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Newscaster:
These, uh, pictures were shot--
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well, show what
many believe to be
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some kind of strange lights
hovering over downtown Phoenix.
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The military guessed
that it was a flare test,
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but others call it the most
dramatic UFO sighting in years.
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They say the craft
was moving very slowly
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and without any sound at all.
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Quinto: On a clear
spring night in 1997,
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a swarm of unidentified
flying objects passed slowly
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and silently
through the Phoenix skies,
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prompting thousands
of phone calls to authorities.
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Despite the vast number
of witnesses, to this day,
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no one has been able to identify
these mysterious aircraft...
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or these
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or this one
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or thousands more
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which have been reported
since the very dawn of mankind.
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With every sighting,
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we once again ask
the age-old question--
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are we alone in the universe?
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Tonight we aim
to answer that question.
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We'll hunt for eyewitnesses
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to large-scale
otherworldly encounters,
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reveal declassified video
of a military engagement
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with a potential alien threat,
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and test a brand-new theory,
which may finally decode
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an extraterrestrial message
we've already received,
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as we go in search of UFOs.
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There have been stories
of strange objects in the sky
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for centuries,
perhaps even millennia,
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but the modern age
of UFO sightings began in 1947,
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when a pilot observed
nine shiny objects
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flying in tandem
past Washington's Mount Rainier.
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The "Chicago Sun"
reported the story
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and coined the phrase
"flying saucers,"
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which has been part
of our vocabulary ever since.
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Also in 1947,
in Roswell, New Mexico,
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William Brazel found
what he thought was evidence
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of a crashed alien spacecraft,
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again shaped
like a disc or a saucer.
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Within a year,
the U.S. Air Force
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commenced
a series of initiatives
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to track UFO sightings,
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including Project "Sign,"
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Project "Grudge,"
and Project Blue Book.
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In their two decades
of operation,
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these programs logged over
12,000 eyewitness encounters.
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Since then,
sightings have only multiplied.
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According to the National
UFO Reporting Center,
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someone spots
an unidentified aircraft
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nearly four times per day.
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But most of these are
individual, isolated sightings.
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What happens when a group
of people see the same thing,
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and what if these sightings
are confirmed by F.A.A. radar?
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On January 8, 2008,
in Erath County, Texas,
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private pilot and freight
company owner Steve Allen
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set out for a drive he had taken
dozens of times before.
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I called my friend Mike.
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He said come on over.
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Quinto: Along the way,
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at 6:15 P.M.,
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Steve encountered
something completely unexpected.
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Right at the moment
we pulled up on the hill,
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I looked off to the east and saw
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some very high, bright-intensity
magnesium flare lights.
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I thought it was
an airplane at first.
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I did a second take on it
and discovered
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it wasn't anything
that I had ever seen before.
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It flew past us
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at about 1,500 to 2,000 foot
above ground level.
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It went over to Stephenville,
to that area right there,
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and it stopped
for just a moment.
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And then, all of a sudden,
they burst into a white flame,
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and then it just disappeared.
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Quinto: But the strange craft
wouldn't stay gone for long.
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It quickly reappeared,
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now speeding
in the opposite direction
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with what appeared to be
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two military jets
trailing behind.
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One or two minutes afterwards,
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the two F-16s fell in
in hot pursuit,
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full afterburner
hanging out the back of 'em.
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They was chasing it
with vengeance.
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We had no idea what was going on
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or why our military
was chasing it.
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Quinto: In addition
to its speed, erratic movements,
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and seeming ability
to disappear,
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the unknown craft was also
remarkable for its massive size.
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It was all--about a half
a mile wide and a mile long,
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and I fly this area quite a bit,
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so I'm used to the grids of how
things are sectioned off here,
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and I'm--pretty good description
on what size it was.
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Quinto:
As a levelheaded businessman
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with decades
of flying experience,
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Steve wasn't a believer in UFOs.
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But, at this moment,
he had to wonder,
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could he actually be witnessing
an alien spacecraft?
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So anything that can come
to a stop in Stephenville
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or basically almost to a stop
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and then reverse course
and go back 180 degrees
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is not of--not of this world.
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Quinto: Steve immediately wanted
to go public with his story.
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My wife begged me to please
not tell anybody at the time,
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bec--and I ask her why,
and she says,
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"People will think
you're crazy."
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And I said, "Everybody knows me
that knows I'm not crazy,
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"so I'm gonna say what I saw
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and see if we can get
to the bottom of it."
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Quinto: True to his word,
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Steve contacted the local
newspaper the next day.
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Uh, so it's late afternoon,
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and I got a-a call
from one of my reporters,
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who said that she
had received, um, word
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from a local pilot
who said that he saw something,
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um, kind of suspicious
or interesting in the sky
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and wanted
to talk to her about it.
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As the "Empire-Tribune's"
managing editor,
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Sara was skeptical
about running the story,
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but her publisher
had other ideas.
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So the next morning, uh,
when I looked at the newspaper
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and I saw the headline
that read "UFO," I-I cried.
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I was--I was worried that
our journalistic integrity
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might be tarnished, and I just--
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I didn't know what
the community would make of it.
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Quinto: But as it turns out,
Sara had nothing to worry about,
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because, once the story was out,
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countless other people
came forward
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with their own accounts
of the same event.
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The next day, our phones
just rang off the hook.
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I didn't think
they were coming forward
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and not telling the truth.
