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Narrator:HIGHLY TRAINED PILOTS ENCOUNTERING
MYSTERIOUS AIRCRAFT ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Man:
IT WAS A HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE,

INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED OBJECT
IN MILITARY AIRSPACE.

Narrator: INCREDIBLE UNEXPLAINED
SIGHTINGS BY ASTRONAUTS

ARE INCREASING EVERY YEAR.

Man: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD
UFO WITNESSES,

THEN ASTRONAUTS
ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.

Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE, NEVER
BEFORE SEEN ON TELEVISION,

HAS UFO RESEARCHERS
CONVINCED THAT NASA

MAY BE CONCEALING THE TRUTH.

Woman:
THIS VERY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES

THAT WE ARE DEALING

WITH SOMETHING
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

Narrator: AS MANKIND REACHES
FURTHER FROM EARTH,

NEW SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES ON MARS

ARE RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.

Man: MARS WAS INHABITED
AT ONE POINT,

AND WHAT WE SEE TODAY

IS REMNANTS
OF THAT CIVILIZATION.

Narrator: IS OUR GOVERNMENT
TELLING US

ALL IT KNOWS ABOUT UFOs?

Man: THESE UFO INCIDENTS

POSE SERIOUS
NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.

WE IGNORE THESE SIGHTINGS
AT OUR PERIL.

Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING

WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.

ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?

IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?

AND, IF SO,
COULD NEW EVIDENCE

REVEAL THE TRUTH

WITNESSED BY PILOTS
AND ASTRONAUTS?

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Narrator: APRIL, 2007 --
SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.

UNDER EXCELLENT VISIBILITY,

MILITARY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS

AT THE LAKENHEATH
AIR FORCE BASE

IDENTIFY A STRANGE ANOMALY
IN THE NEARBY AIRSPACE.

THEY IMMEDIATELY REQUEST
THE HELP OF TWO PILOTS

ALREADY IN THE AIR
TO INVESTIGATE.

PILOTS ARE FROM THE BASE
AT LAKENHEATH,

AN AMERICAN BASE,

PART OF THE WIDER U.S.
PRESENCE IN THE U.K.

THESE AMERICAN PILOTS,

THEY ARE ORDERED
TO INTERCEPT A UFO

THAT HAS BEEN PICKED UP

AND TRACKED
ON MILITARY RADAR.

NEWS OF THIS ONLY LEAKED OUT

BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITIES
OF A HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

Man: TARGET CONFIRMED...

Narrator:
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR

IS THE ACTUAL EXCHANGE
BETWEEN THE AMERICAN PILOTS

RECORDED BY THE HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.

THIS CONVERSATION HAS NEVER
BEFORE BEEN HEARD ON TELEVISION.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THE PILOTS,

THE STRANGE OBJECT MOVED
FROM 17,000 FEET

UP TO 17,700
FEET IN ALTITUDE.

AS ONE OF THE PILOTS
FINALLY GETS CLOSE, HE REPORTS.

Dolan: WE HAVE NO EXPLANATION
FOR WHAT THIS THING WAS.

SO BOTH F-15s HAD A RADAR
LOCK ON THE OBJECT,

AND GROUND-BASED RADAR
ALSO WAS TRACKING IT,

SO THERE WAS CLEARLY
SOMETHING THERE.

Pope: AT FIRST, THE AUTHORITIES
DENIED EVERYTHING,

BUT ONCE THAT HAM RADIO OPERATOR

HAD MADE PUBLIC THE RECORDING,
IT WAS UNDENIABLE.

Lukes: WHEN YOU HEAR
THE EXCHANGE OF THESE PILOTS

AND THEY'RE SAYING
THAT THEY DON'T KNOW

WHAT THIS OBJECT IS,
YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY.

THEY KNOW WHAT
THEY'RE LOOKING AT.

THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.

Rosenfeld: THIS LAKENHEATH
INCIDENT IS VERY INTERESTING

BECAUSE YOU HAVE PILOTS
DESCRIBING A ROCK

THAT'S FLOATING AND CHANGING
DIRECTION IN THE SKY.

Bara: IT HAD NO WINGS,
IT HAD NO TAIL,

IT HAD NO MEANS OF PROPULSION,

YET IT WAS AT HIGH ALTITUDE,

IT MOVED AROUND,
IT CHANGED ALTITUDE.

IT DID THINGS THAT
BASICALLY A ROCK

IS NOT CAPABLE OF DOING,

SO WHAT WAS THIS THING
DOING IN THE SKY?

NOBODY REALLY KNOWS.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO
UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THIS INCIDENT
IS NOT AN ISOLATED ONE.

SUCH OCCURRENCES ARE
INCREASING EVERY YEAR.

TAKE JULY 7, 2010.

IN A CHINESE CITY
JUST SOUTH OF SHANGHAI

ALONG CHINA'S EASTERN SEABOARD,

A THREE-MAN FLIGHT CREW ONBOARD
AN AIR CHINA JET LINER

FILLED WITH PASSENGERS
PREPARES FOR LANDING.

CHINESE PILOTS, AS THEY WERE
APPROACHING THE AIRPORT,

REPORTED SEEING
AN UNUSUAL OBJECT

THAT GOT THEIR ATTENTION
AND THEIR CONCERN.

Narrator: THE PILOTS REPORT
TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

THAT AN UNKNOWN OBJECT
ABOUT 100 FEET IN LENGTH,

30 FEED IN WIDTH
IS MOVING SLOWLY

IN THE AIRSPACE 2,000 FEET
ABOVE THE AIRPORT.

AT THE SAME TIME,
PEOPLE ON THE GROUND

PHOTOGRAPHED THIS OBJECT.

THERE ARE SEVERAL
OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS

AND THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING.

AND THEY CERTAINLY APPEAR
TO SHOW AN ELONGATED OBJECT,

AND THERE'S LIGHT COMING
DOWN FROM THE OBJECT.

THE ENTIRE AIRPORT WAS CLOSED.

FLIGHTS WERE DIVERTED.

I MEAN, CLEARLY SOMETHING
WAS GOING ON IN THE SKIES.

Lukes: YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT
THERE WERE WITNESSES IN THE AIR

THAT SAW THE OBJECT
AS THEY WERE LANDING,

AND WE HAVE THIS
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE.

SO ALL OF THAT TOGETHER TELLS ME

THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY WAS A UFO.

