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Classified military videos
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leaked to the public.
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You can actually hear
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the shock and the awe
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as people saw this
going into the water.
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Top secret Pentagon projects
suddenly exposed.
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It was huge.
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It was a monumental sea change
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in the federal government's
acknowledgment
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of these aerial phenomena
that are unexplained.
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And a shocking admission
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about unidentified
flying objects.
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Our current science,
our current tech
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can't understand some of these.
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The government said that. Wow.
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What is clear is that
these sightings
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simply cannot be explained.
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So the question becomes
"What are we dealing with?"
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Are we on the brink of
full government disclosure
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about the strange objects
witnessed in our skies?
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And if so, will we soon discover
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that they are, in fact,
of extraterrestrial origin?
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Something is going on,
and for the first time ever,
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the government admitted to this.
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There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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Washington, DC.,
the Oval Office,
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December 27, 2020.
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All right, thank you all.
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President Donald Trump
signs a massive
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$2.3 trillion spending
and relief package
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to stimulate economic recovery
from the ravages of COVID-19.
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But the bill serves another,
highly unexpected purpose,
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detailed in its
"Committee Comments" section,
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beneath the heading
"Advanced Aerial Threats."
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The stipulation mandates
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that the Director
of National Intelligence
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work with the Secretary
of Defense on a report
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revealing everything
the government knows
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about "unidentified
aerial phenomena," or U.A.P.
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Because of public pressure,
public scrutiny,
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members of Congress,
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specifically on the Senate
Intelligence Committee,
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inserted language
that the government release
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a report to the public on UFOs.
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And they had 180 days to do it.
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This was jaw-dropping.
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And a lot of people said, "What,
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UFOs and COVID?
What's going on?"
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The original requirement
for a UFO report
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had come from the Senate
Intelligence Committee,
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and they'd articulated it in the
Intelligence Authorization Act
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for Fiscal Year 2021.
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But for a number of reasons,
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that bill wasn't
going to get through.
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So, what they did
is they attached
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that part of the bill
to something they knew
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that would get through,
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and that was
the COVID-19 relief bill.
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To researchers of UFOs...
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or U.A.P.s, as government
agencies now call them...
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it is a watershed moment.
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It is even applauded by many
in Washington,
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who believe the Pentagon
has been overly secretive
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about this phenomenon.
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I'm comforted in knowing
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that we have good folks
in the intelligence community
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who are protecting
our national security.
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At the same time, I think that
not just the American people
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but the global community
really want to know
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what's going on up in our skies.
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I was prompted to ask myself,
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"Where have you been?"
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Why did it take so much
prodding by the public,
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by members of Congress,
over decades, really,
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uh, before you took
this threat seriously?
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There are people
in the government
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who are very hostile
to UFO information.
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The government had
plenty of time and reason
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to investigate these things,
but only seriously
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started compiling data in 2019,
which is totally insane.
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I mean, this information was
available for decades before.
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The UFO community
went into overdrive.
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Some of them were actively
predicting disclosure.
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The mainstream media, as well,
were fully engaged on this.
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And there was
intense speculation.
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I remember,
after Trump had signed
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the COVID relief bill,
and I had to see it.
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So I called up somebody
and I got a link,
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and I went and went down
through all of that bill.
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And, of course,
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there was tremendous amounts
of speculation.
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"Well, are they now
going to tell us
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that we're not alone
in the universe?"
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The government
of the United States
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is openly investigating UFOs.
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And I think that this speaks
volumes
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how the paradigm has shifted.
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But how did the U.S. government
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go from decades
of denying any interest in UFOs
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to passing a bipartisan bill
demanding an official report
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on unidentified
aerial phenomena?
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It's a sea change in policy
with roots that trace back
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to a series of secret meetings
more than two decades earlier.
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Las Vegas, 1995.
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Local TV news reporter
George Knapp,
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famous in Nevada
for his investigation
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of the top secret
Air Force facility Area 51,
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has spent years discussing UFOs
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with Nevada's powerful senator
Harry Reid.
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Senator Reid
has a lot of interest
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in national security issues,
Nellis, Area 51.
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So I told him, "I think
there's a legitimate issue here.
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This is real."
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And so we had
a secret conversation
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that lasted 30 years,
about UFOs.
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In 1995, Knapp invited Reid
to attend a meeting
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hosted by another
powerful Nevada resident
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with a longtime interest
in the topic,
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hotel magnate and aerospace
billionaire Robert Bigelow.
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Bigelow had recently founded
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the National Institute
for Discovery Science,
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a privately financed
research organization
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created to investigate fringe
science and UFO phenomenon.
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I told Reid,
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"I think you should go
check this out."
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He goes to the next board
meeting later in the year
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and is blown away.
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He's hooked.
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But the bond that he formed
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with Bigelow at that point
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became critical to everything
that would unfold later.
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In 2007, with Reid's help,
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Bigelow secured $22 million
from the Department of Defense
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to fund the Advanced Aerial
Threat Identification Program,
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or AATIP, an initiative
that would investigate reports
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of "anomalous aerial vehicles."
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They managed to create
this program in the Pentagon.
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Which was a classified program,
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a sort of black program,
as they say.
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And so, they were able
to get the funds,
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the Pentagon was able to get
up and running with that,
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and I think
that was a game changer.
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Pentagon officials
select former U.S. Army
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Counterintelligence
Special Agent Luis Elizondo
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to run the secret AATIP program.
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Lou Elizondo
was put in charge that.
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He was overseeing
this little group of people
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in different parts
of the Pentagon.
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They would exchange information,
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do what they could and try
to keep a very low profile.
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some people in the Pentagon
knew what they were doing,
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but others did not.
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Elizondo ran AATIP
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for those approximately
seven years
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with funding from Senator
Harry Reid in Nevada.
