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Narrator: Next on "alien highway"...

This is it. This is the site, in 1947,

Where mac brazel found the debris.

'cause this is an active investigation.

Chuck: This cave is a crashed ufo site from 1947.

Guys! I see a cave.

Be careful, okay?

Oh, [bleep].

Hey, come here! I think I found something.

-And chuck... -What the hell?

...That's an official cut.

There's just no way to walk away from this.

♪♪

There's something happening across our land.

It's carving a terrifying path.

Right there. -Whoa!

Lawmen don't want to talk about it.

I have no idea how you would explain that.

And the government denies it's even happening.

Anchorman: The white house has dismissed

A full ufo investigation.

Those who speak up face ridicule or even worse.

Anchorwoman: An el paso county sheriff's deputy

Fired from his job.

They took my badge, but they can't take my voice.

I'm determined to uncover what's happening.

Look at that thing! Do you see that?

I saw it that night.

I listen to people who are afraid to speak out.

Nobody is gonna believe me.

I find evidence that's hiding in plain sight.

This is it right here.

Together with my son, dan zukowski...

It's absolutely moving right now.

....And investigator heather taddy,

We never really get this close.

I'm here to find the truth...

Dan: I see it!

Chuck: ...Along america's alien highway.

♪♪

Narrator: Roswell, new mexico -- the place where many believe

The government's cover-up of ufos began.

July 1947.

Ranchers dee proctor and mac brazel

Discover what they believe to be

The remains of a crashed alien spaceship.

However, the military seizes the wreckage

And declares the downed craft

Is just a simple weather balloon.

There are allegations of a cover-up,

But no hard evidence.

But what if the military didn't capture all of the wreckage?

Could the new mexico desert still be hiding

The ultimate proof that ufos exist

And have visited our world?

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Everybody's heard of the ufo crash

At roswell, new mexico, in 1947.

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But roswell is where the story ends.

Corona is where the story begins.

That's where the debris site was found.

My newest informant is a federal employee

With high security clearance.

He's leaking certain information to me,

And it doesn't get bigger than this --

A map allegedly drawn by the rancher

Who buried the roswell ufo debris.

This ex-government official says this map

Leads to a cave where this corona debris is hidden.

And if we can find that debris,

It will prove there is life on other planets.

Narrator: Chuck is meeting with heather at a local diner in corona

To update her on the investigation.

Heather! Hey, chuck.

How we doing? Good.

I'm so excited to be here.

You know about the roswell crash of 1947.

But of course.

Everybody knows about the debris site

Where the craft came down. Uh huh.

Been all over the news.

But a lesser-known story is about a corona local

Actually found some of the material

And hid it in a cave. Wow.

And people have been looking for that cave for decades.

Narrator: When the craft collided with the ground,

There was a severe thunderstorm,

And it's believed that the wreckage was scattered

Over 30 miles and across three counties.

Well, this is a map

My informant says will lead us to the cave.

Heather: The roswell/corona crash,

It's the most well-known case in ufology.

Finding the debris would be a game changer.

This is the crash site, and then 17 miles.

Here's the cave.

So, we think some of the debris is in this cave.

Yeah, this is a pretty crude map.

We need someone to help us figure this out,

So I reached out to a guy named sandy proctor.

He's one of dee proctor's only surviving relatives.

He's definitely probably been to the debris site before. Yeah.

Narrator: Dee proctor was just seven years old in 1947

When he and mac brazel

Discovered strange debris on dee's family ranch.

We can actually talk to someone

That's part of the proctor family,

And we'll show him the map

To see if he can point us to the right direction.

This is getting exciting. Are you ready to go?

Yes. Let's rock.

Narrator: Meanwhile, 100 miles away in santa fe,

Dan is on a mission to verify evidence.

Dan: What we're doing today is, we're gonna take a piece

Of the map that my dad received --

This is a piece of the map -- and have it carbon-dated.

It'd be pretty amazing if,

A., this map is from the '40s or '50s,

And b., we are able to go and locate some of these items.

So, they're telling me there's a three-week turnaround,

So I got to drop this map off as soon as possible.

Narrator: As dan investigates the authenticity of the map,

Chuck and heather head to the proctor ranch,

Alleged to have been strewn with ufo debris

During the roswell crash.

