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<i>On Capitol Hill today,</i>

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{\an8}a bipartisan call for more
government transparency on UFOs,

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{\an8}or as the military calls them,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAPs.

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{\an8}The objects have been detected
essentially where all operations,

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{\an8}Navy operations are being
conducted across the world.

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{\an8}The technology
that we faced was far superior

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{\an8}than anything we have currently
or we're gonna have in the next 20 years.

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{\an8}Unidentified aerial phenomena
are a potential national security threat

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{\an8}and they need to be treated that way.

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<i>United States government
has gathered a great deal of information</i>

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<i>about UAPs over many decades,</i>

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but has refused to share it
with the American people.

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That is wrong, and additionally,
it breeds mistrust.

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I spent 11 years in the US Navy
as a fighter pilot.

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For 18 years,
I flew fighters for the US Navy.

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I spent 20 years working
in the US intelligence community.

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I served as the fourth
Director of National Intelligence.

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I spent 25 years
as a senior official with the CIA.

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I retired from the Navy as a one-star
admiral after 32 years of service.

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I worked on highly classified UAP programs
for the government as a senior scientist.

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I spent 32 years in and out
of government in national security.

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I've worked 28 years as an astrophysicist
on highly classified UAP programs

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for the United States government
and for the defense industry.

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I'm a professor
in the department of pathology

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at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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And for the last ten years or so,

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I've been working
with the Department of Defense

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and people in the CIA on the UAP topic.

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I've come to the conclusion that
we are not only not alone in the universe,

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but we have been discovered

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by an intelligence
from some other part of the universe.

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There's evidence we are not alone.

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Humanity is not the only
intelligent species in the universe.

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We're not alone in the universe.

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I wouldn't be so arrogant to suggest

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there are no other
forms of life out there.

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Humanity is not the only intelligence
in the universe.

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UAPs are real.
They're here and they're not human.

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There are other intelligences
that have highly advanced exotic craft

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interacting with the human population.

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They are here. This is real.
It's happening. It's happening now.

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Non-human intelligence exists.

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It's been interacting with humanity

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and it's been doing so
on this planet for a long time.

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We are not the only intelligent
life form in the universe.

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There's something here on the planet
with us that is intelligent

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and more intelligent than us.

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This is the biggest discovery
in human history.

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<i>My name is Lue Elizondo.
In 2009, my life changed forever.</i>

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{\an8}That's when I was recruited into
a highly sensitive government program

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that investigated
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, UAP,

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also commonly known as UFOs.

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<i>My work for the US government goes back</i>

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<i>almost 30 years
to when I joined the US Army.</i>

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<i>From there, I had the good fortune</i>

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<i>of being recruited into various programs
within military intelligence.</i>

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<i>During my career, I served my country</i>

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<i>around the world,
managing and directing missions,</i>

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<i>including counter-narcotics,
counter-espionage,</i>

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<i>counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.</i>

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And it was later in my career
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special access programs
for the US government,

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<i>and in some cases reported
directly to the White House</i>

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<i>and the National Security Council.</i>

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{\an8}My name is Jay Stratton,

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{\an8}and for over 16 years
on behalf of the US government,

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{\an8}I worked as a senior intelligence official
on the UAP topic.

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<i>I joined the Army at the age of 17
and left for a career</i>

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<i>in military intelligence
with eight combat deployments,</i>

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<i>including Iraq and Afghanistan.</i>

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<i>After the Army,
I joined Naval Intelligence,</i>

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<i>and then I transitioned
to the Defense Intelligence Agency,</i>

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where I was the chief
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inside of the Defense Warning office.

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It was at the DIA that my colleagues
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of what are now called UAP.

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{\an8}<i>We went all over the government,
pentagon, every intelligence agency,</i>

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anywhere we could think to try to find
the UAP program, assuming there was one.

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As far as we could tell,

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no one in the United States government
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so my colleagues and I
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which ultimately became AATIP.

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{\an8}The Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program, AATIP.

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<i>The funding
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<i>then Senate majority leader
Senator Harry Reid.</i>

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And together myself,
Jay Stratton and our team

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for nearly a decade investigated
UAP incidents around the world.

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Based on hard evidence and data,

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we learned that UAPs
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and a potential existential threat.

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<i>Simply put, transmedium crafts,</i>

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<i>vehicles that have the capability
to operate in space, air,</i>

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<i>and water, and seemingly defy
all that humanity knows about physics</i>

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<i>have been operating with complete impunity
around the world since at least the 1940s.</i>

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At AATIP, we had access
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in the Department of Defense inventory.

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If you could be in my shoes and see what
I've seen, and folks like Jay Stratton,

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there would be zero shadow of a doubt
that these things are real

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and they are not made by humans.

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The things that I've seen,
the clearest videos,

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the best evidence that we have

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that these are non-human intelligence
remain classified.

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{\an8}The classified data that we had access to

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{\an8}when we joined the program
was indisputable.

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There's 80 years of this data
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I have seen with my own eyes
non-human craft and non-human beings.

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{\an8}For 23 years and ten months,

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{\an8}I was in the United States Air Force
as an A-10 pilot.

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{\an8}<i>And while I was at NORAD,</i>

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<i>I witnessed an event
that I will remember forever.</i>

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<i>There was a unknown object
we were tracking on radars.</i>

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And the commander says,
"I want that target."

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That means intercept it.

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<i>Fighters all the way down
the eastern seaboard were scrambled,</i>

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and none of the fighters were successful
in intercepting or running it down.

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{\an8}We were unable to maintain
air sovereignty over North America.

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{\an8}On November 14th, 2004,
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{\an8}which is a nuclear aircraft carrier.

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<i>I was the most senior person
in the squadron flying.</i>

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<i>I had launched off Nimitz to do</i>

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<i>an air defense exercise
off the coast of San Diego, California.</i>

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And I ended up chasing a UAP
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<i>It was about 40 feet long
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You can see it start to accelerate.
And as it gets in front of us, it's gone.

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This thing was doing 32,000 miles an hour,

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so obviously that technology
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{\an8} <i>As we were
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<i>maneuver in this bizarre way,</i>

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<i>it was obvious
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{\an8}This was defying those laws of physics,

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{\an8}laws of gravity
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We literally had these things
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The frequency in which UAP were
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{\an8}They were ubiquitous.
We were seeing them nearly daily.

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<i>My gosh, there's a whole
fleet of 'em. Look on the SA!</i>

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And then we actually almost
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<i>This now became a safety issue.</i>

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Two aircraft from my squadron were
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in section formation,
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<i>One of these objects went right
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right past the lead aircraft.

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The lead aircraft
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and he simply described it as a dark gray
or a black cube inside of a clear sphere.

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To be clear,

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non-human intelligence
has been actively conducting

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ISR, Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance

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of some of our most sensitive
US military facilities and nuclear sites.

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They have both deactivated
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with both the United States and Russia.

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The nuclear weapons that were
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and from that perspective,
the stakes really could not be any higher.

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This is an emerging
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and truly a national security concern.

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By the way, this isn't just
happening here in the US.

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It's happening all over the world
and occurring with greater frequency.

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<i>When I met Lue Elizondo in the Pentagon,</i>

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<i>he made me aware not only
that this phenomenon was real,</i>

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<i>but it was an ongoing
persistent phenomenon.</i>

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{\an8}The Secretary of Defense didn't know,
the Congress didn't know,

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{\an8}senior policymakers didn't know,

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{\an8}and nobody was doing anything
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and a handful of colleagues.

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I was shocked and I was stunned,

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and immediately was concerned about

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intelligence failures
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and the disasters that have ensued,

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<i>and determined immediately
to do whatever I could to help get Lue</i>

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{\an8}<i>to the Secretary of Defense
to move that information forward.</i>

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{\an8}Each time Jay and I and others tried
to raise the alarm bells

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and bring this issue
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we were met with fierce resistance.

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The stigma alone
and the taboo of the topic,

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the historical association of "UFOs"
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for most people in leadership positions
was too big of a pill to swallow.

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In fact, the stigma was so strong
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the topic wasn't real, or B,

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the stigma was going to somehow
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so they didn't want to touch it.

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{\an8}We couldn't get the leadership
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{\an8}to look at the actual scientific data

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that showed that there is
a strong national security threat.

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They were more worried about
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than they were about
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<i>On top of that,</i>

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<i>we were shocked to find we were getting
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<i>based on their religious beliefs.</i>

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There really were religious fundamentalist
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that had a severe adversity to this topic.

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These are national security experts,

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senior members of the national
intelligence community

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who are putting their religion
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A senior DOD official actually stopped me
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and told me
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I had to deal with people who were
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in their world that these are demons,
and we are poking demons

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and messing in Satan's world
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I was like, "I can't believe
this is coming out of your mouth."

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I'm briefing about an advanced
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<i>on multiple sensors
that's absolutely there,</i>

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and you're telling me
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and we shouldn't
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My mind was blown.

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<i>While we were trying
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<i>we discovered another deeply hidden
and much larger UAP program.</i>

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This program was so sensitive

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that it was withheld from
the Secretary of Defense, Congress,

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and even
the President of the United States.

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This program is referred to as
"The Legacy Program."

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This program had been capturing,

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retrieving and reverse engineering UAPs
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On numerous occasions,

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these retrievals included
the bodies of non-humans,

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some sort of intelligence,
intelligent being that is not human.

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When Jay and I began knocking on doors

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and trying to get access
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there was this almost
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by the Legacy Program,
and antibodies came out of everywhere

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to try to shut us down.

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{\an8}We began communicating with scientists
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{\an8}but their leaders when they learned
of this, shut it down aggressively.

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Not only were we met with
fierce resistance and stonewalling,

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we actually had people angry at us that
we're even asking the question itself,

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as in, you know, what right do we have
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despite the fact we were running AATIP.

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Put yourself in my shoes.

226
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I'm conducting investigations
of ongoing UAP activity

227
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and there's this Legacy Program
that has at least 80 years of information

228
00:13:55,710 --> 00:13:58,128
that could help us
better understand this problem

229
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and protect national security,
and they refuse to give it to us.

230
00:14:05,095 --> 00:14:08,806
When it became clear that
we couldn't work through the system,

231
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I knew from experience having worked
with the Senate Armed Services Committee,

232
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what it takes to move this oil tanker.

233
00:14:16,022 --> 00:14:22,987
Think about this immense,
immense ship that has massive inertia,

234
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and you're trying
to get it to change course.

235
00:14:25,323 --> 00:14:27,408
When it comes
to the Department of Defense,

236
00:14:27,409 --> 00:14:31,829
only Congress
has the wherewithal to do that.

237
00:14:31,830 --> 00:14:37,209
And the way to get Congress's attention
is first and foremost through the press.

238
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I knew we had to get the press engaged
to help get the Hill engaged,

239
00:14:42,257 --> 00:14:46,635
to then get back to changing
the Defense Department

240
00:14:46,636 --> 00:14:49,930
to study this problem
to figure out is there a threat?

241
00:14:49,931 --> 00:14:52,641
Where are these things coming from
and how do they work?

242
00:14:52,642 --> 00:14:55,728
As government employees,
we're not allowed to talk to the media,

243
00:14:55,729 --> 00:14:58,523
<i>so Lue and I strategized
on how to overcome this hurdle.</i>

244
00:15:00,317 --> 00:15:03,027
There were really only two choices.

245
00:15:03,028 --> 00:15:06,030
The first choice was
make peace with silence

246
00:15:06,031 --> 00:15:08,949
and sit on
what is humanity's greatest secret,

247
00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:11,661
<i>all the while keeping
Americans in the dark.</i>

248
00:15:12,829 --> 00:15:16,874
<i>Or two, I could resign
my position in protest</i>

249
00:15:16,875 --> 00:15:20,002
<i>and fulfill my obligations
to the American people</i>

250
00:15:20,003 --> 00:15:22,672
by telling the truth
about what I know about UAP.

251
00:15:27,969 --> 00:15:33,891
There was this difficult moment
where Lue had to decide,

252
00:15:33,892 --> 00:15:36,935
"Do I throw in the towel?
Do we give up on this?"

253
00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:38,896
<i>"Do we ignore this?"</i>

254
00:15:38,897 --> 00:15:41,440
Or does he fall on his sword?

255
00:15:41,441 --> 00:15:44,360
I couldn't, nor would I ever
reveal classified information,

256
00:15:44,361 --> 00:15:48,947
but I knew that if I could say
just enough at the unclassified level

257
00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:52,534
to make the media aware
and our government officials aware

258
00:15:52,535 --> 00:15:54,286
of the reality of the UAP topic,

259
00:15:54,287 --> 00:15:58,165
<i>then Jay hopefully would be able to use
that momentum to go ahead and achieve</i>

260
00:15:58,166 --> 00:16:01,211
<i>the goals that we set out
to achieve inside the government.</i>

261
00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:06,423
<i>And we had
a number of difficult conversations</i>

262
00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:10,010
<i>because Lue is giving up
a very promising career.</i>

263
00:16:10,011 --> 00:16:13,932
{\an8}<i>He loved what he was doing.
He was very good at what he was doing.</i>

264
00:16:16,226 --> 00:16:21,856
It's such a profound life decision for Lue
to make for himself and his family.

265
00:16:22,607 --> 00:16:26,318
During one of my routine
hellish commutes back home,

266
00:16:26,319 --> 00:16:29,697
{\an8}<i>as I was stuck in traffic,
looking in front of me and behind me</i>

267
00:16:29,698 --> 00:16:34,535
{\an8}and seeing thousands of cars,
I had this profound sense of isolation,

268
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a feeling I had
never felt before in my life,

269
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a feeling that I was completely alone.

270
00:16:41,710 --> 00:16:45,003
I might as well have been living
on the dark side of the moon.

271
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None of these people around me,

272
00:16:47,590 --> 00:16:52,261
in fact, no one anywhere had any idea

273
00:16:52,262 --> 00:16:54,347
of what was <i>actually
going on around them.</i>

274
00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:56,390
<i>Not a clue.</i>

275
00:16:56,391 --> 00:17:00,519
<i>I thought to myself, these individuals
deserve to know the truth,</i>

276
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,230
the mere fact that we're
not alone in the universe.

277
00:17:03,231 --> 00:17:07,985
How can any one organization,
institution, religion, or government

278
00:17:07,986 --> 00:17:11,530
control that
or censor that or gatekeep that?

279
00:17:11,531 --> 00:17:16,660
No one has the right
to keep fundamental truths

280
00:17:16,661 --> 00:17:19,789
away from the American people
and humanity.

281
00:17:20,623 --> 00:17:25,043
{\an8} <i>CNN has learned the Pentagon
had a secretive program to research UFOs.</i>

282
00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:29,840
{\an8}The existence of a secret government
program to investigate UFO sightings.

283
00:17:29,841 --> 00:17:33,552
{\an8}A recent report by the <i>New York Times</i>
unveiled the existence of a real life

284
00:17:33,553 --> 00:17:35,095
X-Files <i>department,</i>

285
00:17:35,096 --> 00:17:39,016
<i>their secret government program
to investigate mysterious flying objects.</i>

286
00:17:39,017 --> 00:17:42,686
{\an8}This seems potentially like
one of the biggest stories of my lifetime.

287
00:17:42,687 --> 00:17:44,897
{\an8}These aircraft, we'll call 'em aircraft,

288
00:17:44,898 --> 00:17:48,150
{\an8}are displaying characteristics
that are not currently

289
00:17:48,151 --> 00:17:51,988
{\an8}within the US inventory
nor in any foreign inventory.

290
00:17:52,781 --> 00:17:55,949
<i>Look at that thing, dude. My gosh.</i>

291
00:17:55,950 --> 00:17:58,243
{\an8}This is a very serious
national security issue.

292
00:17:58,244 --> 00:18:01,497
{\an8}Something is in our skies.
It has been there for quite some time.

293
00:18:01,498 --> 00:18:03,040
{\an8} <i>There's a whole fleet of 'em.</i>

294
00:18:03,041 --> 00:18:05,083
{\an8}You have objects that are doing things,

295
00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:08,170
{\an8}maneuvering in ways
without any obvious sign of propulsion.

296
00:18:08,171 --> 00:18:11,715
{\an8}My submission is that
what we are looking at is truly,

297
00:18:11,716 --> 00:18:16,929
<i>by definition, exotic technologies,
beyond next generation technologies.</i>

298
00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:21,016
{\an8}And the bureaucracy and the Department
of Defense really limited our ability

299
00:18:21,017 --> 00:18:23,937
{\an8}to keep leadership informed
of what we were seeing.

300
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,235
As soon as the media
started paying attention,

301
00:18:31,236 --> 00:18:32,945
Congress started paying attention,

302
00:18:32,946 --> 00:18:35,239
and I started getting calls
from the Hill for briefings.

303
00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,536
{\an8}Senators received a classified briefing
about UFOs at the Pentagon.

304
00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:41,578
<i>Senator Mark Warner,</i>

305
00:18:41,579 --> 00:18:43,997
<i>the vice chair
of the Intelligence Committee said,</i>

306
00:18:43,998 --> 00:18:48,001
"Look, I think it's important that the
military is taking this more seriously now

307
00:18:48,002 --> 00:18:49,336
than they did in the past."

308
00:18:49,337 --> 00:18:52,589
<i>Senator Rubio and Warner,
to their great credit,</i>

309
00:18:52,590 --> 00:18:56,885
<i>put national security above
their own personal political careers</i>

310
00:18:56,886 --> 00:19:00,764
<i>and took the risk of engaging
publicly on this issue.</i>

311
00:19:00,765 --> 00:19:03,934
{\an8}When they began to engage,
the Defense Department had to admit

312
00:19:03,935 --> 00:19:06,144
{\an8}to the world that this was real
and it was happening,

313
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:12,235
{\an8}and that immediately took the entire
credibility of the issue up a huge notch.

314
00:19:12,735 --> 00:19:15,988
{\an8}The US Navy has finally acknowledged
that videos appearing to show UFOs flying

315
00:19:15,989 --> 00:19:18,031
{\an8}through the air are real.

316
00:19:18,032 --> 00:19:22,953
{\an8} <i>Commander David Fravor
describing it like a 40 foot long Tic Tac.</i>

317
00:19:22,954 --> 00:19:25,873
{\an8}The ability to hover over the water
and then start a vertical climb

318
00:19:25,874 --> 00:19:28,834
{\an8}from basically zero
up towards about 12,000 feet

319
00:19:28,835 --> 00:19:31,295
{\an8}and then accelerate
in less than two seconds

320
00:19:31,296 --> 00:19:34,215
{\an8}and disappear is something
I had never seen in my life.

321
00:19:38,052 --> 00:19:42,097
{\an8}We've had repeated instances of something
operating in the airspace

322
00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:44,516
{\an8}over restricted nuclear facilities,

323
00:19:44,517 --> 00:19:47,394
{\an8}and it's not ours
and we don't know whose it is.

324
00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:49,646
{\an8}That alone, just that statement alone,

325
00:19:49,647 --> 00:19:53,025
{\an8}deserves inquiry,
deserves attention, deserves focus.

326
00:19:53,026 --> 00:19:56,570
{\an8}If you have objects
in the sky that you cannot identify,

327
00:19:56,571 --> 00:20:00,198
{\an8}that's a problem because
it could be China, it could be Russia,

328
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:01,825
{\an8}it could be any adversary.

329
00:20:01,826 --> 00:20:06,413
{\an8}Well, any unexplained phenomenon
could pose a national security threat.

330
00:20:06,414 --> 00:20:09,166
{\an8}That's the way
you have to treat those things.

331
00:20:09,167 --> 00:20:11,919
{\an8}There's something violating our airspace.

332
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,504
{\an8}There's something fouling arranges

333
00:20:14,505 --> 00:20:18,717
{\an8}that even the people we've tasked in
the executive branch to understand this

334
00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:21,178
cannot provide an explanation,

335
00:20:21,179 --> 00:20:24,389
so I would say in addition
to the national security implications,

336
00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:27,643
this has implications for basic trust
and confidence in the American government.

337
00:20:27,644 --> 00:20:29,811
{\an8}We don't know
the origin of the phenomenon,

338
00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:31,480
{\an8}and we're gonna try
to get to the bottom of it

339
00:20:31,481 --> 00:20:33,523
{\an8}because for national defense purposes,

340
00:20:33,524 --> 00:20:35,692
{\an8}some of these have been
in areas that we train.

