Navy goes in and
shows Trump three videos...

801
00:39:58,146 --> 00:40:01,232
the Go Fast, the Gimbal,
and the Tic Tac video,

802
00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:02,859
and basically give
him the video.

803
00:40:02,859 --> 00:40:05,528
So what is Trump gonna say?
"So what is it?"

804
00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:08,573
And they had to have said,
"We don't know, Mr. President.

805
00:40:08,573 --> 00:40:10,199
"We're working on it.
We're working on it.

806
00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:11,993
We don't know.
We know it's for real."

807
00:40:11,993 --> 00:40:15,788
NARRATOR:
Could the formation
of Space Force indicate

808
00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:17,457
that we are nearing the point

809
00:40:17,457 --> 00:40:19,834
when an American president
will finally reveal

810
00:40:19,834 --> 00:40:23,004
to the world that
aliens are among us?

811
00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:25,423
BASSETT:
The escalation of the UFO

812
00:40:25,423 --> 00:40:28,176
presence has stimulated
the awareness of the world,

813
00:40:28,176 --> 00:40:30,595
driving the process forward

814
00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:32,347
towards an announcement
or confirmation

815
00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:33,973
by government,
which I call disclosure.

816
00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:36,809
One of the fundamental
purposes of the modern era is

817
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:39,604
to get the world to the point
where it will confirm

818
00:40:39,604 --> 00:40:41,898
the presence
of these extraterrestrials.

819
00:40:41,898 --> 00:40:43,483
Once the world
has had some time

820
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:46,235
to adjust to that new,
profound information,

821
00:40:46,235 --> 00:40:50,448
open contact then becomes
not particularly dramatic.

822
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:53,660
HOWE:
In 2019 onward,

823
00:40:53,660 --> 00:40:55,703
I think we're not in disclosure.

824
00:40:55,703 --> 00:40:58,331
I think we're in confirmation.

825
00:40:58,331 --> 00:41:01,793
Donald Trump, as president
of the United States,

826
00:41:01,793 --> 00:41:04,879
is admitting that we've
got some of our best

827
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:07,715
military pilots
who are reporting UFOs,

828
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:11,135
and he in the White House
and the Department of Defense...

829
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:15,515
they are watching what
the Navy pilots are reporting.

830
00:41:15,515 --> 00:41:20,687
The human race is now more ready
than ever to accept the reality

831
00:41:20,687 --> 00:41:22,939
of extraterrestrial involvement
in human affairs.

832
00:41:22,939 --> 00:41:24,857
And I think this is ultimately

833
00:41:24,857 --> 00:41:27,193
the end game
of the extraterrestrial plan.

834
00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:29,946
And they're here
to guide us, to assist us

835
00:41:29,946 --> 00:41:34,367
and to help us to manifest
a new future for humanity.

836
00:41:34,367 --> 00:41:38,913
NARRATOR:
George Washington encountering
a glowing being,

837
00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:41,874
Ronald Reagan witnessing

838
00:41:41,874 --> 00:41:44,669
an orb of light through
an airplane window.

839
00:41:44,669 --> 00:41:47,797
Is it possible that America's
presidents have known

840
00:41:47,797 --> 00:41:49,340
for centuries the truth

841
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:51,884
about an extraterrestrial agenda?

842
00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:56,139
If so, then perhaps we are
on the threshold of learning,

843
00:41:56,139 --> 00:41:58,933
not only the full history
of the United States,

844
00:41:58,933 --> 00:42:03,229
but also the hidden facts
about an alien presence

845
00:42:03,229 --> 00:42:05,106
right here on Earth.