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Newscaster:
These, uh, pictures were shot--

well, show what
many believe to be

some kind of strange lights
hovering over downtown Phoenix.

The military guessed
that it was a flare test,

but others call it the most
dramatic UFO sighting in years.

They say the craft
was moving very slowly

and without any sound at all.

Quinto: On a clear
spring night in 1997,

a swarm of unidentified
flying objects passed slowly

and silently
through the Phoenix skies,

prompting thousands
of phone calls to authorities.

Despite the vast number
of witnesses, to this day,

no one has been able to identify
these mysterious aircraft...

or these

or this one

or thousands more

which have been reported
since the very dawn of mankind.

With every sighting,

we once again ask
the age-old question--

are we alone in the universe?

Tonight we aim
to answer that question.

We'll hunt for eyewitnesses

to large-scale
otherworldly encounters,

reveal declassified video
of a military engagement

with a potential alien threat,

and test a brand-new theory,
which may finally decode

an extraterrestrial message
we've already received,

as we go in search of UFOs.

There have been stories
of strange objects in the sky

for centuries,
perhaps even millennia,

but the modern age
of UFO sightings began in 1947,

when a pilot observed
nine shiny objects

flying in tandem
past Washington's Mount Rainier.

The "Chicago Sun"
reported the story

and coined the phrase
"flying saucers,"

which has been part
of our vocabulary ever since.

Also in 1947,
in Roswell, New Mexico,

William Brazel found
what he thought was evidence

of a crashed alien spacecraft,

again shaped
like a disc or a saucer.

Within a year,
the U.S. Air Force

commenced
a series of initiatives

to track UFO sightings,

including Project "Sign,"

Project "Grudge,"
and Project Blue Book.

In their two decades
of operation,

these programs logged over
12,000 eyewitness encounters.

Since then,
sightings have only multiplied.

According to the National
UFO Reporting Center,

someone spots
an unidentified aircraft

nearly four times per day.

But most of these are
individual, isolated sightings.

What happens when a group
of people see the same thing,

and what if these sightings
are confirmed by F.A.A. radar?

On January 8, 2008,
in Erath County, Texas,

private pilot and freight
company owner Steve Allen

set out for a drive he had taken
dozens of times before.

I called my friend Mike.

He said come on over.

Quinto: Along the way,

at 6:15 P.M.,

Steve encountered
something completely unexpected.

Right at the moment
we pulled up on the hill,

I looked off to the east and saw

some very high, bright-intensity
magnesium flare lights.

I thought it was
an airplane at first.

I did a second take on it
and discovered

it wasn't anything
that I had ever seen before.

It flew past us

at about 1,500 to 2,000 foot
above ground level.

It went over to Stephenville,
to that area right there,

and it stopped
for just a moment.

And then, all of a sudden,
they burst into a white flame,

and then it just disappeared.

Quinto: But the strange craft
wouldn't stay gone for long.

It quickly reappeared,

now speeding
in the opposite direction

with what appeared to be

two military jets
trailing behind.

One or two minutes afterwards,

the two F-16s fell in
in hot pursuit,

full afterburner
hanging out the back of 'em.

They was chasing it
with vengeance.

We had no idea what was going on

or why our military
was chasing it.

Quinto: In addition
to its speed, erratic movements,

and seeming ability
to disappear,

the unknown craft was also
remarkable for its massive size.

It was all--about a half
a mile wide and a mile long,

and I fly this area quite a bit,

so I'm used to the grids of how
things are sectioned off here,

and I'm--pretty good description
on what size it was.

Quinto:
As a levelheaded businessman

with decades
of flying experience,

Steve wasn't a believer in UFOs.

But, at this moment,
he had to wonder,

could he actually be witnessing
an alien spacecraft?

So anything that can come
to a stop in Stephenville

or basically almost to a stop

and then reverse course
and go back 180 degrees

is not of--not of this world.

Quinto: Steve immediately wanted
to go public with his story.

My wife begged me to please
not tell anybody at the time,

bec--and I ask her why,
and she says,

"People will think
you're crazy."

And I said, "Everybody knows me
that knows I'm not crazy,

"so I'm gonna say what I saw

and see if we can get
to the bottom of it."

