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Everything that we know and have learned about mankind and its place in the

universe suggests that we are a part

of the norm. We are not the exception.

Within the last month, a planet was identified that has water a mere 110

years away from Earth.

We need to begin to prepare.

to accept and understand that we are not alone in the universe, have not been

at all throughout this time.

The same year that life -giving water was discovered on a distant planet, the

.S. Navy made a startling announcement.

Images captured by its pilots of objects exhibiting a vastly superior technology

were authentic.

We can start to finally, at long last, after all these decades, begin to answer

these questions about the origin of these vehicles, where they're from, how

they're made, how they function and why they're here.

People need to know there is something else out there.

To fully understand, we must examine a body of evidence long suppressed,

a parallel history to the one we think we know, stretching back at least 70

years.

On a clear, sunny day in 1955, William Coleman, a decorated World War II pilot,

took off from Miami on a routine flight to deliver a B -25 bomber to an air base

in Mississippi.

My co -pilot said, look at that bright spot up there. I think it's just a

reflection of the sun, a craze probably in the windshield.

He and his passengers, two aviation engineers, realized it was a strange

making a rapid descent right across their flight path.

My God, look at that thing.

Now open it up to max continuous power.

Here we're clipping right along at over 300 miles an hour, right on the treetop.

I'm right on the tail of it.

As we got closer, I said, it doesn't have a tail. It doesn't have any wings.

Look at the shadow on the ground. The shadow was perfectly round.

That's not an airplane.

And I said, I'm overtaking it. So I said, hang on.

So I'm going to make a hard turn.

There it was, a disc.

Going across the field with two big swirls.

What I didn't see was any exhaust propulsion.

No rivet lines, a rounded edge about that size where it all came together.

A true flying saucer.

Then it seemed to vanish until they spotted it thousands of feet above them.

Bright, yellow, sunnish -looking object.

It went like a bat out of hell.

After they landed, the stunned witnesses were separately debriefed by Project

Blue Book, the Air Force investigation of the UFO phenomenon.

Ironically, a little over a decade later, Colonel William T. Coleman became

public spokesman for Project Blue Book.

Probably what we saw may have been from somewhere else.

Look, the Air Force is a very deadly being when it comes to intercepting an

unknown.

If it proves hostile, we're going to shoot it down.

Other than that, no problem.

In the late 1940s, America seemed impregnable to military threat.

It had just emerged from World War II, Masters of the Air, the only nuclear

-armed superpower in the world.

But in 1947, something appeared in the sky, and everything

changed.

Every newscaster and every newspaper across the nation has made headlines out

it. And this afternoon, we are honored indeed to have here in our studio this

man, Kenneth Arnold, who we believe may be able to give us a first -hand account

and give you the same on what happened.

I kept looking for their tails. They didn't have any tails.

I thought, well, maybe something's wrong with my eyes. They seem to flip and

flash in the sun just like a mirror.

I'd be glad to confirm it with my hands on a Bible because I did see it.

And whether it has anything to do with our army or our intelligence or whether

it has to do with some foreign country, I don't know.

Arnold had sent this sketch to the Air Force following his sighting.

He was later invited to California's Hamilton Field Army Air Base, where he

handed what he was told were authentic photos of a similar craft.

At the request of Lieutenant Colonel Donald Springer, commanding officer of

4th Air Force Intelligence, and was given the above prints as a courtesy for

assistance he had given military intelligence.

The photo was taken in Arizona just two weeks after his own encounter.

They said that my father's sighting of flying saucers got more attention than

the ending of World War II.

He was besieged by newspaper reporters from all over the world.

Reporters interviewed United Airlines pilot E .J. Smith, who also flew the

Northwest route.

He joked Arnold had likely been fooled by a cockpit reflection, until he, too,

became a witness a few weeks later.

He and his stunned crew had watched as nine disks maneuvered in formation for a

full 45 minutes.

And from there it just exploded. The first few days in July of 1947 had a

large level of exciting activity.

These unknown objects barnstormed across the country, sometimes in fleet -like

formations that looked like a deliberate show of force.

Hundreds of people told Air Force investigators they'd seen the saucers

their own eyes.

Bright, shiny things that whished through the air at incredible speeds.

