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[low whirring]
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[whirring accelerates]
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[beep]
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pulsing, dramatic music
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[man]What the hell is that thing?
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[woman]I saw this hugesaucer-shaped vehicle.
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[woman 2] I've never seenanything like that before.
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[man 2]It wasn't blinking or nothing.
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Was just like a ball of light.
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[man 3]Whoa.
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It's gotthree triangular lights.
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-[pilot] Well, if there's a---[pilot 2] Look at that thing!
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[pilot]It's rotating.
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[man 3]It's extremely quiet.
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It's definitely not an airplaneor a helicopter.
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I don't know what that was.
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[Leslie Kean]For decades,
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UFO witnesses were laughed at.
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They're just toldthat they can't talk about it.
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"We don't want to hear about it.
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Maybe you're a little crazy,if you even saw it."
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[man 4] No, whatever that is,that's huge.
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[Kean]But we're at a place right now
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where we are beginningto realize
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how strange it is and howlittle we really understand.
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Imagine if it was acknowledged,
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officially, that UFOs exist.
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That would bea big paradigm shift.
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[birds chirping]
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[newswoman]Intelligenceagencies have six months
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to release all the informationthey have on UFOs.
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It's partof a $2.3 trillion-dollar bill
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signed back in December.The report needs
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to contain analysisof any UFO data
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as well as name any possiblesecurity threats that they pose.
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slow, pulsing music
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Thousands of newly declassifieddocuments on UFOs
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from the CIA
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now accessible on the Internet,
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and you can thanka UFO enthusiast
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for that massive dump of docsnow known as Black Vault.
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[John Greenewald Jr.]With the passing of this bill,
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a lot of people thinkthis is it.
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This is when the government andthe military is gonna come out
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and reveal the truth behindwhat these UFOs or UAP are.
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[Aucoin]Seemed likethey were aware of our presence,
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'cause they would actively movearound us.
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[Greenewald]We know that therewas the UFO research program.
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We knowthey enlisted scientists,
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people that could lookat this information,
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whether it be witness testimony,
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photographs or film reels.
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hypnotic, pulsing music
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There is so much to dig into.
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[man]What we've been doingis simply looking
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for flying objectsthat are where
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they're not supposed to be.
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But on the one in a millionchance that it really is E.T.,
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we kind of want to know that,too.
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[Greenewald]I think the media's attention
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to the UFO topicabsolutely fueled then
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the public's responsefor demanding answers,
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for demanding action
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and to encourage senators
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like Marco Rubio to say, "Hey,
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this phenomena is real.
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You should investigate it."
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Tell them it's a threat,tell them
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that it's encroachingon military installations,
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all of a sudden, you got thatSenate Committee on Intelligence
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pretty darn interested on whatintelligence can be gathered,
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and they're 100% on boardtrying to get to it.
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December of 2017,
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TheNew York Timesreally put the reality
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of what they calleda-a UFO research program
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out there into the cosmos,
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and people ate this up.
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That was oneof the biggest stories,
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if not the biggest story,
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that theNew York Timesdigital edition ever had.
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[keys clacking]
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[Kean]I've been writingfor many years
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about unconventional phenomena,
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large mysteriesthat really intrigued me
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but are not usually coveredby... journalists.
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It's not easyto get TheNew York Times
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to cover a subject that's
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not fully documented.
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Particularly if it's an issuelike this,
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where politicians,
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although they may be interested,
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they're afraid to deal with it.
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[newsman]Recent reportby TheNew York Times
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unveiled the existence ofa real-life X-Files department.
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It's a five-yearsecret government program
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to investigatemysterious flying objects.
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[newsman 2]The Pentagonnow confirms the existence
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of a secretive UFO program
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taskedwith investigating reports
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of unidentified flying objects.
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[Brian Todd]Tens of millions of dollars
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for the projectwere pushed through
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by former Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid.
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TheNew York TimessaysReid acknowledged to them
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that he and two other senators
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did not want public debate
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on the Senate floorover this program.
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"Real UFOs?Pentagon Unit Tried to Know."
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Pretty amazing.
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The Department of Defensehad a program
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called the Advanced AerospaceThreat Identification Program,
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and we all call it AATIP,which is the acronym.
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They had had this programsince 2007,
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whose purpose was to study UFOs.
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The funding was not made public,
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so nobody knew about it.
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This is the first timeit was on the record.
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What instigatedthe whole thing was the fact
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the director of the programresigned
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in October, two monthsbefore the story came out.
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I was fortunate enoughto have a meeting with him
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literally the day he resignedor the day after.
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And he wrote a powerful letterto the Secretary of Defense,
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James Mattis, at the time,
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explaining why he was leaving,
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which had to do with the fact
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that there werenot enough resources provided
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for what he considered to bea national security issue.
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[newswoman]Do you believe
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that-that lifefrom somewhere else,
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while you ran this program,
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came here, visited, observed?
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There is very compellingevidence that we, uh...
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we m-may not be alone,
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whatever that means.
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[Kean]After our story came out,
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there started to be briefings
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for various committeesin Washington.
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TheNew York Timeshas a huge impact.
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It opens the door
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for things to happen.
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[reporter]I wondered ifthe president will show his...
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degree of transparencyon, uh, this issue.
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Uh, I'm not aware of any plansthe president has to, uh...
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uh, make publicany information about this.
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I would be interested in knowing
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if there'ssome other people here.
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[newsman]I don't believe it. Dan?
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-I believe it.-[Dan] Listen...
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UFOs? Any UFOs?
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Did you ask about that?
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I've certainly asked about it.
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And?
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Can't tell you.
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-Sorry.-Okay.
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All right,I'll take that as a yes.
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-[chuckling] Why not?-'Cause if there were none,
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you'd say there was none, right?
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Feel-feel free to think that.
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I do.
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-[horns honking in distance]-[jackhammering]
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[Diana Walsh Pasulka]I remember when I woke up
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the day it came out.
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It was a bombshell, right?That's what it was.
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pulsing, tense music
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I'm a research professor.
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And I research the connections
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between technologyand religious belief,
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among other things.
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That article just electrified
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the whole environmentof the study.
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I got phone calls from Harvard.
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I got phone callsfrom Princeton,
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from academics everywhere.
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[man]What is that?
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[Pasulka]These are things thatacademics don't want to touch.
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[pilot]My gosh.
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They're all goingagainst the wind.
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[Pasulka]We have scientists
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who studiedthe phenomena anonymously
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to keep their careers intact,frankly.
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[Avi Loeb]Scientists have a problem
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discussing the possibility
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of extraterrestrialintelligence.
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They-- It's outof the mainstream,
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and it should not be.
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[Pasulka]It's almostlike the Invisible College.
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Back in the 1500s,the Invisible College
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was a word for the scientists,
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like Francis Bacon,
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who were kind of making headway,
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but the church would kill them
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if they knewwhat they were doing, right?
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[man]There it is.
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[Pasulka]People who study the phenomena
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won't talk to each otherabout it.
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They just won't. Andso I thought, "What is that?"
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And I thought, "You know,it's really likeFight Club,
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that movie from the 1990s
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with Brad Pittand Edward Norton."
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You've got this guy who startsthis cult movement.
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Right?
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And they don't talk about it.
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First rule of Fight Club:
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don't talk about Fight Club.
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And with UFO events,
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I found it again and again
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and again and again.
