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T-boned. 9 00:04:37,192 --> 00:04:39,192 It was a closed casket funeral. 10 00:04:45,317 --> 00:04:51,317 My mother was undiagnosed bipolar and 11 00:04:53,375 --> 00:04:55,375 self-medicated with alcohol. 12 00:04:56,417 --> 00:05:03,417 After my father died, it was challenging for her to manage Kyle and I. 13 00:05:04,858 --> 00:05:10,858 And one day when I was 12, I came home and found her 14 00:05:11,333 --> 00:05:14,333 what I thought was passed out on her bedroom floor. 15 00:05:17,708 --> 00:05:23,708 I grabbed her by the hair and pulled her out and she was actually not breathing. 16 00:05:27,692 --> 00:05:29,892 After that, we moved around even more. 17 00:05:30,292 --> 00:05:35,308 Kyle and I were kept together for a little while and then separated. 18 00:05:36,317 --> 00:05:40,317 And we just took it out on each other. 19 00:05:41,817 --> 00:05:43,817 So we didn't want to stay in touch. 20 00:05:45,425 --> 00:05:46,725 I did very well in high school. 21 00:05:47,458 --> 00:05:49,625 I enjoyed science immensely. 22 00:05:51,692 --> 00:05:59,692 I knew in the 11th grade that I was destined to become a marine biologist. 23 00:06:01,067 --> 00:06:02,667 And I took my studies very seriously. 24 00:06:04,167 --> 00:06:06,233 I didn't have a lot of friends. 25 00:06:06,958 --> 00:06:09,966 Because I didn't know how to be a girl, really. 26 00:06:13,025 --> 00:06:17,525 I graduated with honors and received a full ride scholarship to UCLA. 27 00:06:20,233 --> 00:06:23,733 Which was amazing because I knew I was going to get to see the ocean. 28 00:06:24,758 --> 00:06:29,058 And I was able to lead an expedition off the coast of Mexico 29 00:06:29,833 --> 00:06:33,833 to study the communication methods of the Humboldt squid. 30 00:06:35,817 --> 00:06:38,317 They change color through bioluminescence. 31 00:06:38,458 --> 00:06:41,125 They flash, they communicate with light. 32 00:06:42,542 --> 00:06:45,614 The Mexican fisherman called them “Diablo rojo” 33 00:06:45,917 --> 00:06:48,250 because of how aggressive they are. 34 00:06:48,958 --> 00:06:51,025 My diver had to wear chainmail. 35 00:06:53,858 --> 00:06:55,258 I did not go into the water. 36 00:06:57,483 --> 00:06:59,483 My diver’s name was Scott. 37 00:07:05,692 --> 00:07:06,892 Well, we'll call him Scott. 38 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,400 Scott and I developed a very close friendship 39 00:07:11,875 --> 00:07:14,475 spending so much time together on the boat 40 00:07:14,542 --> 00:07:16,142 and we fell in love. 41 00:07:18,733 --> 00:07:20,733 He was my knight in shining armor. 42 00:07:21,833 --> 00:07:22,833 Literally. 43 00:07:23,625 --> 00:07:27,137 Although if he was too shiny, that's when he got attacked. 44 00:07:27,192 --> 00:07:30,492 He proposed on the boat with his grandmother's ring 45 00:07:32,125 --> 00:07:36,029 stuck in a squid that he knew I was going to be cutting open. 46 00:07:37,667 --> 00:07:39,700 It was disgusting, but sweet. 47 00:07:42,167 --> 00:07:47,667 We were perfectly matched. 48 00:07:56,083 --> 00:08:01,283 But that doesn't always mean that it's meant to last forever. 49 00:08:04,550 --> 00:08:06,517 [ominous ethereal whooshing] 50 00:08:15,292 --> 00:08:18,748 [Dr. Gale:] In 2002 I was flying from Heathrow to JFK. 51 00:08:19,150 --> 00:08:20,350 Sunday, March 10th. 52 00:08:21,592 --> 00:08:24,592 I was seated in the rear of the plane. 53 00:08:25,733 --> 00:08:29,133 K57. In economy 54 00:08:32,733 --> 00:08:37,033 I was seated next to a man who was trying to get my attention. 55 00:08:38,775 --> 00:08:40,775 And I just was not in the mood. 56 00:08:41,333 --> 00:08:45,333 So I tried to display my engagement ring. 57 00:08:46,083 --> 00:08:50,383 He didn't seem to be affected by that. 58 00:08:50,417 --> 00:08:53,481 So I thought I would just pretend to sleep instead. 59 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:01,400 As I was drifting off it suddenly got very quiet. 60 00:09:02,292 --> 00:09:07,992 There was this light on my face. 61 00:09:09,417 --> 00:09:13,833 It wasn't a cabin light, though, because it was coming from one side. 62 00:09:16,025 --> 00:09:18,025 I heard a little bit of nervous laughter 63 00:09:18,442 --> 00:09:21,475 and then the man beside me 64 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:26,000 He said “What the fuck is that?” 65 00:09:31,508 --> 00:09:37,308 I opened my eyes and the entire cabin was illuminated 66 00:09:37,375 --> 00:09:41,475 by a yellow glow. 67 00:09:46,925 --> 00:09:49,225 I wanted to get up to see what it was. 68 00:09:49,692 --> 00:09:52,692 The man beside me was frozen so I had to climb over him 69 00:09:53,733 --> 00:09:56,733 and I found myself an empty seat. 70 00:10:01,650 --> 00:10:04,350 When I looked out the window, what I saw was 71 00:10:04,417 --> 00:10:08,917 two massive, glowing yellow disks. 72 00:10:10,525 --> 00:10:13,525 Hovering somewhere between the plane and the horizon. 73 00:10:19,733 --> 00:10:21,733 They were so bright. 74 00:10:36,775 --> 00:10:38,775 Now, keep in mind, it was 2002. 75 00:10:38,942 --> 00:10:41,942 So even though we all had cell phones, they were pieces of crap 76 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 and the cameras were garbage. 77 00:10:44,208 --> 00:10:47,208 Not that anyone had the presence of mind to use them anyway. 78 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,300 When you see something like that, you just 79 00:10:51,292 --> 00:10:52,492 you're stunned. 80 00:10:53,417 --> 00:10:55,417 All you can do is stare at it. 81 00:11:08,175 --> 00:11:11,175 And then suddenly, they just disappeared. 82 00:11:29,283 --> 00:11:31,283 And it was completely black again. 83 00:11:34,533 --> 00:11:37,533 I don't think I heard anyone even make a joke about it after that. 84 00:11:37,583 --> 00:11:40,883 It was just totally silent on the plane. 85 00:11:44,633 --> 00:11:46,033 I got up and went back to my seat 86 00:11:46,058 --> 00:11:48,858 and the guy didn't bother me for the rest of the flight. 87 00:11:49,042 --> 00:11:51,742 But my mind was spinning. 88 00:11:53,175 --> 00:11:56,275 I was trying to process what the possibilities were. 89 00:11:56,417 --> 00:11:58,550 What that could have possibly been. 90 00:11:59,042 --> 00:12:02,442 Was it some sort of weather phenomenon? 91 00:12:06,625 --> 00:12:09,633 Now something like that, with that kind of size 92 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,520 could not enter the atmosphere without going unnoticed. 93 00:12:14,592 --> 00:12:18,492 Something of that mass, pushing its way from outer space 94 00:12:18,583 --> 00:12:21,450 into the earth would ignite the atmosphere. 95 00:12:22,967 --> 00:12:24,967 The sky would be on fire. 96 00:12:26,092 --> 00:12:29,092 So it had to be one of a few possibilities. 97 00:12:33,633 --> 00:12:36,533 Either it was something from the earth. 98 00:12:38,842 --> 00:12:41,842 Some sort of natural phenomena. 99 00:12:41,867 --> 00:12:47,667 Or if it was, in fact, a solid object 100 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:50,650 it had to either have been made on the earth 101 00:12:51,292 --> 00:12:55,392 or it was created by a technology so 102 00:12:57,342 --> 00:13:01,342 enormously advanced that it could completely sidestep 103 00:13:01,458 --> 00:13:04,025 all the laws of physics as we know them. 104 00:13:04,033 --> 00:13:07,633 And although I didn't get confirmation for many years 105 00:13:08,092 --> 00:13:10,092 that was in fact what it was. 106 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:17,200 Disembarkment was just normal. 107 00:13:17,250 --> 00:13:19,983 I thought about talking to the pilot, but 108 00:13:21,692 --> 00:13:23,192 decided against it. 109 00:13:25,875 --> 00:13:27,075 So I went home. 110 00:13:28,008 --> 00:13:29,908 Scott and I were living in New York at the time 111 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:34,100 and I told Scott what happened. 112 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:36,900 What I had seen. 113 00:13:40,608 --> 00:13:44,908 And he just looked at me like he was disappointed. 114 00:13:47,908 --> 00:13:49,908 So I just didn't bring it up again... 115 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:53,900 Until later. 116 00:13:58,967 --> 00:14:00,967 Despite the subject being taboo at home 117 00:14:01,125 --> 00:14:02,692 I could not stop thinking about it 118 00:14:02,708 --> 00:14:06,292 almost to the point of obsession for a number of months. 119 00:14:06,942 --> 00:14:10,942 Then one day I was online and I saw an article from the Post. 120 00:14:18,633 --> 00:14:21,633 The pilot, Ray Thompson, was fired 121 00:14:24,267 --> 00:14:27,659 for quote unquote, making the airline look ridiculous 122 00:14:28,375 --> 00:14:31,842 with his quote unquote, unbelievable story. 123 00:14:34,317 --> 00:14:36,117 That was my pilot. 124 00:14:40,875 --> 00:14:41,875 I was... 125 00:14:44,625 --> 00:14:46,125 I was pissed. 126 00:14:46,892 --> 00:14:48,892 So I immediately wrote a letter to the Post 127 00:14:50,375 --> 00:14:52,055 backing up his claims. 128 00:14:52,058 --> 00:14:59,558 I felt like my having a solid scientific reputation would somehow support him 129 00:14:59,708 --> 00:15:02,542 and maybe have him not end his career. 130 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:07,100 I signed my own name and I gave them permission to publish it. 131 00:15:07,208 --> 00:15:11,200 I did not think anyone would read it, nevermind care. 132 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,280 But I was wrong. 133 00:15:15,375 --> 00:15:21,875 And it was possibly the worst decision I ever made. 134 00:15:22,542 --> 00:15:25,542 Scott found out from a colleague of his who sent him the letter. 135 00:15:26,267 --> 00:15:28,267 "Is this your Laura?" 