[ birds cawing ]

Chuck: The military came in, and if they heard

Any rumors at all of someone having debris,

They would track that person down and take it from them.

Now, you tell me why they would do that

If it was a weather balloon.

For the longest time,

There were accusations that the proctors had material

And they didn't give it up.

Narrator: Sandy proctor still lives on their ranch,

Where his late brother dee allegedly found remnants

Of the roswell crash of 1947.

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Mr. Proctor? Sandy proctor.

-Can I call you sandy? -Yes.

Chuck zukowski. Hi, sandy. I'm heather.

Nice to meet you.

[ squeaking ]

I've been investigating the '47 incident for years.

I always wanted to talk to someone

From the proctor family to get your side,

What dee saw.

What did he say? Or what do you remember?

♪♪

And so, your mom actually saw some of the wreckage, then?

You're talking about memory metal.

So, you believe your mom actually saw

And touched memory metal? Mm-hmm.

♪♪

Narrator: Memory metal has been theorized

As either an experimental military material

Or recovered alien technology.

Do you yourself think that there's still debris

Hidden around somewhere?

What about the proctor family?

I heard that the proctor family had debris for a while.

Okay.

Narrator: Sandy brings chuck and heather to the outskirts of his land,

Where the mysterious debris

Was discovered over 70 years ago.

♪♪

This is it. This is it? Oh, man.

This is the site, in 1947,

Where mac brazel found the debris.

Something came down here and hit hard.

Standing over the original debris site,

Chuck reveals his key piece of evidence.

♪♪

There's a crude map

I want you to take a look at for us...

-Okay. -...And see if you recognize

Any landmarks or anything on the map.

I got a hold of this.

Anything on this map ring a bell?

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Hey, dan, hang on a second. What the hell is that?

Aha! We found a cave. Ha-ha!

Alright, I'll meet you up there, dan.

Keep digging. Keep digging.

I'm going in, and I'm gonna get some answers.

♪♪

Narrator: While in the middle of the corona crash site,

Chuck shows sandy proctor the map

That can potentially lead them to the secret cave

That may hold the hidden debris.

Chuck: Sandy, there's a crude map

I want you to take a look at for us.

Okay.

I got a hold of this.

Anything on this map ring a bell?

♪♪

Backed into a corner, chuck has no choice

But to tell sandy about his government informant.

-Yeah, alright. -Okay.

-Yeah, okay. -Okay.

In this territory, when you tell people

You're connected with a government whistle-blower,

They'll open up to you.

A lot of people around here don't trust the government.

They give me information because they know

I want to discover the truth, no matter how much

The government wants to shut it down.

Alright. See, if it's corona crash site,

If you're looking at it this way,

It looks like it's in a mountain area, or...

Sandy: Alright, so...

Where is gallinas peak?

The fact that sandy could look at this map

And decipher those symbols as the gallinas peak,

This tells me that we're on a trail

For the mother lode of all ufo discoveries.

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That's the gallinas peak right over through there.

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How far do you think that is from here?

25 to 30 miles as the crow flies.

That's where we're headed.

Narrator: After dropping off the map for forensic testing,

Dan meets up with chuck and heather

To get updated on their investigation.

If you look at the peaks here, alright?

Right here, this is gallinas peak.

Oh, how do we determine based off of that map

This is the mountain range we're gonna be looking at?

Sandy proctor looked at the map,

And he seemed confident that this is gallinas peak.

And he had heard stories of somebody,

Or the possibility that somebody

Could be hiding material around the gallinas peak area.

I mean, you know, these are stories that are out there.

So, that points to this guy right here,

This other peak, which I think is gallinas peak.

Actually, that's...

That actually makes sense, doesn't it?

That's it. That does make sense.

And that's why you're gonna help me

Try and find this cave.

By comparing their hand-drawn map

To a topography map of gallinas peak,

The team now has their first clue

As to the general vicinity of the hidden cave.

So, in case we do run into a cave,

I'll have my harness. We'll have rope.

We got some climbing gloves.

♪♪

What are you thinking, dad? Up the ridge here?

Yeah, I think it's a good start.

You got your radios ready? -Yeah, we're good.