I completely believed them.
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They ran an article
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with my phone number in it,
of all things.
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I didn't think anything
would become of it,
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and I was inundated
with phone calls the next day.
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Lots of business owners,
quite a few people
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had called me.
I had a complete list.
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I was the UFO hotline, I guess.
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Quinto:
As more witnesses emerged,
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reporters
at the "Empire-Tribune"
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tried to verify the shocking
accounts of the strange UFO
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and the fighter jets
in hot pursuit.
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I'm a pilot.
I've been flying since 1976.
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I see F-16s.
I've seen them all my life,
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I know exactly what they are.
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I can recognize one immediately.
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Quinto: At first,
all the local air bases claimed
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there was no activity
on the night of January 8,
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but then, 10 days later,
the military changed its story,
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admitting
that 10 F-16s were indeed
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scrambled that night
over Erath County.
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This new revelation pushed
the Stephenville sightings
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into the national spotlight.
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The--The national media
picked up on it very quickly,
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and I was just astounded that--
that it traveled so quickly.
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Quinto: On the heels
of the national news story,
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a nonprofit group called
the Mutual UFO Network,
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or MUFON, sent investigators
to arrange a town hall meeting
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for any residents
who witnessed a UFO that night.
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The investigators figured
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a handful of witnesses
might come forward.
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Just in case, they brought along
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50 copies
of their questionnaire.
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They had no idea
just how unprepared they were.
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They were about to walk in
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to one of the largest
eyewitness gatherings
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of a single UFO event
in history.
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Is it possible
that an alien spacecraft
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flew above Stephenville, Texas,
in January of 2008?
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Before you decide for yourself,
you should know
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that more than 200 witnesses
all agree that it happened.
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After the incident,
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investigators from America's
largest UFO network,
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MUFON, held a town hall meeting,
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and they couldn't believe
the incredible turnout.
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Considering
the hundreds of attendees,
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this could potentially be
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the single largest
mass UFO sighting in history.
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Hundreds of people
that came as witnesses
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and other people,
just spectators,
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but lots of people had
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the same, exact story
that we had.
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Quinto: Over the course
of three hours,
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the townspeople
all shared similar stories
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of what they saw
on the night of January 8.
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Retired Air Force
Navigation Specialist James Huse
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was among those who spoke.
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He, too, had seen
the lights in the sky,
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but never went public
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after facing ridicule
from his coworkers.
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I saw all these people
who had seen the UFOs
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that were helping
to back me up.
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And this was important,
because, after being accused
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of lying about these UFOs
and making this all--
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this story up,
to see all these other people
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who had seen these UFOs at night
was really reassuring.
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Quinto: In addition
to the hundreds of witnesses
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who gave their stories
at the meeting,
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many more stayed home,
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fearing damage
to their reputations.
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Today, some of them have
finally decided to come forward.
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I didn't go to that meeting
that they had in 2008,
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'cause I was scared.
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I was a kindergarten teacher
at the time,
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and I didn't want th-the parents
to think I was crazy.
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It was like this,
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a round thing that looked like
it was sitting on the ground...
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and then it just disappeared,
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and my mother
seemed to think that it, uh,
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was behind trees or clouds,
and there weren't any.
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I see these lights.
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They come in, and then just--
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it just--Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
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And, I just thought, "Wow,
you know, that's not common."
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I definitely believe
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it was something
from out of this world.
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I've seen jets
break the sound barrier,
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and that'll--
that'll cause some ruckus.
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Uh, I've seen airplanes
pretty high up,
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little, bitty airplanes
pretty high up,
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and you can hear them
uh, very loudly.
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The way
that first craft took off,
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I've never seen
anything go that fast
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and not make any noise.
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Quinto: It's clear
that something large and unknown
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flew above Stephenville
that night.
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The question is, what was it,
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and could it possibly
be alien in nature?
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The Air Force does a lot
of training out in the area
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'cause it's countryside,
so, uh, we're used to seeing
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a lot of jets, helicopters,
and everything like that,
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but, to this day,
I have no idea what I saw,
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and I have no idea of what made
the light that I saw that night.
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I was accused of fabricating
this story, but I did not.
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It just made me more determined
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to prove
that this story was real.
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After his time
in the Air Force,
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James had a career
as an electronics technician,
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and he was confident
he could find proof
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of the Stephenville encounter.
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When something
is spotted on radar,
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everything in the sky
has a transponder number
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that is above
a particular altitude.
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Quinto: In other words,
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the raw radar data
from the night of the incident
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should hold all the proof
of what happened that night.
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So I demanded that they
get the radar records,
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look at them, and see
that I was telling the truth.
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Quinto: Unfortunately,
the military refused
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to release the uncensored
flight logs from its planes.
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It also claimed to have lost
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the radar records
from January 8.
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Unfortunately,
the Air Force declined
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to give us
the information that we needed
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to prove
that the UFOs were here.
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It does seem that the UFOs here
were being covered up.
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There's no question that
the Stephenville eyewitnesses
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saw something strange
in the sky,
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but what should we make
of the Air Force's response?
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Is it possible that some branch
of government or law enforcement
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actually wanted
to suppress the encounter?
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Historically speaking,
it has happened before.
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When William Brazel found
the unidentified wreckage
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in Roswell, New Mexico,
the U.S. Army issued a statement
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claiming it was
an ordinary weather balloon.