136 00:15:32,583 --> 00:15:35,583 He printed it off, brought it home and confronted me with it. 137 00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:42,750 I honestly didn't feel like there was anything wrong with it. 138 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:46,600 We disagreed. It was our first fight. 139 00:15:46,667 --> 00:15:52,567 The fallout from my acquaintances and colleagues was very swift. 140 00:15:54,008 --> 00:15:59,508 Even at work, I felt like I was being dismissed, questioned. 141 00:16:00,867 --> 00:16:02,267 My authority was gone. 142 00:16:04,525 --> 00:16:07,125 I heard people referring to me as a UFO nut. 143 00:16:08,492 --> 00:16:13,592 I was invited to a dinner party with Scott shortly after. 144 00:16:14,733 --> 00:16:18,233 I thought maybe it was a sign that things were dying down. 145 00:16:18,267 --> 00:16:20,400 It was a very prestigious party. 146 00:16:21,033 --> 00:16:22,633 I won't name names, but... 147 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:29,100 It very quickly devolved into a round robin of people taking 148 00:16:29,225 --> 00:16:31,625 passive aggressive potshots at me. 149 00:16:32,092 --> 00:16:34,092 Making jokes about little green men. 150 00:16:34,917 --> 00:16:36,517 In the car ride home... 151 00:16:40,742 --> 00:16:44,642 Scott was... absent. 152 00:16:45,842 --> 00:16:48,842 Just shut me out, really, from that point forward. 153 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:57,500 I think it was in the car that I knew that things would never be the same again. 154 00:17:02,850 --> 00:17:05,850 It didn't take very long before he ended the engagement. 155 00:17:07,183 --> 00:17:09,183 His career was in trouble. 156 00:17:10,158 --> 00:17:13,158 People were questioning him because they were questioning me. 157 00:17:13,367 --> 00:17:16,367 He had no choice, as far as he could tell. 158 00:17:16,433 --> 00:17:20,953 My career was taking a nosedive, and he felt like his career would be following. 159 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:26,500 So... I understand. 160 00:17:28,758 --> 00:17:32,662 It wasn't very long after that, that I received a form letter 161 00:17:32,683 --> 00:17:35,283 telling me that my grants had been cancelled. 162 00:17:41,658 --> 00:17:44,658 I suppose I could have recanted the story. 163 00:17:47,808 --> 00:17:49,808 I thought about it. 164 00:17:51,083 --> 00:17:52,683 [somber piano music] 165 00:17:59,492 --> 00:18:00,692 After the engagement ended 166 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:04,800 I was without a job in New York, which is not possible. 167 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:08,417 So I decided to move back to LA 168 00:18:08,658 --> 00:18:12,658 which was the last place I could remember feeling happy. 169 00:18:13,017 --> 00:18:19,717 I didn't think that my new reputation would follow me 170 00:18:19,792 --> 00:18:22,159 all the way to the west coast, but it did. 171 00:18:22,167 --> 00:18:24,300 And I had trouble getting a job. 172 00:18:26,258 --> 00:18:30,858 The only job I could secure was teaching high school biology 173 00:18:31,167 --> 00:18:32,847 at Hollywood High School. 174 00:18:35,492 --> 00:18:38,592 I was there from 2004 until 2006. 175 00:18:41,167 --> 00:18:43,433 [mysterious glass harmonica music] 176 00:18:46,758 --> 00:18:48,758 One day in June of 2006 177 00:18:49,225 --> 00:18:54,525 I was grading finals in my classroom and two men entered. 178 00:18:54,558 --> 00:18:57,558 They were like G-men out of a movie. 179 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:01,300 They started asking me about my UFO experience. 180 00:19:01,717 --> 00:19:03,717 So I immediately got my back up. 181 00:19:04,458 --> 00:19:07,658 I assumed that they were either tabloid reporters 182 00:19:07,717 --> 00:19:10,750 or some sort of kooky UFO researchers 183 00:19:10,775 --> 00:19:13,175 and I threatened to call the police. 184 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:21,500 They informed me at that point that they belonged to a three letter agency. 185 00:19:22,742 --> 00:19:25,042 They said they were there to potentially offer me a job. 186 00:19:26,192 --> 00:19:29,584 They handed me a white card with a phone number on it 187 00:19:30,717 --> 00:19:34,157 and said that the phone number would be good for three days. 188 00:19:34,250 --> 00:19:35,250 Then they left. 189 00:19:37,033 --> 00:19:38,033 So I thought about it. 190 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:41,700 I had nothing left to lose. So... 191 00:19:43,992 --> 00:19:45,859 On day three, I called them. 192 00:19:47,050 --> 00:19:50,050 The voice that answered asked me if I would consent to an interview. 193 00:19:50,750 --> 00:19:51,950 I said yes. 194 00:19:53,650 --> 00:19:54,650 That was it. 195 00:19:55,517 --> 00:19:59,717 And the next morning another G-man shows up 196 00:19:59,775 --> 00:20:01,055 in a black sedan 197 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:05,416 knocks on my door and tells me he's there to take me to my interview. 198 00:20:05,908 --> 00:20:09,772 We drive to an abandoned parking lot in downtown LA 199 00:20:09,792 --> 00:20:12,792 where I'm transferred to a bus with blacked out windows. 200 00:20:13,208 --> 00:20:17,060 I'm the only person on the bus and the driver does not speak to me. 201 00:20:17,150 --> 00:20:19,750 We drive for what feels like about two hours. 202 00:20:19,758 --> 00:20:21,758 I have no idea where we're going. 203 00:20:23,058 --> 00:20:24,958 Then when we arrive at the destination 204 00:20:24,983 --> 00:20:29,023 two more G-men get on the bus, fit me with blackout goggles. 205 00:20:30,117 --> 00:20:33,517 Very dramatic, vey annoying. 206 00:20:35,117 --> 00:20:36,797 And lead me off the bus. 207 00:20:38,533 --> 00:20:43,077 When the goggles are removed, I am in a white room with a table, a chair 208 00:20:43,833 --> 00:20:45,766 a very obvious two way mirror 209 00:20:47,133 --> 00:20:49,000 and a mountain of paperwork. 210 00:20:50,592 --> 00:20:54,740 There's a speaker above me, and a woman's voice comes on 211 00:20:54,875 --> 00:21:00,375 and asks me to please go through the paperwork in order. 212 00:21:01,083 --> 00:21:05,183 First thing is a ridiculous personality questionnaire 213 00:21:05,750 --> 00:21:07,430 easily 500 questions. 214 00:21:07,517 --> 00:21:11,817 The next thing is a bunch of legal texts outlining 215 00:21:12,167 --> 00:21:18,567 how classified and confidential the information that I may receive would be. 216 00:21:21,683 --> 00:21:23,363 which I read thoroughly. 217 00:21:24,850 --> 00:21:28,950 After that, I am asked to make a list of everyone. 218 00:21:29,642 --> 00:21:33,542 All of my close friends, relatives, acquaintances 219 00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:36,931 Their contact information, their known whereabouts. 220 00:21:39,450 --> 00:21:40,730 Very short list. 221 00:21:46,075 --> 00:21:48,075 I didn't really have anyone in my life at the time 222 00:21:48,083 --> 00:21:50,383 so I wrote that down. 223 00:21:52,308 --> 00:21:56,092 After that, I was asked to write down my UFO experience. 224 00:21:58,617 --> 00:22:02,521 Then I started to get an inkling of what this might be about. 225 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:08,900 So I was taken back to the bus with the goggles. 226 00:22:09,933 --> 00:22:14,337 two hour drive back to downtown LA, into the sedan, and home. 227 00:22:21,908 --> 00:22:24,008 I felt buzzed on the way home. 228 00:22:24,392 --> 00:22:26,259 I couldn't sleep that night. 229 00:22:29,725 --> 00:22:33,145 Like maybe something good would come of this after all. 230 00:22:33,642 --> 00:22:35,942 A couple of days later, I got a call 231 00:22:36,458 --> 00:22:39,792 asking me if I would accept the position. 232 00:22:40,992 --> 00:22:43,325 I had no idea what the position was 233 00:22:43,708 --> 00:22:46,008 but I just said yes. 234 00:22:48,550 --> 00:22:56,050 The next day, new guy shows up at the door and a black sedan. Same outfit. 235 00:22:58,533 --> 00:23:04,533 I'm taken to downtown LA again, onto the bus, driven for two hours. 236 00:23:06,242 --> 00:23:07,862 Goggles, whole nine. 237 00:23:09,158 --> 00:23:10,838 Back in the white room. 238 00:23:11,167 --> 00:23:14,303 Only this time instead of a mountain of paperwork 239 00:23:14,917 --> 00:23:18,917 there's an NDA and a book. 240 00:23:20,867 --> 00:23:22,547 The book is blue, bound. 241 00:23:24,083 --> 00:23:25,763 Nothing on the cover. 242 00:23:26,383 --> 00:23:31,183 The voice tells me to sign the NDA 243 00:23:31,250 --> 00:23:33,783 and then read the book cover to cover. 244 00:23:36,217 --> 00:23:39,397 At this point, I'm starting to get the vibe of what it must feel like 245 00:23:39,442 --> 00:23:42,082 for Scientologists when they're pulled into the little room 246 00:23:42,083 --> 00:23:44,817 and given the documents about Lord Xenu. 247 00:23:45,242 --> 00:23:48,826 Turns out it was something quite similar to that anyway. 248 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:52,633 The book, "The Assessment" 249 00:23:52,833 --> 00:23:57,633 was compiled from over half a century of covert research. 250 00:23:57,967 --> 00:24:00,703 Everything that the United States government knew 251 00:24:00,750 --> 00:24:04,782 or at least this small cell within the Defense Department knew 252 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,680 about the UFO phenomenon. 253 00:24:10,408 --> 00:24:11,408 So... 254 00:24:13,258 --> 00:24:17,290 If you want to know the truth about unidentified flying objects 255 00:24:17,667 --> 00:24:21,495 and the non-human intelligence that operates them... 256 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Here it is. 257 00:24:30,792 --> 00:24:32,792 [pulsing synthesizer bassline] 258 00:24:33,408 --> 00:24:36,632 [Audiobook Narrator:] The universe is nearly 18 billion years old. 259 00:24:37,133 --> 00:24:39,753 The milky way galaxy, in which our solar system resides 260 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:44,272 is aged about 13 billion years, and contains as many as 400 billion stars 261 00:24:44,358 --> 00:24:46,758 and just as many individual planets. 