THERE'S TOO MUCH EVIDENCE
TO SAY THAT THERE WASN'T.

Bara:
BECAUSE OF THE PREJUDICE

AGAINST REPORTING
THESE KINDS OF SIGHTINGS,

THE PILOTS REALLY
TOOK A HUGE RISK

BY ACTUALLY CALLING OUT
OVER THE OPEN AIRWAVES

AND SAYING THAT THEY'D
SEEN THIS OBJECT.

SO FOR THEM TO DO THAT,
THEY MUST'VE

REALLY SEEN
SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL,

AND IT WAS CONSIDERED
A THREAT TO THEM.

Narrator: TWO WEEKS LATER,

ANOTHER UFO
SIGHTING WAS REPORTED

IN THE SAME AIRSPACE
ABOVE THE SAME CHINESE CITY.

THIS IS ACTUAL RECORDED
EYEWITNESS VIDEO OF THE EVENT.

OBSERVERS DESCRIBE THE SIGHTING
AS AN EERIE WHITE

LIGHT FLOATING THROUGH THE SKY,

LEAVING A BRIGHT TRAIL
IN ITS WAKE.

Pope:
IT'S BEEN VARIOUSLY SUGGESTED

THAT THIS WAS A ROCKET TEST,

OR PERHAPS SOME SORT OF SECRET
MILITARY TEST WAS UNDERWAY.

IT'S ALSO BEEN THEORIZED

THAT THIS WAS THE REENTRY
INTO THE EARTH'S

ATMOSPHERE OF A ROCKET
THAT HAD LAUNCHED.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL
EVER HAVE DEFINITIVE ANSWERS.

BUT IT SHOWS THAT THESE
THINGS ARE OCCURRING,

APPARENTLY WITH INCREASING
REGULARITY IN OUR SKIES,

AND THAT THEY'RE A CAUSE
OF SOME CONSIDERABLE CONCERN

TO AUTHORITIES
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Bara: YOU ALSO GOT TO CONSIDER
THAT CHINA IS VERY MILITARIZED.

IT'S A COMMUNIST COUNTRY.

IT DOES HAVE A VERY
INTENSE AIR DEFENSE,

AND THESE OBJECTS PENETRATED

THAT AIR DEFENSE,
GOT IN THEIR AIRPORTS,

AND ACTUALLY CREATED
ENOUGH TROUBLE

TO HAVE THEM SHUT DOWN
THE AIRPORT ITSELF.

THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE THE CHINESE SIGHTINGS

ARE A CLEAR INDICATION

OF THE INCREASING
NUMBER OF UFOs WORLDWIDE.

BUT PERHAPS
THE BEST-KNOWN EVIDENCE

OF THIS ALARMING
TREND OCCURS

OVER MEXICO'S YUCATAN PENINSULA.

IN EARLY 2004,
THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE

WAS DOING A ROUTINE
DRUG INTERDICTION FLIGHT

OVER THE SOUTHERN
PART OF MEXICO.

THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUS CASE

IN THE MEXICAN AIR
FORCE HISTORY.

Dolan: THEY WERE USING
FORWARD-LOOKING INFRARED --

FLIR -- AND RADAR,

AND TRACKED ON
THEIR INSTRUMENTATION,

BUT DID NOT SEE
VISUALLY 11 OBJECTS.

Narrator: AT ABOUT 10,000
FEET IN ALTITUDE,

THE CREW RECORDS
AND MONITORS THE UFOs

WHILE REPORTING THE SIGHTINGS
TO GROUND CONTROL.

THIS IS THE ACTUAL
RECORDED VIDEO FEED

FROM THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE.

Dilettoso: WE'RE LOOKING AT
THE TARGET IMAGERY

OF THESE OBJECTS

THAT ARE TRACKING ALONG
WITH THE AIRPLANE.

WHERE'S THE AIRPLANE?

LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE HERE,

AZIMUTH, APERTURE,

ANGLE IN THE SKY ON THE HORIZON,

SO THAT THIS TARGET TELLS US

EXACTLY WHAT THE POSITION
IN THE ANGLE

IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT,
WHAT POSITION THE AIRPLANE IS.

NOW WE HAVE OTHER OBJECTS
THAT ARE COMING UP

THAT ARE MUCH CLOSER,

THAT ARE MOVING IN
BETWEEN THE CLOUDS,

TRACKING ALONG
WITH THE AIRPLANE.

Lukes: IT WOULD APPEAR
THAT THESE OBJECTS

ARE EITHER INTELLIGENT
OR INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED

BECAUSE THEY APPEAR TO BE
COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER

AS THEY ARE FOLLOWING
THE AIRCRAFT.

Pope: IT'S A FASCINATING
PIECE OF FOOTAGE.

ONE CAN SEE QUITE
CLEARLY THESE UFOs

APPARENTLY MOVING AT HIGH SPEED,

AND HERE THEY ARE SHOWING UP
ON MILITARY CAMERAS.

Narrator: AFTER THE INCIDENT,

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES
A PRESS STATEMENT

AND THE FOOTAGE
FROM THE ENCOUNTER.

Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED
THAT THESE OBJECTS

ARE NOTHING MORE THAN
THE FLARES FROM OIL RIGS.

TO ME, IT DIDN'T STACK UP.

Dolan: WE'RE LEFT WITH AN OBJECT
THAT WAS TRACKED

AT A HIGH ENOUGH ALTITUDE,

MUCH HIGHER UP
THAN WHAT YOU WOULD GET

BY LOOKING DOWN
AT OIL RIGS,

SO I'M NOT REALLY CONVINCED
BY THAT EXPLANATION.

BECAUSE OF THE TESTIMONY
FROM THE PILOTS,

BECAUSE OF THE FOOTAGE,

BECAUSE OF THE WAY THESE OBJECTS
WERE MOVING AND BEHAVING,

THIS CASE VERY
CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES

THAT WE ARE IN ALL
LIKELIHOOD DEALING

WITH SOMETHING
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

Narrator:
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THE EVIDENCE IS UNDENIABLE.

SIGHTINGS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
CRAFT WORLDWIDE

ARE ON THE RISE.

THE ONLY QUESTION
IS WHY ARE THEY HERE?

BUT IT'S NOT JUST PILOTS
IN THE SKY

WHO ARE ENCOUNTERING
STRANGE AIRCRAFT.