Alright, guys. We have about three hours

Before we lose light, so let's move.

♪♪

Narrator: The team has ventured as far as they can by truck.

From here, they'll have to cover the rugged terrain on foot.

Hey, dan. Did you ever go on any family vacations

That weren't alien-, ufo-, paranormal-related?

The majority, like 80%, were.

Yeah.

Dad saying, "let's go on a family vacation!"

But then, we're gonna go here,

And then we're actually gonna go over here instead.

All the places that we went,

And I hated him for it when we were younger,

I appreciate it now because, I mean,

How many 9-year-old kids

Got to go and see old indian burial grounds?

That's where we hit all the native american ruins,

That you guys started calling it "the ruined vacation."

-Yeah, it was ruined. -[ laughs ]

What do you think, dan? About 7,600-foot elevation here?

Let me tell you.

8,200. Chuck: 8,200?

Hey, not too bad.

Going by what sandy proctor said,

We may be in the general area,

But this is still a massive area.

♪♪

Dan: Hey, just stay there for a second.

I want to check something out. -Alright.

Narrator: After hours of searching without finding anything,

The team splits up to cover more ground

In their search for the hidden cave.

[ snow crunching ]

♪♪

Guys! I think I see a cave.

Up there.

Chuck: Hey, dan, hang on a second! Heather sees something.

Come here, chuck.

Where?

I can see it from here.

It's right up there.

What the hell is that? Can you see it?

That's right where dan is, isn't it?

Yeah, he's -- hey, dan!

I see it. I see it!

-Hey, come here. -What the hell?

Dan: I think we got something over here.

♪♪

Narrator: The team's investigation

Has taken them deep inside new mexico's gallinas mountains

In search of a cave rumored to hold remnants

Of the legendary roswell ufo.

As dan covers the high ground,

Heather makes a potential discovery.

Heather: Guys! I think I see a cave.

Up there. Chuck: Hey, dan, hang on a second!

Where? I can see it from here.

It's right up there.

What the hell is that? You see it?

That's right where dan is, isn't it?

Yeah, he's -- hey, dan!

I see it! I see it.

I'm gonna hang right here. Check it out!

Aha! We found a cave.

Ha-ha! Let's go up this way.

We can probably catch him around the left.

♪♪

Alright, I'll meet you up there, dan!

Dan: Okay.

♪♪

[bleep] no, it's...

It's just a big tree. Damn.

That's what we saw. Yeah.

The trunk of it, it looked like a cave opening.

[ laughs ] damn! It looked like there was a cave.

You saw it, too.

[ bird caws ]

Dan: What I saw looked like a cave,

But I think it's just these trees over here.

It was an optical illusion.

[ sighing ] god.

Hey, why don't we head back to the truck?

We can put the drone up, kind of fly it around this area

And around the corner to see if we see anything.

It's time to change our approach.

A drone camera is a perfect tool

To find hidden places you just can't get to on foot.

Heather, I want you to take the drone up with neil.

Just hover the drone up

Where you see anything that looks like a cave,

And we'll go to the drone, alright?

-Got it. -Let's do it.

Narrator: Heather will become the team's eyes in the sky...

Alright. Take off? Yeah.

[ drone motor whirring ]

...As she navigates the drone over the mountainside,

Scanning for caves.

Go a little ahead of them that way.

[ beeping ]

So, if there's gonna be a cave,

It's gonna be along the ridgeline.

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Chuck: You see straight up over there

In between the trees?

Wait. Right there -- what's that?

Chuck, can you get a little closer?

Ooh, right there! Right there, right there.

Hey guys, go to the edge of the ravine.

I think I see it.

Definitely looks like a cave.

It looks like it's super steep getting down there,

But I think we found it.

The drone's over here?

Dan: Yeah. It's right over here. See it?

[ drone buzzing ]

Of course, it's got to be on a freaking cliff

Where we can't get to it. Well, that's why you're here.

Oh, we're not going any farther like this.

So, the drone is hovering over that ravine.

It looks really steep.

I'm not sure I can get down there.

I don't know. How do you think we get down there?

I think we use this tree for a base,

And then I get my harness on and go down as far as I can.

I'll tie off to here

And then just hold onto the rope. Okay.