262 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:52,108 These are spans of time so vast that it’s beyond the comprehension of the individual human brain. 263 00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:57,882 Our Earth was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, and life evolved relatively soon after. 264 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:05,100 Electricity arced through the early seas and certain molecules, over a couple billion more years, coalesced into organized forms. 265 00:25:05,175 --> 00:25:12,475 They became the same mindlessly-replicating nucleic acids that still comprise your own genetic code, as well as that of all other life on Earth. 266 00:25:12,542 --> 00:25:17,302 This process still took another two billion years before it produced anything interesting. 267 00:25:17,708 --> 00:25:24,704 The first sea creatures to shape their fins into feet and drag themselves ashore only did so 370 million years ago 268 00:25:24,767 --> 00:25:28,467 while early humans finally appeared as recently as just 3-million years ago. 269 00:25:28,517 --> 00:25:33,861 And even then we only arrived at a point of real technological ability within the last century. 270 00:25:34,208 --> 00:25:38,488 Human beings took their first powered flight only as recent as 1903... 271 00:25:38,542 --> 00:25:43,658 But something much more sophisticated has been flying around our skies since long before then. 272 00:25:43,958 --> 00:25:47,858 The first real UFO report dates from 1878. 273 00:25:47,917 --> 00:25:52,909 A farmer in Texas watched as a strange, apparently silent object flew overhead 274 00:25:53,125 --> 00:25:57,569 which when viewed from below resembled, as he put it, “a large saucer”. 275 00:25:57,625 --> 00:26:01,145 The object shot away into the far horizon and vanished. 276 00:26:01,250 --> 00:26:06,202 The paper which reported his story opined that it “deserves the attention of our scientists”. 277 00:26:06,292 --> 00:26:09,992 Then, as now, it publicly received none. 278 00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:17,417 More visitations soon followed. 279 00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:25,075 Over the next few decades came waves of reports of bright lights with dark bodies attached racing about the night skies of America. 280 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:30,079 The quaint minds of the time interpreted these as airships created by some hidden genius. 281 00:26:30,083 --> 00:26:35,355 As the wave wore on reports became more dubious and obviously the products of limited imaginations 282 00:26:35,417 --> 00:26:41,353 but many of the sightings as described line up neatly with types of objects still being seen today. 283 00:26:42,467 --> 00:26:49,455 Over the first few decades of the 20th century, the intelligences piloting the UFOs made only infrequent appearances. 284 00:26:49,542 --> 00:26:56,102 Even the first World War, with its nascent aerial battles, was apparently not worthy of more thorough observation. 285 00:26:56,125 --> 00:26:57,725 That would soon change. 286 00:26:58,283 --> 00:27:02,483 World War II marks the emergence of the UFO phenomenon in its current form. 287 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,508 In both European and Pacific theaters of combat 288 00:27:05,625 --> 00:27:11,285 pilots reported being tailed or paced by mysterious lights and wingless crafts that completely outmaneuvered them. 289 00:27:11,358 --> 00:27:19,358 Despite these objects never acting in a hostile fashion, they were assumed by the militaries of the world to be a new weapon developed by one of the various enemy nations. 290 00:27:19,625 --> 00:27:25,665 American pilots over Germany dubbed them “Kraut fireballs”, believing them to be some sinister Nazi innovation 291 00:27:25,750 --> 00:27:29,434 while their counterparts stationed in England took to calling them “Foo Fighters” 292 00:27:29,667 --> 00:27:36,267 which was originally “Fuckin’ Foo Fighters”, but this more colorful variant of the term was sanitized by the press of the time. 293 00:27:36,358 --> 00:27:43,290 UFOs were now a subject of private concern to the military, but awareness would soon spread to the public in 1947 294 00:27:43,358 --> 00:27:51,158 when pilot Kenneth Arnold and others reported seeing a fleet of saucer-like objects racing through the skies at supersonic speeds above Washington state. 295 00:27:51,208 --> 00:27:58,408 Newspapers picked up the story and reported it without mockery or ridicule, and a tide of open curiosity and interest spread across the globe. 296 00:27:58,542 --> 00:28:00,275 The public wanted answers. 297 00:28:00,667 --> 00:28:04,023 The problem, however, was that the military had none-- 298 00:28:04,042 --> 00:28:07,582 a frightening scenario for the world’s most powerful nation. 299 00:28:07,667 --> 00:28:13,883 Thus began a policy of denial and ridicule that would forever poison the topic in the minds of the scientific community 300 00:28:13,917 --> 00:28:17,869 and make them unpaid stooges for the military’s campaign of secrecy. 301 00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:25,788 But why were these advanced beings suddenly so interested in us? 302 00:28:25,792 --> 00:28:28,058 That answer was obvious even then. 303 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,656 [Maj. Donald Keyhoe:] The Air Force has officially analyzed the motives of possible visitors from space. 304 00:28:33,667 --> 00:28:36,759 Here is a direct quotation from the official report. 305 00:28:36,833 --> 00:28:42,781 "Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. 306 00:28:42,833 --> 00:28:46,253 In the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. 307 00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:51,125 We should therefore expect at this time above all to behold such visitations." 308 00:28:51,167 --> 00:28:52,847 [rising, atonal strings] 309 00:28:58,500 --> 00:28:59,500 [explosions] 310 00:29:33,917 --> 00:29:35,717 [ominous woodwind ensemble] 311 00:29:40,533 --> 00:29:42,681 [Audiobook Narrator:] The start of the Anthropocene epoch 312 00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:48,682 a proposed geological time scale that marks the era when human technology began to significantly impact the Earth 313 00:29:48,708 --> 00:29:53,828 has been proposed to start in 1945 with the detonation of the first atomic bomb. 314 00:29:53,833 --> 00:29:59,349 It is not coincidence that our visitors turned out in droves at this exact same point in time. 315 00:29:59,433 --> 00:30:05,325 Their increased observation of our planet runs precisely parallel with our increased destruction of it. 316 00:30:05,417 --> 00:30:09,081 Carl Sagan, the patron saint of armchair scientists 317 00:30:09,292 --> 00:30:14,992 once opined that it was absurd to entertain the idea that beings from another planet would be such regular visitors to our own 318 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:22,100 likening such a scenario to every anthropologist on Earth running to go see the natives on some remote island develop a new fishing net. 319 00:30:22,133 --> 00:30:29,533 His apparent prejudice against the worth of native cultures aside, this argument has always seemed to me to be both stupid and in bad faith 320 00:30:29,583 --> 00:30:36,183 considering this view is commonly espoused by the same type of scientist who will also try to instill you with a schmaltzy sense of awe 321 00:30:36,250 --> 00:30:38,517 about the wondrous nature of life on Earth. 322 00:30:38,567 --> 00:30:46,567 Either this planet is a backwater dump unworthy of cosmic study, or it’s a glowing jewel of beauty unique amongst the vast emptiness of space. 323 00:30:47,117 --> 00:30:49,250 I wish they’d make up their minds. 324 00:30:50,867 --> 00:30:52,547 But we are not alone. 325 00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:58,873 The question of the origin and purpose of the UFO craft visiting the Earth has spawned competing hypotheses 326 00:30:58,958 --> 00:31:00,825 some more valid than others. 327 00:31:01,167 --> 00:31:05,855 The most popular, and most obvious, is that they are extraterrestrial vehicles or technology 328 00:31:05,917 --> 00:31:11,069 operated by intelligences that evolved in another solar system, possibly even another galaxy. 329 00:31:11,125 --> 00:31:18,025 After all, they have been tracked on radar entering the atmosphere from outer space, and have been quietly observed by astronauts in orbit. 330 00:31:18,083 --> 00:31:23,279 Though it is not the sexiest or most exotic explanation, it is the one that fits the data 331 00:31:23,375 --> 00:31:29,943 and is the one subscribed to by myself personally, by the majority of CEU personnel and by most of the military. 332 00:31:29,958 --> 00:31:34,238 Those more exotic explanations include the Interdimensional hypothesis 333 00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:42,750 which argues that the craft originate from another dimension or plane of reality, which sounds exciting and dangerous, but is completely untestable scientifically 334 00:31:42,833 --> 00:31:45,797 and basically tantamount to saying they are magic. 335 00:31:45,892 --> 00:31:54,592 Then there is the Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis, in which the UFOs are explained as technology developed by an even more advanced species endemic to the Earth 336 00:31:54,917 --> 00:31:59,745 who have somehow never been discovered and have also left no trace of themselves in the fossil record. 