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Everything that we know
and have learned about mankind

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and its place
in the universe suggests

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that we are a part of the norm.
We are not the exception.

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Within the last month,
a planet was identified
that has water

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a mere 110 light years
away from Earth.

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We need to begin to prepare
to accept and understand

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that we are not alone
in the universe,

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have not been at all
throughout this time.

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NARRATOR: The same year
that life-giving water

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was discovered
on a distant planet,

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the US Navy made a startling announcement.

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[PILOT SPEAKING]

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NARRATOR: Images captured
by its pilots

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of objects exhibiting
a vastly superior technology
were authentic.

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MELLON: We can start to
finally, at long last,
after all these decades,

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begin to answer these questions

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about the origin
of these vehicles,
where they're from,

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how they're made,
how they function
and why they're here.

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WOMAN: People need to know
there is something else
out there.

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NARRATOR: To fully understand,

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we must examine
a body of evidence
long suppressed.

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A parallel history
to the one we think we know,

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stretching back
at least 70 years.

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On a clear, sunny day in 1955,

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William Coleman, a decorated World War II pilot,

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took off from Miami
on a routine flight
to deliver a B-25 bomber

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to an airbase in Mississippi.

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My co-pilot said, "Look at that
bright spot up there."

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I think it's just a reflection
of the sun,

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a craze probably,
in the windshield.

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NARRATOR:
He and his passengers,
two aviation engineers,

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realized it was
a strange object

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making a rapid descent right across their flight path.

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My God, look at that thing.

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And I opened it up
to max continuous power,

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we're clipping right along
at over 300 miles an hour,

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right on the treetops...

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I'm right on the tail
of this thing.

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But as we got close,I said, "It doesn't have a tail.

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Doesn't have any wings."

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Look at the shadow
on the ground.
The shadow was perfectly round.

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That's not an airplane.

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And I said, "I'm overtaking it."So I said, "Hang on."

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So I make a hard turn.

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There it was, a disc
going across the field
with two big swirls.

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What I didn't see
was any exhaust, propulsion.

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No rivet lines, a rounded edge
about that size
where it all came together.

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A true flying saucer.

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NARRATOR: Then it seemed
to vanish,

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until they spotted it
thousands of feet above them.

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Bright yellow,
sun-ish looking object.

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It went like a bat out of hell.

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NARRATOR: After they landed,
the stunned witnesses
were separately debriefed

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by Project Blue Book,
the Air Force investigation
of the UFO phenomena.

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Ironically,
a little over a decade later,

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Col. William T. Coleman
became public spokesman
for Project Blue Book.

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Probably what we saw
may have been
from somewhere else.

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Look, the Air Forces
are very deadly,

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being when it comes
to intercepting an unknown.

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If it proves hostile,

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we're gonna shoot it down.

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Other than that, no problem.

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NARRATOR: In the late 1940s,

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America seemed impregnable
to military threat.

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It had just emerged
from World War II
masters of the air,

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the only nuclear-armed
superpower in the world.

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But in 1947, something appeared in the sky,

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and everything changed.

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MAN: Every newscaster
and every newspaper
across the nation

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has made headlines out of it.

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And this afternoon
we are honored indeed

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to have here in our studio
this man Kenneth Arnold,

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who we believe may be able to give us a firsthand account,

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and give you the same,
on what happened.

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KENNETH: I kept looking
for their tails.
They didn't have any tail.

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I thought, "Well, maybe something's wrong in my eyes."

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They seemed to flip and flash in the sun, just like a mirror.

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I'd be glad to confirm it
with my hands on a Bible
because I did see it,

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and whether it has anything
to do with our army
or our intelligence,

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or whether it has to do
with some foreign country,
I don't know.

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Arnold had sent this sketch
to the Air Force
following his citing.

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He was later invited
to California's
Hamilton Field Army Air Base,

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where he was handed
what he was told

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were authentic photos
of a similar craft.

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WOMAN: "At the request
of Lt. Col. Donald Springer,

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commanding officer
of the Fourth
Air Force Intelligence,

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I was given the above prints
a4s a courtesy

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for the assistance he had given
military intelligence."

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NARRATOR: The photo
was taken in Arizona

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just two weeks
after his own encounter.

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They said that my father,
his sighting of flying saucers,

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got more attentionthan the ending of World War II.

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He was besieged
by newspaper reporters
from all over the world.

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Mm-hm.

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NARRATOR: Reporters
interviewed United Airlines
pilot E.J. Smith

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who also flew
the northwest route.

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He joked Arnold
had likely been fooled
by a cockpit reflection,

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until he, too, became a witness a few weeks later.

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He and his stunned crew
had watched

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as nine discs
maneuvered in formation
for a full 45minutes.

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PITTMAN: And from there
it just exploded.

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The first few days
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had a very large level
of exciting activity.

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NARRATOR: These unknown objects barnstormed across the country,

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sometimes in
fleet-like formations

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that looked like
a deliberate show of force.

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BOB HOPE: Hundreds of people
told Air Force investigators

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they'd seen the saucers
with their own eyes.

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Bright, shiny things
that whooshed through the air
at incredible speeds.

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Even airline pilots, who seldom indulge in fantasy, reported sighting them.

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And Air Force fliers
told of chasing them,

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or something, all over the sky.

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The Air Force call them "unidentified flying objects,"

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but people went right on
calling them saucers
and seeing them.

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There was something in the air.

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[NEWS BROADCASTER SPEAKING]

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NARRATOR: But a then-secret memorandum by the same general

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suggested that
the highest military echelons

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thought there was plenty
to worry about.

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The memo states,
"The phenomenon reported
is something real

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and not visionary
or fictitious."

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It described metallic discs
circular in shape,
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often traveling in formations
of three to nine craft.

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It also listed
aerodynamic capabilities

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with disturbing implications
for national defense.

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Extreme rates of climb,
dazzling maneuverability,

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and a superior capacity
for evasive action.

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A lot of people expected that
the United States government

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was about to confirm,
"Okay, they're ours.

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This is an exciting
new technological advance
that we were testing,

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and now it's time
to tell people about it."

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Occasionally,
eyewitness testimony included

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compelling
photographic evidence.

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Evelyn Trent
was feeding her rabbits
when she spotted

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a metallic disc-shaped object
floating over their farm.

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She alerted her husband, Paul, to grab his camera,

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and he managed
to get two shots.

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They described the object
slowly hovering
before it abruptly sped away.

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Life magazine
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and the McMinnville UFO
became a global sensation.

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PITTMAN: There's no chance
of this being weather.

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There's no chance of this being
a star or an aircraft.

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This is either
some kind of structured object
that we don't know what it is,

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or it's a hoax.

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Paul Trent and his wife,
they were honest, simple,
hardworking people

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who never made a dime
off the photographs
that they took.

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They never tried
to make a dime off of it.

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It just come up like that
and tipped and just...

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I mean, it really went.
It went fast.

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I've never seen anything
go so fast in my life
as that thing went. Yeah.

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NARRATOR: In 1951, future astronaut Gordon Cooper, while training in Germany,

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chased a large formation
with his squadron
of fighter jets.

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[GORDON COOPER SPEAKING]

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And they would come over
and do the same maneuvers
that we make

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except every once in a while
one of them goes, zip!

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And you just can't do that
in a fighter.

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DELBERT NEWHOUSE:
There are two saucers,
one inverted over the other.

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They seemed to be made of
some kind of polished metal.

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When I first saw the objects,
they were almost overhead.

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By the time we had the camera ready to go,

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they had moved
to a considerably
greater distance.

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NARRATOR: But the unknowns
showed no signs of hostility.

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An otherworldly power on its own mysterious mission.

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Commercial pilots William Nash and William Fortenberry,

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former Navy aviators
with thousands of hours
of flight experience,

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saw eight huge discs
fly in a stack formation

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over Chesapeake Bay, Virginia,

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just a stone's throw
from Washington, DC.

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When they came out
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they were distinct
six red coins.

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When they got closer,
we could see that you're...

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It looked like
you were looking down
into it, like a hot coal.

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NARRATOR: They reported
the glowing red objects
had approached them head-on

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at a speed they estimated
at 6,000
to 12,000 miles per hour.

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It came in like this
and went out like this.

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There would be no way
of making a complete reversal
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12,000 miles an hour or greater

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without making the occupants
juice on the wall.

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That really shook us up.
Looking at the thing
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Nothing could have gotten
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of scientific progress

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without some
of the intermediate stuff
having become public knowledge.

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You just knew
that they were not
from this planet.

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NARRATOR: The next weekend,
the unthinkable happened.

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The nation's capital
was invaded from the skies.

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Seven unknown blips
suddenly appeared on radar at Washington National Airport.

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Air-traffic controllers
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confirmed the objects
as they danced
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PITTMAN: The Capitol Building.

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The White House
where the president lived,

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these were some of
the most important places
in the country

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when it comes
to national defense.

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And there were UFOs
violating this airspace,

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and there was nothing thatthe Air Force could do about it.

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NARRATOR: F-94 interceptors
were scrambled.

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Pentagon press liaison Al Chop was in the radar room
that night.

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We could see the planes
coming in on this radar scope

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and the minute we saw
the beginning of these guys,

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the UFOs disappeared.
They just left.

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Obviously, whatever
these things were
had intelligence,

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enough to get out of the area
when we had an intercept
going in.

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NARRATOR: But the next weekend,
it began again.

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Pilot William Patterson
pushed his Starfire jet
to maximum speed

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to try to intercept
one of the glowing objects.

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Flew right into the middle
of three or four of them.

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NARRATOR: Al Chop recalls
the pilot's panicky
air-to-ground transmission

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as he streaked
at 600 miles per hour
into a group of unknowns.

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He actually said,
"They're closing in on me.
What do I do?"

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It was frightening.

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NARRATOR: The Air Force
had just issued orders
to shoot down the unknowns,

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if "they can't talk them down."

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I'm not gonna tell
an Air Force pilot to fire
at the damn thing or anything.

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But I didn't say anything.
Nobody said anything.

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And then all of a sudden,
the things began
to move away from him

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and he said, "They're gone."

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I'm convinced
they're solid objects.

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I'm convinced that they're
probably from another planet,

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or from outer space somewhere.

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I've always felt that way
since that night.

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NARRATOR: The very next day,
the Air Force's top brass

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hastily prepared the largest
Pentagon press conference
since World War II.

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Seen here
in a last-minute huddle,
Gen. Roger Ramey,

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Air Force director
of operations
at the Pentagon.

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Capt. Edward Ruppelt
of Project Blue Book,

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the Air Force's official
UFO investigations arm,

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and director
of Air Force intelligence,
Gen. John Samford.

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Since 1947, we have
received and analyzed
between one and 2,000 reports

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that have come to us
from all kinds of sources.

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Of this great mass of reports,
we have been able,

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adequately, to explain
the great bulk of them.

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However, there have been
a certain percentage
of this volume of reports

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that have been made
by credible observersof relatively incredible things.

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We can say
that the recent sightings
are in no way connected

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with any secret development
by any department
of the United States.

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NARRATOR: In the Q&A
with reporters, Samford
suggested a 50-50 chance

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it could have been radar waves bouncing off
temperature inversions.

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The point that Samford
put across all too effectively

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was that they were not real.
They were just
tricks of the atmosphere.

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And atmospheric phenomena
can't be a threat
to national security.

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You don't shoot at clouds.

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NARRATOR: The public was pondering the implications

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of possible
extraterrestrial contact.

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MAN: Robert L. Farnsworth, President of the United States Rocket Society,

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told defense officials
not to permit our planes to fire at any flying saucers.

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He says this might alienate humankind from beings of far superior forces.

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Farnsworth feels
that friendly contact
should be sought

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as long as possible.

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NARRATOR: Behind the scenes,
the CIA had other concerns.

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A secret internal memo
urged immediate attention

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to unexplained objects
in the vicinity

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of major
US Defense installations.

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I would dare say,
if anything happened

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we thought was a threat
to our national security,

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somebody out there,
one of the services,
would respond to it.

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Remember, this is
the height of the Cold War.

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Okay, there are bombers
on both sides
loaded with nuclear bombs.

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NARRATOR: Dr. Jacque Vallee
was the inspiration
for the French UFO researcher

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in Steven Spielberg's
Close Encounters
of the Third Kind.

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[SPEAKS FRENCH]

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Have you recently
had a close encounter?

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NARRATOR: In real life,
Dr. Vallee conducted

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sober scientific research
on the phenomenon.

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We know now that
there is no simple answer.

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NARRATOR: For decades,
he met with witnesses

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and traveled the globe
gathering evidence...

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ultimately creating
the first database
on the UFO subject.

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Mr. Chairman,

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all the great nations
of the world are represented
on this committee.

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Let us keep in mind thatthe UFO phenomenon may represent

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an even greater reality.

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NARRATOR: Vallee also consulted
with scientific, military
and government officials,

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including Project Blue Book's
top science adviser,
Dr. J. Allen Hynek.

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I began my work
as scientific consultant
to the United States Air Force

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as an open skeptic.

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NARRATOR: Hynek was
a university astronomer with a high-security clearance

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when the Air Force
recruited him
to investigate UFOs.

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And it so happened
when the Air Force got the job
of trying to figure out

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what some of these strange
flying saucer stories
were about,

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well, they needed an astronomer
to see how many of the reports

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could possibly be explained
as meteors and twinkling stars
and planets.

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NARRATOR: The two scientists
became close colleagues,

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with Hynek entrusting Vallee
to index the reams
of Blue Book files

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scattered throughout
Hynek's home.

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It was there that Vallee
made a chance discovery
of a letter so secret,

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he had to appeal
to the chief counsel

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of the Senate Defense
Appropriations Committee

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to get it declassified.

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That document changed my life.
It taught me that

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the subject had been taken
much more seriously
than anybody thought.

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NARRATOR: The document revealed
an ultra-secret,

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highly funded
scientific investigation

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working parallel to Blue Book

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unknown to all
but a select few.

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The letter was signed
by H.C. Cross,

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director of exotic metallurgy
at Battelle
National Laboratories.

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VALLEE: These were the people
who had analyzed the facts

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with a large budget,with highly competent physicistsand computer scientists.

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Who are these people?
What information did they have?

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Good evening.
Tonight, we go after
a fantastic story.

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The story that flying saucers
from other worlds
are visiting our planet,

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just as we are exploring
outer space
with our own rocket satellites.

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Our guest is
former Marine Air Corps
Maj. Donald Keyhoe,

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in his campaign to prove
that flying saucers exist.

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My name is Mike Wallace.
The cigarette is Parliament.

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Why would the United States
government withhold information

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from United States citizens?
For what reason?

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The Air Force is simply
treating the American people
like children.