THERE ARE DOZENS
OF MYSTERIOUS UFO

SIGHTINGS REPORTED
BY NASA ASTRONAUTS,

MANY CAPTURED ON LIVE
VIDEO FEEDS

THAT WERE INTERRUPTED
FOR UNKNOWN REASONS.

COULD THERE BE
ANY REASON TO BELIEVE

THEY REPRESENT A CLEAR
AND PRESENT DANGER?

AND SINCE MAN HAS
VENTURED INTO SPACE,

THERE'S ALSO BEEN
A LONG HISTORY OF UFO SIGHTINGS

REPORTED BY
ASTRONAUTS, SCIENTISTS,

AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

COULD NASA's LACK
OF ADEQUATE EXPLANATION

BE THE REASON WHY MANY SUSPECT
THERE IS A CONSPIRACY,

AND PERHAPS EVEN
A COVER-UP CONNECTED TO UFOs?

NASA, THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS
AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,

WAS ESTABLISHED
ON JULY 29, 1958.

BEYOND THE SPACE RACE,
NASA's MISSION

WAS TO PIONEER THE FUTURE
OF SPACE EXPLORATION.

Barclay: THE POINT OF NASA

IS TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE UNITED STATES

STAYS AS A WORLD
LEADER IN SCIENCE,

PARTICULARLY FOCUSING ON SPACE,

AERONAUTICS,
AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE.

Narrator: AS TECHNICAL
AND SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS,

ASTRONAUTS ARE TRAINED TO
THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS.

IN A SENSE, OF COURSE,
ASTRONAUTS ARE ELITE PILOTS.

THEY ARE GENERALLY SELECTED
FROM THE TOP RANKS

OF MILITARY PILOT COMMUNITY,

AND THESE PEOPLE ARE
THE BEST OF THE BEST.

Dolan: THEY'RE THE ONES
WHO HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF,

AND WHEN AN ASTRONAUT
MAKES A UFO REPORT

OR SEES WHAT HE
OR SHE THINKS IS A UFO,

WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE
THAT SERIOUSLY.

Pope: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD
UFO WITNESSES,

THEN ASTRONAUTS
ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.

Narrator: NASA's FIRST MANNED
SPACE PROGRAM

WAS CALLED PROJECT MERCURY,

AND ON MAY 15, 1963,

THE LAST OF THE PROGRAM'S
SIX MISSIONS LIFTS

OFF FROM LAUNCH COMPLEX 14

AT FLORIDA'S CAPE CANAVERAL.

Barclay: PROJECT MERCURY WAS
PART OF THE SPACE RACE.

IT WAS THE FIRST U.S.
PROJECT TO PUT PEOPLE IN SPACE,

AND IDEALLY BEAT THE RUSSIANS.

Narrator: PILOTING THE MERCURY
SPACECRAFT KNOWN AS FAITH 7

IS 30-YEAR-OLD
MAJOR GORDON COOPER.

HE IS AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER

AND AN AIR FORCE TEST PILOT

WHO'S LOGGED MORE
THAN 7,000 HOURS

FLYING ALL TYPES
OF AIRPLANES, HELICOPTERS,

AND EXPERIMENTAL JET FIGHTERS.

Dolan: GORDON COOPER'S ONE OF
THE MOST FAMOUS ASTRONAUTS

IN U.S. HISTORY, RIGHTLY SO,

AND ABOARD THE FINAL
MERCURY MISSION,

HE DID A RECORD 22
ORBITS AROUND THE EARTH.

Narrator:
COOPER'S 34-HOUR SPACE FLIGHT

IS OVER THREE TIMES LONGER

THAN ANY OF THE PREVIOUS
MERCURY MISSIONS.

BUT ON HIS LAST ORBIT,

THE ASTRONAUT HAS A VERY STRANGE

AND UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCE.

HE REPORTED TO NASA
THERE WAS A BRIGHT GREEN,

GLOWING OBJECT THAT
APPROACHED HIS CAPSULE,

AND IT ZOOMED BY HIM.

AND, I MEAN, IT'S JUST
AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTING.

Man: YOU KNOW, FOR SOMEONE
LIKE COOPER,

HIGHLY TRAINED ASTRONAUT,

TO REPORT SOMETHING LIKE THIS,

CLEARLY IT'S SOMETHING
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Dolan: WHAT THE HECK
DID GORDON COOPER SEE?

THERE'S NOTHING SUPPOSED
TO BE UP THERE IN 1963,

LET ALONE SOMETHING
THAT'S GREEN AND GLOWING,

LET ALONE SOMETHING THAT'S
SUPPOSED TO APPROACH HIS CRAFT.

HE'S ONE OF THE TOP
OBSERVERS IN THE WORLD.

HE WAS AN EXPERIENCED PILOT,
AND HE'S OUT THERE IN SPACE,

AND SOMETHING AT THE BEGINNING
OF OUR SPACE AGE

BUZZES BY HIS CAPSULE.

WOW.

THE SIGHTING AS SOME
SORT OF OPTICAL ILLUSION,

THE UFO IS PICKED UP

ON AN AUSTRALIAN RADAR
TRACKING STATION.

BUT AFTER COOPER AND HIS CAPSULE

ARE RECOVERED
FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN,

SOMETHING REMARKABLE OCCURS.

Dolan:
WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME

IS THAT WHEN HE GOT DOWN
ONTO EARTH AGAIN,

NO ONE ASKED HIM ABOUT IT.

Pope:
BEFORE COOPER EVEN RETURNED,

IT WAS MADE CLEAR TO REPORTERS

THAT THEY COULD NOT ASK HIM
ABOUT THE UFO SIGHTING.

NASA WOULD ONLY DO THIS
IF THERE WAS SOME

INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PIECE
OF INFORMATION BEING RELEASED

THAT THEY WOULDN'T
WANT OUT THERE.

CLEARLY NASA WAS
VERY UNCOMFORTABLE

WITH HIM DESCRIBING WHAT HE SAW.

SO IF SPACE IS EXACTLY
WHAT THEY TELL US IT IS,

THIS BIG, EMPTY VOID
WITH NOTHING OUT THERE,

THEN WHY DO THEY NEED
TO SUPPRESS

ONE OF THEIR OWN BEST

AND BRIGHTEST FROM TALKING
ABOUT WHAT HE SAW?

Narrator: DESPITE COOPER'S
OBSERVATION IN SPACE,

NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
OF THE MISSION

BEARS NO MENTION
OF COOPER'S SIGHTING.