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And it was pervasive.
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So there's no longeran Invisible College.
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It's a Fight Club.
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[Kean]I think it's importantfor people to understand
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that most sightingsof what people call UFOs
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can be explained.
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I mean,if you have people out at night
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and they see something weirdin the sky
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and they might report it,
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well, the authoritiescan find out.
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Was there a weather balloonin the sky that day
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at that location?
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Only a small percentageof sightings can't be explained.
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We need to doproper investigations.
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I think
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it's irresponsible,it's dangerous
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to just ignore it.
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It's really disrespectfulto the witnesses.
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The best example of this is
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the Phoenix Lights case.
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[newsman]It is very rarefor thousands of people to call
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and report seeingthe same lights in the same spot
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at the same time.
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[Kean]Unlike a lot of the casesthat we take very seriously,
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this one was about people,
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massive numbers of people.
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And a lot of people were calling
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the National UFOReporting Center.
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[newswoman]UFO watchersare calling it a dramatic event.
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-[woman] Another one, too!-[woman 2] Where? Whoa!
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-Look at that. Wait.-[man] I got that one on video.
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-Can't see how this works.-[man] Whoa.
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-[man 2] Shit.-[man 3]Aliens,
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first thing that I thought.
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It scared the heck out of me.
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[man 4]It was a UFO.
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[woman 3]We saw five lights in a row.
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[man 5]It looked like some kind of, uh,
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geometric drawing.
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[child]It was big as a football field,
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-at least.-As I was coming up the hill,
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I didn't know what it was.
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You heard nothing.
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[newsman]What do you think it is?
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[woman 4]I think it was a spaceship
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of some sort.
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[Greenewald]There'sa lot of mystery behind us
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and a lotof unanswered questions
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that no one wants to talk about.
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-[woman 5] What?-What is it? Can you see it?
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[Pasulka]We're still talkingabout it because
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of the aftereffects thatthe people who experienced it
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are still having.
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loud, ominous music
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Interview, Fife Symington.Camera A, B, C, D. Mark.
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[Symington]I rememberI'd been listening to the news,
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and people were reporting lightsover Phoenix.
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And turned to my wifeand said, "You know,
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I'm gonna go take my car andI'm gonna go drive to Squaw Peak
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to see if I can see whatall the hullabaloo is about."
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gentle, haunting music
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There were a whole bunchof people in the park,
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and everybody's lookingfor the lights.
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Then somebody said,"Holy cow. Look at that."
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And so I turned around,and this great big
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delta-shaped thing came outof the northwest
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and headed downinto the Southeast Valley.
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[man] They're lined upin-in a pattern, man.
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-There's geometry behind this.-[man 2] Yeah.
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[Symington]It was really eerie.It had embedded lights.
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I always refer to itas otherworldly.
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I've never seen anythinglike it.
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-There's one behind a chimney.-[man] Major sighting here.
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[Kevin Watson]Couldn't hear it.Not being able to hear it...
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[woman]Yeah, it was eerie.
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-...was-was eerie to me.-Mm-hmm.
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That-- Something in the air
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-moving at that size...-Yeah.
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...completely still,freaked me out.
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[man]And then did it justdisappear, like it was gone?
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-[Watson]Lights flicker and---And people saw it in Tucson
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-minutes later.-Yeah.
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-So that's how fast it was.-Minutes later.
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-[woman]Yeah.-[newsman]Some believe
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the lights were flares.
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Some believe they were
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a secret military aircraft.
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And others believethey were spaceships.
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[newswoman]City CouncilwomanFrancis Emma Barwood
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is the only city officialto look for answers.
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[Barwood]I had assumed that this event
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was already being investigated,
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and I was toldthat nobody would touch it.
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Come on.
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Good, good, good.
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I have a hard timeletting things drop
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that aren't finished.
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I always want answers.
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slow, gentle music
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I was goingto a city council meeting
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May 6th of 1997.
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I was stopped by a reporter,
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and she asked meif I knew about this object
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that flew over Phoenixon March 13th.
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And she said, "Could you askat the council meeting?"
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When it came my turnfor a council request,
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I told them about the reporterand...
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could we find outwhatever this object was.
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Kind of curious. Especiallysince people are starting
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to ask more questions.
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Everybody turned around,looked at me.
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And it was like,
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"Did I say something wrong?"
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[chuckles]
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-[woman] Thank you.-Thanks.
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Councilman Siebert.
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[Barwood]How can this be sweptunder the rug?
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What are they all afraid of?
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soft, pulsing music
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[Symington]It was a fairly
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tumultuous timefor me politically,
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and I certainly didn't want
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to pour any keroseneon the fire.
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So, the next day,
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I'd kept my mouth shut.
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[chuckles]
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I just decided to lock it awayand not-not talk about it.
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It just seemed to bethe prudent thing to do.
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I didn't, I didn't needto stand up and say,
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"Hey, I-I've seen it."
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Uh, you have thousandsof other people who stood up
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and said they've seen it.
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The story was out there.
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[Tom Brokaw]Are we alone?
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No, I don't meanjust you and me.
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I mean this Earth.
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Have we hadsome visitors recently?
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The buzz is very bigin the desert southwest,
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where it's really nevergone away after some...
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weird happenings in the skies
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over Phoenix recently.
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[newsman]Phoenix CouncilwomanFrances Emma Barwood
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says she now getsstacks of mail
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from across the countrydetailing similar sightings.
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There's no doubt in my mind
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that they saw somethingreally phenomenal.
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Why isn't anybody else curious?
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I mean, why am I the onlyelected official that...
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wanted to find out about it?
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[newswoman]Strange dotsof light that were the talk
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-of the town.-[newsman]A mass,
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statewide UFO sighting.
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[Kean]As a result of the kind
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of uproar that occurred,
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it was sort of like allthe citizens suddenly woke up.
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And so there wasall this pressure
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on Governor Fife Symingtonto do something.
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[newsman]Today,in a very surprising move,
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Governor Symington saidhe was going to do something
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to find out what was going on.
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[Symington]You're governor--
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your highest dutyis to the citizens
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who elected you to office
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and to protect themif there's some danger
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and demand answers.
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Many of our citizens have been
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very disturbed by this.
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In response,I suggested that it was time
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to end months of speculationon the question
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and investigate the matter onceand for all to clear it up.
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[man]If the authoritiesdon't know what it is,
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they should say. And if they doknow, they are accountable
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to the public and they'd bettercough up an answer.
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pulsing, tense music
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[Symington]We made serious inquiries,
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asking the Air Force,"Well, what did you find?"
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And we never gota satisfactory explanation.
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The most interesting one was
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the Warthogs, the A-10s,
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that they saidhad dropped flares.
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[newswoman]The National Guard says it was
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conducting flare exercisesoutside Phoenix that night.
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[man]Our A-10 Thunderboltsthat are right behind me
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were on a night illuminationexercise.
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[Symington]I mean, I'm a pilot.
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I knew they weren't flares.
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Flares don't dowhat those lights were doing.
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Plus, the problem with thatwas the timing.
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The Air Force saidthat the A-10s
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were out thereat about ten o'clock,
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but the lights wereat around 8:30 or something.
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[newswoman]What took place herewas far different than what
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the Air National Guardsays took place.
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This happenedover a period of hours
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all over the state.
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So, the official response
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was completely bogus.