Even airline pilots who seldom indulge in fantasy reported sighting them.

And Air Force flyers told of chasing them or something all over the sky.

The Air Force called them unidentified flying objects.

But people went right on calling them saucers and seeing them. There was

something in the air.

But a then -secret memorandum by the same general suggested that the highest

military echelons thought there was plenty to worry about.

The memo states, quote, the phenomenon reported is something real and not

visionary or fictitious.

It described metallic disks, circular in shape, with domes on top, often

traveling in formations of three to nine craft.

It also listed aerodynamic capabilities with disturbing implications for

national defense, extreme rates of climb.

dazzling maneuverability, and a superior capacity for evasive action.

A lot of people expected that the United States government was about to confirm,

okay, they're ours. This is an exciting new technological advance that we were

testing, and now it's time to tell people about it.

Occasionally, eyewitness testimony included compelling photographic

Evelyn Trent was feeding her rabbits when she spotted a metallic disc -shaped

object floating over their farm.

She alerted her husband, Paul, to grab his camera, and he managed to get two

shots.

They described the object slowly hovering before it abruptly sped away.

Life magazine picked up the story, and the McMinnville UFO became a global

sensation.

There's no chance of this being weather.

There's no chance of this being a star or an aircraft.

This is either some kind of structured object that we don't know what it is, or

it's a hoax. Paul Trent and his wife, they were honest, simple.

hardworking people who never made a dime off the photographs that they took.

They never tried to make a dime off of it. It just come up like that and tipped

and just, I mean, really went.

It went fast.

I've never seen anything go so fast in my life as that thing went.

Yeah.

In 1951, future astronaut Gordon Cooper, while training in Germany, chased a

large formation with his squadron of fighter jets.

Unlike fighters, they would stop, almost stop in their forward velocity and

change 90 degrees sometimes in their flight path.

And within the next two to three days, we'd had practically all the fighters we

could muster on the base up climbing as high as they would climb with guys with

binoculars in them still trying to spot these.

Trains, devices flying overhead.

We never could get close enough really to pin them down, but they were round in

shape and very metallic looking.

And they would come over and do the same maneuvers that we make, except every

once in a while one of them goes to the hip.

And you just can't do that in a fighter.

Like two saucers, one inverted over the other.

They seemed to be made of some kind of polished metal.

When I first saw the objects, they were almost overhead.

By the time I had the camera ready to go, they had moved to a considerably

greater distance.

But the unknowns showed no signs of hostility, an otherworldly power on its

mysterious mission.

Commercial pilots William Nash and William Fortenberry, former Navy

with thousands of hours of flight experience, saw eight huge disks fly in

stack formation over Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, just a stone's throw from

Washington, D .C.

When they came out over the blackness of the bay, they're distinct.

Six red coins.

When they got closer, we could see that...

It looked like you were looking down into it, like a hot coal.

They reported the glowing red objects had approached them head -on at a speed

they estimated at 6 ,000 to 12 ,000 miles per hour.

It came in like this and went out like this.

There would be no way of making complete reversal or a 90 -degree turn 12

,000 miles an hour or greater.

without making the occupants juice on the wall.

That kind of really shook us up. Looking at the thing shook us up.

Nothing could have gotten to that degree of scientific

progress without some of the intermediate steps having become public

We just knew that they were not from this planet.

The unthinkable happened.

The nation's capital was invaded from the skies.

Seven unknown blips suddenly appeared on radar at Washington National Airport.

Air traffic controllers at both Andrews and Bowling Air Force bases confirmed

the objects as they danced through restricted airspace.

Capitol building, the White House where the president lived.

These were some of the most important places in the country when it comes to

national defense.

And there were UFOs violating this airspace, and there was nothing that the

Force could do about it.

F -94 interceptors were scrambled.

Pentagon Press liaison Al Chopp was in the radar room that night.

We could see the planes coming in on this radar scope. In a minute, we saw

beginning of these guys.

UFOs disappeared.

They just left.

Obviously, whatever these things were, had intelligence enough to get out of

area when they had an intercept going in.

But the next weekend, it began again.

Pilot William Patterson pushed his Starfire jet to maximum speed to try to

intercept one of the glowing objects.