TWO YEARS LATER,

ANOTHER SIMILAR
SIGHTING TAKES PLACE

BY TWO VERY EXPERIENCED
ASTRONAUTS --

FRANK BORMAN
AND JIM LOVELL

ONBOARD GEMINI 7.

Barclay: GEMINI FOLLOWED
PROJECT MERCURY.

IT WAS THE NEXT STEP
IN PUTTING PEOPLE INTO SPACE.

GEMINI 7
WAS THE FOURTH FLIGHT,

AND ONE OF THE GOALS
OF THIS PROJECT

WAS TO STUDY
THE EFFECTS OF 14 DAYS

IN SPACE IN HUMANS.

Narrator: EARLY IN THE MISSION,

DURING ONLY
THEIR SECOND ORBIT OF EARTH,

BORMAN AND LOVELL SEE
SOMETHING HIGHLY UNUSUAL.

RECORDED ON AUDIO TAPE,

JIM LOVELL REPORTS
TO MISSION CONTROL

THAT HE SEES
AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACECRAFT

NEARING THEIR CAPSULE.

Narrator:
SUDDENLY, THE LIVE BROADCAST

OF THE CONVERSATION
IS INTERRUPTED BY NASA.

[ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ]

[ PLAYBACK STOPS ]

Narrator: DESPITE THE CUT
IN TRANSMISSION,

HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON TELEVISION,

IS NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT

OF THE CONVERSATION
THAT CONTINUED.

Dolan: THEY ASK HIM, "WELL,

IS IT THE BOOSTER ROCKET
THAT WAS FROM THE CRAFT,"

AND HE SAYS,
"NO, I SEE THE BOOSTER."

THAT WAS IN HIS SIGHT.

THIS WAS A DIFFERENT OBJECT.

Man: THEY ARE TALKING
ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE

THAT ISN'T THE BOOSTER.

FOR WANT OF A BETTER
EXPRESSION, IT'S A UFO.

Narrator: EACH TIME ASTRONAUTS
SPOKE TO MISSION CONTROL

ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS,

THE TRANSMISSIONS ABRUPTLY END.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NASA
AND THE ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE,

THEY HAVE SEVERAL
DIFFERENT CHANNELS,

AND SO IF THEY'RE USING
A PUBLIC CHANNEL

AND THEY SEE SOMETHING,

THEY WOULD AUTOMATICALLY
HAVE THEM SWITCH OVER

TO ANOTHER CHANNEL.

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT NASA

INTENTIONALLY
CUT PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS

WITH THEIR ASTRONAUTS

AFTER THEY REPORTED
SEEING UFOs IN SPACE?

AND IF SO, WHY WOULD NASA
AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

CHOOSE TO KEEP
SUCH SIGHTINGS SECRET?

SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE

TO THE FORMATION
OF THE SPACE PROGRAM

IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I BELIEVE THAT NASA KNEW
WHEN THEY WERE FORMING

THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY THESE
SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL

EVENTS HAPPENING
AROUND OUR PLANET,

AND I BELIEVE THAT THEY KNEW
FROM THE INCEPTION

THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GO
INTO SPACE WITH THE IDEA

OF CONTACTING SOME
SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.

Bara: THERE ARE REPORTS OF NASA
LYING ABOUT THE TIME

AND THE PLACE ASTRONAUTS
WERE AVAILABLE

FOR CONVERSATIONS,

WHETHER THEY WERE
IN COMMUNICATION

WITH THE SPACECRAFT OR NOT.

THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS
YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE RECORD

AND FIND THAT NASA

WAS DUPLICITOUS
ON AT THE VERY LEAST,

AND CERTAINLY NOT
COMPLETELY HONEST.

Narrator: COULD THE SPACE RACE
REALLY HAVE BEEN A RACE

TO CONTACT EXTRATERRESTRIALS

THE GOVERNMENT
ALREADY KNEW EXISTED?

FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND

BY REEXAMINING NASA's MISSIONS
TO THE MOON,

OVERNMENT.

AND BEYOND IN EARLY NASA
MISSIONS INTO SPACE,

BUT SHOCKING EVIDENCE
MAY BE FOUND

IN THE SPACE AGENCY'S
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT --

THE MOON LANDINGS.

JULY 20, 1969.

A NEW ERA IN SPACE EXPLORATION

IS LAUNCHED WHEN A MASSIVE
SATURN ROCKET LIFTS OFF

FROM NASA's KENNEDY
SPACE CENTER.

Barclay: THE APOLLO PROGRAM WAS
ALL ABOUT GOING TO THE MOON,

AND THE CULMINATION OF THAT
EFFORT WAS APOLLO 11.

THE APOLLO 11 MISSION
HAD THREE ASTRONAUTS --

MICHAEL COLLINS, BUZZ ALDRIN,

AND NEIL ARMSTRONG --

AND THE LUNAR MODULE WENT DOWN
TO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,

AND OUT STEPPED TWO ASTRONAUTS,

BUZZ ALDRIN AND NEIL ARMSTRONG,

TO TOUCH THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER
WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Armstrong: THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP
FOR [A] MAN,

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.

Narrator: EVERY MOMENT
OF THEIR LUNAR ENCOUNTER

MAKES HISTORY WORLDWIDE.

BUT IT'S WHAT WASN'T
MADE PUBLIC,

ACCORDING TO ONE FORMER NASA
COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER,

THAT CONTINUES TO ROCK
THE UFO COMMUNITY TODAY.

IN 1975, SIX YEARS AFTER
THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING,

MAURICE CHATELAIN CAME FORWARD

WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM
IN HIS BOOK

"OUR COSMIC ANCESTORS."

MAURICE CHATELAIN IS
A RETIRED NASA

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST,

AND HE WENT PUBLIC
WITH SENSATIONAL CLAIMS

THAT WHEN ARMSTRONG

AND ALDRIN LANDED
ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,

THERE WERE UFOs THERE
WATCHING THEIR EVERY MOVE.

CHATELAIN HAD STATED THAT
HE WAS IN A SECRET ROOM

DURING THE APOLLO 11
MOON LANDINGS

AND THAT HE WITNESSED
A RECORDING FROM THE SURFACE

OF THE MOON OF THE ASTRONAUTS
TALKING ABOUT THE FACT

THAT THEY WEREN'T ALONE.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO CHATELAIN,

AFTER THE ASTRONAUTS
HAD STEPPED OUT

ONTO THE MOON
FOR THE FIRST TIME,

THEY REPORTED SEEING
TWO UFOs HOVERING

OVERHEAD AT ABOUT
15,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE.