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They don't trust them
with the facts.

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NARRATOR:
During the '50s and '60s,
it wasn't just the Americans

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who were seeing flying saucers.

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At the Westall School
in Australia,

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several hundred students
saw an object hovering over
this power line tower

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on their athletic field.

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An event they vividly recall
50 years later.

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A student came
into the classroom, you know.

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"There's flying saucers
in the oval,
there's flying saucers,"

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and everybody ran out.

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And I remember the fear
and the hysteria
of all the students.

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I couldn't believe it
because what I was seeing
wasn't possible.

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It was vertical, horizontal.
It'd move away from us,
back towards us.

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Appear somewhere else,
somewhere else.

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My God, you know?
But it was exciting.

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It was like that
and then all of a sudden,
it just turned on its side

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and I could see
that it was a round disc.

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NARRATOR: The children
saw the disc begin to descend
into this wooded reserve

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at the end of the school's
running path.

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I ran towards the corner
of the school,
jumped the fence

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and ran towards where it looked
as though it went down
into the trees,

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and then stopped dead
because it was right in front
of me on the ground.

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Like a disc with a slight rise
in the middle.

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I also heard a low,
sort of a humming noise,

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and I felt a bit of a heat
coming off it as well.

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And it started to take off
pretty well straight away.

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It had all bluey-purple lights
around the bottom.

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Don't remember seeing
any windows,

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and it took off to about
probably four or five meters
in the air,

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and then turned on its side,
and just went... [VOCALIZES]
Straight up so fast,

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that there's just nothing,
even nowadays,
that could go that fast.

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NARRATOR: Shortly after
the object departed,

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the authorities converged
on the school.

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We had Army, Air Force, policedown here cordoning off the area

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to prevent any of us enteringthe area or disturbing anything.

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We got called to assembly.
The headmaster said,

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"You have not seen this.
You do not talk about it.

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You'll be in trouble if you do."

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NARRATOR:
For the first time ever,

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the school science teacher
agreed to describe
what he saw that day,

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providing we concealed
his identity.

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It was not a mirage.
There was something physical
in the sky.

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It was silver. It could hover.

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It could move slowly.
It could move very rapidly.

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Eventually it moved away
to the other side of the oval,

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and down behind some pine trees.

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I was not then,
nor ever have been,

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able to use my knowledge
of the world,

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nor my scientific training,
to provide
a rational explanation.

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NARRATOR:
What he said next sheds light
on why the school staff

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have remained silent
all these years.

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There was a knock on the door
one night.

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Two older men, one in uniform,

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asked for my description
of what I had seen.

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I was then told
that I hadn't seen anything,

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that I'd made it all up,
possibly because I was drunk

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and that they would
have to report that fact
to the Education Department

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and I would lose my job.
After that, I was told

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that I would be prosecuted underthe Official Secrets Act,

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and I was told that there wasn'tanything there,
when I knew there was,

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and that I had to keep quiet
about it.

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Why did I have to keep quiet?

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NARRATOR: The Westall landing
may not have been
an isolated incident.

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Four days prior,
a then-young engineer
in nearby Balwyn

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was taking photos
in his mother's garden when something caught his eye.

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This tremendous flash of light,
and I looked up,
and I saw this object...

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I had a Polaroid camera.
I pulled this up
and hit myself on the face.

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And I took the picture.
I've got the photograph here.

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This is the original Polaroid?

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That's it.

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Looked like it was made
out of some form of metal,

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and it was engineered.

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And being an engineer,
I was sure it was.

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And this is
when I took the photograph,

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and it had tipped around
and I could see the bottom,

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and it looked like
it was rotating to me.

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That was it,
and then after that,
it sort of gave a bounce

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and it rocketed away
to the north, very high speed.

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INTERVIEWER: Can you describe
the acceleration?

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It was almost instantaneous.
It's like
it had been shot out of a gun.

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Wham, you know?

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NARRATOR: Air Force officers
showed up at his doorstep

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asking for every detail
of his experience.

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And they also had some
photographs of similar things,

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and they also had a book
which had pictures
of things in which...

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They didn't leave it with me,
but I had a look through.

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00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:56,113
But they said it was
an unidentified flying object.

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That was it.

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INTERVIEWER:
What was the implication?

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ENGINEER: That it didn't come
from anywhere on Earth.

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NARRATOR: Project Blue Book,
with a skeletal staff,
continued publicly collecting

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thousands of cases.

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Despite efforts
to explain them away,

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hundreds were still filed
as unknown.

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MAN: Several reports of a strange egg-shaped object about 200 feet long

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landing on farms and highways
last night
in the vicinity of Levelland.

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Sheriff Clem says
he even himself
got a glimpse of the thing,

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00:29:35,670 --> 00:29:40,123
which somehow turned off
lights and auto engines
when it came near.

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00:29:48,269 --> 00:29:52,721
Within 24 to 36 hours
after these sightings
in Levelland, Texas

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at the White Sands
Proving Ground, very close
to the Trinity test site

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where they first detonated
the first atomic bomb,

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military personnel witnessed
a glowing egg-shaped object

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that apparently landed.

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00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:08,496
This is Bill Haggert,

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Public Information Officer of White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.

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What they saw looked like
a landing and takeoff

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of some controlled object
from outer space.

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[MAN SPEAKING]

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NARRATOR: They appeared
to be dressed
in white coveralls.

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And were childlike.
That is, small.

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[MAN SPEAKING]

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NARRATOR: Zamora added
that one of the two persons
turned his head

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and looked straight at him.

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MAN: When I got out of the car,
about 50 feet from it...

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00:31:49,666 --> 00:31:54,119
I guess they saw me
because they started their motor or whatever it is.

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00:31:54,153 --> 00:31:57,881
I could see a big blast of fire
coming from right under it.

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00:32:00,470 --> 00:32:03,473
So, I was behind
some bushes there,
behind my car.

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00:32:03,507 --> 00:32:05,889
I could see it
and I could feel that heat.

428
00:32:07,718 --> 00:32:10,721
That really got me scared,
you know?

429
00:32:10,756 --> 00:32:14,035
A lot of people say,
"Why didn't you take your gun out and shoot at it?"

430
00:32:14,070 --> 00:32:16,900
They weren't doing
nothing to me.

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00:32:18,074 --> 00:32:21,353
It just took a little while
to get airborne,

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00:32:21,387 --> 00:32:25,944
came up a little bit,
about 20-30 feet,
and it stayed there a while.

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00:32:31,294 --> 00:32:34,124
And it was just as quiet
as it could be.

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00:32:36,678 --> 00:32:39,958
And then just flew away,
that's it.

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00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:51,141
Lonnie was very, very scared.
He was as white as a sheet.

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00:32:51,176 --> 00:32:55,559
From here, went directly
to the church
to talk to the priest, okay?

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00:32:55,594 --> 00:33:00,426
NARRATOR: Pablo Lopez was
among the first to arrive at
the landing and takeoff site.

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The ground was still smoldering
in some of the weeds
that were around it.

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NARRATOR: This rare footage gives us a glimpse of the scene

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shortly after the incident.

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Patrolman Zamora stoops
to point out one of
the landing gear imprints

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where officers had
just placed rocks to protect
the fresh ground traces.

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00:33:20,170 --> 00:33:24,416
And then there was
two sets of footprints,
two sets of footprints.

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Like so.

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00:33:26,866 --> 00:33:29,317
That was about
the approximate size of 'em.

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00:33:29,352 --> 00:33:32,665
In comparison to a quarter,
that's pretty small.

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00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,358
Okay. That's about
the size of 'em.

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00:33:37,049 --> 00:33:40,052
NARRATOR: Within an hour and over the next several days,

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00:33:40,087 --> 00:33:44,125
officials from the FBI, military, and Project Blue Book

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documented the evidence
at the scene.

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MAN 1: Were there any
prong marks on the ground
or anything like that

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-where you could see
where it had landed?
-MAN 2: There were four.

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00:34:01,694 --> 00:34:04,076
MAN 1: Very unusual footprints.
And how many were there?

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MAN 2: Two footprints on one side and two footprints on the other side.

455
00:34:12,981 --> 00:34:16,916
-MAN 1: Of course,
the burn area there...
-MAN 2: I was in my car.

456
00:34:16,951 --> 00:34:18,918
I could see it
and I could feel that heat.

457
00:34:21,645 --> 00:34:24,683
They told me that
all over the state
they had been seen.

458
00:34:24,717 --> 00:34:27,755
Some of those flying saucers,
whatever you call 'em.

459
00:34:27,789 --> 00:34:30,965
They gave me a book on it,
you know?

460
00:34:30,999 --> 00:34:33,140
They told me
to go ahead and read it.

461
00:34:33,174 --> 00:34:36,212
Well, it says
not to say nothing.

462
00:34:36,246 --> 00:34:39,456
Keep away from it.
Don't say too much, you know.

463
00:34:39,491 --> 00:34:43,840
NARRATOR: It was
the middle of the night
by the time Lonnie came home.

464
00:34:43,874 --> 00:34:46,705
MARY ZAMORA: I mean,
he was really pale.

465
00:34:46,739 --> 00:34:50,329
And I thought he was sick.
I said, "Are you sick
or something?"

466
00:34:50,364 --> 00:34:53,505
He said, "No.
I was just working."
He was like...

467
00:34:54,092 --> 00:34:55,990
Like he was angry.

468
00:34:57,716 --> 00:35:02,721
What I knew about it
was when I started
reading the papers, you know.

469
00:35:02,755 --> 00:35:07,105
Started coming out,
and everything.
I said, "What's this?"

470
00:35:07,139 --> 00:35:11,316
"I don't know," he said.
"It's just a headache "

471
00:35:11,350 --> 00:35:16,217
He said "Everybody's after me
and some believe me
and some don't."

472
00:35:17,598 --> 00:35:19,634
-MAN 1: Dear Mr. Zamora.
-MAN 2: Dear Mr. Zamora.

473
00:35:19,669 --> 00:35:22,499
-WOMAN 1: Dear Mr. Zamora.
-KID 1: Dear Mr. Zamora.

474
00:35:22,534 --> 00:35:24,191
[KID 2 READING]

475
00:35:24,225 --> 00:35:27,194
WOMAN 2: Sure, I believe
you saw an
egg-shaped spacecraft

476
00:35:27,228 --> 00:35:29,713
that had passengers
from off this earth.

477
00:35:29,748 --> 00:35:31,336
[MAN READING]

478
00:35:31,370 --> 00:35:33,407
WOMAN 3: I could go on
for a week
telling you what I've seen.

479
00:35:33,441 --> 00:35:37,618
KID 1: A boy in our school science fair had three pictures

480
00:35:37,652 --> 00:35:41,760
that looked just like
the flying saucer
you described.

481
00:35:41,794 --> 00:35:44,728
[MAN READING]

482
00:35:44,763 --> 00:35:47,973
WOMAN: As I have pictures
of a couple of egg-shaped shape ships taken...

483
00:35:48,007 --> 00:35:50,355
-I read about you
seeing a flying saucer.
-WOMAN: I'm a retired teacher.

484
00:35:50,389 --> 00:35:52,495
Well, you have a friend
who believes you.

485
00:35:52,529 --> 00:35:55,498
This saucer phenomenon has changed my life and ideas.

486
00:35:55,532 --> 00:35:58,535
[KID 3 READING]

487
00:35:58,570 --> 00:36:02,021
WOMAN: August 17, 1960,
our Red Bluff officers

488
00:36:02,056 --> 00:36:04,231
and dozens of people
saw a saucer.

489
00:36:04,265 --> 00:36:10,306
KID 4: Can you tell me
how long it stayed on Earth,
and other things like that?

490
00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:12,549
MARY: Then people started
making fun of him

491
00:36:12,584 --> 00:36:16,001
that he had seen little men
from outer space

492
00:36:16,035 --> 00:36:21,248
or this and that.
A whole bunch of dirty stuff.

493
00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:27,046
MAN: Lot of people asked me,
"Is that the reason
you quit the police force?"

494
00:36:27,081 --> 00:36:28,841
No, the reason
I quit the police force

495
00:36:28,876 --> 00:36:32,190
was because I was going
and doing a lot
of publicity and stuff.

496
00:36:32,224 --> 00:36:34,640
I didn't wanna hurt the town.

497
00:36:37,367 --> 00:36:42,924
NARRATOR: The level of inquiry
went all the way to the office of the President.

498
00:36:42,959 --> 00:36:48,689
To this day,
the Socorro close encounter
remains unexplained.

499
00:36:50,277 --> 00:36:52,348
VALLEE:
Socorro was very similar

500
00:36:52,382 --> 00:36:57,698
to the French cases
that I had brought
to Hynek's attention.

501
00:36:57,732 --> 00:37:02,772
Checked by the police,checked by the French Air Force,

502
00:37:02,806 --> 00:37:06,224
where there were also occupants
who were seen,

503
00:37:06,258 --> 00:37:10,711
short beings,
in connection with the objects.

504
00:37:13,023 --> 00:37:15,233
I think that's what
convinced him

505
00:37:15,267 --> 00:37:19,582
that there were UFO landings
in the United States.

506
00:37:29,177 --> 00:37:33,458
Looked like a toy top
somewhat upside down.

507
00:37:33,492 --> 00:37:36,978
So this is the diagram
which we've come up with.

508
00:37:37,013 --> 00:37:39,567
It's more flat here
other than round.

509
00:37:39,602 --> 00:37:41,742
But it does have the hump
up in here.

510
00:37:41,776 --> 00:37:44,745
It seemed to move off the groundif it was down.

511
00:37:44,779 --> 00:37:48,162
And then we saw three lights
that went from yellow to red.

512
00:37:48,196 --> 00:37:50,613
When you got right up to it,
it lit up.

513
00:37:50,647 --> 00:37:53,201
I mean, it really did
become bright,
and we could see it,

514
00:37:53,236 --> 00:37:56,204
the outline of it, real good.

515
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,449
NARRATOR: Blue Book's
Dr. Allen Hynek investigated

516
00:37:59,484 --> 00:38:01,348
one of the alleged
landing sites

517
00:38:01,382 --> 00:38:04,212
with the local sheriff.

518
00:38:04,247 --> 00:38:07,733
At an overflow press conference later that day,

519
00:38:07,768 --> 00:38:11,772
the world held its breath
for an historic revelation

520
00:38:11,806 --> 00:38:14,499
about the landings in Michigan.

521
00:38:14,533 --> 00:38:19,469
Hynek, by now
privately convinced
of the UFO reality,

522
00:38:19,504 --> 00:38:22,369
struggled to follow
the Air Force policy

523
00:38:22,403 --> 00:38:25,337
of tamping down
public excitement.