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But documents
declassified in the 1990s
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revealed that story
to be a lie.
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In fact, the debris
came from a top-secret
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surveillance mission
called Project Mogul.
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Just like in Roswell,
the people of Stephenville
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eventually found a way around
all the government secrecy
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with a revelation
that many believe
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is absolute proof
of an alien visit to Texas.
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On July 4, 2008,
MUFON investigators issued
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their official 76-page report
on the Stephenville incident.
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They made 10 different Freedom
of Information Act requests
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to various government agencies
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and were finally able to acquire
raw radar data from the F.A.A.
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According to the report,
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F.A.A. radar had tracked
a gigantic object,
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at least 524 feet long,
traveling through the sky
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50 miles
southeast of Stephenville.
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The townspeople
immediately felt vindicated.
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When you report a UFO, there's
a lot of people out there
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who are going
to call you crazy, okay.
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And to take the time
that they did to come in
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and give their report,
I'm just overjoyed.
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And lo and behold,
out of six radar units,
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it showed exactly what we saw
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coming in
at 2,100 miles an hour,
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doing a 180-degree back to
where it came from to the east,
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running 1,800
or 1,900 miles an hour,
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and it had two F-16s behind it,
so that confirmed it.
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Recently,
the United States government
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has taken a more open approach
to UFO sightings.
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In December, 2017, the Pentagon
confirmed the existence
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of the Advanced Aviation
Threat Identification Program.
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Its job is to investigate
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reports of unidentified
flying objects,
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many of which come from members
of the U.S. military.
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Along with
confirming the program,
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the Department of Defense
even released a video
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of one
such mysterious encounter.
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This video
and the amazing story behind it
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just might be
the single most credible
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UFO experience ever recorded.
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Science fiction
would have you believe
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that extraterrestrial UFOs
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are a near-constant threat
to our existence.
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But how real is the threat?
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Is it possible that aliens
have already visited our planet?
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So far, we've seen
residents of a Texas town
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convinced they had
a UFO encounter.
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Could it be a hoax
or a case of mass hysteria?
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Perhaps,
but if you don't believe
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the people
of Stephenville, Texas,
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might you believe
a much more credible source?
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Because our next story
comes directly
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from none other
than the United States Navy.
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And not only that, but it
comes with a smoking gun,
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actual video evidence
of the encounter.
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This is Naval Base San Diego,
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the home port of
the United States Pacific Fleet.
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In November of 2004,
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it was the site
of an incredible encounter that,
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despite widespread coverage,
remains a mystery to this day.
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Kevin Day is
a retired chief petty officer.
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In 2004, he was a radar operator
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assigned to the U.S.S. Nimitz
Carrier Strike Group.
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My job was to man the radars
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and I.D. everything
in the sky that flew.
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My watch position on the ship
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was anti-air warfare
coordinator.
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Basically we worked
for the captain
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and be in charge
of the air defense team.
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If we ever had to launch
a-a missile in hostility,
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I was the guy who was
gonna punch the button.
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When those--
When those, uh, Super Hornets
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take off the carrier, my job
was to get 'em to the fight,
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get 'em in the dogfight,
get 'em out of the dogfight,
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and then get 'em back home safe.
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Quinto: The Nimitz Strike Group
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was preparing for deployment
to the Persian Gulf
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and was on an accelerated
training schedule.
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But on November 10,
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a normal training exercise
became far from routine.
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In the middle of the mission,
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Kevin spotted unusual activity
on his radar screens.
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I started to see
these really strange contacts
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off San Clemente Island.
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The first group I noticed had--
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um, I believe it had
seven contacts in it,
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and the weird thing
is they were all--
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They were all tracking
from north to south
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off San Clemente at 28,000 feet,
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going 100 knots,
which was extremely unusual.
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It was the strangest
formation of aircraft
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I'd ever seen
in my whole career.
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Quinto:
Over the next several days,
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the objects kept appearing,
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but no jets were available
to have a closer look.
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Kevin's consternation
was beginning to grow.
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I recommended
that we take down the system,
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uh, because I was
kind of suspecting
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it may have been
a glitch of some kind.
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Quinto: Radar technicians
tried recalibrating the system
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to find out if the sensors were
giving false positive readings,
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which the Navy
calls ghost tracks.
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So we actually
brought our entire system
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all the way down,
brought it all the way back up
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and strangely enough,
the quality of the contacts
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actually increased
after we came back.
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This was
definitely not a glitch.
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These were real contacts
tracked by a real--real radar.
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In fact, I had the highest track
quality possible in the system.
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Quinto: Kevin was desperate
to identify these objects
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and find out
if they were a threat.
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My concern
was safety of flight.
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These objects were
at 28,000 feet, going 100 knots,
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and that's where I like
to send my aircraft,
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right in that same
altitude layer.
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I knew that I had to recommend
intercept to the captain.
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Quinto: Finally, on November 14,
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the Navy got
their chance to intercept
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whatever was appearing
on Kevin's radar screen.
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While conducting air defense
exercises using F/A-18 jets,
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the objects appeared
on the radar once again.
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This was the moment
that I was waiting for.
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Captain Smith
comes down to Combat,
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and I said, "Hey, sir,
I strongly recommend
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"that we take one of
the aircraft that just launched
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and go look
at one these things."
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Captain Smith was like,
"You know what, Senior Chief?
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You're right.
Let's--Let's do that."