337 00:31:59,758 --> 00:32:05,150 In a similar vein is another explanation, which every few years gets trotted out by some new researcher 338 00:32:05,208 --> 00:32:11,024 who thinks it’s bold and novel and not something that has occurred to every stoned undergrad in their dorm room at 3am. 339 00:32:11,083 --> 00:32:17,659 I am of course referring to the idea that UFOs are simply time travel devices used by humans from the future, 340 00:32:17,667 --> 00:32:22,655 an idea so silly and far fetched that it was once even used as the plot of a Godzilla movie. 341 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:29,400 Finally, there is a hypothesis that has a depressing but unsurprising number of adherents at both the Pentagon and in government 342 00:32:29,417 --> 00:32:36,817 which is the belief that UFOs are demonic in origin and emissaries of Satan meant to test the faith of our god fearing Christian nation. 343 00:32:36,883 --> 00:32:44,499 The term “UFO”--unidentified flying object--as well as the fashionable, newer term “UAP”--unidentified aerial phenomena 344 00:32:44,650 --> 00:32:46,850 are both something of a misnomer. 345 00:32:46,958 --> 00:32:50,546 While the craft are often viewed in the sky, they are not "flying", 346 00:32:50,642 --> 00:32:57,058 which describes a solid object moving atop the gasses that make up our atmosphere by some means of physical propulsion. 347 00:32:57,083 --> 00:32:59,083 UFOs do not do this. 348 00:32:59,458 --> 00:33:07,458 While they move at often hypersonic speed, they do not create sonic booms, or any sound at all, which indicates there is no displacement of the air around them. 349 00:33:07,483 --> 00:33:11,255 They give off no exhaust plume or indications of conventional propulsion. 350 00:33:11,350 --> 00:33:16,106 In fact, one of the fastest ways to send a UFO report into the trash at the CEU 351 00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:21,865 was to say that it made loud noises, gave off exhaust or any other indicators of conventional jet propulsion. 352 00:33:21,917 --> 00:33:27,113 Such cases can almost always be comfortably written off as hoaxes or misidentifications. 353 00:33:27,125 --> 00:33:32,121 Not only do the craft not create sonic booms, they also sidestep the concept of inertia. 354 00:33:32,167 --> 00:33:37,735 They regularly make hard right angle turns going at speeds of over 14,000 miles an hour 355 00:33:37,792 --> 00:33:42,532 so fast that they can lap the entire circumference of the Earth in less than an hour. 356 00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:48,738 Theoretically, anything with mass that occupies physical space should be subject to inertia, gravity, the whole lot 357 00:33:48,750 --> 00:33:55,950 but UFOs, which occasionally show up on radar and therefore have a concrete, physical presence in conjunction with their visible appearance 358 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,948 have apparently never heard of any of these human concepts of physics, because they disregard all of them. 359 00:34:00,958 --> 00:34:08,958 Not only do they merrily zip through space completely unimpeded, they plunge into the depths of the ocean without so much as a splash or a ripple. 360 00:34:09,250 --> 00:34:16,494 They seem to be both here and not here at the same time, phasing through space, or simply bending it around them somehow. 361 00:34:16,583 --> 00:34:22,783 They don’t really move in and of themselves--what they actually seem to do is move the immediate universe around them. 362 00:34:22,867 --> 00:34:26,071 In addition to this, they have advanced cloaking capabilities. 363 00:34:26,125 --> 00:34:34,825 UFOs will commonly show up on radar or sonar while being completely invisible to the naked eye, only becoming so when viewed through infrared or the ultraviolet spectrum. 364 00:34:34,917 --> 00:34:40,893 Conversely, they will often show up plain as day for all to see, but remain completely undetectable by radar. 365 00:34:40,917 --> 00:34:50,617 If they are detected or seen, it seems to be either an intentional display, such as their frequent appearances above nuclear weapons sites in both the United States and former Soviet Union 366 00:34:50,617 --> 00:34:54,857 or simply a rare instance of them letting their guard down and apparently not caring. 367 00:34:54,875 --> 00:34:59,503 After all, even if they are seen there is nothing we can really do about it. 368 00:34:59,567 --> 00:35:03,647 Their favored method of concealment, however, is also the most simple. 369 00:35:03,692 --> 00:35:05,992 They are not really hanging out in our skies. 370 00:35:06,042 --> 00:35:13,442 Their preferred habitat on Earth is at the bottom of the ocean, where they can conduct their business with almost no interference or detection by humanity. 371 00:35:13,458 --> 00:35:21,058 One of the jokes commonly told among CEU staff was the idea that someday we will finally crack the language of the dolphins and the whales 372 00:35:21,150 --> 00:35:26,278 whereupon they will tell us that space aliens have been visiting and communicating with them for aeons 373 00:35:26,292 --> 00:35:30,472 but did not want to talk to us stupid, primative landwalkers on shore. 374 00:35:31,783 --> 00:35:34,683 We know they are here--but why are they here? 375 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,867 The CEU still does not know. 376 00:35:37,417 --> 00:35:40,869 Neither do the various other top secret research groups, I’d wager, 377 00:35:40,958 --> 00:35:45,934 many of which are housed and protected at private corporations so as to be off limits to government auditors. 378 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,600 And neither do the civilian investigators. 379 00:35:48,625 --> 00:35:51,889 Modern ufology is not a science, it is a subculture 380 00:35:52,208 --> 00:35:56,172 and it attracts mainly either New Age post-hippies or paranoid right-wingers 381 00:35:56,192 --> 00:36:02,012 who add UFOs to their list of fringe hobbies next to the Illuminati and various antisemitic conspiracies. 382 00:36:02,025 --> 00:36:09,825 And it is also no coincidence that the Alien abduction craze reached its zenith in parallel with the Satanic panic of the late 1980s and early 90s 383 00:36:09,875 --> 00:36:18,375 when quack investigators used the supremely unreliable technique of regressive hypnosis to make their victims believe that they had been anally probed by space beings 384 00:36:18,417 --> 00:36:21,893 or forced to participate in suburban basement blood orgies. 385 00:36:24,308 --> 00:36:33,308 What I do know is that there are over 9 million species of life on Earth, which means over 9 million points of potential study for hypothetical scientists from elsewhere. 386 00:36:33,667 --> 00:36:41,267 That number, however, is rapidly shrinking thanks to just one species on Earth, which will probably soon include itself among the number of the vanished. 387 00:36:41,542 --> 00:36:47,926 I often think of the intelligences visiting us as being akin to our own scientists stationed in Antarctica 388 00:36:47,983 --> 00:36:53,843 who occasionally cross paths with a disoriented penguin heading away from shore and into the endless frozen wastes. 389 00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:02,500 The scientists follow a strict code of non-intervention; and so they must watch as the poor creature waddles out into the white horizon to die alone 390 00:37:02,542 --> 00:37:06,894 unable to save it with merely a simple nudge in the other direction. 391 00:37:20,975 --> 00:37:23,975 [Dr. Gale:] So after reading all of this, I was given two choices: 392 00:37:24,750 --> 00:37:28,750 Either join the Counter-Espionage Unit, the CEU 393 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:34,888 or rot in mediocrity for the rest of my life in complete fear of all the NDAs I just signed. 394 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,567 Needless to say, I joined the CEU. 395 00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:48,925 The CEU was so named because the UFO phenomenon is so elusive that it's nearly impossible to gather data on them in the first place. 396 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,896 So we can either do it by chance, or through purposeful spying. 397 00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:55,733 However, whenever, wherever we can. 398 00:37:55,833 --> 00:38:01,033 The UFO intelligences observe us, so we do our best to observe them. 399 00:38:02,208 --> 00:38:07,308 The CEU was formed in 1972 by the Nixon administration. 400 00:38:07,542 --> 00:38:10,742 Now, Nixon was a paranoid psychopath 401 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:20,875 so it must come of no surprise that he would be spooked by the UFO phenomenon and want to do anything possible to get as much information as he could. 402 00:38:21,342 --> 00:38:26,098 Although there were several other organizations that existed prior to the CEU, 403 00:38:26,125 --> 00:38:31,373 the CEU was the first one that was actually beginning from a point of acceptance. 404 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:41,000 All of the other organizations from prior administrations began with the idea that we need to investigate this phenomenon, to see if it actually exists. 405 00:38:41,108 --> 00:38:48,304 Whereas we said, we know that this exists, we know that there are alien craft or alien intelligence of some sort. 406 00:38:48,442 --> 00:38:53,946 And we're going to start from that as our benchmark, and then investigate from there. 407 00:38:53,958 --> 00:38:58,958 The woman who ran the CEU during my tenure was--we'll call her Rachel. 408 00:38:59,833 --> 00:39:03,801 She managed to hold on to her position for more than 20 years. 409 00:39:03,833 --> 00:39:06,541 She was appointed by Ronald Reagan in the 80s. 410 00:39:06,625 --> 00:39:11,425 [Ronald Reagan:] I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide 411 00:39:11,792 --> 00:39:17,492 would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. 