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NARRATOR: Terrifying encounters
at 40,000 feet.

So I kind of looked
over my left shoulder,

and there’s this
bright light in our face.

It’s a pulsating orb.

Look at that, dude.
Look at that.

NARRATOR:
Pilot accounts of UFOs

taking control
of their aircraft.

BILL BIRNES:
Goes to move the yoke,

and the yoke is
moving on itself.

If it climbs any further,

it will stall out.

NARRATOR:
And entire jumbo jets

disappearing into thin air.

How do you have a commercial
airliner just vanish?

NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of aviation,

pilots have experienced
unexplainable events in the sky.

Is it possible that
what they have witnessed

are aliens in our airspace?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: When
you have thousands of pilots

coming forward with encounters

that they’ve witnessed
up in the sky,

with so-called UFOs,

I think we should
pay more attention

to what these pilots
have been saying.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

In 2017, The New York
Times broke the story

of the U.S. government’s
secret investigations

into unexplained
aerial phenomena.

And in the years that followed,

a number of
sensational UFO videos

have been released,
or leaked, to the public.

NARRATOR:
Nearly all of the footage

was recorded by cameras

mounted on U.S. Navy
fighter jets.

The videos captured the public’s

imagination like
no other UFO images

that had come before them...

But Navy pilots are not alone

in witnessing unidentified
flying objects.

For decades, shocking encounters

have been reported
by non-military,

civilian pilots.

UAP sightings by
commercial airline pilots

are a lot more commonplace
than what we generally think of.

We’ve seen a lot of
the footage from the military,

but we’re actually
getting a lot more reports

from our civilian pilots.

There are more civilian
pilots than military pilots.

And you have

an exponentially
larger amount of flights

with commercial airlines

than you do with
military airplanes.

NARRATOR:
Japan Airlines Flight 1628

is carrying cargo
from Paris, France

to Narita International
Airport near Tokyo.

The three-person crew

is led by Captain
Kenju Terauchi,

an ex-fighter pilot with over
10,000 hours of flight time.

As the 747 approaches Anchorage,

Captain Terauchi
notices two strange lights

out of his cockpit window.

It’s dark. It’s, uh, very
early morning. Before sunrise.

These lights are
clearly maneuvering.

They are, in relationship
to each other,

one is on top of the other,

and they move directly
in front of his aircraft.

Now, he’s flying at
about 500 miles per hour.

These things are pacing him.

NARRATOR: Captain
Terauchi realizes the lights

are strange oval-shaped
flying objects,

and they are getting
dangerously close to his aircraft.

As bright lights
fill the cockpit,

Captain Terauchi radios

the Anchorage Air
Traffic Control Center

and asks if they can identify
the objects near his plane.

NARRATOR: As Terauchi attempts
a series of evasive maneuvers

to avoid a potential collision,

the two UFOs suddenly disappear.

In their place is
another object.

One so large, it dwarfs the 747.

RICHARD DOLAN: His words for
describing it were, "gigantic spaceship

the size of maybe
two aircraft carriers."

Just immense.

Tarauchi sees this
massive thing in the sky,

and he’s scared.

NARRATOR: Concerned
by Captain Terauchi’s report,

the air traffic
controller calls NORAD,

the North American
Aerospace Defense Command,

based at Elmendorf Air
Force Base in Anchorage.

Communication
specialists at the airbase

confirm that there is a
very large unidentified object

on their radar screens.

Traffic control told them
that they could actually

take whatever evasive
actions they needed to,

to avoid collision,

and they even dropped
down to 4,000 feet

above sea level,

and the thing
continued to follow them.

RYAN SPRAGUE: Air
traffic control diverted another

commercial flight to
come look at this UFO.

And by the time they got there,

the UFO was completely gone.

TSOUKALOS: One of the reasons

why the J.A.L. report is
such a big deal is because

the corroborating
evidence is overwhelming.

Not only were there
eyewitness reports,

but there’s the records of
the communication systems

that Terauchi was in touch with,

actual dialogue that happened.

"Hey, we are up here.

We see this. Are you guys
seeing this on your radar?"

All this stuff is recorded.

