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UFOs with extraordinary capabilities are present in our skies,

according to a team of former US Government insiders.

This program features military eyewitnesses

describing these unidentified craft for the first time.

On Unidentified.

We had been hearing rumors

that there was a senior Navy official

in the Italian government

who may be interesting in speaking with us.

In Sicily, a craft appeared...

it shoot...

a ray.

This is nuts.

These are all their,

Tom.

Yeah.

These are all their events.

This is it.

This is the briefing.

This has just now crossed the line

to a true national security threat.

This is a worldwide phenomenon.

Is it interdimensional?

Is it from another planet?

It's a whole fleet of them.

Oh, my gosh.

For eight years,

Lue Elizondo ran a secret UFO investigation

for the US military.

But in 2017, he quit in protest.

I put my entire future on the line

because I believe in what I believe in.

Now he joined an elite group

of former government insiders.

Their mission, reveal what they see is the truth about UFOs.

This is real,

and we're gonna get to the bottom of it.

For the past year, Elizondo's investigation

has produced shocking revelations

from military eye witnesses.

That is something I have never seen.

Two Navy fighter pilots told him

they came face to face with a Tic-Tac-shaped UFO in 2004.

High G, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration.

How could I possibly fight this?

And a Navy radar operator said

he tracked an entire fleet of the unidentified craft

flying over the Pacific.

I had these objects raining out of the sky,

If these things are hostile, then we're screwed.

But these stories were just the beginning.

They're up there when we take off.

And then we land, and my buddy that takes off an hour later

had seen the same things.

Lou Elizondo discovered

a different class of UFOs.

There's a whole fleet of 'em.

Allegedly stalked Navy fighter pilots

off the East Coast in 2015

It seemed like they're aware of our presence

because they would actively move around us.

And they even followed the pilots

to the Middle East.

We really have no idea what we're dealing with.

But there's one thing

his investigation has never found,

until now.

I don't know if it was a journey

more or less than an odyssey that hasn't finished yet.

It was probably one of the most difficult decisions

I ever made in my life, with the ramifications

that it could be potentially disastrous.

You know, it's not just me I gotta worry about.

I gotta worry about my wife, my two daughters.

I gave it all up to do what I thought was right.

Half the people that I know think I'm crazy.

The other half of the people I know don't understand.

At the end of the day, I hope that people

a lot smarter than me will come out of the shadows

and tell the government what they know.

I did this because I needed our leadership and government

to finally take notice.

The only way I could fix the system

was to fix it from the outside.

Lue Elizondo and his partner, Tom DeLonge

are on their way to Rome, Italy.

When I was in the government,

I just couldn't go to France or Italy

and have a conversation about UFOs

with their national defense apparatus.

They've been invited to a private meeting

with senior Italian military officials

concerned about UFO encounters.

Yeah, I'd been hearing for a while

rumors that there was a potential attack

on an Italian aircraft.

This is the first time that myself, even being in AATIP,

was ever aware of an actual hostile act.

Italy is one of the few nations

that openly investigates UFOs.

When Tom and myself first came to Italy,

it was made very clear to us

that this is not an Italian phenomenon.

It's not an American phenomenon.

It is indeed a global phenomenon.

We believe that investigating

and communicating the subject can help

pull people of all nations together.

Every government want to keep

extremely secret any information

Clarbruno Verdruccio is a scientist

and a commander in an elite unit of the Italian Navy.

For the past 15 years, he's been investigating

unidentified craft with a team of researchers.

So I know several information.

But my government don't want to know.

Because if my government know...

They must do something.

Absolutely.

I would like to see what you have.

That's what I'd like to see Oh, yeah.

If I tell you something that is restricted,

you must give us something restricted.

Well, that's...

We are not Russian.

We are brothers.

You have to give me something of the same weight.

I still have to be cognizant

of the security clearance I hold.

So please do not confuse

my speaking in generalities

as trying to avoid a question.

During our time in the AATIP program,

we were focused on only two primary objectives.

Those two objectives: What is it, and how does it work?

We still don't know what they are,

but we have a much better understanding now

of how they work.