524
00:38:25,993 --> 00:38:27,788
[MAN SPEAKING]

525
00:38:31,757 --> 00:38:37,591
I'm saying that the two cases
that I investigated
most deeply were most likely.

526
00:38:37,625 --> 00:38:41,698
I said in a statement
that I couldn't prove it
in a court of law.

527
00:38:41,733 --> 00:38:43,493
[MAN SPEAKING]

528
00:38:44,943 --> 00:38:46,324
No, that's not quite right.

529
00:38:46,358 --> 00:38:49,603
I think that a person can be
pretty sure about something

530
00:38:49,637 --> 00:38:52,433
without being ableto convict somebody of a murder.

531
00:38:52,468 --> 00:38:58,266
-Can you? Please.
-Yes, I do. Honestly,
in this case.

532
00:38:58,301 --> 00:38:59,923
[MAN SPEAKING]

533
00:39:01,131 --> 00:39:03,686
NARRATOR:
Hynek's strained explanation,

534
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,861
which he later called
his greatest regret,

535
00:39:06,896 --> 00:39:09,381
ignited a public furor.

536
00:39:09,416 --> 00:39:11,521
MAN: Mr. Ford,
what about flying saucers?

537
00:39:11,556 --> 00:39:14,248
You've had some in Michigan
in the past week.

538
00:39:14,282 --> 00:39:20,703
GERALD: Dave, we've had
several incidents that many felt were sufficient

539
00:39:20,737 --> 00:39:24,085
to justify some action
by our government,

540
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,849
and not the kind of
flippant answer that was given by the Air Force

541
00:39:28,883 --> 00:39:33,336
where they passed it off
as "swamp gas."

542
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:38,168
It seems to me that this mystery does require

543
00:39:38,203 --> 00:39:40,550
that the Congress
take a good look at it.

544
00:39:40,585 --> 00:39:44,347
Let them put their record
on the line.

545
00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:50,595
NARRATOR: On April 5th, 1966,
congressional hearings
were held with Dr. Hynek

546
00:39:50,629 --> 00:39:55,772
and Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown
both giving testimony.

547
00:39:58,119 --> 00:40:03,849
MAN 1: Mr. Ford has come out.
He has a pretty good-size
stature in the Congress.

548
00:40:03,884 --> 00:40:06,645
And so, Mr. Secretary,

549
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:12,755
see if you can shed some light on these
highly illuminated objects.

550
00:40:12,789 --> 00:40:14,895
MAN 2: Mr. Secretary,
there have been charges

551
00:40:14,929 --> 00:40:18,277
that the Air Force
is hiding something
in the UFO field.

552
00:40:18,312 --> 00:40:21,349
We have not been
hiding anything.

553
00:40:21,384 --> 00:40:24,560
The investigations
have been made public.

554
00:40:24,594 --> 00:40:27,563
The hearing this morningwas public for just that reason.

555
00:40:27,597 --> 00:40:29,772
There has never been
any evidence

556
00:40:29,806 --> 00:40:32,637
presented to
the United States Air Force,

557
00:40:32,671 --> 00:40:35,294
or discovered by
the United States Air Force,

558
00:40:35,329 --> 00:40:38,125
which would indicate
that the UFO phenomena

559
00:40:38,159 --> 00:40:42,819
represents any interplanetary
space vehicle of any kind.

560
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:48,135
NARRATOR:
Amid growing pressure,
the Air Force commissioned

561
00:40:48,169 --> 00:40:50,206
an outside panel of scientists

562
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:55,936
to analyze select cases
and settle the matter
once and for all.

563
00:40:55,970 --> 00:40:59,077
It was headed
by physicist Edward Condon.

564
00:40:59,111 --> 00:41:04,323
Dr. Condon, do you hope
to find people from
outer space here on Earth?

565
00:41:04,358 --> 00:41:08,155
Well, I don't know for sure,
but we'll try to
just study the reports

566
00:41:08,189 --> 00:41:11,883
and get as much
additional information
as we can to see.

567
00:41:11,917 --> 00:41:16,888
REPORTER: Would you like
to have us being visited
by these little or big things?

568
00:41:16,922 --> 00:41:20,408
Well, that'd be fine with me.
I hope they're friendly.

569
00:41:20,443 --> 00:41:22,169
How do you propose
to go about...

570
00:41:22,203 --> 00:41:25,690
NARRATOR: After the project
was launched, Condon remarked to an audience

571
00:41:25,724 --> 00:41:29,176
that he thought
the UFO subject was nonsense.

572
00:41:29,210 --> 00:41:35,803
But "I'm not supposed to reach that conclusion
for another year."

573
00:41:38,116 --> 00:41:40,118
After a two-year investigation,

574
00:41:40,152 --> 00:41:44,571
the panel submitted
a massive 1,400 page report

575
00:41:44,605 --> 00:41:48,816
showing that many cases
were radar
and weather anomalies,

576
00:41:48,851 --> 00:41:53,372
but confirming a number
as truly unexplainable.

577
00:41:53,407 --> 00:41:56,341
Among them were
the famous McMinnville photos

578
00:41:56,375 --> 00:41:59,517
taken on the Trent family farm,

579
00:41:59,551 --> 00:42:04,004
as well as film footage of UFOs in Great Falls, Montana.

580
00:42:05,730 --> 00:42:08,249
NICK: As I looked up,
I saw two silvery objects

581
00:42:08,284 --> 00:42:10,079
moving swiftly
out of the northwest.

582
00:42:10,113 --> 00:42:14,566
No sound, except I thought
I heard a whooshing sound
when I first saw them.

583
00:42:14,601 --> 00:42:17,051
The discs appeared
to be spinning like a top,

584
00:42:17,086 --> 00:42:18,777
and were about 50 feet across,

585
00:42:18,812 --> 00:42:20,607
which was much slower
than the jets

586
00:42:20,641 --> 00:42:23,679
which shot by shortly
after I filmed the discs.

587
00:42:23,713 --> 00:42:27,924
I could not see any exhaust, wings or any kind of fuselage.

588
00:42:27,959 --> 00:42:31,963
They appeared to be
of a bright, shiny metal,
like polished silver.

589
00:42:35,035 --> 00:42:40,454
There are cases
that are not explainable
in conventional terms.

590
00:42:40,488 --> 00:42:45,148
There is the assumption
of intelligence
or intelligent control,

591
00:42:45,183 --> 00:42:49,946
but not necessarily
the assumption
of direct communication.

592
00:42:49,981 --> 00:42:53,501
Why are they here?
What are they doing?

593
00:42:53,536 --> 00:42:56,608
What do they want from us?
What are their motivations?

594
00:42:57,989 --> 00:43:01,579
NARRATOR: But it was Dr. Condon
who wrote the final word.

595
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:03,995
[READING]

596
00:43:14,212 --> 00:43:19,907
I was kind of woolly
on that one.
You'd have to conclude

597
00:43:19,942 --> 00:43:25,706
that what we were looking at
was beyond our current state
of the knowledge.

598
00:43:25,741 --> 00:43:29,296
But it began to hit me
that Dr. Condon
has apparently not read

599
00:43:29,330 --> 00:43:31,298
his own material very carefully.

600
00:43:31,332 --> 00:43:33,887
You do an actual tabulation,
which he doesn't seem
to have done,

601
00:43:33,921 --> 00:43:36,648
and you find his percentage ofunexplained is five to six times

602
00:43:36,683 --> 00:43:37,925
larger than the Air Force.

603
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,031
And yet, what is his
principal recommendation?

604
00:43:40,065 --> 00:43:42,965
The principal recommendation
that Dr. Condon
has come through with

605
00:43:42,999 --> 00:43:46,002
is there's nothing
of scientific interest
that warrants further attention

606
00:43:46,037 --> 00:43:48,626
on the part
of the federal government
here in any major way.

607
00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:51,421
He recommends
dropping the whole problem.

608
00:43:51,456 --> 00:43:56,668
Nobody could get funded.
Nobody would look
at the data seriously

609
00:43:56,703 --> 00:44:00,672
because of the prestige
of the academy

610
00:44:00,707 --> 00:44:02,881
saying that the problem
had been solved.

611
00:44:02,916 --> 00:44:06,678
The Air Force closed
their reporting system,

612
00:44:06,713 --> 00:44:09,992
so that if the public
wanted to report something,

613
00:44:10,026 --> 00:44:12,373
they would report it
to the local police.

614
00:44:12,408 --> 00:44:14,755
But it would never get
to the attention

615
00:44:14,790 --> 00:44:18,897
of scientists really examining
the phenomena.

616
00:44:20,554 --> 00:44:26,905
NARRATOR: In 1969, the Air Force officially ended its public investigations.

617
00:44:29,459 --> 00:44:32,083
Which would suggest what?

618
00:44:32,117 --> 00:44:33,809
That they knew what it was?

619
00:44:35,431 --> 00:44:36,950
Or didn't know what it was.

620
00:44:38,054 --> 00:44:41,713
Also the other way.
And they did know what it was.

621
00:45:05,392 --> 00:45:08,809
NARRATOR: One aspect
of the phenomenon
that was swept under the rug

622
00:45:08,844 --> 00:45:12,744
was the pervasive reporting
of UFO intrusions

623
00:45:12,779 --> 00:45:17,093
at the world's most sensitive military facilities.

624
00:45:17,128 --> 00:45:20,752
Details did not come to light
until decades later

625
00:45:20,787 --> 00:45:24,618
at the National Press Club
in Washington, DC.

626
00:45:25,861 --> 00:45:30,520
Declassified US government
documents and witness testimony

627
00:45:30,555 --> 00:45:33,869
from former or retired
US military personnel

628
00:45:33,903 --> 00:45:40,116
confirmed, beyond any doubt,
the reality
of ongoing UFO incursions

629
00:45:40,151 --> 00:45:41,980
at nuclear weapon sites.

630
00:45:42,015 --> 00:45:45,501
What you have heard here today
is evidence of a phenomenon.

631
00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:48,607
It sounds fantastic,
and it is fantastic.

632
00:45:49,850 --> 00:45:53,198
In 1967,
I was a missile launch officer

633
00:45:53,233 --> 00:45:55,787
stationed at Malmstrom
Air Force Base, Montana.

634
00:45:55,822 --> 00:46:00,792
NARRATOR: Malmstrom was
America's first line
of nuclear defense,

635
00:46:00,827 --> 00:46:03,622
its silos packed
with Minutemen missiles.

636
00:46:03,657 --> 00:46:09,974
Each one nearly 100 times
more powerful than the bomb
that devastated Hiroshima.

637
00:46:11,182 --> 00:46:15,220
Launch officers could, within minutes of confirmation,

638
00:46:15,255 --> 00:46:22,227
send their birds arcing
6,000 miles to incinerate
key Soviet cities,

639
00:46:22,262 --> 00:46:25,783
triggering a war
that would end
our civilization.

640
00:46:39,866 --> 00:46:42,420
I was the chief of party,
I was the observer.

641
00:46:42,454 --> 00:46:47,183
Basically what I was doing
was the star observation
to provide precise

642
00:46:47,218 --> 00:46:51,636
latitude and longitude
on our small three-man team.

643
00:46:51,670 --> 00:46:55,398
Came from the north
and stopped right over us,

644
00:46:55,433 --> 00:47:01,094
and it had a white light
from the center,
looking down into this island.

645
00:47:01,128 --> 00:47:04,200
I just said to myself,
"What if this thing beams us up

646
00:47:04,235 --> 00:47:06,616
and takes us off
to some distant place

647
00:47:06,651 --> 00:47:08,308
and never returned
to Earth again?"

648
00:47:08,342 --> 00:47:11,863
I mean, this is going through
my head here
while this thing's above me.

649
00:47:11,898 --> 00:47:15,902
And then from this dead stop,
it shoots off to the east.

650
00:47:15,936 --> 00:47:18,836
It's just like now you see it,
now you don't. It just...

651
00:47:22,909 --> 00:47:25,808
MAN: The strike team
that went out,
they saw something.

652
00:47:37,613 --> 00:47:39,166
NARRATOR: Lt. Salas
was stationed

653
00:47:39,201 --> 00:47:41,893
in his underground
launch control capsule

654
00:47:41,928 --> 00:47:46,587
when he received a frantic call from one of his topside guards.

655
00:47:46,622 --> 00:47:47,865
MAN: Screaming into the phone,

656
00:47:47,899 --> 00:47:51,627
saying they're looking
at a red glowing object

657
00:47:51,661 --> 00:47:54,216
hovering just above
our front gate.

658
00:47:54,250 --> 00:47:59,911
Our missiles began going intowhat's called a no-go condition,or unlaunchable.

659
00:47:59,946 --> 00:48:01,326
Essentially, they were disabled.

660
00:48:03,846 --> 00:48:09,507
NARRATOR: In fact, ten missiles
began going offline
in a matter of seconds,

661
00:48:09,541 --> 00:48:11,474
one after the other.

662
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,136
Personally, I'm never aware
of two missiles going down
at the same time,

663
00:48:18,171 --> 00:48:19,241
let alone ten.

664
00:48:19,275 --> 00:48:20,967
I was a top-secret
control officer

665
00:48:21,001 --> 00:48:24,177
and I passed down
nuclear launch authenticators.

666
00:48:24,211 --> 00:48:28,353
I can clearly recall a message
coming through my
communications center

667
00:48:28,388 --> 00:48:31,909
which basically said
that a UFO did, in fact,

668
00:48:31,943 --> 00:48:35,809
shut down several missile silos
in Montana.

669
00:48:41,435 --> 00:48:44,611
MAN: I was on duty at Echo,
which is our
squadron command post.

670
00:48:44,645 --> 00:48:48,477
We had strike teams respond
to alarms from the missiles.

671
00:48:48,511 --> 00:48:50,168
They were
three to five miles away.

672
00:48:50,203 --> 00:48:53,137
And they said,
"Sir, for lack
of a better description,

673
00:48:53,171 --> 00:48:55,415
there's a flying saucer
hovering over that missile,

674
00:48:55,449 --> 00:48:58,970
and there's a beam
of reddish light
going down to it."

675
00:49:00,006 --> 00:49:01,421
It had to be
a data collection thing.

676
00:49:01,455 --> 00:49:04,217
I'm sure they scanned
the warhead or something.

677
00:49:08,738 --> 00:49:12,950
In 1980, I was reassigned from
the Pentagon to RAF Bentwater

678
00:49:12,984 --> 00:49:14,330
as a deputy base commander.

679
00:49:14,365 --> 00:49:16,160
At that time, Bentwaters
was one of the largest

680
00:49:16,194 --> 00:49:18,610
tactical fighter ranges
in the world.