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And none of us knew
anything about it.
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As Elizondo delved into
the government's secret files,
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he became convinced
that UFOs could pose
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a major national security
threat.
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But, to his growing frustration,
he struggled
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to get anyone to listen to him.
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Lou figured out that forces
within the Pentagon
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weren't taking this seriously,
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and were perhaps
dismissing and covering up
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and suppressing UFO information
for various reasons.
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And Lou couldn't stand
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the fact that, within the halls
of the Pentagon,
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it wasn't being taken seriously.
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In October 2017,
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Luis Elizondo resigned
from AATIP
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after Pentagon officials
refused to present his findings
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to Defense Secretary
James Mattis.
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- I-I've seen too much.
- I've talked to too many people.
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I have too many reports.
I-I know it's real.
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I-I can't in good conscience
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just keep my head
buried in the sand.
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I had to leave the very job
that I love
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to get my point across.
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Just as Elizondo
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was leaving his position
at the Pentagon,
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Tom DeLonge, co-founder
of the rock band Blink-182,
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was forming a group
called To the Stars Academy
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to collect and study information
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on unidentified
aerial phenomena.
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Tom DeLonge gathered around him
an extraordinary team
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of insiders with backgrounds
in the government,
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intelligence community,
the aerospace community...
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particularly
cutting-edge technologies.
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Elizondo almost immediately
went to work for Tom DeLonge,
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and his new company
To the Stars,
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a company that was dedicated
to working to try
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to uncover the answers
about the UFO phenomena,
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which just seemed like
a perfect stroke of luck.
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With the addition of Elizondo,
To The Stars Academy
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now had unprecedented access
to government intel
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on unidentified
aerial phenomena.
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And unbeknownst to Elizondo's
former bosses in the military,
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he hadn't left government
service empty-handed.
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He brought with him
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extraordinary video evidence
of UFOs.
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After Luis Elizondo resigns
from his position with AATIP
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and leaves the Pentagon,
he shares
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three declassified videos
recorded by Navy pilots
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with his new colleagues
at To The Stars Academy.
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The first object,
known as Tic Tac,
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was caught on radar in 2004
off the USS Nimitz
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at an altitude of 80,000 feet.
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As Navy F-18s
approached the object,
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it descended to within one foot
of the water in seconds.
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We don't have this capability
of dropping 80,000 feet
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within a matter of seconds,
hitting a velocity of Mach 20.
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So, we now know that there's
some kind of propulsion system
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that exceeds the capability
of our own rockets.
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Naval aviator
Lieutenant Chad Underwood
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was ordered to pursue the object
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in an F-18 equipped
with a sophisticated
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FLIR video system.
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The object looked featureless,
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and that's why I called it
the Tic Tac.
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It looked like a Tic Tac.
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It had no wings,
no method of propulsion
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and on your forward-looking
infrared pod,
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all it is is tracking heat.
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So you would typically see
engine exhaust
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coming out of one of the ends
of the aircraft.
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Not seeing any of it.
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The object was changing
altitude, air speed,
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things that my FLIR and my radar
were having difficulty tracking.
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And then at the end
of the encounter
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is when you see it dart off
to my left on the FLIR pod,
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and that's when I was like,
"Whoa. What just happened?"
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The other two videos Elizondo
brought to his colleagues
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at To the Stars Academy
were equally groundbreaking.
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Known as "Gimbal" and "GoFast,"
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both videos were taken
by Navy jets
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from the USS Theodore Roosevelt
near the Florida coast in 2015.
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All three videos
show objects moving in ways
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that defy the known
laws of physics.
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These objects can
zigzag effortlessly,
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defying the known laws
of aerodynamics.
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These objects can
effortlessly accelerate
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up to 20 times
the speed of sound.
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They have no visible
means of propulsion.
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So what could it be?
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Well, the short answer is,
we don't know.
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The phenomena had
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unusual flight characteristics,
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unusual vectors, speed,
being able to hover and move.
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The fact that the Chinese
or the Russians
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or anyone else would have
that kind of capability
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and we wouldn't know about it
is pretty slim.
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As head of AATIP,
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Elizondo was able to have
the videos declassified,
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but they had never
been made public.
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His involvement
in To the Stars Academy
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offered a new opportunity to
share the remarkable information
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collected at the Pentagon.
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To The Stars... their goal was
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that they were
gonna crack it all open,
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and they were going
to open up the truth
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that the government knows about
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these unidentified
aerial phenomena
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that have a technology
that does not exist
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in terms of human production.
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To The Stars Academy,
to their credit,
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brought Lou Elizondo
together with Chris Mellon,
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Department of Defense official,
Senate Intelligence insider.
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And then they go
to The New York Times
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with this blockbuster story
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about the U.S. government's
interest in investigating UFOs.
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Chris Mellon arranged a meeting
with Leslie Kean,
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a best-selling author
who had spent years
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trying to draw mainstream media
attention to UFOs.
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Mellon and Elizondo
revealed to Kean the existence
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of the secret AATIP program
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and promised her access
to the videos
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if she could place the story
with The New York Times.
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Leslie Kean is very
well-connected, politically.
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Her uncle Thomas Kean
was the former governor
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of New Jersey and headed up
the 9/11 Commission.
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This gives you an idea
of, uh, just how plugged in
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to the political network
Leslie is.
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So when Leslie was contacted
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by Lou Elizondo
and Chris Mellon,
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she then teamed up
with Ralph Blumenthal,
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veteran New York Times reporter,
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and Helene Cooper,
again from the Times.
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Ralph Blumenthal came to know
Leslie Kean
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while working on his book
The Believer, a biography
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about alien abductions
researcher Dr. John Mack.
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When he heard about
the government's AATIP program,
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he was eager to help
break the story.
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Well, it was clearly a great
story for The New York Times.