I'll just go down super slow. Alright.

And then I'll let you know what I see down there.

You stay right there. I'm just gonna go right here.

I need the harness on.

You ever practice doing this laying down like that?

No, but this is so steep, I don't want to fall down.

Yeah, I got mine on.

We got to make sure it's tight.

♪♪

Okay, you're on camera.

See that edge right there?

That's a drop-off, so just be careful, alright?

[ chuckles ] mom will be pissed if you get hurt.

♪♪

Okay, you ready?

Okay, I got you.

Okay.

Okay, careful.

Okay.

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Careful. Watch the snow.

You okay?

♪♪

Narrator: Heather has located a possible entrance to a cave

Using the drone.

Whoo! [ drone buzzing ]

Chuck acts as dan's counterweight

As he rappels into the ravine

Where they hope to find hidden alien artifacts.

Chuck: Careful. Watch the snow.

♪♪

[bleep] dan! Line check.

[bleep] hold on.

Almost lost the rope. [bleep]

I'm okay. I'm okay.

This is it on the rope.

I'm gonna lean over and see if I can see anything.

Okay.

♪♪

How far down?

It's like 20, 30 feet.

Uh, I don't think it's a cave.

Hold on.

[ grunts ]

No, it's not a cave.

[ sighs ] [bleep]

Alright. Damn it, damn it, damn it.

You know, these kinds of dead ends,

They just come with the territory.

As a ufo investigator, you expect that,

But it doesn't make it any less frustrating when it happens.

Heather: What'd you see?

Dan: So, that ravine you were talking about? Uh huh?

I saw what you were thinking was a cave,

But after looking at it, it's not. Aw.

It was just an indent in the ridge.

It really looked like it from the drone.

Chuck: Look, guys, this area is just too big.

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I think we need to get another opinion on this map.

I've got another contact -- don schmitt.

I'm gonna call him and see if he's got

Any other ideas about this map.

So, let's get going.

Don schmitt is one of america's leading authorities

On the roswell event of 1947.

He's interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses,

Probably researched thousands of pages based on roswell,

And he's deftly collected enough data

To keep guys like me busy for, like, years.

[ computer tones ]

Well, hi, don. Appreciate you taking my call.

Did you get an opportunity to see the map that I sent you?

Yes.

What are your thoughts?

I think you have the wrong location.

It's a little bit further south.

-Further south? -It's further south, yes.

On richards ranch.

Richards adjoins

The very ranch where the debris field was located.

Okay.

A number of witnesses have indicated

That dan richards managed to steal a piece

Of the debris from the actual crash.

He was a witness to the cleanup activity

At the very debris field site.

And I believe we can introduce you

To the very people living at the ranch.

We went to gallinas peak

On what sandy proctor told us about the map.

But once we got there, it kind of didn't make sense.

When I flipped the map over,

It pointed right towards the richards family ranch.

Now it looks like these pieces are slowly coming together.

Narrator: The team has targeted a new area

To search for the roswell wreckage.

But first, they'll need the approval

Of dan richards' descendant, who has agreed to meet him

Only if his identity and the ranch location remain a secret.

Man: So, dan's cave has been...

Uh, kind of a secret in the family for decades now.

Heather: Sir, what happened with the material?

Man: Back in '47,

Him and a bunch of ranchers were gathering,

And they came across a crash site.

Well, dan picked up a couple of pieces of it

And hid it away in his cave.

He ran a couple of tests on it,

And it couldn't be cut by torch, couldn't be burnt,

Couldn't be cut by hacksaw or clippers or anything.

But you could take it in your hands,

Crumble it up like tin foil, and open your hand up,

And it would pop out to its original shape.

Chuck, that's exactly how sandy proctor described it.

Man: Well, sandy proctor and dan were friends at the time,

But when the government came in,

They said it was a weather balloon,

But, I'm sorry, weather balloons can be cut

And torched and what have you.

Narrator: In 1947, the u.S. Army air forces

Launched a top-secret project called operation mogul,

Which involved microphones flown on high-altitude balloons

Used to detect sound waves

Generated by soviet atomic bomb tests.