NARRATOR: Once safely grounded,

Captain Terauchi, his copilot

and flight engineer were
immediately interviewed

by Alaska Federal Aviation
Administration officials

and other special agents.

NICK POPE: There’s an FAA

investigation into this.

There’s lots of documentation.

There’s no real, hard and
fast conclusion about this.

And so, the pilot,
perhaps out of frustration,

talks to the media.

NARRATOR: In December 1986,
one month after the encounter,

Captain Terauchi
contacted Kyodo News

and said he believed
the mysterious crafts

were of extraterrestrial origin.

The unauthorized statements

prompted Japan
Airlines officials

to remove Captain
Terauchi from pilot duty,

and assign him to a desk job.

Around the same
time, John Callahan,

the FAA’s division chief

of the Accidents and
Investigations branch.

Learned of the incident

and deemed it
worthy of investigation.

DOLAN: John Callahan
went to D.C. about this,

and there was a meeting

that was chaired by

one of the top
people of the FAA.

This meeting was also attended

by representatives of the FBI,

representatives of the CIA

and representatives of
President Reagan’s White House.

They had audiotapes

that were played,

between the pilot
and air traffic control,

describing everything
that was happening,

and written reports.

And at the end of the meeting,

one of the CIA, uh, agents

stood up and said, "This
meeting never happened,

"and we’re confiscating
all of the data

that has been, uh, shared here."

Now, Callahan,

he was a little sly, but
he was within his rights.

"They never asked me,"
he said, "if I had a copy

of any of this myself,"
he said. "Which I did."

He had a copy of the audio
recordings, if nothing else.

And a little over
a decade later,

shared that with the public.

MICAH HANKS: John Callahan
came away with the feeling

that there was essentially
a kind of coverup.

The FAA didn’t want the fact

that this incident had
occurred to get out.

POPE: I’ve spoken to
pilots who have seen

amazing things out there,

but never report it

because of the fear
of being disbelieved,

being ridiculed, and

perhaps, being grounded.

You won’t be flying anymore.

So, what do they say?
Most times, nothing.

TSOUKALOS: You have countless
commercial and private airline pilots

who spend an exorbitant
amount of time up in the sky.

And, in my opinion, I
think they’re the best people

to discern what is natural

and what is not.

NARRATOR: As far as
ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned,

UFO encounters
reported by civilian pilots

provide some of the
most compelling evidence

that there is an
extraterrestrial presence

in the skies above Earth.

And, according to some pilots,

what they’ve witnessed presents

a serious danger.

NARRATOR: For
ancient astronaut theorists,

UFO sightings reported by pilots

are particularly intriguing,

because while accounts of
strange phenomena in the sky

date back millennia,

it is only in the past century

that humans have had
an aerial vantage point.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
For thousands of years,

we could only observe
things in the sky

from the ground,

but in the last
hundred or so years,

we’ve had the ability to fly.

And so now we’re up
in the sky ourselves.

We can discern natural
phenomena from powered craft.

NARRATOR: Thousands of pilots

have reported observing

phenomena in the sky that do
not resemble any weather anomaly

or man-made aircraft
they’ve ever encountered.

Such was the case with
Captain Erik Delgado,

who served as an Air
Force pilot for ten years

before being hired to
fly for FedEx in 2001.

On the evening
of March 20, 2020,

Captain Delgado
departed from Mexico City

in a Boeing 767 bound
for Memphis, Tennessee.

One hour into the flight,
Delgado noticed something

strange in the distance.

DELGADO: Usually when
we get to altitude, we’ll relax.

I was conversing
with my first officer,

and as I’m looking at him,

his eyes got really big

and, uh, his mouth
kind of dropped.

And I’m like, what the
hell is this guy looking at?

And he goes, "Look
at the shooting star,"

and he stops, never-never
finished the word, "Star."

And so I kind of looked
over my left shoulder,

and if you can, uh, imagine
a lighthouse in thin fog,

kind of just a-a
spotlight, sort of,

that just kind of came
over us, and I thought,

"Oh, my God, it’s
another airplane,

"and he’s got a
vector toward us.

What’s this clown doing?"