341
00:20:35,693 --> 00:20:39,196
These have been in areas where
we've got some of our best equipment,

342
00:20:39,197 --> 00:20:42,366
and yet our best equipment
has not been able to tag these things.

343
00:20:42,367 --> 00:20:44,910
We've not been able
to go in and catch them.

344
00:20:44,911 --> 00:20:46,912
{\an8}No matter what they are,
they're invading our airspace

345
00:20:46,913 --> 00:20:49,373
{\an8}and we don't know exactly
why they're doing it,

346
00:20:49,374 --> 00:20:51,584
{\an8}what their intent is
and what their capabilities are.

347
00:20:53,628 --> 00:20:55,879
In addition
to the national security concerns,

348
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,382
this violation
of all nations' sovereign airspace

349
00:20:58,383 --> 00:21:03,637
presents a safety of flight concern
for all military and civilian aviation.

350
00:21:03,638 --> 00:21:07,307
<i>And the even scarier thing is that
the Federal Aviation Administration</i>

351
00:21:07,308 --> 00:21:09,810
stopped using radar
to track our air travel.

352
00:21:09,811 --> 00:21:11,687
They only track aircraft,

353
00:21:11,688 --> 00:21:14,648
predominantly commercial and civilian,
that are squawking,

354
00:21:14,649 --> 00:21:16,984
so they're actually putting
a signal into the system saying,

355
00:21:16,985 --> 00:21:18,152
"Here's where I am."

356
00:21:18,861 --> 00:21:21,029
<i>The only way they know the UAP are there</i>

357
00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:24,157
<i>is if the pilot sees something
and says something.</i>

358
00:21:24,158 --> 00:21:27,619
The fact that the FAA is not tracking UAP

359
00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:30,914
<i>is putting American lives
at risk every day.</i>

360
00:21:30,915 --> 00:21:32,207
<i>I'm Brett Feddersen.</i>

361
00:21:32,208 --> 00:21:36,670
{\an8}I served as the director of aviation
security on the National Security Council

362
00:21:36,671 --> 00:21:40,632
{\an8}and as the acting director for the
Federal Aviation Administration's

363
00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:42,884
<i>National Security Programs Office.</i>

364
00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:44,678
<i>I can say through my experience</i>

365
00:21:44,679 --> 00:21:48,807
that we are absolutely
not alone in this universe.

366
00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:52,602
The biggest thing that concerns me with
UAPs is the national security concern.

367
00:21:52,603 --> 00:21:53,812
It's the unknown.

368
00:21:53,813 --> 00:21:56,898
It's the fact that this technology
does stuff that we can't do.

369
00:21:56,899 --> 00:21:59,943
And if we can't figure out
what it is or what it wants,

370
00:21:59,944 --> 00:22:02,070
uh, or what it's being used for,

371
00:22:02,071 --> 00:22:05,532
that keeps me up at night and the idea
that we're behind the power curve.

372
00:22:05,533 --> 00:22:09,578
We want to be able to maintain the
cutting edge technology and the advantage

373
00:22:09,579 --> 00:22:13,165
here in the United States
so that we can sleep comfortably at night

374
00:22:13,166 --> 00:22:17,210
and feel the safety of what
the American government has provided.

375
00:22:17,211 --> 00:22:20,255
There's sort of, I think,
four hypotheses out there,

376
00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:24,885
one of which is that this is
foreign adversary technology

377
00:22:24,886 --> 00:22:27,679
that we simply don't understand
or weren't aware of,

378
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,265
and that would amount to probably
the biggest intelligence failure

379
00:22:30,266 --> 00:22:31,767
in modern American history.

380
00:22:31,768 --> 00:22:35,854
The second of which is that this is
a robust counter-intelligence program

381
00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:41,026
to cover up for a US
government effort that has fallen,

382
00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:44,321
kind of, away
from congressional oversight.

383
00:22:44,322 --> 00:22:48,366
A third hypothesis is obviously
that this is, uh, interdimensional

384
00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:49,868
or extra-terrestrial.

385
00:22:49,869 --> 00:22:52,789
The fourth could be
a combination of the previous three.

386
00:22:55,041 --> 00:22:57,876
Some of the biggest strategic
blunders in human history,

387
00:22:57,877 --> 00:23:00,921
the foundation of those blunders
were a lack of imagination.

388
00:23:00,922 --> 00:23:05,092
The belief that an adversary
or whoever could not do something

389
00:23:05,093 --> 00:23:06,426
because it had never been done before.

390
00:23:06,427 --> 00:23:09,513
The US thought it was safe
for those ships in Pearl Harbor

391
00:23:09,514 --> 00:23:12,307
because we didn't think
the Japanese could get there,

392
00:23:12,308 --> 00:23:15,811
much less have torpedoes
that could navigate such a narrow straight

393
00:23:15,812 --> 00:23:17,772
<i>and hit these ships until they did.</i>

394
00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:21,817
We never thought in our wildest dreams
that terrorists would strike us

395
00:23:21,818 --> 00:23:25,821
in the homeland by training
for a year to become pilots

396
00:23:25,822 --> 00:23:28,198
<i>and then hijacking commercial aircraft</i>

397
00:23:28,199 --> 00:23:29,991
<i>and crashing them into buildings,
and they did.</i>

398
00:23:29,992 --> 00:23:35,956
The thing that keeps me up at night,
something in the human psyche that says,

399
00:23:35,957 --> 00:23:40,335
I don't have time or energy
to sort of prepare for the unforeseen

400
00:23:40,336 --> 00:23:42,212
or what I've never seen done before,

401
00:23:42,213 --> 00:23:45,841
and, um, you know,
that leads to strategic surprise

402
00:23:45,842 --> 00:23:48,802
and sometimes strategic surprises

403
00:23:48,803 --> 00:23:51,889
change the course of human history.

404
00:23:53,808 --> 00:23:55,183
<i>There was
one classified briefing</i>

405
00:23:55,184 --> 00:23:57,602
<i>that I gave to members
of the House and Senate,</i>

406
00:23:57,603 --> 00:24:02,232
where I took military pilots to tell them
the story of their encounters with UAP.

407
00:24:02,233 --> 00:24:05,570
Those stories left them so rattled
that they had trouble sleeping that night.

408
00:24:06,821 --> 00:24:09,990
<i>The United States' most
trusted military servicemen and women</i>

409
00:24:09,991 --> 00:24:13,618
<i>and irrefutable data from our
intelligence collection systems</i>

410
00:24:13,619 --> 00:24:16,706
<i>have been observing UAP for decades.</i>

411
00:24:18,749 --> 00:24:20,584
Everything observed can be categorized

412
00:24:20,585 --> 00:24:23,378
by five distinct
performance characteristics.

413
00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:26,507
<i>At AATIP, we call these The Observables.</i>

414
00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:31,679
<i>The first observable
is hypersonic velocity.</i>

415
00:24:32,555 --> 00:24:38,393
{\an8}<i>Our current fastest aircraft
can go roughly 4,600 miles per hour.</i>

416
00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:43,440
{\an8}However, the UAP we are observing
are traveling at 40,000 miles per hour

417
00:24:43,441 --> 00:24:45,067
{\an8}<i>and sometimes faster.</i>

418
00:24:46,944 --> 00:24:50,864
The next observable is
instantaneous acceleration,

419
00:24:50,865 --> 00:24:52,574
the sudden change in velocity.

420
00:24:52,575 --> 00:24:56,077
At full speed,
the SR-71, known as a Blackbird,

421
00:24:56,078 --> 00:25:00,749
{\an8}<i>requires roughly half the state of Ohio
to complete its turn.</i>

422
00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:05,754
{\an8}What we are seeing with UAP are vehicles
that can make immediate right-angle turns,

423
00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:09,424
instantaneously accelerating
and stopping on a dime

424
00:25:09,425 --> 00:25:13,762
at speeds up to ten times faster
than the SR-71.

425
00:25:13,763 --> 00:25:16,181
If you're in a sustained flight,
you can get up to seven-and-a-half Gs.

426
00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:21,186
{\an8}It gets physically painful over time
to be under that amount of gravity.

427
00:25:21,187 --> 00:25:24,189
{\an8}And that's just going
from zero to 200 miles an hour

428
00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:25,857
in about two-and-a-half seconds.

429
00:25:25,858 --> 00:25:28,485
Now, think of going zero
to thousands of miles an hour

430
00:25:28,486 --> 00:25:32,030
in less than a second,
what the force would be on your body.

431
00:25:32,031 --> 00:25:34,658
The human body can only take so much
before the internal organs start

432
00:25:34,659 --> 00:25:39,329
to separate themselves from everything
they're hooked to, which is usually bad.

433
00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:44,251
{\an8}Even if it was a drone, it would rip
the drone, the unmanned vehicle apart.

434
00:25:44,252 --> 00:25:47,712
The next observable
is low observability.

435
00:25:47,713 --> 00:25:49,798
All modern technology have a signature.

436
00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:55,512
<i>For example, most aircraft leave
visible contrails as they fly.</i>

437
00:25:55,513 --> 00:25:59,182
We usually hear a sonic boom associated
with the sound barrier being broken.

438
00:25:59,183 --> 00:26:03,061
<i>UAP, however, leave almost
no observable signatures.</i>

439
00:26:03,062 --> 00:26:08,233
{\an8}Our airplanes actually throw out
exhaust behind it and thrust behind it

440
00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:09,860
<i>to push it forward.</i>

441
00:26:10,987 --> 00:26:13,446
Whatever these things are,
they're not doing that.

442
00:26:13,447 --> 00:26:17,243
There is no exhaust, no particles
coming off of 'em that we can see.

443
00:26:19,245 --> 00:26:23,081
The next observable
is transmedium travel.

444
00:26:23,082 --> 00:26:27,294
UAP have been observed operating
in space, in air and underwater,

445
00:26:27,295 --> 00:26:30,672
and they're moving seamlessly
through each of these environments

446
00:26:30,673 --> 00:26:35,176
without any normal signature
and without compromising performance.

447
00:26:35,177 --> 00:26:39,472
{\an8}We've observed a transmedium capability
of these phenomenon

448
00:26:39,473 --> 00:26:43,519
{\an8}to move from space
to the atmosphere to the ocean.

449
00:26:44,312 --> 00:26:46,146
{\an8}<i>In the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico case,</i>

450
00:26:46,147 --> 00:26:50,525
{\an8}<i>a DHS helicopter caught
the spherical object flying.</i>

451
00:26:50,526 --> 00:26:53,028
{\an8}<i>It entered the water and exited the water,</i>

452
00:26:53,029 --> 00:26:56,448
so transmedium
without losing any velocity.

453
00:26:56,449 --> 00:27:01,286
{\an8}It goes into the ocean and makes
no splash or wake at 74 miles per hour.

454
00:27:01,287 --> 00:27:05,540
<i>I calculated how much force you would
require just to propel a basketball</i>

455
00:27:05,541 --> 00:27:07,167
under the water at 74 miles per hour,

456
00:27:07,168 --> 00:27:09,210
and you'd need
a BE-7 rocket motor,

457
00:27:09,211 --> 00:27:12,839
or two Learjet engines
that would churn the water up like crazy.

458
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,175
So this is a technology
that's frictionless.

459
00:27:15,176 --> 00:27:17,677
The next
observable is anti-gravity.

460
00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:21,181
UAP seemed to be defying
the natural effects of earth's gravity

461
00:27:21,182 --> 00:27:23,808
without any obvious means of doing so.

462
00:27:23,809 --> 00:27:26,436
No signs of propulsion or lift,
meaning no wings,

463
00:27:26,437 --> 00:27:29,481
no control surfaces
or ability to maneuver.

464
00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:31,107
{\an8}In 2014 to 2015,

465
00:27:31,108 --> 00:27:35,820
{\an8}we were operating off the coast of
Virginia Beach, off the eastern seaboard.

466
00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:39,491
<i>It was during this time that we upgraded
our radar from the APG-73</i>

467
00:27:39,492 --> 00:27:41,076
<i>to the APG-79 radar,</i>

468
00:27:41,077 --> 00:27:46,414
<i>and this allowed us to essentially see
more objects we weren't expecting to see.</i>

469
00:27:46,415 --> 00:27:49,084
And there's a particular case
of one of these objects

470
00:27:49,085 --> 00:27:51,586
maintaining a complete stationary position

471
00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:55,632
inside of 120 knot winds,
essentially inside of a hurricane.

472
00:27:55,633 --> 00:27:57,342
{\an8} <i>They're all
going against the wind.</i>

473
00:27:57,343 --> 00:27:59,719
{\an8}<i>The wind's 120 knots from the west.</i>

474
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,180
{\an8}<i>Look at that thing! It's rotating.</i>

475
00:28:02,181 --> 00:28:05,767
It just seems like they're not affected
by the environment the way we are.

476
00:28:05,768 --> 00:28:08,186
They were tracking 'em
from above 80,000 feet.

477
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:10,438
So for those that don't know,
above 80,000,

478
00:28:10,439 --> 00:28:12,607
<i>that's where you start getting into space.</i>

479
00:28:12,608 --> 00:28:13,817
So these things were coming down.

480
00:28:13,818 --> 00:28:16,444
{\an8}They would sit for three hours
and they'd go back up,

481
00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:17,654
{\an8}which to my knowledge,

482
00:28:17,655 --> 00:28:21,366
{\an8}we don't have anything
that has the capabilities

483
00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:24,619
{\an8}as far as the energy required
to come down,

484
00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,371
{\an8}hangout for three hours and go up.

485
00:28:26,372 --> 00:28:30,625
{\an8}The observed UAP capability exceeds that

486
00:28:30,626 --> 00:28:34,337
{\an8}of even the most advanced,
uh, human technologies

487
00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:36,673
that are developed
in classified black programs.

488
00:28:36,674 --> 00:28:40,970
From our exposure, I mean,
there's nothing we have that comes close.

489
00:28:42,513 --> 00:28:44,681
<i>There's actually a six observable,</i>

490
00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:50,229
which is not a flight characteristic,
that is biological effects.

491
00:28:51,188 --> 00:28:54,817
{\an8} <i>I got started
working on this actually in this office.</i>

492
00:28:55,901 --> 00:28:57,360
{\an8}<i>There was a knock at the door,</i>

493
00:28:57,361 --> 00:28:59,696
{\an8}<i>and two individuals
who represented themselves</i>

494
00:28:59,697 --> 00:29:04,200
{\an8}as being with the CIA and an aerospace
company came to me and asked for my help.

495
00:29:04,201 --> 00:29:09,831
{\an8}They had, uh, data of military personnel,
intelligence officials

496
00:29:09,832 --> 00:29:12,417
and others associated
with the Department of Defense

497
00:29:12,418 --> 00:29:15,420
who had direct interactions with UAP.

498
00:29:15,421 --> 00:29:20,008
And because of that direct interaction
suffered some kind of medical harm.

499
00:29:20,009 --> 00:29:23,470
They wanted my help to look
at the so-called inflammatory

500
00:29:23,471 --> 00:29:26,055
secondary events
that might be measured in the blood,

501
00:29:26,056 --> 00:29:30,727
anything from the horrific burns that
I've seen on some of the individuals

502
00:29:30,728 --> 00:29:33,938
that leads to secondary problems
with autoimmune diseases

503
00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:35,565
and sclerosis, et cetera,

504
00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:39,194
and then the internal scarring
that I've seen on some individuals.

505
00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:42,906
These people had scarring inside of
their bodies and inside of their brains.

506
00:29:42,907 --> 00:29:44,032
And you have to think about it.

507
00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:47,243
You know, if you get too close
to the back end of a jet engine,

508
00:29:47,244 --> 00:29:50,246
<i>or for instance, if you get too close
to the transformer system</i>

509
00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:54,584
that's just powering your neighborhood,
there's energy coming out of those things.

510
00:29:54,585 --> 00:29:56,836
I mean, those are just human technologies.

511
00:29:56,837 --> 00:30:00,465
Now imagine you've got something
which is a more advanced technology,

512
00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:05,428
which is generating some kind of field
that allows these objects to move,

513
00:30:05,429 --> 00:30:08,641
if you get too close to it,
you are gonna get harmed.

514
00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:13,478
{\an8}<i>I spent ten years as an intelligence
officer for the Navy.</i>

515
00:30:13,479 --> 00:30:16,607
{\an8}And before that,
six years as Air Force intelligence.

516
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:21,069
<i>And I spent time on the UAP task force.</i>

517
00:30:21,070 --> 00:30:23,279
I'm one of the intelligence officials

518
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,493
that has experienced biological effects
of encountering UAP.

519
00:30:28,494 --> 00:30:31,120
Since my first encounter,

520
00:30:31,121 --> 00:30:35,876
I've observed other craft, orbs,

521
00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:38,586
we'll call it exotic energy fields.

522
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:43,258
Unfortunately, um,
those of us who have investigated it,

523
00:30:43,259 --> 00:30:47,637
we become part of the investigation
or investigated by our colleagues.

524
00:30:47,638 --> 00:30:52,517
The population had
about a 25% mortality rate

525
00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:55,395
within seven years
of having an interaction.

526
00:30:55,396 --> 00:30:59,732
Probably important
that the public understands

527
00:30:59,733 --> 00:31:04,320
that this is more than
just an aerial phenomenon.

528
00:31:04,321 --> 00:31:08,449
{\an8}When you have an anecdote
that is accompanied by medical data,

529
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:12,996
{\an8}that's something that I can hand to
another scientist, another doctor and say,

530
00:31:12,997 --> 00:31:14,789
{\an8}"Here it is. You explain it."

531
00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:19,587
We can argue about what the conclusion is,
but we can't argue that the data is real.

532
00:31:24,925 --> 00:31:26,759
{\an8} <i>The deputy director
of Naval Intelligence,</i>

533
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,430
who understood
the national security concerns of UAP,

534
00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:34,392
directed me to start quietly building out
a whole government interagency effort

535
00:31:34,393 --> 00:31:36,520
that ultimately became the UAP task force.

536
00:31:37,354 --> 00:31:40,440
<i>This new program
was much bigger than AATIP ever was.</i>

537
00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:44,277
<i>Our mission was to detect,
analyze and catalog UAPs</i>

538
00:31:44,278 --> 00:31:47,530
<i>that pose a threat
to US national security.</i>

539
00:31:47,531 --> 00:31:52,910
<i>I had handpicked members from all 16
agencies of the intelligence community.</i>

540
00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,913
{\an8}<i>The Secretary of Defense formally
announced the UAP task force</i>

541
00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:59,208
{\an8}<i>in August 2020,
naming me the first director.</i>

542
00:31:59,209 --> 00:32:02,212
Everyone in authority was
paying attention to this topic.

543
00:32:03,130 --> 00:32:09,385
One distinctive moment for me was briefing
then Secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin.

544
00:32:09,386 --> 00:32:12,347
<i>I got through my briefing.
And at the end of the brief,</i>

545
00:32:12,348 --> 00:32:14,974
he sat back in his chair
and he said, "You know, Jay,

546
00:32:14,975 --> 00:32:17,560
you may wonder
why I asked for this briefing."

547
00:32:17,561 --> 00:32:22,899
He said, "What are the economic impacts
of the president going to the microphone

548
00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:25,693
and telling the world we're not alone?"

549
00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:30,448
I have to think about those kinds
of impacts in order to prepare

550
00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:33,535
if the president were to make that move.

551
00:32:34,745 --> 00:32:36,704
<i>Meanwhile, Chris Mellon and I</i>

552
00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:39,666
<i>were working with the Senate
behind the scenes</i>

553
00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:45,296
<i>to craft UAP legislation
that was then taken by Marco Rubio</i>

554
00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:48,967
<i>and pushed
into the coronavirus relief bill.</i>

555
00:32:49,551 --> 00:32:53,596
<i>When President Trump signed
this legislation into law,</i>

556
00:32:53,597 --> 00:32:58,226
it then forced the Pentagon
and the UAP task force to provide

557
00:32:58,227 --> 00:33:02,898
written reports to Congress,
both classified and unclassified.

558
00:33:05,234 --> 00:33:09,529
{\an8}The long-awaited Pentagon report
on UFOs has finally been released.

559
00:33:09,530 --> 00:33:11,989
{\an8}The Director of National Intelligence
just a few days ago

560
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:14,742
{\an8}released a new report on 144 sightings.