In 1994, after public pressure

To resolve the controversy behind the roswell incident,

The government released declassified documents

And claimed the remnants of the crash

Belonged to one of these balloons.

Man: According to family legend,

He took these pieces of metal and hid it away

In what the family considers "dan's cave."

Are you telling me that this location

Could house alien debris?

Man: It possibly could, yes.

And you know where this cave is?

Man: I've got my suspicions of where several entrances are,

But I don't have definite proof of where they are.

Have you ever tried to go check it out for yourself?

My family members have discouraged it.

Why?

Because they don't want it found.

Why don't you think they want it found?

What are they hiding? I don't know.

Is it somewhere on this property?

Man: Yes.

How big's the property?

Man: We have 1 1/2 square miles of private land.

If you would like, I can show you where I think it is.

Yeah.

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Right here on this hill,

If you look at the landslide right there.

Uh huh?

That's where, supposedly, the entrance was.

Now, at the time,

They were worried about government interference.

I'm thinking they blew it up so that nobody could get in.

It does look like this could've been a cave.

-Yeah. -Right.

You know, if you had some dynamite,

You could pretty much cover this whole area.

Dan: And looking at all the rocks out here,

It looks like it could've been shrapnel

From the actual explosion.

I mean, if I just imagined an opening of a cave,

This is where I think one would be.

Yeah. Sure it looks like it.

'cause, like, you have the two high points here,

Then it slowly starts sloping in.

So I think we're on a good spot. Yeah.

Man: You know, my grandmother and my great-grandmother

Tried to keep me away from this area.

They said it's dangerous.

I'd just be curious to see

What's underneath here and how we can get to it.

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Are there any other known entry points

That we might be able to look at?

There's a possibility of another cave entrance,

But nobody would tell me where it was.

So then, of course -- you know, have to ask --

If you think that's the entrance,

Why haven't you got a bulldozer out here and...?

-Family members. -Family members? Okay.

Chuck: Do you mind if we take a look?

If we get an opening large enough,

We've got a camera that we can snake in there,

See if we see anything.

Man: I would love to see what you guys can find.

-Let's do this. -Yes.

And there goes dan,

Out there looking for another entrance.

[ laughter ]

Dan: His family's super determined to keep this cave hidden.

It makes you wonder why. What are they trying to hide?

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This is definitely looking like cave area, huh?

Yeah, it does. Just the way the rocks are set up.

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There were some more rocks over to our right.

Let's go check that out and see if there's anything.

Okay.

♪♪

Dan: Hey, come here! I think I found something!

♪♪

Think we got something over here.

Narrator: While searching the richards ranch,

Outside of corona, for signs of a hidden cave,

Dan believes he may have made a significant discovery.

Dan: I think we got something over here.

Come look at this and see how far it goes back.

I mean, it's little. It's a little entry, but...

Look at that! Yeah, look.

Look down into it.

Holy [bleep] that goes back.

[ camera beeping, shutter clicking ]

Looks like it opens up a little bit.

Yeah, it does.

Heather, get down and look inside there.

Look and see how far it goes back. Ah!

Is there any sign of it being an animal burrow?

Do you see anything in there? I don't see...

I don't see any scratch marks. I don't see hair.

No scratch marks. How about bones?

I don't see bones. I don't see dung.

You don't see anything like that?

Mnh-mnh.

I want to hit it with a geiger counter first.

We want to make sure it's safe.

Just put that inside there, just to make sure

That we don't have any radiation in this area.

Do you see anything? Or do you hear anything?

-I don't hear anything. -Okay.

Looks safe. Alright.

Alright, thanks.

When you're looking for ufo debris,

You could get caught up in the investigation

And totally forget that this stuff could be contaminated

With radiation.

I always make sure that I don't expose myself or my team

To anything that could be dangerous.

I'm thinking that there might be a good cave inside here.

It could have been larger back in '47,

Collapsed a little bit.

That, or it could be another opening to the same cavern.

It could. It absolutely could.

And over the years, you know, just kind of sealed up

Due to erosion.

That definitely looks like an entrance to something.

Well, why don't we go back, grab some gloves,

Grab your little hand shovel,

And just open up the hole a little bit? Sounds good to me.

And then we'll see how much farther it opens up,

And then, if so, we can send some cameras in there.