Quinto: True to his word,

Steve contacted the local
newspaper the next day.

Uh, so it's late afternoon,

and I got a-a call
from one of my reporters,

who said that she
had received, um, word

from a local pilot
who said that he saw something,

um, kind of suspicious
or interesting in the sky

and wanted
to talk to her about it.

As the "Empire-Tribune's"
managing editor,

Sara was skeptical
about running the story,

but her publisher
had other ideas.

So the next morning, uh,
when I looked at the newspaper

and I saw the headline
that read "UFO," I-I cried.

I was--I was worried that
our journalistic integrity

might be tarnished, and I just--

I didn't know what
the community would make of it.

Quinto: But as it turns out,
Sara had nothing to worry about,

because, once the story was out,

countless other people
came forward

with their own accounts
of the same event.

The next day, our phones
just rang off the hook.

I didn't think
they were coming forward

and not telling the truth.
I completely believed them.

They ran an article

with my phone number in it,
of all things.

I didn't think anything
would become of it,

and I was inundated
with phone calls the next day.

Lots of business owners,
quite a few people

had called me.
I had a complete list.

I was the UFO hotline, I guess.

Quinto:
As more witnesses emerged,

reporters
at the "Empire-Tribune"

tried to verify the shocking
accounts of the strange UFO

and the fighter jets
in hot pursuit.

I'm a pilot.
I've been flying since 1976.

I see F-16s.
I've seen them all my life,

I know exactly what they are.

I can recognize one immediately.

Quinto: At first,
all the local air bases claimed

there was no activity
on the night of January 8,

but then, 10 days later,
the military changed its story,

admitting
that 10 F-16s were indeed

scrambled that night
over Erath County.

This new revelation pushed
the Stephenville sightings

into the national spotlight.

The--The national media
picked up on it very quickly,

and I was just astounded that--
that it traveled so quickly.

Quinto: On the heels
of the national news story,

a nonprofit group called
the Mutual UFO Network,

or MUFON, sent investigators
to arrange a town hall meeting

for any residents
who witnessed a UFO that night.

The investigators figured

a handful of witnesses
might come forward.

Just in case, they brought along

50 copies
of their questionnaire.

They had no idea
just how unprepared they were.

They were about to walk in

to one of the largest
eyewitness gatherings

of a single UFO event
in history.

Is it possible
that an alien spacecraft

flew above Stephenville, Texas,
in January of 2008?

Before you decide for yourself,
you should know

that more than 200 witnesses
all agree that it happened.

After the incident,

investigators from America's
largest UFO network,

MUFON, held a town hall meeting,

and they couldn't believe
the incredible turnout.

Considering
the hundreds of attendees,

this could potentially be

the single largest
mass UFO sighting in history.

Hundreds of people
that came as witnesses

and other people,
just spectators,

but lots of people had

the same, exact story
that we had.

Quinto: Over the course
of three hours,

the townspeople
all shared similar stories

of what they saw
on the night of January 8.

Retired Air Force
Navigation Specialist James Huse

was among those who spoke.

He, too, had seen
the lights in the sky,

but never went public

after facing ridicule
from his coworkers.

I saw all these people
who had seen the UFOs

that were helping
to back me up.

And this was important,
because, after being accused

of lying about these UFOs
and making this all--

this story up,
to see all these other people

who had seen these UFOs at night
was really reassuring.

Quinto: In addition
to the hundreds of witnesses

who gave their stories
at the meeting,

many more stayed home,

fearing damage
to their reputations.

Today, some of them have
finally decided to come forward.

I didn't go to that meeting
that they had in 2008,

'cause I was scared.

I was a kindergarten teacher
at the time,

and I didn't want th-the parents
to think I was crazy.

It was like this,

a round thing that looked like
it was sitting on the ground...

and then it just disappeared,

and my mother
seemed to think that it, uh,

was behind trees or clouds,
and there weren't any.

I see these lights.

They come in, and then just--

it just--Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

And, I just thought, "Wow,
you know, that's not common."

I definitely believe

it was something
from out of this world.

I've seen jets
break the sound barrier,

and that'll--
that'll cause some ruckus.