561
00:33:14,743 --> 00:33:16,911
When we talk about sightings,
we're talking about objects

562
00:33:16,912 --> 00:33:19,956
that have been seen
by Navy or Air Force pilots

563
00:33:19,957 --> 00:33:22,250
or have been picked up
by satellite imagery.

564
00:33:22,251 --> 00:33:25,128
<i>Frankly, there are a lot more sightings
than have been made public.</i>

565
00:33:25,129 --> 00:33:27,463
{\an8} <i>The report
clarifies that most incidents</i>

566
00:33:27,464 --> 00:33:29,215
{\an8}<i>over the past two decades</i>

567
00:33:29,216 --> 00:33:35,263
{\an8}<i>are not from the US military or other
advanced US government technology.</i>

568
00:33:35,264 --> 00:33:39,642
{\an8}So the issue now is why are they here,
where are they coming from

569
00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:43,771
and what is the technology
behind these devices that we're observing?

570
00:33:43,772 --> 00:33:46,607
As noisy as that
first unclassified report was,

571
00:33:46,608 --> 00:33:48,317
it barely scratched the surface.

572
00:33:48,318 --> 00:33:51,946
The few elected officials that got to read
the classified version of the report,

573
00:33:51,947 --> 00:33:55,783
it opened their eyes to the national
security concerns surrounding this topic.

574
00:33:55,784 --> 00:34:00,329
{\an8}There's enough obvious evidence here
that we need to take this seriously,

575
00:34:00,330 --> 00:34:01,581
{\an8}not downplay it.

576
00:34:01,582 --> 00:34:04,250
{\an8}I don't believe they're coming
from foreign adversaries.

577
00:34:04,251 --> 00:34:08,004
{\an8}Uh, if they were, that would suggest
that they have a technology

578
00:34:08,005 --> 00:34:11,215
{\an8}which is in a whole different sphere
than anything we understand.

579
00:34:11,216 --> 00:34:16,554
{\an8}Uh, frankly, China and Russia aren't there
and neither are we by the way.

580
00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:18,389
{\an8}Trillions of galaxies out there,

581
00:34:18,390 --> 00:34:21,101
{\an8}so who knows what might've
developed somewhere else?

582
00:34:25,773 --> 00:34:31,778
{\an8}What we believe is that
there are unexplained aerial phenomena

583
00:34:31,779 --> 00:34:35,656
{\an8}that have been cited
and reported by pilots,

584
00:34:35,657 --> 00:34:37,366
Navy and Air Force,

585
00:34:37,367 --> 00:34:42,663
that these phenomena have in some cases
had an impact on our training ranges,

586
00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:48,461
on our pilot's ability to fly,
train, operate and stay ready.

587
00:34:48,462 --> 00:34:55,051
Um, that alone makes it a national
security issue worth looking at.

588
00:34:55,052 --> 00:34:57,053
We don't know.

589
00:34:57,054 --> 00:35:00,265
We don't have the answers
about what these phenomena are.

590
00:35:06,522 --> 00:35:08,272
<i>As we continued
to make progress,</i>

591
00:35:08,273 --> 00:35:14,071
a very powerful
disinformation campaign began.

592
00:35:16,990 --> 00:35:20,744
<i>This effort was to destroy
my reputation and credibility, full stop.</i>

593
00:35:23,288 --> 00:35:25,248
{\an8} <i>When the government started running</i>

594
00:35:25,249 --> 00:35:27,834
{\an8}<i>this despicable disinformation campaign
against Lue,</i>

595
00:35:27,835 --> 00:35:31,629
{\an8}I actually received an email one day
from the Pentagon Public Affairs office

596
00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:34,215
with this narrative
that they were providing back to the media

597
00:35:34,216 --> 00:35:36,217
that was completely false.

598
00:35:36,218 --> 00:35:38,886
I replied all to that email and said,
"This is wrong,"

599
00:35:38,887 --> 00:35:40,305
and they ran with it anyway.

600
00:35:50,274 --> 00:35:54,235
<i>They actually told the American people
that Lue Elizondo did not work there,</i>

601
00:35:54,236 --> 00:35:56,154
and that was an outright lie.

602
00:35:57,990 --> 00:36:00,658
<i>My family and I
suffered greatly for it.</i>

603
00:36:00,659 --> 00:36:04,121
<i>All you have in your life
is really your credibility and your word.</i>

604
00:36:05,581 --> 00:36:06,832
<i>It's heartbreaking.</i>

605
00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:14,547
{\an8}They don't want anybody that's
based on facts being involved in this,

606
00:36:14,548 --> 00:36:15,882
{\an8}so what do they do?

607
00:36:15,883 --> 00:36:20,595
{\an8}They go online and try to belittle
Elizondo and me and anybody else

608
00:36:20,596 --> 00:36:23,140
{\an8}that's trying to do it
in a scientific way.

609
00:36:26,935 --> 00:36:28,144
<i>As hard as it was,</i>

610
00:36:28,145 --> 00:36:30,981
<i>I was still being privately encouraged
by former members of AATIP</i>

611
00:36:31,106 --> 00:36:32,356
<i>to continue the fight,</i>

612
00:36:32,357 --> 00:36:35,985
and so that gave me the motivation
to continue to press forward,

613
00:36:35,986 --> 00:36:38,863
and the fire that we started
continued to spread.

614
00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:41,115
After decades of public denial,

615
00:36:41,116 --> 00:36:44,827
the Pentagon now admits
there's something out there,

616
00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:47,705
and the US Senate
wants to know what it is.

617
00:36:47,706 --> 00:36:52,668
UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects,
are real?

618
00:36:52,669 --> 00:36:55,046
The government has already stated
for the record that they're real.

619
00:36:55,047 --> 00:36:57,965
I'm not telling you that,
the US government is telling you that.

620
00:36:57,966 --> 00:37:02,303
There's footage and records
of objects in the skies

621
00:37:02,304 --> 00:37:05,181
that we don't know exactly what they are.

622
00:37:05,182 --> 00:37:08,851
What's your viewpoint
on what these objects,

623
00:37:08,852 --> 00:37:12,439
uh, that seem to defy
all laws of physics are?

624
00:37:14,066 --> 00:37:18,444
Well, first of all,
that's a legitimate question now.

625
00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:20,613
There are lots of mysteries out there.

626
00:37:20,614 --> 00:37:24,283
It should keep us humble.
There's a lot of stuff we don't know.

627
00:37:24,284 --> 00:37:25,952
{\an8}There've been sightings
all over the world.

628
00:37:25,953 --> 00:37:29,246
{\an8}And when we talk about sightings,
the other thing I will tell you is

629
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:35,252
{\an8}it's not just a pilot or just a satellite
or some, um, intelligence collection.

630
00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:39,340
{\an8}Usually we have multiple sensors
that are picking up these things.

631
00:37:39,341 --> 00:37:42,426
{\an8}There's always the question of
is there something else

632
00:37:42,427 --> 00:37:45,846
{\an8}that we simply do not understand
that might come extra-terrestrially?

633
00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:47,515
{\an8}I think it's a bit presumptuous,

634
00:37:47,516 --> 00:37:52,436
{\an8}if not arrogant for us to believe that
there's no other form of life anywhere

635
00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:54,397
<i>in the entire universe.</i>

636
00:37:54,398 --> 00:37:56,649
<i>I've seen some of those videos
from Navy pilots,</i>

637
00:37:56,650 --> 00:37:59,819
<i>and I must tell you
that they are quite eyebrow-raising,</i>

638
00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:04,490
and, um, might in fact be
some type of phenomenon

639
00:38:04,491 --> 00:38:10,079
that is the result of something
that, um, we don't yet understand,

640
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,334
<i>and that could involve
some type of activity</i>

641
00:38:15,335 --> 00:38:18,547
{\an8}<i>that some might say
constitutes a different form of life.</i>

642
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:27,096
We don't know if the non-human
intelligence that is already here

643
00:38:27,097 --> 00:38:29,348
is exclusively extraterrestrial

644
00:38:29,349 --> 00:38:32,893
or perhaps
some sort of cryptoterrestrial.

645
00:38:32,894 --> 00:38:36,939
Some people who are into
the physics of time travel think

646
00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:39,025
well, maybe they're time travelers.

647
00:38:39,026 --> 00:38:41,485
Even some sort of proto-human

648
00:38:41,486 --> 00:38:45,114
that somehow branched off
from the human family tree long ago

649
00:38:45,115 --> 00:38:47,491
and is as natural
to this planet as we are.

650
00:38:47,492 --> 00:38:50,786
Some ancient civilization
that's sequestered away

651
00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:53,623
<i>somewhere on the Earth
or on the seabed.</i>

652
00:38:54,791 --> 00:38:59,670
We've heard testimonials
from pilots as well as civilians

653
00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:04,759
from different countries having
seen things come from the ocean,

654
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:09,305
unexplained things, and these aren't
missiles, they aren't rockets,

655
00:39:09,306 --> 00:39:11,849
they aren't aircraft or submarines.

656
00:39:11,850 --> 00:39:13,601
These are other-worldly things

657
00:39:13,602 --> 00:39:17,063
that are performing maneuvers
that haven't been seen.

658
00:39:17,064 --> 00:39:21,442
In fact, we have tracked UAP
underwater going at speeds

659
00:39:21,443 --> 00:39:24,278
in excess
of several hundred miles an hour,

660
00:39:24,279 --> 00:39:26,906
but without the associated signatures.

661
00:39:26,907 --> 00:39:29,492
{\an8}I retired
as the oceanographer of the Navy,

662
00:39:29,493 --> 00:39:33,580
{\an8}being the senior advisor for the Chief
of Naval Operations in the Pentagon.

663
00:39:34,414 --> 00:39:37,416
{\an8}<i>But our knowledge
of the ocean's rather limited.</i>

664
00:39:37,417 --> 00:39:40,837
{\an8}<i>We haven't even explored
80% of the ocean volume.</i>

665
00:39:42,422 --> 00:39:46,509
{\an8}We have mapped the surface of Mars
and the moon to a higher resolution

666
00:39:46,510 --> 00:39:47,968
than the Earth's sea floor.

667
00:39:47,969 --> 00:39:53,015
<i>Is it possible that whatever
we're seeing isn't from out there,</i>

668
00:39:53,016 --> 00:39:55,392
<i>it's from down there?</i>

669
00:39:55,393 --> 00:40:00,856
Are we looking at an entire
world underneath the water?

670
00:40:00,857 --> 00:40:04,860
{\an8}I think it's very safe to say that with
so much of the ocean volume unexplored

671
00:40:04,861 --> 00:40:10,199
{\an8}and the sea floor unmapped that
if any intelligence were to arrive here

672
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,954
<i>and not want to be detected,
it would stay in the ocean.</i>

673
00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:20,918
All these possibilities could come
with different intentions and motivations.

674
00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:27,007
Whoever it is, they're here
and they're operating here,

675
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,052
and they have been operating here
for a long time.

676
00:40:39,187 --> 00:40:44,775
In 2022, we started pushing Congress hard
to hold public UAP hearings,

677
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:47,571
and that's when disclosures
started to get to the next level.

678
00:40:50,907 --> 00:40:56,162
{\an8}House panel is holding a public hearing
on mysterious flying objects.

679
00:40:56,163 --> 00:40:58,247
{\an8}The chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee describes this

680
00:40:58,248 --> 00:41:00,791
{\an8}as one of the great mysteries of our time,

681
00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:04,795
{\an8}and it's a big day for all of these people
who have spent so many years

682
00:41:04,796 --> 00:41:07,381
{\an8}pushing for more transparency
into this topic.

683
00:41:07,382 --> 00:41:09,842
{\an8}Out of everything in Congress
and everything happening

684
00:41:09,843 --> 00:41:11,927
{\an8}currently in our country
and world right now,

685
00:41:11,928 --> 00:41:17,391
{\an8}the UAP topic has been
one of the only topics

686
00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:19,643
that's received
this level of bipartisan support.

687
00:41:19,644 --> 00:41:22,188
It's just not an issue,
at least as of yet, in this country

688
00:41:22,189 --> 00:41:25,941
that lends itself to some sort of
partisan or ideological divide.

689
00:41:25,942 --> 00:41:29,738
{\an8}Democrats and Republicans
just want to understand what's going on.

690
00:41:31,323 --> 00:41:33,490
<i>This hearing and oversight work</i>

691
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:36,035
<i>has a simple idea at its core.</i>

692
00:41:36,036 --> 00:41:40,998
{\an8}Unidentified aerial phenomena
are a potential national security threat,

693
00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:43,042
{\an8}and they need to be treated that way.

694
00:41:43,043 --> 00:41:47,379
{\an8}UAPs are unexplained.
It's true, but they are real.

695
00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:49,006
{\an8}They need to be investigated,

696
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:51,884
{\an8}and many threats
they pose need to be mitigated.

697
00:41:51,885 --> 00:41:54,178
{\an8}There is something there
measurable by multiple instruments,

698
00:41:54,179 --> 00:41:57,514
{\an8}and yet it seems to move
in directions that are inconsistent

699
00:41:57,515 --> 00:42:01,101
{\an8}with what we know of physics
or science, more broadly.

700
00:42:01,102 --> 00:42:05,439
{\an8}There are a number of events
in which we do not have an explanation,

701
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,483
{\an8}in which there are flight characteristics

702
00:42:07,484 --> 00:42:11,195
{\an8}or signature management,
um, that we can't explain.

703
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:13,030
{\an8}We know that our service members

704
00:42:13,031 --> 00:42:17,034
{\an8}have encountered
unidentified aerial phenomenon.

705
00:42:17,035 --> 00:42:21,538
{\an8}And because UAPs pose potential
flight safety and general security risk,

706
00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:25,209
{\an8}we are committed to a focused effort
to determine their origins.

707
00:42:25,210 --> 00:42:26,502
{\an8}The capabilities, systems,

708
00:42:26,503 --> 00:42:31,006
{\an8}processes and sources we use to observe,
record, study or analyze these phenomena

709
00:42:31,007 --> 00:42:33,509
{\an8}need to be classified
at appropriate levels.

710
00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:38,055
{\an8}We do not want, we do not want
potential adversaries to know

711
00:42:38,056 --> 00:42:40,391
exactly what we're able
to see or understand

712
00:42:40,392 --> 00:42:42,768
or how we come
to the conclusions we make.

713
00:42:42,769 --> 00:42:46,647
Therefore, public disclosures
must be carefully considered

714
00:42:46,648 --> 00:42:48,441
on a case-by-case basis.

715
00:42:48,942 --> 00:42:53,612
The hearing was a historic
bipartisan effort towards transparency,

716
00:42:53,613 --> 00:42:56,282
but it left both the American public
and Congress

717
00:42:56,283 --> 00:42:58,284
with more questions than answers.

718
00:42:58,285 --> 00:42:59,994
While I was making progress,

719
00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:04,581
I learned that the Legacy Program was
quietly behind the scenes pushing back,

720
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:06,542
and they were creating
bureaucratic hurdles.

721
00:43:06,543 --> 00:43:08,294
They were somehow
able to block the funding

722
00:43:08,295 --> 00:43:10,296
that was approved for the UAP task force.

723
00:43:10,297 --> 00:43:12,756
I can't describe it any other way
than I was just angry.

724
00:43:12,757 --> 00:43:17,136
There's this hidden hand that is blocking
all of these actions and things I'm doing.

725
00:43:17,137 --> 00:43:20,222
A subversive government
overriding the real government.

726
00:43:20,223 --> 00:43:23,559
It's so bad that we really
aren't going to make progress

727
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,395
until someone shines the light on them.

728
00:43:27,105 --> 00:43:29,983
<i>Then the staff
and the members start to dig in more.</i>

729
00:43:31,151 --> 00:43:33,652
<i>They begin to understand the landscape.</i>

730
00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:36,780
They begin to understand
how much secrecy there is,

731
00:43:36,781 --> 00:43:39,701
<i>how much resistance there is
to coming clean on this.</i>

732
00:43:42,871 --> 00:43:46,790
As Congress began hearing from
whistleblowers in classified settings,

733
00:43:46,791 --> 00:43:50,003
they came to the realization
of the existence of the Legacy Program.

734
00:43:54,507 --> 00:43:56,800
<i>The main players in the Legacy Program</i>

735
00:43:56,801 --> 00:44:00,179
have long been
the Central Intelligence Agency,

736
00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:02,306
the United States Air Force,

737
00:44:02,307 --> 00:44:06,977
{\an8}the Department of Energy,
and major defense contractors.

738
00:44:06,978 --> 00:44:11,107
<i>The Central Intelligence Agency
is responsible for the oversight</i>

739
00:44:11,274 --> 00:44:13,067
<i>of the overall effort.</i>

740
00:44:13,068 --> 00:44:16,528
<i>You might think of them as a little bit
as a headquarters element.</i>

741
00:44:16,529 --> 00:44:19,907
The Deputy Director of Science
and Technology at the CIA

742
00:44:19,908 --> 00:44:23,786
controls the UAP
crash retrieval portfolio.

743
00:44:23,787 --> 00:44:27,831
<i>The United States Air Force
is responsible for field operations.</i>

744
00:44:27,832 --> 00:44:32,503
These are the folks that are responsible
for deploying within moment's notice

745
00:44:32,504 --> 00:44:38,093
<i>anywhere in the world to go
secure and retrieve crashed UAP.</i>

746
00:44:40,387 --> 00:44:46,100
{\an8}We have intelligence teams
quickly notified if there's some UAP event

747
00:44:46,101 --> 00:44:50,437
that might involve a crashed vehicle
or pieces from a crashed vehicle.

748
00:44:50,438 --> 00:44:53,273
The United States Air Force
uses their own special forces,

749
00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:56,193
but they also coordinate
with other special forces

750
00:44:56,194 --> 00:44:57,987
in other branches of US military.

751
00:44:59,197 --> 00:45:03,617
They're so well organized
that they basically can get to a site,

752
00:45:03,618 --> 00:45:08,414
gather material, whatever it is,
and once it's in their possession,

753
00:45:08,415 --> 00:45:12,543
they have the authority to classify it,

754
00:45:12,544 --> 00:45:16,380
and therefore make any information
about it unavailable to the public,

755
00:45:16,381 --> 00:45:20,135
even admission that it exists
unavailable to the public.

756
00:45:21,010 --> 00:45:23,303
<i>The defense contractors,</i>

757
00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:27,349
they're responsible for the exploitation
and the reverse engineering

758
00:45:27,350 --> 00:45:28,934
and analysis of the materials.

759
00:45:28,935 --> 00:45:32,146
They provide technical
and advisory services

760
00:45:32,147 --> 00:45:33,856
that the government doesn't have.

761
00:45:33,857 --> 00:45:37,234
And last but not least
is the Department of Energy.

762
00:45:37,235 --> 00:45:41,947
<i>They are the world's experts in anything
that is related to either atomic</i>

763
00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:45,826
or nuclear technology
or anything that gives off radiation.

764
00:45:45,827 --> 00:45:48,745
But there's another advantage
because the Department of Energy

765
00:45:48,746 --> 00:45:51,915
has its own security
classification system

766
00:45:51,916 --> 00:45:56,378
well outside the overview
and oversight, if you will,

767
00:45:56,379 --> 00:46:00,757
of traditional classification systems
like the Department of Defense

768
00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:02,593
or the intelligence community.

769
00:46:02,594 --> 00:46:07,931
They've used the security
and classification language

770
00:46:07,932 --> 00:46:13,188
<i>in the Atomic Energy Act to hide
the Legacy crash retrieval program.</i>

771
00:46:16,232 --> 00:46:20,027
{\an8}The intelligence officials
that have briefed on these

772
00:46:20,028 --> 00:46:24,573
{\an8}crash retrievals have talked
about a number of different species

773
00:46:24,574 --> 00:46:27,409
{\an8}having been observed
to be associated with the crash.

774
00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:30,497
{\an8}Bodies recovered
are not all of the same type.

775
00:46:32,207 --> 00:46:36,126
{\an8}I'm aware of at least
two advanced non-human species,

776
00:46:36,127 --> 00:46:40,089
{\an8}one of which made contact
with the Legacy crash retrieval program.

777
00:46:40,882 --> 00:46:44,968
<i>The other of which, the bodies were
recovered by the crash retrieval program</i>

778
00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:46,762
<i>in various crashes.</i>

779
00:46:46,763 --> 00:46:48,764
One of the questions is often raised,

780
00:46:48,765 --> 00:46:51,350
if they're so advanced,
why are there crashes?