Alright. Let's go do it. Cool.

This hole in the ground is definitely intriguing,

But is it housing alien debris?

We got to dig it out and get in there before we can tell.

Chuck: Alright, how many inches is that?

It's like a foot, foot and a half.

Alright, go ahead, and if you dig some of the dirt out...

See if you can get any deeper on that.

I'm gonna keep my face away from this

In case a chupacabra jumps out and bites me in the face.

Could be other creatures out here that we're unaware of.

I'll let you know if I see anything moving. Thank you.

Am I getting back there far enough? Yeah.

Keep going to your left, 'cause that'll give us

A better opening into the hole.

Chuck: And throw the emf meter in there and see if you get anything.

An emf meter can detect high electromagnetic fields.

This could indicate that et materials

Are right here underground.

[ meter squealing ]

It's at 1 1/2.

Alright, so it's a low reading. Okay.

It actually opens up.

How far back do you think it goes?

It's got... [ sighs ]

It's really hard to see,

But it looks like it bends,

And then I can't see the back of it.

Like, do you think --

-Oh, hey. Listen, listen. -Whoa, whoa. Listen.

[ banging ]

Chuck: Hey, hey. Listen to that.

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[ banging continues ] that sounds hollow, doesn't it?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

This empty-space sound is way too large.

You just don't get that with an animal burrow.

It could tell us that there's a cavern right underneath us.

What do you want to do?

I want to try and get this piece off right here.

You think you can muscle that?

That would give us a better idea what's down there.

If not, we can use your winch

And hook it up to pieces of it

And try to pull it off.

-Let's do that. -That's an idea.

-Let's go in the cave. -That's an idea.

Let me try to use my muscles first. Alright.

Let's get back. Get my flashlight.

♪♪

Heather: Go, dan!

♪♪

It's absolutely crucial that we establish

This is a real cave.

A legitimate cave would connect to a larger network of caves

Within this whole ranch.

The test is to determine whether or not this cave is breathing.

If so, this cave could actually hold

Ufo debris from 1947.

Dan: Yeah, it opens up to the right.

So, you think it goes this way?

It goes in two different directions. Yeah.

Yeah, so nobody walk over here.

It might be huge.

Then it actually opens up...

Chuck: Dan, do you feel a breeze?

Hang on. Where's that coming from?

Do you feel, like, air coming out? Cold air?

Heather: Let me see. Actually, I do feel colder air coming out.

You do? You do feel? Seriously?

Yeah. Put your hand in there.

Yeah. Oh, weird. [ laughs ]

You can feel a breeze.

I got a cold breeze hitting me in the face right now.

That's a cave, guys. That's a cave.

♪♪

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Narrator: While surveying the richards ranch

In corona, new mexico, the team discovers an opening

That could potentially be connected

To a series of underground caves.

Dan: Yeah, it opens up to the right.

So, you think it goes this way?

It goes in two different directions.

Yeah, so nobody walk over here.

It might be huge.

Then it actually opens up...

Chuck: Dan, do you feel a breeze?

Hold on. Where's that coming from?

Do you feel, like, air coming out? Cold air?

Heather: Let me see. Let me put my hand there.

Actually, I do feel colder air coming out.

You do? You do feel? Seriously?

Yeah. Put your hand in there.

Yeah. Oh. [ laughs ]

You can feel a breeze.

I got a cold breeze hitting me in the face right now.

That's a cave, guys. That's a cave.

That means there's another entrance, too,

Because it's breathing.

Good find, dan.

We have a cave on our hands, and this cave could hold

The greatest find in ufo history --

The debris from the roswell crash.

It looks like we're getting really close here,

But we got to keep on digging.

There is cold air coming out of that.

[ laughs ]

Where's it coming from?

That tells me it's an entrance to a cave.

It is an entrance to a cave. Yeah.

I mean, I wasn't expecting you to get

A breeze hitting you on the face.

I wasn't expecting to find this, either, so...

[ laughing ] yeah, I know.

So, I have to admit, I'm kind of blown away about this.

I was not expecting to find a cave

Or anything like that out here.

Now I just got to get in there and find out how far it goes.

It's a cave! Keep digging. Keep digging.