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Quinto: Command sent two
of their top fighter pilots
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to investigate
the object cluster.
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The pilots had no idea
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of the potential danger
they were about to face.
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And the, uh, tactical action
officer jumps on the radio,
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and she asks,
"I just want to know.
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You guys have
any missiles onboard?"
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There was stunned silence
on the radio for a second,
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'cause I think it really
shocked the--the air crews.
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Quinto: This was only supposed
to be a training exercise.
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Were they actually
about to engage
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with a potential enemy target
of unknown origin?
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If so, they were going in
completely unarmed.
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Day: I picked the closest
contact, um, that was on radar.
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I believe it was
approximately 60 miles.
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Quinto: The jets arrived
to intercept within minutes,
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but the mysterious craft
suddenly disappeared,
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maneuvering
in seemingly impossible ways
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on Kevin's radar screen.
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The radar recorded this object
going from 28,000 feet
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down to 50 feet in .78 seconds,
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and whatever can do that
defies the laws of physics.
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I should have heard
multiple sonic booms,
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didn't hear a single sonic boom.
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Uh, the--A biological entity
inside that thing
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would've been crushed
by the G-forces.
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Quinto: The unidentified craft
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had dropped
at over 20,000 miles per hour,
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10 times faster than
any military jet has ever flown.
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It was clear the Navy pilots
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would have their work cut out
for them to make the intercept.
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And, at that point
from an air crew's perspective,
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they're--they no longer
care about radar,
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'cause they're in
what they call the visual arena.
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They're using
their eyeballs now.
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Quinto: Were these
Navy pilots about to have
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the first-ever
confirmed face-to-face encounter
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with an alien spacecraft?
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As they caught up to the object,
would the answer be revealed?
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Day: I've got
the--the air control comms up
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in the overhead speakers so we
can all listen to it in combat.
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And we all hear, "Oh, my God,
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oh, my God, I'm engaged!
I'm engaged!"
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Can you see it?
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00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:19,206
Quinto: Is it possible
that the U.S. Navy
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had an actual UFO encounter
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off the coast of San Diego
15 years ago?
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According to retired
Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day,
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the answer is yes.
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Over the course of four days
in November, 2004,
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using advanced onboard radar,
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Kevin tracked a group
of what he believed to be UFOs.
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And, on November 14,
two F/A-18 fighter jets
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were finally able
to come face to face
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with the unknown aircraft.
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The next thing
we hear on the radio,
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"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
I'm engaged! I'm engaged!"
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And it stunned everyone
in Combat at that point.
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We were like, "Oh, wow,
what do--what's going on here?"
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Quinto:
The flight commander witnessed
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a smooth, white,
cylindrical craft,
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approximately 45 feet long,
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about the same length
as his F/A-18 Super Hornet.
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It had no wings, no windows,
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no obvious, uh, flight surfaces,
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um, no obvious means
of propulsion.
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Quinto: The craft
began mimicking
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the movements of the Navy pilots
as they circled it,
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matching them turn for turn.
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When the commander
finally caught up to it,
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the UFO rapidly accelerated
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past the nose of his aircraft
and disappeared.
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We didn't know what to think.
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It was so far beyond
any of our experience,
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that we were dumbfounded
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was probably
the best way to say it.
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We were absolutely dumbfounded.
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None of them had any idea
what we had just seen,
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other than just concluding
that it was a UFO.
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The Navy quickly launched
six more jets
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from the Nimitz aircraft carrier
to engage the objects.
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This time,
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they were equipped
with onboard cameras.
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If they could reach
the craft in time,
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they might capture what could be
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the first-ever confirmed video
of a UFO encounter.
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The object's out--
out in space in front of him
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10, 20, 30 miles, so of course
they were able to see it
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for quite a time
with their camera system.
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Quinto: And sure enough,
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just before
the object disappeared,
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one Navy camera actually got it.
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This is the first video the U.S.
government has ever released
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of a military aircraft
engaging with a UFO.
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The camera's infrared spectrum
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was able to spot
a uniform heat signature,
491
00:26:59,744 --> 00:27:03,704
a clear indication
of the UFO's propulsion system.
492
00:27:03,748 --> 00:27:05,164
The fact that we have video
493
00:27:05,207 --> 00:27:07,374
and the fact
we have eyewitnesses,
494
00:27:07,418 --> 00:27:10,502
uh, air crews
and ship personnel,
495
00:27:10,546 --> 00:27:12,755
uh, I think it paints
a pretty obvious picture
496
00:27:12,798 --> 00:27:17,176
that we indeed
definitely intercepted UFOs.
497
00:27:18,929 --> 00:27:20,763
Quinto: But it
would take 13 years
498
00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:24,141
before any of this footage
would be made public.
499
00:27:24,185 --> 00:27:28,479
In December, 2017,
the Nimitz encounter video
500
00:27:28,522 --> 00:27:30,105
was finally released
501
00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:32,316
following a Freedom
of Information Act request
502
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:33,859
by "The New York Times."
503
00:27:35,112 --> 00:27:37,446
This kicked off
a flood of news stories
504
00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:41,742
about the U.S. military's
involvement with UFOs.
505
00:27:41,786 --> 00:27:43,327
The government was finally
506
00:27:43,371 --> 00:27:46,246
about to break
its decades-long silence.