Flew right into the middle of the four of them.

Al Chop recalls the pilot's panicky air -to -ground transmission as he streaked

at 600 miles per hour into a group of unknowns.

He actually said they're closing in on me.

What do I do?

It was frightening.

The Air Force had just issued orders to shoot down the unknowns if, quote, They

can't talk them down.

I was trying to tell an Air Force pilot to fire at the damn thing or anything.

I didn't say anything.

Nobody said anything.

And then all of a sudden, things began to move away from him.

And he said, they're gone.

I'm convinced they're solid objects.

I'm convinced that they're probably from another planet or from outer space

somewhere.

I've always felt that way since that night.

The very next day, the Air Force's top brass hastily prepared the largest

Pentagon press conference since World War II.

Seen here in a last -minute huddle, General Roger Ramey, Air Force Director

Operations at the Pentagon.

Captain Edward Ruppelt of Project Blue Book.

the Air Force's official UFO investigations arm, and Director of Air

Intelligence, General John Sanford.

Since 1947, we have received and analyzed between one and two thousand

that have come to us from all kinds of sources.

Of this great mass of reports, we have been able adequately to explain the

bulk of them.

However, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports

have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things.

We can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected with any secret

development by any department of the United States.

In the Q &A with reporters, Sanford suggested a 50 -50 chance it could have

radar waves bouncing off temperature inversions.

The point that Sanford put across all too effectively was that they were not

real. They were just tricks of the atmosphere.

And atmospheric phenomena can't be a threat to national security.

You don't shoot at clouds.

The public was pondering the implications of possible

Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the United States Rocket Society, urged

defense officials not to permit our planes to fire at any flying saucers. He

says this might alienate mankind from beings of far superior forces.

Farnsworth feels that friendly contact should be sought as long as possible.

Behind the scenes, the CIA had other concerns.

A secret internal memo urged immediate attention to unexplained objects in the

vicinity of major U .S. defense installations.

I would dare say if anything happened that we thought was a threat to our

national security, somebody out there, one of the services, would respond to

Remember, this is the height of the Cold War.

There are bombers on both sides loaded with nuclear bombs.

Dr. Jacques Vallée was the inspiration for the French UFO researcher and Steven

Spielberg's close encounters of the third kind.

In real life, Dr.

Vallée conducted sober scientific research on the phenomenon.

We know now that there is no simple answer.

For decades, he met with witnesses and traveled the globe gathering evidence,

ultimately creating the first database on the UFO subject.

Mr. Chairman, all the great nations of the world are represented on this

committee. Let us keep in mind that the UFO phenomenon may represent an even

greater reality.

Vallée also consulted with scientific, military, and government officials.

including Project Blue Book's top science advisor, Dr.

J. Allen Hynek.

I began my work as scientific consultant to the United States Air Force as an

open skeptic.

Hynek was a university astronomer with a high security clearance when the Air

Force recruited him to investigate UFOs.

And it so happened when the Air Force got the job of trying to figure out what

some of these strange flying saucer stories were about, well, they needed an

astronomer to see how many of the reports could possibly be explained as

and twinkling stars and planets.

The two scientists became close colleagues, with Hynek entrusting Vallée

index the reams of Blue Book files scattered throughout Hynek's home.

It was there that Vallée made a chance discovery of a letter so secret he had

appeal to the chief counsel of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee

get it declassified.

That document changed my life.

It taught me that the subject had been taken much more seriously than anybody

thought. The document revealed an ultra -secret, highly funded scientific

investigation.

working parallel to Blue Book, unknown to all but a select few.

The letter was signed by H .C. Cross, director of exotic metallurgy at

Battelle National Laboratories.

These were the people who had analyzed the facts with a large budget, with

highly competent physicists and computer scientists.

Who are these people?

What information did they have?

Good evening. Tonight we go after a fantastic story.

The story that flying saucers from other worlds are visiting our planet just as

we are exploring outer space with our own rocket satellites.

Our guest is former Marine Air Corps Major Donald Kehoe in his campaign to

that flying saucers exist.

My name is Mike Wallace. The cigarette is Parliament.

Why will the United States government withhold information from United States

citizens? For what reason? The airport is simply treating the American people

like children. They don't trust them with the facts.