Uh, I've seen airplanes
pretty high up,

little, bitty airplanes
pretty high up,

and you can hear them
uh, very loudly.

The way
that first craft took off,

I've never seen
anything go that fast

and not make any noise.

Quinto: It's clear
that something large and unknown

flew above Stephenville
that night.

The question is, what was it,

and could it possibly
be alien in nature?

The Air Force does a lot
of training out in the area

'cause it's countryside,
so, uh, we're used to seeing

a lot of jets, helicopters,
and everything like that,

but, to this day,
I have no idea what I saw,

and I have no idea of what made
the light that I saw that night.

I was accused of fabricating
this story, but I did not.

It just made me more determined

to prove
that this story was real.

After his time
in the Air Force,

James had a career
as an electronics technician,

and he was confident
he could find proof

of the Stephenville encounter.

When something
is spotted on radar,

everything in the sky
has a transponder number

that is above
a particular altitude.

Quinto: In other words,

the raw radar data
from the night of the incident

should hold all the proof
of what happened that night.

So I demanded that they
get the radar records,

look at them, and see
that I was telling the truth.

Quinto: Unfortunately,
the military refused

to release the uncensored
flight logs from its planes.

It also claimed to have lost

the radar records
from January 8.

Unfortunately,
the Air Force declined

to give us
the information that we needed

to prove
that the UFOs were here.

It does seem that the UFOs here
were being covered up.

There's no question that
the Stephenville eyewitnesses

saw something strange
in the sky,

but what should we make
of the Air Force's response?

Is it possible that some branch
of government or law enforcement

actually wanted
to suppress the encounter?

Historically speaking,
it has happened before.

When William Brazel found
the unidentified wreckage

in Roswell, New Mexico,
the U.S. Army issued a statement

claiming it was
an ordinary weather balloon.

But documents
declassified in the 1990s

revealed that story
to be a lie.

In fact, the debris
came from a top-secret

surveillance mission
called Project Mogul.

Just like in Roswell,
the people of Stephenville

eventually found a way around
all the government secrecy

with a revelation
that many believe

is absolute proof
of an alien visit to Texas.

On July 4, 2008,
MUFON investigators issued

their official 76-page report
on the Stephenville incident.

They made 10 different Freedom
of Information Act requests

to various government agencies

and were finally able to acquire
raw radar data from the F.A.A.

According to the report,

F.A.A. radar had tracked
a gigantic object,

at least 524 feet long,
traveling through the sky

50 miles
southeast of Stephenville.

The townspeople
immediately felt vindicated.

When you report a UFO, there's
a lot of people out there

who are going
to call you crazy, okay.

And to take the time
that they did to come in

and give their report,
I'm just overjoyed.

And lo and behold,
out of six radar units,

it showed exactly what we saw

coming in
at 2,100 miles an hour,

doing a 180-degree back to
where it came from to the east,

running 1,800
or 1,900 miles an hour,

and it had two F-16s behind it,
so that confirmed it.

Recently,
the United States government

has taken a more open approach
to UFO sightings.

In December, 2017, the Pentagon
confirmed the existence

of the Advanced Aviation
Threat Identification Program.

Its job is to investigate

reports of unidentified
flying objects,

many of which come from members
of the U.S. military.

Along with
confirming the program,

the Department of Defense
even released a video

of one
such mysterious encounter.

This video
and the amazing story behind it

just might be
the single most credible

UFO experience ever recorded.

Science fiction
would have you believe

that extraterrestrial UFOs

are a near-constant threat
to our existence.

But how real is the threat?

Is it possible that aliens
have already visited our planet?

So far, we've seen
residents of a Texas town

convinced they had
a UFO encounter.

Could it be a hoax
or a case of mass hysteria?

Perhaps,
but if you don't believe

the people
of Stephenville, Texas,

might you believe
a much more credible source?

Because our next story
comes directly

from none other
than the United States Navy.

And not only that, but it
comes with a smoking gun,

actual video evidence
of the encounter.

This is Naval Base San Diego,

the home port of
the United States Pacific Fleet.

In November of 2004,

it was the site
of an incredible encounter that,

despite widespread coverage,
remains a mystery to this day.

