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NARRATOR:
Across the globe,

reports of Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena are on the rise.

But none are more mysterious
or more prevalent

than the accounts
of glowing orbs.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
We don't know what orbs are.

But we have video

of orb-like phenomena
around the world.

NARRATOR:
Their movements frequently
defy the laws of physics.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
You'll suddenly see
an orb appear,

and it starts to move
in one direction

and then, it will disappear.

NARRATOR:
And now orbs are even
being reported

near military bases, ships

-and nuclear weapon facilities.
-[beeping]

Just what are
these glowing orbs?

And more importantly, what
are they doing in our airspace?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
I think it's highly important

that we investigate these orbs

because even the U.S. military
has come forward and said,

"By the way, this is not ours."

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

♪

Starting in mid-November,
people throughout the state

begin to witness
an unsettling phenomenon

when they see strange lights
and giant drones

in the skies above.

NARRATOR:
With no country
or organization claiming

responsibility
for these mysterious aircraft,

residents were perplexed
by what they saw.

NICK POPE:
Some of these drones were
described as being large,

the size of a car,

and some of them were
moving around

doing strange,
right-angle turns,

extraordinary speeds
and maneuvers.

POPE:
People were wondering,

does some of this belong to
an enemy of the United States?

Or could this be
extraterrestrials?

Nobody knew, but everyone
was talking about it--

the media, the public.

They were very concerned.

NARRATOR:
In January 2025,

the U.S. government
finally put out a statement

claiming that the drones were
authorized by the FAA

to conduct some type
of unspecified research.

But for ufologists,

a much bigger mystery
than the drones are

the strange lights
that were seen

along with them
that looked like glowing orbs.

These things were quite
different, obviously not drones.

Smaller, spherical,

sometimes staying
stationary for hours

and then shooting off
at high speed.

Now, that's not an aircraft.

That's not
a bright star or planet.

That-that kind of movement,
that's something else.

NARRATOR:
But what exactly are
these so-called "glowing orbs"?

TAYLOR:
We don't know what orbs are.

They're unidentified
and they're anomalous.

And they're some kind
of phenomena,

so they fit
in this broader UAP category.

UAP is Unidentified
Anomalous Phenomena.

That's the big category.

But orb is a specific subset.

CHILDRESS:
Orbs tend to be
more of a light phenomenon.

They are very distinct

from these, you know,

larger metallic craft

that we call UFOs.

RICHARD DOLAN:
Glowing orbs are
one of the most fascinating

and probably least understood
elements of the UFO

or now UAP phenomenon.

In fact, it's really better

to refer to them as UAP

because they truly are.

They're not unidentified
flying objects.

They really are unidentified
anomalous phenomenon.

Orbs can be varied in size

from anything as small
as like a baseball.

Sometimes quite a bit larger.

They can be bright white,
they can be gold and yellowish,

glowing orange to red.

There's greens, there's blues.

They can hover
for a long period of time,

practically motionless,

and then they can move
very suddenly,

almost instant acceleration,
just like a UFO would do.

These luminous balls of light
that are often seen,

appear to be
intelligently controlled.

There doesn't appear to be
any real technical device,

meaning nuts and bolts.

Think of a, like a plasma ball,
a luminous ball of light

that seems to be able
to operate and maneuver

under some sort of guidance.

These orbs now have been seen
by huge swaths of the population

and the civilian population,

and in fact,
all around the world.

It's a global phenomenon.

There has been a large increase

in sightings of UFOs

and especially of orbs

and people are
capturing it on film.

ELIZONDO:
With the pervasiveness
of cell phones with cameras,

it's getting increasingly harder
to deny their existence.

NARRATOR:
But it's not just civilians

who are reporting sightings
of strange glowing orbs.

According to former intelligence
officer Luis Elizondo,

there have been
numerous encounters

between orbs and our military.

ELIZONDO:
I was brought into a program

that is now known as AATIP,

Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program.

And that was a program
by the Pentagon

to investigate UFOs
or what we now call UAP.

Orbs are being
picked up and seen

by our military personnel,
both in controlled U.S. airspace

and over sensitive
military installations.

And they're quite prevalent.