During the 50s and 60s, it wasn't just the Americans who were seeing flying

saucers. At the Westall School in Australia, Several hundred students saw

object hovering over this power line tower on their athletic field, an event

they vividly recall 50 years later.

A student came into the classroom, you know, there's flying saucers in the

there's flying saucers. And everybody ran out.

And I remember the fear and the hysteria of all the students. I couldn't believe

it because what I was seeing wasn't possible.

It was vertical, horizontal.

move away from us, back towards us, appear somewhere else, somewhere else.

My God, you know, but it was exciting.

It was like that and then all of a sudden it just turned on its side and I

see that it was a round disc.

The children saw the disc begin to descend into this wooded reserve at the

of the school's running path.

I ran towards the corner of the school, jumped the fence.

and ran towards where it looked as though it went down into the tree and

stopped dead because it was right in front of me on the ground.

Like a disc with a slight rise in the middle, I also heard a low sort of a

humming noise and I felt a bit of a heat coming off it as well.

And... It started to take off pretty well straight away. It had all bluey

-purple lights around the bottom. I don't remember seeing any windows.

And it took off to about probably four or five metres in the air and then

on its side and just went, zoom, straight up so fast that there's just

even nowadays, that could go that fast.

Shortly after the object departed, the authorities converged on the school.

We had army, air force, police down there cordoning off the area to prevent

of us entering the area or disturbing anything.

We got called to assembly. The headmaster said, you have not seen this.

not talk about it. You'll be in trouble if you do.

For the first time ever, the school science teacher agreed to describe what

saw that day, providing we concealed his identity.

It was not a mirage.

There was something physical in the sky. It was silver. It could hover.

It could move slowly.

It could move very rapidly.

Eventually, it moved away to the other side of the oval and down behind some

pine trees.

I was not then nor ever have been able to use my knowledge of the world nor

my scientific training to provide a rational explanation.

What he said next sheds light on why the school's staff have remained silent all

these years.

I was a knock on the door one night. Two older men, one in uniform, asked for my

description of what I'd seen.

I was then told that I hadn't seen anything, that I'd made it all up,

because I was drunk, and that they would have to report that back to the

education department and I would lose my job. After that, I was told...

that I would be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act, and I was told

there wasn't anything there when I knew there was, and that I had to keep quiet

about it.

Why did I have to keep quiet?

The Westall landing may not have been an isolated incident.

Four days prior... A then -young engineer in nearby Baldwin was taking

his mother's garden when something caught his eye. This tremendous flash of

light, and I looked up, and I saw this object, and I pulled it. I had a

camera, and I pulled this up and hit myself on the face, and I took the

and I took the photograph here. This is the original Polaroid.

That's it.

This is how bad it is.

It looked like it was made out of some form of metal and it was engineered.

And being an engineer, I was sure it was.

And that's when I took the photograph and it tipped around and I could see the

bottom and it looked like it was rotating to me.

That was it. And then after that, it sort of gave a bounce and it rocketed

to the north at very high speed.

Can you describe the acceleration?

It was like almost instantaneous, like it had been shot out of a gun.

Wham, you know.

Air Force officers showed up at his doorstep, asking for every detail of his

experience. And they also had some photographs of similar things, and they

had a book which had pictures of things in which they didn't leave with me, but

at least I had a look through.

They said it was an unidentified flying object.

That was it.

What was the implication?

That it didn't come from anywhere on Earth.

Project Blue Book, with a skeletal staff, continued publicly collecting

thousands of cases.

Despite efforts to explain them away, hundreds were still filed as unknown.

Several reports of a strange egg -shaped object about 200 feet long landing on

farms and highways last night in the vicinity of Level Land.

Sheriff Glenn says he even himself got a glimpse of the thing which somehow

turned off lights and auto engines when it came near.

Within 24 to 36 hours after these sightings in Leveland, Texas, at the

Sands Proving Ground, very close to the Trinity test site where they first

detonated the first atomic bomb, military personnel witnessed a glowing

-shaped object that apparently landed.

This is Bill Haggard, public information officer of White Sands Proving Ground

in Mexico.

What they saw...

Looks like a landing and takeoff of some controlled objects of outer space.