Kevin Day is
a retired chief petty officer.

In 2004, he was a radar operator

assigned to the U.S.S. Nimitz
Carrier Strike Group.

My job was to man the radars

and I.D. everything
in the sky that flew.

My watch position on the ship

was anti-air warfare
coordinator.

Basically we worked
for the captain

and be in charge
of the air defense team.

If we ever had to launch
a-a missile in hostility,

I was the guy who was
gonna punch the button.

When those--
When those, uh, Super Hornets

take off the carrier, my job
was to get 'em to the fight,

get 'em in the dogfight,
get 'em out of the dogfight,

and then get 'em back home safe.

Quinto: The Nimitz Strike Group

was preparing for deployment
to the Persian Gulf

and was on an accelerated
training schedule.

But on November 10,

a normal training exercise
became far from routine.

In the middle of the mission,

Kevin spotted unusual activity
on his radar screens.

I started to see
these really strange contacts

off San Clemente Island.

The first group I noticed had--

um, I believe it had
seven contacts in it,

and the weird thing
is they were all--

They were all tracking
from north to south

off San Clemente at 28,000 feet,

going 100 knots,
which was extremely unusual.

It was the strangest
formation of aircraft

I'd ever seen
in my whole career.

Quinto:
Over the next several days,

the objects kept appearing,

but no jets were available
to have a closer look.

Kevin's consternation
was beginning to grow.

I recommended
that we take down the system,

uh, because I was
kind of suspecting

it may have been
a glitch of some kind.

Quinto: Radar technicians
tried recalibrating the system

to find out if the sensors were
giving false positive readings,

which the Navy
calls ghost tracks.

So we actually
brought our entire system

all the way down,
brought it all the way back up

and strangely enough,
the quality of the contacts

actually increased
after we came back.

This was
definitely not a glitch.

These were real contacts
tracked by a real--real radar.

In fact, I had the highest track
quality possible in the system.

Quinto: Kevin was desperate
to identify these objects

and find out
if they were a threat.

My concern
was safety of flight.

These objects were
at 28,000 feet, going 100 knots,

and that's where I like
to send my aircraft,

right in that same
altitude layer.

I knew that I had to recommend
intercept to the captain.

Quinto: Finally, on November 14,

the Navy got
their chance to intercept

whatever was appearing
on Kevin's radar screen.

While conducting air defense
exercises using F/A-18 jets,

the objects appeared
on the radar once again.

This was the moment
that I was waiting for.

Captain Smith
comes down to Combat,

and I said, "Hey, sir,
I strongly recommend

"that we take one of
the aircraft that just launched

and go look
at one these things."

Captain Smith was like,
"You know what, Senior Chief?

You're right.
Let's--Let's do that."

Quinto: Command sent two
of their top fighter pilots

to investigate
the object cluster.

The pilots had no idea

of the potential danger
they were about to face.

And the, uh, tactical action
officer jumps on the radio,

and she asks,
"I just want to know.

You guys have
any missiles onboard?"

There was stunned silence
on the radio for a second,

'cause I think it really
shocked the--the air crews.

Quinto: This was only supposed
to be a training exercise.

Were they actually
about to engage

with a potential enemy target
of unknown origin?

If so, they were going in
completely unarmed.

Day: I picked the closest
contact, um, that was on radar.

I believe it was
approximately 60 miles.

Quinto: The jets arrived
to intercept within minutes,

but the mysterious craft
suddenly disappeared,

maneuvering
in seemingly impossible ways

on Kevin's radar screen.

The radar recorded this object
going from 28,000 feet

down to 50 feet in .78 seconds,

and whatever can do that
defies the laws of physics.

I should have heard
multiple sonic booms,

didn't hear a single sonic boom.

Uh, the--A biological entity
inside that thing

would've been crushed
by the G-forces.

Quinto: The unidentified craft

had dropped
at over 20,000 miles per hour,

10 times faster than
any military jet has ever flown.

It was clear the Navy pilots

would have their work cut out
for them to make the intercept.

And, at that point
from an air crew's perspective,

they're--they no longer
care about radar,

'cause they're in
what they call the visual arena.