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But a governor has no power
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over the Air Forceor Luke Air Force Base
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to do anything morethan ask a lot of questions.
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That's all you...
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all you could do, you know?
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Sometimes very difficult dealingwith the federal government.
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[Kean]Senator John McCainwas asked about this.
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People would write him lettersand call his office.
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[man]Why don't theycome clean and say,
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"We don't know" or "We do know"?
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That's all we want to know.
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[Kean]John McCain asked the Air Force
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if they would conductan investigation
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and was told thatthey don't investigate UFOs,
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which was about as faras he could go
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as a public official.
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[Symington]Yes. McCain
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was very open to it being a...an unidentified flying object.
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So, I asked the Air Force,"Well, what did you find?"
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And they saidthey didn't find anything, so...
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There have been reportsthat several aircraft
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took off fromLuke Air Force base
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in hot pursuit with afterburner
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and tried to interceptwhatever the lights were.
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[man]Almost blew over me.
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And as soon as the jets got
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to the object, this thing,like, shot straight up
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and vanishedright in front of my eyes.
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And that's... that was really
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what put me over the edge there
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when I... when I saw that.
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[thunder rumbling]
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slow, dramatic music
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[Siavelis]It's hardto believe that something
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can be in our airspacethat the government
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is not aware of.
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No matter what level it isin the Air Force.
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The governmentis supposed to be in charge.
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[host]Let me, uh, start thetape, and I'll start a timer.
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For the record, it's Friday,the 14th of March, '97.
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I'm talking with a gentlemanwhich is calling from Phoenix.
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Okay, sir, go ahead.
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[Siavelis]The jets that were taking off
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from Luke Air Force Base...
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You don't scramble jetsjust from somebody calling in
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to the police station.
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And they weren't flares.
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Those two pilotsget out of their aircraft,
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and they're shaken,
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because their gun-ready camera
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was filming
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somethingthey've never saw before.
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[Greenewald]With UFOs,nothing is ever black-and-white.
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There's always mud in the water
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of trying to figure outsome of these stories.
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There's half a centuryof secrecy relating to this,
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and so I started
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researching the United Statesgovernment connection
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to what UFOs were.
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pulsing, dramatic music
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[man]On flying saucers,
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do you yourself believethat they exist?
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Well, I'm positive they exist.
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The weight of the evidencemakes it impossible
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to arriveat any other conclusion.
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[Greenewald]It started way back in 1947.
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There were UFO fleets that were
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being seenabove the skies of Washington.
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People were scared.
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[Mike Wallace]Tonight,we go after a fantastic story.
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The story that flying saucers
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from other worldsare visiting our planet.
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[Kean]There were so many sightings,
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and the Air Force just didn'tknow what to do about it.
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[John Samford]Air Forceinterest in this problem
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has been dueto our feeling of an obligation
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to identify and analyze
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to the best of our ability,
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anything in the air
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that may have the possibilityof threat
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or menace to the United States.
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[Greenewald]There was this aim
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to truly investigate UFOs.
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[Samford]There have been reports
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that have been made
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by credible observers
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of relatively incredible things.
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[Greenewald]The Air ForceOffice of Special Investigations
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created a Project Grudge,
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Project Sign,
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and then later Project Blue Bookin 1952
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to investigate
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and ultimately explain them.
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[Kean]Project Blue Book was set up
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with a public office
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where citizens could contributereports of sightings.
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So, you had all these witnesses.
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[Thomas Hanchett]I looked up,
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and to my right,I saw a large ball of fire.
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The object, uh,very rapidly disappeared...
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pulsing, intense music
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[Pasulka]You have
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people experiencing something
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that they don'tquite understand.
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These experiencesimpact these people.
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Impacts the way that they
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live their lives.
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[John Foster]Two small lights appeared to me
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at the outer edges of the object
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glowing in a bluish green lightand...
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[Pasulka]Lots and lotsand lots of people,
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lot of very,you know, intelligent
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and successful people
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believe and see UFOs.
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Researchers in contact
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with some of the peoplestill today decide to look
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at the effects.
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What if thousandsof people saw it?
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You know, what kind of effectswould they have?
529
00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:37,476
What would that doto our culture?
530
00:24:43,356 --> 00:24:45,609
UFO, for want of a better word,
531
00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:48,570
this phenomenon becomes,somehow, a new form
532
00:24:48,612 --> 00:24:50,780
of religiosity.
533
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:55,160
It created true believers.
534
00:24:55,202 --> 00:24:56,995
[newswoman]It was 1:40 a.m.
535
00:24:57,037 --> 00:25:00,081
Deputy Sheriff Val Johnsonwas on patrol
536
00:25:00,123 --> 00:25:02,417
in rural Marshall Countywhen, suddenly,
537
00:25:02,459 --> 00:25:04,252
he saw a bright light
538
00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:07,422
a few feet above ground leveltwo miles down the road.
539
00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:09,674
I traveled about a mile,
540
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:12,636
and the light seemed to, uh,intercept me,
541
00:25:12,677 --> 00:25:16,598
so to speak,and, uh, came right up on me.
542
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,101
It was painful. The light wasextremely brilliant and painful.
543
00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:23,355
I closed my eyes, and I heardthe sound of breaking glass,
544
00:25:23,396 --> 00:25:25,524
and that's the last I remember.
545
00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:27,526
[newswoman]Johnsonwas unconscious for 40 minutes
546
00:25:27,567 --> 00:25:30,695
before he radioed for helpand was taken to the hospital.
547
00:25:30,737 --> 00:25:32,322
A doctorand later an eye specialist
548
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:35,408
confirmed that Johnsonhad suffered mild welder
549
00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:37,035
or flash burns to his eyes.
550
00:25:37,077 --> 00:25:39,829
Even stranger,both Johnson's wristwatch
551
00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:42,499
and the electric clockin his patrol car
552
00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:44,584
had mysteriously stoppedfor 14 minutes.
553
00:25:44,626 --> 00:25:48,713
It's truly unexplainable to meor, uh, un-unknown to me.
554
00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,674
[Greenewald]UFO sightings
555
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:54,386
blew up in a waythat no one truly expected.
556
00:25:55,887 --> 00:25:58,431
Going back to the Space Raceof the '60s,
557
00:25:58,473 --> 00:26:01,059
the astronauts that weregoing up for the first time,
558
00:26:01,101 --> 00:26:04,145
they were seeing stuffthat they just couldn't explain.
559
00:26:08,108 --> 00:26:11,194
[Greenewald]It didn't stopin the 1960s either.
560
00:26:11,236 --> 00:26:13,655
Today there aremany NASA videos
561
00:26:13,697 --> 00:26:16,700
that have these mysteriousand unknown objects.
562
00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:19,411
There are a growing numberof cases
563
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:22,080
that don't havea logical explanation.
564
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:24,499
And from the beginning,the government
565
00:26:24,541 --> 00:26:25,709
had to squash it.
566
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:27,252
tense, dramatic music
567
00:26:29,087 --> 00:26:31,756
In the early 1950s,the CIA was starting to see
568
00:26:31,798 --> 00:26:35,302
that there was a much biggernational security implication
569
00:26:35,343 --> 00:26:36,803
behind what UFOs were.
570
00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:38,471
Whether or not they were alien
571
00:26:38,513 --> 00:26:40,640
at this pointreally was irrelevant.