I grabbed the throttles,
gripping it with a death grip.

I was getting ready to
disconnect the autopilot.

And I’m looking at the screen,

realizing there’s
nothing on the screen.

NARRATOR: Delgado
immediately used his digital camera

to record the astonishing sight.

NARRATOR: Within
minutes of the sighting,

the orb moved towards the plane

at a high rate of speed,

then suddenly stopped short.

DELGADO: My
heart was racing still.

Speed doesn’t kill, you know?

Deceleration, stopping,
that’s what kills you.

And the fact that this
thing stopped like that,

if there were
somebody inside there,

you know, um,

our conventional laws
of physics and stopping,

they wouldn’t have
survived the g-forces,

to come to a stop like that.

NARRATOR: The UAP flew
alongside Delgado’s aircraft

at an astonishing

500 miles per hour,

and yet there was no sign

of a propulsion system.

DELGADO: This thing
was parked on our wingtip,

about a thousand, 2,000 feet,

and it didn’t move.

With your naked eye, it was just

bright, dim, bright, dim.

And it was very cyclic.

It didn’t waver,
it was the same.

And you look through the camera,

and now you could
see features in a shape.

NARRATOR: The
object continued to track

Delgado’s aircraft
for nearly 30 miles.

DELGADO: This
thing started rotating,

and started changing
colors and it started taking off.

And so, I’m zooming
in as fast as I could.

DELGADO: This thing took
off with pretty good velocity.

NARRATOR: After
making a safe landing,

Delgado shared his videos with

air operations center personnel,

even though his
copilot was reluctant

to file an official report.

DELGADO: There was still a
stigma, behind the whole thing.

You know, are they
gonna ground us?

Are they gonna ask for
our medical, you know?

Are we gonna have
to go see somebody?

So, I could understand
where he was coming from.

HANKS: In recent years,
we’ve seen military pilots

being encouraged to come forward

and talk about
things they’ve seen.

The same has not necessarily

always extended
to commercial pilots

because there isn’t an interest

in collecting information
from those pilots

the same as there would
be with military pilots,

where in the interest
of national security,

if you see something,
say something.

But traditionally,

when commercial
pilots contacted the FAA,

they have been told,
"Hey, you need to talk

to civilian UFO researchers,"

or they don’t actually
have a clear idea

of where else they can
even log those reports.

So it’s a very
different situation.

NARRATOR: Captain Delgado
decided not to give the video

to the FAA, and
instead, turned it over to

the National Aviation Reporting
Center on Anomalous Phenomena,

or NARCAP,

a civilian organization
made up of volunteers

who investigate
unidentified aerial sightings.

They concluded that
the glowing object

was consistent with
that of an exotic craft

with a plasma exterior that
could disrupt radar signals.

I think I saw some
intelligent anomaly.

It’s amazing, I-I’d like to know

more of the science
and the physics

behind what I was
looking at, maybe.

But, you know,

see the footage and-and
form your own opinions.

TSOUKALOS:
Things need to change,

because pilots should
be at the forefront

of being free enough

to come forward to
report what they saw.

NARRATOR: The FAA
has never conducted

an official investigation
into pilot Delgado’s incident.

But would they take
notice if a UFO sighting

affected an entire airport?

A ramp employee for
United Airlines Flight 446

spots a metallic
saucer-shaped object

hovering over gate C-17,

between 1,000 and
1,900 feet in the air.

Within minutes,
federal authorities

receive nearly a dozen
panicked phone calls

from airport personnel.

SPRAGUE: Here you
have pilots, here you have

people working at the airport,

and civilians going
to get on their flights,

all witness a UFO hovering

directly over one of
the gates at the airport.

This UFO was
cylindrical in shape.

It was metallic.

NARRATOR: Witnesses
estimated the object

to be between 16
and 24 feet in diameter.

POPE: Suddenly, this thing
just accelerates vertically,

and punches a hole
through the cloud.

Everyone’s staggered by this.

Now, there is a
meteorological phenomenon

called a "hole punch cloud."

But that doesn’t
really fit with the idea

that there was
this metallic craft

hovering before this happened.