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A-A secret Pentagon unit
investigating UFOs
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after, uh, the government
was supposed to be out
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of the UFO business,
but of course, never really was.
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Blumenthal pitched
the story directly
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to the New York Times
managing editor Dean Baquet.
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And on December 16th, 2017,
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Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal,
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and Helene Cooper's
groundbreaking report
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about the Pentagon's
mysterious UFO program
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made the front page of The
New York Times online edition.
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We had it
nailed down chapter and verse,
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the people involved it in
on the...
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everything on the record,
the documents,
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so this hit all the benchmarks.
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We had the Navy videos,
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which we were able to put
on the Times website
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and they garnered more views
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than almost anything
in Times history.
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This was a real turning point
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in the United States,
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because The New York Times
has always said that
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they are the guardians
of the truth.
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Suddenly, The New York Times
is actually reporting on UFOs.
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This really shows that UFOs
and the study of UFOs
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and the investigation
has entered the mainstream.
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All of a sudden, since 2017,
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these stories
have become front-page news
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on worldwide newspapers.
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And it clearly shows that there
was a type of a paradigm shift
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that's happened
over the past 25 years.
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And for someone like me,
it's-it's incredible.
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Astonished by the AATIP
revelations and leaked videos,
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Congress demanded briefings,
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forcing the intelligence
communities to respond.
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Suddenly,
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UFO briefings become the hottest
ticket on Capitol Hill.
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Briefings for the Armed Services
Committee,
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the Intelligence Committee,
everybody wants in.
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Congress takes it serious.
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The media give them
political coverage
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by saying this
is a legitimate story.
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So you have people like
Marco Rubio and Senator Warner
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who can tell, uh, reporters,
"Yeah, we're looking into this.
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This is a-a legitimate mystery."
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We have things flying
over military installations,
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over military exercises,
and other places,
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and we don't know what it is.
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If there are objects flying
over military installations,
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that could pose
a security threat.
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I think we're gonna
have more hearings.
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And I think
that we're seeing we can
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have these conversations
publicly, in a way
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that doesn't warrant mockery
or scorn or ridicule.
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I think
it's critically important.
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After 70 years of taboo
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going back to the 1947 incident
at Roswell, New Mexico,
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the study of UFOs had finally
gained mainstream acceptance.
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But is the U.S. military
ready to share all it knows?
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Or are there still forces
within the Pentagon
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that will go to any length
to protect its secrets?
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In the wake of the
New York Times revelations
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about AATIP and the explosive
Navy videos,
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the House and Senate
Armed Services Committees
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begin interviewing Navy pilots
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who claim to have
witnessed U.A.P.s
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while on training missions.
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It started
with closed-door briefings
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of senior staff members.
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These pilots, David Fravor
and Alex Dietrich,
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and, uh, people like that...
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Chad Underwood, uh, Ryan Graves,
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start being led up
to Capitol Hill.
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They tell their stories.
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This thing would go
instantaneous
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from one way to another.
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And just rapidly accelerates
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beyond anything
that I've ever seen.
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They are incredibly believable.
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They have gravitas.
They're not UFO nuts.
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We were able to then visually
pick up, uh, what we describe
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as a Tic Tac
that was moving very fast.
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They're telling stories about
encounters with strange craft
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that are way beyond
any technology we have.
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We do workups along
the, uh, Eastern Seaboard
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and these objects
kind of came with us.
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The fact that he would
just get himself on his wing tip
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with no turn
isn't how aircraft work.
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The senior staff members
are impressed.
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They tell the elected members
of Congress.
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It changed everything.
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I never thought
I would see it in my lifetime,
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and here it is,
unfolding right before our eyes.
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Still unfolding.
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The Pentagon has had to respond.
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It might just be difficult
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for the Pentagon to completely
do a blanket denial
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the way they used to.
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In August 2020,
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in a rare instance
of transparency,
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the U.S. Department of Defense
announces that the work
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Luis Elizondo oversaw
with AATIP...
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analyzing and cataloging
U.A.P.s...
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is still being carried on
under a new program
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called the Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
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That same summer,
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Senator Marco Rubio's
Intelligence Committee
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drafts legislation giving
the Pentagon 180 days
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to publicly report
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what government agencies know
about U.A.P.s.
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The Senate Intelligence
Committee
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puts in a bill for 2021,
"We want a report on U.A.P."
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And so, the whole,
the whole momentum of this
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is this, is this theme of
"We need to do something,
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we need to get serious
about it."
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The legislation is passed
and signed by the president,
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and the 180-day countdown
begins.
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But curiously,
even as this was happening,
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top Pentagon officials
were attacking
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Luis Elizondo's credibility,
422
00:21:50,477 --> 00:21:54,053
and claiming that he had
nothing to do with AATIP.
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The Pentagon had launched
a smear campaign
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against Elizondo,
calling him crazy.
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00:22:00,879 --> 00:22:05,565
On May 3rd, 2021, Lou Elizondo
filed a 64-page complaint
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with the inspector general.
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00:22:07,235 --> 00:22:11,070
These are, like, the top cops
in the Department of Justice.
428
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There is still pockets
of resistance in the Pentagon
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that is trying to muzzle
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or, if you will, stifle
this conversation.
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00:22:18,321 --> 00:22:20,838
That must be corrected,
and, yes, I'd love it
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if they also corrected
the record about me,
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00:22:23,251 --> 00:22:26,419
but that is less important
than not fixing the record
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about this overall conversation.
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00:22:28,573 --> 00:22:31,332
So now you have a movement
436
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after all these years to begin
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to crack that secrecy
even by a little bit.
438
00:22:36,097 --> 00:22:39,599
You're clearly going to have
a very powerful faction
439
00:22:39,693 --> 00:22:42,435
of individuals who are going
to do everything possible
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to thwart that effort.