781
00:46:51,351 --> 00:46:53,852
But of course, I mean, you know,

782
00:46:53,853 --> 00:46:56,647
cars are well made
and people drive them carefully,

783
00:46:56,648 --> 00:46:59,942
but there are crashes. It can happen.

784
00:46:59,943 --> 00:47:04,863
Another option that's being considered
is that maybe some of these

785
00:47:04,864 --> 00:47:07,574
were not "really crashes,"

786
00:47:07,575 --> 00:47:12,037
but that they were left here
for us to examine

787
00:47:12,038 --> 00:47:15,958
in order to advance
our technology forward at a faster pace.

788
00:47:15,959 --> 00:47:21,046
So in that sense, they can be seen
as gifts from a more intelligent species.

789
00:47:21,047 --> 00:47:24,508
One of the questions that would
then be raised would be, well,

790
00:47:24,509 --> 00:47:29,555
are gifts distributed differently
among different nations

791
00:47:29,556 --> 00:47:33,350
or more or less homogeneously

792
00:47:33,351 --> 00:47:37,896
to see who survives
and makes progress the fastest?

793
00:47:37,897 --> 00:47:41,943
It could be a giant IQ test,
you might say.

794
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,490
<i>As we brought
whistleblowers to Congress,</i>

795
00:47:48,491 --> 00:47:54,079
we learned that the Legacy Program
was involved in a long running secret war

796
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:58,333
with other nations
to collect and reverse engineer

797
00:47:58,334 --> 00:48:02,213
vehicles not made by humans.

798
00:48:06,092 --> 00:48:08,969
In this secret theater of war,

799
00:48:08,970 --> 00:48:15,476
<i>the US has both allies and adversaries
in a winner takes all scenario.</i>

800
00:48:17,103 --> 00:48:21,273
<i>This is a very complicated
geopolitical landscape,</i>

801
00:48:21,274 --> 00:48:26,154
<i>where alliances and allegiances
shift like sand in the desert.</i>

802
00:48:27,530 --> 00:48:32,242
{\an8}We would certainly prefer
a situation where the retrieval

803
00:48:32,243 --> 00:48:37,414
{\an8}is either in international waters
or some other uncontested location

804
00:48:37,415 --> 00:48:39,458
<i>or maybe in an allied country,</i>

805
00:48:39,459 --> 00:48:43,962
<i>but every country in the world
would do everything in their power</i>

806
00:48:43,963 --> 00:48:47,341
to try to retrieve
an exquisite piece of technology.

807
00:48:47,342 --> 00:48:50,427
The first country that cracks
the code on this technology

808
00:48:50,428 --> 00:48:52,304
will be the leader for years to come.

809
00:48:52,305 --> 00:48:53,972
This is similar to the Manhattan Project.

810
00:48:53,973 --> 00:48:55,265
<i>We developed the atomic weapon.</i>

811
00:48:55,266 --> 00:48:58,853
<i>We won the war, and it made us
a superpower for almost a century now.</i>

812
00:49:00,271 --> 00:49:02,356
This is the atomic weapon on steroids.

813
00:49:02,357 --> 00:49:07,444
Some of the craft observed could be
the result of say our Legacy Program,

814
00:49:07,445 --> 00:49:11,406
or on the other hand,
it might be the result of advancements

815
00:49:11,407 --> 00:49:13,408
made by potential adversaries.

816
00:49:13,409 --> 00:49:18,664
{\an8}We have seen highly credible
US government intelligence

817
00:49:18,665 --> 00:49:23,752
<i>on the Soviet recovery
of a crashed UAP in 1989.</i>

818
00:49:23,753 --> 00:49:28,674
They recovered a Tic-Tac shaped UAP
that was twice as big as the Tic Tac

819
00:49:28,675 --> 00:49:32,052
that was encountered
by the USS Nimitz carrier strike group,

820
00:49:32,053 --> 00:49:37,224
and they did recover
four bodies of humanoid aliens.

821
00:49:37,225 --> 00:49:41,311
The Soviet scientists
took apart the recovered craft

822
00:49:41,312 --> 00:49:47,150
and discovered a very advanced
directed energy weapon.

823
00:49:47,151 --> 00:49:49,361
China is at the top of everybody's list

824
00:49:49,362 --> 00:49:51,947
of concern right now
in the Defense Department.

825
00:49:51,948 --> 00:49:55,992
<i>Some of this UAP activity
we are seeing here in the United States</i>

826
00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:57,911
<i>may actually be a result</i>

827
00:49:57,912 --> 00:50:01,999
<i>of a Chinese UAP
reverse engineering program.</i>

828
00:50:03,126 --> 00:50:07,295
{\an8}If Xi Jinping had access to this,
if Putin had access to this,

829
00:50:07,296 --> 00:50:10,215
{\an8}and they thought
that we did not have access

830
00:50:10,216 --> 00:50:13,885
{\an8}to similar capabilities
than what they did,

831
00:50:13,886 --> 00:50:17,013
do you think for a second
that they wouldn't consider

832
00:50:17,014 --> 00:50:19,433
using it to achieve
their ends of domination?

833
00:50:19,434 --> 00:50:22,477
<i>And if their
approach to it is driven by science</i>

834
00:50:22,478 --> 00:50:25,021
<i>and a desire to match
what they think is ours,</i>

835
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:26,898
we'll wake up one day and realize,

836
00:50:26,899 --> 00:50:29,109
I don't know how they got there,
but they got there ahead of us,

837
00:50:29,110 --> 00:50:30,694
and now we're screwed.

838
00:50:30,695 --> 00:50:35,824
This technology can absolutely either
revolutionize the way we do things

839
00:50:35,825 --> 00:50:39,286
or completely destroy
everything that we know.

840
00:50:39,287 --> 00:50:43,749
It often reminds me of the famous speech
by President John F. Kennedy

841
00:50:43,750 --> 00:50:47,627
when we were
right at the threshold of entering

842
00:50:47,628 --> 00:50:51,423
into a new era of discovery in space.

843
00:50:51,424 --> 00:50:55,927
{\an8}There is new knowledge to be gained
and new rights to be won,

844
00:50:55,928 --> 00:51:01,475
{\an8}and they must be won
and used for the progress of all people,

845
00:51:01,476 --> 00:51:06,062
for space science
like nuclear science and all technology

846
00:51:06,063 --> 00:51:08,065
has no conscience of its own.

847
00:51:08,941 --> 00:51:13,820
Whether it will become a force
for good or ill depends on man.

848
00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:20,452
And only if the United States
occupies a position of preeminence

849
00:51:20,453 --> 00:51:27,250
can we help decide whether this
new ocean will be a sea of peace

850
00:51:27,251 --> 00:51:30,213
or a new terrifying theater of war.

851
00:51:31,756 --> 00:51:36,301
{\an8}Some of this is so secret,
there have been very, very few people

852
00:51:36,302 --> 00:51:40,473
{\an8}in our entire government that have
been allowed or provided access to it.

853
00:51:43,017 --> 00:51:46,937
<i>Some presidents have been briefed
on the basic facts about the situation,</i>

854
00:51:46,938 --> 00:51:49,564
<i>but they are not provided
with all the details.</i>

855
00:51:49,565 --> 00:51:51,358
<i>I think there's
this assumption that presidents</i>

856
00:51:51,359 --> 00:51:53,819
<i>can walk in the Oval Office
on day one and say,</i>

857
00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:55,987
<i>"All right, take me to Roswell.
Show me the alien bodies."</i>

858
00:51:55,988 --> 00:51:57,781
{\an8}"I want to see the video, the autopsy.
I want to see the whole thing."

859
00:51:57,782 --> 00:51:58,866
{\an8}"Open it up."

860
00:51:58,991 --> 00:52:01,368
{\an8}I think that really is a, um--

861
00:52:01,369 --> 00:52:06,541
{\an8}A naive understanding
of how our government works.

862
00:52:08,376 --> 00:52:12,921
Even presidents have often been
operating on a need-to-know basis.

863
00:52:12,922 --> 00:52:15,215
That's certainly true
from historic standpoint.

864
00:52:15,216 --> 00:52:18,176
The rationale, the justification was,

865
00:52:18,177 --> 00:52:20,428
the president shouldn't know
about these things because that way

866
00:52:20,429 --> 00:52:22,472
the president always has deniability.

867
00:52:22,473 --> 00:52:25,100
All they need is a nod
in this direction or in that direction,

868
00:52:25,101 --> 00:52:27,394
but that begins
to ramp out of control.

869
00:52:27,395 --> 00:52:29,855
Frankly, I don't even know
if president would know who to ask.

870
00:52:29,856 --> 00:52:31,857
You could go to the director of the CIA,

871
00:52:31,858 --> 00:52:34,693
nowadays, the director
of National Intelligence, and ask them,

872
00:52:34,694 --> 00:52:38,321
and even that person may not know
because those people rotate,

873
00:52:38,322 --> 00:52:41,783
but people three layers underneath them
that are there for 30 years,

874
00:52:41,784 --> 00:52:44,744
to them, it's like, "I've seen
these people come and go."

875
00:52:44,745 --> 00:52:46,580
"I have no obligation
to tell them it exists."

876
00:52:46,581 --> 00:52:47,873
It just never percolates up.

877
00:52:47,874 --> 00:52:51,167
A lot of people have this assumption
that the director of CIA's

878
00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:52,669
right onto everything
and knows everything.

879
00:52:52,670 --> 00:52:54,880
The director of CIA
is a political appointee.

880
00:52:54,881 --> 00:52:57,632
Quite frankly,
they're temporary help,

881
00:52:57,633 --> 00:53:00,594
whereas the Director
of Science Technology at CIA,

882
00:53:00,595 --> 00:53:02,470
this is a career
intelligence professional,

883
00:53:02,471 --> 00:53:04,431
that's where you're gonna put the program.

884
00:53:04,432 --> 00:53:07,225
I had a few private conversations

885
00:53:07,226 --> 00:53:10,687
<i>with former president
George Herbert Walker Bush in 2003</i>

886
00:53:10,688 --> 00:53:13,398
in which he told me that

887
00:53:13,399 --> 00:53:16,651
when he became the CIA director
in the Ford administration,

888
00:53:16,652 --> 00:53:21,865
he was not briefed on the
Legacy UAP crash retrieval program.

889
00:53:21,866 --> 00:53:24,993
{\an8}But he later found out about it,
and he informed me

890
00:53:24,994 --> 00:53:27,746
{\an8}that there were a number
of crash retrievals that had taken place

891
00:53:27,747 --> 00:53:30,457
since the mid-1940s.

892
00:53:30,458 --> 00:53:32,542
And he also informed me

893
00:53:32,543 --> 00:53:36,880
{\an8}of a UAP event that took place
at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964,

894
00:53:36,881 --> 00:53:40,550
{\an8}<i>where three UAPs approached
the Air Force Base.</i>

895
00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:43,011
{\an8}<i>One of them landed on the tarmac.</i>

896
00:53:43,012 --> 00:53:48,141
And a non-human entity
deboarded the craft that landed

897
00:53:48,142 --> 00:53:53,897
and interacted with uniformed Air Force
and civilian CIA personnel.

898
00:53:53,898 --> 00:53:55,649
And when he asked for more details,

899
00:53:55,650 --> 00:53:58,110
<i>he was told that
he did not have a need to know.</i>

900
00:53:59,654 --> 00:54:03,740
{\an8}I served over 30 years
as a Army Green Beret

901
00:54:03,741 --> 00:54:08,203
{\an8}in the United States Army.
I ended my career as Secretary of Defense.

902
00:54:08,204 --> 00:54:13,291
Some intelligence official decided,
I, the acting Secretary of Defense,

903
00:54:13,292 --> 00:54:16,379
did not have a need to know
about the UAP topic.

904
00:54:16,963 --> 00:54:19,047
{\an8} <i>Several of
my colleagues participated</i>

905
00:54:19,048 --> 00:54:22,342
{\an8}<i>in a panel organized
by the George Bush administration</i>

906
00:54:22,343 --> 00:54:25,596
<i>when the administration contemplated
going public with disclosure.</i>

907
00:54:25,763 --> 00:54:30,558
{\an8}What it was a group of ten or 12 people
from intelligence agencies,

908
00:54:30,559 --> 00:54:33,269
{\an8}from the military, some business people,

909
00:54:33,270 --> 00:54:36,898
<i>and they said, "Here's what's going on."</i>

910
00:54:36,899 --> 00:54:43,279
"The Americans, the Russians,
and Chinese all have crash retrieved craft

911
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,115
from some other civilization,

912
00:54:45,116 --> 00:54:48,451
and there's some belief at this point

913
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:50,578
that maybe
this should be revealed to the public,

914
00:54:50,579 --> 00:54:54,374
and we want to know
what would the consequences be?"

915
00:54:54,375 --> 00:54:57,043
This is a topic
that has a potential to create

916
00:54:57,044 --> 00:55:01,339
serious ontological shock to society.

917
00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:03,049
It's not just national security.

918
00:55:03,050 --> 00:55:09,431
It's psychological, it's sociological,
it's theological and it's philosophical.

919
00:55:09,432 --> 00:55:10,974
{\an8}It's undermining in many ways,

920
00:55:10,975 --> 00:55:14,561
{\an8}it's troubling to a lot of people to say
that there's something else out there

921
00:55:14,562 --> 00:55:17,313
{\an8}either otherworldly, interdimensional.

922
00:55:17,314 --> 00:55:21,568
I think unfortunately
it goes against our traditions,

923
00:55:21,569 --> 00:55:24,404
our cultural traditions,
our religious traditions,

924
00:55:24,405 --> 00:55:27,575
and it challenges
the beliefs of a lot of people.

925
00:55:28,826 --> 00:55:33,747
<i>The Vatican has irrefutable evidence
that non-human intelligence exists.</i>

926
00:55:33,748 --> 00:55:36,291
<i>Although publicly
they don't want to acknowledge it,</i>

927
00:55:36,292 --> 00:55:38,794
{\an8}<i>privately,
they are very well aware of this.</i>

928
00:55:40,546 --> 00:55:44,424
{\an8}What happens when society realizes
everything it's been taught

929
00:55:44,425 --> 00:55:48,970
about the entire history of our species
has been wrong

930
00:55:48,971 --> 00:55:53,725
and everybody learns all at once
that we're not the top of the food chain?

931
00:55:53,726 --> 00:55:56,102
We're not the alpha predators.

932
00:55:56,103 --> 00:56:00,231
It would be a shakeup for institutions,

933
00:56:00,232 --> 00:56:05,070
it'd be a shakeup for norms,
it'd be a shakeup in society.

934
00:56:05,071 --> 00:56:09,866
{\an8}One has to be careful
and one has to remember

935
00:56:09,867 --> 00:56:11,242
{\an8}that it's conceivable

936
00:56:11,243 --> 00:56:14,871
{\an8}that there's something
that's so disturbing or disruptive

937
00:56:14,872 --> 00:56:18,792
or negative that there is a rationale

938
00:56:18,793 --> 00:56:22,420
for not immediately disclosing
all of that information.

939
00:56:22,421 --> 00:56:25,715
We actually came up
with a list of 64 areas

940
00:56:25,716 --> 00:56:30,345
that really would be impacted to some
significant degree by such a disclosure.

941
00:56:30,346 --> 00:56:34,933
We add up all the numbers, it looks
like this would be kind of a bad idea.

942
00:56:34,934 --> 00:56:39,729
Did you go through the secret files,
the UFO documents?

943
00:56:39,730 --> 00:56:42,440
Now that you're out of office,
you can do anything you want, right?

944
00:56:42,441 --> 00:56:44,526
That's true. Yeah.

945
00:56:44,527 --> 00:56:46,070
Uh, but I'm not telling you.

946
00:56:49,073 --> 00:56:53,034
{\an8}Without a doubt,
there's hardly been any program

947
00:56:53,035 --> 00:56:58,164
{\an8}that has been so successfully
kept out of the public eye

948
00:56:58,165 --> 00:57:02,085
{\an8}as anything like crash retrievals
of unknown craft.

949
00:57:02,086 --> 00:57:06,714
This line of strong control started

950
00:57:06,715 --> 00:57:11,219
{\an8}at least in the Truman administration
with the Roswell crash.

951
00:57:11,220 --> 00:57:14,514
{\an8}In AATIP, we learned that the UAP event

952
00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:20,270
at the US Army airfield
in Roswell in 1947 did actually occur.

953
00:57:20,271 --> 00:57:23,273
It was described to be
a boot-heel shaped UAP

954
00:57:23,274 --> 00:57:26,401
<i>that broke into two pieces on impact.</i>

955
00:57:26,402 --> 00:57:29,404
And observers saw
what looked like hieroglyphics

956
00:57:29,405 --> 00:57:30,655
or some type of writing on it.

957
00:57:30,656 --> 00:57:33,575
You might describe 'em
as runes or glyphs, hieroglyphs,

958
00:57:33,576 --> 00:57:35,535
that were actually on the craft itself.

959
00:57:35,536 --> 00:57:40,415
And within that crash,
non-human bodies were recovered.

960
00:57:40,416 --> 00:57:45,003
Four non-human bodies were recovered
from the UAP crash at Roswell.

961
00:57:45,004 --> 00:57:47,922
The recovered material
rom the crash, including the bodies,

962
00:57:47,923 --> 00:57:49,591
were all sent up to Wright Field,

963
00:57:49,592 --> 00:57:52,468
which is now called
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

964
00:57:52,469 --> 00:57:55,347
<i>That's where the US had
their best reverse engineers.</i>

965
00:57:56,765 --> 00:58:00,059
Think about the context
for everything in 1947.

966
00:58:00,060 --> 00:58:02,770
<i>The US had just won World War II</i>

967
00:58:02,771 --> 00:58:07,234
and was <i>entering into
a Cold War with the USSR.</i>

968
00:58:09,111 --> 00:58:15,992
These UAP presented a technology
of unfathomable power.

969
00:58:15,993 --> 00:58:20,955
It was imperative that the US be able
to reverse engineer this new technology

970
00:58:20,956 --> 00:58:24,125
before anybody else or before
anybody else even knew about it.

971
00:58:24,126 --> 00:58:26,878
You can't tell your friends
without telling your enemies.

972
00:58:26,879 --> 00:58:31,216
That's a key component to every decision
as to what we do or do not release.

973
00:58:31,217 --> 00:58:32,634
Back in 1947,

974
00:58:32,635 --> 00:58:36,387
{\an8}when they looked at this and they realized
it was real and they realized

975
00:58:36,388 --> 00:58:38,806
{\an8}they had no idea what it was.

976
00:58:38,807 --> 00:58:42,310
{\an8}This was something you couldn't
just talk about because the role

977
00:58:42,311 --> 00:58:45,313
{\an8}<i>of the President of the United States
and the role of the military</i>

978
00:58:45,314 --> 00:58:48,399
{\an8}is to defend the United States
and to protect its citizens.

979
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,985
If this is something
that they can't protect against,

980
00:58:50,986 --> 00:58:53,529
they're not gonna come out and say it.
They're not gonna scare anybody.

981
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:56,741
They don't want to tell
the American public about the threat

982
00:58:56,742 --> 00:58:58,619
because there's nothing
they can do about it.

983
00:58:59,662 --> 00:59:04,374
<i>It was only a couple months after
Roswell that President Truman signed</i>

984
00:59:04,375 --> 00:59:06,292
<i>the National Security Act of 1947,</i>

985
00:59:06,293 --> 00:59:11,256
which established both the Air Force
and the Central Intelligence Agency.

986
00:59:11,257 --> 00:59:14,884
That was the start point in which
both the CIA and the Air Force

987
00:59:14,885 --> 00:59:19,138
began to take
operational control of the UAP topic.

988
00:59:19,139 --> 00:59:21,891
<i>But it wasn't until
a couple of years later</i>

989
00:59:21,892 --> 00:59:25,395
<i>when Truman signed
the Central Intelligence Agency Act</i>

990
00:59:25,396 --> 00:59:28,648
<i>that really allowed, endorsed the CIA</i>

991
00:59:28,649 --> 00:59:31,693
<i>to be able to run
secret intelligence operations</i>

992
00:59:31,694 --> 00:59:34,279
<i>outside the normal
routine oversight channels.</i>

993
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,908
Basically be able to run operations
without anybody knowing.