507
00:27:47,792 --> 00:27:50,334
The Nimitz video was released
508
00:27:50,378 --> 00:27:54,046
along with a 13-page report
about the incident,
509
00:27:54,090 --> 00:27:57,508
stating the aircraft featured
"advanced acceleration,
510
00:27:57,551 --> 00:28:00,719
aerodynamic,
and propulsion capability."
511
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,974
It was able to hide
at times from military radar,
512
00:28:06,018 --> 00:28:08,936
possibly demonstrating
the ability to cloak
513
00:28:08,979 --> 00:28:12,481
or become invisible
to the human eye.
514
00:28:12,525 --> 00:28:14,692
The report also
speculates the craft
515
00:28:14,735 --> 00:28:18,654
had a "highly advanced
capability" to operate undersea,
516
00:28:18,698 --> 00:28:23,158
completely undetectable
by our most advanced sensors.
517
00:28:24,412 --> 00:28:26,245
While some of this technology
518
00:28:26,288 --> 00:28:28,664
sounds similar
to the Stephenville UFO,
519
00:28:28,708 --> 00:28:31,291
there are
a few major differences.
520
00:28:31,335 --> 00:28:34,503
Most obvious
is the craft's size.
521
00:28:34,547 --> 00:28:38,424
The Nimitz object
was less than 50 feet long,
522
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,217
while the people of Stephenville
523
00:28:40,261 --> 00:28:43,679
witnessed something
dozens of times larger.
524
00:28:43,723 --> 00:28:48,100
The Stephenville UFO featured
lights around the outside,
525
00:28:48,144 --> 00:28:51,395
but the Nimitz pilots
saw a smooth, white object
526
00:28:51,439 --> 00:28:54,648
with no exterior features
at all.
527
00:28:54,692 --> 00:28:57,443
What could it all mean?
528
00:28:57,486 --> 00:29:01,363
Are multiple alien species
visiting our planet?
529
00:29:01,407 --> 00:29:04,992
If so, how many, and from where?
530
00:29:08,372 --> 00:29:12,833
So far, we've explored
multiple alleged UFO encounters,
531
00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:16,253
some with hundreds
of eyewitnesses.
532
00:29:16,297 --> 00:29:19,506
We can't verify
whether any of these objects
533
00:29:19,550 --> 00:29:21,967
were carrying extraterrestrials,
534
00:29:22,011 --> 00:29:23,635
but what if I told you
535
00:29:23,679 --> 00:29:27,264
that we actually have had
a confirmed alien visitor,
536
00:29:27,308 --> 00:29:31,935
one that's even been vetted
by the scientific community?
537
00:29:33,731 --> 00:29:38,317
On October 19, 2017,
for the first time in history,
538
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,693
scientists discovered something
539
00:29:39,737 --> 00:29:42,654
approaching from outside
our solar system.
540
00:29:42,698 --> 00:29:46,325
The Pan-STARRS telescope
in Hawaii
541
00:29:46,368 --> 00:29:51,580
spotted an aerodynamic object
10 times as long as it was wide,
542
00:29:51,624 --> 00:29:56,835
traveling
at 196,000 miles per hour.
543
00:29:56,879 --> 00:30:00,964
It went by so fast, they were
lucky to have seen it at all.
544
00:30:01,008 --> 00:30:03,842
They named it 'Oumuamua,
545
00:30:03,886 --> 00:30:07,679
a Hawaiian term meaning
"first distant messenger."
546
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,683
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb
547
00:30:11,727 --> 00:30:15,020
suggested the object could be
something called a light sail,
548
00:30:15,064 --> 00:30:18,774
a propulsion method that
harnesses stellar radiation,
549
00:30:18,818 --> 00:30:24,571
and that perhaps it might have
fallen off an alien spacecraft.
550
00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:28,742
While many scientists were
quick to shoot down his theory,
551
00:30:28,786 --> 00:30:31,703
as Loeb points out,
we're already developing
552
00:30:31,747 --> 00:30:34,373
similar light sails
here on Earth.
553
00:30:34,416 --> 00:30:38,418
Japan successfully launched
a light-sail-powered craft
554
00:30:38,462 --> 00:30:41,255
called the IKAROS in 2010.
555
00:30:41,298 --> 00:30:44,216
In the U.S.,
the Starshot initiative
556
00:30:44,260 --> 00:30:46,301
hopes to send
an interstellar ship
557
00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:49,012
to a planet called
Proxima Centauri B.
558
00:30:50,224 --> 00:30:53,559
It will be powered
by a light sail.
559
00:30:53,602 --> 00:30:57,062
The light sail
is a proven technology
560
00:30:57,106 --> 00:31:00,649
that can allow for travel
between solar systems.
561
00:31:00,693 --> 00:31:04,027
Is it possible that
an alien race has been using
562
00:31:04,071 --> 00:31:07,322
this same technology
to explore other planets,
563
00:31:07,366 --> 00:31:10,993
perhaps even passing by our own?
564
00:31:11,036 --> 00:31:16,498
If that's the case, it raises
one more important question.
565
00:31:16,542 --> 00:31:19,334
Why haven't
they tried to contact us?
566
00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:23,755
According to one expert,
perhaps they already have.
567
00:31:28,178 --> 00:31:31,221
You may have seen
images like these before.
568
00:31:31,265 --> 00:31:33,098
They're called crop circles.
569
00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:36,977
Over the past
several hundred years,
570
00:31:37,021 --> 00:31:39,980
more than 10,000 of them
have been catalogued
571
00:31:40,024 --> 00:31:42,399
in 29 countries worldwide.