572
00:26:41,641 --> 00:26:44,227
They knew that the excitement
573
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:46,896
that the general public had,
574
00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:49,065
that in itselfcould create a risk.
575
00:26:49,691 --> 00:26:52,777
A group of scientistsput together by the CIA
576
00:26:52,819 --> 00:26:55,822
analyzed all of the UFO data
577
00:26:55,864 --> 00:26:57,949
that the United States Air Forcecollected, and they said,
578
00:26:57,991 --> 00:26:59,909
"Are we lookingat a phenomena that's real?
579
00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:01,828
Is this somethingthat we should worry about,
580
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,371
and what should we do about it?"
581
00:27:03,413 --> 00:27:05,415
The committee concludedthat in the 19 years
582
00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:09,044
since the first UFO was sighted,there has been no evidence
583
00:27:09,085 --> 00:27:11,129
that unidentified flying objects
584
00:27:11,171 --> 00:27:13,548
are a threatto our national security.
585
00:27:14,507 --> 00:27:16,092
[Greenewald]Project Blue Book,
586
00:27:16,134 --> 00:27:18,303
which lastedall the way through 1969,
587
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:19,929
was not to investigate anything.
588
00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:21,973
It was rather to explain it.
589
00:27:22,015 --> 00:27:25,644
To say, "Look, you guys thinkyou don't understand this,
590
00:27:25,685 --> 00:27:27,979
but we do. We'rethe all-powerful government.
591
00:27:28,021 --> 00:27:30,732
We're the all-powerful CIA.We can explain this."
592
00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:34,402
[Kean]Some of the explanationsthey gave were so ludicrous
593
00:27:34,444 --> 00:27:37,072
that it was essentiallylike ridicule.
594
00:27:37,113 --> 00:27:39,991
I cannot prove in a court of law
595
00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:42,786
that marsh gasis the full explanation
596
00:27:42,827 --> 00:27:44,496
of these sightings,
597
00:27:44,537 --> 00:27:49,167
but it does appear, to me,extremely likely.
598
00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:50,627
[newsman] Are you saying,Doctor, that Michigan
599
00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:52,545
is now producingnonexistent saucers?
600
00:27:52,587 --> 00:27:56,633
[chuckles] Well, it's one wayof putting it, I suppose.
601
00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:58,843
[Kean]It just became partof the cultural way
602
00:27:58,885 --> 00:28:01,096
of dealing with this,unfortunately.
603
00:28:01,137 --> 00:28:04,057
[newswoman]The National Guardsays it was conducting
604
00:28:04,099 --> 00:28:06,935
flare exercisesoutside Phoenix that night.
605
00:28:06,976 --> 00:28:09,437
[Kean]You were considered to be crazy
606
00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:13,233
just for reporting somethingthat was actually happening.
607
00:28:13,274 --> 00:28:16,361
It was completely irrational.
608
00:28:17,404 --> 00:28:18,947
[Harris]Tales of aliens
609
00:28:18,988 --> 00:28:22,367
have beenour first conspiracy tales.
610
00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:24,160
They were our first wayof questioning
611
00:28:24,202 --> 00:28:26,204
whether the government
612
00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:29,582
was, in fact,lying to us on a mass scale.
613
00:28:32,877 --> 00:28:35,004
Not just the Roswell story,
614
00:28:35,046 --> 00:28:36,840
which is obviouslythe most famous one,
615
00:28:36,881 --> 00:28:38,717
but you have a numberof other incidents like that
616
00:28:38,758 --> 00:28:41,469
in the 1950s.
617
00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:43,304
Just as the Cold Waris starting,
618
00:28:43,346 --> 00:28:45,765
we start to see morean increasing prevalence
619
00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:47,934
not just of UFO narratives
620
00:28:47,976 --> 00:28:50,353
but of spy narratives,of the sense
621
00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:52,397
that the government is actingwith duplicity.
622
00:28:52,439 --> 00:28:54,524
This is absolutely untrue.
623
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,317
We are not hiding anything.
624
00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:58,653
We have nothing to hide.
625
00:28:58,695 --> 00:29:00,363
intense, dramatic music
626
00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:01,990
[Harris]The rise
627
00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:05,910
of lack of faithin the government to tell us
628
00:29:05,952 --> 00:29:10,582
the truth coincideswith the expansion of mass media
629
00:29:10,623 --> 00:29:12,751
in a waywhere we're suddenly receiving
630
00:29:12,792 --> 00:29:15,044
our information about the world
631
00:29:15,086 --> 00:29:18,423
through the television,through the radio.
632
00:29:18,465 --> 00:29:20,049
[man]One thing is clear.
633
00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:22,677
You could not keepa spaceship a secret.
634
00:29:22,719 --> 00:29:25,096
Too many journalistscould not be restrained
635
00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:27,265
from trumpetingone of the greatest news stories
636
00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:29,184
of all time.
637
00:29:29,225 --> 00:29:31,019
[Harris]And, so, whatever authority
638
00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:34,189
the mainstream that haslong denied the existence
639
00:29:34,230 --> 00:29:36,524
of these beings had
640
00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:38,610
slowly began
641
00:29:38,651 --> 00:29:40,320
to slip away.
642
00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:41,780
Eventually, that authority
643
00:29:41,821 --> 00:29:43,948
breaks down completelywith the Internet.
644
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:45,909
-[man] I got it.-[woman] Oh, my gosh.
645
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,161
-[man] Whoa.-[woman] What the hell?
646
00:29:48,203 --> 00:29:49,621
[Harris]I think that we are,
647
00:29:49,662 --> 00:29:53,124
as a people, willing to believe
648
00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:54,626
almost anything.
649
00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:00,215
Conspiracy theories or mythcan take hold
650
00:30:00,256 --> 00:30:03,676
using the possibilityof UFOs existing
651
00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:05,512
as a way of doubting
652
00:30:05,553 --> 00:30:07,806
almost everythingin our culture.
653
00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:14,896
The fact that our government
654
00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:19,359
is now slowly doling outinformation
655
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,779
concerning potential evidenceof alien existence,
656
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:25,990
I think, only feedsinto those narratives.
657
00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:31,579
[newsman]United Airlinesemployees who swear
658
00:30:31,621 --> 00:30:33,122
it was something otherworldlyin the skies
659
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:35,834
above Chicago'sO'Hare Airport on November 7th,
660
00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:38,169
but neither the FAAnor indeed their own employer
661
00:30:38,211 --> 00:30:40,421
appear to be taking themseriously.
662
00:30:40,463 --> 00:30:42,423
[indistinct chatter]
663
00:30:42,465 --> 00:30:44,467
[Kean]The O'Hare incident
664
00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:47,762
is a really important case.
665
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:49,013
[Olbermann]Our number one storyin the countdown,
666
00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:50,181
unidentified flying objects
667
00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:51,349
from outer space.
668
00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:52,976
[Kean]The story broke
669
00:30:53,017 --> 00:30:55,144
in theChicago Tribunein January,
670
00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:57,105
so it wasabout two months later.
671
00:30:57,146 --> 00:30:59,107
[Olbermann]Chicago Tribune,interviewing
672
00:30:59,148 --> 00:31:01,025
several people anonymously,including maintenance workers,
673
00:31:01,067 --> 00:31:03,194
baggage handlers and pilots
674
00:31:03,236 --> 00:31:06,698
who each and all describea dark gray saucer-like object
675
00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:08,741
that hovered low over Concourse
676
00:31:08,783 --> 00:31:11,035
before shooting offinto the sky.
