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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.

♪

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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