994
00:59:39,118 --> 00:59:42,662
From Roswell on,
the strategy for dealing with the public

995
00:59:42,663 --> 00:59:46,291
and ensuring US secrecy is maintained

996
00:59:46,292 --> 00:59:50,878
was to basically adopt the strategy
of deny everything, admit nothing,

997
00:59:50,879 --> 00:59:52,839
make counter accusations,

998
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,968
<i>put out false narratives,
intimidate and discredit witnesses.</i>

999
00:59:56,969 --> 01:00:00,471
In essence, deny, deny, deny.

1000
01:00:00,472 --> 01:00:03,266
Establish stigma surrounding this topic

1001
01:00:03,267 --> 01:00:05,435
in order to prevent
any type of disclosure.

1002
01:00:05,436 --> 01:00:12,442
Executive Order 12333 bans covert action
to influence the public and the media,

1003
01:00:12,443 --> 01:00:16,571
but the Legacy crash retrieval program
has been ignoring that.

1004
01:00:16,572 --> 01:00:20,908
In fact, they are aggressively
influencing public opinion

1005
01:00:20,909 --> 01:00:23,828
by using an active
disinformation campaign.

1006
01:00:23,829 --> 01:00:28,541
{\an8}To create a tradition of disbelief,
where you basically start very early,

1007
01:00:28,542 --> 01:00:31,461
{\an8}"Nah, nah, everybody
who sees UFOs are crackpots,"

1008
01:00:31,462 --> 01:00:34,630
{\an8}and then that gets built in,
you know, to the media enterprise,

1009
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:38,092
it gets built into Hollywood,
it gets built into the public.

1010
01:00:38,093 --> 01:00:41,471
CIA funded Hollywood movies
in order to create that ridicule factor

1011
01:00:41,472 --> 01:00:42,930
that they still use to this day.

1012
01:00:42,931 --> 01:00:47,685
{\an8}Do you believe that the recent spike
in UFO encounters--

1013
01:00:47,686 --> 01:00:50,313
{\an8}I get the UFO question?

1014
01:00:50,314 --> 01:00:52,648
{\an8}-  Yeah, you do!
- Come on, man!

1015
01:00:52,649 --> 01:00:55,151
{\an8}I'm not--

1016
01:00:55,152 --> 01:00:56,778
-  Would you tell us?
- I'm just--

1017
01:00:56,779 --> 01:01:00,281
You know, I loved <i>E.T.</i> the movie,
but I'm just gonna leave it there.

1018
01:01:00,282 --> 01:01:04,077
Up until very recently, there was
zero incentive for a naval aviator

1019
01:01:04,078 --> 01:01:05,870
to come forward and say,
"This is what I saw."

1020
01:01:05,871 --> 01:01:08,998
And honestly, up until very recently,
there was zero incentive for a US Senator

1021
01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:10,750
to talk about it
because people would think,

1022
01:01:10,751 --> 01:01:12,502
"What's wrong? This guy's a weirdo."

1023
01:01:12,503 --> 01:01:15,254
Over the years, military service members,

1024
01:01:15,255 --> 01:01:18,800
intelligence officials and even
private citizens have been ridiculed

1025
01:01:18,801 --> 01:01:22,220
and made to look crazy to the point
where people have lost their jobs,

1026
01:01:22,221 --> 01:01:24,222
they've lost their ability
to provide for their families,

1027
01:01:24,223 --> 01:01:26,140
they lost their security clearances.

1028
01:01:26,141 --> 01:01:30,645
These people had their lives ruined
simply because they spoke the truth

1029
01:01:30,646 --> 01:01:33,272
about what they learned or what they saw.

1030
01:01:33,273 --> 01:01:35,566
{\an8}People that come forward with this,

1031
01:01:35,567 --> 01:01:39,570
{\an8}um, I feel like they've taken
their life in their own hands.

1032
01:01:39,571 --> 01:01:42,240
{\an8}People say, well, government
can't keep a secret.

1033
01:01:42,241 --> 01:01:44,158
{\an8}Well, there are a number of
programs I've been involved in

1034
01:01:44,159 --> 01:01:46,994
{\an8}that have never gotten revealed.

1035
01:01:46,995 --> 01:01:51,165
The truth of the matter is
people and programs can be kept secret.

1036
01:01:51,166 --> 01:01:54,585
Usually it's just out of personal,
wanting to protect oneself.

1037
01:01:54,586 --> 01:01:58,631
This is the most successful
disinformation campaign

1038
01:01:58,632 --> 01:02:01,050
in the history of the US government.

1039
01:02:01,051 --> 01:02:04,470
The irony in this is that
the deception campaign

1040
01:02:04,471 --> 01:02:07,557
to create stigma was so successful

1041
01:02:07,558 --> 01:02:11,602
it actually inadvertently
created a new unforeseen problem.

1042
01:02:11,603 --> 01:02:15,273
{\an8}Stigma has been a tremendous problem

1043
01:02:15,274 --> 01:02:18,693
{\an8}that it's actually a national
security threat to the United States.

1044
01:02:18,694 --> 01:02:23,781
Other countries are not suffering
from the stigma that we are,

1045
01:02:23,782 --> 01:02:29,495
so we are already, as Americans,
at a disadvantage.

1046
01:02:29,496 --> 01:02:33,374
How can we expect
to maintain a strategic advantage

1047
01:02:33,375 --> 01:02:37,420
when 99.999% of all scientists here
in this country

1048
01:02:37,421 --> 01:02:39,255
don't even think it's real?

1049
01:02:39,256 --> 01:02:42,216
{\an8}Science moves forward on the basis
of exchanging information,

1050
01:02:42,217 --> 01:02:47,680
{\an8}and when it's all tied up and held down,
you just can't make progress.

1051
01:02:47,681 --> 01:02:52,518
You had information being locked away
that frankly could improve the lives

1052
01:02:52,519 --> 01:02:58,108
of every human being on this planet
and change the trajectory for our species.

1053
01:02:59,985 --> 01:03:03,362
This information was
and is still being locked down

1054
01:03:03,363 --> 01:03:05,531
by the Legacy crash retrieval program.

1055
01:03:05,532 --> 01:03:09,535
Too much information resides
in different stove pipes.

1056
01:03:09,536 --> 01:03:13,706
It's controlled by different baronies
and different fiefdoms spread throughout

1057
01:03:13,707 --> 01:03:15,291
the National Security kingdom.

1058
01:03:15,292 --> 01:03:17,585
They each view information as power.

1059
01:03:17,586 --> 01:03:20,087
They're each reluctant
to share information.

1060
01:03:20,088 --> 01:03:22,840
They hoard it.
They like to trade it like a currency.

1061
01:03:22,841 --> 01:03:27,094
All of these things conspire to prevent us

1062
01:03:27,095 --> 01:03:31,390
from getting the big picture
and bringing the information together.

1063
01:03:31,391 --> 01:03:34,477
It's worth noting
that the Air Force didn't contribute,

1064
01:03:34,478 --> 01:03:41,442
uh, any or maybe just
a tiny number of, uh, reports of UAPs.

1065
01:03:41,443 --> 01:03:44,987
Notwithstanding the fact
that the Air Force controls

1066
01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:47,740
<i>the North American
Aerospace Defense Command,</i>

1067
01:03:47,741 --> 01:03:50,785
<i>they're responsible
for space surveillance.</i>

1068
01:03:50,786 --> 01:03:53,871
<i>They have aircraft
with superior radar systems</i>

1069
01:03:53,872 --> 01:03:56,457
operating in the same training ranges

1070
01:03:56,458 --> 01:03:59,669
where the Navy is seeing
and reporting these aircraft,

1071
01:03:59,670 --> 01:04:03,548
and yet they claim
they don't have evidence of this.

1072
01:04:03,549 --> 01:04:05,174
Imagine we had a situation

1073
01:04:05,175 --> 01:04:08,594
where we're saying there are
unidentified submarines

1074
01:04:08,595 --> 01:04:11,180
off the coast of the United States,

1075
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:13,516
and the only reports we got
were from the Air Force

1076
01:04:13,517 --> 01:04:15,769
and the Navy had nothing to say about it.

1077
01:04:16,603 --> 01:04:19,313
<i>During the George
W. Bush administration,</i>

1078
01:04:19,314 --> 01:04:24,110
<i>the president routinely went down
to his ranch in Stephenville, Texas,</i>

1079
01:04:24,111 --> 01:04:28,448
{\an8}and I see reporting of UAP activity
over the ranch.

1080
01:04:29,366 --> 01:04:34,620
{\an8}F-16s from a nearby Air Force base
were alerted to intercept this object.

1081
01:04:34,621 --> 01:04:36,956
<i>People on the ground saw it.</i>

1082
01:04:36,957 --> 01:04:41,419
So I go down and I start asking
questions, "Hey, what did you chase?"

1083
01:04:41,420 --> 01:04:43,421
"I'm acting on behalf
of the US government,

1084
01:04:43,422 --> 01:04:46,048
and we're trying
to understand what you saw."

1085
01:04:46,049 --> 01:04:49,760
And they look me in the eyes and said,
"Jay, we cannot tell you what we saw

1086
01:04:49,761 --> 01:04:53,431
because the OSI, Air Force
Office of Special Investigations,

1087
01:04:53,432 --> 01:04:56,142
came in here, had us sign
non-disclosure agreements."

1088
01:04:56,143 --> 01:04:58,185
"We did see something,
we did scramble on something,

1089
01:04:58,186 --> 01:04:59,562
but we can't talk to you about it."

1090
01:04:59,563 --> 01:05:04,025
Historically, every time
a military member had a UAP encounter,

1091
01:05:04,026 --> 01:05:06,611
it was very quickly swept under the rug,

1092
01:05:06,612 --> 01:05:08,446
and they were discouraged
from talking about it.

1093
01:05:08,447 --> 01:05:11,699
{\an8}They put a form down
as a non-disclosure form.

1094
01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:14,910
{\an8}He came storming across to me.
He said, "Don't you ever say that again."

1095
01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:16,454
{\an8}"You don't ever speak of this."

1096
01:05:16,455 --> 01:05:17,913
{\an8}And it made it very clear
that it's something

1097
01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:21,417
{\an8}we shouldn't be talking about
and just keep our mouth shut.

1098
01:05:21,418 --> 01:05:24,045
{\an8}There was a culture of silence.

1099
01:05:24,046 --> 01:05:25,379
{\an8}I didn't talk to anybody about it,

1100
01:05:25,380 --> 01:05:28,799
{\an8}not my wife, not my colleagues,
not people I knew. They just shut up.

1101
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,552
{\an8}There's ramifications
if you were to divulge

1102
01:05:31,553 --> 01:05:33,347
{\an8}any of this information to anyone.

1103
01:05:36,850 --> 01:05:40,561
{\an8}<i>We received an alarm
at our closest missile site.</i>

1104
01:05:40,562 --> 01:05:46,942
<i>There was an object directly above
that ICBM nuclear missile,</i>

1105
01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:49,153
<i>right on top of the blast door.</i>

1106
01:05:49,154 --> 01:05:52,073
<i>No noise, no sound whatsoever.</i>

1107
01:05:52,074 --> 01:05:55,284
<i>And it looked like
a mini sun sitting in the air.</i>

1108
01:05:55,285 --> 01:05:58,245
<i>It was the size
of a Super Walmart building.</i>

1109
01:05:58,246 --> 01:06:00,581
{\an8}Not just a Walmart,
I mean a Super Walmart.

1110
01:06:00,582 --> 01:06:02,166
{\an8}This thing was gargantuan.

1111
01:06:02,167 --> 01:06:06,587
{\an8}And how it could suspend itself was just
completely unnatural to what we know of

1112
01:06:06,588 --> 01:06:08,548
{\an8}as anything that can fly or hover.

1113
01:06:13,220 --> 01:06:18,683
{\an8}The captain was looking,
just looking up with his mouth open.

1114
01:06:18,684 --> 01:06:21,143
{\an8}And I look up and I see

1115
01:06:21,144 --> 01:06:24,106
<i>this object right over
the missile launch tube.</i>

1116
01:06:26,692 --> 01:06:31,655
<i>Multifaceted, matte black finish,
an oddly shaped diamond.</i>

1117
01:06:32,489 --> 01:06:35,908
<i>Absolutely silent, made no noise.
There was no means of propulsion.</i>

1118
01:06:35,909 --> 01:06:39,705
<i>Fifty feet up in the air,
sitting absolutely still.</i>

1119
01:06:40,997 --> 01:06:45,584
And it was amazing,
and we kind of looked at one another.

1120
01:06:45,585 --> 01:06:49,255
And we were just human beings
witnessing something extraordinary.

1121
01:06:49,256 --> 01:06:54,427
And while we're watching this thing,
it went from dead still,

1122
01:06:54,428 --> 01:06:58,222
and it shot off toward the horizon
and was gone.

1123
01:06:58,223 --> 01:07:01,601
Absolutely instant acceleration.

1124
01:07:07,899 --> 01:07:12,070
{\an8} <i>We had 60 cameras so that
the engineers at Boeing and Douglas</i>

1125
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:17,075
{\an8}could see every millisecond
of the ignition.

1126
01:07:18,285 --> 01:07:21,704
<i>The missile in question
that we photographed was an Atlas D</i>

1127
01:07:21,705 --> 01:07:26,584
<i>carrying, as part of an experiment,
a dummy nuclear warhead.</i>

1128
01:07:26,585 --> 01:07:29,628
As it was flying along,
the warhead, the chaff,

1129
01:07:29,629 --> 01:07:31,714
something else entered the frame.

1130
01:07:31,715 --> 01:07:35,634
It shot a beam of light,
and it hit the warhead,

1131
01:07:35,635 --> 01:07:37,052
flew up like this,

1132
01:07:37,053 --> 01:07:39,430
shot another beam of light down
at the warhead, went like this,

1133
01:07:39,431 --> 01:07:42,516
shot under the beam of light
at the warhead, went under here,

1134
01:07:42,517 --> 01:07:45,895
shot a beam of light at the warhead,
and then flew out the way it had come in.

1135
01:07:45,896 --> 01:07:47,438
All the while, everything in our frame

1136
01:07:47,439 --> 01:07:49,982
was moving along
at 8,000 to 9,000 miles an hour.

1137
01:07:49,983 --> 01:07:52,359
There's nothing of ours
that could've done that.

1138
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:54,029
What could have done that?

1139
01:08:00,911 --> 01:08:05,372
{\an8}There was this red orange light
hovering above the front gate.

1140
01:08:05,373 --> 01:08:09,211
{\an8}It was about 40 feet in diameter,
sort of oval shape.

1141
01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:16,717
{\an8}<i>And each missile was announcing
a guidance and control system failure.</i>

1142
01:08:16,718 --> 01:08:22,473
{\an8}Our missiles were starting to go down,
so we had all ten of 'em go down.

1143
01:08:22,474 --> 01:08:29,523
Within the span of eight days,
we lost 20 nuclear missiles to UFOs.

1144
01:08:33,235 --> 01:08:35,986
{\an8}Vandenberg is home to the infrastructure

1145
01:08:35,987 --> 01:08:38,906
{\an8}that supports
our National Missile Defense project,

1146
01:08:38,907 --> 01:08:40,658
{\an8}the system that defends our country

1147
01:08:40,659 --> 01:08:43,452
{\an8}from incoming ballistic missiles
and nuclear weapons.

1148
01:08:43,453 --> 01:08:46,372
So it's one of the most
important bases we have.

1149
01:08:46,373 --> 01:08:48,457
<i>On October 14th, 2003,</i>

1150
01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:50,960
<i>I showed up to work
at Vandenberg Air Force Base</i>

1151
01:08:50,961 --> 01:08:55,297
and immediately everybody just
started to tell me about this UFO incident

1152
01:08:55,298 --> 01:08:57,424
that had happened earlier that morning.

1153
01:08:57,425 --> 01:09:00,761
{\an8}I reported for work, um,
at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

1154
01:09:00,762 --> 01:09:02,930
{\an8}We were given a briefing
earlier in the day.

1155
01:09:02,931 --> 01:09:06,225
{\an8}Some Boeing contractors
had witnessed a UAP incursion.

1156
01:09:06,226 --> 01:09:10,104
<i>Three Boeing contractors
had called in and reported</i>

1157
01:09:10,105 --> 01:09:14,066
<i>that a gigantic red square object</i>

1158
01:09:14,067 --> 01:09:17,111
was floating over the launchpad
at low altitude.

1159
01:09:17,112 --> 01:09:21,156
It was making no noise,
it had no obvious signs of propulsion,

1160
01:09:21,157 --> 01:09:23,450
and it was just hovering silently.

1161
01:09:23,451 --> 01:09:26,161
It was a very serious
security breach of the area.

1162
01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:28,581
And we were told just to be vigilant
when we were out on our shift that night.

1163
01:09:28,582 --> 01:09:33,711
And I spent the most of the day driving
around the base looking for these objects.

1164
01:09:33,712 --> 01:09:36,505
Later that night,
myself and five security forces members,

1165
01:09:36,506 --> 01:09:39,091
we observed a bright light
approaching the base.

1166
01:09:39,092 --> 01:09:41,427
As it got closer,
the light was no longer visible,

1167
01:09:41,428 --> 01:09:44,972
and it was massive,
the size of a football field,

1168
01:09:44,973 --> 01:09:47,141
<i>almost rectangular in shape.</i>

1169
01:09:47,142 --> 01:09:48,350
<i>It was just floating there.</i>

1170
01:09:48,351 --> 01:09:52,897
<i>No propulsion system, no windows.
It was matte black.</i>

1171
01:09:52,898 --> 01:09:55,482
<i>We observed it for another 45 seconds.</i>

1172
01:09:55,483 --> 01:09:58,819
And then it shot off thousands
of miles an hour up the coast.

1173
01:09:58,820 --> 01:10:02,323
I talked to all the direct witnesses,
over a dozen people,

1174
01:10:02,324 --> 01:10:04,867
and even from
their different vantage points,

1175
01:10:04,868 --> 01:10:08,621
they all told the same story.
They all saw the same thing.

1176
01:10:08,622 --> 01:10:13,292
The UAP activity surrounding
nuclear weapons is not a historic issue.

1177
01:10:13,293 --> 01:10:15,253
It's an ongoing issue.

1178
01:10:16,171 --> 01:10:20,132
Despite the longstanding denial
by the United States Air Force,

1179
01:10:20,133 --> 01:10:25,346
we now have both former and current
very senior Air Force officials

1180
01:10:25,347 --> 01:10:29,433
stating for the record
that in fact the Air Force has had

1181
01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:32,895
a longstanding involvement in UAP.

1182
01:10:32,896 --> 01:10:37,650
{\an8}I served in the Air Force
for about 32 years,

1183
01:10:37,651 --> 01:10:41,153
<i>and my last job in the Air Force
was chief of Air Force Intelligence,</i>

1184
01:10:41,154 --> 01:10:44,365
<i>prior to becoming director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency.</i>

1185
01:10:44,366 --> 01:10:47,034
When I served in the Air Force,

1186
01:10:47,035 --> 01:10:54,083
uh, there was an active program
to track anomalous activities

1187
01:10:54,084 --> 01:10:57,503
that, uh, you know,
we couldn't otherwise explain.

1188
01:10:57,504 --> 01:11:04,094
Many of them connected with ranges
out west, notably, um, Area 51.

1189
01:11:07,764 --> 01:11:10,557
<i>As Congress learned more
about the Legacy Program,</i>

1190
01:11:10,558 --> 01:11:15,563
<i>they realized how powerful and influential
the defense contractors have become.</i>

1191
01:11:18,650 --> 01:11:23,487
As we look at the actual structure
of the interaction between the government

1192
01:11:23,488 --> 01:11:26,323
and private industry in this UAP area,

1193
01:11:26,324 --> 01:11:29,159
<i>over the years, it has morphed,</i>

1194
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:34,748
<i>transitioned into it being largely
in the aegis of the contractors.</i>

1195
01:11:34,749 --> 01:11:36,458
If you do something within the government,

1196
01:11:36,459 --> 01:11:39,920
eventually it can be accessed
by Freedom of Information Act.

1197
01:11:39,921 --> 01:11:42,548
But if you do something
through contractors,

1198
01:11:42,549 --> 01:11:46,135
they're not available through
Freedom of Information Act.