572
00:31:45,321 --> 00:31:48,280
Crop circle expert
Dr. Simeon Hein
573
00:31:48,324 --> 00:31:50,365
believes that
at least some of them
574
00:31:50,409 --> 00:31:53,285
have an extraterrestrial origin.
575
00:31:55,497 --> 00:31:58,332
This area is known to have
576
00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:03,295
a lot of unidentified
aerial phenomena, UFOs.
577
00:32:03,339 --> 00:32:06,632
We'd found out here it's
been going on for many decades.
578
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:10,677
Quinto: Today Dr. Hein
is responding to a report
579
00:32:10,721 --> 00:32:13,764
of a crop circle
on a remote farm in Texas,
580
00:32:13,807 --> 00:32:16,266
not far from where
the Stephenville lights
581
00:32:16,310 --> 00:32:18,560
were seen in 2008.
582
00:32:25,986 --> 00:32:28,612
At any newly discovered
crop circle,
583
00:32:28,656 --> 00:32:31,531
Dr. Hein first takes
several measurements
584
00:32:31,575 --> 00:32:33,909
to try and determine its origin.
585
00:32:37,957 --> 00:32:41,750
Crop circles are really
in many ways very mysterious,
586
00:32:41,794 --> 00:32:45,045
and the way we can start
approaching that scientifically
587
00:32:45,089 --> 00:32:47,798
is to see if there's
any anomalous energy
588
00:32:47,841 --> 00:32:51,343
in different bands,
in different frequencies,
589
00:32:51,387 --> 00:32:52,970
so we have a variety of meters
590
00:32:53,013 --> 00:32:56,098
that might detect
some anomalies.
591
00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:01,144
So what I'm doing right now
592
00:33:01,188 --> 00:33:04,189
is looking at the baseline
static charges in the field
593
00:33:04,233 --> 00:33:05,774
near where the crop circle is.
594
00:33:05,818 --> 00:33:08,193
I want to see what
the static gradient looks like
595
00:33:08,237 --> 00:33:09,736
in the absence
of any crop circle.
596
00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:12,114
We can see,
when we look out here,
597
00:33:12,157 --> 00:33:14,449
we're kind of getting
a zero reading
598
00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:16,451
in the grasses
outside the formation,
599
00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:18,745
When we go in,
it kind of goes up
600
00:33:18,789 --> 00:33:23,417
by about 5, 10, 15, 20 volts.
601
00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:25,836
It shows us that it's having
an electromagnetic effect
602
00:33:25,879 --> 00:33:27,754
right here in this field.
603
00:33:28,882 --> 00:33:30,340
Quinto: There's no clear reason
604
00:33:30,384 --> 00:33:32,426
for the folded grass
to show a different
605
00:33:32,469 --> 00:33:36,013
electrostatic reading
than the surrounding field.
606
00:33:36,056 --> 00:33:39,266
So you have to begin to wonder
whether there's some connection
607
00:33:39,309 --> 00:33:42,102
between the technology
involved with UFOs
608
00:33:42,146 --> 00:33:45,105
and the energy
and strange things
609
00:33:45,149 --> 00:33:47,024
that are created
around crop circles.
610
00:33:48,652 --> 00:33:49,860
Quinto: Dr. Hein's next test
611
00:33:49,903 --> 00:33:53,196
uses an electromagnetic
field meter,
612
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,158
which checks for changes
in electrical currents
613
00:33:56,201 --> 00:33:57,909
in and around the circle.
614
00:33:59,455 --> 00:34:01,538
Hey, look at this.
I think we may be getting
615
00:34:01,582 --> 00:34:03,457
some anomalous
electromagnetic readings
616
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,710
right here at the edge
of the crop circle.
617
00:34:06,754 --> 00:34:09,087
Quinto: Dr. Hein believes
these test results
618
00:34:09,131 --> 00:34:11,465
wouldn't normally
be found on Earth
619
00:34:11,508 --> 00:34:15,218
without some
extraterrestrial involvement.
620
00:34:15,262 --> 00:34:19,556
But why would aliens
leave behind these formations?
621
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,349
It's a question
622
00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:23,810
that has frustrated researchers
for centuries.
623
00:34:23,854 --> 00:34:26,229
We don't know exactly
why this is happening.
624
00:34:26,273 --> 00:34:28,523
Is it intentional
from the flying disc?
625
00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:30,984
Is it a result
of their propulsion system,
626
00:34:31,028 --> 00:34:32,736
their exotic technology,
627
00:34:32,780 --> 00:34:34,279
which we don't
totally understand yet?
628
00:34:34,323 --> 00:34:36,323
But there is a connection
629
00:34:36,366 --> 00:34:40,243
between flying saucers
and crop circles.
630
00:34:42,206 --> 00:34:46,083
Quinto: After decades of work,
Dr. Hein believes
631
00:34:46,126 --> 00:34:49,669
he may have finally figured out
that connection.
632
00:34:49,713 --> 00:34:51,963
He's recently developed
a new theory
633
00:34:52,007 --> 00:34:54,257
which requires one final test.
634
00:34:55,511 --> 00:34:57,177
I am detecting
something strange
635
00:34:57,221 --> 00:34:59,387
in this particular circle
that I've never seen before
636
00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:01,056
with this radio frequency meter.
637
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:02,599
I've been using it
for about a year.