412 00:39:18,208 --> 00:39:23,308 And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? 413 00:39:24,217 --> 00:39:30,217 [Dr. Gale:] She had wonderful stories about her time in the CEU when Reagan was in charge. 414 00:39:31,092 --> 00:39:36,792 He used to come by the office and demand to see the "dead space aliens". 415 00:39:38,092 --> 00:39:42,452 At which point she would tell him there are no dead space aliens... 416 00:39:42,542 --> 00:39:44,275 That we know of, on earth. 417 00:39:46,058 --> 00:39:48,958 And he would say "Oh, okay", and then leave. 418 00:39:49,408 --> 00:39:54,824 And then he would come back a couple of months later demanding to see the space aliens again. 419 00:39:54,842 --> 00:39:56,522 Because he was senile. 420 00:39:56,792 --> 00:40:01,136 At which point she would again tell him there are no dead space aliens. 421 00:40:01,142 --> 00:40:05,742 Until finally he came back and threw a complete temper tantrum. 422 00:40:05,850 --> 00:40:13,082 She told him "Okay, give me a week, Ronnie, I'm going to show you the dead space aliens, but they're top secret." 423 00:40:14,958 --> 00:40:17,774 She thought that maybe just telling him that would make him go away 424 00:40:17,833 --> 00:40:23,429 but then he told her "If I don't see those those dead space aliens in a week, I'm cutting the funding to the CEU". 425 00:40:24,658 --> 00:40:31,890 So her top secret location where she was holding the dead space aliens was actually a Halloween store in Burbank. 426 00:40:32,167 --> 00:40:40,967 She went and found two foam prop space aliens, covered them with green slime and stuck them in a freezer 427 00:40:41,333 --> 00:40:45,781 and then called Ronnie to come in the middle of the night and take a look at them. 428 00:40:46,133 --> 00:40:50,805 After he saw them, he was so impressed he doubled the budget for the CEU. 429 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:55,239 In terms of staff at the CEU, there are several tiers. 430 00:40:55,500 --> 00:41:01,000 There are approximately 10 to 15 high level staff who have read the Assessment 431 00:41:01,033 --> 00:41:08,033 and who are in charge of interpreting data, either in part or in full. 432 00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:14,250 And then there are approximately 30 to 50 low level staff who have not read the Assessment 433 00:41:14,308 --> 00:41:20,900 but who do mostly field work, and they're in charge of collecting data or they're mainly functionaries. 434 00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:27,250 Most of our time was spent either analyzing data that we stole from other countries 435 00:41:27,250 --> 00:41:30,050 or that was given to us by [CENSOR BLEEP], 436 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:39,000 a billionaire who was obsessed with UFOs, and who proved to be a useful idiot for funding and other resources. 437 00:41:39,708 --> 00:41:48,708 When I was at the CEU, we were understaffed. So Rachel and I included, there were only seven high level staff who actually got to analyze data as it came in. 438 00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:59,917 Forming any kind of close relationship with any of my colleagues at the CEU was forbidden, because of the sensitive nature of what we were studying. 439 00:42:00,767 --> 00:42:06,767 I did however get buddy-buddy with a colleague, who we'll call Paul. 440 00:42:07,833 --> 00:42:18,833 Paul was in his late 50s, early 60s. Balding, paunchy, glasses. Typical science nerd. 441 00:42:19,383 --> 00:42:26,383 And Paul and I bonded over the fact that we had both been essentially laughed out of our respective fields. 442 00:42:27,375 --> 00:42:31,375 Paul was an astronomer, and very well respected. 443 00:42:32,975 --> 00:42:37,071 He had actually no interest in UFOs until he was at a conference 444 00:42:37,667 --> 00:42:44,131 a high level conference actually, and he went outside to have a cigarette during the keynote speech. 445 00:42:44,625 --> 00:42:48,113 Like most people of this generation, he was a pretty heavy smoker. 446 00:42:48,142 --> 00:42:50,875 While Paul was outside he had a sighting. 447 00:42:51,458 --> 00:42:59,258 A UFO descended from the clouds and hovered above the building where he was having a cigarette. 448 00:42:59,883 --> 00:43:04,363 He ran inside the conference, interrupted the keynote speech and yelled at the top of his lungs: 449 00:43:04,458 --> 00:43:07,594 "There is a UFO outside, everyone come and look!" 450 00:43:09,792 --> 00:43:15,792 350 astronomers, and nobody moved. 451 00:43:16,333 --> 00:43:22,333 He said, "No, I'm, I'm serious! There's a UFO outside!" 452 00:43:24,392 --> 00:43:29,592 He said people turned away from him. Literally turned their backs to him. 453 00:43:32,933 --> 00:43:34,533 Nobody went outside. 454 00:43:36,392 --> 00:43:39,976 In that moment, he knew his career was over. And it was. 455 00:43:40,950 --> 00:43:45,002 Until Rachel came and scooped him up, and brought him in to the CEU. 456 00:43:46,742 --> 00:43:51,742 When I was at the CEU, the main focus of our work was codenamed "Deep One". 457 00:43:52,667 --> 00:44:02,167 And this was the investigation of a deep sea base off the coast of Mexico that appeared to be some sort of waystation for the UFO craft visiting our planet. 458 00:44:02,208 --> 00:44:13,608 The craft would descend somewhere north of Catalina Island, just off the coast of Los Angeles, then cruise along the coast to Guadalupe Island 459 00:44:13,667 --> 00:44:15,107 and then submerge. 460 00:44:15,542 --> 00:44:19,742 Now what they were doing underwater, we still don't know. 461 00:44:20,750 --> 00:44:26,302 We took several trips out to the installation in order to ascertain what was going on there. 462 00:44:26,383 --> 00:44:31,823 By the time I left, the only things that we knew for sure were, one: the coordinates 463 00:44:31,908 --> 00:44:36,156 Two: the approximate size of the base, which was about three miles by three miles. 464 00:44:36,242 --> 00:44:40,850 And three: that it was guarded by some very sophisticated sonic weaponry. 465 00:44:40,892 --> 00:44:46,892 Anything that you send down there: cameras, submersibles, divers... 466 00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:54,600 doesn't come back, at least not in one piece. 467 00:44:56,317 --> 00:45:09,317 The CEU learned this the hard way in the 70s when they attempted to send down a submersible, piloted by divers, that was capable of reaching the deep sea. 468 00:45:10,075 --> 00:45:17,435 At a certain point, the crew topside received frantic messages from the divers that was quickly replaced by static. 469 00:45:18,208 --> 00:45:19,208 [distorted screaming voices over radio] 470 00:45:19,308 --> 00:45:22,175 When they tried to reel them back up, well, 471 00:45:22,333 --> 00:45:28,333 they found the submersible had been crushed, like a tin can. 472 00:45:28,342 --> 00:45:30,875 There were no survivors, obviously. 473 00:45:31,783 --> 00:45:35,783 After that, the CEU's work at the site was mostly indirect. 474 00:45:35,833 --> 00:45:45,033 No one wanted to be responsible for instigating an interstellar war, so we were forbidden from on high from trying to make any contact. 475 00:45:45,708 --> 00:45:52,708 Which was much to Rachel's dismay, because her sole purpose in life was to make contact. 476 00:45:58,033 --> 00:46:07,233 We had videos of lights deep down under the sea, which was a potential glimpse of Deep One from far away. 477 00:46:12,808 --> 00:46:19,408 We had sonar readings, we had videos of the craft entering and exiting the sea. 478 00:46:21,875 --> 00:46:23,875 Always filmed from far away. 479 00:46:27,833 --> 00:46:29,513 [eerie ambient music] 480 00:46:35,683 --> 00:46:40,739 But whatever it was that was going on down there, we just weren't meant to know. 481 00:46:45,333 --> 00:46:50,197 We've talked about things that are. Now let's talk about things that are not. 482 00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:56,308 Majestic-12? Complete bullshit. Project Serpo? Forgot it. 483 00:46:56,583 --> 00:47:03,315 Anything that tells you that there are aliens running around or having dinner with the President? Complete crap. 484 00:47:03,458 --> 00:47:10,434 No, there can't be any real government alien conspiracies because they're too stupid to actually create them. 485 00:47:10,708 --> 00:47:21,708 It's incredible to me that the general public thinks that the government is capable of concealing a secret for 50 years over multiple administrations. 486 00:47:22,375 --> 00:47:25,723 They can't even keep a secret through one administration. 487 00:47:25,792 --> 00:47:34,792 And if one government can't keep it together to keep it a secret, how in the hell could the entire world's governments keep it together to keep it a secret 488 00:47:34,858 --> 00:47:36,725 over the course of 50 years? 489 00:47:37,333 --> 00:47:39,333 There is no conspiracy. 490 00:47:40,383 --> 00:47:46,383 [Radio Announcer:] Headline news, July 8 1947. 491 00:47:46,750 --> 00:47:52,262 The Army Air Force has announced that a flying disc has been found and is now in the possession of the Army. 492 00:47:52,350 --> 00:47:58,086 Army officers say the missile, found sometime last week, has been inspected at Roswell, New Mexico 493 00:47:58,108 --> 00:48:01,264 and sent to Wright Field, Ohio for further inspection. 494 00:48:01,317 --> 00:48:05,377 [Dr. Gale:] No, a flying saucer did not crash at Roswell in 1947. 495 00:48:05,817 --> 00:48:10,829 It was exactly what they said it was when they revealed the documents in the 1990s. 496 00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:16,900 It was a balloon, an espionage balloon that was part of Project Mogul. 