They're using
their eyeballs now.

Quinto: Were these
Navy pilots about to have

the first-ever
confirmed face-to-face encounter

with an alien spacecraft?

As they caught up to the object,
would the answer be revealed?

Day: I've got
the--the air control comms up

in the overhead speakers so we
can all listen to it in combat.

And we all hear, "Oh, my God,

oh, my God, I'm engaged!
I'm engaged!"

Can you see it?

Quinto: Is it possible
that the U.S. Navy

had an actual UFO encounter

off the coast of San Diego
15 years ago?

According to retired
Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day,

the answer is yes.

Over the course of four days
in November, 2004,

using advanced onboard radar,

Kevin tracked a group
of what he believed to be UFOs.

And, on November 14,
two F/A-18 fighter jets

were finally able
to come face to face

with the unknown aircraft.

The next thing
we hear on the radio,

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
I'm engaged! I'm engaged!"

And it stunned everyone
in Combat at that point.

We were like, "Oh, wow,
what do--what's going on here?"

Quinto:
The flight commander witnessed

a smooth, white,
cylindrical craft,

approximately 45 feet long,

about the same length
as his F/A-18 Super Hornet.

It had no wings, no windows,

no obvious, uh, flight surfaces,

um, no obvious means
of propulsion.

Quinto: The craft
began mimicking

the movements of the Navy pilots
as they circled it,

matching them turn for turn.

When the commander
finally caught up to it,

the UFO rapidly accelerated

past the nose of his aircraft
and disappeared.

We didn't know what to think.

It was so far beyond
any of our experience,

that we were dumbfounded

was probably
the best way to say it.

We were absolutely dumbfounded.

None of them had any idea
what we had just seen,

other than just concluding
that it was a UFO.

The Navy quickly launched
six more jets

from the Nimitz aircraft carrier
to engage the objects.

This time,

they were equipped
with onboard cameras.

If they could reach
the craft in time,

they might capture what could be

the first-ever confirmed video
of a UFO encounter.

The object's out--
out in space in front of him

10, 20, 30 miles, so of course
they were able to see it

for quite a time
with their camera system.

Quinto: And sure enough,

just before
the object disappeared,

one Navy camera actually got it.

This is the first video the U.S.
government has ever released

of a military aircraft
engaging with a UFO.

The camera's infrared spectrum

was able to spot
a uniform heat signature,

a clear indication
of the UFO's propulsion system.

The fact that we have video

and the fact
we have eyewitnesses,

uh, air crews
and ship personnel,

uh, I think it paints
a pretty obvious picture

that we indeed
definitely intercepted UFOs.

Quinto: But it
would take 13 years

before any of this footage
would be made public.

In December, 2017,
the Nimitz encounter video

was finally released

following a Freedom
of Information Act request

by "The New York Times."

This kicked off
a flood of news stories

about the U.S. military's
involvement with UFOs.

The government was finally

about to break
its decades-long silence.

The Nimitz video was released

along with a 13-page report
about the incident,

stating the aircraft featured
"advanced acceleration,

aerodynamic,
and propulsion capability."

It was able to hide
at times from military radar,

possibly demonstrating
the ability to cloak

or become invisible
to the human eye.

The report also
speculates the craft

had a "highly advanced
capability" to operate undersea,

completely undetectable
by our most advanced sensors.

While some of this technology

sounds similar
to the Stephenville UFO,

there are
a few major differences.

Most obvious
is the craft's size.

The Nimitz object
was less than 50 feet long,

while the people of Stephenville

witnessed something
dozens of times larger.

The Stephenville UFO featured
lights around the outside,

but the Nimitz pilots
saw a smooth, white object

with no exterior features
at all.

What could it all mean?

Are multiple alien species
visiting our planet?

If so, how many, and from where?

So far, we've explored
multiple alleged UFO encounters,

some with hundreds
of eyewitnesses.

We can't verify
whether any of these objects

were carrying extraterrestrials,

but what if I told you

that we actually have had
a confirmed alien visitor,

one that's even been vetted
by the scientific community?

On October 19, 2017,
for the first time in history,

scientists discovered something

approaching from outside
our solar system.