638
00:35:02,643 --> 00:35:04,768
When I walked into the circle,
639
00:35:04,812 --> 00:35:06,478
I noticed
that the indicator lights
640
00:35:06,522 --> 00:35:08,355
were not continuously flashing.
641
00:35:08,398 --> 00:35:12,776
They were going on and off
in about one-second increments,
642
00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:14,903
which was really strange.
643
00:35:14,947 --> 00:35:17,656
As soon as I walked out
of the crop circle, it stopped.
644
00:35:19,368 --> 00:35:22,077
Quinto: In other words,
this area may be generating
645
00:35:22,121 --> 00:35:25,580
a small amount
of radio frequency radiation,
646
00:35:25,624 --> 00:35:28,208
but it's not
being generated at random.
647
00:35:28,252 --> 00:35:31,086
It follows a specific pattern,
648
00:35:31,130 --> 00:35:35,090
and Dr. Hein thinks he knows
precisely what that pattern is.
649
00:35:36,844 --> 00:35:39,511
It's possible that the crop
circle's creating sounds
650
00:35:39,555 --> 00:35:41,179
that we can't physically hear,
because it's out
651
00:35:41,223 --> 00:35:42,931
of the frequency range
of our hearing.
652
00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:45,892
Quinto: If Dr. Hein is correct
653
00:35:45,936 --> 00:35:49,604
and this crop circle
is emitting a sound frequency,
654
00:35:49,648 --> 00:35:53,650
then it might be far more
than just a shape in the grass.
655
00:35:53,694 --> 00:35:56,278
It could actually be
the key to unlocking
656
00:35:56,321 --> 00:36:00,282
a never-before-heard
message from an alien race.
657
00:36:08,041 --> 00:36:09,541
Quinto: Dr. Simeon Hein
658
00:36:09,585 --> 00:36:12,752
has been collecting data
on crop circles for years,
659
00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:15,255
trying to decipher
their meaning.
660
00:36:17,092 --> 00:36:21,553
Today he's uncovered
a brand-new formation in Texas,
661
00:36:21,597 --> 00:36:23,054
and he thinks
it could be the key
662
00:36:23,098 --> 00:36:26,057
to unlocking
a message from aliens.
663
00:36:26,101 --> 00:36:28,602
So one of the really curious
aspects of crop circles
664
00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:30,145
that we could see
from the beginning
665
00:36:30,189 --> 00:36:32,480
is they look very similar
to cymatic patterns.
666
00:36:32,524 --> 00:36:37,611
Cymatic patterns are,
uh, images and shapes
667
00:36:37,654 --> 00:36:39,571
that are created from sound.
668
00:36:44,453 --> 00:36:48,205
Quinto: In Dr. Hein's lab,
he has created an experiment
669
00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:51,082
to try and determine
what these shapes mean.
670
00:36:52,961 --> 00:36:55,003
It's a simple process.
671
00:36:55,047 --> 00:36:57,672
Sand is applied
to a metal plate.
672
00:36:57,716 --> 00:37:00,050
Then a sound frequency
is created.
673
00:37:01,428 --> 00:37:04,054
As the plate vibrates,
the sand settles
674
00:37:04,097 --> 00:37:07,349
into a different shape
for each frequency...
675
00:37:07,392 --> 00:37:11,811
ranging from quite simple
to much more complex.
676
00:37:13,941 --> 00:37:16,191
It's symmetrical.
It's circular.
677
00:37:16,235 --> 00:37:17,651
it's the sort of thing
that lends itself
678
00:37:17,694 --> 00:37:21,571
to be a crop-circle-type shape.
679
00:37:23,033 --> 00:37:24,741
Quinto: Dr. Hein
wants to determine
680
00:37:24,785 --> 00:37:26,743
if his newly found crop circle
681
00:37:26,787 --> 00:37:30,872
might also correspond
to a sound frequency.
682
00:37:30,916 --> 00:37:32,707
We've often wondered
what's the relationship
683
00:37:32,751 --> 00:37:35,377
between crop circles and sound,
because, if you can use sounds
684
00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:40,090
to create crop-circle shapes
on a plate with sand,
685
00:37:40,133 --> 00:37:41,883
would you be able
to do it in the field?
686
00:37:41,927 --> 00:37:43,385
Would you be able to go out
687
00:37:43,428 --> 00:37:45,136
with some sort
of sound-generating equipment
688
00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:49,641
and generate the exact
same shapes in the grain crop?
689
00:37:49,685 --> 00:37:52,560
Wow, we're getting
circular shapes here.
690
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,774
Quinto: Before long, he finds
691
00:37:57,818 --> 00:38:00,694
precisely the frequency
he's been looking for.
692
00:38:00,737 --> 00:38:01,820
Wow, look at that.
693
00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:04,823
If we put
a little more sand on here,
694
00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:08,034
we'll see that this
is almost exactly
695
00:38:08,078 --> 00:38:12,455
what our crop circle looks like
that we saw earlier today.
696
00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:15,625
Quinto: The shape
of the Texas crop circle
697
00:38:15,669 --> 00:38:17,377
appears to be a close match
698
00:38:17,421 --> 00:38:21,756
for a sound frequency
of 1.21 kilohertz.
699
00:38:23,343 --> 00:38:27,304
Dr. Hein believes
that can't be a coincidence.