677
00:31:11,077 --> 00:31:12,704
[Kean]Most UFO sightings
678
00:31:12,745 --> 00:31:15,582
are fairly quick.Something flies by, right?
679
00:31:15,623 --> 00:31:17,876
This was at least five minutes
680
00:31:17,917 --> 00:31:20,753
in the middle of the afternoonrush hour in the daylight.
681
00:31:20,795 --> 00:31:23,673
Pilots on the groundin their planes
682
00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:25,592
who were just taxiing in or out
683
00:31:25,633 --> 00:31:28,177
were looking, leaning outand looking at it.
684
00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:30,847
There was a lotof radio chatter about it.
685
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:45,486
One of the managersfrom United Airlines
686
00:31:45,528 --> 00:31:47,906
called the tower and said,
687
00:31:47,947 --> 00:31:50,742
"Do you see that there's thisdisc-shaped object up there?"
688
00:31:50,783 --> 00:31:53,411
And it'sa very interesting conversation.
689
00:32:12,513 --> 00:32:13,932
At one point, he says,
690
00:32:13,973 --> 00:32:15,433
"No, I don't see it,and if I did,
691
00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:17,226
I wouldn't report it anyway."
692
00:32:27,487 --> 00:32:29,238
The woman who called upcalled a second time,
693
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,282
and she had to explain,"I'm not high.
694
00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:32,951
I haven't been drinking.
695
00:32:32,992 --> 00:32:36,329
There's this disc-shaped object.It's actually there."
696
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:39,874
But that conversationis very interesting
697
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:42,126
because it shows the attitudeof this.
698
00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:44,754
I mean,this was a safety hazard.
699
00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:16,995
The explanationthat was provided by the FAA...
700
00:33:17,036 --> 00:33:19,872
First, they saidit was a-a weather phenomenon.
701
00:33:19,914 --> 00:33:22,500
By "a weather phenomenon,"they were probably referring
702
00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:24,836
to what's calleda hole punch cloud.
703
00:33:24,877 --> 00:33:27,505
And this is a pictureof a hole punch cloud.
704
00:33:27,547 --> 00:33:30,174
Ice crystals that fallfrom one cloud
705
00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:33,553
to a cloud below,like a cloud bank below.
706
00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:35,805
And then they melt a holein the ice.
707
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:39,100
I mean,it's an absurd notion to think
708
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:42,937
that these aviation people
709
00:33:42,979 --> 00:33:45,481
would look up at somethinglike that and think that was
710
00:33:45,523 --> 00:33:46,858
a metallic disc hovering
711
00:33:46,899 --> 00:33:48,901
over the airport, you know?
712
00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:52,280
The pilots from United Airlines,
713
00:33:52,321 --> 00:33:54,532
the employees, they were...
714
00:33:54,574 --> 00:33:57,201
clear that they were notsupposed to talk about this.
715
00:33:58,161 --> 00:34:01,539
Literally not one witness
716
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:03,958
to this event would puttheir name on the record.
717
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,376
Not one.
718
00:34:05,418 --> 00:34:07,378
[newsman]The FAA is still
719
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:09,839
pinning this to some kindof weather phenomenon,
720
00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:12,508
that some lights fromthe airport in the overcast sky
721
00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:14,719
somehow got togetherand created this image,
722
00:34:14,761 --> 00:34:17,138
but, uh, weather experts,
723
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:19,348
uh, astronomy experts,others that I've talked to
724
00:34:19,390 --> 00:34:20,850
said that that's, uh,that's bunk.
725
00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:23,186
[Kean]Somebody has an obligation
726
00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:25,563
within the government.If it's not the FAA,
727
00:34:25,605 --> 00:34:27,774
it's got to be someone elseto deal with that,
728
00:34:27,815 --> 00:34:29,609
to protect the-the aircraftthat are around it,
729
00:34:29,650 --> 00:34:31,569
to find out what it is.
730
00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:33,738
[Olbermann]It seems to methat the likeliest conclusion
731
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:35,406
here is that
732
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:37,158
the aliens have landed manyyears ago in this cou...
733
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,619
in this country, in this worldwith one goal in mind--
734
00:34:39,660 --> 00:34:41,579
to create conspiracy theories
735
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:42,997
and then just sit backand enjoy them.
736
00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:44,457
whimsical music
737
00:34:44,499 --> 00:34:46,501
[Kean]The acronym "UFO"
738
00:34:46,542 --> 00:34:49,587
has come to bea real loaded term.
739
00:34:52,548 --> 00:34:54,717
Unidentified flying object.
740
00:34:55,468 --> 00:34:57,762
That's all it means.
741
00:34:57,804 --> 00:35:00,681
The question"Do you believe in UFOs?"
742
00:35:00,723 --> 00:35:02,058
really doesn't make any sense.
743
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:04,102
There's no issueof belief there.
744
00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:07,855
The question is maybe, "Whatdo you believe they are?"
745
00:35:07,897 --> 00:35:09,774
But whether they exist
746
00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:12,610
is not even a matter of belief.It's a fact.
747
00:35:17,824 --> 00:35:19,534
[newsman]On the record,
748
00:35:19,575 --> 00:35:21,452
the Arizona National Guard,who would know
749
00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:23,246
about military exercisesand stuff,
750
00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:26,624
says it has no explanationat all for those lights.
751
00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:29,418
Doesn't look like anythingthat I've seen.
752
00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:31,003
Yeah. I haven'tseen anything either.
753
00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:32,338
-Strange.-Not picking anything up
754
00:35:32,380 --> 00:35:33,422
-in the weather center either.-Yeah.
755
00:35:33,464 --> 00:35:34,924
They say the craft was moving
756
00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:37,343
very slowlyand without any sound at all.
757
00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:39,303
The people that saw that believe
758
00:35:39,345 --> 00:35:42,014
what they saw wasan alien spacecraft.
759
00:35:42,056 --> 00:35:44,225
Now Governor Symington himselfhas launched
760
00:35:44,267 --> 00:35:46,018
an official investigation.
761
00:35:46,060 --> 00:35:49,605
The video that I saw a quickglimpse of was intriguing.
762
00:35:49,647 --> 00:35:51,524
Um, so I'm goingto order a, uh, full,
763
00:35:51,566 --> 00:35:53,734
you know, investigationof this through DPS.
764
00:35:53,776 --> 00:35:55,444
We're going to make allthe necessary inquiries,
765
00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:56,988
and we're goingto get to the bottom of it.
766
00:35:57,029 --> 00:35:58,823
We're goingto find out if was a UFO.
767
00:36:03,828 --> 00:36:05,830
Uh, you can sit down. Gonna puta little bit of the deshine
768
00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:08,082
-on you if that's okay.-Okey doke.
769
00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:10,293
[James Heiler]You know, one of the things
770
00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:14,505
that you notice about media isthey have some favorite foods.
771
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:18,342
One of those is sex scandal,and another one is UFOs.
772
00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:23,139
We had phone calls
773
00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:25,141
coming infrom all over the world.
774
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:26,517
[man]It was huge across,
775
00:36:26,559 --> 00:36:28,477
and there were bright lights.
776
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:30,104
[man 2]It was just so bright.
