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NARRATOR:
Official government reports

of extraterrestrial contact...

PILOT:
Wow.

NARRATOR:
...a clandestine group

tasked with silencing
UFO witnesses,

and secret research programs

to reverse engineer
alien technology.

For over a decade,
Ancient Aliens

has investigated covert groups,

bases and research sites
that are connected

to the extraterrestrial
phenomenon.

Now we're taking a look back

at ten of the most
incredible secret projects

we've investigated.

Projects that could
provide evidence

of government contact
with extraterrestrials.

♪

As an ancient astronaut
theorist,

I think it's great
that UFOs are becoming

a regular subject
of today's headlines.

And what I find
even more exciting

is that for more than 80 years,
witnesses have claimed

that the government
has top secret programs

designed to study
extraterrestrials

and their technology.

We'll start our countdown

with a famous incident
in New Mexico

that the government
still denies to this day.

At number ten on our list
of the Top Ten Secret Projects:

The Roswell Cover-Up.

NARRATOR:
The FBI posts thousands
of previously classified files

to its new online vault.

And one file in particular
draws immediate attention

from the media
and independent researchers.

The memo, dated March 22, 1950,

is a briefing
to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

regarding informant information
about three "flying saucers"

that were recovered
in New Mexico.

Investigators immediately
connect the memo

to the infamous
Roswell incident,

a purported UFO crash
that many people believe

was covered up
by the military in 1947.

Perhaps the most famous
UFO incident of all time

is Roswell.

Now, this crash was brought
to the attention

of the Army Air Force base
at Roswell,

and famously, the base
actually put out a press release

and said a "flying disk"
has been recovered.

NARRATOR:
Just one day after
this explosive headline,

the military changed its story

and claimed the recovered debris
had an earthly origin.

RICHARD DOLAN:
The world was told,
"Nope, just a weather balloon,"

and for more than 30 years,

that's where it was left,
until witnesses

started to surface,

saying, "In fact, it was
an extraterrestrial craft."

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that an alien craft

really did crash near Roswell?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest
the cover-up was part

of a secret government project.

As evidence,
they point to statements

made 50 years after the event

by retired United States
Army Colonel Philip J. Corso

in his book
The Day after Roswell.

DOLAN:
Philip J. Corso

made an incredible claim

that he worked at
the Foreign Technology Division

within the Army
Research and Development

and had key access
to E.T. technology

from the Roswell crash.

NARRATOR:
According
to Colonel Corso's account,

military scientists were tasked

with reverse engineering
the debris collected at Roswell.

After the 1947 crash
in Roswell, New Mexico,

our technology took off
just like a rocket.

Silicon chips,

laser technology,

fiber optics.

All of this stuff came
after the Roswell crash.

Not only did Roswell
spark public interest in UFOs,

according to allegedly
top secret documents,

it also inspired the creation
of a classified organization

that has a really cool name.

Number nine on our countdown:
The Majestic 12.

NARRATOR:
Movie producer and UFO
researcher Jaime Shandera

is anonymously sent
a mysterious document.

It is a top secret memo,

allegedly sent in 1952
from the CIA

to President-elect
Dwight Eisenhower.

The document
reveals the existence

of a clandestine
government think tank

called the Majestic 12.

POPE:
The Majestic 12

is supposedly
the government body

that has responsibility
for securing

extraterrestrial technology,
uh, crash retrievals,

and investigating UFOs.

It comprises senior figures

in the scientific community,
the military community,

and within government,
particularly intelligence.

No one anywhere
outside of this group

is to know anything about UFOs,
crash retrievals,

E.T.s, bodies, any of it.

NARRATOR:
According to the documents,

President Harry S. Truman
established MJ-12 in 1947,

shortly after the infamous UFO
crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

The files also include
detailed instructions

explaining
how to handle the debris

from an extraterrestrial crash.

NICK REDFERN:
The documents talk about how

debris from UFOs
could be collected

and sent to specific, um,
military facilities

and how alien bodies
could be preserved.