TSOUKALOS:
Some of those orbs

that have been recorded

run circles around fighter jets
with their acceleration

or going from
10,000 feet altitude

to 85,000 feet altitude

in a snap of a finger.

I mean, this is something
that we today cannot do,

so what's going on here?

Could it be that these represent

some type
of extraterrestrial craft?

NARRATOR:
What are these
mysterious glowing orbs?

Could they be
of extraterrestrial origin?

And if so, why are they here?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

an extraordinary orb video
recorded by the U.S. military.

During a hearing
of the U.S. Senate Committee

on Armed Services,

Pentagon official
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick

presents senators
with new declassified footage.

SEAN KIRKPATRICK:
You'll see it, uh,

come through the top
of the screen.

There it goes.

NARRATOR:
Taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone

in 2022, the footage shows

a small metallic orb
flying over Mosul, Iraq.

PAUL HYNEK:
Mosul is significant

because it's the first
visual corroboration

of a UFO
in an active combat zone.

It's really
unchartered territory

for the U.S. military to divulge
something like this

and not have any kind of answer.

ELIZONDO:
The Mosul orb was over a...

over controlled U.S. airspace.

And to see an orb

that had no wings,
no control surfaces, no rudders,

no cockpit, no engine,

fly unchallenged

over an active theater of war,
um, is problematic.

MARTELL:
Many sightings involve
these metallic orbs,

so getting
an actual shot of this orb

over a military active space
raises the question,

is this possibly
some intervention

of one of these species
that's monitoring Earth,

watching Earth,
gathering data on us?

CHILDRESS:
The American military knows

a lot more about UFOs and orbs
than they will admit.

And it would seem

that the military has got
all kinds of footage

of orbs.

Yet, they won't really comment
on what these orbs really are.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists

are concerned,

orb encounters reported
by military personnel

provide some of the most
compelling evidence there is

of an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.

And while they've only
recently made headlines,

similar phenomena
have been witnessed

by the military for decades.

In fact,
numerous encounters with orbs

were reported by fighter pilots

from multiple countries
during World War II.

NARRATOR:
In the closing stages
of World War II,

Allied forces are pushing deeper
into Nazi-occupied France.

On November 27th,
American aviators

with the 415th Night Fighter
Squadron are conducting

a nighttime raid
along the Rhine River

when they report seeing

several strange red lights
in the sky.

The glowing orbs seem
to pursue them

through a series
of high-speed maneuvers

before they suddenly vanish.

In the days that follow,

more pilots experience
similar encounters.

These craft, these objects,

whatever they-they were,

they were often just described
as balls of light.

And they would come in
very close to Allied aircraft.

POPE:
These strange balls of light

often displayed speeds
and maneuverability

that was way ahead

of-of the cutting edge
of aviation technology.

NARRATOR:
As the sightings increased,

Allied pilots began to call
the mysterious orbs

"foo fighters."

BILL BIRNES:
The reason they were called
foo fighters was

because they were glowing
on the inside.

The word for fire
in French is feu,

and the French called them feu.

And that's how they got the name
foo fighters from the Americans.

These foo fighters often
just stayed very briefly

and then maneuvered
with incredible speed

either straight up or far away.

NARRATOR:
Most concerning to pilots was

that sightings were
often accompanied

by bizarre malfunctions
to their aircraft.

BIRNES:
What the airmen found was
the foo fighters were

sending an electric signal out

that got in the way
of their radios...

[buzzing]

...got in the way of
their navigational instruments.

TAYLOR:
These orbs would fly
near the airplanes,

even as close
to the airplane wing

and the pilots claimed
that it interacted

or confused the controls,

or changed how it operated,

and might have actually

made them, uh, nearly crash.

POPE:
It was as if these things were
observing the pilots.

These balls of light would often
keep track with the aircraft.

So this was a-a real concern
for the authorities.

But no overt hostile action,

which leads to the question,

what were these things
and what was going on?

NARRATOR:
Allied airmen speculated
that the foo fighters were

a secret weapon that had been
developed by the Germans.

But after the war,
it became clear

that the flying orbs
had been encountered

by forces on both sides
of the conflict.

DOLAN:
We learned that Germans
and Japanese pilots

apparently were also
reporting these.