777
00:36:30,146 --> 00:36:31,981
I, uh, saw fivebright luminous objects,
778
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:33,900
a straight line heading south.
779
00:36:33,941 --> 00:36:36,194
[Heiler]We realized we weren'treally gonna be able
780
00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:39,822
to satisfy people's longingsfor answers.
781
00:36:40,448 --> 00:36:44,994
We didn't really hold adequatemeans of investigating it
782
00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:47,038
as a state government apparat.
783
00:36:50,833 --> 00:36:53,502
[Barwood]Yeah. We had so many people
784
00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:56,923
that we sat with and talked to,and they all described
785
00:36:56,964 --> 00:36:59,425
exactly the same thing.
786
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:03,346
That I talked to? And, well...
787
00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:06,349
I talked... It was around 700,you know, total.
788
00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:08,267
She had interviewed 700 people?
789
00:37:08,309 --> 00:37:11,729
That, that sounds likean overwhelming task.
790
00:37:11,771 --> 00:37:13,481
Did you rememberher investigating it?
791
00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:16,025
No, I'm not sure how she wouldhave the wherewithal...
792
00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:17,318
How would she havethe wherewithal?
793
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,819
...to interview700 people, or
794
00:37:18,861 --> 00:37:20,988
what, if any,real value you would...
795
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:22,823
you would glean from that.
796
00:37:22,865 --> 00:37:24,742
That's probablywhat he would have to say.
797
00:37:24,784 --> 00:37:26,994
What else is he going to say?
798
00:37:27,036 --> 00:37:29,413
Is he going to say, "Oh, yeah,I should have looked into it"?
799
00:37:29,455 --> 00:37:33,459
-When he didn't.-He really couldn't step up.
800
00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:37,380
Probably, he feels bad that shedid and was taking the grief.
801
00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:39,799
[newsman]The ridicule startedalmost immediately.
802
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,094
This cartoon was publishedbyThe Arizona Republic.
803
00:37:43,135 --> 00:37:44,428
[Barwood]They saw how much
804
00:37:44,470 --> 00:37:46,222
ridicule I got.
805
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:47,556
[laughing] Maybe that's whythey didn't want to do that.
806
00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:50,476
[Siavelis]And so, therefore,
807
00:37:50,518 --> 00:37:52,853
the best thing to do isto put it to bed.
808
00:37:52,895 --> 00:37:54,981
[horns honking]
809
00:37:55,022 --> 00:37:57,108
And how do you put thingsto bed?
810
00:37:57,149 --> 00:38:00,945
You ridicule anybodythat's involved
811
00:38:00,987 --> 00:38:03,489
so you try to kill the story.
812
00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:07,910
That's what happenedto so-called "Phoenix Lights."
813
00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:10,705
[newsman]That's right.
814
00:38:10,746 --> 00:38:12,415
Now the governor is holdinga press conference
815
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:13,833
at this very moment.
816
00:38:13,874 --> 00:38:15,293
In fact, at the state capitol.
817
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:18,045
Reportedly, he saysthat the DPS has already
818
00:38:18,087 --> 00:38:20,923
turned up startlingnew information about this case.
819
00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:23,384
[Barwood]The governor had called
820
00:38:23,426 --> 00:38:26,304
an emergency news conference.
821
00:38:26,345 --> 00:38:29,432
The only time you doan emergency news conference is
822
00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:32,059
when it's a threat to life,health and all that stuff.
823
00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:39,984
Yes, definitely. Yeah. Yeah.
824
00:38:42,028 --> 00:38:43,696
You know,you'd have to remind me. I'm...
825
00:38:43,738 --> 00:38:45,323
It's been so long ago.
826
00:38:47,283 --> 00:38:49,368
You have the advantage of having
827
00:38:49,410 --> 00:38:51,495
the record in front of you.I don't...
828
00:38:51,537 --> 00:38:53,456
I just remember kind ofthe highlights
829
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:57,793
and the impetus for the, um...
830
00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:00,796
the what I call"the alien caper," and, uh--
831
00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:03,674
Sure.
832
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:08,554
I issued a callfor an investigation
833
00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:11,015
by the ArizonaDepartment of Public Safety,
834
00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:14,560
and I'm happy to reportwe already are getting results.
835
00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:16,520
Let me just say that I believeit's a serious offense
836
00:39:16,562 --> 00:39:20,733
for anyone-- human,space alien, or otherwise--
837
00:39:20,775 --> 00:39:23,944
to engage in mysterious activityin our nighttime skies.
838
00:39:23,986 --> 00:39:25,363
[Barwood]I thought,
839
00:39:25,404 --> 00:39:27,490
"Oh, good,he's going to investigate."
840
00:39:27,531 --> 00:39:29,450
We may all lookupon the guilty party.
841
00:39:30,409 --> 00:39:32,370
[laughter]
842
00:39:32,411 --> 00:39:34,413
Hey, don't get him too closeto me, please. It's...
843
00:39:34,455 --> 00:39:37,124
-[laughter]-You know. [clears throat]
844
00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:39,043
[laughter]
845
00:39:39,085 --> 00:39:41,921
This just goes to show that youguys are entirely too serious.
846
00:39:41,962 --> 00:39:43,422
[laughter]
847
00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:45,549
[applause]
848
00:39:48,677 --> 00:39:50,846
[laughter]
849
00:39:50,888 --> 00:39:53,599
-[applause]-Thank you. Thank you.
850
00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:56,894
[Barwood]Everybody was so angry.
851
00:39:56,936 --> 00:39:59,605
And-and I said,"I don't know what to tell you.
852
00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:00,648
You know, it's...
853
00:40:00,689 --> 00:40:02,358
it's over."
854
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,943
-Mocked everybody.-Mocked us, yeah.
855
00:40:03,984 --> 00:40:05,194
You got to understand...you got to understand that
856
00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:06,946
when it's your ownstate's governor
857
00:40:06,987 --> 00:40:09,198
that's coming out and witha fake alien on the podium.
858
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,534
-Yeah.-That totally discredits any...
859
00:40:11,575 --> 00:40:12,952
See, even he didn't wantto admit it right away.
860
00:40:12,993 --> 00:40:14,161
That totally discredits anything
861
00:40:14,203 --> 00:40:15,704
-that anybody saw.-Yeah.
862
00:40:15,746 --> 00:40:18,374
We weren't tryingto ridicule people's concerns,
863
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:21,460
but there was that elementof building hysteria,
864
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:23,129
which really neededto be dealt with.
865
00:40:23,170 --> 00:40:26,298
I was 12, so imaginethat age, too, is, "You...
866
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:28,467
-Mm-hmm.-I saw... I saw a UFO, guys."
867
00:40:28,509 --> 00:40:29,844
I mean,that's a different conversation
868
00:40:29,885 --> 00:40:31,095
when you're that age.
869
00:40:31,137 --> 00:40:32,596
All right, our own governor,
870
00:40:32,638 --> 00:40:34,098
who many people supportedat the time...
871
00:40:34,140 --> 00:40:35,433
-Mm-hmm.-...is going out
872
00:40:35,474 --> 00:40:36,767
and mocking what I saw.
873
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:38,727
I kept to myself.I-I didn't... [stammers]
874
00:40:38,769 --> 00:40:41,564
Absolutely a stigmaand I don't know why.
875
00:40:41,605 --> 00:40:43,399
I don't know why it's there.