Well, I was chasing a car up Bark Street. It was reckless driving.

I saw this big cloud of smoke, so I decided to let go of the car and go up

and investigate.

By the time I got there, I could see a big white object sitting in the arroyo.

I couldn't tell what it was at first.

My radio was dead. It didn't work at all.

I could see some figures.

Looked like they were walking around the craft there.

They appeared to be dressed in white coveralls and were childlike, that is,

small.

Zamora added that one of the two persons turned his head and looked straight at

him.

When I got out of the car, about 50 feet from it,

I guess they saw me because they started their motor, whatever it is.

I could see a big blast of fire coming from right under it.

So I was behind some bushes there, behind my car.

I could see it, and I could feel that heat.

That really got me scared, you know.

A lot of people say, why don't you take your gun out and shoot at it, you know.

That wouldn't do nothing to me, so.

It just took a little while to get airborne.

Came up a little bit, about 20, 30 feet, and it stayed there a little while.

And it stayed just as quiet as it could be.

And then just flew away, that's it.

Lonnie was very, very scared. He was as white as a sheet. From here, went

directly to the church to talk to the priest, okay?

Pablo Lopez was among the first to arrive at the landing and takeoff site.

The ground was still smoldering, some of the weeds that were around it. This

rare footage gives us a glimpse of the scene shortly after the incident.

Patrolman Zamora stoops to point out one of the landing gear imprints where

officers had just placed rocks to protect the fresh ground traces.

And then there was a set, two sets of footprints, two sets of footprints like

so.

That was about the approximate size of them.

In comparison to a quarter, that's pretty small.

That's about the size of them.

Within an hour and over the next several days, officials from the FBI, military,

and Project Blue Book documented the evidence at the scene.

Were there any prong marks on the ground or anything like that where you could

see where it had landed?

There were four.

Very unusual footprints.

How many were there? Two footprints on one side and two footprints on the other

side.

Of course, the burn area there. I was behind my car.

I could see it and I could feel that heat.

They told me that all over the state they had been seeing some of those

saucers, whatever you call them.

They gave me a book on that, you know.

They told me to go ahead and read it.

Well, it says not to say nothing.

Keep away from it. Don't say too much, you know.

It was the middle of the night by the time Lonnie came home.

Oh, he was real pale.

And I thought he was sick. I said, are you sick or something?

He said, no. He said, I was just working. He was like, like he was angry.

What I knew about it was when I started reading the papers, you know.

Started coming out and coming out and everything.

They said, well, what's this that you saw?

I don't know. He said, it's just a headache.

He said, everybody's after me and some believe me and some don't.

Dear Mr.

Zamora. Dear Mr.

Zamora.

I saw a UFO myself in the summer of 1928. I can go on for a week telling you

what I've seen. A boy in a school science fair had three pictures that

just like the flying saucer. I thought I should write to you to tell you that

you are not alone in your sighting of this object.

I have pictures of a couple of egg -shaped ships taken. I read about you

a flying saucer. I'm a retired teacher. Well, you have a friend who believes in

you. The saucer phenomenon has changed my life and ideas. Mama said when it

took...

And then people started making fun of him that he had seen

little men from outer space and this and that and all this dirty

stuff.

A lot of people ask me, is that the reason you quit the police force?

The reason I quit the police force is because I was going into, you know, a

of publicity and stuff like that, and I didn't want to hurt the town.

The level of inquiry went all the way to the office of the president.

To this day, the Socorro close encounter remains unexplained.

Socorro was very similar to the French cases that I had.

brought to Heineck's attention, checked by the police, checked by the French Air

Force, where there were also occupants who were seen, short beings

in connection with the objects.

I think that's what convinced him that there were UFO landings in the United

States.

It looked like a toy top, somewhat upside down.

So this is the diagram in which we've come up with. It's more flat here other

than round, but it does have the hump up in here.

It seemed to move off the ground if it was down.

And then we saw three lights that went from yellow to red.

When we got right up to it, it lit up.

I mean, it really come bright, and we could see it, the outline of it real

Blue Book's Dr. Alan Hynek investigated one of the alleged landing sites with

the local sheriff.