681
00:49:18,645 --> 00:49:23,546
NARRATOR: It was also
the largest American
nuclear bomb storage depot

682
00:49:23,581 --> 00:49:24,720
in Europe.

683
00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:27,585
In December 1980,
early in the morning,

684
00:49:27,619 --> 00:49:29,069
several of our
security policemen

685
00:49:29,104 --> 00:49:31,175
discovered strange lights
in the forest.

686
00:49:31,209 --> 00:49:33,556
NARRATOR: Expecting to find
a crashed aircraft,

687
00:49:33,591 --> 00:49:39,666
they came upon
an unrecognizable object
resting on the forest floor.

688
00:49:39,700 --> 00:49:45,465
They observed it for a period
of time, and it very quickly
and silently vanished.

689
00:49:49,917 --> 00:49:52,230
NARRATOR: Two nights later,
Col. Halt received

690
00:49:52,265 --> 00:49:56,338
an urgent visit from
the base security commander.

691
00:49:56,372 --> 00:49:59,858
He was white as a sheet.
He said, "It's back."

692
00:49:59,893 --> 00:50:02,482
I said, "What's back?"
He said, "The UFO."

693
00:50:04,139 --> 00:50:06,417
I took several
security policemen with me.

694
00:50:06,451 --> 00:50:10,938
I also had my small
cassette recorder I carried
everywhere when I was on duty.

695
00:50:10,973 --> 00:50:13,838
-MAN: What is it?
-COL. HALT: We don't know, sir.

696
00:50:13,872 --> 00:50:16,358
Yeah, it's a strange,
small red light.

697
00:50:16,392 --> 00:50:19,464
HALT: And all the barnyard animals have gotten quiet now.

698
00:50:19,499 --> 00:50:20,465
Deathly calm.

699
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:22,398
This is weird.

700
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,162
One object approached us
at very high speed.

701
00:50:27,196 --> 00:50:29,647
MAN: Here he comes
from the side.
He's coming toward us now.

702
00:50:29,681 --> 00:50:33,478
I'm observing what a beam
coming down to the ground.

703
00:50:34,721 --> 00:50:36,585
This is unreal.

704
00:50:36,619 --> 00:50:37,758
We stood there in awe.

705
00:50:37,793 --> 00:50:39,933
Was this a warning?

706
00:50:39,967 --> 00:50:41,762
Was this an attempt
to communicate?

707
00:50:41,797 --> 00:50:45,352
Was this a weapon,
or just a probe?

708
00:50:45,387 --> 00:50:49,667
Just as suddenly as it appeared,click, disappeared.

709
00:50:49,701 --> 00:50:51,496
We stood there... Oh.

710
00:50:52,532 --> 00:50:54,361
About that time,
we noticed the other object

711
00:50:54,396 --> 00:50:56,570
to the south was
sending down beams.

712
00:50:56,605 --> 00:50:59,263
About a mile, mile and half awayover at Woodbridge Base,

713
00:50:59,297 --> 00:51:01,334
MAN 1: when we had great
difficulties communicating.

714
00:51:01,368 --> 00:51:04,026
But we were able to discern
that some of those beams
were either

715
00:51:04,061 --> 00:51:06,304
falling into or near
the weapons storage area,

716
00:51:06,339 --> 00:51:08,789
and there was a great
deal of concern.

717
00:51:08,824 --> 00:51:12,931
MAN 1: I also found out later
that both the tower operators
at Bentwaters

718
00:51:12,966 --> 00:51:17,557
saw an object and picked it up on their bright radar
and watched it.

719
00:51:17,591 --> 00:51:20,077
I was just sitting there
and I happened to see

720
00:51:20,111 --> 00:51:22,527
a dot come on the scope,

721
00:51:22,562 --> 00:51:25,565
and it just went like,
one dot at the beginning,

722
00:51:25,599 --> 00:51:28,015
then another dot,
then another dot,
and it was gone.

723
00:51:28,050 --> 00:51:32,537
A nd then it made an immediate
right-hand turn and came
right towards the base.

724
00:51:32,572 --> 00:51:34,194
Just absolutely phenomenal.

725
00:51:34,229 --> 00:51:37,404
It's not like any radar target
I've ever seen,

726
00:51:37,439 --> 00:51:40,959
traveling at an extremely
high rate of speed.

727
00:51:40,994 --> 00:51:43,997
It passed over
the control tower,

728
00:51:44,031 --> 00:51:47,863
and then it stopped.
It was an orangish color.

729
00:51:47,897 --> 00:51:50,072
Sort of popped into my mind
at the time

730
00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:53,006
that somebody's flying
a basketball out here.

731
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,906
There were, like,
lights around the center of it.

732
00:51:56,941 --> 00:51:58,977
It was more like portholes.

733
00:51:59,012 --> 00:52:02,119
And then you were seeing
the light from the inside.

734
00:52:02,153 --> 00:52:06,364
But it hovered momentarily,
reversed its course,

735
00:52:06,399 --> 00:52:09,988
and went back out
at a high rate of speed.

736
00:52:12,336 --> 00:52:15,235
NARRATOR: Even more alarming
incidents took place

737
00:52:15,270 --> 00:52:17,686
on both sides of the Cold War.

738
00:52:20,275 --> 00:52:23,485
NARRATOR: According to once
secret Soviet documents,

739
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:29,007
a UFO hovered over
a Ukrainian nuclear base
for nearly an hour.

740
00:52:29,939 --> 00:52:32,218
Inexplicably, several missiles

741
00:52:32,252 --> 00:52:35,359
suddenly switched to
full combat readiness

742
00:52:35,393 --> 00:52:40,950
and began
a launch sequence without
any authentication codes.

743
00:52:40,985 --> 00:52:43,505
After 15
heart-stopping seconds,

744
00:52:43,539 --> 00:52:46,439
the countdown to
a potential Armageddon

745
00:52:46,473 --> 00:52:51,478
ceased as abruptly
as it had started.

746
00:52:51,513 --> 00:52:54,274
DAVID SCHUUR:
As this object passed
over the missile site,

747
00:52:54,309 --> 00:52:57,691
we would start getting erratic indications on that missile.

748
00:52:57,726 --> 00:53:00,107
The bad thing was we also had a launch indicator.

749
00:53:00,142 --> 00:53:03,697
MAN: Does that mean that
the launch sequence
has been triggered?

750
00:53:03,732 --> 00:53:07,184
SCHURR: That means
that the missile has received
a launch signal.

751
00:53:07,218 --> 00:53:10,532
NARRATOR: The countdown
had to be manually aborted.

752
00:53:11,947 --> 00:53:13,742
We had UFOs in the air...

753
00:53:13,776 --> 00:53:17,608
NARRATOR: These witnesses
are some of the most highly-vetted military officers

754
00:53:17,642 --> 00:53:21,059
in charge of the world's
most devastating armaments.

755
00:53:22,233 --> 00:53:24,822
If what they're reporting
is accurate,

756
00:53:24,856 --> 00:53:28,135
then the pattern
is hard to avoid.

757
00:53:28,170 --> 00:53:33,831
UFOs have been
making incursions into top-security nuclear facilities

758
00:53:33,865 --> 00:53:36,385
decade after decade.

759
00:53:37,110 --> 00:53:38,560
To me, it's pretty clear.

760
00:53:38,594 --> 00:53:42,115
"We're shining a light on this,
we're pointing it out.

761
00:53:42,149 --> 00:53:45,429
What are you people doing
with nuclear weapons?"

762
00:54:26,504 --> 00:54:28,195
[PEOPLE SHOUTING]

763
00:54:30,888 --> 00:54:33,994
NARRATOR: As the '90s dawned
and the walls fell down,

764
00:54:34,029 --> 00:54:37,964
it was as if humanity itself
was demanding to be seen

765
00:54:37,998 --> 00:54:41,105
as one people and one world.

766
00:54:41,139 --> 00:54:43,280
The Soviet Union had dissolved

767
00:54:43,314 --> 00:54:46,110
and history's spotlight
began to shine

768
00:54:46,144 --> 00:54:48,561
on long-darkened corners.

769
00:54:49,355 --> 00:54:51,115
Different officials
were looking

770
00:54:51,149 --> 00:54:53,255
for ways to open dialogue
with the West,

771
00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:58,018
and embrace all the changes
that were underway

772
00:54:58,053 --> 00:54:59,365
in their country at the time.

773
00:54:59,399 --> 00:55:02,160
This is George Knapp in Moscow,the city many are...

774
00:55:02,195 --> 00:55:04,335
NARRATOR: Knapp's team was
invited to Moscow,

775
00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:06,544
by government
and military officials

776
00:55:06,579 --> 00:55:10,962
who were willing to share
decades' worth of UFO files.

777
00:55:10,997 --> 00:55:12,688
[SPEAKS RUSSIAN]

778
00:55:12,723 --> 00:55:14,276
MAN: Gen. Igor Maltsev,

779
00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:17,521
for seven years,
commander of the entire
Soviet air defense system

780
00:55:17,555 --> 00:55:20,800
recalls a UFO flap over
Moscow in 1990.

781
00:55:20,834 --> 00:55:24,907
Hundreds of visual
and radar observations
by military personnel.

782
00:55:24,942 --> 00:55:29,705
Maltsev confirms
his standing order was,
"Don't fire on the UFOs".

783
00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:33,019
March 1991, radar at
the Leningrad airport

784
00:55:33,053 --> 00:55:37,092
detects first one, then two, then three unidentified objects

785
00:55:37,126 --> 00:55:38,749
hovering over a nuclear plant.

786
00:55:38,783 --> 00:55:43,443
From a dead stop,
the UFO zipped away
at 2,000 miles per hour.

787
00:55:43,478 --> 00:55:45,997
Jacques Vallee
was one of few Westerners

788
00:55:46,032 --> 00:55:47,827
to personally
investigate the case

789
00:55:47,861 --> 00:55:50,036
by meeting with
Russian sources firsthand.

790
00:55:50,070 --> 00:55:54,420
An object hovered near
a nuclear power plant
in Voronezh

791
00:55:54,454 --> 00:55:57,250
and a beam from that object
melted the asphalt there.

792
00:55:57,284 --> 00:55:59,079
The intention was,
maybe we would be

793
00:55:59,114 --> 00:56:00,771
able to find out
from the Russians

794
00:56:00,805 --> 00:56:04,499
more about what the American
government knows about UFOs

795
00:56:04,533 --> 00:56:06,673
than we will ever learn from
the American government itself.

796
00:56:06,708 --> 00:56:09,918
-Governor, you ready
to take the oath?
-I am.

797
00:56:09,952 --> 00:56:12,230
NARRATOR: When a young,
open-minded president,

798
00:56:12,265 --> 00:56:13,991
was sworn in,

799
00:56:14,025 --> 00:56:17,857
one of America's most highly
placed civilians saw a chance

800
00:56:17,891 --> 00:56:20,929
for a new government transparency on the phenomenon.

801
00:56:20,963 --> 00:56:25,451
As a means of access to people
to the wonders of nature...

802
00:56:25,485 --> 00:56:27,763
NARRATOR: Heir to the power
and influence

803
00:56:27,798 --> 00:56:30,352
of one of the world's
wealthiest families,

804
00:56:30,387 --> 00:56:31,733
Laurance Rockefeller,

805
00:56:31,767 --> 00:56:34,770
philanthropist
and conservationist,

806
00:56:34,805 --> 00:56:38,705
also had a passionate
interest in UFOs.

807
00:56:38,740 --> 00:56:44,642
His idea was to approach
the President

808
00:56:44,677 --> 00:56:50,130
with a plea for making
available the data

809
00:56:50,165 --> 00:56:53,479
that the government had
on the subject.

810
00:56:53,513 --> 00:56:56,171
JOHN PODSTA:
The first inclination by,

811
00:56:56,205 --> 00:56:59,450
particularly people
in government

812
00:56:59,485 --> 00:57:01,452
is, "You got to be kidding me".

813
00:57:01,487 --> 00:57:04,282
[LAUGHS] You want me
to risk my career

814
00:57:04,317 --> 00:57:06,802
by getting deeply into

815
00:57:06,837 --> 00:57:09,598
the rabbit hole of talking
about UFOs?"

816
00:57:09,633 --> 00:57:14,465
And so there's
a tremendous resistance.

817
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:18,124
NARRATOR: Rockefeller
met with President Clinton's
science advisor,

818
00:57:18,158 --> 00:57:20,333
Jack Gibbons,
at the White House,.

819
00:57:20,367 --> 00:57:23,612
and persuaded him
to take action.

820
00:57:23,647 --> 00:57:26,477
Rockefeller was then asked
to pick a case

821
00:57:26,512 --> 00:57:29,411
that the White House
should attempt to declassify.

822
00:57:30,895 --> 00:57:34,761
He chose
the 1947 Roswell incident,

823
00:57:34,796 --> 00:57:39,835
noting, "Many are convinced
that Roswell
marks the beginning

824
00:57:39,870 --> 00:57:42,942
of government secrecy
about UFO's".

825
00:57:43,908 --> 00:57:47,394
Jack had actually gone
to the Air Force,

826
00:57:47,429 --> 00:57:50,190
asked then-Secretary Widnall,

827
00:57:50,225 --> 00:57:52,020
who was
the Secretary of the Air Force,

828
00:57:52,054 --> 00:57:54,540
to take a look, particularly,

829
00:57:54,574 --> 00:57:57,819
at the records around Roswell,
New Mexico.

830
00:57:57,853 --> 00:57:59,959
SHEILA WIDNALL:
"Dear Colonel Cavitt.

831
00:57:59,993 --> 00:58:03,997
The General Accounting Office, seeks to fully
explain the claim

832
00:58:04,032 --> 00:58:08,450
that the US government
recovered an alien spacecraft

833
00:58:08,485 --> 00:58:12,523
near Roswell, New Mexico,
in July 1947,

834
00:58:12,558 --> 00:58:15,871
and since that time
has covered up that fact.

835
00:58:17,701 --> 00:58:19,496
NEWSCASTER: The Army Air Forces
has announced

836
00:58:19,530 --> 00:58:20,980
that a flying disc
has been found

837
00:58:21,014 --> 00:58:22,982
and is now in the possession
of the Army.

838
00:58:35,442 --> 00:58:37,617
[NEWSCASTER SPEAKING]

839
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:43,381
NARRATOR: Roswell was then home

840
00:58:43,416 --> 00:58:45,936
to the world's only
nuclear air wing,

841
00:58:45,970 --> 00:58:48,628
including the B-29
that had dropped

842
00:58:48,663 --> 00:58:51,562
the first atomic bomb
on Hiroshima.

843
00:58:53,115 --> 00:58:57,464
The base's chief intelligence
officer, Maj. Jesse Marcel,

844
00:58:57,499 --> 00:59:00,606
was dispatched to the ranch
to investigate.