So the document essentially

is a guideline to handle UFOs.

HOWE:
The most important document
is the "Restricted SOM1-01,

Majestic 12 Group
Special Operations Manual."

And when you go to page ten,

there is an extraterrestrial

technology classification table.

This is solid confirmation
that our government knew

and was dealing
with extraterrestrial entities

and technology in the '40s.

Of all the top secret projects
we've covered on Ancient Aliens,

perhaps the most nefarious

is a group
of clandestine government agents

who will do whatever it takes

to keep extraterrestrial
encounters quiet.

At number eight on our list:
The Men in Black.

NARRATOR:
World War II Air Force
veteran Albert Bender

establishes one of America's
first UFO organizations,

the International
Flying Saucer Bureau.

The IFSB publishes
a quarterly journal Space Review

to share stories
of UFO sightings

with its 600 worldwide members.

But just one year
after launching, Bender claims

he was visited by three
strange men in black suits

who threatened
both his fledgling organization

and his life.

BILL BIRNES:
Albert K. Bender coined the term

"men in black" to describe
the people who cautioned him

not to talk about UFOs, not
to talk about flying saucers,

and, above all, not to talk
about extraterrestrials.

The men in black are,
without doubt,

the most feared
and sinister beings in ufology.

The men in black
go around threatening people

who have seen UFOs,
who have been abducted.

Even in some cases, people
who have found crop circles.

NARRATOR:
Encounters
with the men in black

have been reported
for more than seven decades.

But just who or what
are the men in black?

DOLAN:
There's a lot
of men in black stories

that have occurred
over the years.

Enough to make you conclude

that there is
an agency involved,

or agencies involved,
over the years

that, from time to time,
have felt it was important

to silence UFO witnesses.

NARRATOR:
Are the men in black
a secret government agency

that is tasked with both
investigating and concealing

an extraterrestrial presence
on Earth?

Based on Albert Bender's account
of his experience

with the men in black,

some researchers believe
these intimidating figures

may even be alien entities
themselves.

REDFERN:
He said,

late one night, when he was
working in his attic room,

these three shadowy,
fedora-wearing figures

literally materialize through
the walls of the bedroom,

and of course the three men
were the men in black.

He thought they were

an extraterrestrial
police force.

NARRATOR:
If the men in black are,
in fact, of otherworldly origin,

could it be that the government

is working
with extraterrestrials

to keep their presence
hidden from the public?

Whatever the truth may be,

many in the UFO community
are convinced

these shadowy figures

continue to operate today.

POPE:
UFO sightings haven't stopped.

Quite the opposite.

So, if UFO sightings
are still going on,

there's no reason
to suppose that men in black

aren't still going around,
speaking to witnesses.

And if they're successful
in their mission,

we don't get to hear about it.

It's quite possible
that the men in black

are still operating,
still intimidating witnesses,

and still being the gatekeepers
of the UFO secret.

For UFO researchers,

one of the most intriguing
secret projects

that studies extraterrestrial
activity is located in England.

Its headquarters are
rumored to be hidden

within a series
of underground rooms

and tunnels found beneath
a quaint country estate.

At number seven on our countdown

of the Top Ten Secret Projects:
Rudloe Manor.

NARRATOR:
In England's
southwest county of Wiltshire

stands Rudloe Manor.

On the surface,
it appears to be nothing more

than a charming
English country house.

But deep beneath
this structure lie

an astounding
2.2 million square feet

of vast caverns divided
into many smaller chambers.

COLLINS:
Rudloe Manor is
an extremely mysterious place.

And at the heart of it is

a very hidden base,

one that is so secret

that very little is known today

about what actually
goes on there.

NARRATOR:
During World War II,

the caverns and chambers
beneath the estate were used

by the British Royal Air Force

as an underground
aircraft factory.