At an overflow press conference later that day, the world held its breath for

historic revelation about the landings in Michigan.

Hynek, by now privately convinced of the UFO reality, struggled to follow the

Air Force policy of tamping down public excitement.

Are you saying that the sightings in the Ann Arbor and Hillsdale areas

definitely were caused by marsh gasses? I'm saying that the two cases that I

investigated most deeply were most likely. I said in a statement that I

prove it in a court of law.

Are you saying then that you don't know what caused it?

No, that's not quite right. I think that a person can be pretty sure about

something without being...

able to convict somebody of a murder. Can you say that?

Yes, I do, honestly, in this case, in this case.

But you can't say without question that this is what happened.

Hynek's strained explanation, which he later called his greatest regret,

a public furor.

Mr. Ford, what about flying saucers? You've had some in Michigan the past

Dave, we've had several incidents that many felt were...

sufficient to justify some action by our government and not the kind of flippant

answer that was given by the Air Force where they passed it off as a swamp gas.

It seems to me that this mystery does require that the Congress take a good

look at it. Let them put their record on the line.

On April 5th, 1966.

Congressional hearings were held with Dr. Hynek and Secretary of the Air Force

Harold Brown both giving testimony.

Mr. Ford has come out. He has a pretty good -sized stature in the Congress.

And so, Mr. Secretary, see if you can shed some light on these highly

illuminated objects.

Mr. Secretary, there have been charges that the Air Force is hiding something

the UFO field.

We have not been hiding anything.

The investigations have been made public. The hearing this morning was

for just that reason.

There has never been any evidence presented to the United States Air Force

discovered by the United States Air Force which would indicate that the UFO

phenomenon represents any interplanetary space vehicle of any kind.

Amid growing pressure, the Air Force commissioned an outside panel of

to analyze select cases and settle the matter once and for all.

It was headed by physicist Edward Condon. Dr. Condon, do you hope to find

from outer space here on Earth?

Well, I don't know for sure, but we'll try to just study the reports and get as

much additional information as we can to see.

Would you like to have us being visited by these little or big things?

Well, that'd be fine with me, if I hope they're friendly.

How do you propose to go about... After the project was launched, Condon

remarked to an audience that he thought the UFO subject was nonsense, but,

quote, I'm not supposed to reach that conclusion for another year.

After a two -year investigation... the panel submitted a massive 1 ,400 -page

report showing that many cases were radar and weather anomalies, but

a number as truly unexplainable.

Among them were the famous McMinnville photos taken on the Trent family farm,

well as film footage of UFOs in Great Falls, Montana.

As I looked up, I saw two silvery objects moving swiftly out of the

No sound, except I thought I heard a whooshing sound when I first saw them.

The discs appeared to be spinning like a top and were about 50 feet across,

which was much slower than the jets which shot by shortly after I filmed the

discs.

I could not see any exhaust, wings, or any kind of fuselage.

They appeared to be of a bright, shiny metal, like polished silver.

There are cases that are...

not explainable in conventional terms.

There is the assumption of intelligence or intelligent control, but not

necessarily the assumption of direct communication.

Why are they here?

What are they doing?

What do they want from us? What are their motivations?

But it was Dr. Condon who wrote the final word.

There appears to be no verified and fully satisfactory evidence of any case

is clearly outside the framework of presently known science and technology.

I would kind of wallow on that one. You'd have to conclude that what we were

looking at was beyond our current state of the knowledge.

But it began to hit me that Dr. Condon has apparently not read his own material

very carefully. You do an actual tabulation, which he doesn't seem to

and you find his percentage of unexplained is five to six times larger

Air Force. And yet, what is his principal recommendation? The principal

recommendation that Dr. Condon has come through with is there's nothing of

scientific interest that warrants further attention on the part of the

government here in any major way. He recommends dropping the whole problem.

Nobody could get funded. Nobody would look at the data seriously because of

prestige of the academy saying that the problem had been solved. The Air Force

closed their reporting system so that if the public wanted to report something,

they would report it to the local police, that it would never get to the

attention of scientists really examining the phenomenon.

In 1969, the Air Force officially ended its public investigations.

Which would suggest what?

That they knew what it was?

Or didn't know what it was.

Also, the other way, that they did know what it was.