STEVEN GREENSTREET: A hole
punch cloud is a real phenomena,

but the weather
conditions needed

to produce a hole punch cloud

weren’t there that
day. (chuckles)

They weren’t there that day.

And so that explanation
doesn’t make any sense at all.

WILLIAM HENRY: The Chicago
Tribune, they end up filing

a Freedom of
Information Act request

with the FAA, and, lo and
behold, they get a recording.

So we have a United
Airlines supervisor

on the phone with the FAA
controller using the word "UFO."

So, once again,

we have a scenario
where the FAA,

and we have United
Airlines personnel,

in this case, saying
there’s nothing to see here,

but, in fact, there was.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
the U.S. government

has been concealing evidence

about UAP sightings
near our airports?

According to UFO researchers,

it would fit a
disturbing pattern

of ignoring what many
believe are serious threats

to the millions of people
who travel the skies every day.

Threats that are
surprisingly well-documented

and sometimes
even caught on tape.

NARRATOR: For decades,
civilian pilots have been frustrated

by the Federal
Aviation Administration’s

refusal to investigate
encounters

between commercial airlines
and unidentified flying objects.

Skeptics argue that these
encounters lack hard data

like telemetry, radar
and audio recordings

that would warrant
an investigation.

But there have, in fact,
been numerous incidents

where viable evidence
has been collected,

including an event

involving two
aircraft travelling over

the state of Arizona.

In 2018, flying over Arizona,

you’ve got a Learjet, you’ve
got an American Airlines jet,

and something
zips over the Learjet,

right over top.

And they immediately call ATC.

GREENSTREET: Radar tower
says, "We don’t see anything.

We don’t know
what the heck it is."

And so, the radar tower
calls the American Airlines jet

behind that plane, and says

"Hey, look out for a second.

Object should be
coming your way."

NARRATOR: The pilot
of the American Airlines jet

initially responds
requesting clarification.

NARRATOR: Then,
just moments later,

the American Airlines
pilot radios back

to air traffic control.

This incident is significant

because there are
audio recordings

of the whole incident,

and the pilots actually

use the word, "UFO,"

when they’re talking
to the control tower.

NARRATOR: According to
researchers, the Arizona encounter

was never openly
investigated by the government,

despite the evidence
presented in the recordings

between the two pilots
and air traffic control.

Neither was another incident,

this one so serious,
it required a call

to the U.S. Air Force.

The Oregon coast.

October 25, 2017.

A radar operator
spots a fast-moving

unidentified object in a
busy commercial flight path.

DELGADO: There were no pilots
involved in that initial reporting.

It was just a tower
controller and a...

and a radar center operator,

and they’re going
back and forth.

NARRATOR: The radar
operator contacts air traffic control

in Seattle, Washington.

GREENSTREET: The
object has no call sign.

It has no transponder.

It’s not communicating.
What is this object?

Pilots in the air start
picking it up visually.

Multiple pilots from
multiple airlines

flying both north and
south up the coast.

And they see this
huge white object

moving extremely
fast at 37,000 feet.

CHILDRESS: The pilots
could see a white light

that was coming at
them and moving around,

and they reported it
to the control tower

and the pilot said that it
was moving erratically.

GREENSTREET: This object
was a little bit too close for comfort.

And so they tried to
communicate with it.

All the things that this
object should have given off

if it was an authorized
aircraft, a U.S. aircraft,

a commercial
aircraft, weren’t there.

It was just silent.

And so the military
scrambled two F-15 fighters

to go intercept this thing.

POPE: Now, you don’t do
that lightly. This is a big call.

This is the sort of thing

that you do on a
9/11 type event.

So, what happened?

Why did they take
this one so seriously

that a fighter interceptor

was sent up to try
and take a look?

NARRATOR: The F-15s
race to intercept the UFO,

but this proves more
difficult than expected.

CHILDRESS: Once the
jets were on their way,

this UFO suddenly shot
off in a different direction,

and was very fast,
and was able to make

these quick turns, and
at very high speeds.

GREENSTREET: At one point,
this object changes direction.

It’s flying southbound,

and then turns and
goes northbound.