We assembled more than 13,000 cases.

During the last 70 years.

And we have a database.

The Italians have accumulated

one of the world's largest collections of data

on unidentified aerial phenomenon or UAP.

Unfortunately, if this is not shared

with other people outside of Italy.

It is useless.

We now have eyewitnesses,

from a broad range of individuals

who have top secret clearances

who are trained observers

who are trusted to fly live munitions over cities

and fight wars and win them on our behalf.

For the first time we are gonna be,

be guests of the Italian government

and we are gonna be working with those individuals

to see what they're willing to share with us.

We'd like to get into an information sharing agreement

with them, of course at the unclassified level but

see what they're willing to share

and see if anything that they share with us

happens to match some of the same profiles

we're seeing over here.

There are increasing number of people in the United States,

and the government

that are beginning to take this conversation very seriously.

I submit to you,

if any of these vehicles

had a foreign adversary flag on the tail,

or identification number,

and they could come into our airspace without impunity,

it would be a national security issue.

There's one incident in particular,

the officials want to discuss.

In 2004, in Sicily, a craft appeared...

a few hundred meters...

behind a copter tail.

It shoot a ray...

that destroyed the helicopter wings.

I can show you the photographs.

This was the only helicopter in the air space

on a secret mission to actually investigate

the UAP phenomenon off the coast of that island,

and it gets zapped.

And there are several pictures from different cameras

on the island of the same helicopter

and a UAP following it.

Coming up on Unidentified.

So this was deliberate.

You believe that it was a deliberate...

Absolutely.

I hate to say it, but they may have more information

than we do even in the US.

At this point,

these things are coming up close and personal.

We are being forced to address it.

I thought it was an important thing for our country.

I think people who run from this are absolutely wrong.

In 2004, in Sicily, a craft appeared...

a few hundred meters...

behind a copter tail.

It shoot a ray...

that destroyed the helicopter wings.

I can show you the photographs.

Oh, yeah. That's what I'd like to see.

Clarbruno Verdruccio is a commander

in the Italian military's equivalent of the US Navy SEALs.

He's describing a harrowing 2004 encounter

between one of his military helicopters and a UFO.

We can't use missiles.

against this device.

We can't launch missile

or the missile will be sent back.

So this was deliberate.

You believe that it was a deliberate--

Absolutely.

In 2004, a series of spontaneous fires

broke out across Northern Sicily,

destroying homes and forcing evacuations.

The situation at Via Mare in Canneto Di Caronia

is getting worse.

This morning, a episode

occurred with a house literally destroyed by fire.

The Italian military

sent a helicopter to investigate.

Officials say the copter was chased by a saucer-shaped UFO

that shot a powerful electromagnetic beam

at its rotor.

The helicopter was severely damaged but able to land.

The incident was photographed by a local resident.

Locals had also reported

seeing mysterious lights over the sea.

For months, the military investigators were baffled,

but they were able to piece together a few key details.

This signal was absoutely directional.

It was a beam.

We discovered we could see them

on a certain band of frequencies.

Then we discovered when they use their energy weapons...

They must go outside...

the stealth mode.

Only in that moment, can we hit them...

with depleted uranium weapons.

And now, what you say to me?

Militaries around the world

have electromagnetic pulse weapons that produce

quick bursts of energy that can destroy electrical systems.

But the Italians claim the pulse fired in the attack

on their helicopter destroyed its rotor.

No known military has that capability.

They were very pointed

and matter of fact that these things

have been kind of plaguing them for some time.

One individual in particular

provided some very, very detailed information

to include some analysis on frequency.

I hate to say it, but they may have more information

than we do even in the US potentially.

The Italians say the spontaneous fires

in Northern Sicily were also caused

by an electromagnetic beam

which they say came from the ocean.

So the target was found

at a distance of around 80 kilometers.

The source was in the open sea.

Do we have an altitude?

It was not visible.

Because it was in the bottom of the sea.

Elizondo has heard reports of UFOs

in the ocean before.

We all very quickly realized

that there was something in the water.

Lights that are under the water.

And suddenly it stuck itself into the water.