845
00:59:02,504 --> 00:59:04,851
[JESSE MARCEL SPEAKING]

846
00:59:08,337 --> 00:59:10,581
NARRATOR: Marcel
and another officer

847
00:59:10,616 --> 00:59:13,860
were the first military
to arrive at the crash site.

848
00:59:13,895 --> 00:59:18,209
They came upon an expanse
of unrecognizable debris

849
00:59:18,244 --> 00:59:19,486
strewn across an area

850
00:59:19,521 --> 00:59:22,662
the size of
a dozen football fields.

851
00:59:29,807 --> 00:59:32,948
We found a piece
of metal... Uh...

852
00:59:32,983 --> 00:59:35,848
About a foot and half
to two feet wide.

853
00:59:44,235 --> 00:59:46,755
The thing that got me is that

854
00:59:46,790 --> 00:59:49,827
you couldn't even bend it.
You couldn't dent it.

855
00:59:49,862 --> 00:59:52,105
Even a sledgehammer
would bounce off it.

856
00:59:53,382 --> 00:59:55,074
NARRATOR: Marcel was ordered
to immediately

857
00:59:55,108 --> 00:59:57,317
transport the strange wreckage

858
00:59:57,352 --> 01:00:00,458
to Fort Worth Army Airfield.

859
01:00:00,493 --> 01:00:03,600
There, Marcel was met by
the commanding general,

860
01:00:03,634 --> 01:00:05,602
who told him to keep silent

861
01:00:05,636 --> 01:00:09,467
in the face of what was
becoming a media frenzy.

862
01:00:09,502 --> 01:00:13,471
They had a whole flock
of microphones there.

863
01:00:13,506 --> 01:00:15,335
They wanted
some comments from me,

864
01:00:15,370 --> 01:00:17,648
but I wasn't at liberty
to do that.

865
01:00:19,685 --> 01:00:22,273
NARRATOR: Marcel was instead
ordered to pose

866
01:00:22,308 --> 01:00:25,276
with wood, foil
and rubber debris,

867
01:00:25,311 --> 01:00:27,589
from a conventional
weather balloon.

868
01:00:28,901 --> 01:00:31,938
All I could do is keep
my mouth shut.

869
01:00:31,973 --> 01:00:34,976
And Gen. Ramey is the one
who told the newspapers

870
01:00:35,010 --> 01:00:38,117
what it was
and to forget about it.

871
01:00:38,151 --> 01:00:41,914
It was nothing more than
a weather observation balloon.

872
01:00:41,948 --> 01:00:45,193
Of course,
we both knew differently.

873
01:00:45,227 --> 01:00:47,505
NARRATOR: Col. Thomas DuBose,
who was also

874
01:00:47,540 --> 01:00:49,922
ordered to pose
with the fake debris,

875
01:00:49,956 --> 01:00:54,961
describes how an iron curtain
of secrecy slammed down.

876
01:01:14,878 --> 01:01:16,707
REPORTER: Congressman Schiff,
what got you interested

877
01:01:16,742 --> 01:01:18,675
in this subject per se?

878
01:01:18,709 --> 01:01:20,159
I started receiving letters

879
01:01:20,193 --> 01:01:23,024
a little over two years ago
from constituents,

880
01:01:23,058 --> 01:01:25,440
stating that they believe
the government was covering up

881
01:01:25,474 --> 01:01:26,855
what happened at Roswell.

882
01:01:26,890 --> 01:01:29,030
Many of them clearly believed,

883
01:01:29,064 --> 01:01:32,136
that it was, in fact,
an extraterrestrial crash.

884
01:01:32,171 --> 01:01:34,173
The weather balloon story
never made sense

885
01:01:34,207 --> 01:01:37,107
because it was clearly,
and undisputed in my mind,

886
01:01:37,141 --> 01:01:39,626
extra military attention
to this matter,

887
01:01:39,661 --> 01:01:41,698
from extra security
around the crash scene

888
01:01:41,732 --> 01:01:44,390
to special handling of
whatever the debris was.

889
01:01:44,424 --> 01:01:47,738
That could fit
a classified project.

890
01:01:47,773 --> 01:01:49,809
It doesn't fit
a weather balloon.

891
01:01:51,431 --> 01:01:53,571
NARRATOR: In September 1994,

892
01:01:53,606 --> 01:01:56,782
the Air Force issued
its response.

893
01:01:56,816 --> 01:02:01,165
[READING]

894
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:05,066
The Air Force claimed
it was a secret project
of weather balloons

895
01:02:05,100 --> 01:02:07,931
hung with box kites
and microphones,

896
01:02:07,965 --> 01:02:11,175
to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.

897
01:02:12,487 --> 01:02:14,696
Please roll the video.

898
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:16,111
MAN: There's a famous box kite

899
01:02:16,146 --> 01:02:18,907
that became
the famous flying disc.

900
01:02:18,942 --> 01:02:23,187
Weather balloons that were on the balloon train.

901
01:02:23,222 --> 01:02:26,501
NARRATOR: Same rubber balloon,
same foil box kite

902
01:02:26,535 --> 01:02:28,814
as the original cover story,

903
01:02:28,848 --> 01:02:30,850
only many of them
strung together

904
01:02:30,885 --> 01:02:35,061
with microphones
dangling beneath.

905
01:02:35,096 --> 01:02:37,823
MAN: That's the tin foil paper, rubber and sticks
that they recovered

906
01:02:37,857 --> 01:02:40,308
in the desert near
New Mexico in 1947.

907
01:02:41,827 --> 01:02:44,450
NARRATOR: The Air Force,
nearly 50 years later,

908
01:02:44,484 --> 01:02:46,970
was basically telling
the same tale.

909
01:02:48,005 --> 01:02:50,111
That the top security personnel

910
01:02:50,145 --> 01:02:53,252
of the world's only
atomic-bombing wing

911
01:02:53,286 --> 01:02:56,186
really had mistaken
this rubber, wood

912
01:02:56,220 --> 01:02:59,948
and tin foil for
a crashed flying saucer.

913
01:03:01,985 --> 01:03:03,296
Being an intelligence officer,

914
01:03:03,331 --> 01:03:05,678
I was familiar with just about
all the materials used

915
01:03:05,712 --> 01:03:09,268
in aircraft and/or air travel.

916
01:03:09,302 --> 01:03:10,994
This is nothing like that.

917
01:03:11,028 --> 01:03:15,619
It was not anything from this
Earth. That I'm quite sure of.

918
01:03:15,653 --> 01:03:18,449
BILL RICHARDSON:
My suspicion is that

919
01:03:18,484 --> 01:03:21,245
the Roswell incident
did happen,

920
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:25,629
and something maybe not
from our universe,

921
01:03:25,663 --> 01:03:27,493
went down there.

922
01:03:27,527 --> 01:03:30,082
And we should...

923
01:03:30,116 --> 01:03:32,809
allow the American people
to make a judgment

924
01:03:32,843 --> 01:03:35,570
on what that might have been
by disclosing.

925
01:03:35,604 --> 01:03:37,089
I mean, this is probably

926
01:03:37,123 --> 01:03:41,334
the most
blatant case of overreaction

927
01:03:41,369 --> 01:03:43,820
to what is national security.

928
01:03:43,854 --> 01:03:45,787
The public has a right to know.

929
01:03:48,341 --> 01:03:50,999
NARRATOR: Rockefeller
put together
a briefing document

930
01:03:51,034 --> 01:03:53,691
intended for world leaders

931
01:03:53,726 --> 01:03:55,728
with a sobering observation.

932
01:03:57,419 --> 01:04:01,320
It is conceivable that even the President himself

933
01:04:01,354 --> 01:04:03,840
is not fully briefed on matters

934
01:04:03,874 --> 01:04:06,843
classified as
"above top secret."

935
01:04:09,052 --> 01:04:10,777
I did attempt to find out
if there were

936
01:04:10,812 --> 01:04:12,745
any secret
government documents

937
01:04:12,779 --> 01:04:15,023
that reveal things,
and if there were,

938
01:04:15,058 --> 01:04:16,680
they were
concealed from me, too.

939
01:04:16,714 --> 01:04:18,475
I wouldn't be
the first president

940
01:04:18,509 --> 01:04:20,235
that underlings have lied to

941
01:04:20,270 --> 01:04:22,928
or the career bureaucrats
have waited out.

942
01:04:22,962 --> 01:04:27,933
But there may be
some career person
sitting around somewhere

943
01:04:27,967 --> 01:04:30,936
hiding these dark secrets,
even from elected presidents.

944
01:04:30,970 --> 01:04:33,490
But if so,
they successfully eluded me.

945
01:04:33,524 --> 01:04:37,321
And I'm almost embarrassed totell you, I did try to find out.

946
01:04:37,356 --> 01:04:38,840
[ALL LAUGHING]

947
01:04:40,014 --> 01:04:41,843
EDGAR MITCHELL: Three feet
for second contact.

948
01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:43,017
That was a beautiful one.

949
01:04:43,051 --> 01:04:45,467
NARRATOR: Apollo astronaut
Edgar Mitchell,

950
01:04:45,502 --> 01:04:47,504
who had grown up
around Roswell,

951
01:04:47,538 --> 01:04:51,957
was an aerospace insider with deep Pentagon connections.

952
01:04:53,717 --> 01:04:56,789
He became convinced
there were UFO secrets

953
01:04:56,823 --> 01:04:59,757
concealed from
normal government channels.

954
01:04:59,792 --> 01:05:02,415
Well, if the accounts
are to be believed...

955
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,040
Yes, there have been
ET visitation.

956
01:05:06,074 --> 01:05:08,870
There have been crashed craft.

957
01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:13,875
There have beenmaterial and bodies recovered...

958
01:05:13,910 --> 01:05:17,258
and there is some group
of people somewhere

959
01:05:18,017 --> 01:05:21,089
that may or may not be

960
01:05:21,124 --> 01:05:23,022
associated with
the government at this point,

961
01:05:23,057 --> 01:05:25,473
but certainly were at one time,

962
01:05:25,507 --> 01:05:27,268
that have this knowledge.

963
01:05:42,214 --> 01:05:46,045
No one has proven
there's nothing to it.

964
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:48,703
No one's had
the opportunity to prove

965
01:05:48,737 --> 01:05:52,879
there's something to it,
and that's what I did.

966
01:05:52,914 --> 01:05:54,571
And every passing day...

967
01:05:54,605 --> 01:05:58,092
NARRATOR: In 2007, the most
powerful man in the Senate,

968
01:05:58,126 --> 01:06:00,680
majority leader Harry Reid,

969
01:06:00,715 --> 01:06:02,682
persuaded two colleagues,

970
01:06:02,717 --> 01:06:05,962
Senators Ted Stevens
and Daniel Inouye,

971
01:06:05,996 --> 01:06:08,378
to secretly allocate millions

972
01:06:08,412 --> 01:06:13,831
in Defense Department funds
to investigate UFOs.

973
01:06:13,866 --> 01:06:18,215
The covert program
operated from the tail end
of the Bush presidency,

974
01:06:18,250 --> 01:06:20,838
through
the Obama administration,

975
01:06:20,873 --> 01:06:24,325
and into Donald Trump's
first year in office.

976
01:06:27,224 --> 01:06:30,607
In December of 2017,
the lid blew off.

977
01:06:35,922 --> 01:06:38,408
At long last,
the government was admitting

978
01:06:38,442 --> 01:06:42,308
a modern-day program
to investigate UFOs

979
01:06:42,343 --> 01:06:45,415
and released
startling official evidence,

980
01:06:45,449 --> 01:06:50,868
including videotapes
from the cockpits
of military aircraft.

981
01:06:52,215 --> 01:06:54,803
One of the key authors
ofThe Times story

982
01:06:54,838 --> 01:06:56,426
was investigative journalist

983
01:06:56,460 --> 01:06:59,429
and best-selling author
Leslie Kean.

984
01:06:59,463 --> 01:07:02,915
She went to Washington to meet with Luis Elizondo,

985
01:07:02,949 --> 01:07:05,400
who had just resigned
from his position

986
01:07:05,435 --> 01:07:09,749
as head of the secret
Pentagon UFO program.

987
01:07:09,784 --> 01:07:11,268
I was invited to this meeting.

988
01:07:11,303 --> 01:07:14,375
They wanted me to meet
Mr. Elizondo,
to see what could happen.

989
01:07:14,409 --> 01:07:16,480
ELIZANDO:
Objects that are moving so fast

990
01:07:16,515 --> 01:07:19,104
and yet we don't see
an ionization trail in the air

991
01:07:19,138 --> 01:07:21,002
and you don't hear
a sonic boom.

992
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:23,142
How is that possible?
Another one is...

993
01:07:23,177 --> 01:07:25,489
NARRATOR: Elizondo's colleagues
took her aside

994
01:07:25,524 --> 01:07:28,527
to reveal some
extraordinary documentation

995
01:07:28,561 --> 01:07:31,047
related to the program.

996
01:07:31,081 --> 01:07:33,152
KEAN: I wasn't allowed
to take anything with me.

997
01:07:33,187 --> 01:07:35,948
I mean, the most importantevidence that was shared with me

998
01:07:35,982 --> 01:07:37,087
at the meeting regarding

999
01:07:37,122 --> 01:07:39,469
the phenomenon itself,
were the videos.

1000
01:07:43,507 --> 01:07:45,647
[MAN 1 SPEAKING]

1001
01:07:50,825 --> 01:07:53,655
I knew this was breaking news
for the front page of
The New York Times.

1002
01:07:58,074 --> 01:07:59,420
[MAN 2 SPEAKING]

1003
01:08:01,318 --> 01:08:02,457
[MAN 1 SPEAKING]

1004
01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:05,115
[MAN 2 SPEAKING]

1005
01:08:05,150 --> 01:08:07,462
KEAN: My co-author,
Ralph Blumenthal,

1006
01:08:07,497 --> 01:08:09,499
and I set up a meeting
with Mark Mazzetti

1007
01:08:09,533 --> 01:08:12,260
and said,
"We have this explosive story."

1008
01:08:12,295 --> 01:08:14,780
Sat down with him
in the New York office
of The New York Times

1009
01:08:14,814 --> 01:08:16,575
and we brought in
all the documents.

1010
01:08:16,609 --> 01:08:17,955
"These are the videos.

1011
01:08:17,990 --> 01:08:20,441
Here's other documents
that show
the existence of the program.

1012
01:08:20,475 --> 01:08:23,306
And here's what they've studiedand here's what they've learned.

1013
01:08:23,340 --> 01:08:26,274
And there's a letter from
Harry Reid about the program."