Now, these foo fighters
never seemed to be

weapons directed against them.

Because they often
just stayed very briefly,

and then maneuvered
with incredible speed

either straight up or far away.

We don't know
what they are officially.

They strike me
as classic UFO-type activity.

TSOUKALOS: I think
the argument can be made

that some of these orbs

that we see today are those
foo fighters of World War II.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the foo fighters

of World War II were
extraterrestrial visitors?

And if so,
could they be connected

to the glowing orbs

that military personnel are
witnessing in the present day?

According to UFO researchers,
America's armed forces have

not only been encountering
strange orbs for decades

but they sometimes appear
in swarms.

In July of 2019,
off the West Coast,

ten U.S. Navy warships were
buzzed by unknown craft,

one right after another.

One of those ships is
the USS Omaha.

It was surrounded by more
than a dozen of these things

that would fly toward it,
then fly back.

And they were trying
to get images of it.

And finally on a thermal imaging
system, they got one of them.

It followed
the ship for an hour.

It was a perfectly round sphere,

something like
eight feet across.

No wings, no tail, no rotor.

That video showed that there
were a bunch of these things

floating around the ship
for a long period of time.

They'd zip in, zip out,
disappear, appear.

What the hell was that?

NARRATOR:
Even more astonishing,

footage recorded
by sailors on the warship

shows the mysterious orbs
performing maneuvers

that defy explanation.

TSOUKALOS:
Many of these orbs dive
into the water

and come out and oftentimes
you do not see any splashes.

It's as if there's
an artificial bubble

that allows this thing
to move through material

without any loss of velocity.

ELIZONDO:
Transmedium travel is

a breakthrough technology
from what we have.

We have no idea
even whose technology it is.

The official response
by the Department of Defense

and our government is that
these still remain a mystery.

They remain unsolved,
unattributed.

Is that a concern for the Navy?

Well, absolutely it is.

And it's also a concern

for our national security.

NARRATOR: Two months after
the USS Omahaincident,

in September 2019,

another swarm
of glowing orbs was filmed

off the coast of North Carolina.

Cell phone video uploaded
to YouTube by William Guy

shows what appears to be

a swarm of 14 orbs
hovering over the water.

NARRATOR:
The video was shot
from aboard a ferry

and was witnessed
by other passengers on board.

But perhaps the most
concerning encounter

occurred in December 2023,

when a fleet of orbs appeared

over Langley Air Force Base
in Virginia.

ELIZONDO:
Langley Air Force Base is
certainly a sensitive facility,

and the notion of orbs certainly
is a national security concern.

They're coming completely
unattributed, unchallenged

over a controlled U.S. airspace,

and we have no idea
what their intent is.

But it's not just military
and intelligence eyewitnesses.

These orbs now have been seen by

huge swaths
of the civilian population

all around the world.

It's a global phenomenon.

Every nation out there
that has had to deal

with these orbs
has come out and said

that they're not our technology.

Meaning it's not Russian,
it's not Chinese, it's not U.S.,

it's not Canadian, German, U.K.

We're dealing with something

that is being
intelligently controlled.

We have really no other choice

but to consider the possibility

that some sort
of nonhuman intelligence

is controlling these things.

NARRATOR:
Just who or what is behind

these remarkable encounters
with flying orbs?

Are they simply an advanced,
highly classified technology

created by the military
or a foreign power?

Or is it possible that these
orbs are not of this world?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining hot spots where
glowing balls of light

not only appear but are believed

to travel to other dimensions.

NARRATOR: As darkness falls on
this small town in West Texas,

a number of glowing orbs
materialize in the night sky.

They hover over
the dusty landscape

for a few seconds at a time,
then mysteriously vanish.

These strange orbs have come
to be known as the Marfa lights.

CHILDRESS: One of the most
famous places in the world

for viewing orbs is
Marfa, Texas.

And since the early 1800s.

You can stop
and see these orbs moving

across the desert.

CHILDRESS:
The Marfa lights are
the most consistent

unexplained phenomenon
in the world,

because the Marfa lights
occur virtually

every single night.

BIRNES:
Nobody knows what they are,

but there are
mysterious orbs in the sky

that seem to float
and nobody can understand why.