497 00:48:17,942 --> 00:48:26,942 Now, for some reason the first story that was created was that it was a UFO because UFOs were popular at the time. 498 00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:29,950 And it was an idiotic story, 499 00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:35,062 and they realized very quickly that it just made people more curious about what they were in fact doing. 500 00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:41,324 So they wheeled back on that story and they told a new story, that it was a weather balloon 501 00:48:41,417 --> 00:48:44,517 which was closer to the truth but not actually the truth. 502 00:48:44,933 --> 00:48:55,533 And then continued to just create stories about crash test dummies and other other stories that would convolute the actual truth, 503 00:48:55,583 --> 00:49:02,683 which of course, when it came out in the 90s wasn't believed by that point because they'd been lying for so long and creating false information 504 00:49:02,775 --> 00:49:06,555 that why should you believe them when they actually do tell the truth? 505 00:49:07,125 --> 00:49:13,197 This has been a constant pattern with the military and their relationship with UFOs since day one. 506 00:49:13,208 --> 00:49:20,908 [Digitally altered voice:] We operate from a designated base in the United States. It's in the state of Nevada in an area called 507 00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:22,972 Area 51 or "Dreamland". 508 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:32,000 ["Falcon":] The extraterrestrials have complete control of this base, which is located in Nevada. 509 00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:35,222 [Dr. Gale:] No, there are no aliens at Area 51. 510 00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:49,175 The reason we think there are aliens at Area 51 is because the government has hired disinformation agents in order to propagate interesting tales about aliens and UFOs operating from that site. 511 00:49:49,650 --> 00:49:57,010 The reason they've done that is because it is a site of testing of defense weapons, dumping of illegal chemicals... 512 00:49:57,542 --> 00:50:08,542 All sorts of games that the government plays that wastes money, and they would rather not have people witnessing. 513 00:50:08,592 --> 00:50:13,392 The mythmaking was started when the government hired these disinformation agents. 514 00:50:13,483 --> 00:50:19,183 Gave them basically, you know, free rein to create whatever types of stories they wanted to create. 515 00:50:19,225 --> 00:50:24,593 It doesn't seem like they had a lot of oversight in terms of what was coming out of the mouths of these people. 516 00:50:25,025 --> 00:50:34,325 It began with Richard Doty. In 1988, he made an appearance on a show called "UFO Cover Up? Live!" 517 00:50:37,908 --> 00:50:42,416 He appeared as a secret government informant under the codename Falcon. 518 00:50:42,750 --> 00:50:44,190 ["Falcon" speaks] 519 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:06,000 He revealed such top secret information as aliens have big black eyes, and gray skin... 520 00:51:14,333 --> 00:51:16,733 ...and like to eat strawberry ice cream. 521 00:51:28,175 --> 00:51:33,875 From there, he created all sorts of incredible science fiction stories. 522 00:51:33,958 --> 00:51:44,058 As a matter of fact, I think he would rival L. Ron Hubbard for the sheer volume of sci-fi that he's created over the course of his career. 523 00:51:44,750 --> 00:51:49,850 ["Falcon":] MJ-12 was a group of people within the government. 524 00:51:50,208 --> 00:51:54,608 MJ-12 was created by President Truman in the early 50s. 525 00:51:55,125 --> 00:52:00,825 So after Richard Doty came Bob Lazar. Very quickly after, actually. 526 00:52:01,250 --> 00:52:02,610 [synthwave music] 527 00:52:09,825 --> 00:52:11,265 Hi, I'm Bob Lazar. 528 00:52:11,417 --> 00:52:19,417 During late 1988 and early 89, I worked on the propulsion systems of extraterrestrial vehicles for the United States government. 529 00:52:21,950 --> 00:52:23,950 Bob Lazar is a complete fraud. 530 00:52:25,342 --> 00:52:28,142 Nothing he says should be taken seriously. 531 00:52:28,367 --> 00:52:31,967 Now, the CEU is a government agency. 532 00:52:32,083 --> 00:52:42,083 We're a small unit buried under layers of bureaucracy, that of course no one within the government even knows exists for the most part 533 00:52:42,375 --> 00:52:44,319 and definitely didn't know what we were doing. 534 00:52:44,383 --> 00:52:55,783 So when you think about people like Richard Doty being financed by completely other arms of the government that are not focused on science at all 535 00:52:56,125 --> 00:53:01,281 but are focused on the military and covering up whatever the military is up to, 536 00:53:01,583 --> 00:53:08,559 "aliens" is just a convenient side story that they can use in order to distract from what's really going on. 537 00:53:08,708 --> 00:53:14,404 Now unfortunately, when you're funded by the military you have a lot more at your disposal 538 00:53:14,883 --> 00:53:19,343 as opposed to our funding which was trickling down on a good day. 539 00:53:19,992 --> 00:53:23,500 The CEU actually has one UFO in its possession. 540 00:53:23,792 --> 00:53:33,692 It was found in the 60s. It is about the size of a camper van and shaped vaguely like a popcorn kernel. 541 00:53:35,117 --> 00:53:40,485 Despite all the rumors about Area 51, nothing has ever been reverse engineered from this. 542 00:53:40,875 --> 00:53:47,083 It is extremely old. We know that from carbon dating of the stones that it was found embedded in. 543 00:53:48,033 --> 00:53:50,566 It's made of a beautiful silver alloy. 544 00:53:51,217 --> 00:53:54,217 The fuselage is impenetrable. 545 00:53:57,675 --> 00:54:01,075 Because it's impenetrable, we've never been able to get in in any way. 546 00:54:02,042 --> 00:54:07,042 It's just sitting in a top secret hangar in storage, gathering dust. 547 00:54:10,208 --> 00:54:11,888 [eerie ambient music] 548 00:54:25,708 --> 00:54:28,652 We never studied alien abductions at the CEU 549 00:54:30,433 --> 00:54:35,073 mostly because there was no scientific evidence to support that they actually exist. 550 00:54:35,508 --> 00:54:42,560 Now the main reason for this is that every single explanation of an alien abduction always begins with the same story, 551 00:54:42,583 --> 00:54:49,583 and that story is exactly in alignment with stories that come with sleep paralysis. 552 00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:57,548 The second reason is that the narrative of alien abductions has changed over time. 553 00:54:59,158 --> 00:55:07,558 If in fact the same thing was happening to everyone, we would see very, very similar 554 00:55:08,067 --> 00:55:11,134 specifications in terms of the story. 555 00:55:11,158 --> 00:55:18,046 I'm not talking about, you know, I was probed and my eggs were stolen, and they made me ejaculate and stole my sperm. 556 00:55:18,533 --> 00:55:23,077 I'm talking about the narrative surrounding what the beings look like. 557 00:55:23,842 --> 00:55:31,842 So even the typical greys that have permeated pop culture, every person who describes them has a slightly different interpretation. 558 00:55:31,850 --> 00:55:38,182 The eyes are positioned differently, they're bigger or smaller, and then that has even changed over time as well. 559 00:55:38,717 --> 00:55:44,917 They've wrapped around the head, or there's a nose or there's no nose, or there's ears or no ears, and the skin is different. 560 00:55:44,975 --> 00:55:48,975 The height is different. The noises they make are different. 561 00:55:50,267 --> 00:55:58,967 I just don't give much credence to reports of aliens because the odds of something like that adapting on another planet that looks humanoid 562 00:55:58,967 --> 00:56:00,487 are extremely rare. 563 00:56:00,533 --> 00:56:05,745 The other thing is, how are they running around with the ability to breathe our air? 564 00:56:05,833 --> 00:56:11,869 If they did evolve on another planet, chances are, you know, they would need some sort of spacesuit 565 00:56:11,917 --> 00:56:16,909 or clothing at the very least in order to be able to deal with our atmosphere. 566 00:56:17,075 --> 00:56:26,575 Now people who report alien abduction stories shouldn't be mocked or made fun of. 567 00:56:27,367 --> 00:56:29,800 Sleep paralysis feels very real. 568 00:56:30,850 --> 00:56:38,550 As you know, anything that happens between the waking and asleep state, it's very difficult to discern what is real and what isn't. 569 00:56:38,575 --> 00:56:47,575 And for many people, these alien abduction stories become part of a recurring, waking nightmare. 570 00:56:48,492 --> 00:56:51,392 And I have a lot of empathy for those people. 571 00:56:51,433 --> 00:57:01,733 But it just seems as though the popular culture narrative has permeated these sleep paralysis experiences, nothing more. 572 00:57:03,117 --> 00:57:08,317 I had a coworker at the CEU. We'll call him Joe. 573 00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:10,692 He was an excellent researcher. 574 00:57:11,733 --> 00:57:13,413 Seemed like a decent guy. 575 00:57:16,142 --> 00:57:19,598 One day, he just completely disappeared from his desk. 576 00:57:22,100 --> 00:57:24,033 I asked Rachel what happened. 577 00:57:26,458 --> 00:57:30,874 She didn't want to tell me at first, but eventually she revealed that 578 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:38,200 Joe believed he had made direct contact with the aliens. 579 00:57:40,700 --> 00:57:49,600 He'd been camping and a grey alien with black eyes had come into the tent and brought him aboard the spaceship. 