But while the underground
complex once served

as a clever way to hide
military production

from German bombers,

today it is used to protect

even more
clandestine activities.

POPE:
To this day,

the underground facility
carries out work

which is highly classified,
shrouded in secrecy...

...and, uh, people cannot get

information about what
the true mission is.

It's-it's absolutely off-limits.

For years it was home
to a group called

the Provost
and Security Services.

They're kind
of like the James Bonds

of the British Royal Air Force.

They do
espionage investigations,

counterintelligence programs,
things like that.

One of the more
thought-provoking aspects

of Rudloe Manor is this claim

that it's sort of the British
equivalent of Area 51.

NATE:
Rudloe Manor earned
its reputation

as the British Area 51
in 1955

after celebrated
American journalist

Dorothy Kilgallen
published a story

with the International News
Service that claimed

the British Royal Air Force
had recovered a UFO.

REDFERN:
Kilgallen heard a story

that the British government had
got its hands on a crashed UFO

and the military then decided

to start investigating it
at Rudloe Manor.

Now, for years, the air force

and the Ministry
of Defense denied

that any UFO investigations were
going on at Rudloe Manor.

Then a document got released

and it showed
that actually, yes,

UFO investigations had been done
from Rudloe Manor.

And, of course,
a lot of people say,

"Oh, wait a minute, now.
Now we're getting interested."

So, all this, of course,
uh, just fuels the idea

that maybe there is something
to hide down there.

And whatever's going on
down there, it's big.

One of the most
compelling stories

we've investigated
on Ancient Aliensfeatures

another top secret
project in England.

It involves
the 30-year cover-up

of what some are calling

"the greatest UFO photo
of all time."

At number six:
the Calvine Cover-Up.

NARRATOR:
Newsweekmagazine publishes

the provocative headline
"'Best' UFO Picture Ever,

the Calvine Photo,
Found After 30 Years Missing."

WILLIAM HENRY:
This photograph

from the Calvine Hills
in Scotland

is crystal clear, it's in color.

It shows this
just magical-looking,

100-foot-long,
diamond-shaped craft

that is clear as a bell.

RYAN SPRAGUE:
Not only that,

we also see a Harrier jet
trailing the object.

As soon as this photo was

released to the public,

uh, people went crazy.

It was a big deal.

NARRATOR:
According to the article,

the photograph was taken
32 years earlier,

in August 1990.

It is one of six photographs
allegedly taken by two hikers

outside the small
Scottish village of Calvine.

The two hikers
brought the photographs

to Scotland's largest newspaper,

the Daily Record.

But then the photographs
mysteriously disappeared.

HOWE:
They had six photographs,

and they go
to the local newspaper

to have them published.

And for reasons that are
still not clear to this day,

this Scotland newspaper,

instead of immediately putting
these six incredible photos

on the front page,
which is what I would have done,

as a reporter,

somebody calls the Ministry
of Defense in London.

And they are ordered
to send the photos

and the negatives
from the newspaper

to somebody in the government.

NARRATOR:
Among the people who saw
the six photographs was

former Ministry of Defense
UFO investigator Nick Pope,

who was present for classified
briefings regarding the images.

POPE:
The photographs
and the negatives went

to JARIC, which is
Joint Air Reconnaissance

and Intelligence Center.

This is part
of the intelligence community

that specializes
in imagery analysis.

Their opinion was that
this was not a fake,

these were genuine pictures.

NARRATOR:
The photographs would remain

hidden from public view
for over 30 years.

Until one of the photos was

shared with Newsweek
for publication.

In 2022, a former
Royal Air Force press officer

named Craig Lindsay

actually came forward
and said that he had

in his possession a copy of one
of the Calvine UFO photos,

and he decided he wanted
to release it to the public.

Craig Lindsay was the
Royal Air Force press officer,

who interviewed the original
hikers who took the photos.

NARRATOR:
While the photograph
shared by Craig Lindsay

caused a sensation,
the five other Calvine photos

have yet to be revealed.