1199
01:11:46,136 --> 01:11:50,806
I had been involved myself in projects
where we made sure that the material

1200
01:11:50,807 --> 01:11:54,226
was under contractor labels

1201
01:11:54,227 --> 01:11:58,063
so they couldn't be
accessed easily by the public.

1202
01:11:58,064 --> 01:12:01,316
But what happens with government,
you need continuity.

1203
01:12:01,317 --> 01:12:03,610
People move, people die, people retire.

1204
01:12:03,611 --> 01:12:06,905
So what winds up happening is
you have these Legacy efforts going on

1205
01:12:06,906 --> 01:12:10,117
in the government contractor side
involving UAP.

1206
01:12:10,118 --> 01:12:13,203
{\an8}And then I, the government official
in charge of this program, leave

1207
01:12:13,204 --> 01:12:16,081
{\an8}and someone else takes my place,
and that person might have

1208
01:12:16,082 --> 01:12:18,125
{\an8}a little bit of awareness
that this project existed.

1209
01:12:18,126 --> 01:12:19,877
But then they're replaced
by a third person

1210
01:12:19,878 --> 01:12:21,920
who has no idea that the project existed.

1211
01:12:21,921 --> 01:12:24,089
But the corporate entity that received

1212
01:12:24,090 --> 01:12:26,633
this technology
is still trying to develop it,

1213
01:12:26,634 --> 01:12:28,635
and so they begin to commercialize that.

1214
01:12:28,636 --> 01:12:31,472
Some of the stuff begins to seep out
in these great innovations

1215
01:12:31,473 --> 01:12:33,849
that some company's coming up with
and making money on,

1216
01:12:33,850 --> 01:12:36,685
and they claim it belongs to them
and it's proprietary.

1217
01:12:36,686 --> 01:12:40,355
Um, and the people in government
who know where it came from originally,

1218
01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:44,276
they're long gone and their successors
have no idea that it was there at all.

1219
01:12:44,277 --> 01:12:48,864
And so you can start to foresee
where you create in corporate hands

1220
01:12:48,865 --> 01:12:50,532
an extraordinary amount of power.

1221
01:12:50,533 --> 01:12:55,454
The real risk in transferring technology
that is not useful to us today

1222
01:12:55,455 --> 01:12:56,955
to a corporate entity.

1223
01:12:56,956 --> 01:12:58,707
Over decades, that corporate entity

1224
01:12:58,708 --> 01:13:01,376
comes to basically possess
and control access to it

1225
01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:04,671
for their own purposes,
not for the purposes of national security.

1226
01:13:04,672 --> 01:13:06,381
{\an8}In the councils of government,

1227
01:13:06,382 --> 01:13:10,469
{\an8}we must guard against
the acquisition of unwarranted influence,

1228
01:13:10,470 --> 01:13:15,974
whether sought or unsought
by the military industrial complex.

1229
01:13:15,975 --> 01:13:18,477
The potential for the disastrous rise

1230
01:13:18,478 --> 01:13:21,731
of misplaced power exists
and will persist.

1231
01:13:22,816 --> 01:13:25,400
We must never let
the weight of this combination

1232
01:13:25,401 --> 01:13:28,487
endanger our liberties
or democratic processes.

1233
01:13:28,488 --> 01:13:31,323
{\an8}The reason why our democracy is so strong

1234
01:13:31,324 --> 01:13:34,118
{\an8}because it's of the people
and by the people and for the people.

1235
01:13:34,119 --> 01:13:38,288
{\an8}It's not acceptable to have secret parts
of government that no one ever sees.

1236
01:13:38,289 --> 01:13:40,040
{\an8}It would be unconscionable.

1237
01:13:40,041 --> 01:13:42,918
{\an8}It's against our constitution
and it's wrong.

1238
01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:46,588
{\an8}Non-human intelligence
is not government information,

1239
01:13:46,589 --> 01:13:50,552
{\an8}and the government should not be keeping
that knowledge from the people.

1240
01:13:54,389 --> 01:13:55,681
<i>Before he passed away,</i>

1241
01:13:55,682 --> 01:13:58,642
<i>I had the privilege
of seeing Senator Harry Reid</i>

1242
01:13:58,643 --> 01:14:01,979
<i>quite a few times
in his private residence.</i>

1243
01:14:01,980 --> 01:14:06,567
He explained to me that he was
once provided information

1244
01:14:06,568 --> 01:14:09,236
on the Legacy Program but denied access.

1245
01:14:09,237 --> 01:14:10,988
He was incensed by that.

1246
01:14:10,989 --> 01:14:14,867
And when the opportunity
came to sponsor AATIP,

1247
01:14:14,868 --> 01:14:16,952
he jumped at the opportunity

1248
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:19,496
in order to ensure
that Congress and the government

1249
01:14:19,497 --> 01:14:22,040
had visibility into this topic.

1250
01:14:22,041 --> 01:14:25,210
And frankly, we wouldn't be
where we are today

1251
01:14:25,211 --> 01:14:28,672
if it wasn't for the courage
of Senator Harry Reid.

1252
01:14:28,673 --> 01:14:32,385
{\an8}Why the federal government
all these years has covered up,

1253
01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:36,930
{\an8}put brake pads on everything, stopped it?

1254
01:14:36,931 --> 01:14:40,559
{\an8}I think it's very, very bad
for our country.

1255
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:44,229
Should we study this stuff?
The answer is yes.

1256
01:14:44,230 --> 01:14:46,399
And that's all this was about.

1257
01:14:51,070 --> 01:14:52,946
For decades, our government assumed

1258
01:14:52,947 --> 01:14:55,657
there must be different
exotic technologies responsible

1259
01:14:55,658 --> 01:14:57,576
for each of the observables,

1260
01:14:57,577 --> 01:15:01,622
but our scientists realized
one breakthrough technology

1261
01:15:01,623 --> 01:15:05,001
<i>could actually be responsible
for everything.</i>

1262
01:15:07,837 --> 01:15:10,589
With enough energy,
you could create a bubble,

1263
01:15:10,590 --> 01:15:12,716
a warp bubble around a spacecraft

1264
01:15:12,717 --> 01:15:15,177
that would have a different property
of space-time

1265
01:15:15,178 --> 01:15:17,639
inside the bubble
than on the outside of the bubble.

1266
01:15:19,724 --> 01:15:22,184
<i>This energy field
would completely isolate</i>

1267
01:15:22,185 --> 01:15:23,937
<i>the craft from the environment.</i>

1268
01:15:26,397 --> 01:15:29,691
So you might ask then,
how does the craft actually move forward

1269
01:15:29,692 --> 01:15:31,235
within its bubble?

1270
01:15:31,236 --> 01:15:36,323
The craft inside the bubble has a way
of altering the bubble's properties

1271
01:15:36,324 --> 01:15:40,285
<i>in order to change
its direction of motion.</i>

1272
01:15:40,286 --> 01:15:44,122
<i>Such that you have
a downward press in front</i>

1273
01:15:44,123 --> 01:15:47,000
<i>and an upward press behind.</i>

1274
01:15:47,001 --> 01:15:49,586
So it'd be like riding
space-time in the same way

1275
01:15:49,587 --> 01:15:52,090
that a surfer would ride
a wave in the ocean.

1276
01:15:54,842 --> 01:15:59,263
And we observe hypersonic velocity
and instantaneous acceleration,

1277
01:15:59,264 --> 01:16:03,183
and the reason is that time is moving
differently for people inside the bubble

1278
01:16:03,184 --> 01:16:05,018
versus people outside the bubble.

1279
01:16:05,019 --> 01:16:08,480
Whoever's inside the craft would
feel like they're just cruising along.

1280
01:16:08,481 --> 01:16:12,192
They wouldn't be feeling the effects of
what looks like speeds and accelerations

1281
01:16:12,193 --> 01:16:14,529
that would turn
a human being into pudding.

1282
01:16:16,739 --> 01:16:19,866
This one breakthrough
can be the key to interstellar travel,

1283
01:16:19,867 --> 01:16:22,452
{\an8}where you want to travel long distances

1284
01:16:22,453 --> 01:16:25,747
{\an8}without taking enormous amounts
of subjective time.

1285
01:16:25,748 --> 01:16:30,252
{\an8}<i>We'd also have low observability
because the bubble acts as a barrier</i>

1286
01:16:30,253 --> 01:16:32,462
<i>between two space-time environments.</i>

1287
01:16:32,463 --> 01:16:35,632
This would eliminate or conceal
most of the known signatures

1288
01:16:35,633 --> 01:16:37,175
of conventional technologies.

1289
01:16:37,176 --> 01:16:41,722
This is why radar would have difficulty
tracking a craft because the signal

1290
01:16:41,723 --> 01:16:45,684
<i>from the radar would be distorted
by the energy field around the craft.</i>

1291
01:16:45,685 --> 01:16:49,438
The radar signatures literally
just moved around the bubble

1292
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:51,982
and doesn't reflect back
to the radar emitter.

1293
01:16:51,983 --> 01:16:56,737
So it's not surprising
when someone takes a photo of a UAP,

1294
01:16:56,738 --> 01:16:59,614
they find they get
a fuzzy and distorted picture

1295
01:16:59,615 --> 01:17:03,286
<i>because they're actually taking
a photo through a space-time barrier.</i>

1296
01:17:06,914 --> 01:17:08,457
What's been happening recently

1297
01:17:08,458 --> 01:17:12,544
is that we have upgraded our
sensor systems on our fighter aircraft.

1298
01:17:12,545 --> 01:17:16,757
And these images that are now picked up
with our advanced sensor systems,

1299
01:17:16,758 --> 01:17:21,511
we can begin to see the actual structure
of the energy field around the craft,

1300
01:17:21,512 --> 01:17:24,140
<i>which in the past
they would not have been able to do.</i>

1301
01:17:25,767 --> 01:17:28,018
We also observed transmedium travel

1302
01:17:28,019 --> 01:17:31,980
because the craft is moving
within its own space-time,

1303
01:17:31,981 --> 01:17:36,861
and the outside environment through
which it's moving is inconsequential.

1304
01:17:37,445 --> 01:17:40,697
{\an8}<i>This would allow a craft
to go seamlessly from space</i>

1305
01:17:40,698 --> 01:17:44,117
<i>through the atmosphere into the water.</i>

1306
01:17:44,118 --> 01:17:48,163
And they could do so because
the warp bubble that surrounds them

1307
01:17:48,164 --> 01:17:51,875
shunts air molecules
or ocean water molecules

1308
01:17:51,876 --> 01:17:55,838
around the craft so that it could
move effortlessly through any medium.

1309
01:17:58,508 --> 01:18:02,260
We also observe anti-gravity
because the Earth's gravitational field

1310
01:18:02,261 --> 01:18:06,516
is no longer having any effect
on the craft inside its space-time bubble.

1311
01:18:07,850 --> 01:18:09,684
{\an8}<i>This is why a craft does not need say,</i>

1312
01:18:09,685 --> 01:18:14,564
engines or wings or other aspects
that we would associate with a craft

1313
01:18:14,565 --> 01:18:16,650
that needs to fly in the atmosphere.

1314
01:18:16,651 --> 01:18:19,028
It's really disconnected
from the atmosphere.

1315
01:18:21,364 --> 01:18:24,116
{\an8}<i>And the energy field
associated with these craft</i>

1316
01:18:24,117 --> 01:18:26,701
causes a highly energetic
wave of radiation,

1317
01:18:26,702 --> 01:18:31,123
which is why people getting too close
to a UAP can experience biological effects

1318
01:18:31,124 --> 01:18:32,583
that are harmful to humans.

1319
01:18:35,253 --> 01:18:40,298
{\an8}Now that we understand that these craft
exist in a space-time environment

1320
01:18:40,299 --> 01:18:44,052
that's different from the exterior
space-time environment,

1321
01:18:44,053 --> 01:18:47,597
this can begin to explain
claimed observations by say

1322
01:18:47,598 --> 01:18:51,643
military people who have approached
and gotten into a craft

1323
01:18:51,644 --> 01:18:55,147
and find that time is running
at a different rate inside the craft

1324
01:18:55,148 --> 01:18:57,858
than time running outside the craft.

1325
01:18:57,859 --> 01:19:00,694
They think they're only there
for a few minutes,

1326
01:19:00,695 --> 01:19:03,989
when they come outside the craft,
some hours have gone by,

1327
01:19:03,990 --> 01:19:06,783
so they feel like
they've got missing time.

1328
01:19:06,784 --> 01:19:11,621
Or similarly, with respect
to the size of the craft,

1329
01:19:11,622 --> 01:19:13,582
if someone is outside the craft

1330
01:19:13,583 --> 01:19:17,377
and it looks like
a small craft and they go inside,

1331
01:19:17,378 --> 01:19:20,046
it's the size of a football stadium.

1332
01:19:20,047 --> 01:19:24,092
Once you've realized
that space and time

1333
01:19:24,093 --> 01:19:27,179
are being engineered to be different

1334
01:19:27,180 --> 01:19:30,140
inside the craft
than they are outside the craft,

1335
01:19:30,141 --> 01:19:34,394
then these anomalies that people
report that sound completely absurd

1336
01:19:34,395 --> 01:19:36,772
can actually make sense.

1337
01:19:41,903 --> 01:19:45,948
<i>The top issue is
what is their energy supply?</i>

1338
01:19:46,324 --> 01:19:51,119
{\an8}<i>Because the evidence for how much
energy they're using per unit time</i>

1339
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:55,499
{\an8}<i>so exceeds any kind of power levels
that we can generate.</i>

1340
01:19:55,500 --> 01:19:58,919
{\an8}UAPs have exhibited propulsive
performance characteristics

1341
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:04,341
{\an8}that imply the generation
of 1,100 billion watts of power.

1342
01:20:04,342 --> 01:20:06,218
This is more than 100 times

1343
01:20:06,219 --> 01:20:09,888
the daily electrical utility power
generated in the US.

1344
01:20:09,889 --> 01:20:11,973
Let that sink in.

1345
01:20:11,974 --> 01:20:18,981
One hundred times the daily
power generation of the entire nation.

1346
01:20:21,192 --> 01:20:26,238
There are two prevailing hypotheses
for how UAPs create the energy

1347
01:20:26,239 --> 01:20:28,657
that warps space-time around them,

1348
01:20:28,658 --> 01:20:34,079
and one is that the spacecraft
can produce, uh, its own bubble

1349
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:39,000
of vacuum energy around the craft,
which is also known as zero-point energy.

1350
01:20:39,001 --> 01:20:43,630
And the other one is that the craft
could be using quantum entanglement

1351
01:20:43,631 --> 01:20:47,260
to draw on a remote
distant source of energy.

1352
01:20:50,012 --> 01:20:53,057
{\an8} <i>If we can understand
the technology that we're observing,</i>

1353
01:20:54,016 --> 01:20:59,229
{\an8}it has so many
potentially beneficial impacts,

1354
01:20:59,230 --> 01:21:02,357
{\an8}including clean energy.

1355
01:21:02,358 --> 01:21:05,944
{\an8}We're seeing these craft
doing unbelievable things,

1356
01:21:05,945 --> 01:21:08,698
{\an8}and it's not combustion engineering.

1357
01:21:09,991 --> 01:21:16,037
<i>This is technology that
could replace oil, gas and coal</i>

1358
01:21:16,038 --> 01:21:18,874
<i>and protect our planet
for future generations.</i>

1359
01:21:20,376 --> 01:21:21,501
How can we use these technologies

1360
01:21:21,502 --> 01:21:23,670
and all the capabilities
that come from it,

1361
01:21:23,671 --> 01:21:27,299
not to fight a war,
but to increase our standard of living,

1362
01:21:27,300 --> 01:21:30,760
you know, to increase our ability
to get from place to place.

1363
01:21:30,761 --> 01:21:33,054
{\an8}We can talk more about teleportation,

1364
01:21:33,055 --> 01:21:36,641
{\an8}we could talk more about,
uh, hypersonic travel.

1365
01:21:36,642 --> 01:21:39,936
{\an8}Being able to take human beings
to the next evolutionary step,

1366
01:21:39,937 --> 01:21:41,022
which is the stars,

1367
01:21:41,188 --> 01:21:44,108
<i>being able to explore
new star systems and planets.</i>

1368
01:21:46,277 --> 01:21:47,527
On the other hand,

1369
01:21:47,528 --> 01:21:52,282
you'd have to weigh the consequences
of sharing, uh, with the world,

1370
01:21:52,283 --> 01:21:54,492
knowing that there are
bad actors out there.

1371
01:21:54,493 --> 01:21:57,329
If our adversaries would have
access to that same technologies,

1372
01:21:57,330 --> 01:22:02,042
they could flip that into some very,
very powerful weapons of mass destruction.

1373
01:22:02,043 --> 01:22:06,129
{\an8}You could put a nuclear bomb
inside one of these things and let it fly

1374
01:22:06,130 --> 01:22:09,674
{\an8}right through a building,
through concrete, through steel,

1375
01:22:09,675 --> 01:22:11,593
{\an8}wherever you want it,
anywhere in the world.

1376
01:22:11,594 --> 01:22:15,096
We want to talk about it publicly
and encourage folks to talk about it,

1377
01:22:15,097 --> 01:22:17,932
but while we're talking about it publicly,

1378
01:22:17,933 --> 01:22:21,978
our adversaries are paying attention to
context clues to piece things together

1379
01:22:21,979 --> 01:22:24,481
about possible technologies
that we may have

1380
01:22:24,482 --> 01:22:26,316
that they don't have access to.

1381
01:22:26,317 --> 01:22:28,109
So it's a fine line.

1382
01:22:28,110 --> 01:22:32,072
I would opt for making
any new energy source

1383
01:22:32,073 --> 01:22:36,117
a humanitarian, uh, issue.

1384
01:22:36,118 --> 01:22:38,244
That it should be open.

1385
01:22:38,245 --> 01:22:41,539
And we know how to do that.
We've done that with nuclear power.

1386
01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:46,670
{\an8}If the capabilities
that exist come to the forefront

1387
01:22:46,671 --> 01:22:49,714
{\an8}and they become known to the world,

1388
01:22:49,715 --> 01:22:53,886
{\an8}it might very well be that
it is to the benefit of mankind.

1389
01:23:00,685 --> 01:23:04,020
<i>While Congress had learned
a great deal about the Legacy Program,</i>

1390
01:23:04,021 --> 01:23:08,358
<i>whistleblowers were still afraid
to reveal the most secretive details</i>

1391
01:23:08,359 --> 01:23:10,360
<i>about the UAP technology</i>

1392
01:23:10,361 --> 01:23:13,197
<i>and non-human bodies
in the program's possession.</i>

1393
01:23:15,199 --> 01:23:19,577
We'd been interviewing folks
that would have had evidence of

1394
01:23:19,578 --> 01:23:24,333
or first-hand direct contact
with either materials

1395
01:23:24,458 --> 01:23:25,917
or a program itself.

1396
01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:28,879
{\an8}They have worked on craft

1397
01:23:29,463 --> 01:23:33,426
{\an8}of out of this world origin, but until...

1398
01:23:34,635 --> 01:23:39,431
they leak a video before they commit
suicide by shooting themselves

1399
01:23:39,432 --> 01:23:41,015
in the back of the head four times,

1400
01:23:41,016 --> 01:23:44,602
um, I just don't know
that that's going to get out.

1401
01:23:44,603 --> 01:23:49,399
Those people whose job it is
to make sure information doesn't get out

1402
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:53,778
will use whatever tool they can find
to try to convince people

1403
01:23:53,779 --> 01:23:55,238
they shouldn't come forward.

1404
01:23:55,239 --> 01:23:58,825
{\an8}We have people that have very high
clearances both today and in the past,

1405
01:23:58,826 --> 01:24:00,618
{\an8}who did really important work
for our government

1406
01:24:00,619 --> 01:24:02,620
{\an8}or continue to do
important work for the government,

1407
01:24:02,621 --> 01:24:04,289
{\an8}who have come forward with some claims

1408
01:24:04,290 --> 01:24:07,959
{\an8}about the US having in the past
recovered exotic materials,

1409
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:09,794
{\an8}and then we reverse
engineered those materials

1410
01:24:09,795 --> 01:24:13,256
{\an8}to make advances in our own
defenses and technologies.