In the water.

You could use the same frequency

to provide a radio beacon.

To fall them

First

To attract them.

To show them that we have understood their technology.

Yeah. Communication.

This was next level.

One of our international friends

may have even figured out a way to communicate.

We didn't get that far at AATIP, that's for damn sure.

Have you ever tried to contact those

who are supposedly piloting these devices?

I can't answer that question.

Of course, it's quite classified.

I cannot speak on behalf of if other efforts

had existed within the US government.

In Russia, and now, even in China,

there is a tendency to organize

at a government level

in order to study such phenomena...

and to find pursuits from these studies.

You are aware of this?

I am.

Okay.

I think we're all in the same boat.

So my hope is with the help of you all and everybody else,

we can move this topic forward.

This affects humanity.

This doesn't affect just one country.

And so, the question is, in which way

our association can help you?

As the meeting winds down,

Elizondo, DeLonge and the Italian officials

agree to form a global partnership.

If their governments won't take the threat seriously,

they'll work together outside the system.

The last moment of the last hour of our engagement

with the Italian government, we were afforded a thumb drive,

a thumb drive that has a tremendous amount of data on it

about UAPs and here particularly in Italy.

These are all their,

Tom.

Yeah.

These are all their events.

I've got the whole thing here.

These are all the events since 1901 here in Italy.

All the reports?

All of them, the entire spreadsheet,

lat, longs and everything.

Oh, look at these.

Look at these historical ones.

This is nuts.

Look, they got some analysis.

Oh, man, this is the incident that happened down in Sicily.

There it is.

Look at that.

That is incredible.

This is it.

This is where they had the helicopters.

Son of a bitch, this is the briefing.

There it is right behind it, right?

And then when you come over here,

this is the actual top secret investigation they did.

Here's the rotors, and here's a closeup.

Had any foreign adversary attacked a military helicopter

of another nation, that could be a sign of aggression

for sure and maybe potentially an act of war.

So, that's a big deal.

Coming up on Unidentified.

What will your feelings be if it turns out

that it is not a US capability?

Then it's something else.

We're at step four,

and these things are at step 30 or 300.

It is incumbent upon any government

to protect its people.

And if there's any military aircraft

that is interfered with,

that could be a sign of vulnerabilities,

and that's a huge issue.

Hey, what's up?

Lue Elizondo is back from Italy.

He's meeting up with his partner, Steve Justice.

Justice is the former director of advanced systems

for Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works division.

Here's the bottom line.

There's three options.

It's a foreign technology.

The second option is it's our technology,

something that we had managed to keep under wraps

for a super long time.

The third option is that this is something else.

Where does that leave us?

Over the past year,

Elizondo and Justice have met

to explore possible explanations for the incredible accounts

of the US military encounters with UFOs.

Yeah, got it!

They discussed whether UFOs could actually be

top secret American military test aircraft

and the pilots they interview

were merely unwitting test subjects.

I can't completely eliminate the fact

that those type of velocities potentially,

potentially achievable with certain technologies we have.

It's possible.

It could be because, you know, it was an operational test.

You know, not everybody gets to know everything.

They also consider whether these UFOs

could be advanced aircraft from a foreign adversary.

A foreign adversary, they would have to send in

something that's super sophisticated, fast,

that can get in, look at what it is we're doing,

and then get back out, right?

My greatest fear is that an adversary did figure it out

and we are just way, way, way, way, way behind.

The third and most controversial theory

is that these unidentified craft are not of this world.

These things that we're seeing, they don't have wings.

They don't have tails.

They don't really have any cockpits that we can see.

They don't have anything that we would normally associate

with a traditional aircraft.

Right.

We can create systems that do pieces of each of these

and not a single system that does all of these.

Precisely.

When we were at AATIP, we had some really smart people.

These were scientists, academics

who had put a lot of time and effort

into trying to figure out the physics of this.

Look at this thing!

We were looking at what are these things

and what will it take to explain them

and then to exploit them and be able to build them.

Although we were focused on the nuts and bolts,

we were trying to look at all potential possibilities

and options of what this could be.