580 00:57:50,725 --> 00:57:55,973 It's a very typical sleep paralysis story. And frankly, I was kind of disappointed 581 00:57:56,808 --> 00:57:57,808 in Joe. 582 00:58:01,992 --> 00:58:07,992 I mean, regardless of what happened, because who am I to say at this point, really 583 00:58:10,575 --> 00:58:13,647 that story compromised the security of our unit. 584 00:58:17,158 --> 00:58:20,506 It undermined the integrity of what we were trying to do. 585 00:58:21,183 --> 00:58:26,111 We're never going to be taken seriously with gray beings with big black eyes. 586 00:58:29,608 --> 00:58:30,888 So he had to go. 587 00:58:35,042 --> 00:58:42,042 I have very mixed feelings about Rachel in retrospect. 588 00:58:42,950 --> 00:58:48,950 She sought me out to work there, and she was very kind 589 00:58:50,658 --> 00:58:55,922 and gave me a lot more leeway than I probably should have been allowed in that type of organization. 590 00:58:55,992 --> 00:59:00,272 She had built something truly extraordinary, but then had leveled off. 591 00:59:00,292 --> 00:59:06,292 In a way, it felt like at a point that she was just humoring me professionally. 592 00:59:07,292 --> 00:59:11,672 And the whole system, the way it's set up, really is quite ridiculous. 593 00:59:11,717 --> 00:59:15,597 You know, to have a scientific organization reporting to a government. 594 00:59:15,625 --> 00:59:19,625 It's like toddlers running a daycare center. 595 00:59:22,767 --> 00:59:26,267 There were moments in, you know... 596 00:59:26,325 --> 00:59:29,192 We spent a lot of time working together and 597 00:59:29,650 --> 00:59:33,650 Rachel, I think was attracted to me from the beginning. 598 00:59:36,783 --> 00:59:42,783 And when I started to realize that, a bitterness grew inside me. 599 00:59:43,550 --> 00:59:55,450 Just for all the years of feeling like I was being promoted or paid attention to because of my looks and not because of my ability. 600 00:59:55,950 --> 01:00:04,350 It's hard to articulate what the reason was for my departure. 601 01:00:07,017 --> 01:00:08,697 But I just had had enough. 602 01:00:13,708 --> 01:00:15,908 [waves and ocean in the distance] 603 01:00:18,208 --> 01:00:20,008 [ominous, atonal woodwinds] 604 01:00:37,142 --> 01:00:43,294 [Dr. Gale:] In 2009, Rachel received communication from the Coast Guard off the Bering Strait. 605 01:00:44,742 --> 01:00:51,742 There had been several counts of first, contact on sonar and on radar, 606 01:00:53,392 --> 01:00:58,292 and then sightings of a large, boxcar shaped object. 607 01:00:59,483 --> 01:01:05,583 We immediately charted a flight and went to Alaska. Myself, Rachel and Paul. 608 01:01:07,708 --> 01:01:14,908 We arrived in Alaska and boarded a ship with a skeleton crew, and went out into the Bering Sea. 609 01:01:14,933 --> 01:01:19,093 Into the spot where all of the the observations had taken place. 610 01:01:20,225 --> 01:01:23,469 On the first day, about 2:30 in the afternoon, 611 01:01:26,458 --> 01:01:38,558 we saw a large, boxcar shaped craft emerge from the sea. 612 01:01:40,950 --> 01:01:56,150 It was two rectangular objects tethered in the center that ascended from the sea to the sky. 613 01:01:57,267 --> 01:01:59,600 Almost like an amusement park ride. 614 01:02:10,875 --> 01:02:18,875 It almost looked like some sort of conveyor belt, in a way, that wasn't attached to anything by the way that it moved on top of itself 615 01:02:18,958 --> 01:02:20,158 as it ascended. 616 01:02:20,417 --> 01:02:23,981 We estimate that they were about 200 feet in length. 617 01:02:24,558 --> 01:02:31,458 The vessel moved from the sea to the sky without displacing any water, any air... 618 01:02:31,458 --> 01:02:37,654 ...and took about a minute to travel from the sea to the clouds, to the point where we couldn't see them anymore. 619 01:02:38,208 --> 01:02:44,808 According to the Coast Guard, this was the same spot that it was occurring in over and over again, so we were pretty sure we were going to see more. 620 01:02:44,900 --> 01:02:49,316 Although on the way out there, I didn't actually think that we were going to witness anything. 621 01:02:50,992 --> 01:02:58,792 Because what typically happens is that there's a sighting in a spot, and even multiple sightings. And then once people start to show up in anticipation 622 01:02:58,817 --> 01:03:01,273 it's almost like they know and they don't come back. 623 01:03:01,517 --> 01:03:07,117 So I was really floored that we saw anything at all. 624 01:03:08,733 --> 01:03:12,445 On the second day, there was very poor visibility. Storms. 625 01:03:14,450 --> 01:03:16,130 We didn't see anything. 626 01:03:20,667 --> 01:03:23,267 The third day, in the morning, 627 01:03:24,583 --> 01:03:28,583 we saw another craft, and then again in the afternoon. 628 01:03:29,850 --> 01:03:37,250 At this point, Rachel hypothesized that they were transport vehicles of some sort. 629 01:03:38,017 --> 01:03:42,753 That they were mining something in the ocean and taking it up into the sky. 630 01:03:43,617 --> 01:03:45,617 Paul was disturbed. 631 01:03:47,225 --> 01:03:51,769 You know, it's one thing to study but it's another thing to experience. 632 01:03:53,908 --> 01:03:56,041 The next night, we were sleeping 633 01:03:57,708 --> 01:04:03,536 and one of the Coast Guard staff came down and woke us up, and told us to get to the deck immediately. 634 01:04:03,617 --> 01:04:06,717 And we did, and what we saw was... 635 01:04:07,658 --> 01:04:13,658 a green glow coming from beneath the surface of the sea 636 01:04:14,525 --> 01:04:18,025 with a very distinctive, spherical shape. 637 01:04:18,700 --> 01:04:22,924 We tracked it on sonar. It was in fact a solid object, and it moved 638 01:04:24,383 --> 01:04:29,583 from where it was to directly underneath our ship. 639 01:04:37,825 --> 01:04:42,225 Now the craft was about three times the size of our ship. 640 01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:47,167 And our ship was nearly 80 feet long. 641 01:04:48,017 --> 01:04:51,025 Nothing about the movement of our ship changed. 642 01:04:53,667 --> 01:04:57,467 I didn't feel any vibrations. Nothing. 643 01:05:06,333 --> 01:05:08,013 But I did feel afraid. 644 01:05:10,533 --> 01:05:19,933 If it were to ascend, it would have toppled our ship in an instant. 645 01:05:21,392 --> 01:05:24,392 Then all of a sudden it was gone. 646 01:05:25,725 --> 01:05:29,629 It was no longer on the sonar, and the light had disappeared. 647 01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:46,100 The next day, Paul and I had a long discussion about the very strong feeling that we both had that we should leave. 648 01:05:48,583 --> 01:05:51,083 But Rachel was hearing none of it 649 01:05:53,333 --> 01:05:56,200 and became obsessed with making contact. 650 01:05:59,683 --> 01:06:07,283 That night, she started by shining a very, very bright spotlight onto the surface of the sea. 651 01:06:08,467 --> 01:06:17,067 And she decided to use Morse code, because she figured that since they've been able to disrupt our technology that they would be able to decipher Morse code. 652 01:06:17,850 --> 01:06:25,150 That night, she started to fire Morse code with a giant spotlight onto the surface of the sea. 653 01:06:26,825 --> 01:06:30,825 "We want to make contact", over and over again, for hours. 654 01:06:34,667 --> 01:06:35,667 Nothing. 655 01:06:37,867 --> 01:06:44,059 The next day, she decided to emit audio signals through the water through a very high powered speaker. 656 01:06:44,125 --> 01:06:51,613 She continuously, for hours, said: "We want to make contact, we are representatives of the United States government." 657 01:06:56,242 --> 01:06:57,242 Nothing. 658 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:03,100 Until Rachel decided to shoot a laser 659 01:07:06,925 --> 01:07:08,925 at the transportation vehicle. 660 01:07:12,850 --> 01:07:22,850 But this time instead of, I don't know, her long ass Morse code message, she just shot "contact". 661 01:07:23,533 --> 01:07:26,533 C-O-N-T-A-C-T. 662 01:07:26,858 --> 01:07:30,058 For the entire time from emergence to ascendance. 663 01:07:34,100 --> 01:07:35,100 No response. 664 01:07:38,517 --> 01:07:41,184 Until the craft ascended into the clouds 665 01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:46,725 and then every system on our ship shut down. 666 01:07:47,375 --> 01:07:49,055 [ominous low strings] 667 01:07:50,650 --> 01:07:58,950 The engines turned off. All of the communication devices, our cell phones, our camera equipment, everything dead. 668 01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:04,684 For 20 minutes, the crew was running around trying to get everything back online. 669 01:08:04,975 --> 01:08:07,142 Paul was completely frantic. 670 01:08:09,250 --> 01:08:10,250 Then... 671 01:08:12,675 --> 01:08:14,355 along the horizon line... 672 01:08:17,675 --> 01:08:25,275 I saw a massive object start to ascend out of the water. 673 01:08:25,550 --> 01:08:30,750 It looked like a landmass was rising out of the sea. 674 01:08:33,625 --> 01:08:35,492 [intense ethereal whooshing] 675 01:08:37,975 --> 01:08:45,275 As it ascended out of the water, bone dry, not a drop coming off of it 676 01:08:46,550 --> 01:08:52,266 it was easily the largest thing I've ever seen, and I've never seen anything that size moving. 677 01:08:53,242 --> 01:08:56,570 As it cleared the water it started to move toward us 678 01:08:57,375 --> 01:08:59,055 [low rumbling, whooshing] 679 01:09:09,725 --> 01:09:13,289 and positioned itself right over top of our vessel. 680 01:09:16,050 --> 01:09:18,183 Completely blocking out the sun. 681 01:09:26,917 --> 01:09:32,417 It was so close we could have thrown a rock off the bow and hit it. 682 01:09:34,017 --> 01:09:35,057 Paul fainted. 683 01:09:38,883 --> 01:09:40,483 I felt like, just... 684 01:09:41,092 --> 01:09:42,992 incapable of moving. 685 01:09:45,450 --> 01:09:46,450 And then... 686 01:09:48,783 --> 01:09:51,883 a noise started to come out of Paul's throat. 687 01:09:56,642 --> 01:10:02,442 It was like nothing I'd ever heard before. 688 01:10:05,158 --> 01:10:06,838 It did not sound human. 689 01:10:09,292 --> 01:10:12,292 And the noise became words. 