1411
01:24:13,257 --> 01:24:17,177
{\an8}And that they signed agreements
that they would face jail time

1412
01:24:17,178 --> 01:24:19,554
{\an8}or in some cases some people claim
it would cost them their lives

1413
01:24:19,555 --> 01:24:21,431
{\an8}if they spoke out about these things.

1414
01:24:21,432 --> 01:24:23,266
{\an8}When I have
a whistleblower coming forward,

1415
01:24:23,267 --> 01:24:25,101
{\an8}telling me
that they're in fear of their life

1416
01:24:25,102 --> 01:24:29,022
{\an8}and that people have been hurt
protecting and hiding this information,

1417
01:24:29,023 --> 01:24:31,233
that gives me reason for concern.

1418
01:24:32,651 --> 01:24:34,194
<i>Determined to get to the truth,</i>

1419
01:24:34,195 --> 01:24:39,325
<i>it was Chris Mellon who led the charge
to help Congress draft unprecedented</i>

1420
01:24:39,450 --> 01:24:40,910
<i>UAP whistleblower protections.</i>

1421
01:24:42,995 --> 01:24:44,996
<i>And in December of 2022,</i>

1422
01:24:44,997 --> 01:24:47,792
<i>President Biden signed
the legislation into law.</i>

1423
01:24:48,876 --> 01:24:51,169
{\an8}So even for those who signed NDAs,

1424
01:24:51,170 --> 01:24:54,256
{\an8}they still have a right and an opportunity
to talk about this

1425
01:24:54,381 --> 01:24:58,552
{\an8}in a very healthy and productive way
that informs the American public.

1426
01:25:01,972 --> 01:25:05,141
{\an8}Bombshell claims
from a military whistleblower,

1427
01:25:05,142 --> 01:25:09,395
{\an8}UFO wreckage recovered
by the US kept classified

1428
01:25:09,396 --> 01:25:12,482
{\an8}by a secret
government program for decades.

1429
01:25:12,483 --> 01:25:18,279
{\an8}The UAP task force was refused access
to, um, a broad crash retrieval program,

1430
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:22,367
{\an8}<i>retrieving non-human
origin technical vehicles,</i>

1431
01:25:22,368 --> 01:25:24,452
{\an8}call it spacecraft if you will.

1432
01:25:24,453 --> 01:25:29,290
{\an8}Non-human exotic origin vehicles
that have either landed or crashed.

1433
01:25:29,291 --> 01:25:32,710
I handpicked Dave Grusch
to be part of my UAP task force.

1434
01:25:32,711 --> 01:25:36,798
Everything that Dave uncovered is true,
but it barely scratches the surface.

1435
01:25:36,799 --> 01:25:41,553
{\an8}There's a sophisticated disinformation
campaign targeting the US populace,

1436
01:25:41,554 --> 01:25:44,180
{\an8}which is extremely unethical and immoral.

1437
01:25:44,181 --> 01:25:47,559
{\an8}Have people been killed
to protect the secret?

1438
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,855
{\an8}That was an ongoing concern.

1439
01:25:59,321 --> 01:26:04,409
Dave has been working
tirelessly behind the scenes

1440
01:26:04,410 --> 01:26:07,370
with Congress as well,
and we were really poking the bear.

1441
01:26:07,371 --> 01:26:08,746
We were making a lot of progress.

1442
01:26:08,747 --> 01:26:11,249
We were getting
a lot of information to Congress,

1443
01:26:11,250 --> 01:26:17,130
um, and it wasn't necessarily symbiotic

1444
01:26:17,131 --> 01:26:19,257
with the Legacy Program in their desires.

1445
01:26:19,258 --> 01:26:25,180
I remember one evening, uh, I was
sitting with my wife on the front porch,

1446
01:26:26,807 --> 01:26:28,057
and I received a call.

1447
01:26:28,058 --> 01:26:31,060
I recognized the voice
of one of a friend of mine,

1448
01:26:31,061 --> 01:26:34,939
and he happened to be
one of staffers on the Hill,

1449
01:26:34,940 --> 01:26:36,399
and he was very shooken up and said,

1450
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,569
"Listen, we had
a very interesting meeting on the Hill."

1451
01:26:39,570 --> 01:26:44,073
And an extremely, extremely
senior person in the US government

1452
01:26:44,074 --> 01:26:48,202
in the intelligence community
told Congress, for the record,

1453
01:26:48,203 --> 01:26:50,914
that there was a committee
of 27 individuals,

1454
01:26:50,915 --> 01:26:53,499
and I'm not going to go
into code names here,

1455
01:26:53,500 --> 01:26:58,212
that were mulling over the idea
of using extreme measures

1456
01:26:58,213 --> 01:27:01,049
to silence David and myself.

1457
01:27:01,050 --> 01:27:03,051
Kill us.

1458
01:27:03,052 --> 01:27:05,637
Now, people say,
"Oh, come on, that's conspiracy."

1459
01:27:05,638 --> 01:27:07,222
No, it's not.

1460
01:27:09,433 --> 01:27:11,059
We have done it before.

1461
01:27:11,060 --> 01:27:15,355
Under certain circumstances, we have
killed Americans without due process.

1462
01:27:15,356 --> 01:27:19,567
If they are a clear and present
national security threat,

1463
01:27:19,568 --> 01:27:21,611
we can kill Americans.

1464
01:27:21,612 --> 01:27:24,405
Now, it's not done very often, but we can.

1465
01:27:24,406 --> 01:27:27,868
Without a fair trial,
they just poof, disappear, right?

1466
01:27:28,619 --> 01:27:29,745
So here I am.

1467
01:27:31,246 --> 01:27:34,582
If I wind up in a month from now
floating in the Potomac somewhere,

1468
01:27:34,583 --> 01:27:38,837
you know what happened.
You know what happened. This is the truth.

1469
01:27:41,048 --> 01:27:43,759
What else you want to know?

1470
01:27:51,558 --> 01:27:55,061
<i>Last year, House Intelligence
Committee held a hearing on UAPs.</i>

1471
01:27:55,062 --> 01:27:58,439
They brought in some Pentagon bureaucrats
who only had two answers

1472
01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:02,276
to the questions they were asked.
"I don't know," or "That's classified."

1473
01:28:02,277 --> 01:28:04,362
This hearing is going to be different.

1474
01:28:04,363 --> 01:28:07,156
This time, we had credible witnesses

1475
01:28:07,157 --> 01:28:10,910
testifying before Congress
and American people under oath.

1476
01:28:10,911 --> 01:28:14,956
This was a tremendously proud moment
for my colleagues and myself

1477
01:28:14,957 --> 01:28:18,918
to watch the fire that we started
continue to grow.

1478
01:28:18,919 --> 01:28:22,880
{\an8} <i>The subcommittee hearing
on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,</i>

1479
01:28:22,881 --> 01:28:24,632
<i>or UAPs, will come to order.</i>

1480
01:28:24,633 --> 01:28:27,969
The reality is the American public
deserves to know.

1481
01:28:27,970 --> 01:28:30,596
And you better be careful
about a government

1482
01:28:30,597 --> 01:28:32,181
that doesn't trust its people

1483
01:28:32,182 --> 01:28:34,559
because there's no telling
what they'll pull on you.

1484
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:36,686
{\an8}It's really important
that we're here in a bipartisan way

1485
01:28:36,687 --> 01:28:40,441
{\an8}to have this conversation,
which is about national security.

1486
01:28:40,983 --> 01:28:46,279
{\an8}The American public has a right to learn
about technologies of unknown origins,

1487
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:49,908
{\an8}non-human intelligence
and unexplainable phenomenon.

1488
01:28:50,576 --> 01:28:54,078
{\an8}You solemnly swear or affirm that
the testimony you're about to give

1489
01:28:54,079 --> 01:28:57,623
{\an8}is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, so help you God?

1490
01:28:57,624 --> 01:28:59,542
{\an8}- Yes.
- Yep.

1491
01:28:59,543 --> 01:29:02,962
{\an8}I was informed in the course
of my official duties

1492
01:29:02,963 --> 01:29:08,301
{\an8}of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval
and reverse engineering program.

1493
01:29:08,302 --> 01:29:13,347
{\an8}I am hopeful that my actions will
ultimately lead to a positive outcome

1494
01:29:13,348 --> 01:29:15,016
{\an8}of increased transparency.

1495
01:29:15,017 --> 01:29:18,686
{\an8}We were primarily seeing dark gray
or black cubes inside of a clear sphere,

1496
01:29:18,687 --> 01:29:22,648
{\an8}where the apex or tips of the cube
were touching the inside of that sphere.

1497
01:29:22,649 --> 01:29:24,650
{\an8}Since the events initially occurred,

1498
01:29:24,651 --> 01:29:26,861
{\an8}I've learned the objects
have been detected

1499
01:29:26,862 --> 01:29:29,322
{\an8}essentially where all operations,

1500
01:29:29,323 --> 01:29:31,783
{\an8}Navy operations are being
conducted across the world.

1501
01:29:31,784 --> 01:29:33,576
{\an8}These objects have been observed

1502
01:29:33,577 --> 01:29:36,162
{\an8}for over two weeks coming down
from over 80,000 feet,

1503
01:29:36,163 --> 01:29:37,997
{\an8}rapidly descending to 20,000 feet,

1504
01:29:37,998 --> 01:29:40,917
{\an8}hanging out for hours
and then going straight back up.

1505
01:29:40,918 --> 01:29:44,921
{\an8}It wasn't until 2009, until Jay Stratton
had contacted me to investigate.

1506
01:29:44,922 --> 01:29:48,382
{\an8}Unbeknownst to all, he was part
of the AATIP program in the Pentagon.

1507
01:29:48,383 --> 01:29:50,510
{\an8}Are you aware of any individuals
that are participating

1508
01:29:50,511 --> 01:29:53,429
{\an8}in reverse engineering programs
for non-terrestrial craft?

1509
01:29:53,430 --> 01:29:54,764
{\an8}Personally, yes. Mm-hm.

1510
01:29:54,765 --> 01:29:57,141
{\an8}Do you believe that our government
is in possession of UAPs?

1511
01:29:57,142 --> 01:29:58,726
{\an8}I know the exact locations.

1512
01:29:58,727 --> 01:30:01,854
{\an8}I actually had the people
with the first-hand knowledge,

1513
01:30:01,855 --> 01:30:04,857
{\an8}um, provide a protected disclosure
to the inspector general.

1514
01:30:04,858 --> 01:30:08,236
{\an8}Do we have the bodies
of the pilots who piloted this craft?

1515
01:30:08,237 --> 01:30:11,322
{\an8}Biologics came with some
of these recoveries. Yeah.

1516
01:30:11,323 --> 01:30:14,200
{\an8}- Non-human biologics?
- Non-human.

1517
01:30:14,201 --> 01:30:18,454
{\an8}I was wondering if you could speak
a little bit about the interaction

1518
01:30:18,455 --> 01:30:20,289
{\an8}between defense contractor companies

1519
01:30:20,290 --> 01:30:23,042
{\an8}and any UAP-related
programs or activities.

1520
01:30:23,043 --> 01:30:25,586
{\an8}The contractors,
"the metal benders," so to speak,

1521
01:30:25,587 --> 01:30:30,091
{\an8}they're the ones actually doing specific
performance on government contracts.

1522
01:30:30,092 --> 01:30:32,218
{\an8}How does a program like that get funded?

1523
01:30:32,219 --> 01:30:33,594
{\an8}Misappropriation of funds.

1524
01:30:33,595 --> 01:30:35,263
{\an8}Does that mean that there is money

1525
01:30:35,264 --> 01:30:37,265
{\an8}in the budget
that is set to go to a program

1526
01:30:37,266 --> 01:30:38,933
{\an8}but it doesn't,
and it goes to something else?

1527
01:30:38,934 --> 01:30:40,518
{\an8}Yes, I have specific knowledge of that.

1528
01:30:40,519 --> 01:30:42,478
{\an8} Mr. Graves and Fravor,

1529
01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:45,773
{\an8}in the event that your encounters
had become hostile,

1530
01:30:45,774 --> 01:30:48,734
{\an8}would you have had
the capability to defend yourself?

1531
01:30:48,735 --> 01:30:52,321
{\an8}- Absolutely not, sir.
- No.

1532
01:30:52,322 --> 01:30:56,117
{\an8}What we experienced was well beyond
the material science and the capabilities

1533
01:30:56,118 --> 01:30:58,494
that we had at the time,
that we have currently

1534
01:30:58,495 --> 01:31:00,788
or we're going to have
in the next 20 years.

1535
01:31:00,789 --> 01:31:03,791
We have nothing that can stop in midair
and go the other direction,

1536
01:31:03,792 --> 01:31:05,251
nor do we have anything that can,

1537
01:31:05,252 --> 01:31:07,253
like in our situation,
come down from space,

1538
01:31:07,254 --> 01:31:08,713
hangout for three hours and go back up.

1539
01:31:08,714 --> 01:31:13,259
{\an8}Is it possible that these UAPs would be
probing our capabilities, yes or no?

1540
01:31:13,260 --> 01:31:14,844
{\an8}- Mr. Graves?
- Yes.

1541
01:31:14,845 --> 01:31:16,721
{\an8}-  Grusch?
- Yes, definitely.

1542
01:31:16,722 --> 01:31:19,557
{\an8}Do you have any personal knowledge of
people who have been harmed or injured

1543
01:31:19,558 --> 01:31:23,603
{\an8}in efforts to cover up or conceal
these extraterrestrial technology?

1544
01:31:23,604 --> 01:31:24,855
{\an8}Yes.

1545
01:31:26,732 --> 01:31:27,733
{\an8}Personally.

1546
01:31:28,984 --> 01:31:32,111
{\an8}Anyone been murdered that you know of?

1547
01:31:32,112 --> 01:31:33,446
{\an8}I have to be careful.

1548
01:31:33,447 --> 01:31:36,616
{\an8}I directed people with that knowledge
to the appropriate authorities.

1549
01:31:36,617 --> 01:31:39,952
{\an8}There clearly is a threat
to the national security

1550
01:31:39,953 --> 01:31:42,038
{\an8}of the United States of America.

1551
01:31:42,039 --> 01:31:43,706
{\an8} Brave witnesses here.

1552
01:31:43,707 --> 01:31:46,292
{\an8}They took an oath to uphold
the constitution of the United States

1553
01:31:46,293 --> 01:31:49,421
{\an8}and dadgummit, they're doing it,
and we owe them a debt of gratitude.

1554
01:31:55,052 --> 01:32:00,556
{\an8}On Capitol Hill today, a bipartisan call
for more government transparency on UFOs.

1555
01:32:00,557 --> 01:32:05,728
{\an8}One was asked about alien bodies,
two others talked about seeing UAPs.

1556
01:32:05,729 --> 01:32:09,815
{\an8}The US government operates
a UFO crash retrieval program

1557
01:32:09,816 --> 01:32:15,196
{\an8}and has a UFO and the remains
of "a non-human or non-human pilots

1558
01:32:15,197 --> 01:32:16,822
{\an8}in its possession."

1559
01:32:16,823 --> 01:32:21,035
<i>And when Dave Grusch
said the words non-human biologics,</i>

1560
01:32:21,036 --> 01:32:22,536
<i>there was an audible gasp.</i>

1561
01:32:22,537 --> 01:32:27,375
I worked with David Grusch when we
both contributed to the UAP task force,

1562
01:32:27,376 --> 01:32:31,379
and everything he said under oath
to the Congress and what he put down

1563
01:32:31,380 --> 01:32:34,757
in his whistleblower complaint
is 100% true.

1564
01:32:34,758 --> 01:32:38,719
{\an8}A Pentagon report is detailing
a dramatic increase in UFO sightings.

1565
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:41,889
The Pentagon released its report
on UFO sightings today,

1566
01:32:41,890 --> 01:32:47,020
{\an8}saying an additional 366 sightings
have been investigated since 2021.

1567
01:32:47,562 --> 01:32:50,982
{\an8}Now the Defense Department is admitting
not just a couple of incidents,

1568
01:32:50,983 --> 01:32:52,525
hundreds of incidents,

1569
01:32:52,526 --> 01:32:55,361
scores of incidents
with multiple sensor systems,

1570
01:32:55,362 --> 01:32:56,862
multiple witnesses.

1571
01:32:56,863 --> 01:33:01,659
A NASA task force is holding
its first meeting on UFOs.

1572
01:33:01,660 --> 01:33:06,247
{\an8}NASA commissioned an independent
study team to examine

1573
01:33:06,248 --> 01:33:09,417
{\an8}unidentified anomalous phenomena,

1574
01:33:09,418 --> 01:33:14,130
{\an8}and this is the first time
that NASA has taken concrete action

1575
01:33:14,131 --> 01:33:16,841
{\an8}to seriously look into UAP.

1576
01:33:16,842 --> 01:33:20,177
{\an8}Are we alone?
Personally, I don't think we are.

1577
01:33:20,178 --> 01:33:23,681
{\an8}I wasn't prepared for the number
of incursions that I see.

1578
01:33:23,682 --> 01:33:28,769
{\an8}This merging capability
outstrips the operational framework

1579
01:33:28,770 --> 01:33:31,148
that we have to address it.

1580
01:33:38,864 --> 01:33:42,658
{\an8} <i>Since mankind first started
developing atomic energy,</i>

1581
01:33:42,659 --> 01:33:45,536
<i>there has been consistent UAP activity</i>

1582
01:33:45,537 --> 01:33:49,833
<i>at sites involved with
the atomic and nuclear process.</i>

1583
01:33:52,336 --> 01:33:56,672
<i>We have evolved more technically
in the last 80 years</i>

1584
01:33:56,673 --> 01:34:00,177
<i>than we have
in the previous 200,000 years.</i>

1585
01:34:02,137 --> 01:34:06,015
<i>And the uptick in UAP activity
has increased in line</i>

1586
01:34:06,016 --> 01:34:08,810
<i>with our advancement
of harnessing energy.</i>

1587
01:34:10,854 --> 01:34:15,983
<i>We realized we are on the path
to exploiting the energy levels needed</i>

1588
01:34:15,984 --> 01:34:20,029
<i>to warp space-time,
and UAP have been observing</i>

1589
01:34:20,030 --> 01:34:23,449
and clearly been interested
in our rapid progress.

1590
01:34:23,450 --> 01:34:28,996
Despite developing
massively new technologies,

1591
01:34:28,997 --> 01:34:32,625
we don't see
an equivalent moral increase

1592
01:34:32,626 --> 01:34:35,836
<i>in how we deal with each other.</i>

1593
01:34:35,837 --> 01:34:38,756
{\an8} <i>We are still invading
sovereign nations.</i>

1594
01:34:38,757 --> 01:34:43,135
{\an8}<i>We're still threatening nuclear war
eighty years after dropping atomic bombs</i>

1595
01:34:43,136 --> 01:34:46,932
<i>that vaporized hundreds
of thousands of human beings.</i>

1596
01:34:47,599 --> 01:34:50,477
<i>Let's face it, we are a violent species.</i>

1597
01:34:52,104 --> 01:34:55,815
So if I were a species
from somewhere else,

1598
01:34:55,816 --> 01:34:58,109
even if I were
a hidden species on the planet

1599
01:34:58,110 --> 01:35:01,112
who saw how we were coming up this curve

1600
01:35:01,113 --> 01:35:04,990
of, you know,
atomic energy and nuclear energy,

1601
01:35:04,991 --> 01:35:07,159
and then beginning to realize

1602
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:09,745
what it takes to do
their kind of technologies

1603
01:35:09,746 --> 01:35:14,166
with warping time
and warping space and so on,

1604
01:35:14,167 --> 01:35:18,671
I can imagine that could be seen
as a threat to another species

1605
01:35:18,672 --> 01:35:21,715
because they would recognize
that once it's only a matter of time

1606
01:35:21,716 --> 01:35:23,217
and they're going to be doing
what we're doing

1607
01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:24,593
and then we're gonna have
to deal with them.

1608
01:35:24,594 --> 01:35:28,222
So it doesn't surprise me
that their highest priority would be

1609
01:35:28,223 --> 01:35:32,268
<i>to identify what threats they might face</i>

1610
01:35:32,269 --> 01:35:34,228
<i>to learn everything about them.</i>

1611
01:35:34,229 --> 01:35:37,523
This pattern of activity
seems to me utterly logical.