Part of that was a commissioning of several studies

that has now become quite public, 37 studies.

Right.

This declassified list of studies

Elizondo's secret UFO program commissioned

was released to the public in 2019

thanks to the efforts of the late senator John McCain.

I'm gonna pull up real quick here, this is a letter...

Oh, this is the McCain...

Yeah so,

I think it's important we put this into context.

This is the response by DIA to the late senator John McCain.

Senator McCain has been there, done that,

fought for this country.

For him to take the time to do this,

I think it's very telling.

And at this point in time,

he knew what his fate was as well.

And so it's clear he wanted to accomplish some things.

In July 2018, Senator McCain sent a request

to the Defense Intelligence Agency

for all non-classified documents from Elizondo's

secret program to be released to the public.

Now that the list of studies has been released

by the US government, we really weren't looking

at aircraft 40 years in the future.

We were looking at a paradigm-changing technology

to try to help explain the phenomenon.

Correct.

The biggest obstacle these things have to overcome

is a lot of these

were typically classified as pseudoscience.

Right.

The studies explored complex

theoretical topics

like invisibility, wormholes and antigravity,

subjects many believe to be science fiction.

This technology is,

for all intents and purposes, magic.

So, you know we would like to get it.

Whoever cracks the code and figures this stuff out first

would have a tremendous advantage

over our other adversaries.

What will your feelings be if it turns out

that it is not a foreign technology capability

and it's not a US capability?

Then what?

Then it's something else

because it's hard to say it's not there.

The studies examined cutting edge theories,

but they did not address the question

that has shadowed the UFO community for decades,

the possibility that intelligent life

from another solar system has arrived on Earth.

The question has been debated for decades

with no hard proof.

The question of whether or not

there's extraterrestrial life is certainly

a scientific question that deserves investigation.

Matthew Kleban is a leading

theoretical physicist at New York University.

We now know that our own galaxy contains of order

a hundred billion stars, and there are of order

10 or a hundred bullion other galaxies that we can observe

within the observable part of our universe.

So you multiply those two numbers together

and it's a staggeringly huge figure.

With the help of deep space telescopes,

astrophysicists estimate that not only

do billions of solar systems

exist in our observable universe.

Up to one in four contain a planet that can sustain life.

It would be naive to think that we could be

the only ones out there, and I get that.

What I'm always fearful of

is in people focusing in on aliens.

Now you start going down the roads of,

you know, is it from another planet,

is it interdimensional,

you know, is it spiritual.

What is those things?

And it opens up so many cans of worms that I just,

I just don't allow myself to go down that path.

I mean, I think it's disingenuous

to say it's not an option.

It's so unknown that we really have no idea

what we're dealing with.

Busy morning so far, lots going on actually.

Lots of phone calls and emails on our favorite subject.

So, things are hopping

very ah, very much looking forward to seeing the Senator.

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

for Intelligence, Chris Mellon is on his way

to meet with a powerful ally in his mission

to get the government to take the UFO threat seriously,

former Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.

Harry Reid was convinced by doing his own research

that this was something as an elected official

he should probably care about.

And he clearly convinced some of his colleagues

in the Senate that it was important enough to look into

and that's how this Pentagon program

got started in the first place.

Senator Reid was the driving force

behind the creation of the Pentagon's secret UFO unit,

known as ATIP.

Reid retired from the Senate in 2017

but he's still working behind the scenes

to push the U.S. government to study what he believes

is a clear and present danger to national security.

There's a lot of very profound, very deep issues

that an individual like Harry Reid is acutely aware of

that he's been deeply involved with.

And for him to devote time to this issue

in the twilight of his career is fascinating.

We've been in a quandary, we have these very, very

proficient best trained pilots in the world

and they see these strange occurrences

and in the past they've been afraid to say anything

to anyone for fear they would be looked at

as a little strange, a little weird.

So, for decades nothing has been done about these instances.

What I wanted to do today initially

is provide an update.

Mellon wants Reid

to know about the increasingly dangerous military encounters

with UFO's his team has uncovered.