One aspect of the phenomenon that was swept under the rug was the pervasive

reporting of UFO intrusions at the world's most sensitive military

Details did not come to light until decades later at the National Press Club

Washington, D .C.

Declassified U .S. government documents and witness testimony from former or

retired U .S. military personnel confirm beyond any doubt the reality of ongoing

UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites.

What you have heard here today is evidence of a phenomenon.

It sounds fantastic and it is fantastic.

In 1967, I was a missile launch officer.

stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.

Malmstrom was America's first line of nuclear defense.

Its silos packed with Minutemen missiles, each one nearly 100 times more

powerful than the bomb that devastated Hiroshima.

Launch officers could, within minutes of confirmation, send their birds arcing 6

,000 miles to incinerate key Soviet cities.

triggering a war that would end our civilization.

I was the chief of party. I was the observer.

Basically, what I was doing was the star observation to provide precise latitude

and longitude on our small three -man team.

came from the north and stopped right over us.

And it had a white light from the center looking down into the silo. I just said

to myself, what if this thing beams us up and takes us off to some distant

and never returned to Earth again? I mean, this is going through my head here

while this thing is above me.

And then from this dead stop, it shoots off to the east, just like now you see

it, now you don't.

that went out and claimed that they saw something. How did they describe that?

He just said a large round object.

Directly over the LF? Directly over the site.

Lieutenant Salas was stationed in his underground launch control capsule when

received a frantic call from one of his topside guards.

Screaming into the phone saying they're looking, a red glowing object hovering.

just above our front gate. Our missiles began going into what's called a no -go

condition or unlaunchable.

Essentially, they were disabled.

In fact, ten missiles began going offline in a matter of seconds, one

other.

Personally, I'm never aware of any two missiles going down at the same time,

alone ten.

I was a top secret control officer and I passed out nuclear launch

authenticators.

I can clearly recall a message coming through my communications center which

basically said that a UFO did in fact shut down several missile silos in

Montana.

I was on duty at Echo, which is our squadron command post. We had strike

respond to...

alarms from the missiles. They were three to five miles away.

And they said, sir, lack of a better description, there's a flying saucer

hovering over that missile and there's a beam of reddish light going down to it.

It had to be a data collection thing. I'm sure they scanned the warhead or

something.

In 1980, I was reassigned from the Pentagon to RAF Bentwaters as a deputy

commander.

At that time, Bentwaters was one of the largest tactical fighter planes in the

world.

It was also the largest American nuclear bomb storage depot in Europe.

In December 1980, early in the morning, several of our security policemen

discovered strange lights in the forest.

Expecting to find a crashed aircraft, they came upon an unrecognizable object

resting on the forest floor.

They observed it for a period of time, and it very...

quickly and silently vanished.

Two nights later, Colonel Halt received an urgent visit from the base security

commander.

He was white as a sheet.

He said, it's back.

He said, what's back?

He said, the UFO.

I took several security policemen with me. I also had my small cassette

I carried everywhere when I was on duty.

What is it?

One object approached us in very high speed.

We

stood there

in awe.

Was this a warning?

Was this an attempt to communicate?

Was this a weapon or just a probe?

Just as suddenly as it appeared, click, it disappeared.

We stood there, ah.

About that time, we noticed the other object to the south was Cendidon beams,

about a mile, mile and a half away over Woodbridge Base, and we had great

difficulties communicating, but we were able to discern that some of those beams

were either falling into or near the weapons storage area, and there was a

deal of concern.

I also found out later that both the tower operators at Bentwaters saw an

and picked it up on their Bright 2 radar and watched it.

I was just sitting there, and I happened to see a dot come on the scope, and it

just went like one dot at the beginning, then another dot, another dot, and it

was gone. And then it made the immediate right -hand turn and came right towards

the base. Just absolutely phenomenal.

It's not like any radar target I've ever seen.

traveling at an extremely high rate of speed.

It passed over the control tower, and then it stopped.

It was an orangish color, sort of popped into my mind at the time that

somebody's flying a basketball out here. There were lights around the center of

it. It was more like portholes, and then you were seeing the light from the

inside, but it hovered momentarily, reversed its course.

and went back out at a high rate.