1014
01:08:27,379 --> 01:08:29,070
NARRATOR: Elizondo's colleague,

1015
01:08:29,105 --> 01:08:31,245
the former deputy
assistant secretary

1016
01:08:31,279 --> 01:08:33,730
of defense for intelligence,

1017
01:08:33,764 --> 01:08:35,801
Christopher Mellon, managed to

1018
01:08:35,835 --> 01:08:38,079
obtain the tapes
from the Pentagon,

1019
01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:42,014
and choseThe New York Times
to break the story.

1020
01:08:42,048 --> 01:08:44,154
I received the videos,

1021
01:08:44,189 --> 01:08:47,226
the now-famous videos,
in the Pentagon parking lot

1022
01:08:47,261 --> 01:08:49,228
from a Defense
Department official.

1023
01:08:49,263 --> 01:08:51,851
I still have the originals
in the packaging.

1024
01:08:51,886 --> 01:08:56,339
This is a case where somebody
bent the rules a little bit,

1025
01:08:56,373 --> 01:09:00,170
and they did so
for the larger good.

1026
01:09:00,205 --> 01:09:03,898
And we're absolutely all
better off because of it.

1027
01:09:03,932 --> 01:09:05,175
In the end, I have to say,

1028
01:09:05,210 --> 01:09:07,039
I was still extraordinarily

1029
01:09:07,073 --> 01:09:09,697
disappointed with
The New York Times,

1030
01:09:09,731 --> 01:09:14,598
because they focused on this
small AATIP program.

1031
01:09:14,633 --> 01:09:18,326
And the real story, in my mind
at least, should have been,

1032
01:09:18,361 --> 01:09:21,812
"These things are real,
they're here.

1033
01:09:21,847 --> 01:09:23,676
This is happening now. "

1034
01:09:26,921 --> 01:09:28,647
NARRATOR: One of
the Pentagon cases

1035
01:09:28,681 --> 01:09:30,511
reported byThe New York Times,

1036
01:09:30,545 --> 01:09:33,203
was an encounter by
Naval aircraft,

1037
01:09:33,238 --> 01:09:37,932
about 200 miles off the coast
of San Diego, California.

1038
01:09:37,966 --> 01:09:39,175
Fifty-five hundred people
that were on

1039
01:09:39,209 --> 01:09:41,142
the Nimitzin 2004,
when this happened,

1040
01:09:41,177 --> 01:09:44,007
and I guarantee
every single one of them

1041
01:09:44,041 --> 01:09:45,733
knows that this event happened.

1042
01:09:45,767 --> 01:09:48,563
That's a whole air wing.That's Mount Fuji. That's Japan.

1043
01:09:48,598 --> 01:09:52,222
NARRATOR:
Commander David Fravor was leading a training exercise

1044
01:09:52,257 --> 01:09:55,501
from theUSS Nimitz
carrier strike group

1045
01:09:55,536 --> 01:09:59,781
when he was abruptly
ordered to investigate
an unknown target

1046
01:09:59,816 --> 01:10:03,475
that had appeared on one of the ship's radar scopes.

1047
01:10:03,509 --> 01:10:05,960
We're gonna suspend the training
we have real-world tasking.

1048
01:10:05,994 --> 01:10:07,651
So we're like, "Okay, cool. "

1049
01:10:07,686 --> 01:10:10,861
NARRATOR: He and another
F-18 Super Hornet,

1050
01:10:10,896 --> 01:10:15,141
each carrying two airmen, zoomed toward the coordinates.

1051
01:10:15,176 --> 01:10:17,385
It was myself and my WSO

1052
01:10:17,420 --> 01:10:19,422
and the other pilot and the WSO
in the back seat

1053
01:10:19,456 --> 01:10:21,113
of that airplane.
So, there's four of us.

1054
01:10:23,011 --> 01:10:24,565
NARRATOR: When they arrived,
they first saw

1055
01:10:24,599 --> 01:10:27,326
what appeared to be
a large object

1056
01:10:27,361 --> 01:10:29,984
slightly below the surface
of the ocean,

1057
01:10:30,018 --> 01:10:32,400
with a strange
oval-shaped craft

1058
01:10:32,435 --> 01:10:35,576
darting around
in the air just above it.

1059
01:10:35,610 --> 01:10:38,993
If you picture a Tic Tac
that's about 40 feet long,

1060
01:10:39,027 --> 01:10:41,064
round on both ends, no rivets,

1061
01:10:41,098 --> 01:10:43,687
no metal, smooth, white.
It was white.

1062
01:10:43,722 --> 01:10:47,208
It was just smooth. No wings,
no propulsion, no windows.

1063
01:10:47,243 --> 01:10:50,211
It didn't matter which way it
was pointing because as it
was moving over the water,

1064
01:10:50,246 --> 01:10:53,525
it never turned. It never
changed its longitudinal axis.

1065
01:10:53,559 --> 01:10:56,769
It went fore, aft, left, right.
It was just doing this.

1066
01:10:56,804 --> 01:10:59,703
And I said, "Hey, I'm gonna go
check that out."

1067
01:11:04,743 --> 01:11:07,297
All of a sudden, you just see itturn its body and go... [WHOOP]

1068
01:11:07,332 --> 01:11:08,954
And start coming up at you.
You go,

1069
01:11:08,988 --> 01:11:11,543
"That was rather interesting."

1070
01:11:11,577 --> 01:11:14,960
We're just looking at it.
We're doing this.
We're looking at it.

1071
01:11:14,994 --> 01:11:16,962
We're looking at it.
We go around.

1072
01:11:16,996 --> 01:11:18,964
All the way around the outside
of a circle, 180 degrees.

1073
01:11:18,998 --> 01:11:22,623
Well, I know where he's going,
so I'll just go over there.

1074
01:11:27,179 --> 01:11:29,319
This thing goes "poof"
and it's gone.

1075
01:11:29,354 --> 01:11:33,185
I mean, literally that fast.
Gone.

1076
01:11:34,738 --> 01:11:36,222
You can think about what
we're saying. Like,

1077
01:11:36,257 --> 01:11:39,329
"Holy shit. What the...is that?"

1078
01:11:39,364 --> 01:11:41,987
And then there's a lot of,
"Dude, what the...

1079
01:11:42,021 --> 01:11:43,333
Did you guys see that?

1080
01:11:43,368 --> 01:11:45,059
Do you guys see it?"
And they're like,

1081
01:11:45,093 --> 01:11:47,164
"It's gone. We don't see shit."

1082
01:11:48,269 --> 01:11:52,238
Nothing accelerates that fast.
You're talking...

1083
01:11:52,273 --> 01:11:54,413
Something that
not only accelerated

1084
01:11:54,448 --> 01:11:56,795
beyond anything
that we had seen,

1085
01:11:56,829 --> 01:11:58,452
but it just was...

1086
01:12:00,177 --> 01:12:01,593
The controller
comes up and says,

1087
01:12:01,627 --> 01:12:03,733
"Hey, you're not gonna
believe this,

1088
01:12:03,767 --> 01:12:07,012
but that thing is back
at your CAD point."

1089
01:12:07,046 --> 01:12:11,119
NARRATOR: Meaning
the object had instantly
reappeared at the precise

1090
01:12:11,154 --> 01:12:13,432
secret coordinates
of the fleet's

1091
01:12:13,467 --> 01:12:17,056
critical aerial defense zone.

1092
01:12:17,091 --> 01:12:19,127
FRAVOR: It obviously had
some awareness.

1093
01:12:19,162 --> 01:12:21,544
It knew where we were going.

1094
01:12:21,578 --> 01:12:25,375
It'll make the hair on
the back of your neck stand up.

1095
01:12:25,410 --> 01:12:27,308
I actually told my back seater,
I said,

1096
01:12:27,343 --> 01:12:29,828
"I don't know about you.
I'm pretty weirded out."

1097
01:12:32,589 --> 01:12:35,592
NARRATOR: More jets equipped
with the Navy's most advanced

1098
01:12:35,627 --> 01:12:40,425
radar visual tracking systems
were scrambled.

1099
01:12:40,459 --> 01:12:43,980
This time, capturing
the object on video.

1100
01:12:44,014 --> 01:12:46,845
FRAVOR: First thing he gets is
a little blip on the radar.

1101
01:12:46,879 --> 01:12:51,988
He puts his cursors over it,
and he tries to grab
a lock on it.

1102
01:12:53,921 --> 01:12:55,198
Basically, when you take a lock,

1103
01:12:55,232 --> 01:12:58,063
you tell the radar,
"Look at that location,

1104
01:12:58,097 --> 01:13:01,411
and stare at it, and put all
your energy on that point."

1105
01:13:01,446 --> 01:13:03,862
Well, as soon as it does it,
the radar gets indications

1106
01:13:03,896 --> 01:13:06,727
that it's being jammed by
the object it's trying to lock.

1107
01:13:10,109 --> 01:13:12,388
The infrared sees
differing temperatures,

1108
01:13:12,422 --> 01:13:15,839
so the Tic Tac is hotter
than the air around it.

1109
01:13:15,874 --> 01:13:18,980
It doesn't have to be by much,
but it's gonna appear white.

1110
01:13:19,015 --> 01:13:20,499
They're driving straight at it.

1111
01:13:21,500 --> 01:13:23,571
It's just kind of
hovering there.

1112
01:13:23,606 --> 01:13:27,368
And then it goes "poof"
and it takes off, off the side.

1113
01:13:29,819 --> 01:13:33,409
I just don't know.
I doubt that we...

1114
01:13:33,443 --> 01:13:35,549
have developed that technology.

1115
01:13:37,758 --> 01:13:41,865
I interviewed
three of the four aviators

1116
01:13:41,900 --> 01:13:44,972
who were with Dave,
during that encounter,

1117
01:13:45,006 --> 01:13:49,355
and it was readily apparent
to everyone involved that

1118
01:13:49,390 --> 01:13:51,599
that vehicle had what they call

1119
01:13:51,634 --> 01:13:54,015
"dominant
battlespace awareness."

1120
01:13:54,050 --> 01:13:58,951
It was in control of that
engagement from the outset.

1121
01:13:58,986 --> 01:14:03,369
There was no question
that it completely outmatched

1122
01:14:03,404 --> 01:14:05,613
our frontline fighters.

1123
01:14:05,648 --> 01:14:09,583
I served on the Special Access
Program Oversight Committee,

1124
01:14:09,617 --> 01:14:12,551
so I had access to all
of the black programs
in those days.

1125
01:14:12,586 --> 01:14:14,760
We know perfectly well
there's nothing like that

1126
01:14:14,795 --> 01:14:17,867
behind the scenes
or even on the drawing boards.

1127
01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,596
NARRATOR: Senator Harry Reid,
who instigated

1128
01:14:22,630 --> 01:14:25,633
the secret
Pentagon UFO program,

1129
01:14:25,668 --> 01:14:28,325
confirmed what nuclear
launch officers

1130
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:30,604
have been
reporting for decades.

1131
01:14:32,537 --> 01:14:35,367
NARRATOR: UFOs have interfered
with our country's

1132
01:14:35,401 --> 01:14:37,818
most powerful weapons.

1133
01:14:43,755 --> 01:14:45,584
Did you have anybody

1134
01:14:45,619 --> 01:14:48,622
in the Defense Department,
the Pentagon,

1135
01:14:48,656 --> 01:14:54,075
pull you aside,
bend your ear and say,
"Why are you doing this?"

1136
01:14:54,110 --> 01:14:55,732
They did everything they could

1137
01:14:55,767 --> 01:14:58,079
to stop the program
from going forward.

1138
01:14:58,114 --> 01:15:01,876
They gave the person that came
in initially such a bad time.

1139
01:15:01,911 --> 01:15:03,844
He's fortunate to have
hung on to his job

1140
01:15:03,878 --> 01:15:05,673
because people tried
to get rid of him,

1141
01:15:05,708 --> 01:15:08,987
because they wanted nothing
to do with this.

1142
01:15:09,021 --> 01:15:13,301
The Defense Intelligence Agency
was one of the worst.

1143
01:15:13,336 --> 01:15:14,820
They drug their feet,

1144
01:15:14,855 --> 01:15:17,513
even though there was
one of their senior scientists

1145
01:15:17,547 --> 01:15:19,342
thought they should look
at this.

1146
01:15:19,376 --> 01:15:22,345
And remember,
all we're saying...

1147
01:15:22,379 --> 01:15:26,004
Nobody has to agree
why it's there.

1148
01:15:26,038 --> 01:15:28,938
But shouldn't we at least
be spending some money

1149
01:15:28,972 --> 01:15:30,974
to study all these phenomenon?

1150
01:15:31,009 --> 01:15:35,082
Shouldn't we study this stuff?
The answer is yes.

1151
01:15:35,116 --> 01:15:36,911
And that's all this was about,

1152
01:15:36,946 --> 01:15:41,813
and why the federal government,all these years, has covered up,

1153
01:15:41,847 --> 01:15:45,541
put brake pads on everything.
Stopped it.

1154
01:15:45,575 --> 01:15:48,923
I think it's very, very bad
for our country.

1155
01:15:54,515 --> 01:15:56,517
I interviewed Gordon Cooper,

1156
01:15:56,552 --> 01:15:59,244
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper,back in the '90s.

1157
01:15:59,278 --> 01:16:01,211
REPORTER: Cooper said on camera

1158
01:16:01,246 --> 01:16:04,594
that there was
a landed UFO circa 1957

1159
01:16:04,629 --> 01:16:06,941
at Edwards Air Force Base.
His camera crew captured

1160
01:16:06,976 --> 01:16:08,633
the filming of this object,

1161
01:16:08,667 --> 01:16:13,051
and he presented this
to the higher-ups

1162
01:16:13,085 --> 01:16:15,709
and eventually, a courier jet
came in from Washington.

1163
01:16:15,743 --> 01:16:18,263
He handed the footage over,
which was good, he viewed it--

1164
01:16:18,297 --> 01:16:19,954
-That's the last he saw of it.
-Exactly.

1165
01:16:19,989 --> 01:16:21,715
REPORTER: Did you know
where that footage went

1166
01:16:21,749 --> 01:16:24,372
of the flying saucer
that landed on the...

1167
01:16:24,407 --> 01:16:26,478
Went to Washington.
That's all that I know.

1168
01:16:26,512 --> 01:16:28,687
REPORTER: Did you ever keep
in touch with anybody about it
or discuss it?

1169
01:16:28,722 --> 01:16:31,828
How would I keep in touch
with anybody about it?

1170
01:16:31,863 --> 01:16:34,624
There's no way
within the military
or within the government

1171
01:16:34,659 --> 01:16:37,627
of keeping track of something
that is classified.

1172
01:16:37,662 --> 01:16:40,354
REPORTER: Did you try to go
after stuff like this?