But why?

Is it possible that
the British government has

a secret project
to keep evidence of UFOs

and extraterrestrials
out of the public eye?

According to some
government insiders,

it's a distinct possibility.

POPE:
We had the photographs,
we had the negatives.

Now, the Ministry of Defense

has not commented on whether
the Craig Lindsay picture

is or isn't the real thing.

And therefore,

because I'm still bound
by the Official Secrets Act,

I can't comment on that either.

But the picture's out there
in the public domain,

and people can
look at these images

and decide for themselves.

We're coming up
on the halfway point

in our countdown
of the Top Ten Secret Projects,

and this next one is
absolutely mind-blowing.

According to one
military whistleblower,

in the 1980s, a team
of government scientists

challenged the laws of physics

and opened a portal
to another world.

At number five:
Project Jackknife.

NARRATOR:
Counterintelligence
officer Richard Doty

begins a new assignment
at the Nevada Test Site--

a top secret
US military facility

used for the development
of nuclear weapons

in the 1940s and 1950s.

According to Doty,

he was part of an operation
code-named Project Jackknife,

a military experiment
that was attempting to open

a gateway to another world.

DOTY:
I got involved in it

to protect the operation
against any kind of espionage.

This particular experiment,

we used a high-energy laser
and a large magnetic field.

And when
they generated this beam

through this magnetic field,

what I saw was
a wavy orb appearing.

And the orb became larger

and larger
and larger and larger.

And behind it,
there was a flashing light.

And when I asked a scientist

who was standing
right next to me,

"What did we just see?"

He said, "We just
opened the fabric of space.

"And if we go in that,
then we can go

to another dimension."

They call that a portal.

NARRATOR:
Also known as wormholes
or stargates,

portals are bridges
through space and time

that can connect
to other worlds.

According to Doty,
this is only one

of many secret experiments
the US government has conducted

to try to create these conduits.

DOTY:
Ever since the Central
Intelligence Agency's

Office of Scientific
Intelligence

realized that there were
theories about portals,

they engaged in a number
of operations over the years

to try to prove
portals were possible.

And I can guarantee you
even today

that there's some type
of experiment going on.

NARRATOR:
Could it be
that for the past 50 years,

the United States government
has had a secret project

to develop
a real traversable stargate?

While it may sound like
science fiction,

to ancient astronaut theorists

this technology
is not only possible,

but there is evidence

it was used
in the ancient world.

All around the world,
we have myths and legends

of beings coming and going
through gates.

The Anunnaki gods
in ancient Sumeria

were constantly coming
and going through gateways.

In Egypt, we learn
of the portals of Ptah

and the pharaoh
scaling the ladder to heaven

and going through
the portal of the gods.

The idea of the stargate
as a transportation system

has been proposed
as one of the ideal ways

for these extraterrestrial
beings to travel.

Deep in the barren desert
of Nevada

is a clandestine
military installation

that is the world's
worst-kept secret.

It's a series of runways,
nondescript buildings

and giant hangars.

And according
to some government insiders,

it's also home to
extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Number four on our countdown

of the Top Ten Secret Projects:
Area 51.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the 1960s,
'70s and '80s,

dozens of reports surfaced
that suggested the US government

was hiding evidence
of extraterrestrials.

But for many UFO researchers,

the most important revelations
of all came in 1989,

from a physicist
named Bob Lazar.

According to Lazar,

he worked
on a top secret project

at an Air Force facility
known as Area 51.

While there,
he had a remarkable encounter

that he revealed
to his close friend,

retired CIA pilot John Lear.

Bob Lazar used to work
at Los Alamos.

Had the highest clearance
that you can get there.

And then he worked for three
or four months at Area 51.

It was December 6th of '88.

He comes in, he sits down
there at, uh, my desk,

and he said,
"I saw a disk today."

And I said, "What?"
He said, "I saw a disk."

And I said,
"You saw a flying saucer?"