CHILDRESS:
The state of Texas has actually
put up a rest area there

with binoculars that are free
to look at the Marfa lights.

We just don't know
what the Marfa lights are,

and no one has come up
with any definitive conclusion.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, West Texas is not
the only place in America

where mysterious lights
can be regularly seen.

Roughly 700 miles
northeast of Marfa,

in the Ozarks,

residents frequently report
seeing strange floating orbs.

For decades, the locals
have called them "spook lights."

POPE:
The Ozark spook light

is something that's been sighted
over many, many years,

dating back to the 1830s.

This is the sighting

of a small but intense ball
or orb of light

that some people say is
bright and colorful,

moves erratically,
sometimes darting around.

For almost a hundred years,

people have been
plagued by orbs.

They seem to come
out of nowhere.

In fact, the orbs
just didn't hang there.

They actually
interacted with people.

NARRATOR: In addition
to the Ozarks, another site

where orbs are reported
on a regular basis can be found

600 miles east
in North Carolina.

For decades, people have
flocked to Brown Mountain

to witness the appearance
of lights and glowing orbs

in the night sky.

CHILDRESS:
In the Brown Mountains is
a famous mystery light

called the Brown Mountain light.

And this light is occasionally
seen by people and it's--

this has been going on
for hundreds of years at least.

This goes on for hours.

And you're sitting
there watching,

and then, suddenly,
there's two lights,

and they're moving,
and then they disappear.

No one has really come up
with any definitive theory

on, you know, what is
the origin of these orbs,

or what they're doing,

and whether they're
just a natural phenomenon

or intelligently
controlled in some way.

NARRATOR:
Intelligently controlled?

Could it be that the mysterious
orbs seen in Marfa,

the Ozarks and Brown Mountain

are of extraterrestrial origin?

Perhaps clues can be found
by examining the story

behind an orb carved in stone.

Tempe, Arizona.

Towering above the city
stands a mountain

known as Hayden Butte.

Its rugged slopes are home
to approximately 500 petroglyphs

that were made by the Hohokam,

a Native American tribe
that mysteriously disappeared.

DOVER:
In the 12th century,

the Hohokam just vanished.

The tribe itself
just ceased to exist,

kind of overnight,

and, uh, we still
don't know why.

NARRATOR:
According to some researchers,

clues about what happened
to the Hohokam

can be found by examining
the petroglyphs on Hayden Butte.

DOVER:
There's one petroglyph
that depicts two human figures

standing with their arms
up to the sky,

as if pointing
or possibly worshiping

two circular objects above them.

There's some interpretation

that these could depict
celestial objects--

an orb up above them.

In the Navajo Nation
there are descriptions

of going through
a hole in the sky.

And I can't help but wonder

if like the Navajo,
the Hohokam saw

some kind of portal in the sky

and climbed through.

NARRATOR:
Ancient petroglyphs

representing gateways
to other worlds?

While it may sound
like science fiction,

one prominent theory
about glowing orbs

is that they could represent

entities crossing over
into our reality

from another dimension.

The term interdimensional refers

to other dimensions

or other planes of existence

that are believed to exist
parallel to our own

or perhaps interweaving
within our own.

And when you look
at the orb phenomena

in light of this concept,
it explains a lot

because in eyewitness accounts,
these orbs just seem to pop in

and then pop out.

The orbs themselves
may not be physical.

NARRATOR:
Could the ancient rock art
at Hayden Butte

actually portray orbs traveling
through some sort of portal?

To this day, residents have been
capturing footage

of orbs flying in the skies
above the mountain.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that locations
known for strange lights are

gateways where orbs can
cross into our world

from other planets
or even other dimensions?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

at one of the world's
most famous UFO hot spots:

Skinwalker Ranch.

NARRATOR:
Nestled in a deep valley
surrounded by mountains

is Skinwalker Ranch,

where a myriad
of unusual phenomena

have been documented
for decades.

This 512-acre property is

a place where strange
disappearances are common,

-[creature growling]
-and people regularly

sight bizarre creatures

as well as glowing orbs.

Skinwalker Ranch is

an absolute hot spot of both

UFO and paranormal activity.