So, the F-15 fighters,

they go there and
at the last minute,

as best anyone can guess,

turns and zips out
over the Pacific Ocean.

NARRATOR: Observers are shocked

that F-15s, among
the nation’s fastest

and most sophisticated
fighter jets, are unable

to catch up with the
mysterious object.

GREENSTREET: What’s great
about this is the audiotapes,

which were released via the
Freedom of Information Act.

When you hear
the process happen,

from initial sighting

to the scrambling

of military jets,

it’s fascinating to
hear that happen.

"What should we do?"

It goes to the Air Force,
it goes to NORAD.

It’s there and seen by so
many, and then it’s gone.

NARRATOR: These two
incidents are considered

to be among a multitude
of reports where analyzable

data, including radar,
radio transmissions,

telemetry and
eyewitness accounts,

offer compelling evidence

of unidentified
aerial phenomena.

Yet, to the public’s knowledge,

these dangerous encounters

have never been investigated
by the government.

UFO experts believe
the flying public

is at significant risk,

and as evidence, point
to a mysterious case

where a pilot experienced
his worst nightmare

10,000 feet in the air.

NARRATOR: Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

May 3, 1975.

After dropping off
passengers at this seaport town

on the Pacific Coast,
pilot Carlos de los Santos

embarks on a return
trip to Mexico City

in his Piper PA-24 Comanche.

The weather
conditions are clear,

and visibility is good,
as De los Santos

cruises at 10,000 feet.

One hour into the flight,

he witnesses something unusual.

A gray, wingless object
off the left side of his plane.

DOLAN: As he
approaches Mexico City,

he notices, basically,
a small flying saucer

just above his left wing.

It’s not as large
as his aircraft,

and he’s flying a
fairly small aircraft.

And he’s like, "What is this?"

And then he looks over to his
right and he sees another one.

And then he looks ahead of them,

and there’s one coming at him.

It goes below his aircraft,

and he feels a bump
under his aircraft.

And he’s scared out of his mind.

Anyone would be.

But he then realizes
that he’s not really

in control of his aircraft.

His aircraft is moving in a way

that seems to respond to
these objects, not to him.

He goes to move the yoke,

and the yoke is
moving on itself.

The plane starts climbing

to 3,000 meters.

That’s the ceiling of the Piper.

If it climbs any
further, it will stall out.

He will lose control.

The plane will
fall out of the sky.

DOLAN: He’s actually
becoming afraid

because his cabin’s
not pressurized.

You get to a certain altitude,

he’s gonna have a
hard time breathing.

BIRNES: The
theory is that the UFO

that came under the plane,

took control of his plane,

and the UFO’s own
magnetic envelope

is lifting the plane higher
and higher and higher.

De los Santos is in a panic.
He’s giving Mayday calls.

DOLAN: He’s telling
them, "There are these

"unidentified objects
at my wingtips,

and below me, and I
don’t know what to do."

NARRATOR: As the private plane
races towards a mountainous area,

the three UAPs disengage
from Carlos’s plane

and veer off toward the
Mount Popocatépetl volcano

at lightning speed.

As the objects
disappear from sight,

Carlos regains
control of the plane.

But he quickly realizes
his ordeal isn’t over.

DOLAN: He can’t
initiate his landing gear

because of the impact
that one of these objects

made on his aircraft.

He has to circle around

the airport about ten times.

And he uses a screwdriver

to push the lever
to get his, uh,

landing gear to come down,

and he successfully
lands his aircraft.

It’s kind of an
amazing thing there.

So, he lands his aircraft.

And the story doesn’t end here.

Now he would’ve
had his whole career,

reputation ruined,
probably, with this,

except for the fact that

Mexican air traffic control
tracked these objects also,

and this came
out to support him.

This story became a
huge news story in Mexico.

Didn’t really make much
impact in the United States,

but it was a very
big story in Mexico.

NARRATOR: Years
later, De los Santos

revealed that in the
aftermath of the event,

he was twice approached
by mysterious figures

warning him not to speak
about his experience.

The first occasion
was just before

he was scheduled
to be interviewed

by a Mexican television station.