He said, "Yeah, sure did.

"I saw 'em, I touched them.

They are real."

NARRATOR:
With Bob's permission,

Lear shared his story
with a reporter he knew

at the local KLAS TV station,
George Knapp.

On May 15th,

Knapp sat down with Lazar
for a live interview.

GEORGE KNAPP:
We had a five-minute
live interview segment

every day on the 5:00 news

and we got a cancellation
at the last minute.

We got to fill this hole,
we call up Lear,

"Hey, would your UFO buddy
come on the air?"

And Lear calls back
in a little while, "Yes."

We go up to John Lear's house,

we put Bob Lazar on the air,
blacked out his face,

and he told
this incredible story.

Exactly what's
going on up there?

LAZAR:
Well, there's several, uh...

actually nine,
uh, flying saucers,

flying disks, uh,

that are out there
of extraterrestrial origin.

And they're being test flown
and, uh,

basically, just analyzed.

NARRATOR:
Could Bob Lazar's
extraordinary claims--

that there is a secret program

studying alien technology
at Area 51-- be true?

The idea struck many
as far-fetched,

until August 2013,

when the CIA
not only acknowledged

the existence of Area 51,

but admitted that scientists
at the top secret facility

had developed
some of the military's

most advanced technology,

from the U2 spy plane

to the F-117 stealth fighter.

POPE:
When this announcement
was first made,

some people said,
"Wait a minute.

"If Bob Lazar
was right about Area 51,

"what else was he right about?"

Finally, these years of rumors

that the UFO community and
the conspiracy theory community

had been claiming to be true
had been validated.

When it comes
to the UFO phenomenon,

one of the most astonishing
secret projects

was revealed in 2002.

A computer hacker claimed
to have uncovered NASA documents

that suggest that the US
has been collaborating

with extraterrestrial beings
for decades.

Number three on our countdown:
the secret space program.

NARRATOR:
Shortly after 8:00 a.m.,

the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit
arrives at the home

of 36-year-old Scottish
computer engineer Gary McKinnon.

They are there to arrest him

on behalf of the United States
Justice Department

for hacking
into top secret computers

at NASA and the Pentagon.

McKinnon not only
admits to the crime,

but claims he uncovered evidence

that the US government
was working

with extraterrestrial beings.

McKINNON:
I found the spreadsheet.
It was actually titled

in the column,
"non-terrestrial officers."

And as well as officers' names,
it had ship names.

None of these
were oceangoing ships.

It was astounding.

They're not Navy.
They're not in the Army.

And not even Air Force.

So, to me, I was thinking

there must be
an off-planet space force,

or space fleet, at least.

NARRATOR:
According to McKinnon,

the most shocking file
he came across

was on a computer
at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Within a folder
labeled "unfiltered,"

he spotted a thumbnail image of
a hi-res NASA satellite photo

which appeared to depict
an unusual spacecraft.

McKINNON:
And so I double click
on an image

and it came down, you know,
slowly, more and more.

But as it came down, you could
see the hemisphere of a planet.

And then suddenly,
a ship started to appear.

It was tubular, or what we used
to call a cigar-shaped object.

Then suddenly, that was it.
Blank screen.

So, it was my eureka moment.

And the same moment
I got caught, too.

NARRATOR:
Before he was arrested,

Gary McKinnon released what
he had discovered online.

Could it be that his account

of what he saw when
he hacked into computers

at the Pentagon
and NASA is genuine?

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer
is a resounding yes.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
It seems that what
he's talking about

is real. And even today, I mean,

we have now the Space Force

of the American military,

and that would
actually be combined

in with what Gary McKinnon
was discovering

when he hacked
into the Pentagon's computers.

NARRATOR:
While there are many
who question the authenticity

of Gary McKinnon's account,

other more notable figures

have since come forward
with similar claims.

In 2013,

former Canadian minister of
national defense, Paul Hellyer,

declared that
the United States government

and other governments
around the world

are working with organized
groups of extraterrestrials.