Pope: AND THERE'S REFERENCE
TO THESE OBJECTS

JUST WATCHING WHAT'S UNFOLDING.

THIS IS A PIVOTAL POINT
IN HUMAN HISTORY,

AND IT SEEMS
THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS

WERE THERE TO WATCH.

Narrator: IS IT CONCEIVABLE

THAT NASA
AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

DECIDED TO KEEP THIS
INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER A SECRET?

AS MANY CRITICS OF THIS THEORY
ARE QUICK TO POINT OUT,

HOW WOULD THAT EVEN BE POSSIBLE
WITH TV CAMERAS ROLLING

NONSTOP AND BILLIONS
OF PEOPLE ON EARTH

WATCHING THE EVENT ON LIVE TV?

INCREDIBLY, THERE IS A GAP

IN WHAT WAS BROADCAST
TO THE PUBLIC.

THERE'S TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE
IN THIS TRANSMISSION,

TWO MISSING MINUTES.

AND NASA SAYS THIS WAS
JUST AN EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION

CAUSED BY OVERHEATING CAMERAS.

THE SUSPICION MUST BE
THAT SOME SORT OF CLASSIFIED,

SECRET CONVERSATION WAS GOING ON

DURING THESE TWO MINUTES
WHICH STILL TO THIS DAY

HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC.

Narrator: ALL OFFICIAL DETAILS
OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT

MAY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT UFOs

DURING THE TWO
MISSING MINUTES ON THE MOON

HAVE REMAINED ULTRA TOP SECRET.

INCREDIBLY, CHATELAIN ALSO
CLAIMS IN HIS BOOK

THAT UP UNTIL THE MOON LANDINGS,

ALL APOLLO AND GEMINI MISSIONS

WERE FOLLOWED BY UFOs.

AND EACH TIME, THE ASTRONAUTS
WERE ORDERED BY NASA

TO NEVER SPEAK ABOUT
THEIR ENCOUNTERS.

THE PROBLEM
WITH CHATELAIN'S STORY

IS HE WASN'T ACTUALLY
WORKING FOR NASA

DURING THE APOLLO MOON LANDINGS.

WHAT'S THE TRUTH?

IS NASA LYING ABOUT
WHEN HE WAS THERE?

IS CHATELAIN LYING?

NOBODY REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE.

BUT AT LEAST THERE WERE
A COUPLE PIECES OF EVIDENCE

THAT WERE STARTING
TO COME TOGETHER

THAT SHOWS MAYBE THERE WAS MUCH
MORE THAN THE PUBLIC STORY.

Narrator: STILL, BUZZ ALDRIN
HIMSELF HAS LENT CREDIBILITY

TO THE CLAIMS
OF HIS UFO SIGHTINGS.

Pope:
ALDRIN, OVER THE YEARS,

HAS CERTAINLY CONFIRMED

THAT HE'S SEEN
SOME STRANGE THINGS

THAT HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN.

Greenewald: WHEN BUZZ ALDRIN
PUBLISHED HIS BOOK

AND HE TALKED ABOUT A UFO

THAT THEY SAW ON APPROACH
TO THE MOON

OUTSIDE OF THEIR CAPSULE WINDOW,

I THINK THAT LENDS
A LOT OF CREDIBILITY

THAT MAYBE THERE
IS MORE TO THE STORY.

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT

ARMSTRONG AND ALDRIN REALLY
ENCOUNTERED UFOs ON THE MOON,

AND IF SO, DID THEY MAKE CONTACT

WITH AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

I DON'T THINK NASA KNEW
THAT THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE

ON THE MOON
WHEN WE FIRST LANDED.

BUT WHEN WE GOT TO THE MOON,

I THINK WE WERE BEING
OBSERVED THE ENTIRE TIME.

Pope: THERE IS, INDEED,
A THEORY THAT EXTRA TERRESTRIALS

WOULD ONLY BE INTERESTED
IN MAKING CONTACT

WITH US AT THE POINT

AT WHICH WE'VE DEVELOPED
VIABLE SPACE TRAVEL,

AND LANDING ON THE MOON
MIGHT JUST BE THE TRIGGER POINT.

Narrator: IF NASA IS AWARE
OF THE LUNAR UFOs,

WHY ARE THEY KEEPING IT SECRET?

IS IT POSSIBLE THE GOVERNMENT

IS TRYING TO COVERTLY
MAKE CONTACT

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?

Lukes: WERE THESE ASTRONAUTS
SENT THERE

TO INTERCEPT SOMETHING,
TO MEET WITH SOMETHING?

DID THEY KNOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY
GOING TO SEE THESE OBJECTS,

AND WHY DON'T WE KNOW
THIS INFORMATION?

Narrator: FURTHER CLUES MAY BE
FOUND IN THE YEARS

AFTER THE MOON LANDINGS

DURING THE HEIGHT OF NASA's
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.

Man: ...TWO, ONE.

WE HAVE BOOSTER
IGNITION AND LIFT OFF.

Narrator: THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S
CHIEF MISSION

WAS TO CARRY
LARGE PAYLOADS INTO ORBIT,

MAINTAIN SATELLITES,

AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS.

BUT UFO INVESTIGATORS
HAVE RECENTLY

LEARNED THAT ON MARCH 13, 1989,

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED

ABOARD THE SPACE
SHUTTLE DISCOVERY.

Dolan: SPACE SHUTTLE HAS ALWAYS
HAD A CERTAIN NUMBER

OF VERY CLASSIFIED COMPONENTS
TO EVERY ONE OF ITS MISSIONS.

YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
PUBLIC MISSIONS,

AND THERE ARE
CLASSIFIED MISSIONS.

AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW
WHAT THEY'RE DOING UP THERE.

Narrator: JUST OVER 20 HOURS
INTO THE MISSION AT 6:42 A.M.

EASTERN STANDARD TIME,

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS SENT
BY 47-YEAR-OLD

SHUTTLE COMMANDER COLONEL
JOHN BLAHA,

A LONGTIME AIR FORCE PILOT
TURNED ASTRONAUT.

Narrator: THE ASTONISHING
ADMISSION

OF A UFO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY

TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE
WAS RECORDED

BY A MEMBER OF THE GODDARD
AMATEUR RADIO CLUB,

WHICH MONITORS ALL NASA
SPACE FLIGHTS.

