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NARRATOR: An acorn-shaped object

that crashed in the woods of Pennsylvania.

A mysterious craft that washed ashore in Japan.

And an earth-shaking impact in Britain

that defies explanation.

Over the years, Ancient Alienshas examined

dozens of accounts of extraterrestrial spacecraft

crashing to Earth.

Now we're going to explore

ten of the most remarkable UFO crashes ever reported.

Crashes that add to the growing body of evidence

that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.

♪

The idea of an alien spaceship

crashing to Earth has

fascinated us since stories

of flying saucers were first reported in the 1940s.

And while the government has never acknowledged

recovering an extraterrestrial craft,

there are plenty of eyewitness accounts

that describe UFOs plunging from the sky.

And believe it or not, there are even UFO crashes

that were witnessed thousands of years ago.

Like this first event, which was recorded

on ancient stone discs found in a cave in China.

Number ten on our countdown of the top ten UFO crashes:

The Dropa Stones.

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NARRATOR: Archaeologist Dr. Chi Pu Tei

is exploring a cave

in the Baian-Kara-Ula Mountains when he and his team

discover chambers that appear to be man-made.

And what they find within them is highly unexpected.

TSOUKALOS: Archaeologists discovered cave systems in China

that contained hundreds of discs.

And these discs were about this wide,

and it seemed that they had

some type of a groove in them

reminding of modern-day vinyl records.

NARRATOR: According to an article

published in a German magazine in July 1962

entitled "UFO's in Prehistoric Times?"

archaeologists unearthed 716

of these disc-shaped objects from the caves,

later termed Dropa stones.

The article states

that archaeologists at Beijing University

dated the Dropa stones to roughly 10,000 BC.

Each stone had a small hole in the center,

measured roughly a foot in diameter,

and had grooves containing microscopic inscriptions.

In 1962, the Beijing Academy

of Ancient Studies released

their first translations

of the inscriptions on the Dropa stones,

and the inscriptions were stunning.

WILLIAM HENRY: An incredible story was revealed.

It tells of extraterrestrial beings

called the Dropas, who were tiny beings

within large heads and slender bodies

who crash-landed on the Earth and were unable

to rebuild a spacecraft in order to return to their home.

NARRATOR: Shortly after the article about the Dropa stones was printed,

the discs disappeared from public view.

But is it possible that the published account

of the mysterious stones and their record of a UFO crash

in ancient China is true?

The story of the Dropa discs is very interesting.

The information on these discs

could be evidence of one of the earliest UFO encounters

in all of ancient history.

The next UFO crash on our list

also predates the modern UFO era,

having been reported over 200 years ago in Japan.

It involves multiple accounts of a strange, disc-shaped craft

that was found floating in the ocean,

carrying inside of it a mysterious visitor.

At number nine: Utsuro Bune.

NARRATOR: Hitachi Province, Japan. 1803.

Local fishermen are working on Hasaki Beach when they spot

an unusual object floating out in the ocean.

They sail out to investigate

and come upon a mysterious metallic vessel.

NICK REDFERN: Whatever this strange craft was,

it clearly wasn't a boat or a ship

because it was actually shaped

like an ancient Japanese incense container.

So they towed it back to the shore

and essentially scratched their heads

looking at it, trying to figure out what on earth it was.

TSOUKALOS: The fisherman looked into the window,

and they saw this beautiful woman sitting inside.

And they opened up the hatch, and she came out,

and they said that not only did she have a physical appearance

that was unlike ours

but her hair was different and also the clothes

that she was wearing were different.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

this event, known as the legend of Utsuro Bune,

or "hollow ship,"

provides compelling evidence

that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed

off the coast of Japan.

The story of the strange Utsuro Bune craft

appears in three different Japanese texts.

Now, these texts are accompanied by multiple illustrations

of the woman and the craft.

This craft is almost literally a flying disc, a flying saucer.

The historical accounts found in China and Japan

are certainly intriguing.

But perhaps the most incredible story of a UFO crash

reported before the modern era

comes from right here in the United States.

In the 1800s, during the days of the Wild West,

residents in a small town in Texas claimed to witness

a strange vehicle crash to Earth,

leaving a trail of wreckage and a deceased alien visitor.

At number eight on our countdown:

The Aurora UFO Incident.