Paul Hellyer was really a senior
political leadership figure.

And he essentially
came out and said

extraterrestrial are real,

uh, they are visiting Earth

and there is interaction.

PAUL HELLYER:
I was privy to a lot of things.

And some of it, for me,
very frightening,

very disturbing.

UFOs are real.

The United States government
had been in contact with them.

NARRATOR:
Paul Hellyer is not
the only government official

to come forward
with alleged knowledge

of an extraterrestrial presence
on Earth.

PAUL HYNEK:
Recently, the former
Israeli chief of space security,

Haim Eshed, came out and said

that there is
a galactic federation

and that indeed
many world leaders

know of and are in talks

with delegates
of the galactic federation.

CHILDRESS:
Dr. Haim Eshed claimed
that the extraterrestrials

in this galactic federation

were in contact with governments
around the world.

It's a fascinating idea

and one that may well be true.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that the so-called
secret space program,

allegedly uncovered
by Gary McKinnon,

is connected to
the supposed galactic federation

that politicians
have recently disclosed?

If Gary McKinnon's story
is true,

it means that we have treaties

with-with extraterrestrials

and that we're up there in space

operating with them,

and that's
an intriguing thought.

Without a doubt,
one of the most extraordinary

government projects
to study extraterrestrials

came to light in 2017,

but this wasn't
some wild internet rumor

or conspiracy theory.

This classified program

was featured on the front page
of The New York Times.

Number two on our countdown
of the Top Ten Secret Projects:

AATIP.

NARRATOR:
The New York Timespublishes
an explosive story

entitled "Glowing Auras
and 'Black Money':

The Pentagon's
Mysterious UFO Program."

The story exposes a top secret
US government project

to investigate UFO reports
called

the Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program,

or AATIP.

The revelations
concerning the existence

of the Pentagon's AATIP program
are extraordinary.

It is the single
biggest ever news

in the whole history
of the UFO phenomenon.

It's not quite a "spaceship
in a hangar" smoking gun,

but it's the closest
we've ever been.

NARRATOR:
The article reported
that the program had been run

by a former Pentagon official
named Luis Elizondo,

a senior career
intelligence officer

with top security clearance.

It was Elizondo's job
to investigate reports

of unidentified flying objects

and to measure what threat
they could pose

to national security.

Luis Elizondo is a long-standing

intelligence officer
in the Department of Defense.

He has made it clear that
the information that's come

to AATIP over the years
is quite extraordinary

and not explainable,

and his most important
statements have been

along the lines of, "Look,

"if we ever thought that these
were Russian or Chinese,

we'd be going crazy right now."

To everyone who's able
to read between the lines,

he's essentially saying
UFOs are real.

NARRATOR:
Elizondo ran AATIP
for eight years,

from 2009
until he resigned in 2017.

During this time,
the program collected

several extraordinary videos of
military encounters with UFOs.

NARRATOR:
Taken by forward-looking
infrared cameras

mounted on Navy jets,

they were perhaps
the most spectacular

and credible UFO videos
ever released to the public.

[pilot laughs]

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
One of these videos, at least,

comes from the gun camera
of an F-18.

And you don't just jump out
in your plane and fly out

and chase something
because you saw it go by.

You were told to do so,
and it took a lot of people

to know this was going on.

HENRY:
These videos captured
the world's attention,

and suddenly, it's like
we're in a new world.

We have these incredible videos
shot by Navy pilots

giving irrefutable evidence
that there is a technology

out there that is beyond
anything our near peers have.

NARRATOR:
But perhaps the most shocking
information to come out

about AATIP
was that the government

had recovered strange,
metal alloys of unknown origin.

Luis Elizondo has referred
to these as "meta materials."

The implication is that
they're-they're not special

magical elements or anything,
but they do

seem to be materials
that have been studied.

According to Elizondo,
tests have been run.