Narrator: AFTER THAT, THE PUBLIC
TRANSMISSION ENDS ABRUPTLY.

ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THAT'S WHEN NASA SWITCHED
FREQUENCIES TO A SECURE MODE.

ARE THEIR SPACE SHUTTLES
BEING USED IN ONE WAY

OR ANOTHER TO OBSERVE
OR INTERACT

WITH THESE OBJECTS
THAT ARE OUT THERE?

I THINK IT'S TOTALLY POSSIBLE.

THERE ARE OBJECTS THAT
DO CERTAINLY APPEAR

TO BE MANEUVERING
IN EARTH ORBIT,

AND THESE ARE NOT
SO SIMPLE TO EXPLAIN.

Lukes: WE HAVE A WITNESS

THE CALIBER
OF THE SHUTTLE COMMANDER

MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE THIS,

THEN YOU THROW ON THE FACT

THAT THIS ISN'T
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.

SO, ONE HAS TO
SURMISE THAT THERE

IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING UP

THERE INTERACTING
WITH THESE ASTRONAUTS.

Greenewald: THERE IS JUST
AN EXCEPTIONAL AMOUNT

OF WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
ABOUT THE COSMOS,

SO, YES, IT COULD BE

SOME KIND OF
A CRAFT THAT THEY'RE SEEING,

OR IT COULD BE
A NATURAL EXPLANATION,

SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T
DISCOVERED YET.

Narrator: STILL, MOST
RESEARCHERS CONTEND

THAT DESPITE NASA's
BEST EFFORTS,

THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

OF THE INCREASING
NUMBER OF UFO

SIGHTINGS IN SPACE.

YOU PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER,
YOU HAVE THE EARLY

MERCURY OBSERVATIONS
BY GORDON COOPER,

YOU HAVE THE GEMINI 7,
YOU HAVE BLAHA'S OBSERVATIONS.

YOU HAVE THIS TON
OF EVIDENCE STACKED UP.

Narrator:
YET AS NASA VENTURES OUT

ON THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,

DOES IT SERVE AS A PLATFORM

FROM WHICH EVEN MORE EVIDENCE

IS OBSERVED AND GATHERED,

AS UFO EXPERTS SUSPECT?

AND IT IS EASILY
THE LARGEST STRUCTURE

MANKIND HAS
EVER PUT INTO SPACE.

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
PROJECT BEGAN IN 1998

AND HAS BEEN BUILT
UPON SINCE THEN.

Narrator: PERMANENTLY OCCUPIED
BY U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL CREWS,

THE SPACE STATION
PRIMARILY SERVES

AS A RESEARCH LABORATORY.

Barclay: THE SPACE STATION
IS OUR ORBITING PLATFORM.

IT'S A PLACE TO STUDY
WHAT SPACE IS LIKE

AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS IN MICROGRAVITY

WHILE STILL BEING ABLE TO GET
TO EARTH RELATIVELY QUICKLY

AND BRING THINGS UP
RELATIVELY QUICKLY.

Narrator:
BUT IS IT POSSIBLE

THAT ONE OF THE SPACE
STATION'S REAL FUNCTIONS

IS TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM

FROM WHICH TO MONITOR
THE ACTIVITY OF UFOs?

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
AND THE UNITED STATES,

THEY LOOK AT EVERYTHING
AS A POTENTIAL

MILITARY ADVANCEMENT,
WHATEVER IT IS.

SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ONBOARD
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,

THERE IS AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT MISSION STATEMENT

THAN WHAT WE ARE TOLD.

Pope:
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS
OF THE UFO PHENOMENON,

BECAUSE FOR AROUND 20 YEARS,

WE'VE HAD THESE
ELITE PERSONNEL,

ASTRONAUTS AND SCIENTISTS
OUT THERE IN THE FRONT LINE.

SO WHEN THESE PEOPLE SAY
THAT THEY'VE SEEN SOMETHING,

YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.

Narrator:
IN APRIL OF 2004,

A LIVE-STREAMING VIDEO
FEED WAS ACTIVATED.

Barclay: THE HIGH-DEFINITION
EARTH-VIEWING CAMERAS

ON THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION ALLOW US

TO TAKE PICTURES
OF THE EARTH

AND VIDEO AS THE SPACE STATION

ORBITS EVERY 90 MINUTES.

Narrator: BUT ROUTINE VIEWING
SOON TURNS EXPLOSIVE

WHEN ON APRIL 19, 2016,

A UFO IN THE SHAPE
OF A TRANSLUCENT SQUARE

IS SEEN IN THE SPACE
STATION'S VIDEO.

Dolan: IT'S A DEFINITE OBJECT
THAT'S OUT THERE.

IT SEEMS UNUSUAL, FOR SURE,
IN THE DISTANCE,

AND WHAT'S PARTICULARLY
INTERESTING

IS THAT AFTER A VERY SHORT TIME
OF RECORDING IT

THAT THE VIDEO JUST GOES BLUE,

AND YOU CAN THINK ONCE AGAIN
THIS IS A CASE OF NASA

JUST CUTTING SHORT
A TRANSMISSION,

SOMETHING THAT
SHOULDN'T BE THERE.

THE ASTRONAUTS HAVE SEEN

AND CONTINUE TO SEE
OBJECTS IN SPACE

THAT DO NOT APPEAR
TO BE TERRESTRIAL.

THEY DO NOT APPEAR
TO BE OUR TECHNOLOGY.

AND THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES
WHOSE TECHNOLOGY ARE THEY?

Narrator: AND THE EVIDENCE
OF UNEXPLAINED

SIGHTINGS BY NASA
ASTRONAUTS CONTINUES TO GROW.

ON JUNE 30, 2015,

THREE SEPARATE
UFOs ARE SPOTTED

LEAVING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
AND FLYING INTO SPACE.

SOME OF THE FOLLOWING
VIDEO AND PHOTO EVIDENCE

HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN
ON TELEVISION.

IT'S OBVIOUS THAT
THEY'RE MOVING

AT THOUSANDS OF MILES PER HOUR.

HAS TO BE.
THERE'S NO OTHER WAY.

THESE ARE HIGHLY
RAPIDLY MOVING OBJECTS

COMING FROM EARTH,

CONVERGING FROM RADICALLY
DIFFERENT POINTS OF ORIGIN.