NARRATOR: In the early morning hours,

residents in this rural town are working in their fields

when suddenly they see a strange, cigar-shaped object

hurtling towards Earth then crashing in a fiery blaze

on the property of Judge J.S. Proctor.

JIM MARRS: In those days,

this is before television, before jet aircraft,

any big noise got your attention.

Plus, the ground shook,

so they knew something tremendous had happened.

NARRATOR: Two days after the crash, on April 19, 1897,

the incident was reported in The Dallas Morning News.

PHILIP COPPENS: It is said that when the explosion has happened,

people run out and find that there is actually

a creature lying about.

This creature is of otherworldly origins,

that it is nonhuman.

What they decide to do is

actually to bury the creature in the local cemetery.

NARRATOR: The event quickly faded from memory

and was largely forgotten until the 1970s,

when ufologists decided to revisit the case.

I consider the Aurora spaceship crash

the smoking gun of the UFO controversy because,

in 1897, this was six years before the Wright Brothers flew,

and yet, here is a well-documented UFO

six years before there was anything man-made in the air.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the mysterious airship

that crashed in Aurora, Texas,

was a visitor from another world?

For ancient astronaut theorists, the ultimate proof might be

buried in the pilot's grave.

But when investigators took up the case in the 1970s,

they found that the tombstone

that marked the gravesite was missing.

MARRS: I first got onto the Aurora story back in 1973

and was, uh, there before the tombstone went missing,

and actually probably one of the few people around

who still remember where the actual gravesite was.

Now, the little grave is located right here.

It was a short little grave,

that of a child or very small person.

And the teeny little headstone,

the marker, was right about there.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that an extraterrestrial being

is buried at the Aurora Cemetery?

Despite this astonishing possibility,

requests to examine the remains have been denied.

Researchers wanted to exhume the body,

but, uh, the local cemetery association,

uh, wouldn't let them.

NARRATOR: Just what crashed in Aurora, Texas,

and who was buried in the small grave

remains a mystery.

But in 1976,

this strange chapter in the town's history was

memorialized on a plaque at the entrance to the cemetery.

Today, people continue to visit and leave offerings

for the supposed alien being.

And for many researchers,

the peculiar encounter from 1897 remains

one of the most compelling UFO crashes ever reported.

I believe the Aurora spaceship story is

a legitimate account of a UFO crash.

One of the most important factors to keep in mind

when evaluating a UFO report

is the credibility of the witness.

And that's why the next entry on our list is so compelling.

It is a strange, acorn-shaped object

that crashed in the woods of rural Pennsylvania

and was seen by hundreds of people.

At number seven on our list of the top ten UFO crashes:

The Kecksburg Incident.

NARRATOR: On a clear, cold night,

thousands of people across southern Ontario,

Michigan and Ohio

watch as a brilliant fireball streaks across the sky.

Witnesses actually claimed

that this strange object

caused what appeared to be sonic booms,

and it was seen to come down in a wooded area.

NARRATOR: Witnesses in the town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania,

reported that the object came crashing through the trees

and dropped down into a wooded ravine.

Volunteer firemen and policemen

were brought from all over the region.

And at least ten got into a forest

and described a bell or acorn-shaped craft.

And at the top, it was copper-colored.

CHILDRESS: This became known as the Kecksburg UFO.

And what they said that they found on this

bell-shaped object

were strange hieroglyphic writing all along the base.

NARRATOR: Just minutes after the firefighters

arrived at the location of the crash,

they were met by a convoy of military personnel

and ordered to leave.

The military was immediately on the scene,

grabbed everything up,

and then said nothing happened.

The whole thing was essentially hushed up.

Now, the official explanation is that this was just a meteor

passing over the United States.

But there is a clear mystery here,

one that has never been solved.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the object

that crashed in the woods of Pennsylvania wasn't a meteor

but an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

not only is this a distinct possibility,

but this UFO event bears a striking resemblance

to mysterious flying craft

described by people who lived in India

thousands of years ago.

HENRY: The craft itself

is an acorn-shaped craft.

Immediately, that's reminiscent of

what the ancient Indian text described as the vimana.

TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharataand in many of the ancient Vedic texts,

they speak about the so-called vimanas.

The vimanas were flying vehicles

with which to reach the celestial realm.

NARRATOR: Could the legends of flying craft called vimanas

have been vehicles flown by otherworldly beings?

And might the same type of craft

have crashed in the woods of Pennsylvania?