441
00:22:44,513 --> 00:22:46,680
And if that means
smearing good people
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with good reputations,
well, so be it, this is war.
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Researchers suggest efforts
to deny whistleblower testimony
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00:22:55,041 --> 00:23:00,211
about the existence of UFOs have
persisted since World War II,
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00:23:00,363 --> 00:23:04,440
citing government reactions to
numerous bombshell revelations.
446
00:23:04,459 --> 00:23:08,202
Whistleblowers, in many ways,
447
00:23:08,296 --> 00:23:12,115
are the most courageous heroes
of the 20th to the 21st century
448
00:23:12,208 --> 00:23:15,709
because they were
decent human beings
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00:23:15,803 --> 00:23:19,472
who get hired to do science,
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00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:24,293
and then what they find
themselves in are straitjackets.
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Straitjackets of political
policies,
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of Defense Department policies.
453
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:34,804
Each of the different intel
agencies and military groups,
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00:23:34,897 --> 00:23:38,975
they want to control
whatever is being let out.
455
00:23:39,068 --> 00:23:43,146
It's been going on
since World War II to today.
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In 1958, after
conducting research on UFOs
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00:23:47,910 --> 00:23:50,595
with the help of his contacts
at the Pentagon,
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00:23:50,746 --> 00:23:54,340
retired Marine Corps pilot
Major Donald Keyhoe
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went on a live
television program
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called
The Armstrong Circle Theatre
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00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:01,330
to report his conclusion
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00:24:01,349 --> 00:24:05,092
that extraterrestrials were,
in fact, visiting Earth.
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But mysteriously, just as he
was about to make this point,
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the sound cut out.
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If the hearings are held,
open hearings, I feel
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it will prove beyond a doubt
that the flying saucers are...
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00:24:24,522 --> 00:24:29,133
In 1989, when physicist
Bob Lazar claimed
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00:24:29,285 --> 00:24:30,671
that he was hired
to reverse engineer
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00:24:30,695 --> 00:24:32,361
an alien spacecraft
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at a top secret military base
called Area 51,
471
00:24:36,142 --> 00:24:40,886
government officials denied that
the base even existed at all,
472
00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:45,466
a falsehood that would be
exposed 14 years later.
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00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,302
You can hear Bob Lazar's story,
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00:24:48,396 --> 00:24:50,971
and it sounds so outlandish.
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00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,658
Until you have people
within the Pentagon saying,
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00:24:53,885 --> 00:24:56,030
"We do have recovered
materials and craft,"
477
00:24:56,054 --> 00:24:58,888
and then you have to look
back at Bob Lazar's story
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00:24:58,981 --> 00:25:01,148
and you see he's telling you
the truth.
479
00:25:01,242 --> 00:25:07,338
In 1997, retired U.S. Army
Colonel Philip J. Corso
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published The Day After Roswell,
in which he confirms
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that an extraterrestrial craft
482
00:25:13,329 --> 00:25:17,181
did indeed crash
in the New Mexico desert.
483
00:25:17,333 --> 00:25:20,834
It was met with similar denials
from the Pentagon.
484
00:25:20,854 --> 00:25:23,170
Colonel Corso's entire book
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00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:26,357
is about the physical evidence,
where it went,
486
00:25:26,509 --> 00:25:31,754
the fact that there
were, uh, policies of denial.
487
00:25:31,773 --> 00:25:34,681
All of it was off-limits.
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00:25:34,776 --> 00:25:40,112
When the Pentagon tries
to discredit Elizondo in 2020,
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many fear it indicates
business as usual,
490
00:25:43,526 --> 00:25:46,377
and that the government
U.A.P. report will once again
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00:25:46,529 --> 00:25:50,289
prove to be an effort to debunk
rather than disclose.
492
00:25:50,441 --> 00:25:52,608
But to the surprise of many,
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the inspector general
immediately agrees
494
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to investigate
Elizondo's complaint.
495
00:25:57,782 --> 00:26:00,725
Ancient astronaut theorists
are hopeful
496
00:26:00,952 --> 00:26:03,286
this could lead
to an official reexamination
497
00:26:03,379 --> 00:26:05,712
of the high-profile
UFO incidents
498
00:26:05,732 --> 00:26:08,900
that have been dismissed before.
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00:26:09,127 --> 00:26:11,627
It's possible the inspector
general could get in
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and find evidence about
what happened with Roswell,
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what happened with Major Keyhoe,
what happened with Bob Lazar.
502
00:26:17,969 --> 00:26:20,394
All of these questions
under oath
503
00:26:20,488 --> 00:26:22,328
would be asked
of Pentagon officials,
504
00:26:22,398 --> 00:26:25,249
and the public would
get to know about it as well.
505
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,478
While the inspector general's
investigation
506
00:26:29,497 --> 00:26:31,905
was just getting started,
507
00:26:31,925 --> 00:26:34,166
the release of the government's
U.A.P. report
508
00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:35,927
was only a month away.
509
00:26:36,154 --> 00:26:39,413
And as the anticipation
was growing,
510
00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:43,059
more explosive new evidence
came to light.
511
00:26:53,521 --> 00:26:57,022
With the government's
much-anticipated report on UFOs
512
00:26:57,175 --> 00:27:01,435
only weeks away,
veteran journalist George Knapp
513
00:27:01,529 --> 00:27:04,271
and documentary filmmaker
Jeremy Corbell
514
00:27:04,365 --> 00:27:06,365
drop yet another bombshell:
515
00:27:06,517 --> 00:27:10,035
new footage of U.S.
encounters with U.A.P.s
516
00:27:10,188 --> 00:27:12,421
from Navy combat ships.
517
00:27:14,876 --> 00:27:17,951
These were leaked videos
and photos
518
00:27:18,045 --> 00:27:21,806
from the actual Pentagon
UFO task force.