NASA HAS SAID THAT THESE
ARE SATELLITES TRANSITING EARTH.

BUT THESE LOOK LIKE THEY'RE
COMING UP FROM THE EARTH

AND COMING UP AT ANGLES

THAT ARE JUST HARD
TO EXPLAIN AS SATELLITES.

Lukes: THEY'RE MOVING IN UNISON
WITH THE SAME GOAL IN MIND,

AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS
IS EXCELLENT PROOF

THAT THERE IS SOMETHING
TAKING PLACE IN OUTER SPACE

THAT PROBABLY HAS
INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT.

Narrator: MOMENTS AFTER
THE THREE UFOs CAN BE SEEN

HEADING INTO THE SAME SECTOR
OF OUTER SPACE,

THE VIDEO FEED IS LOST.

Pope: NASA AND SOME OTHER
IMAGERY EXPERTS

HAVE SUGGESTED THAT QUITE A LOT
OF THESE FILMS

ACTUALLY SHOW LITTLE MORE

THAN DUST OR ICE PARTICLES,

BUT IT'S VERY DIFFICULT

FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK
AT THESE SORTS OF FILMS

AND BE SURE WHETHER THEY'RE
LOOKING AT A MASSIVE OBJECT

FAR AWAY OR A VERY,

VERY SMALL OBJECT
CLOSE TO THE LENS.

Narrator:
SOME RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THERE ARE A VARIETY
OF EXPLANATIONS

FOR SO-CALLED UFO SIGHTINGS.

THE REALITY IS THERE
ARE LITERALLY TENS

OF THOUSANDS OF PIECES
OF SPACE JUNK,

JUST TRASH THAT'S LITERALLY
LITTERED OUR UPPER

ATMOSPHERE THAT'S IN ORBIT,

AND IT INCLUDES PIECES
OF DEAD SPACECRAFT,

SATELLITES THAT HAVE
GONE OFFLINE.

SO, DID THEY REALLY
SEE AN ALIEN CRAFT,

OR DID THEY JUST SEE MAYBE
ONE OF THE MILLIONS

OF DIFFERENT SPACE
DEBRIS OBJECTS

THAT ARE UP THERE?
WE MAY NEVER KNOW.

Narrator: THEN ON JULY 9, 2016,
YET ANOTHER UFO

IS SEEN ENTERING
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,

AND AGAIN, THE VIDEO
IS INTERRUPTED.

Pope:
IT SEEMS ALMOST EVERY TIME

THERE'S AN INTRIGUING
PIECE OF FOOTAGE

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,

SOMETHING GOES WRONG

AND THE FEED
IS MYSTERIOUSLY CUT.

NOW, IS THIS CENSORSHIP?

IS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
BEING DELETED,

WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC?

OR IS IT JUST
EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS?

WE DON'T KNOW.

Narrator:
NASA CLAIMS THE VIDEO SUFFERS

REGULAR OUTAGES
AS THE SPACE STATION

PASSES OUT OF RANGE
OF RELAY SATELLITES.

BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?

THESE ISSUES HAVE
HAPPENED SO MANY TIMES,

YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE CONCLUSION

THAT THEY ARE REALLY DOING THIS

TO KEEP INFORMATION
FROM THE PUBLIC.

Narrator: DOES EVIDENCE GATHERED
BY THE CAMERAS

OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,

OR ISS, SUGGEST THAT UFOs
REALLY DO INHABIT OUR WORLD?

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE NASA
MAY HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA.

Lukes:
GIVEN THE REPEATED ACCOUNTS

FROM ASTRONAUTS OF SEEING

THESE EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT,

PERHAPS THERE IS A VERY
CONCERTED ATTEMPT BY NASA

TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION
WITH THESE BEINGS.

I DO BELIEVE THE ISS
IS DOING LEGIT RESEARCH,

BUT I ALSO BELIEVE
THAT THE ISS COULD BE A PLATFORM

FOR COMMUNICATION
WITH NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES.

Bara:
THE QUESTION'S ALWAYS BEEN

WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION

DOES IT HAVE
A SECRET MISSION?

IS IT UP THERE DOING MORE

THAN JUST THE PUBLIC FRONT-VIEW

KIND OF STUFF
THAT THEY SHOW US?

IS THERE A POSSIBILITY
THAT IT IS SOME

SORT OF EARLY SPACE

INTRUDER DETECTOR KIND OF CRAFT

THAT'S DESIGNED TO LOOK
FOR UFOs OR ALIEN SPACECRAFT?

THAT ACTUALLY MAKES MORE SENSE
THAN YOU MIGHT THINK

BECAUSE THERE'S A LONG
HISTORY OF NASA MISSIONS

HAVING SECRET AGENDAS.

Narrator:
AS HUMANS CONTINUE TO PUSH OUT

AND EXPLORE THE DISTANT
REACHES OF SPACE,

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THIS WILL ONLY INCREASE
THE POSSIBILITY FOR CONTACT --

HAVE PROVIDED SOME OF
THE MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE

OF THE EXISTENCE OF UFOs.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE

IS TRYING TO
COMMUNICATE WITH US,

OR HAVE THEY ALREADY DONE SO?

AUGUST, 2005.

NASA LAUNCHES THE MARS
RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER.

ONBOARD IS AN ADVANCED
CAMERA SYSTEM,

THE HIGH-RESOLUTION
IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT,

ALSO KNOWN AS HiRISE.

THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER ORBITS AROUND MARS

TAKING IMAGES
OF ITS SURFACE.

Narrator: ITS ULTRA-POWERFUL
TELESCOPE HAS ALLOWED

THE ORBITER TO PHOTOGRAPH
HUNDREDS OF SWATHS

OF THE MARS SURFACE
IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL.

THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT
HAS A RESOLUTION

OF ABOUT ONE FOOT
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS,

SO WE GET SOME REALLY
GREAT PICTURES OF MARS

FROM THIS ORBITER.

Narrator:
THEN, ON JULY 13, 2016,

MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS REPORT
THAT THE ASTRONOMERS

USING HiRISE HAVE
DISCOVERED FORMATIONS ON MARS

THAT BEAR A STRIKING
RESEMBLANCE TO MORSE CODE.

MORSE CODE WAS DEVELOPED
IN THE 19th CENTURY

AS ESSENTIALLY
A BINARY CODE.

IT'S A WAY OF QUICKLY ENCODING

A LOT OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION

THROUGH A SERIES OF DOTS
AND DASHES.