The second happened when
De los Santos was set to meet

with the famous UFO
investigator, J. Allen Hynek.

Hynek was into the case.

A lot of people were
following this case.

And just before he was going to
meet with Hynek at some hotel,

he gets another
encounter from, um,

one of these men in black,

these tall, pasty,
white-skinned guys

who warned him,
don’t talk about this.

He was threatened.

And he did actually
stop talking about this

for a little while after that.

But as time went by,
he-he’s talked about it.

It’s just one of
the most incredible

aviation UAP stories that
you’re ever gonna hear,

and he got out of it alive.

NARRATOR: Pilot
Carlos de los Santos

ultimately emerged
from his harrowing

midair encounter unscathed,

but similar confrontations

between civilian planes and UFOs

have led to tragic consequences,

including injuries, crashes

and even loss of life.

NARRATOR: The National
UFO Reporting Center,

or NUFORC, has counted

at least 100 cases in the U.S.

where flight safety was impaired

because of close calls with
unidentified aerial phenomena.

And in at least one incident,

it appears a
collision with a UFO

caused fatal results.

Former NYPD pilot and flight
instructor Thomas Preziose

departs from Mobile
Downtown Airport,

piloting a single-engine Cessna

with the call sign
"Night Ship 282."

The story of Night Ship
282 is quite alarming.

A Hollywood script writer
couldn’t come up with this one.

We have a NYPD
pilot, a freight hauler,

very experienced
flight instructor...

hauling documents
from Mobile, Alabama

up north to Montgomery.

Routine flight.

NARRATOR: Due
to poor visibility,

Preziose was flying
by his instruments.

Just one minute into the flight,

he spotted something
in the distance,

and immediately
radioed air traffic control.

MIKE RICKSECKER: He saw what
looked like another plane in the sky,

was just confirming that

that was another plane up there.

And then all of a
sudden, he’s alarmed.

He’s panicked.
Something is coming at him.

BIRNES: This pilot sees
an object in front of him

on a collision
course with his plane.

What does he do?

He radios a request for
permission to deviate.

"I must deviate,
I must deviate,"

he says over the radio.

He deviates.

Silence.

The transmission goes dead.

NARRATOR: Five
minutes after takeoff,

Night Ship 282 crashes
into Big Bateau Bay.

Tragically, Thomas
Preziose is killed on impact.

When investigators

from The National
Transportation Safety Board,

or NTSB, arrive at the scene,

they discover
parts of the Cessna

scattered over an area
of nearly 200 yards.

The plane is not
just demolished,

it’s almost vaporized.

Something obviously
hit the plane.

The props are damaged,
the wings are damaged,

the fuselage is damaged.

Wholesale damage inside
the mechanics of the airplane.

HENRY: It becomes
apparent he has collided

with something in midair.

NARRATOR: A midair
collision of such extreme force

would naturally send two
wrecks spiraling to the ground.

But an extensive
search of the area

produced only one aircraft.

DOLAN: No other
wreckage was ever found.

No other craft which would’ve

presumably done this.

The most bizarre thing about
this is that there are these

strange red markings

all over parts of the aircraft.

These red markings have not

been identified,
as far as I can tell.

And they’re in a variety
of places of the aircraft.

The NTSB suggested
that whatever it hit

was this color red or
had this red coating on it,

and when it hit, it rubbed
off on this guy’s craft.

They also found pieces
of metal in the wings

that didn’t belong to the plane.

Various pieces of metal were
imbedded in the crashed plane

that weren’t part of that plane.

So, something
metal, something red.

But at the end of
the day, a mystery.

GARY HESELTINE: Clearly,
this is one of the rare occasions

where there was a collision
that obliterated a plane,

killed the pilot, and the FAA,

the aviation authorities and
the investigations that followed

could not explain it,

and to this day,
cannot explain it.

CHILDRESS: You have
to wonder if this incident,

which caused the
death of the pilot,

wasn’t also some
extraterrestrial incident

where, perhaps, a
flying saucer or other craft

hit this plane,

or the plane
itself hit the craft.