519
00:27:22,033 --> 00:27:25,201
One of which showed
a pyramid-shaped object
520
00:27:25,219 --> 00:27:29,630
floating above the USS Russell
off the West Coast.
521
00:27:29,724 --> 00:27:31,540
And it wasn't just one pyramid.
522
00:27:31,559 --> 00:27:33,568
There were apparently swarms
of these things.
523
00:27:35,380 --> 00:27:38,898
They were triangular,
by angle of observation.
524
00:27:39,050 --> 00:27:43,977
But they were pyramid in shape,
in reality.
525
00:27:43,997 --> 00:27:48,982
Other leaked videos were
recorded aboard the USS Omaha,
526
00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:52,561
part of the same strike group
as the USS Russell.
527
00:27:52,655 --> 00:27:55,915
These included not only
a smartphone recording
528
00:27:56,009 --> 00:27:58,992
but also thermal imaging footage
529
00:27:59,086 --> 00:28:01,512
and video of the objects
caught on radar.
530
00:28:05,018 --> 00:28:07,092
You've got what's known as FLIR,
531
00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:09,520
that is, forward-looking
infrared, or thermal signatures.
532
00:28:10,932 --> 00:28:12,932
You have radar data as well.
533
00:28:13,084 --> 00:28:16,435
And there was actually video
that was shot by Navy personnel
534
00:28:16,587 --> 00:28:18,399
on the deck looking up
at these objects.
535
00:28:18,423 --> 00:28:21,032
So you have three
different types of things.
536
00:28:21,183 --> 00:28:24,535
One video appeared to show
a single round object
537
00:28:24,687 --> 00:28:27,538
flying above the water,
then hovering,
538
00:28:27,690 --> 00:28:31,208
before making a controlled
descent into the ocean.
539
00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:32,693
You can actually hear
540
00:28:32,712 --> 00:28:36,121
in the CIC... which is
the Combat Information Center...
541
00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:37,715
the shock and the awe...
542
00:28:40,127 --> 00:28:42,845
...as people saw this vehicle
going into the water.
543
00:28:47,393 --> 00:28:49,952
These objects can apparently fly
through the atmosphere
544
00:28:49,971 --> 00:28:52,121
at velocities that exceed
545
00:28:52,139 --> 00:28:54,715
the known velocities
of our projectiles.
546
00:28:54,809 --> 00:28:58,402
And they can go underwater,
547
00:28:58,554 --> 00:29:00,629
exceeding the pressure
that would normally rupture
548
00:29:00,648 --> 00:29:03,407
the hull of a projectile.
549
00:29:03,634 --> 00:29:05,651
In other words,
these objects have a capability
550
00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:09,896
exceeding that of ours because
they can go to outer space,
551
00:29:09,916 --> 00:29:12,416
through the atmosphere
and even the oceans.
552
00:29:14,829 --> 00:29:18,422
Skeptics rushed to claim
the videos were refracted light,
553
00:29:18,649 --> 00:29:23,486
or errant weather balloons
or perhaps even fakes.
554
00:29:23,579 --> 00:29:26,005
But the debunkers
were dealt a blow
555
00:29:26,157 --> 00:29:28,151
when the Pentagon
quickly confirmed
556
00:29:28,175 --> 00:29:30,826
that the videos were authentic.
557
00:29:30,919 --> 00:29:33,920
In UFO world,
everything's a conspiracy.
558
00:29:33,940 --> 00:29:36,440
So when we released
these images,
559
00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:38,592
we're being fed disinformation
by the government.
560
00:29:38,611 --> 00:29:39,760
That's the assumption.
561
00:29:39,854 --> 00:29:41,353
"These are phonies."
562
00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:43,407
The same kind of accusations
that were leveled
563
00:29:43,432 --> 00:29:46,266
at the images released
by Lou Elizondo,
564
00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:48,769
New York Times, back in 2017.
565
00:29:48,863 --> 00:29:50,771
Same kind of attacks
566
00:29:50,790 --> 00:29:53,290
from people who just
don't want it to be true.
567
00:29:53,442 --> 00:29:55,587
They don't want there
to be genuine unknowns.
568
00:29:55,611 --> 00:29:58,871
So we released them,
got them verified.
569
00:29:59,023 --> 00:30:01,782
And damned if the Pentagon
didn't come out and say "Yep,
570
00:30:01,801 --> 00:30:04,043
they're real, they're legit."
571
00:30:04,137 --> 00:30:08,139
One of the most fascinating
aspects of all this
572
00:30:08,366 --> 00:30:11,534
was how quick
the Department of Defense was
573
00:30:11,627 --> 00:30:14,703
to confirm the authenticity
of this material.
574
00:30:14,797 --> 00:30:17,389
In the normal course
of business,
575
00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:21,710
the policy is to either debunk
or refuse to comment at all.
576
00:30:21,729 --> 00:30:24,655
Which makes one wonder,
is this material coming out
577
00:30:24,807 --> 00:30:27,716
with the tacit approval
of someone in government,
578
00:30:27,735 --> 00:30:30,477
or at least a faction
within government,
579
00:30:30,496 --> 00:30:33,164
the military,
the intelligence community?
580
00:30:33,391 --> 00:30:37,668
The reaction was huge
when it came to these.
581
00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:40,987
Mainstream media picked up
on it almost immediately.
582
00:30:41,082 --> 00:30:43,340
And it became a sensation,
583
00:30:43,568 --> 00:30:46,585
all leading up to the countdown
to this report.
584
00:30:46,679 --> 00:30:49,254
My personal intent
585
00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:53,075
was to stoke the fire, was to
provide new data and evidence...
586
00:30:53,168 --> 00:30:56,002
corroborative data
and evidence...