THE U.S. MILITARY STILL TRAINS

A NUMBER OF PEOPLE
EACH YEAR IN MORSE CODE,

AND THAT'S BECAUSE
IT'S STILL THE EASIEST

AND MOST RELIABLE TO TRANSMIT
INFORMATION OVER DISTANCE.

Barclay: IMAGES COMING FROM
THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT

ON THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER SAW DARK DUNES

ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.

SOME OF THEM ELONGATED

AND SOME OF THEM
MORE LIKE DOTS.

OUR BEST GUESS
FOR WHAT FORMED THESE

IS WINDS COMING
FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.

Narrator: DESPITE NASA's ATTEMPT
TO EXPLAIN THE PHENOMENA,

THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY ADMITS

THE DUNE FORMATIONS
ARE VERY COMPLEX,

MAKING IT DIFFICULT
TO DETERMINE

EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED
THEIR FORMATION.

Dolan:
SCIENTISTS DON'T REALLY KNOW

EXACTLY HOW TO
EXPLAIN THIS.

WE DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING ON EARTH

THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

SO THE QUESTION
IS WHAT CAUSES IT?

IS IT NATURAL
OR IS IT ARTIFICIAL?

IT'S AS IF SOMEBODY
KIND OF DUG UP

AROUND A BUNCH OF LAND

AND CREATED THIS DOT, DASH,

DOT, DASH,
DOT, DASH PATTERN.

NOW, THERE'S NO EXPLANATION
FOR THIS GEOLOGICALLY.

NASA HAS DESCRIBED IT,

BUT NASA HAS A TENDENCY
TO SUGGEST

THAT THE DESCRIPTION
OF SOMETHING

IS THE SAME THING
AS EXPLAINING SOMETHING.

IT'S NOT EXPLAINABLE.

Narrator:
FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THE SATELLITE IMAGES
RAISE SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS.

WHAT IF THE STRANGE FORMATIONS
ARE THE RESULT OF SOMETHING

OTHER THAN
THE NATURAL PROCESS OF WIND

OR GEOLOGIC ACTIVITY ON MARS?

AND WHAT IF THEY WERE CREATED
BY AN INTELLIGENT SPECIES

THAT ONCE LIVED
ON THE RED PLANET?

Man: NOW, IS THIS
MORSE CODE PROOF

OF A PAST INTELLIGENT
CIVILIZATION,

OR IS THIS SOMETHING
THAT SCIENCE

JUST HAS YET TO EXPLAIN?

WE'RE DEALING
WITH AN ALIEN WORLD.

WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING
ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.

Pope: IF THOSE FEATURES
ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE

ARE MORSE CODE,

THEN TWO QUESTIONS ARISE.

FIRSTLY, WHO SENT THE MESSAGE,

AND SECOND, WHAT DOES IT SAY?

NOW, EXPERTS
IN MORSE CODE

HAVE ACTUALLY LOOKED
AT THESE MARTIAN FEATURES

AND THEY'VE BEEN
UNABLE TO DECODE IT.

IT DOESN'T SEEM TO
CORRESPOND TO ANY LANGUAGE

THAT WE KNOW,

BUT MAYBE IT'S NOT WRITTEN
IN OUR LANGUAGE AT ALL.

MAYBE IT'S WRITTEN
IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S LANGUAGE,

AND THAT WE CAN
ONLY GUESS AT.

Bara: WHEN THE GEOLOGIC
EXPLANATIONS DON'T ADD UP,

AND YET YOU CAN'T REALLY SAY

THAT IT IS SOMETHING ARTIFICIAL,

YOU'RE KIND OF STUCK
IN THE MIDDLE.

IT'S A GENUINE MYSTERY
WHAT THAT STUFF IS,

AND NASA's EXPLANATION
CERTAINLY IS NOT ADEQUATE.

WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING
FOR LIFE ON MARS,

AND WE ABSOLUTELY CAN'T RULE OUT

THAT THERE WAS
ONCE LIFE ON MARS.

WE THINK ABOUT 3.5 BILLION YEARS
AGO, MARS MAY WELL

HAVE HAD WATER
AT THE SAME TIME

THAT LIFE WAS
BLOSSOMING ON EARTH.

Narrator:
THIS COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE

OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF OCEANS, RIVERS,

AND EVEN LAKES ON MARS ADDS
TO AN EMERGING PICTURE

OF THE RED PLANET

AS ONCE BEING A HABITABLE WORLD.

GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW
THAT TOOK PLACE

WITH THE WATER BILLIONS
OF YEARS AGO ON THE PLANET,

WE HAVE TO TAKE
THIS INTO ACCOUNT

THAT THERE COULD HAVE
BEEN A CIVILIZATION

THAT'S NOW EXTINCT,

AND THERE STILL MIGHT
BE LIFE ON THAT PLANET.

Rosenfeld: I DO BELIEVE THAT
MARS WAS INHABITED AT ONE POINT,

AND WHAT WE SEE
ON THE SURFACE TODAY

IS REMNANTS OF
THAT CIVILIZATION.

Narrator: AS MANKIND'S INTEREST
IN SPACE EXPLORATION

HAS GONE WELL BEYOND MARS,

TODAY NASA HAS
NUMEROUS SATELLITES,

SPACE-BASED TELESCOPES,

AND EVEN SPACE PROBES LOOKING AT

AND LISTENING TO THE FAR CORNERS
OF THE COSMOS.

Pope:
CURIOSITY SEEMS TO BE

INEXTRICABLY LINKED
WITH INTELLIGENCE.

WE LOOK OUT INTO
THE UNIVERSE AND WE ASK,

"WHAT'S OUT THERE?"

AND I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE
THAT OTHERS OUT THERE

ARE LOOKING BACK AT US.

Narrator:
THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVES

THAT WE NEED
TO LOOK NO FURTHER

THAN OUR OWN SKIES

AND PLANETARY BACKYARD
FOR EVIDENCE.

PILOT AND ASTRONAUT SIGHTINGS,

INTERRUPTED NASA TRANSMISSIONS,

ALL RAISING THE SPECTER
OF CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP.

FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE MOUNTAIN
OF UNEXPLAINED EVIDENCE,

COMBINED WITH THE GOVERNMENT

INADEQUATELY
PROVIDING EXPLANATIONS,

ALL POINT TO CONFIRMATION
THAT UFOs ARE,

IN FACT, REAL.

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