690 01:10:17,450 --> 01:10:18,450 And it said, 691 01:10:19,283 --> 01:10:20,323 "No contact". 692 01:10:23,167 --> 01:10:24,207 "No contact". 693 01:10:24,475 --> 01:10:25,515 "No contact". 694 01:10:26,917 --> 01:10:27,957 "No contact". 695 01:10:29,075 --> 01:10:30,075 Four times. 696 01:10:37,225 --> 01:10:38,905 And then it was gone. 697 01:10:39,867 --> 01:10:41,067 It disappeared. 698 01:10:42,825 --> 01:10:49,825 It was like it went from night to day, because when it disappeared the sun blinded us. 699 01:10:55,258 --> 01:10:57,158 Paul came to... 700 01:10:58,675 --> 01:11:00,675 and was just out of his mind. 701 01:11:01,633 --> 01:11:09,177 He needed medical attention, so we rested back at the Coast Guard facilities for a couple of days and then returned home. 702 01:11:14,633 --> 01:11:22,133 When we got back to the office, I filled out my reports, my observations, and the whole time 703 01:11:23,375 --> 01:11:32,175 I kept thinking about how momentous this experience was, and how important it was to share this information with the world. 704 01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:38,800 Rachel didn't want to talk about it. 705 01:11:42,042 --> 01:11:45,370 Eventually, I just felt like I had to say something. 706 01:11:45,392 --> 01:11:46,592 I cornered her. 707 01:11:50,258 --> 01:11:54,946 And I asked her if this was the first recorded incident of contact? 708 01:11:57,992 --> 01:11:59,352 And she said yes. 709 01:12:06,033 --> 01:12:08,366 She said yes but it meant nothing. 710 01:12:10,325 --> 01:12:14,725 She felt that if they didn't want to make contact with us, then what was the point? 711 01:12:14,808 --> 01:12:20,808 She felt like all of the work that she had done at the CEU was for nothing. 712 01:12:22,742 --> 01:12:23,742 So myopic. 713 01:12:25,267 --> 01:12:36,267 Like, if this was the first known contact, recorded contact, then this is the most significant thing to happen to mankind in all of recorded history. 714 01:12:38,083 --> 01:12:40,083 And the public needs to know. 715 01:12:40,967 --> 01:12:44,567 And she said, "No". 716 01:12:51,125 --> 01:12:55,853 And I said, "I don't think that you get to be the one to make that decision." 717 01:12:57,008 --> 01:13:00,008 She said, "Yes, I am." 718 01:13:01,283 --> 01:13:08,583 So I went back to my desk, and I memorized as many of the data points as I could. 719 01:13:09,917 --> 01:13:12,117 And I left. 720 01:13:19,233 --> 01:13:21,633 I knew I was never going to be back. 721 01:13:25,892 --> 01:13:33,892 As soon as I got home, I wrote down everything that I could remember from that incident and every incident that had taken place over the course of my time there. 722 01:13:35,508 --> 01:13:37,508 And I started writing my book. 723 01:13:38,433 --> 01:13:46,633 I wrote for three days straight, completely lost track of time, but I didn't want it to get away. I didn't want to forget anything. 724 01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:53,168 And after three days is when Rachel showed up at my apartment. 725 01:13:56,592 --> 01:14:02,192 She found my address through the personnel files. The same way she had hunted me down and recruited me. 726 01:14:02,983 --> 01:14:06,951 When she came, she told me she knew what I was planning to do. 727 01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,400 That I was planning to go public. 728 01:14:10,583 --> 01:14:12,783 I don't know how she knew, but... 729 01:14:16,375 --> 01:14:21,367 She tried to reason with me, to tell me that she was once like me. Idealistic. 730 01:14:22,350 --> 01:14:24,217 Wanting to change the world. 731 01:14:27,475 --> 01:14:31,583 There was a very slight chance that I would ever be able to pull it off. 732 01:14:32,625 --> 01:14:35,292 Something about having her in my home... 733 01:14:39,867 --> 01:14:42,867 I felt violated. 734 01:14:42,925 --> 01:14:45,392 And it colored all of my memories of her. 735 01:14:47,467 --> 01:14:52,523 All the times she brushed my hand accidentally or stood a little bit too close. 736 01:14:52,592 --> 01:14:56,092 She told me she cared. And I just freaked 737 01:14:59,175 --> 01:15:00,615 Called her a dyke. 738 01:15:01,450 --> 01:15:03,383 Slammed the door in her face. 739 01:15:08,667 --> 01:15:09,787 That was mean. 740 01:15:12,117 --> 01:15:13,237 I regret that. 741 01:15:18,292 --> 01:15:19,972 [somber string music] 742 01:15:20,067 --> 01:15:23,855 [Dr. Gale:] Well, what are they really? I mean, we don't even know. 743 01:15:23,917 --> 01:15:26,117 We sort of know what they're not. 744 01:15:27,950 --> 01:15:32,218 It's not human technology. It definitely doesn't belong to us. 745 01:15:32,725 --> 01:15:39,525 And if it belonged to Russia, or China or North Korea, we would know. 746 01:15:39,958 --> 01:15:45,398 But if they are aliens from outer space hanging out in our oceans to avoid detection, 747 01:15:46,467 --> 01:15:50,691 whatever they're doing, they certainly don't give a shit about us. 748 01:15:53,092 --> 01:16:08,392 I mean, they've been visiting for probably millennia, and only started making themselves seen or interacting with us in any way in World War Two. 749 01:16:10,642 --> 01:16:14,226 They didn't intervene during the Holocaust or Hiroshima. 750 01:16:15,717 --> 01:16:20,773 Which leads me to believe that they probably only give a shit about the planet. 751 01:16:22,117 --> 01:16:29,669 As a matter of fact, it's been said many times that we should count ourselves as lucky that they're not talking to us. 752 01:16:30,267 --> 01:16:47,567 Because even according to our own history, when someone more technologically advanced invades a primitive culture, no matter what their intentions, the primitive culture does not come out on the other side better. 753 01:16:48,133 --> 01:16:54,633 They come out with diabetes, or smallpox, or dead or enslaved. 754 01:16:57,208 --> 01:17:05,076 If they are aliens, their technology demonstrates such immense power and sophistication 755 01:17:05,117 --> 01:17:09,173 that if they wanted to make contact with us, they would have done it aeons ago. 756 01:17:11,908 --> 01:17:13,588 But we'll never know. 757 01:17:14,783 --> 01:17:19,583 Because the subject is a heretical taboo to academia. 758 01:17:24,267 --> 01:17:32,767 We will never have the financial resources in order to properly study them, even if it is just counterespionage. 759 01:17:34,850 --> 01:17:41,850 Because the government, administration after administration, has turned it into a joke. 760 01:17:42,408 --> 01:17:45,008 I mean, it's turned itself into a joke. 761 01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,133 I think it's a tragedy, personally. 762 01:17:56,117 --> 01:17:57,637 What have I gained? 763 01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:03,348 A slightly more comprehensive understanding of the universe. 764 01:18:06,500 --> 01:18:15,200 It may seem insignificant, but I think what I've lost has impacted me more. 765 01:18:20,792 --> 01:18:23,992 I lost my career. Twice. 766 01:18:28,258 --> 01:18:30,258 I lost respect. 767 01:18:33,283 --> 01:18:36,383 And I lost the love of my life. 768 01:18:38,133 --> 01:18:42,133 I heard that Scott married a hyperaccredited AI researcher. 769 01:18:44,158 --> 01:18:55,158 Apparently, studying artificial intelligence is more respectable than studying extraterrestrial intelligence. 770 01:19:02,750 --> 01:19:07,750 My life isn't exactly how I thought it would be. 771 01:19:10,017 --> 01:19:13,645 I wrote a book called "The Gulf of Silence" in 2012 772 01:19:17,925 --> 01:19:25,933 which contained most of the information from the Assessment and new information that I learned while working with the CEU. 773 01:19:30,342 --> 01:19:33,542 The title actually came from something Rachel said. 774 01:19:35,050 --> 01:19:45,450 She said the philosophy behind the CEU was to try and bridge the gulf of silence between us and whatever's out there. 775 01:19:48,242 --> 01:19:49,922 I thought it was poetic. 776 01:19:53,625 --> 01:19:57,417 Turns out books don't actually sell themselves, so... 777 01:19:59,167 --> 01:20:02,567 I tour UFO conventions. 778 01:20:03,908 --> 01:20:07,308 Answering questions, sometimes speaking. 779 01:20:07,850 --> 01:20:12,350 Mostly just signing books. 780 01:20:14,250 --> 01:20:25,250 You know, it's incredible. My book is every ounce of truth that exists as we know it concerning UFOs. 781 01:20:26,150 --> 01:20:34,138 And I'm seated next to a guy who's written a book that he perceives to be every ounce of truth about the frog people. 782 01:20:35,292 --> 01:20:39,056 If I think about it too much, it feels humiliating. 783 01:20:41,058 --> 01:20:50,058 I suppose that's one of the reasons why I wrote my book. To like, drop a pebble into the ocean of disinformation. 784 01:20:50,308 --> 01:20:56,708 So hopefully, at some point, someone will be able to pick up the gauntlet and run with it. 785 01:20:59,142 --> 01:21:02,362 It's not going to be in my generation, that's for sure. 786 01:21:03,308 --> 01:21:07,404 I actually saw Rachel at the last convention I was at in Nevada. 787 01:21:08,992 --> 01:21:12,960 I guess she knew I was speaking and I saw her in the audience. 788 01:21:14,742 --> 01:21:18,454 And then she came up to my table afterward with a book and 789 01:21:19,758 --> 01:21:21,358 asked me to sign it. 790 01:21:30,325 --> 01:21:32,058 I was grateful to see her. 791 01:21:42,492 --> 01:21:46,576 I signed the book and just said thank you for the title. 792 01:21:51,392 --> 01:21:55,296 I imagine that's probably the last time we'll see each other. 793 01:21:58,367 --> 01:22:00,500 She just smiled and walked away. 794 01:22:18,642 --> 01:22:21,778 I don't think I'll see anyone from the CEU again. 795 01:22:26,692 --> 01:22:28,372 Unless Joe writes a book. 796 01:22:30,375 --> 01:22:31,495 [somber music] 78485

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