1173
01:16:40,388 --> 01:16:42,598
We did. We have. It's there.

1174
01:16:42,632 --> 01:16:47,603
Are you saying that
there's some evidence that's...

1175
01:16:47,637 --> 01:16:49,984
REPORTER: Still hasn't seen
the light of day?

1176
01:16:51,192 --> 01:16:54,437
I'm saying most of it
hasn't seen the light of day.

1177
01:16:59,373 --> 01:17:01,444
MELLON:
Astronaut Cooper had spoken

1178
01:17:01,478 --> 01:17:03,791
with the President
at a Cabinet meeting.

1179
01:17:03,826 --> 01:17:06,138
He raised this
with Secretary Cohen.

1180
01:17:06,173 --> 01:17:09,452
And then Cohen's office
called me and asked me

1181
01:17:09,486 --> 01:17:12,489
to pursue this
and chase it down.

1182
01:17:15,941 --> 01:17:19,427
The Air Force colonel that I
spoke with got very frustrated,

1183
01:17:19,462 --> 01:17:22,327
and when I asked him
what happened to all
of these records, he said,

1184
01:17:22,361 --> 01:17:26,124
"Well, that was all cleaned up
or thrown out to save space,"

1185
01:17:26,158 --> 01:17:27,263
something like that.

1186
01:17:27,297 --> 01:17:30,715
It sounded ludicrous,
but that's what he told me.

1187
01:17:32,855 --> 01:17:36,962
If there is some
recovered debris, say...

1188
01:17:37,963 --> 01:17:41,587
It is so deeply buried
and squirreled away

1189
01:17:41,622 --> 01:17:46,696
that it's outside of those
normal oversight processes,

1190
01:17:46,731 --> 01:17:50,079
and that's where
there's a problem in this area.

1191
01:17:56,741 --> 01:17:58,881
NARRATOR:
Dr. Jacques Vallee
has collected

1192
01:17:58,915 --> 01:18:02,125
purported metal debris
from UFO cases

1193
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:05,335
dating as far back as 1947

1194
01:18:05,370 --> 01:18:09,719
that experts are analyzing in a state-of-the-art laboratory.

1195
01:18:09,754 --> 01:18:13,619
The breakthrough has come
with the invention of a machine

1196
01:18:13,654 --> 01:18:17,071
that enables usto look at the atomic structure,

1197
01:18:17,106 --> 01:18:18,452
and at that point,

1198
01:18:18,486 --> 01:18:21,731
the atomic structure
is impossible to fake.

1199
01:18:21,766 --> 01:18:25,804
This device is a multi-parameterion beam imager.

1200
01:18:25,839 --> 01:18:29,463
NARRATOR: Dr. Garry Nolan,
a Stanford microbiologist,

1201
01:18:29,497 --> 01:18:33,847
is using a revolutionary
three-dimensional
imaging device

1202
01:18:33,881 --> 01:18:39,542
to analyze the samples right down to their individual atoms.

1203
01:18:39,576 --> 01:18:42,096
When Dr. Nolan placed
some of the fragments

1204
01:18:42,131 --> 01:18:44,547
in the vacuum chamber
of his instrument,

1205
01:18:44,581 --> 01:18:47,584
he was astonished
to find their composition

1206
01:18:47,619 --> 01:18:49,759
was unlike any known metal.

1207
01:18:49,794 --> 01:18:54,833
Just one spot and the isotopic
composition all the way across.

1208
01:18:54,868 --> 01:18:56,697
NARRATOR: No matter
where he looked

1209
01:18:56,732 --> 01:18:58,872
in the sample's
jumble of elements,

1210
01:18:58,906 --> 01:19:02,703
whether magnesium, iron,
nickel or titanium,

1211
01:19:02,738 --> 01:19:06,776
the ratio of isotopes
didn't make any sense.

1212
01:19:06,811 --> 01:19:11,781
If you're talking about
an advanced material
from an advanced civilization,

1213
01:19:11,816 --> 01:19:13,058
you're talking about
something that...

1214
01:19:13,093 --> 01:19:15,440
I'll just call it
an ultra-material, right?

1215
01:19:15,474 --> 01:19:17,960
It's something
which has properties

1216
01:19:17,994 --> 01:19:21,273
where somebody
is putting it together,

1217
01:19:21,308 --> 01:19:22,999
again, at the atomic scale.

1218
01:19:23,034 --> 01:19:28,936
So we're building our world
with 80 elements.

1219
01:19:28,971 --> 01:19:31,421
Somebody else is building
the world

1220
01:19:31,456 --> 01:19:34,908
with 253 different isotopes.

1221
01:19:36,944 --> 01:19:41,569
I intend to use the information
to try to build something.

1222
01:19:41,604 --> 01:19:43,537
Try to understand
a physical principle

1223
01:19:43,571 --> 01:19:45,159
that we don't know today.

1224
01:19:45,194 --> 01:19:49,060
This material was manufactured.
It's not natural.

1225
01:19:49,094 --> 01:19:53,616
It's not natural
to the materials
that we have around us

1226
01:19:53,650 --> 01:19:55,894
in the lab, or on the Earth.

1227
01:19:55,929 --> 01:19:58,932
It does not mean
that it was necessarily

1228
01:19:58,966 --> 01:20:01,797
made some place in outer space.

1229
01:20:01,831 --> 01:20:04,523
It just means that
it was manufactured

1230
01:20:04,558 --> 01:20:07,043
specially for
a particular purpose

1231
01:20:07,078 --> 01:20:10,322
that we don't understand,
and we want to understand it.

1232
01:20:17,951 --> 01:20:21,713
MELLON: There is an immense
array of unanswered questions.

1233
01:20:23,094 --> 01:20:27,270
When we observe
some of these craft doing,

1234
01:20:27,305 --> 01:20:29,479
think about the possibilities,

1235
01:20:29,514 --> 01:20:32,482
what we may
discover technologically,

1236
01:20:32,517 --> 01:20:34,519
how we might solve
the energy crisis,

1237
01:20:34,553 --> 01:20:36,970
how we might raise
our standards of living.

1238
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:40,870
There is an urgent need,
in my view,

1239
01:20:40,905 --> 01:20:42,251
to get to the bottom of it.

1240
01:20:42,285 --> 01:20:44,736
We don't know
the origin of these vehicles

1241
01:20:44,770 --> 01:20:46,738
nor do we understand
the intent

1242
01:20:46,772 --> 01:20:49,361
of whoever
is controlling them.

1243
01:20:51,916 --> 01:20:55,643
NARRATOR: There are cases that
seem to go beyond encounters

1244
01:20:55,678 --> 01:20:57,818
with an advanced technology,

1245
01:20:57,853 --> 01:21:01,201
to contact with
an engaged intelligence.

1246
01:21:02,029 --> 01:21:05,861
Papua New Guinea. June, 1959

1247
01:21:05,895 --> 01:21:09,554
An Australian missionary
spots a large disc

1248
01:21:09,588 --> 01:21:12,764
hovering just 200 feet
off the ground

1249
01:21:12,798 --> 01:21:15,905
while standing
with 38 other people.

1250
01:21:15,940 --> 01:21:20,910
This solid-looking
object and...
Can you imagine?

1251
01:21:20,945 --> 01:21:23,809
What it's like
to look up in the sky

1252
01:21:23,844 --> 01:21:27,917
and see some figures
up there?

1253
01:21:27,952 --> 01:21:32,266
NARRATOR:
All were amazed to see
four small occupants

1254
01:21:32,301 --> 01:21:35,994
dressed in what looked
like black diving suits.

1255
01:21:36,029 --> 01:21:39,825
Figures walking about on top,

1256
01:21:39,860 --> 01:21:43,622
and not the slightest noise
whatsoever.

1257
01:21:43,657 --> 01:21:46,453
And so we waved.

1258
01:21:47,454 --> 01:21:48,834
Wouldn't it be wonderful

1259
01:21:48,869 --> 01:21:52,597
if we could get this object
down onto the playing field?

1260
01:21:52,631 --> 01:21:54,737
And as we waved,

1261
01:21:54,771 --> 01:21:57,222
wondering whether
we'd get some recognition

1262
01:21:57,257 --> 01:21:58,706
and whether, perhaps,

1263
01:21:58,741 --> 01:22:01,226
they would understand
what we wanted,

1264
01:22:01,261 --> 01:22:04,057
they waved back.

1265
01:22:04,091 --> 01:22:06,956
NARRATOR: The encounter
lasted several hours

1266
01:22:06,991 --> 01:22:10,235
before the object
abruptly departed.

1267
01:22:10,270 --> 01:22:13,929
There was this amazingly
incredible speed

1268
01:22:13,963 --> 01:22:19,210
that the hovercraft
disappeared to nothing

1269
01:22:19,244 --> 01:22:22,834
across the bay in a matter
of a second or so.

1270
01:22:26,976 --> 01:22:28,840
NARRATOR: In 1994,

1271
01:22:28,874 --> 01:22:31,981
three days of sightings
across Zimbabwe

1272
01:22:32,016 --> 01:22:34,121
culminated in what
some believe

1273
01:22:34,156 --> 01:22:36,848
is the most significant
close encounter

1274
01:22:36,882 --> 01:22:38,815
in modern history.

1275
01:22:39,816 --> 01:22:42,198
Hundreds of people today
phoned the ZBC

1276
01:22:42,233 --> 01:22:44,718
and BBC correspondent
in Harare

1277
01:22:44,752 --> 01:22:50,172
saying they sighted
an unidentified flying object
last night.

1278
01:22:50,206 --> 01:22:52,381
We have some
eyewitness reports.

1279
01:22:53,416 --> 01:22:55,142
MAN: It almost seemed to be
under the cloud.

1280
01:22:55,177 --> 01:22:57,248
As it came past,
I noticed there's no noise,

1281
01:22:57,282 --> 01:22:59,940
and that's when I thought,
"Well, there's something
very odd here."

1282
01:22:59,975 --> 01:23:02,356
It was quite amazing.
It was beautiful.

1283
01:23:02,391 --> 01:23:06,947
They are saying that Jesus
is passing through Africa.

1284
01:23:06,982 --> 01:23:08,845
That's what they are saying.

1285
01:23:19,856 --> 01:23:22,756
TIM LEACH: We interviewed
about 64 children

1286
01:23:22,790 --> 01:23:24,068
in front of the camera.

1287
01:23:24,102 --> 01:23:25,862
UFO story that happens...

1288
01:23:25,897 --> 01:23:28,900
Just say exactly
what you want to say, okay?

1289
01:23:28,934 --> 01:23:32,214
Well, I was running
and playing,

1290
01:23:32,248 --> 01:23:35,010
and then I saw this maroon colorin the sky.

1291
01:23:35,044 --> 01:23:36,252
Why don't we follow it?

1292
01:23:36,287 --> 01:23:39,600
We saw this, like,
a silver thing down there.

1293
01:23:39,635 --> 01:23:42,051
It was a silver oval thing

1294
01:23:42,086 --> 01:23:44,640
that flew past really slowly.

1295
01:23:44,674 --> 01:23:48,092
I saw the bigger one
and the spaceship,
like, four or five of them.

1296
01:23:48,126 --> 01:23:50,025
It was red,
green and yellow.

1297
01:23:50,059 --> 01:23:51,267
There was this big ship.

1298
01:23:51,302 --> 01:23:53,994
It had these lights,
these patterns, and it flew.

1299
01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:56,755
I thought,
"No, it's not a UFO."

1300
01:23:56,790 --> 01:23:58,550
And then I looked
carefully at it,

1301
01:23:58,585 --> 01:23:59,586
and I thought, "Maybe."

1302
01:24:05,109 --> 01:24:06,834
NARRATOR:
Dozens of children said that

1303
01:24:06,869 --> 01:24:09,216
one or more
of the disc-shaped objects

1304
01:24:09,251 --> 01:24:12,633
landed just beyond
the far edge
of their playground.

1305
01:24:15,671 --> 01:24:17,880
The next thing they knew,

1306
01:24:17,914 --> 01:24:20,641
something was standing
next to it.

1307
01:24:24,369 --> 01:24:28,097
You saw him standing
by the silver thing.

1308
01:24:28,132 --> 01:24:29,892
And he had big eyes.

1309
01:24:32,860 --> 01:24:36,657
He had a big head
and big black eyes,

1310
01:24:36,692 --> 01:24:38,866
and was dressed
in a black bodysuit.

1311
01:24:38,901 --> 01:24:40,661
They were wearing
pure black.

1312
01:24:40,696 --> 01:24:44,596
And I came down
and I saw the funny man
with his eyes here,

1313
01:24:44,631 --> 01:24:45,942
and I saw a spaceship,

1314
01:24:45,977 --> 01:24:48,462
and there were a few
little ones around it.

1315
01:24:54,572 --> 01:24:57,161
REPORTER:
How far away were you
when you saw him?

1316
01:24:57,195 --> 01:25:00,302
Not very far. Not very far.
About a meter away.

1317
01:25:00,336 --> 01:25:02,442
-A meter away? That close?
-Yes.

1318
01:25:05,445 --> 01:25:07,205
REPORTER:
And how big was the figure?

1319
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:10,312
It was about
as big as a grade six.

1320
01:25:10,346 --> 01:25:11,934
Yeah, it's there!

1321
01:25:11,968 --> 01:25:15,593
I believe that the children
did see something.

1322
01:25:15,627 --> 01:25:20,253
I believe them
because normally
children don't lie.

1323
01:25:20,287 --> 01:25:22,772
I've always taught my children,
"Seeing is believing."

1324
01:25:22,807 --> 01:25:24,912
Unfortunately,
I didn't see. So...

1325
01:25:24,947 --> 01:25:26,397
[CHANTING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]

1326
01:25:30,815 --> 01:25:32,092
NARRATOR:
This alleged encounter

1327
01:25:32,127 --> 01:25:34,543
caught the attention
of Pulitzer Prize-winning

1328
01:25:34,577 --> 01:25:37,994
Harvard psychiatrist,
Dr. John Mack.

1329
01:25:38,029 --> 01:25:39,720
It seemed that he was
looking at all of us.

1330
01:25:39,755 --> 01:25:42,930
What did it feel like
when he was looking at you?

1331
01:25:42,965 --> 01:25:44,449
It felt scared.

1332
01:25:44,484 --> 01:25:47,418
It felt scary?
What was scary about it?

1333
01:25:48,488 --> 01:25:50,421
Well, felt scared

1334
01:25:50,455 --> 01:25:54,597
because I've never seen
such a... person
like that before.

1335
01:25:54,632 --> 01:25:58,946
And I saw this... person.

1336
01:25:58,981 --> 01:26:01,708
And it had big eyes.