It is a spooky place.

They have everything there

from strange,
maybe malevolent creatures

that have been sighted

through to animal mutilations
and, of course, UFO sightings.

And many of those UFOs
involve glowing orbs of light.

BIRNES:
Among the many manifestations

at the Skinwalker Ranch
are floating orbs.

They seem to be coming
out of nowhere,

hovering over the ranch,

and they disappear again.

NARRATOR:
Today, a team of researchers...

-[device whining]
-That's significant.

NARRATOR:
...which includes

astrophysicist
Dr. Travis Taylor,

is conducting scientific
experiments across the property

and has documented
numerous startling anomalies.

-Hey, look, UAP right there!
-Yep.

TAYLOR: Before I went
to Skinwalker Ranch,

I had never personally seen

any type of "UFO" or UAP
phenomenon that wasn't on video.

And once I got there,

and I've been there now
for six years,

it's so common.

We see them at least
once a week on average.

One of the more common ones are

the orbs that we've
measured and captured

on various types of instruments
and video at Skinwalker Ranch.

Since I've been there,
we have video of multiple...

What is that? Right there.

...orange, purple and blue

orb-like phenomena

and many of them
we've captured in infrared,

so we don't know
what color they were.

The orbs seem to be

some size say between
a volleyball

out to maybe the size of a car.

And I don't know
if they're nuts and bolts,

if they're some sort

of new phenomena
that we haven't seen

from Mother Nature before

or if they're
something more exciting.

-Oh, wow!
-Did you guys see that, too?

I got it on camera.

NARRATOR:
Much like the foo fighters
that pilots encountered

during World War II,

glowing orbs that appear
at the ranch

seem to cause some sort
of technological interference.

TAYLOR:
One of the most common
telltale signs that we see

is that GPS on the ranch
nearby the phenomena seems

to suddenly lose its mind.

It literally becomes inaccurate

to within hundreds
to thousands of miles.

And also, we see

a microwave signal
that seems to accompany it,

and it's usually
around 1.6 gigahertz.

Holy crap, look at this.

See this right here?

Look at that, look.

We've got a 1.6 gigahertz
signal right now

that's in,
that's-that's pulsing.

-I see it.
-Yeah, look at that!

It's-it's the one
that we got before.

It could be that these orbs are

some kind of advanced

extraterrestrial technology,

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

CHILDRESS:
Some special energy

that's sent out and can appear.

Holy ...!

-Right there.
-BARD: What is that?
What is that?

TAYLOR:
We got, we got something.

Hold on. Right there.

-WINTERTON: Yeah, I see it.
-BARD: Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR:
Many of the orbs seen
at Skinwalker Ranch

also display capabilities

far beyond those
of any man-made aircraft.

Look right here.

This thing is really
clipping along.

Oh, my gosh. It disappeared.
Can you replay that,

-please?
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

BARD:
And... gone.

TAYLOR:
There are things
that they're doing

that we do not have
modern technology

that can do these things.

And one of the most,
uh, telling is

this blue, silver-like orb
flies out of the sky,

flies into solid rock mesa

and seems to be inside the mesa

for about
three-quarters of a mile

and comes out of the mesa,

at the same speed,
same direction,

same kind of pace.

So that would be
in the realm of transmedium

and that's something we
definitely don't know how to do.

NARRATOR:
As far as Dr. Taylor
is concerned,

while the glowing orb
phenomenon is certainly real,

more data is needed
before a theory can be formed

as to just what these balls
of light might be.

But based on the many orb events

he has observed
at Skinwalker Ranch,

he believes
it's entirely possible

that these orbs are
passing between dimensions.

I always wonder
if these phenomena were

coming from a parallel universe

and not necessarily having
to come from another planet.

Is it true? Do we know?

We don't have
any evidence that tells us

it's a nuts-and-bolts craft
from Zeta Reticuli

or that it's an orb
from some other dimension.

I have no idea.

But since it is a possibility,

it deserves
scientific investigation.

NARRATOR:
The team at Skinwalker Ranch
continues to search for answers

as to what the glowing orbs are
and where they come from.

But the biggest question

concerning these mysterious orbs
is: why are they here?