587
00:30:56,097 --> 00:30:59,582
that shows that we are
being engaged
588
00:30:59,675 --> 00:31:02,918
by a technology
of unknown origin,
589
00:31:03,011 --> 00:31:06,922
and behind that technology
is an intelligence.
590
00:31:06,941 --> 00:31:09,608
Look, a little bit of pressure
is not the worst thing
591
00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:12,519
if, uh, you want the U.S.
government to come clean
592
00:31:12,538 --> 00:31:15,372
on a subject that it has
lied about, you know,
593
00:31:15,524 --> 00:31:17,524
for more than 70,
almost 80 years.
594
00:31:17,543 --> 00:31:20,436
With the deadline
now weeks away,
595
00:31:20,529 --> 00:31:23,547
the speculation
reached a fever pitch.
596
00:31:23,774 --> 00:31:26,775
Would the final report
be yet another cover-up,
597
00:31:26,869 --> 00:31:29,887
as many in the UFO community
predicted?
598
00:31:30,114 --> 00:31:34,391
Or might it contain
shocking revelations?
599
00:31:45,980 --> 00:31:50,466
The Pentagon's U.A.P. Task
Force, along with the Office
600
00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:52,968
of the Director
of National Intelligence,
601
00:31:52,987 --> 00:31:56,229
submits to Congress
its long-awaited report.
602
00:31:56,323 --> 00:31:59,065
Entitled
"Preliminary Assessment:
603
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,735
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,"
604
00:32:01,754 --> 00:32:05,756
the simple nine-page report
represents the most direct
605
00:32:05,908 --> 00:32:08,834
and substantive U.S. government
account of U.A.P.s
606
00:32:08,928 --> 00:32:11,670
ever made public.
607
00:32:11,822 --> 00:32:16,082
The headline is that
out of 144 reported encounters,
608
00:32:16,102 --> 00:32:21,605
only one UAP was identified
as a large, deflating balloon.
609
00:32:21,757 --> 00:32:26,277
The other UAPs
remain unexplained.
610
00:32:26,428 --> 00:32:28,779
I thought that report
was tremendous.
611
00:32:28,931 --> 00:32:31,115
A tremendously important
step forward.
612
00:32:31,342 --> 00:32:33,842
'Cause to me, it says
two things: UFOs are real,
613
00:32:33,861 --> 00:32:35,619
and two, they're not ours.
614
00:32:35,771 --> 00:32:37,103
I thought it was
an astonishing report.
615
00:32:37,123 --> 00:32:38,847
And it spoke volumes.
616
00:32:38,866 --> 00:32:42,534
We got 144 cases,
we can't figure out 143 of them.
617
00:32:42,628 --> 00:32:44,353
It's monumental.
618
00:32:44,446 --> 00:32:46,046
I mean,
it is a watershed moment.
619
00:32:46,114 --> 00:32:48,001
We're giving cover
and relief for folks
620
00:32:48,025 --> 00:32:49,950
who are in the intelligence
community now
621
00:32:49,969 --> 00:32:52,861
and work for our government
and folks who have served
622
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,789
and pilots who can now talk
about this thing.
623
00:32:55,808 --> 00:32:58,701
It's only a preliminary
assessment.
624
00:32:58,719 --> 00:33:01,127
Some people in the UFO community
were a bit disappointed
625
00:33:01,147 --> 00:33:03,889
because it wasn't disclosure.
626
00:33:04,041 --> 00:33:06,375
But what it did say was,
I think,
627
00:33:06,393 --> 00:33:08,227
very encouraging and important.
628
00:33:08,379 --> 00:33:12,898
It essentially said
that whatever UFOs are,
629
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:18,495
some of these sightings
demonstrate advanced technology,
630
00:33:18,647 --> 00:33:22,666
and this, in one sense,
is a form of disclosure.
631
00:33:22,818 --> 00:33:26,003
It's certainly
taking this further
632
00:33:26,230 --> 00:33:28,655
than it's ever been taken
before within government.
633
00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,415
It's quite an admission.
634
00:33:30,568 --> 00:33:33,902
Of the 144 reports
635
00:33:33,921 --> 00:33:36,421
that the U.A.P. Task Force
reviewed,
636
00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:42,669
the bulk of the sightings had
occurred between 2019 and 2021,
637
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:46,673
after the Navy reporting
protocol was put into effect.
638
00:33:46,692 --> 00:33:51,754
But perhaps what is most
compelling is the revelation
639
00:33:51,772 --> 00:33:53,847
that out of the 144
reported UAP sightings,
640
00:33:53,866 --> 00:33:56,775
only one sighting
has been explained.
641
00:33:56,869 --> 00:34:00,279
Only one out of them
has been shown to be spurious.
642
00:34:00,431 --> 00:34:04,708
That indicates to me that
we're sitting on a gold mine,
643
00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:08,528
a gold mine of incidences
that cannot be explained
644
00:34:08,622 --> 00:34:10,214
using the normal metrics.
645
00:34:12,885 --> 00:34:14,793
We're talking about incidences
646
00:34:14,945 --> 00:34:17,946
that are beyond the stretch
of our imagination,
647
00:34:17,965 --> 00:34:21,283
that indicate new laws
of physics opening up.
648
00:34:21,302 --> 00:34:24,953
And we physicists are just
dying to get access to it.
649
00:34:25,047 --> 00:34:27,064
The report established
650
00:34:27,215 --> 00:34:29,474
five potential
explanatory categories...
651
00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:31,794
airborne clutter,
652
00:34:31,887 --> 00:34:33,904
natural atmospheric phenomena,
653
00:34:34,056 --> 00:34:38,467
U.S. government or American
industry developmental programs,
654
00:34:38,485 --> 00:34:40,577
foreign adversary systems,
655
00:34:40,729 --> 00:34:43,322
and a category
for U.A.P. reports
656
00:34:43,416 --> 00:34:48,994
that require additional
analysis, simply called "Other."