The Pan-STARRS telescope
in Hawaii

spotted an aerodynamic object
10 times as long as it was wide,

traveling
at 196,000 miles per hour.

It went by so fast, they were
lucky to have seen it at all.

They named it 'Oumuamua,

a Hawaiian term meaning
"first distant messenger."

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb

suggested the object could be
something called a light sail,

a propulsion method that
harnesses stellar radiation,

and that perhaps it might have
fallen off an alien spacecraft.

While many scientists were
quick to shoot down his theory,

as Loeb points out,
we're already developing

similar light sails
here on Earth.

Japan successfully launched
a light-sail-powered craft

called the IKAROS in 2010.

In the U.S.,
the Starshot initiative

hopes to send
an interstellar ship

to a planet called
Proxima Centauri B.

It will be powered
by a light sail.

The light sail
is a proven technology

that can allow for travel
between solar systems.

Is it possible that
an alien race has been using

this same technology
to explore other planets,

perhaps even passing by our own?

If that's the case, it raises
one more important question.

Why haven't
they tried to contact us?

According to one expert,
perhaps they already have.

You may have seen
images like these before.

They're called crop circles.

Over the past
several hundred years,

more than 10,000 of them
have been catalogued

in 29 countries worldwide.

Crop circle expert
Dr. Simeon Hein

believes that
at least some of them

have an extraterrestrial origin.

This area is known to have

a lot of unidentified
aerial phenomena, UFOs.

We'd found out here it's
been going on for many decades.

Quinto: Today Dr. Hein
is responding to a report

of a crop circle
on a remote farm in Texas,

not far from where
the Stephenville lights

were seen in 2008.

At any newly discovered
crop circle,

Dr. Hein first takes
several measurements

to try and determine its origin.

Crop circles are really
in many ways very mysterious,

and the way we can start
approaching that scientifically

is to see if there's
any anomalous energy

in different bands,
in different frequencies,

so we have a variety of meters

that might detect
some anomalies.

So what I'm doing right now

is looking at the baseline
static charges in the field

near where the crop circle is.

I want to see what
the static gradient looks like

in the absence
of any crop circle.

We can see,
when we look out here,

we're kind of getting
a zero reading

in the grasses
outside the formation,

When we go in,
it kind of goes up

by about 5, 10, 15, 20 volts.

It shows us that it's having
an electromagnetic effect

right here in this field.

Quinto: There's no clear reason

for the folded grass
to show a different

electrostatic reading
than the surrounding field.

So you have to begin to wonder
whether there's some connection

between the technology
involved with UFOs

and the energy
and strange things

that are created
around crop circles.

Quinto: Dr. Hein's next test

uses an electromagnetic
field meter,

which checks for changes
in electrical currents

in and around the circle.

Hey, look at this.
I think we may be getting

some anomalous
electromagnetic readings

right here at the edge
of the crop circle.

Quinto: Dr. Hein believes
these test results

wouldn't normally
be found on Earth

without some
extraterrestrial involvement.

But why would aliens
leave behind these formations?

It's a question

that has frustrated researchers
for centuries.

We don't know exactly
why this is happening.

Is it intentional
from the flying disc?

Is it a result
of their propulsion system,

their exotic technology,

which we don't
totally understand yet?

But there is a connection

between flying saucers
and crop circles.

Quinto: After decades of work,
Dr. Hein believes

he may have finally figured out
that connection.

He's recently developed
a new theory

which requires one final test.

I am detecting
something strange

in this particular circle
that I've never seen before

with this radio frequency meter.

I've been using it
for about a year.

When I walked into the circle,

I noticed
that the indicator lights

were not continuously flashing.

They were going on and off
in about one-second increments,

which was really strange.

As soon as I walked out
of the crop circle, it stopped.

Quinto: In other words,
this area may be generating

a small amount
of radio frequency radiation,

but it's not
being generated at random.

It follows a specific pattern,

and Dr. Hein thinks he knows
precisely what that pattern is.

It's possible that the crop
circle's creating sounds

that we can't physically hear,
because it's out

of the frequency range
of our hearing.