According to the witnesses in Kecksburg,

the object they saw that night

was, in fact, an alien spacecraft.

And the event had such an effect on the town,

that in 1990, residents erected a monument

to mark the site of the incident.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Those men who stood around this object

knew it was no meteorite.

They said at the time this was this big craft from outer space.

Kecksburg isn't the only place

where hundreds of people witnessed a UFO crash.

In 1974, a dramatic aerial incident unfolded

over the rural countryside of Wales

that was seen for miles around.

And in 2017, I got the chance

to meet an eyewitness to what would become

one of the most extraordinary UFO cover-ups in history.

At number six: The Berwyn Mountains UFO.

NARRATOR: It's a quiet evening,

and residents of this rural community

in the Berwyn Mountains are preparing for bed

when the peace is suddenly shattered.

NICK REDFERN: A number of people in the area

perceived something anomalous

like a fleet of UFOs.

Now, at the same time that these

strange lights were seen, whatever they were,

there was, uh, an impact on the Berwyn Mountains.

POPE: The small Welsh village

is rocked by what locals think is an explosion.

Everything shakes, crockery falls off wall units

and everyone is saying: What the heck just happened?

NARRATOR: According to residents, the police

and military showed up just minutes after the explosion.

POPE: The initial theory is that there's been a plane crash.

The locals who are following this

can see lights of vehicles, powerful flashlights.

It's clear a major operation is underway.

Eventually, rumors start to do the rounds

that maybe this wasn't a plane crash after all.

Has there maybe been a UFO crash?

And that's the rumor that takes hold.

NARRATOR: In 2017,

Ancient Alienscontributors

Giorgio Tsoukalos and Nick Pope

met up with Huw Lloyd,

an eyewitness to the Berwyn Mountains incident.

On the night of the event,

Lloyd drove a police inspector to higher ground

where he could get a better view of the area

where the object crashed to Earth.

Now he's taking Giorgio and Nick to the same location.

So, down there?

TSOUKALOS: When this light appeared,

did it seem to you as if it was an explosion?

POPE: And how long was it shining for?

NARRATOR: According to Huw, after observing the white light

in the distance, he and the police inspector

got back in the car and drove towards it.

But just as they were about to reach

what they believed was the impact point,

the inspector received an order to stay away.

So, it sounds like it was a stand-down call.

POPE: Yes.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the police officer

who accompanied Huw that night was ordered to stand down

because the military was hiding

a crashed extraterrestrial craft?

When the Ministry of Defence

finally provided an official explanation

for what occurred in the Berwyn Mountains that night,

it involved a coincidence

that many found too incredible to believe.

The story is apparently that there was an earthquake

that hit the village in the Berwyn Mountains.

But at the same time,

there was a bright fireball meteor

breaking up in the Earth's atmosphere.

So, not one extraordinary event

but two at exactly the same time.

Over the years, the UFO community

has become convinced that this was indeed

a UFO crash.

We're coming up on the halfway point of our countdown,

and this next entry involves Italy's most famous UFO event.

According to reports,

when a UFO crashed in the Italian Alps,

a brilliant inventor was asked to reverse engineer it

by one of history's most feared leaders.

At number five on our countdown of

the top ten UFO crashes:

Mussolini's UFO.

NARRATOR: On a clear and quiet evening,

an unusual object is spotted streaking across the night sky.

Dozens of people report seeing a large

disc-shaped craft disappear into the Italian Alps.

POPE: In 1933,

it's claimed that a UFO crashed

in the Lombardy region of Italy.

This was apparently an object around 50 feet in diameter,

like two saucers joined together.

It was described as being grayish in color and metallic,

and apparently it was then

taken by the military and studied

on the personal orders

of the then dictator Benito Mussolini.

NARRATOR: According to reports,

the craft was found to be unoccupied,

and unlocking its secrets was Mussolini's top priority.

An elite unit of scientists

and government officials code-named "RS-33"

was set up and began investigating

not just this crash

but other strange sightings

that were being reported at the time.

NARRATOR: To lead the committee,

it's said Mussolini enlisted

the Nobel prize-winning physicist

and famed inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi.

Mussolini said, "Find out what it is,

and because it seems to be so advanced, build one."

And Marconi apparently said,

"Well, we can't. We can't figure it out."

NARRATOR: Is it possible that a crashed UFO

was recovered by the Italian government in 1933?