657
00:34:49,146 --> 00:34:53,999
"Other" simply means beyond
the known technologies of today,
658
00:34:54,151 --> 00:34:57,820
which could be extraterrestrial,
or who knows?
659
00:34:57,838 --> 00:35:00,431
But I think the military
is now admitting
660
00:35:00,582 --> 00:35:03,508
"other" could mean
extraterrestrial.
661
00:35:03,602 --> 00:35:05,677
Although the word
"extraterrestrial"
662
00:35:05,771 --> 00:35:09,440
never appears in the report,
many observers believe
663
00:35:09,667 --> 00:35:12,835
it contains one
very profound statement.
664
00:35:12,853 --> 00:35:14,945
There's a bombshell quote
in the report
665
00:35:15,097 --> 00:35:16,817
that a lot of people
have missed,
666
00:35:16,841 --> 00:35:18,782
and it says, essentially,
667
00:35:19,009 --> 00:35:21,785
that we may have
to fundamentally change
668
00:35:22,012 --> 00:35:24,179
our understanding
of the laws of physics
669
00:35:24,198 --> 00:35:26,123
to figure out
what's going on here.
670
00:35:26,274 --> 00:35:30,519
"We may require additional
scientific knowledge
671
00:35:30,537 --> 00:35:32,871
"to successfully collect on,
analyze
672
00:35:33,023 --> 00:35:34,523
"and characterize some of them.
673
00:35:34,541 --> 00:35:36,800
"Pending scientific advances
674
00:35:37,027 --> 00:35:39,803
that allowed us to better
understand them."
675
00:35:39,955 --> 00:35:43,048
This is not a sci-fi novel,
this is a government report.
676
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,478
That was the thing that most
stuck out to me as jaw-dropping.
677
00:35:47,629 --> 00:35:49,349
"Our current science,
our current tech
678
00:35:49,373 --> 00:35:50,964
can't understand some of these."
679
00:35:50,983 --> 00:35:53,392
The government said that. Wow.
680
00:35:53,544 --> 00:35:56,820
Additional scientific knowledge
could mean knowledge
681
00:35:56,972 --> 00:35:59,731
beyond the known laws
of physics.
682
00:35:59,884 --> 00:36:02,308
In other words, a technology
683
00:36:02,328 --> 00:36:05,721
thousands of years
more advanced than ours.
684
00:36:05,814 --> 00:36:10,000
The U.A.P. Report received mixed
reactions from the public.
685
00:36:10,227 --> 00:36:13,412
Some were stunned
by the government's admission
686
00:36:13,564 --> 00:36:16,415
that it couldn't explain so many
of the unidentified objects
687
00:36:16,509 --> 00:36:18,417
seen in the sky,
688
00:36:18,511 --> 00:36:22,754
while others felt it contained
nothing of substance.
689
00:36:22,907 --> 00:36:26,350
But for UFO investigators,
the report represented
690
00:36:26,501 --> 00:36:29,502
validation
that was long overdue.
691
00:36:29,522 --> 00:36:34,525
The U.A.P. report
that came out in June 2021
692
00:36:34,752 --> 00:36:38,754
was revolutionary
for the world of UFOs,
693
00:36:38,772 --> 00:36:41,347
because for the first time
694
00:36:41,367 --> 00:36:44,184
in the history
of the United States,
695
00:36:44,278 --> 00:36:48,038
the government of the United
States has released a statement
696
00:36:48,265 --> 00:36:52,935
in which the whole UFO question
is addressed.
697
00:36:52,953 --> 00:36:57,940
And the bottom line is
that the U.S. government knows
698
00:36:57,958 --> 00:37:00,884
what our adversaries
are capable of.
699
00:37:01,111 --> 00:37:05,038
And in this report
it says it's not them.
700
00:37:05,132 --> 00:37:08,300
I have more hope.
701
00:37:08,452 --> 00:37:12,563
It doesn't change
the dangerous relationship
702
00:37:12,790 --> 00:37:15,215
that I have
with several whistleblowers
703
00:37:15,234 --> 00:37:20,128
who have, I am telling you,
substantial information.
704
00:37:20,147 --> 00:37:23,815
Not about just one type
of nonhuman.
705
00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:26,410
There are a lot.
706
00:37:26,637 --> 00:37:29,321
That's the part that keeps
astonishing me.
707
00:37:29,473 --> 00:37:32,474
Now that the United States
government has confirmed
708
00:37:32,493 --> 00:37:35,811
that there are, in fact,
unidentified flying objects
709
00:37:35,904 --> 00:37:38,238
in our skies that top scientists
710
00:37:38,257 --> 00:37:41,074
and military personnel
cannot explain,
711
00:37:41,093 --> 00:37:44,336
many are hopeful that these
objects will soon be revealed
712
00:37:44,488 --> 00:37:47,322
to be of
extraterrestrial origin.
713
00:37:47,341 --> 00:37:51,768
But if that happens,
what comes next?
714
00:38:02,022 --> 00:38:05,357
The publication of Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena report,
715
00:38:05,509 --> 00:38:09,936
along with the declassified
Navy videos,
716
00:38:09,955 --> 00:38:12,456
marks the largest public
disclosure of the possible
717
00:38:12,607 --> 00:38:14,527
existence of extraterrestrials
in U.S. history.
718
00:38:14,685 --> 00:38:19,037
In the wake of the report,
politicians like Marco Rubio,
719
00:38:19,131 --> 00:38:21,298
Mark Warner, Adam Schiff
720
00:38:21,449 --> 00:38:23,025
and Andr� Carson
721
00:38:23,118 --> 00:38:27,287
have called for further funding
and study.