Quinto: If Dr. Hein is correct

and this crop circle
is emitting a sound frequency,

then it might be far more
than just a shape in the grass.

It could actually be
the key to unlocking

a never-before-heard
message from an alien race.

Quinto: Dr. Simeon Hein

has been collecting data
on crop circles for years,

trying to decipher
their meaning.

Today he's uncovered
a brand-new formation in Texas,

and he thinks
it could be the key

to unlocking
a message from aliens.

So one of the really curious
aspects of crop circles

that we could see
from the beginning

is they look very similar
to cymatic patterns.

Cymatic patterns are,
uh, images and shapes

that are created from sound.

Quinto: In Dr. Hein's lab,
he has created an experiment

to try and determine
what these shapes mean.

It's a simple process.

Sand is applied
to a metal plate.

Then a sound frequency
is created.

As the plate vibrates,
the sand settles

into a different shape
for each frequency...

ranging from quite simple
to much more complex.

It's symmetrical.
It's circular.

it's the sort of thing
that lends itself

to be a crop-circle-type shape.

Quinto: Dr. Hein
wants to determine

if his newly found crop circle

might also correspond
to a sound frequency.

We've often wondered
what's the relationship

between crop circles and sound,
because, if you can use sounds

to create crop-circle shapes
on a plate with sand,

would you be able
to do it in the field?

Would you be able to go out

with some sort
of sound-generating equipment

and generate the exact
same shapes in the grain crop?

Wow, we're getting
circular shapes here.

Quinto: Before long, he finds

precisely the frequency
he's been looking for.

Wow, look at that.

If we put
a little more sand on here,

we'll see that this
is almost exactly

what our crop circle looks like
that we saw earlier today.

Quinto: The shape
of the Texas crop circle

appears to be a close match

for a sound frequency
of 1.21 kilohertz.

Dr. Hein believes
that can't be a coincidence.

You have to wonder,

looking at the connection
between the sound

and the patterns
right here on the plate

and the circle
we were in this morning,

if there's
really some underlying

fundamental science principles

that perhaps, uh,
explain both of them.

Quinto:
It's an incredible correlation,

but it brings up
more questions than answers.

Why would an alien race

want to lay down
a sound frequency

for humans to find,
and how would they do it?

I think, in theory,

it would take a lot of power
to have such an effect,

where you'd go out
and generate a tone

and have the plants
just lay down in a pattern.

Despite his many years
of research,

Dr. Hein hasn't yet discovered

the full meaning
of these frequencies,

but he believes that if aliens
are creating crop circles

through sound,
they must have a purpose.

If I had to speculate
why extraterrestrials,

or "aliens," would be
involved in crop circles,

it would probably be
that they're teaching humans

a language of nature,
shapes, sound, energy,

frequency, vibration,
and about how nature works,

how technology
interacts with nature,

without directly telling them.

Quinto: But Dr. Hein
doesn't just believe

this could be
a message from aliens.

He believes they're
trying to teach us

an entirely new form
of communication.

Dr. Hein hopes
that humans could one day

use these sound frequencies
and crop circles

to send out
a response to the aliens.

After that, it could only

be a matter of time
before we can start a dialogue

with these alleged
extraterrestrial visitors.

If you add a little geometry

to those living things,
they exhibit

new types of properties
that we've never seen before.

And I'm confident
that what we're learning

from crop circle research
is gonna have applications

in other areas
of science and technology

that we're going to discover
in the future.

When it comes to UFO research,

it's hard to say who might make
the next breakthrough.

Perhaps Dr. Simeon Hein will
someday manage to communicate

with an extraterrestrial
spacecraft.

Perhaps the U.S. military

will find indisputable evidence
of an alien UFO.

One thing is for sure.

Progress will continue.

Just 300 years ago,
we had not discovered

a single planet
outside our solar system.

Now we know
of more than 3,000 of them...

and scientists believe

that one in six is
potentially habitable.

One day soon, humans will make

their first visit
to another planet.

It may start with Mars,

but it will eventually lead
much, much farther.

In other words, before long,
we ourselves will be aliens.

For all the other civilizations
out there on other planets

who are scouring
their own skies for UFOs,

we may soon be
the ones flying by.

The search continues.