And if so, what happened to it?

Some researchers suggest news of the wreckage

attracted the attention of Pope Pius XII.

The story is, in 1943,

when Italy was invaded and then changed sides

and was fighting with the Allies,

the Vatican intervened,

and the Pope personally brokered a deal

whereby this crashed UFO

would be shipped back to the United States.

So, it's very interesting to speculate that

although Mussolini was the first to get this,

it ended up with Americans.

It's crazy to think that Mussolini

might have been involved in reverse engineering

an alien spaceship.

But just as incredible are reports from Russia

that say, in the late 1940s,

Soviet military pilots chased a UFO

until it eventually crashed,

and then recovered not only the wreckage

but alien bodies.

At number four on our countdown:

Kapustin Yar.

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NARRATOR: Southern Russia.

1948.

In the years following World War II,

the Soviet Union is racing to develop

its first nuclear weapon.

One of the primary facilities for this research

is a remote military base along the Volga River

called Kapustin Yar.

Kapustin Yar is a critically important

rocket launch facility

where all of the major Soviet-era

and Russian rocket launches take place.

NARRATOR: Curiously, at the time,

officials at nuclear facilities and rocket launch sites

frequently witnessed mysterious objects flying overhead.

DOLAN: In 1947, 1948, you find a number

of important UFO encounters

over American and Soviet

nuclear technology facilities.

There were UFO sightings in the United States

over key atomic energy development sites.

Similarly, over Kapustin Yar,

we've got significant UFO activity being reported.

NARRATOR: On June 19th, 1948,

radar operators detected an unidentified flying object

near Kapustin Yar.

POPE: Strange blips were seen on radar.

Something was tracked

performing extraordinary speeds and maneuvers.

And a Russian fighter jet was sent to intercept.

The pilot saw a silver,

cigar-shaped object

and was told, "Shoot this thing down."

It managed to launch a missile

and shoot down the UFO.

PAUL STONEHILL: We don't know exactly what happened.

But allegedly,

they were able to actually shoot this object down.

They found remnants of technology,

which was recovered and taken to the local bunker,

where they kept it, allegedly, for years

and used it to reverse engineer some of the technology.

NARRATOR: According to reports, along with the wreckage,

officials recovered bodies from inside the craft.

We are told that there is a underground facility

under Kapustin Yar,

similar probably to facilities here in the States,

where a full examination could be performed

on the pilots of these craft.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Soviet Union

not only recovered a crashed UFO

but also the remains of extraterrestrial beings?

Perhaps clues can be found

by examining the rapid development

of the Soviet space program.

POPE: Why were the Russians first into space?

Why did they manage to do Sputnik 1

and then send Yuri Gagarin up into orbit

and leave the Americans standing?

Because on paper, you'd think that the U.S. government

should have won that race, but they didn't.

If the Russians got a live alien,

maybe they found out something from what happened

at Kapustin Yar that gave them the edge in the Space Race.

The rumor is they were reverse engineering

UFO technology there.

And one wonders if it's possible

that they could reverse engineer the craft

that they believed they had in their possession.

On Ancient Aliens, we've investigated

numerous reports of crashed UFOs

that were allegedly recovered by the military.

One that's not often talked about

occurred in a small town

along the banks of the Mississippi River.

And many researchers believe it's this event

that marks the beginning of deliberate UFO cover-ups.

Number three on our countdown

of the top ten UFO crashes:

The Crash at Cape Girardeau.

NARRATOR: April 12th, 1941.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Just after 9:30 p.m.,

-Reverend William Huffman -[phone ringing]

gets a call from local police

informing him that there's been a crash

about 15 miles outside of the city.

He is needed to offer spiritual comfort to the victims.

But when he gets to the scene,

it is nothing like what he expected.

CHILDRESS: The minister thought

he was just going to some automobile accident

or something like that, where there had been a fatality.

But when he got there,

the military was there, the FBI was there,

there were photographers taking photos of the scene.

They were cleaning up the crash site.

When William Huffman arrived to the area

where this had occurred,

he realized that this was a disc,

a craft of some sort that had crashed in Cape Girardeau.

And it wasn't human victims that were inside of this thing.

COLLINS: He's taken and shown three individuals.

And these individuals are about four feet in height

and very clearly not human.

They were described as having long arms,

slightly oversized heads.