876
00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:45,025
But we're gonna nottalk about this right now,
877
00:40:45,067 --> 00:40:47,027
because clearlyit's just a joke to everybody.
878
00:40:48,070 --> 00:40:49,572
I'm sorryif it offended some people,
879
00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:51,115
but it was a lot of fun.
880
00:40:51,157 --> 00:40:53,117
There you go.This is your trophy,
881
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:54,785
-and you give it to Joe, okay?-Okay.
882
00:40:54,827 --> 00:40:56,036
I'll see you all later.Thank you very much.
883
00:40:56,078 --> 00:40:57,371
[laughter]
884
00:41:02,334 --> 00:41:03,961
[Kean]When you're ina position of authority,
885
00:41:04,003 --> 00:41:05,671
and you can'texplain something
886
00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:09,467
to your constituents,it could panic people,
887
00:41:09,508 --> 00:41:10,968
it could frighten people.
888
00:41:11,594 --> 00:41:15,306
So one of the toolsin the toolbox, when
889
00:41:15,347 --> 00:41:17,683
they're forced to talk about it,is to ridicule it.
890
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:22,438
It's a way of minimizingits significance, you know?
891
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,815
"These are little green men.Ha, ha, ha."
892
00:41:24,857 --> 00:41:27,610
That's the problemwith the term "UFO."
893
00:41:27,651 --> 00:41:29,320
It's sort of
894
00:41:29,361 --> 00:41:30,654
been contaminated.
895
00:41:30,696 --> 00:41:32,031
[newsman]If the Air Force
896
00:41:32,072 --> 00:41:33,491
had nothing to hide,
897
00:41:33,532 --> 00:41:35,034
Frank Mannor,the Michigan farmer,
898
00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:36,535
who had brought inthe first report,
899
00:41:36,577 --> 00:41:38,370
was caught in the middle.
900
00:41:38,412 --> 00:41:40,122
He was mad.
901
00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:42,249
Are you sorry now that you didtell people what you saw?
902
00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:44,335
Yes, I am. I am...I'm sorry because it...
903
00:41:44,376 --> 00:41:47,755
Not that it's not the truth,but it's just the idea,
904
00:41:47,796 --> 00:41:49,006
the-the reactionof the people.
905
00:41:49,048 --> 00:41:51,842
They think you're a... a nut.
906
00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:54,011
Tell you the truth. That's justwhat they figure you are.
907
00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:56,847
[Kean]Once Project Blue Book
908
00:41:56,889 --> 00:42:00,684
shut down in 1970, thewhole thing kind of went quiet.
909
00:42:00,726 --> 00:42:02,311
[military official]The conclusions
910
00:42:02,353 --> 00:42:05,856
of Project Blue Book were:no UFO reported
911
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:07,816
has ever given any indication
912
00:42:07,858 --> 00:42:09,860
of threatto our national security.
913
00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:13,197
There is no evidence submitted
914
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,741
that sightings representtechnological developments
915
00:42:15,783 --> 00:42:20,204
beyond the range of present-dayscientific knowledge, and
916
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:22,039
there is no evidence indicating
917
00:42:22,081 --> 00:42:25,876
that these unidentified objectsare extraterrestrial.
918
00:42:25,918 --> 00:42:28,546
[Greenewald]That reportthat they produced was known
919
00:42:28,587 --> 00:42:31,215
infamouslyas the Condon Report.
920
00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:32,800
Now why is this important?
921
00:42:32,841 --> 00:42:36,845
Because they literally shot downthe topic of UFOs,
922
00:42:36,887 --> 00:42:39,056
said it was a wasteof time and money,
923
00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:41,642
and said,"Shut the investigations down.
924
00:42:41,684 --> 00:42:43,769
It's useless."
925
00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:47,398
[Kean]Think about theopportunities that were lost
926
00:42:47,439 --> 00:42:49,567
for taking it seriouslyand for investigating it.
927
00:42:49,608 --> 00:42:51,527
[newswoman]The Air Force says
928
00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:54,029
it doesn't investigateunknown objects anymore.
929
00:42:54,071 --> 00:42:57,533
NORAD told UPN News 13that it only tracks objects
930
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,535
that originatein our atmosphere.
931
00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:01,078
The CIA, some otherintelligence agency,
932
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,080
well, if they're investigating,
933
00:43:03,122 --> 00:43:05,082
we don't know about it,and chances are, we never will.
934
00:43:08,794 --> 00:43:11,171
[Greenewald]The U.S. governmentalways maintained to me
935
00:43:11,213 --> 00:43:13,549
that they had no interestin UFOs.
936
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,759
But back in 2008,
937
00:43:15,801 --> 00:43:17,845
I had discovered a United StatesAir Force manual.
938
00:43:17,886 --> 00:43:20,389
And there was a whole section
939
00:43:20,431 --> 00:43:23,642
about unidentifiedflying objects.
940
00:43:23,684 --> 00:43:26,770
On not only how to report 'em,but where to report 'em to,
941
00:43:26,812 --> 00:43:28,397
and the two placesthat are not subject
942
00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:29,565
to the Freedomof Information Act--
943
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:31,567
one being the White House,
944
00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:33,611
the second beingthe NORAD installation--
945
00:43:33,652 --> 00:43:37,323
is on the receiving end ofwhatever these UFO reports are.
946
00:43:37,364 --> 00:43:38,657
And I triedto access the documents,
947
00:43:38,699 --> 00:43:41,035
but of course they said,"Nope, sorry.
948
00:43:41,076 --> 00:43:43,078
We're not subject to theFreedom of Information Act."
949
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,706
How convenientthat they send the UFO records
950
00:43:45,748 --> 00:43:47,041
to that one place.
951
00:43:47,082 --> 00:43:49,168
[newsman]Believers have always maintained
952
00:43:49,209 --> 00:43:52,087
the government knows morethan it claims about UFOs
953
00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:53,756
and doesn't alwaystell the truth.
954
00:43:53,797 --> 00:43:56,592
The latest government admissionsconcede both points
955
00:43:56,634 --> 00:44:00,054
and do little, if anything,to settle the UFO debate.
956
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:03,057
[Barwood]About the Phoenix Lights,
957
00:44:03,098 --> 00:44:07,645
I'm extremely disappointedthat nobody's taken this on.
958
00:44:07,686 --> 00:44:11,774
I think that the governorwas interested in all of it.
959
00:44:11,815 --> 00:44:15,444
When you look at the pressconference that he did,
960
00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:18,822
you can see he was trulyuncomfortable, and
961
00:44:18,864 --> 00:44:21,325
I think it was because he wasnot comfortable with that.
962
00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:23,952
I think he really did wantto look into it.
963
00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:25,954
There is no way
964
00:44:25,996 --> 00:44:29,333
that he orchestrated that.
965
00:44:29,375 --> 00:44:31,794
And I said, "There's somethingelse going on here."
966
00:44:31,835 --> 00:44:35,839
My speculation is,a deal had to be made.
967
00:44:35,881 --> 00:44:37,132
dramatic music
968
00:44:40,886 --> 00:44:43,180
[newsman]We are now lessthan 12 hours away
969
00:44:43,222 --> 00:44:45,766
from Governor Symington'scriminal trial.
970
00:44:45,808 --> 00:44:49,770
The governor is on trialfor 22 fraud counts.