1337
01:26:01,742 --> 01:26:04,193
That's all I saw about it.
Big eyes.

1338
01:26:04,228 --> 01:26:07,472
-They had short legs
and quite a long top.
-Mmm-hmm.

1339
01:26:07,507 --> 01:26:09,198
With a big head

1340
01:26:09,233 --> 01:26:11,718
and eyes
that are bigger than ours.

1341
01:26:11,752 --> 01:26:14,583
How much bigger than ours?

1342
01:26:14,617 --> 01:26:15,860
Four or five times the size.

1343
01:26:15,894 --> 01:26:18,449
Four or five times
the size of ours?

1344
01:26:20,865 --> 01:26:22,211
And then I was looking
at him, right?

1345
01:26:22,246 --> 01:26:24,075
-Yes.
-Then he was looking
at me back.

1346
01:26:24,109 --> 01:26:25,904
How can I just keep on
looking at him?

1347
01:26:25,939 --> 01:26:28,148
So I had to stop
and I looked sideways.

1348
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:30,288
But I was looking
straight into his eyes.

1349
01:26:30,323 --> 01:26:32,911
Well, he never said anything.

1350
01:26:32,946 --> 01:26:35,673
It's just the face
and the eyes.

1351
01:26:35,707 --> 01:26:39,297
Maybe they're trying
to communicate with us.

1352
01:26:39,332 --> 01:26:42,162
Show us something
which we don't know about.

1353
01:26:42,197 --> 01:26:44,682
I think they want... Um...

1354
01:26:46,684 --> 01:26:48,444
people to know that

1355
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:51,999
we're actually making harm
on this world,

1356
01:26:52,034 --> 01:26:54,243
and we mustn't get
too technological.

1357
01:26:54,278 --> 01:26:56,521
We don't look
after the planet.

1358
01:26:56,556 --> 01:27:01,146
All the trees
will be cut down...

1359
01:27:01,181 --> 01:27:03,873
and there will be no air
and people will be dying.

1360
01:27:03,908 --> 01:27:07,774
Is this an idea
you have had before?

1361
01:27:07,808 --> 01:27:13,642
Or did this idea come to you
when you had this experience?

1362
01:27:15,506 --> 01:27:18,888
-When I had this experience.
-Mmm-hmm.

1363
01:27:18,923 --> 01:27:22,582
NARRATOR: For the first time
in nearly 20 years,
the Ariel schoolchildren

1364
01:27:22,616 --> 01:27:26,102
gathered from the four corners of the world

1365
01:27:26,137 --> 01:27:27,518
to talk to each other

1366
01:27:27,552 --> 01:27:29,140
about the experience
they shared

1367
01:27:29,174 --> 01:27:30,797
that September morning.

1368
01:27:30,831 --> 01:27:32,350
I remember something there...

1369
01:27:32,385 --> 01:27:35,388
One they all still
struggle to understand.

1370
01:27:35,422 --> 01:27:37,286
You know that it's moving,
but you...

1371
01:27:37,321 --> 01:27:39,392
SALMA SIDDICK:
I stand by what I saw.

1372
01:27:39,426 --> 01:27:44,155
There was no reason
for any of us.

1373
01:27:44,189 --> 01:27:45,984
to make that up.

1374
01:27:46,019 --> 01:27:48,780
EMMA JELIC KRISTIANSEN:
I've not spoken
to anybody about it.

1375
01:27:48,815 --> 01:27:50,161
Not because
I'm not proud of it,

1376
01:27:50,195 --> 01:27:53,682
but because I don't
want the... The stigma.

1377
01:27:55,615 --> 01:27:57,306
LISIL FIELD:
So it's something that

1378
01:27:57,341 --> 01:28:01,828
I've had to deal with
for 19-and-a-half years.

1379
01:28:03,381 --> 01:28:04,969
I don't wanna say
I felt like I knew it,

1380
01:28:05,003 --> 01:28:07,454
-but I knew that I didn't
have to be afraid of it.
-Yeah.

1381
01:28:07,489 --> 01:28:10,146
NARRATOR: They took us back
to the moment of contact.

1382
01:28:10,181 --> 01:28:12,217
Exactly how I felt.
Exactly...

1383
01:28:12,252 --> 01:28:15,428
The details
still seared into memory.

1384
01:28:15,462 --> 01:28:19,017
I was with one of the other
girls and saying to her,

1385
01:28:19,052 --> 01:28:21,157
"This is amazing."

1386
01:28:21,192 --> 01:28:24,160
We all were just
stopped in our tracks.

1387
01:28:25,369 --> 01:28:28,682
A little man appeared.

1388
01:28:28,717 --> 01:28:30,477
On top of the actual craft.

1389
01:28:30,512 --> 01:28:33,342
And that moment, for me,
was very distinct,

1390
01:28:33,377 --> 01:28:35,379
because I was like,
"That's not human."

1391
01:28:35,413 --> 01:28:38,520
Well, I was just completely
engulfed in these eyes.

1392
01:28:38,554 --> 01:28:41,523
The eyes, and in that moment,
however long it was,

1393
01:28:41,557 --> 01:28:43,939
'cause I have no idea
of the time frame,

1394
01:28:43,973 --> 01:28:45,458
it was just mesmerizing.

1395
01:28:45,492 --> 01:28:50,773
There was no talking.
Um... It's all just images
in the head.

1396
01:28:53,328 --> 01:28:55,330
Telepathic communication.

1397
01:28:56,365 --> 01:28:58,367
SIDDICK: They were trying
to communicate.

1398
01:28:58,402 --> 01:29:00,369
Trying to tell us something,

1399
01:29:00,404 --> 01:29:02,785
or something to do
with the environment.

1400
01:29:02,820 --> 01:29:04,166
I kept getting
these thoughts

1401
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:06,271
and ideas in my mind
of technology.

1402
01:29:06,306 --> 01:29:09,171
Technology is not helping,
technology is bad...

1403
01:29:12,312 --> 01:29:15,039
And we're going down
a wrong path,

1404
01:29:15,073 --> 01:29:16,868
and we have to start
recognizing that

1405
01:29:16,903 --> 01:29:19,802
what we're doing is detrimental
and we need to make changes.

1406
01:29:19,837 --> 01:29:24,324
And I don't know
what to do with that, or...

1407
01:29:26,361 --> 01:29:28,432
They were reaching out to us.

1408
01:29:28,466 --> 01:29:30,882
It was as if they wanted us
to go with them.

1409
01:29:32,643 --> 01:29:35,231
At that moment,
that was kind of

1410
01:29:35,266 --> 01:29:39,650
when I snapped
right out of the trance.

1411
01:29:39,684 --> 01:29:44,240
As soon as I broke contact,
all of those feelings,
technology, the bad,

1412
01:29:44,275 --> 01:29:46,277
the horribleness
that was happening

1413
01:29:46,311 --> 01:29:49,556
and going around my body
at the time went.

1414
01:29:49,591 --> 01:29:52,145
It's making me a bit anxious
being back here.

1415
01:29:52,179 --> 01:29:55,631
I can feel it right now.
I was scared.

1416
01:29:56,563 --> 01:29:59,290
They came running up here
in such a panic,

1417
01:29:59,324 --> 01:30:03,121
screaming, screaming... Ah!
Then we were here.

1418
01:30:03,156 --> 01:30:04,537
And a child
can't make that up.

1419
01:30:05,952 --> 01:30:08,161
SUSAN KRISTIANSEN:
So I was there when they
were interviewing them

1420
01:30:08,195 --> 01:30:10,474
and saw the way they were.

1421
01:30:10,508 --> 01:30:13,511
It was just a huge, big mess
and muddle-up

1422
01:30:13,546 --> 01:30:15,582
and just people everywhere.

1423
01:30:15,617 --> 01:30:18,205
Just ask them questions
straight off

1424
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:19,586
without explaining
to the children

1425
01:30:19,621 --> 01:30:22,209
what they were doing
and why they were doing it.

1426
01:30:22,244 --> 01:30:23,521
It was chaos

1427
01:30:23,556 --> 01:30:26,593
in terms of the media frenzy
that was going on,

1428
01:30:26,628 --> 01:30:30,010
and us being so young,
and not even...

1429
01:30:31,460 --> 01:30:33,842
being allowed time
to comprehend
what we had seen.

1430
01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:37,259
Our teachers certainly
didn't believe us.

1431
01:30:37,293 --> 01:30:38,467
So, that was a big deal,

1432
01:30:38,502 --> 01:30:40,469
'cause we had to continue
going to school there.

1433
01:30:44,059 --> 01:30:47,131
NARRATOR:
We went back one last time
to the Ariel School

1434
01:30:47,165 --> 01:30:48,650
to meet with Judy Bates,

1435
01:30:48,684 --> 01:30:51,066
a teacher at the time
of the incident

1436
01:30:51,100 --> 01:30:53,344
and now the headmistress.

1437
01:30:53,378 --> 01:30:55,484
Something was weighing on her

1438
01:30:55,519 --> 01:30:58,383
that she wanted
to tell the children.

1439
01:30:58,418 --> 01:31:00,006
Yeah, I said
I wanted to apologize.

1440
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:02,629
I should have taken more notice.

1441
01:31:02,664 --> 01:31:06,461
But I didn't.
I was more concerned
about me and not them.

1442
01:31:06,495 --> 01:31:10,499
And what was going on
in my own sort of experience.

1443
01:31:10,534 --> 01:31:12,743
Well, that's what... Yeah.

1444
01:31:16,056 --> 01:31:20,336
INTERVIEWER:
And if you could summarize
in just one sentence

1445
01:31:20,371 --> 01:31:23,339
what took place September 1994

1446
01:31:23,374 --> 01:31:26,308
here at Ariel School,
Ruwa, Zimbabwe,

1447
01:31:26,342 --> 01:31:28,275
what would you say?

1448
01:31:28,310 --> 01:31:31,002
Aliens visited us. [CHUCKLES]

1449
01:31:31,037 --> 01:31:32,659
And that's about it, yeah.

1450
01:31:32,694 --> 01:31:34,454
That's why if you believe it,
you believe it.

1451
01:31:34,489 --> 01:31:36,387
If you don't, well...

1452
01:31:40,736 --> 01:31:42,911
NARRATOR:We find ourselves
confronted with something

1453
01:31:42,945 --> 01:31:47,536
that challenges our very
understanding of reality.

1454
01:31:47,571 --> 01:31:51,506
We may be sharing this
fragile blue-green oasis

1455
01:31:51,540 --> 01:31:54,129
with an unknown other.

1456
01:31:54,163 --> 01:31:58,133
One with a mysterious
relationship to humanity,

1457
01:31:58,167 --> 01:32:01,999
and its own interest
in our world.

1458
01:32:03,207 --> 01:32:05,554
And if you saw him again,
what would you do?

1459
01:32:05,589 --> 01:32:08,108
I'll ask him
what is he doing on Earth,

1460
01:32:08,143 --> 01:32:10,110
and what does he want with us.

1461
01:33:45,861 --> 01:33:49,624
There were well-observed
UFO cases,

1462
01:33:49,658 --> 01:33:53,144
just like modern cases,
in the 18th century.

1463
01:33:53,179 --> 01:33:54,870
In the 17th century.

1464
01:33:54,905 --> 01:33:55,940
There was science.

1465
01:33:55,975 --> 01:33:58,702
There were astronomers,
they had telescopes,

1466
01:33:58,736 --> 01:34:01,118
and they were
very good observers

1467
01:34:01,152 --> 01:34:04,742
because their life depended
on being good observers.

1468
01:34:04,777 --> 01:34:07,814
And these observations come
from all over the world.

1469
01:34:09,298 --> 01:34:11,128
They just have been forgotten.

1470
01:34:37,672 --> 01:34:42,607
I like to think of anomalies,
mysteries, as opportunities,

1471
01:34:42,642 --> 01:34:44,920
and we'll go
after those mysteries,

1472
01:34:44,955 --> 01:34:47,889
take the torch
away from the campfire,

1473
01:34:47,923 --> 01:34:50,823
and out of the cave,
into the darkness

1474
01:34:50,857 --> 01:34:53,239
and make some
amazing discoveries.

1475
01:35:15,468 --> 01:35:19,644
The UFO phenomenon as studied
by my colleagues and myself,

1476
01:35:19,679 --> 01:35:22,993
bespeaks the action of
some form of intelligence.

1477
01:35:35,833 --> 01:35:38,042
[SPEAKING IN OTHER LANGUAGE]

1478
01:36:00,375 --> 01:36:03,240
These objects
gave the impression

1479
01:36:03,274 --> 01:36:05,276
that they wanted to be seen...

1480
01:36:06,484 --> 01:36:09,556
with these enormous spotlights.

1481
01:36:09,591 --> 01:36:12,939
There was no way that
they were trying to hide.

1482
01:36:12,974 --> 01:36:15,804
So why?
That is the main question.

1483
01:36:15,839 --> 01:36:19,152
Why do these objects
want to be seen?

1484
01:36:40,553 --> 01:36:43,590
Later on, I was so sorry

1485
01:36:43,625 --> 01:36:47,836
that why I did not call
on the radio.

1486
01:36:47,871 --> 01:36:51,012
Ask them, "Who are you?

1487
01:36:51,046 --> 01:36:55,844
"Please,
make communication with us."

1488
01:37:12,896 --> 01:37:15,484
I figure if they're smart
enough and capable enough

1489
01:37:15,519 --> 01:37:17,866
[CHUCKLES]
to come into our airspace

1490
01:37:17,901 --> 01:37:19,557
with the technology
that they have,

1491
01:37:19,592 --> 01:37:22,422
if they wanted to do us in,
they could have done us in
a long time ago.

1492
01:37:22,457 --> 01:37:25,011
So, I'm not fearful
of this at all.

1493
01:37:34,779 --> 01:37:36,954
[SPEAKING MANDARIN]

1494
01:38:35,979 --> 01:38:37,877
Every once in a while
one of them goes, zip!

1495
01:38:37,912 --> 01:38:39,396
It went like a bat out of hell.

1496
01:38:39,430 --> 01:38:42,226
Jumped about ten degrees
to the right. Just like this.

1497
01:38:42,261 --> 01:38:45,609
I've never seen anything
go so fast in my life
as that thing went.

1498
01:38:45,643 --> 01:38:49,130
Incredible speed.
Disappeared to nothing.

1499
01:38:49,164 --> 01:38:52,754
And just went, zoom,
straight up so fast.

1500
01:38:52,788 --> 01:38:54,618
It's like it had been
shot out of a gun. Wham!

1501
01:38:54,652 --> 01:38:56,827
Now you see it,
now you don't. It just...

1502
01:38:56,861 --> 01:38:58,518
But it just was, poof!