We've learned that beginning in 2015,

there were scores of encounters off the east coast

of the United States

with U.S. Naval fighters and unidentified flying objects

of different kinds.

And this was within minutes of a flying distance

from the nation's capital.

This is still unresolved and this is still continuing.

And active duty pilots have approached us

and shared these stories with us.

Where ever we were they were there.

So that could mean two things that could mean

they were already there

or they were following the strike group.

Really the extraordinary things we learned

from these pilots is that when

they're carrier battle group deployed across the Atlantic

they continue to encounter these things

all the way across the Atlantic

into the Middle East and even over Syria.

We hear so much about off the coast of Florida

and especially Virginia, people think that's the only place

these unusual things have happened, it's not true.

It's all over the world where we have battle groups.

So this isn't anything that just is limited

to the United States, it's a worldwide phenomenon.

But we're finding in both these legislative

and executive branch this still lingering concern

about a stigma.

But I never hid from it, I acknowledge it.

I thought it was an important thing for our country.

And I think people who run from this are absolutely wrong.

Senator Reid secured funding

for the Pentagon's secret UFO program in part

because he and others had come

to believe America's adversaries were gaining the advantage.

Since I got interested in this, has been

KGB Putin.

He was head of the KGB and I guarantee you

that he's got a lot of information on this

and I would bet that Russia is ahead of us

in looking into this scientifically.

I don't know if this might look familiar.

This was a briefing slide, a set of briefing charts

prepared for the Deputy Secretary of Defense

in advance of a meeting with you

and I wanted to, since you mentioned Vladimir Putin,

this was 2009 and so a decade ago.

It says, quote, "According to Putin in the near future,

Russia will have weapon systems

which no other country in the world has at the given time.

The new technical systems will be capable

of destroying targets at intercontinental distance

with hypersonic speed and precision

and with extreme maneuverability in altitude and course.

And I repeat that is 10 years old.

Correct.

Think of the progresses made since that.

And what have we been doing, not much.

Yes, sir and we absolutely share your concern and...

and one of the things that is very frustrating to me

is as a former defense department official myself,

it's not even being examined,

it's sitting on computer servers.

You know why they're not looking at it,

they don't want to, it's another issue

that they're trying to ignore.

And that's what's happened over the years

and that's too bad.

We now have the technology of what else is going on

in space, that information is coming in,

it's all stored someplace in a computer bank

and it can be pulled up.

We're in an environment right now

where there's sort of unprecedented distrust

of our government.

Do you have any reason to believe

that there is a government coverup with UFOs

that behind the scenes the government

actually really does know the answers and has a...

I think the government doesn't know the answers

but over the decades rather than try to find the answers,

they've tried to cover up what the answers might be.

In an effort to find answers

we brought in aerospace entrepreneur Bob Bigelow.

And Bob Bigelow has been very open about his views

that he believes there are intelligent beings

from some other place that have visited here.

Bigelow was one of the few high profile people

involved in the Pentagon secret program

to say he believes the unidentified craft

are from another world.

Bob Bigelow recently said on national TV

that he absolutely believes not only that alien life exists

but that aliens are here, that aliens are visiting earth.

Do you share that view?

I feel it would be from a congressional standpoint,

it would affect my credibility

if I started talking about everything I know.

Coming up on Unidentified.

These are individuals that have

to remain very, very much protected.

Right before the meeting concluded I was pulled aside

Okay, so it's a huge week for us.

This is a really big moment so talk to me a little bit about

today and the people we're meeting.

I'll be introducing you to an individual

that worked with me when I was with ATIP.

Lue Elizondo and Tom DeLonge

are in Washington D.C.

for a series of secret meetings with government officials.

The reason for this meeting is to basically deconflict

and coordinate where are some of the areas

that we can continue help informing and push the cause.

And they're gonna also let us know

what they're doing on their end.

We wanna make sure we don't step on each other's toes

and we can help each other out.

Since he left the Pentagon,

Elizondo has been working to convince the military

to create a formal process for pilots and others

to report their encounters with UFOs.