WINTERTON:
I can still see it.
It's right there.

I mean it-it was
over top of the ranch.

BIRNES:
They seem to be
coming out of nowhere,

hovering over the ranch.

Are these orbs
surveillance devices?

Or are they the actual
creatures themselves?

TAYLOR:
Wow, that was so cool!

TSOUKALOS:
The science,

the experiments
that have been done

at Skinwalker Ranch,
some of them have

baffling, baffling results.

Do you see the orange light
coming from the west?

What in the hell is that?

TSOUKALOS:
What is the origin for this?

I think the extraterrestrials
were called The Watchers

for a reason.

Because what do they do?
They watch. They observe us.

NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrial orbs

have been monitoring our planet,
what could they want?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

clues can be found by examining

the numerous orb encounters
that have been reported

at nuclear missile facilities.

NARRATOR:
As tensions
in the Cold War rise,

the military is on high alert
to stop Soviet aggression.

Key to the nation's defense is

an arsenal of nuclear
Minuteman ballistic missiles.

Ten of these powerful weapons
are stored in silos

at Malmstrom Air Force Base
in Montana.

Early in the morning
on March 27th,

a soldier is conducting

a routine patrol at Malmstrom
when he notices

a red glowing orb is
flying toward the base.

Soldiers above the ground
reported

this very large, substantial,

glowing red orb,

spherical type of glowing thing
coming to where they were.

NARRATOR:
Stationed more
than 40 feet below ground,

in the missile control center,
was Lieutenant Robert Salas.

I was in charge of the--

we call it
a launch control facility,

which controlled
ten nuclear missiles.

These were Minuteman I

intercontinental
ballistic missiles.

What I recall is getting
a call from my topside guard.

There was some lights
flying over the facility.

-[radio chatter]
-They were behaving strangely.

They were flying, very fast,

stopping in midair,
reversing course.

They heard no engine noise.

And he said,
"These are not aircraft, sir."

I said, "Well,
make sure you call me back

if something
more significant happens."

Maybe five, ten minutes later,
he calls back.

This time he's screaming
into the phone.

He's clearly frightened.

He said, "Uh, I'm looking

"at a reddish orange
pulsating light

that's hovering
right above the front gate."

NARRATOR:
According to Lieutenant Salas,

moments after the call

the missiles began
to malfunction.

[alarms ringing]

SALAS:
We hear these horns go off.

We looked over at the board,

this was a bank of lights.

The missiles started going
from operational to no-go.

We lost all ten
right in rapid succession...

...while this object was
still up there.

POPE:
This was a case that,
whatever you think about UFOs,

illustrates why this is

a serious national
security problem.

Salas, at the time, was told

this isn't the first time
this has happened.

This was a systemic issue.

And for every one
of these cases we've heard,

who knows
how many cases there are

that we haven't heard?

SALAS: Whoever,
whatever this craft was,

they knew exactly what it took
to disable our missile system.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible,
as Robert Salas believes,

that the glowing red orb

deactivated
the nuclear missiles?

According to UFO researchers,

a similar event occurred
four years later.

DOLAN:
One astonishing story

happened on July 2, 1971.

It was aboard
the nuclear-powered

aircraft carrier,
the USS John F. Kennedy.

The witness who wrote
about this said

the ship was coming back
from the Caribbean,

and he sees
what he describes as a large

glowing orange,
pulsating luminous sphere.

This thing is
over the aircraft carrier,

and it's disabled
the ship's communications.

[alert blaring]

At which point the ship goes
on battle stations.

But for the next 20 minutes,

weapons systems failed
to function.

At some point
this sphere went away.

A few days later,
there was a message

from the ship's captain
on the intercom,

just saying no one was
expected to speak about it.

NARRATOR:
But the U.S. was not
the only nation

whose military reported
strange encounters with orbs.

The Soviet Union allegedly
experienced at least

one similar UFO encounter

at a nuclear missile base
in Ukraine.

In the 1980s,

the Soviet Union kept
its missile silos in Ukraine.

And one day, over one of those
missile sites, an orb appeared,

and the controllers in the site
looked down and they said,

"The missiles are fueling."

Nobody told them to fuel.
The controller tried to stop it.