700
00:38:27,347 --> 00:38:28,805
You have to wonder,
701
00:38:28,849 --> 00:38:30,056
looking at the connection
between the sound
702
00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:31,474
and the patterns
right here on the plate
703
00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:33,768
and the circle
we were in this morning,
704
00:38:33,812 --> 00:38:35,645
if there's
really some underlying
705
00:38:35,689 --> 00:38:37,355
fundamental science principles
706
00:38:37,399 --> 00:38:39,941
that perhaps, uh,
explain both of them.
707
00:38:41,403 --> 00:38:43,737
Quinto:
It's an incredible correlation,
708
00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:46,114
but it brings up
more questions than answers.
709
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,825
Why would an alien race
710
00:38:48,869 --> 00:38:50,493
want to lay down
a sound frequency
711
00:38:50,537 --> 00:38:54,664
for humans to find,
and how would they do it?
712
00:38:54,708 --> 00:38:56,333
I think, in theory,
713
00:38:56,376 --> 00:38:59,919
it would take a lot of power
to have such an effect,
714
00:38:59,963 --> 00:39:01,504
where you'd go out
and generate a tone
715
00:39:01,548 --> 00:39:05,467
and have the plants
just lay down in a pattern.
716
00:39:09,222 --> 00:39:11,931
Despite his many years
of research,
717
00:39:11,975 --> 00:39:13,892
Dr. Hein hasn't yet discovered
718
00:39:13,935 --> 00:39:16,061
the full meaning
of these frequencies,
719
00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:20,106
but he believes that if aliens
are creating crop circles
720
00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:23,109
through sound,
they must have a purpose.
721
00:39:25,489 --> 00:39:28,823
If I had to speculate
why extraterrestrials,
722
00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:31,493
or "aliens," would be
involved in crop circles,
723
00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:35,330
it would probably be
that they're teaching humans
724
00:39:35,374 --> 00:39:39,959
a language of nature,
shapes, sound, energy,
725
00:39:40,003 --> 00:39:43,880
frequency, vibration,
and about how nature works,
726
00:39:43,924 --> 00:39:45,799
how technology
interacts with nature,
727
00:39:45,842 --> 00:39:47,092
without directly telling them.
728
00:39:49,346 --> 00:39:51,096
Quinto: But Dr. Hein
doesn't just believe
729
00:39:51,139 --> 00:39:53,848
this could be
a message from aliens.
730
00:39:53,892 --> 00:39:56,601
He believes they're
trying to teach us
731
00:39:56,645 --> 00:39:59,729
an entirely new form
of communication.
732
00:40:02,192 --> 00:40:05,068
Dr. Hein hopes
that humans could one day
733
00:40:05,112 --> 00:40:07,862
use these sound frequencies
and crop circles
734
00:40:07,906 --> 00:40:10,698
to send out
a response to the aliens.
735
00:40:11,701 --> 00:40:14,244
After that, it could only
736
00:40:14,287 --> 00:40:17,747
be a matter of time
before we can start a dialogue
737
00:40:17,791 --> 00:40:20,542
with these alleged
extraterrestrial visitors.
738
00:40:21,586 --> 00:40:23,086
If you add a little geometry
739
00:40:23,130 --> 00:40:25,922
to those living things,
they exhibit
740
00:40:25,966 --> 00:40:28,425
new types of properties
that we've never seen before.
741
00:40:28,468 --> 00:40:31,052
And I'm confident
that what we're learning
742
00:40:31,096 --> 00:40:33,346
from crop circle research
is gonna have applications
743
00:40:33,390 --> 00:40:35,682
in other areas
of science and technology
744
00:40:35,725 --> 00:40:38,143
that we're going to discover
in the future.
745
00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:48,027
When it comes to UFO research,
746
00:40:48,071 --> 00:40:51,531
it's hard to say who might make
the next breakthrough.
747
00:40:51,575 --> 00:40:54,951
Perhaps Dr. Simeon Hein will
someday manage to communicate
748
00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:57,203
with an extraterrestrial
spacecraft.
749
00:40:57,247 --> 00:40:59,497
Perhaps the U.S. military
750
00:40:59,541 --> 00:41:04,502
will find indisputable evidence
of an alien UFO.
751
00:41:04,546 --> 00:41:07,547
One thing is for sure.
752
00:41:07,591 --> 00:41:09,632
Progress will continue.
753
00:41:09,676 --> 00:41:13,178
Just 300 years ago,
we had not discovered
754
00:41:13,221 --> 00:41:16,264
a single planet
outside our solar system.
755
00:41:18,059 --> 00:41:21,519
Now we know
of more than 3,000 of them...
756
00:41:22,522 --> 00:41:23,897
and scientists believe
757
00:41:23,940 --> 00:41:27,859
that one in six is
potentially habitable.
758
00:41:30,071 --> 00:41:32,655
One day soon, humans will make
759
00:41:32,699 --> 00:41:35,450
their first visit
to another planet.
760
00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,494
It may start with Mars,
761
00:41:37,537 --> 00:41:41,456
but it will eventually lead
much, much farther.
762
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:46,628
In other words, before long,
we ourselves will be aliens.
763
00:41:46,671 --> 00:41:50,215
For all the other civilizations
out there on other planets
764
00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:53,510
who are scouring
their own skies for UFOs,
765
00:41:53,553 --> 00:41:57,305
we may soon be
the ones flying by.
766
00:41:59,643 --> 00:42:02,685
The search continues.
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