Just a year ago if I wanted to have a conversation

in the halls of the Pentagon about this,

I had to go into a vault that was located beside a schiff,

I had to shut the door, turn on noisemakers

and then I had to whisper in a very quiet voice

because of the nature and the sensitivity and the stigma

that was associated with this portfolio.

And I think that's important

because I think the conversation about this

requires transparency, requires collaboration

and it requires honesty.

When you come across a game changing technology

it's very, very important that you report that up

through the chain of command.

The Department of Defense

that was Elizondo's secret UFO program

officially shut down in 2012

but Elizondo says the investigation continues.

In the DOD, there's two things that occur

when you have an organization, there's paperwork

when you start a program and there's paperwork

when you end a program.

You won't find any paperwork that ended ATIP.

Over the past year,

he's been communicating behind the scenes

with a new team of Pentagon intelligence officers

who are studying UFOs.

ATIP is no longer run by a single office,

there's now several offices that are engaged

in this effort.

We meet with people regularly involved in this effort.

And that's about all I can say.

Let's roll.

Elizondo and DeLonge head to a meeting

with three military intelligence officers.

These are individuals that have to remain very,

very much protected.

There are extremely qualified people whom I trust,

whom I personally know that are still running this effort.

And it is being run with official blessing

and that is what I'm prepared to say,

I cannot go into anymore than that.

The meeting lasts for over an hour.

Right before the meeting concluded I was pulled aside

and shared some private information

that there is still some degree of animosity

regarding my departure.

I didn't ask for this portfolio,

it was given to me and I committed myself to it

from day one.

You're given a mission that you believe in

and your job is to finish that mission.

Since he went public,

Elizondo has been able to bring military eyewitnesses

out of the shadows and on the record.

We finally have people having conversations

about this enigma.

When I get a call to go to the Pentagon

and provide a now serious debrief,

it's a little surreal.

People have testified before Congress,

these are active duty military personnel.

Other people have had this issue as well,

so it's not a one off with me.

They have informed Congress,

we have the executive department engaged.

So far,

this group of individuals have made more progress

in getting this issue into the mainstream

and taken seriously than anybody has

in a very, very long time if ever.

There's a growing awareness in Congress about this

but I don't anticipate that any time soon

we're gonna have UFO hearings on Capitol Hill.

It really goes against my DNA to have gone,

quote, unquote "public" with this.

Do I think it was a right decision,

it think it was the only decision

because otherwise we'd still be where we were

a year ago

which is nowhere.

Something unexplained is happening

in the skies above the United States

even the U.S. Navy isn't certain what is going on.

In April 2019, the U.S. Navy

made an unprecedented announcement,

it's creating a new protocol for pilots

to report UFO sightings.

For Chris Mellon, the announcement is a major victory.

Chris Mellon is a former Pentagon official.

Chris, thanks very much for coming on.

Thank you Tucker, it's an extraordinary turn around

and it's really the result of an interaction

between Congress and the Navy

and the fact that this has gotten on Congress's radar

began some discussions which elevated an issue

that before this time had been smothered

and kept at low levels of the bureaucracy.

This is probably single handedly one

of the greatest things that the Navy could do

for this country.

For Lou Elizondo, the new Navy policy

is confirmation of everything he's worked for

over the past year.

It's also an admission the UFO phenomenon is real

and needs to be studied.

They're writing policy that,

rather than keeping people quiet

will encourage people to come forward.

Keep in mind that the topic of UAP's

just a year and a half ago, people were snickering

and laughing, right, that was relegated

to B Hollywood movies and to TV shows

and now people are having a real conversation.

The Navy's new UFO policy

was first reported by Politico's Brian Bender.

Lue Elizondo, Chris Mellon and others

have come forward to try and get the Pentagon leadership

to do more about this,

to apply real resources to try and figure out,

is it real, is it an adversary, is it something else?

Where that will lead I think remains to be seen.

Hello there. Howdy, Jess, how are you?

Hate to break up the party.

But Tom I normally wouldn't do this

but if you got a couple of minutes I need

to give you a quick update on a recent development.

Let's do it.