NARRATOR: For UFO researchers,

the tragic case of
Thomas Preziose

raises the question:

Is it possible that there have
been other fatal collisions

with UFOs that have
gone unreported?

Or happened before the pilot
could radio air traffic control?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

it is a question
worth investigating

given the number of
highly unusual encounters

pilots have started
sharing with the public.

And while the FAA

continues to
dismiss such reports,

another government agency,

one focused on outer space,

is taking notice of possible
extraterrestrial activity

on Earth.

NARRATOR: In recent
years, more and more pilots

are coming forward

to say that unidentified
aerial phenomena

pose a serious risk
to the flying public.

The Federal Aviation
Administration, however,

continues to
downplay the danger.

DOLAN: The FAA is

all about flight safety,

and yet, they don’t accept UFO
or UAP reports from civilians.

The FAA is essentially
telling you, civilian,

"I don’t care what
you’ve encountered,

"and we don’t have
to keep statistics on it,

"and we, therefore,

"don’t have to do anything about
this impossible phenomenon,

which we don’t know
what we could do."

The FAA does not want
civilians reporting UFOs

because they don’t want
the public stirring the pot.

This is something
that could, in theory,

become actionable through
FOIA requests, for example.

You can have a civilian
saying, "I’d like to know

how many civilians are
reporting UFOs to the FAA."

And then what do they do?

How many thousands of reports

are they going to be releasing?

They don’t want to
get into that at all.

HENRY: I think it
goes to this idea,

not of air traffic safety,

but not wanting
to alarm the public.

NARRATOR: But now
that the U.S. government

is paying serious attention

to UAP encounters
reported by military pilots,

at least one agency
is ready to listen

to civilian pilots as well,

and to the surprise of many,

it is America’s
top space agency:

NASA.

In October 2022,

NASA assembled a team

of 16 scientists and experts

for a first-of-its-kind
investigation

into unidentified
aerial phenomena.

In order to collect new data,

the space agency also announced

it is taking over management

of the Aviation Safety
Reporting System,

or ASRS,

a public service website
that encourages pilots

to submit anonymous reports

regarding UAP sightings.

NASA has something now called

the Aviation Safety
Reporting System.

And this is a mechanism

whereby pilots can report

UFO sightings
anonymously, if they choose.

And it says on the
website, this is non-punitive.

"We will not come
after you for this.

There’s no comeback,
just make your report."

HENRY: It suggests to me that
there’s something else out there.

NASA knows about it,

and they want to
know more about it.

And so they are, sort
of, surreptitiously saying,

"We’ll listen to your story now.

"We’re collecting a database now

of what is happening
in our skies,"

and so that is why I think NASA

is ultimately taking
the lead on this.

POPE: People are
saying, why NASA?

Why not the FAA?
Does it perhaps tie in

with the fact that NASA
is now studying UFOs?

Or is it maybe an
indication, an intriguing clue

that a lot of the
incidents of most import

happen in the real
upper atmosphere,

where we are going
into space. I-I don’t know,

but that’s... in a sense,
that’s not the point.

The point is we now have
this receptive environment

into which pilots can finally

speak out about the UFOs

that they are seeing
on a very frequent basis.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,

encouraging commercial
pilots to come forward

with their stories may
finally provide critical proof

that civilian
aircraft do, in fact,

encounter UAPs in our skies.

HANKS: There’s a deep
history of UFO sightings.

And the obvious
threat to aviation

is becoming more
and more prevalent.

We have to start
taking these reports

incredibly seriously because

pilots, crews and
passengers could be at risk.

DELGADO: I challenge
anybody to take anything you have

and put it out
there. Don’t hesitate,

because maybe you’re
gonna open the door

to-to bigger and better
things for mankind.

NARRATOR: As more
civilian pilots come forward

to report their encounters with
unidentified aerial phenomena,

will it be revealed
that such incidents

occur far more often than
we would ever imagine?

And if so, could bringing

these incidents to light
also bring us one step closer

to learning the truth about just

who, or what,

has been occupying our airspace

for thousands of years?

Perhaps one day soon,

the strange craft in our skies

will descend to Earth,

and when they do,
we will know for certain

that we are not alone.

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