SPRAGUE: Once all of this wreckage was taken care of

and shipped off to destinations unknown,

William Huffman was told by members

of the United States Air Force

never to speak about what had just occurred.

And right then and there,

you had the beginning of yet another UFO crash cover-up

by the United States military.

NARRATOR: Reverend Huffman's account would remain a secret

until after his passing, when his wife,

on her deathbed in 1984,

divulged the details to the rest of the family.

Further information about the military response

has since been leaked in a book titled

The Bombshell Before Roswell.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, from 1941,

appears to be where our retrieval as a government

of things that were described as "from another world" began.

NARRATOR: Did the military really recover

a crashed UFO in 1941?

And if so, what happened to it?

According to reports,

the disc was taken to a secret facility in Washington, D.C.

The story is that a military unit comes in

with orders to gather up this disc

and fly it to Washington, D.C.

And that the bodies were put-- and the craft--

in a subbasement underneath the nation's capital,

where they could be secure.

NARRATOR: Today, the mysterious crash at Cape Girardeau

remains a little-known footnote in history.

But for many researchers, this obscure event,

which took place four years before

an object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico,

marked a turning point in the nation's handling of UFOs.

When we talk about UFO crashes,

wouldn't it be something if the ground zero

for the whole UFO crash phenomena

was actually Cape Girardeau?

HENRY: The Cape Girardeau crash was a preparation

for the military's response to the Roswell crash.

And the military learned an awful lot about

how to handle these events, how to cover them up

and how to make sure that they put a blanket of secrecy

over future crash events.

CHILDRESS: It would seem that the American government

has been aware of some alien presence

and perhaps interacting with them

since at least World War II with the Cape Girardeau crash.

But no matter what the actual truth is,

it would appear that we have been interacting with

and aware of extraterrestrials for many decades.

You might be surprised that the number two entry

on our list is the most famous UFO crash ever reported.

It involves eyewitnesses,

strange, unexplainable wreckage, and even a military cover-up.

At number two on our countdown of the top ten UFO crashes:

The Roswell Incident.

NARRATOR: Witnesses see a flash of light

that streaks across the night sky,

then crashes in the desert north of Roswell, New Mexico.

Rancher Mac Brazel hears the impact

and investigates the next morning.

REDFERN: The field of debris was like nothing ever seen before,

and the rancher reported finding what looked like, initially,

foil-like material.

This sort of suggested the possibility

that something very strange had come down at Roswell.

DOLAN: Brazel, of course, reports it to the local Roswell sheriff,

a man named George Wilcox,

and Wilcox sends some deputies out there,

and, uh, the case just gets crazier from there.

Roswell Army Air Field sends people out to investigate it.

NARRATOR: On July 7th, the airfield dispatches

Army Air Force Major Jesse Marcel

to investigate the mysterious debris.

My grandfather, Major Jesse Marcel,

back in July of 1947,

was the head of intelligence for the 509th bombing group

and was really the lead investigator

into what has become known as the Roswell incident.

NARRATOR: According to his grandson,

Marcel was so astounded by what he saw

that he took the debris home with him.

MARCEL: He went and woke up

his son, my father, who was about 12 years old at the time,

and his wife Viaud

and said, "You guys got to come take a look at this."

He couldn't make heads or tails

or any sense out of what he was looking at.

NARRATOR: While examining the wreckage,

Marcel's family discovered several mysterious markings.

MARCEL: My father picked up what was a-a beam

about 11, 12 inches long.

And all of a sudden, these symbols appeared.

And he really came to the idea that whatever this was,

it was not made by human hands.

NARRATOR: The next morning, the front-page headline

of the Roswell Daily Record reads,

"Roswell Army Airfield Captures Flying Saucer."

That day, Major Marcel is summoned to Fort Worth, Texas,

headquarters of the Eighth Air Force,

and is ordered to bring with him

the debris he recovered from the crash site.

He and Brigadier General Roger Ramey

are scheduled to present their findings to the media.

BILL BIRNES: Jesse Marcel flies to Fort Worth

to tell the whole world about the crash

of a flying saucer at Roswell,

except Roger Ramey says to Jesse Marcel,

"Could you just go in the map room for a second?

I want to arrange some stuff out here."

NARRATOR: According to Marcel,

Roger Ramey removed all the material

recovered from the Roswell crash site

and gave Marcel something else to present to the reporters.