The answer has come back:

whatever these things were,
they came from space.

DOLAN:
You know, for years and years,

UFO researchers had talked about
crash retrievals of UFOs,

or that elements
of these objects

had been recovered
and were being studied,

and skeptics would laugh
at these claims.

You know, how ridiculous

such conspiracy,
paranoid, uh, fantasies were.

Uh, well, guess what?
Now we have it confirmed.

NARRATOR:
Although the complete
findings of AATIP

are still considered
highly classified

and may never be released,

its very existence
provides proof

that the United States military
has been secretly investigating

unidentified flying objects
for decades.

One of the really
interesting things about AATIP

is how much information
hasn't been released.

Are there more videos? They were
doing this for, like, five years

or maybe even
a lot longer than that.

I bet you there's a lot more.

We've reached the top spot
in our countdown

of the Top Ten Secret Projects,

and for ancient astronaut
theorists like me,

this last one
truly stands apart.

It was the subject
of a televised

congressional hearing,

where rumors about
unidentified aerial phenomena

became public record.

At number one:
the UAP Recovery Program.

NARRATOR:
The Debrief,
a science news website,

publishes
a sensational interview

with military intelligence
officer David Grusch.

In the article, Grusch
revealed that the Pentagon

has a top secret
task force to recover

and reverse engineer crashed
craft of nonhuman origin.

It is known simply as
the UAP recovery program.

Grusch stated that
there are multiple craft--

alien craft, let's be clear--

that the United States
government

or its licensed private
contractors have possession of.

He speculated it could be
as many as ten or more

or a dozen or more.
It's a lot.

NARRATOR:
According to Grusch,
the UAP recovery program

had secured vehicles that
were made of exotic materials

and suggests they are
nonhuman in origin.

Grusch claims he learned
about this secret project

while serving
on the UAP task force.

POPE:
David Grusch served

on the unidentified
aerial phenomena task force

under the directorship
of Jay Stratton,

and he was a representative

of the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

While I was
on the UAP task force,

Dave Grusch was given the job

to go and start interviewing
people who worked on

a previous UFO program

and see what they were
willing to tell us.

And he found a lot of things.

NARRATOR:
The dramatic revelation

of a secret UAP recovery program
in The Debriefarticle

turned heads on Capitol Hill.

And on July 26, 2023,

just seven weeks
after going public,

David Grusch and two other
whistleblowers

testified before
a congressional hearing.

I have taken every step I can
to corroborate this evidence

over a period of four years

while I was with
the UAP task force

and do my due diligence
on the individuals sharing it.

Uh, this is because
of these steps

I believe strongly
in the importance

of bringing this information
before you.

NARRATOR:
During his testimony,
Grusch refused to divulge

specific details about
the UAP recovery program,

as the project remains
highly classified.

If you believe we have crashed
craft, as stated earlier,

do we have the bodies of the
pilots who piloted this craft?

Uh, biologics came with some
of these recoveries, yeah.

And was this documented
as evidence, video, photos?

The specific documentation
I would have to

talk to you in a SCIF about.

DOLAN:
When pressed
for some of these details,

he would frequently say,
"Look, I am going as far

"as I can legally go with you
here in this environment.

"If we go into a SCIF"--

that is a secured compartmented
information facility--

"where we can discuss
these classified topics,

I can go further.
I will be happy to go further."

HENRY:
Millions of people
are watching it,

and they're hearing this
beyond-dramatic

testimony that,
for the first time, we're told

what everybody knows to be true.

The US government
has been hiding secrets

about UFOs for over 70 years.

The sworn testimony
of David Grusch

seems to confirm what many
have proposed all along:

that secret projects
to study extraterrestrials

have existed for decades.

But whether it's a UAP crash
and retrieval program,

a covert laboratory
in the English countryside,

or even attempts to open portals
to other worlds,

unlocking the truth
behind these secret projects

may finally reveal
a long history

of extraterrestrial visitation
here on Earth.

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