They didn't have control.

Suddenly, they saw
on their boards

launch codes were being entered
for the United States.

The countdown started.

The panicked controllers
tried to shut it down,

but they couldn't.

As the countdown progressed,

suddenly they shut down,

and the orb flew away.

According to former intelligence
officer Lou Elizondo,

interaction between orbs

and nuclear facilities is
still happening.

ELIZONDO:
These orbs were being witnessed
over our nuclear equities.

So think
of nuclear power plants,

nuclear weapons
development locations.

And so I think it's safe to say

that if you have
something that can enter

into controlled U.S. airspace
with complete anonymity

and unchallenged,

and outperform
anything that we have,

certainly, from a national
security perspective,

that's a problem.

NARRATOR:
Could it be

that extraterrestrial orbs
are interacting

with our military bases?

And if so, for what purpose?

TSOUKALOS:
The fact is,

many of these orbs
have been seen

over military installations
and military equipment.

To me, suggests that if this is
extraterrestrial in origin,

whoever is visiting,
they want to show

a more technologically
primitive society,

"Hey, we can turn off
your nuclear rocket silos."

NARRATOR:
Could the claims of Robert Salas
and Lou Elizondo be true?

That otherworldly
glowing orbs are

monitoring and interfering
with our nuclear arsenal?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

and argue that the recent surge
in orb sightings is evidence

of an even more profound
alien agenda.

One that may be preparing
humanity for disclosure.

NARRATOR:
Mysterious glowing orbs seen

flying over our cities
and our shores.

-[alert blaring]
-Strange balls of light

witnessed hovering
over our nuclear facilities.

And small metallic orbs observed

flying through
an active combat zone.

If these orbs are
of nonhuman origin,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe,

should we be concerned?

ELIZONDO:
People often ask,

should we be taking this threat

more seriously?

And I would submit to you
that we're not sure

if it's even a threat yet.

ELIZONDO: In order to determine
if something's a threat,

from a national security
perspective,

it's a very simple calculus.

It's capabilities versus intent.

Now we've seen
some of the capabilities,

yet we have no idea the intent.

DOLAN:
You can look at orbs
one of two ways.

They're either
natural phenomenon

or technology of some sort.

I tend to think
that's the answer.

I tend to think that
they are a technology--

a very, very advanced
technology.

And I do not believe

that this is something
that we humans have created.

And I don't know
of any scientist

who's really come up
with a viable theory

to explain this.

So my assumption,
until indicated otherwise,

is that we're dealing with
technology from somewhere else.

HENRY:
The question comes down to:

why are they here?

And there's largely
two possible reasons.

One, these are
interdimensional travelers

from other planes of existence,

or perhaps they are some kind

of a reconnaissance craft.

CHILDRESS:
It could be that these orbs are

some kind of advanced
extraterrestrial probe,

that's sent out

and it's observing
and taking calculations

and things like that, and then,

when it has
all the information it needs,

it suddenly disappears.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that glowing orbs

have been sent to Earth
to observe humanity?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

and they suggest it's part

of a long-standing agenda
to help humankind.

TSOUKALOS:
If an extraterrestrial
civilization has achieved

the technological wherewithal
to travel across galaxies

and wanted to destroy us,

it would have already
happened a long time ago.

Today,
with all these orbs that we see,

more and more evidence is

coming forward
that we are certainly

not alone in the universe.

And with everything
that's going on right now,

I think
that this may be the time

when we will make contact.

POPE:
The orbs have been here,
and they're still here.

And we should be doing more
scientific investigation because

the key to the mystery
of the orbs

may be the key
to the mystery of UFOs

and alien visitation.

NARRATOR:
From military encounters
during World War II...

NARRATOR: ...to modern-day
smartphone videos...

NARRATOR:
...do glowing orbs

provide evidence
of an otherworldly intelligence

that has been present on Earth
for more than 80 years?

And if they are now, day by day,

revealing themselves
in ever larger numbers,

could we soon meet
the extraterrestrial

or interdimensional entities
behind this phenomenon?

Perhaps solving the mystery
of the glowing orbs

will finally put us on the path
to being reunited

with our alien ancestors.

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