So, Tom this just hit the wire,

this is a Politico article,

the title is U.S. Navy Drafting New Guidelines

for Reporting UFO's.

Can you read the subtitle?

That's insane.

The fact that they're coming out now

and they're saying that this is real

and there's incursions over our sensitive sites,

we're putting together a national security policy

to track them,

it's like insane to me. That's to report them. So you're absolutely right.

I think you can break it down to three things.

My heart's beating fast insane to me.

It's crazy.

I'm pretty energized.

There's three pieces to this article that I find

most captivating, A: that the Navy is taking this seriously,

B: it's establishing an official reporting mechanism

and C:, that they have been talking with members of Congress

and their staff.

And that only vindicates a lot of the hard work

that's been going on behind the scenes

but also I think it's a testament

to the brave men and women

in the U.S. Navy who want to figure out

what these things are.

I mean, Tom, this has been the culmination

of all my personally, all my effort,

you know I never did this for fame

or status or damn sure not a paycheck,

I'm doing this because I was trying

to fix a broken system, right

and as I've told people before the only thing I managed

to accomplish in my entire new career moving forward

is getting a reporting mechanism established

so people can report these things without fear of any type

of retribution or any type of consequences professionally,

losing their security clearance

or losing their flight status, right, all the things that

were bottle necking me before,

from having reports come out.

That is the only thing I ever truly what,

that was mission success for me

and here we are literally a year and a half later

of you coming on stage and telling the world you're going

to do this, it happened.

It's absolutely wild, exciting stuff.

Hey man, hug.

An Air Force interest in this problem

has been due to our feeling of an obligation

to identify and analyze to the best of our ability

anything in the air that may have the possibility

of threats or menace to the United States.

At this point, these things are coming up close

and personal.

We are being forced to address it.

We don't have the luxury to sit back anymore as a country

and say, oh let's not pay attention to that,

we have to pay attention to it.

Because now it appears to be stalking

some of our duty assets.

At base, these are reports from pilots,

from military pilots in the Navy today

or very recently in the Navy that have seen these phenomenon

and reported them.

I was a witness to something,

it's something that I happened to encounter,

I don't know what it was.

People ask me, what do you think it was?

Do you think it was of this earth,

do you think it was the aliens?

If these things are out there we know they're out there

there's enough credible that says there's things

that we don't understand.

I can tell you that the other people that were involved

all feel the same way.

Not everyone is talking, some of them are still

on active duty but we all would love to know

what it is, I mean, I wanna know, I would love to fly it.

What a hell is that thing?

This is the story of the millennia,

this is changing the world stuff.

This really is in my heart like I am a part of something,

I created something that has an opportunity

to change the world and I really feel that,

that is why I'm doing this.

For the first time in the history of our country

and in the history of this subject

the stigma and the taboo nature about it

just got shattered to a thousand pieces in the wind.

We have an intelligence collection apparatus

that is global in nature and exquisite from 22,500 miles

above the earth's surface to virtually the deepest levels

of the ocean that may already have answers

to many of the questions that we have.

My hope is that members of Congress

will simply ask the right questions.

They have an opportunity when this information is provided

to them to respond to it and act on it.

I occasionally think how quickly

our differences worldwide

would vanish if we were facing an alien threat

from outside this world.

The day will come when this occurs to you

that it's real, that's there's some other intelligence here.

That it's far more advanced than us.

That it could do whatever it wants to us

and we'd be powerless against it.

At the end of the day I don't care if you believe it,

I know what I've seen.

This stands as a reminder for everything that we do

and how important it is, the job of every man and woman

and civilian, sailor, soldier, airman in the military.

We do what we do because of this

and this is a reminder of that sacrifice.

I'm extremely optimistic that in a very short period

of time, we're gonna finally have answers

and resolution to some long standing questions.

We have access to people, to efforts like never before,

to places we could never go before,

maybe we could even build some things.

I think we're gonna have new events

that America has never been made aware of.

We're gonna build this case so airtight

that not only is it a beyond reasonable doubt situation,

it will be irrefutable.

I think we're upon a precipice.

I think the time has finally come.

One last question:

do you think the public can handle the truth?