1612
01:35:37,524 --> 01:35:42,695
It seems to me to be
an extension of the evolutionary process

1613
01:35:42,696 --> 01:35:45,573
that governs life
writ large as we know it,

1614
01:35:45,574 --> 01:35:47,868
which is self-preservation is number one.

1615
01:35:49,870 --> 01:35:54,999
{\an8}When I hear stories of either
nuclear weapons sites being shut down

1616
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:58,127
{\an8}or turned on, what that tells me
is something quite interesting.

1617
01:35:58,128 --> 01:36:01,755
First off is that something
has a technology capable of reaching

1618
01:36:01,756 --> 01:36:04,758
into our nuclear weapons systems

1619
01:36:04,759 --> 01:36:07,470
at a distance in ways
that we don't understand.

1620
01:36:07,471 --> 01:36:11,891
Okay, that's just capability.
But you ask the question about intent,

1621
01:36:11,892 --> 01:36:13,934
at the very least, what it tells me

1622
01:36:13,935 --> 01:36:18,314
is that they're showing us
what they can do to us at will

1623
01:36:18,315 --> 01:36:20,399
or with us or they can stop us.

1624
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:25,070
Now, they didn't stop us from
blowing something up in Japan.

1625
01:36:25,071 --> 01:36:27,114
They didn't stop the first of the bombs.

1626
01:36:27,115 --> 01:36:32,912
At some level, they're willing to let us
see the consequences of our actions.

1627
01:36:32,913 --> 01:36:36,081
But at another level,
they're willing to also show us that

1628
01:36:36,082 --> 01:36:41,003
"You might think that you could
hurt us one day, but you can't."

1629
01:36:41,004 --> 01:36:46,800
"We really can just reach in and stop you
or cause you to blow each other up."

1630
01:36:46,801 --> 01:36:48,969
"Because at the end of the day,
you're getting in our way,

1631
01:36:48,970 --> 01:36:51,388
and you're really starting to annoy us."

1632
01:36:51,389 --> 01:36:55,309
So even though it has been reported
that some of our fighter pilots

1633
01:36:55,310 --> 01:36:59,939
have chased these objects
and even fired missiles at them,

1634
01:36:59,940 --> 01:37:03,234
there has not been
some kind of strong negative retaliation.

1635
01:37:03,235 --> 01:37:06,737
So it'd be pretty easy to come
to the conclusion they're friendly,

1636
01:37:06,738 --> 01:37:09,907
and that's fine,
and there's no real threat there.

1637
01:37:09,908 --> 01:37:14,370
But the truth of the matter is, uh,
you have to take into account, well,

1638
01:37:14,371 --> 01:37:16,956
under what condition,
you know, that might change.

1639
01:37:16,957 --> 01:37:19,333
For example, if you have ants

1640
01:37:19,334 --> 01:37:22,461
at the back of your yard,
uh, they're not a threat to you,

1641
01:37:22,462 --> 01:37:26,423
so that's fine,
but if they come and invade your house,

1642
01:37:26,424 --> 01:37:28,092
suddenly they're a threat.

1643
01:37:28,093 --> 01:37:31,178
And so it could be
the same in this situation.

1644
01:37:31,179 --> 01:37:35,225
So at least within the defense
and intelligence industry,

1645
01:37:36,226 --> 01:37:41,063
we automatically assume the worst
because we want to be prepared

1646
01:37:41,064 --> 01:37:43,524
against the worst if it should happen.

1647
01:37:43,525 --> 01:37:47,695
There's a concern within the defense
and intelligence communities

1648
01:37:47,696 --> 01:37:51,699
that UAPs have been undertaking
long-term surveillance

1649
01:37:51,700 --> 01:37:57,580
of human technological advancement
for the possibility that they may need

1650
01:37:57,581 --> 01:38:02,793
to intervene to prevent
a conflict between us and them.

1651
01:38:02,794 --> 01:38:07,423
{\an8}One of the reasons that I am
so ardent about this issue is

1652
01:38:07,424 --> 01:38:11,343
{\an8}because I think it has the potential
to change the perspective

1653
01:38:11,344 --> 01:38:16,515
and the outlook of world leaders
and the populations of those countries

1654
01:38:16,516 --> 01:38:22,896
to see more of what we have in common
and the challenges that we face together.

1655
01:38:22,897 --> 01:38:25,733
If we're gonna survive as a species,

1656
01:38:25,734 --> 01:38:31,113
we need unprecedented levels
of international collaboration.

1657
01:38:31,114 --> 01:38:36,785
{\an8}<i>I occasionally think how quickly
our differences worldwide</i>

1658
01:38:36,786 --> 01:38:41,916
{\an8}would vanish if we were facing
an alien threat from outside this world.

1659
01:38:59,809 --> 01:39:02,186
<i>Thomas Jefferson once said,</i>

1660
01:39:02,187 --> 01:39:05,981
{\an8}<i>"I'm not an advocate for frequent
changes in laws and constitutions."</i>

1661
01:39:05,982 --> 01:39:09,318
{\an8}<i>"But laws and institutions
must go hand in hand</i>

1662
01:39:09,319 --> 01:39:11,695
<i>with the progress of the human mind."</i>

1663
01:39:11,696 --> 01:39:14,406
<i>"As that becomes more developed,
more enlightened,</i>

1664
01:39:14,407 --> 01:39:16,200
<i>as new discoveries are made,</i>

1665
01:39:16,201 --> 01:39:20,162
<i>new truths discovered and manners
and opinions change."</i>

1666
01:39:20,163 --> 01:39:22,247
<i>"With the change of circumstances,</i>

1667
01:39:22,248 --> 01:39:27,462
<i>institutions must advance
also to keep pace with the times."</i>

1668
01:39:28,963 --> 01:39:33,050
<i>Our current Senate leadership feels
the same as our founding fathers.</i>

1669
01:39:33,051 --> 01:39:35,761
<i>And throughout the fall of 2023,</i>

1670
01:39:35,762 --> 01:39:38,222
<i>my colleagues and I
met with Senate leadership</i>

1671
01:39:38,223 --> 01:39:40,516
<i>to help give them clarity on the facts</i>

1672
01:39:40,517 --> 01:39:45,313
<i>as they fought for the most historic
UAP legislation we've ever had.</i>

1673
01:39:46,106 --> 01:39:50,401
<i>Never in the history of our nation
have we ever seen any type</i>

1674
01:39:50,402 --> 01:39:55,280
<i>of legislation regarding UAP
that is as detailed and specific</i>

1675
01:39:55,281 --> 01:39:57,408
and as directive as this one.

1676
01:39:57,409 --> 01:40:01,578
{\an8}United States government has gathered
a great deal of information about UAPs

1677
01:40:01,579 --> 01:40:05,999
{\an8}over many decades, but has refused
to share it with the American people.

1678
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:09,962
{\an8}That is wrong, and additionally
it breeds mistrust.

1679
01:40:09,963 --> 01:40:14,174
{\an8}There is, we believe, information
and data that has been collected

1680
01:40:14,175 --> 01:40:16,468
{\an8}by more than just
the Department of Defense,

1681
01:40:16,469 --> 01:40:19,972
{\an8}but by other agencies of the
federal government as well.

1682
01:40:19,973 --> 01:40:23,434
Information on UAPs has also
been withheld from Congress,

1683
01:40:23,435 --> 01:40:25,728
which was a violation
of the laws requiring

1684
01:40:25,729 --> 01:40:27,896
full notification
to the legislative branch.

1685
01:40:27,897 --> 01:40:33,736
<i>The bill I worked on with Senator Rounds
offered a common sense solution,</i>

1686
01:40:33,737 --> 01:40:37,531
the Unidentified Anomalous
Phenomena Disclosure Act.

1687
01:40:37,532 --> 01:40:41,952
{\an8}This would be the most aggressive
measure that we've frankly ever seen

1688
01:40:41,953 --> 01:40:45,414
{\an8}in history when it comes to disclosure
about what the government knows

1689
01:40:45,415 --> 01:40:48,375
{\an8}and has, as it relates to UAPs.

1690
01:40:48,376 --> 01:40:51,712
<i>The measure would also give
the federal government control</i>

1691
01:40:51,713 --> 01:40:55,215
<i>over all recovered technologies
of unknown origin</i>

1692
01:40:55,216 --> 01:40:59,303
<i>and biological evidence
of non-human intelligence.</i>

1693
01:40:59,304 --> 01:41:03,640
Eminent domain allows the US government
to take control of anything

1694
01:41:03,641 --> 01:41:05,434
for national security reasons

1695
01:41:05,435 --> 01:41:07,728
or for the betterment
of the American people.

1696
01:41:07,729 --> 01:41:11,899
{\an8}A requirement as a transparency measure
for the government to obtain

1697
01:41:11,900 --> 01:41:17,237
{\an8}any recovered UAP material
or biological remains

1698
01:41:17,238 --> 01:41:21,158
{\an8}that may have been provided
to private entities in the past

1699
01:41:21,159 --> 01:41:25,871
and thereby hidden from Congress
and the American people.

1700
01:41:25,872 --> 01:41:30,959
The eminent domain section
was not crafted accidentally.

1701
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:35,380
It was designed to be put in there
clearly to lay out our expectations.

1702
01:41:35,381 --> 01:41:38,759
Contractors may have information
that they have held,

1703
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:43,013
or materials that they have held
over an extended period of time,

1704
01:41:43,014 --> 01:41:46,975
and this is our way of addressing it
and making it clear

1705
01:41:46,976 --> 01:41:50,270
that it should be delivered
in an appropriate fashion,

1706
01:41:50,271 --> 01:41:52,898
and that they need
to be negotiating with us now.

1707
01:41:52,899 --> 01:41:55,442
{\an8}Their bipartisan plan
for more transparency

1708
01:41:55,443 --> 01:41:58,111
{\an8}is getting some major pushback though.

1709
01:41:58,112 --> 01:42:02,533
{\an8}The, um, defense contractors
give money legally

1710
01:42:02,534 --> 01:42:07,663
{\an8}to a lot of my colleagues that provide
a great deal of the pushback on this.

1711
01:42:07,664 --> 01:42:11,333
There's a lot of money coming from
the defense industry to support

1712
01:42:11,334 --> 01:42:13,043
elected officials with their campaigns.

1713
01:42:13,044 --> 01:42:15,879
And then when the time comes for these
elected officials to try to get

1714
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:18,257
to the bottom of things,
they're compromised.

1715
01:42:18,258 --> 01:42:21,093
Something with the capabilities
of traveling light years,

1716
01:42:21,094 --> 01:42:26,139
not showing a heat signature
and the energy capabilities of that,

1717
01:42:26,140 --> 01:42:28,559
that would put the Pentagon
out of business.

1718
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:33,188
We wouldn't be fighting these
worthless wars overseas over oil

1719
01:42:33,189 --> 01:42:35,232
and American boys and girls
wouldn't be dying.

1720
01:42:35,233 --> 01:42:37,235
It would put war pigs out of business.

1721
01:42:38,236 --> 01:42:40,988
<i>Unfortunately,
there was too much resistance</i>

1722
01:42:40,989 --> 01:42:46,286
<i>and the most historic elements of the
proposed legislation did not become law.</i>

1723
01:42:47,579 --> 01:42:48,787
We've got a big mess on our hands.

1724
01:42:48,788 --> 01:42:51,290
We've got 80 years of lies and deception

1725
01:42:51,291 --> 01:42:53,750
that quite frankly ruined
a lot of people's lives,

1726
01:42:53,751 --> 01:42:56,962
and nobody wants
to take responsibility for that.

1727
01:42:56,963 --> 01:43:00,883
This is not an endeavor here
to go out and punish anyone.

1728
01:43:00,884 --> 01:43:03,969
But nonetheless, we would need to know
what they learnt, taxpayers paid for this.

1729
01:43:03,970 --> 01:43:07,306
And I think offering amnesty
is extremely important.

1730
01:43:07,307 --> 01:43:10,475
Let the past stay in the past,
then collectively move forward.

1731
01:43:10,476 --> 01:43:13,228
It's essential we keep
working on our proposal.

1732
01:43:13,229 --> 01:43:18,108
<i>I'd like to just acknowledge
my dear friend, the late Harry Reid,</i>

1733
01:43:18,109 --> 01:43:20,819
a mentor who cared
about this issue a great deal.

1734
01:43:20,820 --> 01:43:22,988
So he's looking down and smiling on us,

1735
01:43:22,989 --> 01:43:26,325
but he's also importuning us
to get the rest of this done,

1736
01:43:26,326 --> 01:43:29,161
which we will do everything
we can to make happen.

1737
01:43:29,162 --> 01:43:33,373
But where there was smoke, there was
a fire, and Congress is now aware of it.

1738
01:43:33,374 --> 01:43:38,922
And so what that allows us to do
is circle the wagons and try again.

1739
01:43:43,718 --> 01:43:46,179
<i>Welcome to today's historic hearing.</i>

1740
01:43:47,305 --> 01:43:50,432
<i>There are certain individuals
who didn't want this hearing to happen</i>

1741
01:43:50,433 --> 01:43:53,478
<i>because they feared
what might be disclosed.</i>

1742
01:43:55,021 --> 01:43:59,232
Do you solemnly swear to affirm that
the testimony that you are about to give

1743
01:43:59,233 --> 01:44:01,026
{\an8}is the truth, the whole truth,

1744
01:44:01,027 --> 01:44:03,862
{\an8}and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?

1745
01:44:03,863 --> 01:44:05,405
{\an8} I do.

1746
01:44:05,406 --> 01:44:09,201
{\an8}Has the government conducted secret
UAP crash retrieval programs? Yes or no?

1747
01:44:09,202 --> 01:44:10,410
{\an8}Yes.

1748
01:44:10,411 --> 01:44:13,830
{\an8}Were they designed to identify and
reverse engineer alien craft, yes or no?

1749
01:44:13,831 --> 01:44:15,666
{\an8}Yes.

1750
01:44:15,667 --> 01:44:18,293
{\an8}Excessive secrecy
has led to grave misdeeds

1751
01:44:18,294 --> 01:44:22,214
{\an8}against loyal civil servants,
military personnel, and the public

1752
01:44:22,215 --> 01:44:26,468
{\an8}all to hide the fact
that we are not alone in the cosmos.

1753
01:44:26,469 --> 01:44:29,012
{\an8}The US is in possession
of UAP technologies,

1754
01:44:29,013 --> 01:44:31,056
{\an8}as are some of our adversaries.

1755
01:44:31,057 --> 01:44:34,518
{\an8}We are in the midst
of a multi-decade secretive arms race.

1756
01:44:34,519 --> 01:44:37,896
{\an8}One funded
by misallocated taxpayer dollars

1757
01:44:37,897 --> 01:44:41,984
{\an8}and hidden from our elected
representatives and oversight bodies.

1758
01:44:41,985 --> 01:44:44,486
{\an8}Now that we know UAP
are interacting with humanity,

1759
01:44:44,487 --> 01:44:46,196
{\an8}we should not turn a blind eye,

1760
01:44:46,197 --> 01:44:49,533
{\an8}but instead boldly face
this new reality and learn from it.

1761
01:44:49,534 --> 01:44:52,619
{\an8}One of the most important actions
that can be taken relative to exposing

1762
01:44:52,620 --> 01:44:56,123
{\an8}the truth of UAP is to combat the stigma.

1763
01:44:56,124 --> 01:45:00,544
{\an8}NASA personnel stepping forward
and participating in such discussions

1764
01:45:00,545 --> 01:45:03,923
{\an8}would make a powerful statement
to the scientific community

1765
01:45:04,048 --> 01:45:07,843
{\an8}that UAP should be taken seriously
and researched accordingly.

1766
01:45:07,844 --> 01:45:09,594
{\an8}To the incoming administration
and Congress,

1767
01:45:09,595 --> 01:45:12,973
{\an8}I say to you, we need
immediate public transparency,

1768
01:45:12,974 --> 01:45:15,600
{\an8}and this hearing
is an important step on that journey.

1769
01:45:15,601 --> 01:45:17,102
{\an8}The truth is out there.

1770
01:45:17,103 --> 01:45:21,232
{\an8}We just need to be bold enough
and brave enough to face it.

1771
01:45:29,115 --> 01:45:31,491
America wants their pizzas
in 30 minutes or less,

1772
01:45:31,492 --> 01:45:33,326
and that's about our attention span.

1773
01:45:33,327 --> 01:45:37,205
And I think the Legacy Program is, um--

1774
01:45:37,206 --> 01:45:41,043
They think that America
will draw its attention somewhere else,

1775
01:45:41,044 --> 01:45:42,919
and I just don't think that's the case.

1776
01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:44,379
I think we've let the fuse.

1777
01:45:44,380 --> 01:45:48,968
I think the American people
are ready to receive the truth.

1778
01:45:52,638 --> 01:45:56,558
<i>Sitting here
in a Senate building</i>

1779
01:45:56,559 --> 01:46:00,187
recognizing what change
has been occurring,

1780
01:46:00,188 --> 01:46:03,607
I never thought I'd see
this day come frankly.

1781
01:46:03,608 --> 01:46:06,026
And now that I see it here,

1782
01:46:06,027 --> 01:46:09,654
I am unbelievably hopeful

1783
01:46:09,655 --> 01:46:13,450
that it's going to filter down
into our society

1784
01:46:13,451 --> 01:46:16,912
to where everyone realizes
that the human species

1785
01:46:16,913 --> 01:46:22,417
is actually in a melting pot
of many species throughout the galaxy.

1786
01:46:22,418 --> 01:46:25,003
What I expect to come out of that is,

1787
01:46:25,004 --> 01:46:28,799
first of all, a greater appreciation
of what it means to be a human.

1788
01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:34,096
And to me, that kind of change
on the human character

1789
01:46:34,097 --> 01:46:38,642
is probably more significant
than what we can learn about

1790
01:46:38,643 --> 01:46:41,520
atoms and molecules
and propulsion systems.

1791
01:46:41,521 --> 01:46:43,814
My grandchildren are going to grow up

1792
01:46:43,815 --> 01:46:46,441
taking into account
and thinking about the fact

1793
01:46:46,442 --> 01:46:49,694
that the universe,
uh,  is full of life.

1794
01:46:49,695 --> 01:46:54,324
We're on the threshold
of an entirely different understanding

1795
01:46:54,325 --> 01:46:57,119
of the universe
and our place within it

1796
01:46:57,120 --> 01:47:01,414
and technological opportunities
and possibilities

1797
01:47:01,415 --> 01:47:05,210
that were the stuff of science fiction
just a few years ago.

1798
01:47:05,211 --> 01:47:07,337
The people behind the Legacy Program

1799
01:47:07,338 --> 01:47:10,465
truly believe
that the secret is so intense

1800
01:47:10,466 --> 01:47:13,176
that they can't share it
with the American people.

1801
01:47:13,177 --> 01:47:17,097
There may be aspects of this
that are so intense they can't share it.

1802
01:47:17,098 --> 01:47:20,892
However, I think the basic fact
that we are not alone in the universe,

1803
01:47:20,893 --> 01:47:22,561
we can share that
with the American people.

1804
01:47:22,562 --> 01:47:24,062
We can handle it at this point.

1805
01:47:24,063 --> 01:47:27,732
Hopefully one day, the American people
will learn the bigger story

1806
01:47:27,733 --> 01:47:29,317
and how it impacts us all.

1807
01:47:29,318 --> 01:47:32,612
I want to tell the American people
what I know,

1808
01:47:32,613 --> 01:47:36,533
but I can't because a vast majority
of it remains highly classified.

1809
01:47:36,534 --> 01:47:39,661
I feel tremendous pressure
to share what I can

1810
01:47:39,662 --> 01:47:41,997
because I know there will come a time

1811
01:47:41,998 --> 01:47:44,792
where we all wish
we had done things differently.

1812
01:47:46,127 --> 01:47:50,630
That moment is imminent,
and when that moment comes,

1813
01:47:50,631 --> 01:47:54,677
I know people will say, "I wish
somebody would've told me sooner."

1814
01:47:57,555 --> 01:48:00,640
<i>Remember, as far as we've come,</i>

1815
01:48:00,641 --> 01:48:05,103
<i>we are still only just beginning
the greatest paradigm shift</i>

1816
01:48:05,104 --> 01:48:09,567
<i>in human history,
the age of disclosure.</i>