BIRNES: They make Jesse Marcel,

a radar-trained intelligence officer,

stand in front of a weather balloon

and admit that he was confused.

NARRATOR: UFO researchers suggest

that evidence proving Jesse Marcel's story is true

and that the actual wreckage from Roswell

was indeed replaced with a weather balloon

can be found in a photograph

of General Ramy inspecting the recovered debris.

POPE: General Ramey had a document in his hands,

the so-called Ramey memo.

Modern forensic document analysis

and photographic enhancement

has enabled some researchers to zoom in on this

and to clarify at least some portions of the text.

What it tells us is astounding.

Some of the phrases in the memo are,

"victims of the wreck" and "disc which we will ship."

So, clearly, if the official story is true,

well, this makes no sense.

Clearly, something more than just a weather balloon

was involved here, and the memo might just be the smoking gun.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the military's initial report

about the crash of a flying saucer was true?

And that they actively concealed this evidence

from the public eye?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer is a resounding yes.

The question is always: "Well, where is the evidence?

Where is the evidence?"

Well, if the evidence has not yet been revealed,

that does not mean the evidence is not there.

There's only one UFO crash left on our countdown,

and you won't want to miss it because this event

reportedly includes an actual alien survivor.

We've reached the top UFO crash on our countdown,

which took place deep in the Mojave Desert.

And while it occurred six years after Roswell,

what makes this one so compelling

is that reports claim

that there was an extraterrestrial survivor.

At number one: The Kingman UFO Crash.

NARRATOR: In the middle of the night,

government officials secretly gather a team of scientists

for a curious assignment.

They are collected to investigate

a mysterious object that crashed in the desert

outside the small town of Kingman.

There were 40 engineers that boarded a bus,

and they took a long three-and-a-half-hour ride

from Phoenix to Kingman.

When they got there, it was nighttime.

There were MPs on all corners of the craft.

They had two high-powered lights shining down on it.

It's about a 40-foot diameter disc-shaped craft

that was perfectly intact.

There wasn't a scratch on it.

NARRATOR: According to reports,

the wreckage contained not only a spacecraft

but extraterrestrial entities.

There were four beings associated with this craft,

and what they ended up doing is

they took an M25 tank transporter,

they put this craft on the tank transporter,

on the trailer, they built a cradle for it,

and they shipped it to Groom Lake.

DOLAN: Groom Lake is the Area 51 region in Nevada.

When Area 51 was just bare bones,

they took the craft and the aliens

out to that location in the middle of the Nevada desert

because it was so remote, and around that, they built Area 51.

NARRATOR: Hidden within a ring of mountains

deep in the Nevada desert,

Area 51 is a top-secret military installation

that has long been rumored

to hold evidence of alien technology.

And there are even stories

that a special facility at Area 51

once held an alien entity known as "J-Rod."

PRESTON DENNETT: J-Rod is an alien who allegedly worked at Area 51

over a period of years.

It was J-Rod's mission or duty

to help reverse engineer technology

that was apparently from the 1953 Kingman UFO crash.

NARRATOR: One man who claimed to have worked with J-Rod

is Captain Bill Uhouse,

a former Air Force test pilot

who was assigned to Area 51 in the mid-1960s.

We had a long period of introduction into meeting,

you know, an alien.

And I-I called him J-Rod.

That's the name that the linguists gave him.

And he'd try and answer your question, you know.

Basically, it was only engineering advice

or science advice.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the United States military

worked with an extraterrestrial being

to develop cutting-edge technology?

While the sensational account of Bill Uhouse

strikes many as outlandish,

in the years following the Kingman UFO crash,

scientists at Area 51

developed some of the military's greatest innovations,

including the U-2 spy plane,

the SR-71 Blackbird

and stealth technology.

It's interesting to look at the sudden explosion

of technology

just about at the time of these UFO crashes.

You see us go from propeller aircraft

to space rockets in just a few short years,

and many believe a lot of technologies that we do have

have been acquired through UFO crashes.

Did an alien pilot really help reverse engineer

extraterrestrial spacecraft at Area 51?

To some, the evidence is certainly compelling,

and so is the fact that UFO crashes

have been reported all over the world,

from the American Southwest

to northern Italy,

and even the mountains of China.

The ten incidents we featured in this episode

are just the tip of the iceberg.

And with so many reported crashes,

it may only be a matter of time

before our governments can no longer hide

the physical proof of extraterrestrial visitation.

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