971
00:44:49,812 --> 00:44:52,147
20 of those counts involvefalsifying financial statements
972
00:44:52,189 --> 00:44:54,900
to federally insured banks.
973
00:44:54,942 --> 00:44:56,694
[Heiler]The trial was the culmination
974
00:44:56,735 --> 00:45:00,656
of seven and a half yearsof investigation
975
00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:04,660
of Fife Symington's private lifebefore becoming governor.
976
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:08,622
Then it morphedinto a criminal investigation.
977
00:45:08,664 --> 00:45:11,333
[Barwood]He had been in court.
978
00:45:11,375 --> 00:45:14,545
People that were in court,watching this whole thing, said,
979
00:45:14,586 --> 00:45:17,506
he was called outto go into a private meeting.
980
00:45:17,548 --> 00:45:20,300
And then, the next thing is
981
00:45:20,342 --> 00:45:22,845
this emergency press conference.
982
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:26,890
So somebody else said,
983
00:45:26,932 --> 00:45:29,017
in my opinion, okay,
984
00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:32,062
not-not fact but my opinion,
985
00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:35,566
"If you make this a joke,we'll dismiss the charges."
986
00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:42,197
Yeah, I don't...I wonder where that came from.
987
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:43,949
Well, if I understandyour question correctly,
988
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:47,077
you're, you're suggestingsome people believe
989
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:49,413
that we somehow did this
990
00:45:49,455 --> 00:45:52,207
in leaguewith government authorities...
991
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:55,294
-Oh.-to mock the idea
992
00:45:55,335 --> 00:45:58,589
of those lightsbeing extraterrestrial.
993
00:46:01,550 --> 00:46:05,512
No, there was no conspiracybehind it at all. No.
994
00:46:05,554 --> 00:46:07,389
We-we weren't tryingto cover up anything.
995
00:46:07,431 --> 00:46:10,559
We were... we were just tryingto make light of it.
996
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:12,019
ominous music
997
00:46:12,060 --> 00:46:14,396
[Barwood]He was serious
998
00:46:14,438 --> 00:46:16,857
that he was goingto do an investigation,
999
00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:19,443
and then it turned into a joke.
1000
00:46:19,485 --> 00:46:22,946
Somebody somewhere has got to beafraid of the truth coming out.
1001
00:46:22,988 --> 00:46:25,532
That's it.
1002
00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:28,076
And why?
1003
00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:31,205
[Heiler]Neither thenor now do I have any
1004
00:46:31,246 --> 00:46:34,416
plausible explanation more than
1005
00:46:34,458 --> 00:46:38,545
anyone might speculate aboutas to what those lights were.
1006
00:46:38,587 --> 00:46:41,465
I felt thenas I do now that what
1007
00:46:41,507 --> 00:46:44,468
really caused a lotof the "hullabaloo,"
1008
00:46:44,510 --> 00:46:47,596
to use the governor's word,and the speculation is that
1009
00:46:47,638 --> 00:46:49,473
the only information provided
1010
00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,683
by the authoritieswas implausible
1011
00:46:51,725 --> 00:46:54,645
to anybodywho saw the-the lights.
1012
00:46:54,686 --> 00:46:57,898
So I think governmentmakes things worse
1013
00:46:57,940 --> 00:46:59,900
when it operates that way.
1014
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:02,319
And why they do that,I don't know.
1015
00:47:02,361 --> 00:47:04,696
I don't know if it's justbureaucratic obtuseness
1016
00:47:04,738 --> 00:47:08,033
or if it's some partof a-a larger attempt
1017
00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:12,621
to deflect attention from thingsthat are meant to remain secret.
1018
00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:16,625
My best guess at it wasit was some sort
1019
00:47:16,667 --> 00:47:18,836
of high-altitudestealth technology
1020
00:47:18,877 --> 00:47:21,505
that we didn't want known.
1021
00:47:24,216 --> 00:47:25,801
You and I will alwaysdisagree on this,
1022
00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,595
but there's no waythat that was a B-2...
1023
00:47:28,637 --> 00:47:31,098
a B-2 bomberor a stealth bomber.
1024
00:47:31,139 --> 00:47:32,975
This object was big and close.
1025
00:47:33,016 --> 00:47:35,769
And you thinkit was a single object for sure?
1026
00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:37,145
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
1027
00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:56,123
[Watson]There's no way
1028
00:47:56,164 --> 00:47:59,668
that something like that'sman-made that we know of.
1029
00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:01,128
[woman]Right. That's right.
1030
00:48:01,169 --> 00:48:03,338
Now I don't knowif it could have been
1031
00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:04,840
extraterrestrial, whatever.
1032
00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:06,633
Regardless, it is what it is.
1033
00:48:06,675 --> 00:48:09,344
We saw what we saw.It was giant, quiet.
1034
00:48:09,386 --> 00:48:14,099
Moved extremely fast,and was amazing.
1035
00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:16,101
dramatic music
1036
00:48:17,603 --> 00:48:19,396
[Pasulka]There's a creation of discourse
1037
00:48:19,438 --> 00:48:21,398
around these events.
1038
00:48:23,066 --> 00:48:25,152
Pop culture todayis gonna represent
1039
00:48:25,193 --> 00:48:28,739
these "UFO events,"for want of a better word,
1040
00:48:28,780 --> 00:48:30,240
as something quite different
1041
00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:32,409
than howthe people experience them.
1042
00:48:32,451 --> 00:48:34,828
[man] Wow. Look at this here.These three things.
1043
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:37,080
-[man 2] Really?-[woman] What is it?
1044
00:48:37,122 --> 00:48:39,416
[Pasulka]Remember,I'm a historian of Catholicism.
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So, in the 1980s,
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Pope John Paul II wrotea very interesting teaching
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on the angels
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to his bishops. It's called
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"The Catechesis on the Angels."
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And he basically says,these were invisible beings,
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and people don't believein them anymore,
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and they even denied them duringJesus's time, Jesus's era.
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He said, "But they exist."And he said,
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"And they intervenein human history."
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He was kind of reinscribingthis idea
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that what we see today is notwhat we think we're seeing.
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Our perceptions see objects,but what are really there?
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We're coming upon a new way
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of understandingthe transcendent,
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and it's no longer an angel.
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[Harris]What would it meanfor our humanity
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for us to discoverthat, in fact,
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there are other sentient beings
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that are capableof traveling here?
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The thingsthat we think are important
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in the midstof the ongoing pandemic
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or the uprisingfor racial justice...
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-[explosive pops]-[crowd yelling]
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[Harris]In the specterof being visited
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by those from another planet,our own divisions would
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suddenly feel so much smaller.
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Would feel less insurmountable,one would hope.
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I don't knowwhat that would look like,
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but I do know that it would
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be the biggest change that weever witnessed, any of us,
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in the way that human beingssaw themselves
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and saw each other.
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[Kevin Day]I was a top ten graduate,
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a senior air controller,
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had 18 years sea time.
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We were gonna do a big,huge air defense exercise.
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A mock air battlefor-for training purposes.
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This encounterprofoundly affected me.
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[Day]Oh, yeah. The entire crew
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was talking about it. You bet.
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-[man]Oh, my gosh, dude.-[man 2]Wow.
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[Day]They certainly didn't behave
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like anything from this Earth.
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I'm pretty convincedthey had to be quantum-based.
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If that's true,then what are the possibilities?
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It's a pretty short list,isn't it?
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Uh, aliens.
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