722
00:38:27,306 --> 00:38:29,139
There's voluminous data
available,
723
00:38:29,366 --> 00:38:32,050
but the report really
just skimmed the surface.
724
00:38:32,144 --> 00:38:34,438
It just said, "We're gonna need
more time to look into this."
725
00:38:34,462 --> 00:38:37,314
There's a history
of this going back
726
00:38:37,541 --> 00:38:40,300
to the early years
of the 20th century, at least.
727
00:38:40,394 --> 00:38:42,727
Not even talking
about the sightings
728
00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:45,305
going back to the Bible.
729
00:38:45,324 --> 00:38:49,551
And literature of other cultures
going back thousands of years,
730
00:38:49,570 --> 00:38:52,496
talking about unexplained things
in the sky.
731
00:38:52,723 --> 00:38:54,981
But just in our era,
732
00:38:55,075 --> 00:38:56,983
there have been
many documented accounts
733
00:38:57,002 --> 00:38:59,336
which they chose
not to deal with,
734
00:38:59,487 --> 00:39:02,247
so they just took
a very narrow slice of this.
735
00:39:02,399 --> 00:39:03,899
We don't want to trivialize
this matter.
736
00:39:03,917 --> 00:39:06,251
We want to make sure
we remove the stigma
737
00:39:06,345 --> 00:39:08,828
while engaging with some
of our civilian organizations
738
00:39:08,922 --> 00:39:10,405
who are seeing these things.
739
00:39:10,424 --> 00:39:13,258
And working with the government
in ensuring
740
00:39:13,410 --> 00:39:17,337
that if it is otherworldly,
we will have
741
00:39:17,431 --> 00:39:21,266
internal controls in place
to protect us, and to engage,
742
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,510
in the event that that happens,
in a healthy and safe way.
743
00:39:24,605 --> 00:39:28,607
The majority of unidentified
aerial phenomena data
744
00:39:28,701 --> 00:39:30,033
came from the U.S. Navy.
745
00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:33,762
But efforts are underway
746
00:39:33,855 --> 00:39:35,931
to standardize
incident reporting
747
00:39:35,949 --> 00:39:38,934
across all government services
and agencies.
748
00:39:39,027 --> 00:39:42,120
The U.A.P. Task Force
plans to expand
749
00:39:42,272 --> 00:39:44,881
to include the Air Force
and the FAA,
750
00:39:45,109 --> 00:39:48,777
and use artificial intelligence
to analyze new data.
751
00:39:48,795 --> 00:39:51,371
We're talking about
a standardization
752
00:39:51,390 --> 00:39:55,875
by which pilots are now gonna be
opening up floodgates.
753
00:39:55,969 --> 00:39:59,304
Floodgates of these sightings
are now gonna be analyzed
754
00:39:59,398 --> 00:40:02,641
by physicists and by scientists.
755
00:40:02,735 --> 00:40:04,884
And I think that is a sea change
756
00:40:04,978 --> 00:40:06,978
in the way we deal
with these things.
757
00:40:07,055 --> 00:40:10,407
Let's have a real
congressional hearing.
758
00:40:10,634 --> 00:40:13,985
Let's hear from real
physicists and real scientists.
759
00:40:14,138 --> 00:40:16,321
That's my personal dream.
760
00:40:16,415 --> 00:40:20,642
And I would like to be there
in the congressional hearing,
761
00:40:20,661 --> 00:40:23,086
standing by
with my evidentiary material
762
00:40:23,313 --> 00:40:26,256
as an investigative reporter,
to contribute,
763
00:40:26,483 --> 00:40:29,167
and hoping that there
would be so many others,
764
00:40:29,319 --> 00:40:31,911
and that we would
finally, finally,
765
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:34,931
in a government of,
by and for the people,
766
00:40:35,159 --> 00:40:39,344
just finally have everybody
tell the truth.
767
00:40:39,496 --> 00:40:41,438
What's really fascinating
768
00:40:41,665 --> 00:40:44,833
is that in the 1960s,
Erich von D�niken proposed
769
00:40:44,851 --> 00:40:47,002
in Chariots of the Gods?
770
00:40:47,095 --> 00:40:51,431
that aliens would show up
when Earth civilization
771
00:40:51,450 --> 00:40:55,527
would reach a certain level
of technology.
772
00:40:55,621 --> 00:40:59,030
And with everything
that's going on right now,
773
00:40:59,124 --> 00:41:04,019
this may be the time
when we will make contact.
774
00:41:04,112 --> 00:41:07,022
Some thousands of years ago,
775
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,209
the extraterrestrials promised
to return in a faraway future.
776
00:41:11,361 --> 00:41:15,880
And we have good reasons to
believe that now they are back.
777
00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:20,885
More and more of these proven
UFO cases appear to the public.
778
00:41:21,038 --> 00:41:23,313
Before, it was never
shown to the public.
779
00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:27,892
We know we are not alone,
we are under observation,
780
00:41:28,045 --> 00:41:29,878
and it must be
extraterrestrials,
781
00:41:29,896 --> 00:41:32,489
because they show a technology
which we do not have.
782
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,400
Could the recent
attention and reporting
783
00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,719
on unidentified flying objects
784
00:41:37,812 --> 00:41:40,146
signal that we are
rapidly approaching
785
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:42,557
a far more profound disclosure?
786
00:41:42,576 --> 00:41:45,577
Will we soon discover,
once and for all,
787
00:41:45,671 --> 00:41:47,337
that we are not alone?
788
00:41:49,233 --> 00:41:51,425
And that we have
never been alone?
789
00:41:53,587 --> 00:41:57,072
Perhaps the next disclosure
will not be orchestrated
790
00:41:57,090 --> 00:42:00,242
by any government
or military official,
791
00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:04,746
but by otherworldly visitors
themselves.
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