[ sighs ] that ain't happening.

That's not happening, either.

I got some more tools back in the truck.

I can go get them. You got a pickax?

Yeah. Yeah, let's get that,

And I can punch through this.

Gonna go get it. Awesome.

♪♪

♪♪

[ tools scraping ]

Alright.

Here, dan.

Yeah! You hear it?

♪♪

[ grunts, sniffs ] alright.

Yeah, you do the shovel. Yeah.

I'll do the pickax.

Hey, you can see where it's dropping right there.

Yeah, it goes down.

[ shovel scraping, clanking ]

Okay. Your turn, dad.

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[ grunts ]

I don't have to work out today.

[ laughs ]

[ breathing heavily ] hey, check that out!

What? Look at that.

Oh! Look at that.

Stalagmites? Stalactites.

Stalactites or -mites?

No, stalactites.

[ panting ]

Look at that.

Narrator: Stalactites are most commonly found

Inside caves in the southwest.

Unlike stalagmites, which grow from the ground up,

Stalactites hang from the ceiling of the cave

And are formed by the deposition of minerals

Left from seeping groundwater.

[ breathing heavily ]

It's pretty cool.

You have anything else that we can see back farther?

Like a pole or something? Well... [ sniffs ]

I mean, I got that pole back there in the back of the truck.

You put the camera at the end of that,

It'll just take you down to where it starts to curve.

We might be able to get something.

Gonna grab that and see how far it goes back.

So, we're losing light.

If that camera reveals that it's big enough

For me to get in there, I'm going in,

And I'm gonna get some answers.

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Heather: It's going in. It's in the hole.

Chuck: Alright, let's see.

See anything?

Looks like it's closed off from there.

No, it goes back further.

See right there?

It's just that, because we were shoveling,

We pushed some dirt in front of it, didn't we?

Dan: That's the top. Yeah, you can see

Where we pushed dirt in front of it.

Try going to the right.

Yeah.

Oh, look! It goes in there, too.

Look at that. Hey, look at that.

So, it opens up to the right, too. Yeah.

Oh, look at that!

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Chuck: You know, guys...

Over 70 years ago, something happened

Just on the other side of the hill a few miles back

That changed this part of the world.

Debris was scattered everywhere,

And this area is the exact place

Where someone could've found debris and hid it in a cave.

And this could be the cave.

This is exactly what we were looking for -- exactly.

♪♪

Who knows what it looked like back in '47,

But it's definitely in the right area.

This is where their ancestors said

That debris was hidden in caves.

This is it. This is the location, right here.

Now we need to find out whether or not

We have debris in there.

Make it just a little bit wide,

And I might be able to slide in there.

Want to try it? I mean, we're out here, right?

Let's do it.

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What do you think?

[ dan grunts ]

I don't know. It's kind of tight.

Uh, chuck?

Narrator: Just as the team is picking up steam,

Dan richards' descendant returns with disappointing news.

Uh, yeah... Uh...

My family members have found out that you are here.

They like their privacy,

So they're not that much into people poking around

Where they don't need to be.

Chuck: Well, 'cause this is an active investigation.

That's the problem.

This location is now blocked off.

Narrator: For unknown reasons, the richards family

Has put a halt to the team's excavation.

Chuck: I don't know.

Maybe the family wants the debris for themselves.

Maybe they're afraid that the military may come in

And take the debris from them. Might harass them.

I don't know,

But [sighs] I'm really disappointed right now.

Okay, guys. That's it. Pack it up.

We're getting shut down. -I turned it off.

There's just no way to walk away from this.

Heather: We have to.

For now, we have to.

We may be shut down for now,

But we're gonna find out what's in that cave

One way or another.

Think we're getting closer.

Dan: One step closer to the truth.

Let's go. Okay.

♪♪

Narrator: The roswell incident of 1947

Is still regarded as one of the government's

Biggest cover-ups of ufo evidence.

Was it really just a military balloon?

Or was the debris from out of this world?

The mystery remains.

And while the ufo debris is out of reach for now,

The discovery of a cave on the very property

Where the map indicated it was buried

Brings the team one step closer to exposing what lies hidden

In the new mexico desert, and could prove

Not only that aliens exist, but they've already been here.

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