Even more alarming incidents took place on both sides of the Cold War.

According to one secret Soviet documents, a UFO hovered over a

nuclear base for nearly an hour.

Inexplicably. Several missiles suddenly switched to full combat readiness and

began a launch sequence without any authentication codes.

After 15 heart -stopping seconds, the countdown to a potential Armageddon

as abruptly as it had started.

As this object passed over the missile site, we would start getting erratic

indications on that missile.

The bad thing was we also got a launch indicator.

Does that mean that the launch sequence has been triggered? That means that the

missile has received a launch signal.

The countdown had to be manually aborted.

These witnesses are some of the most highly vetted military officers in

of the world's most devastating armaments.

If what they're reporting is accurate, then the pattern is hard to avoid.

UFOs have been making incursions into top security nuclear facilities decade

after decade.

To me, it's pretty clear. This is just, we're shining a light on this. We're

pointing it out.

What are you people doing with nuclear weapons?

As the 90s dawned and the walls fell down, it was as if humanity itself was

demanding to be seen as one people and one world.

The Soviet Union had dissolved, and history's spotlight began to shine on

darkened corners.

Different officials were looking for ways to open dialogue with the West and

embrace all the changes that were underway in their country at the time.

This is George Knapp in Moscow, the city many are... Knapp's team was invited to

Moscow by government and military officials who were willing to share

worth of UFO files.

General Igor Maltsev, for seven years commander of the entire Soviet air

system, recalls a UFO flap over Moscow in 1990, hundreds of visual and radar

observations by military personnel.

Maltsev confirms his standing order was... Don't fire on the UFOs. March

radar at the Leningrad airport detects first one, then two, then three

unidentified objects hovering over a nuclear plant. From a dead stop, the UFO

zipped away at 2 ,000 miles per hour.

Jacques Vallée was one of few Westerners to personally investigate the case by

meeting with Russian sources firsthand.

An object hovered near a nuclear power plant in Voronezh, and a beam from that

object melted the asphalt there.

The intention was maybe we would be able to find out from the Russians more

about what the American government knows about UFOs than we will ever learn from

the American government itself.

Governor, are you ready to take the oath?

I am. When a young, open -minded president was sworn in, one of America's

highly -placed civilians saw a chance for a new government transparency on the

phenomenon. As a means of access to people, to the wonders of nature.

Heir to the power and influence of one of the world's wealthiest families,

Lawrence Rockefeller, philanthropist and conservationist, also had a passionate

interest in UFOs. His idea was to approach the

president with a plea for making available the data

that the government had on the subject.

The first inclination by particularly people in government is, you got

to be kidding me. You want me to risk my career by getting deeply into the

rabbit hole of talking about UFOs? And so there's a tremendous resistance.

Rockefeller met with President Clinton's science advisor, Jack Gibbons, at the

White House and persuaded him to take action.

Rockefeller was then asked to pick a case that the White House should attempt

declassify.

He chose the 1947 Roswell incident, noting, quote,

Jack

had actually gone to the Air Force.

then Secretary Widnall, who is the Secretary of the Air Force, to take a

particularly at the records around Roswell, New Mexico.

Dear Colonel Kavin, the General Accounting Office seeks to fully explain

claim that the U .S. government recovered an alien spacecraft near

Mexico in July 1947 and since that time has covered up that fact.

The Army Air Forces has announced that a flying disc has been found and is now

in the possession of the Army.

According to my dad, there was a bad thunderstorm the night before, and the

day he was out on the ranch and he found this debris.

The disc landed at a ranch at Corona, New Mexico, and the rancher turned it

to the Air Force.

Roswell was then home to the world's only nuclear air wing.

including the B -29 that had dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The base's chief intelligence officer, Major Jesse Marcel, was dispatched to

ranch to investigate.

We had to follow the rancher out there.

With just verbal directions, we know who would have found it.

Marcel and another officer were the first military to arrive at the crash

They came upon an expanse of unrecognizable debris strewn across an

size of a dozen football fields.

There was so much of it.

It was scattered over such a vast area.

We found a piece of metal about a foot and a half to two feet wide and about

two or three feet long.

It felt like you had nothing in your hands. It wasn't any thicker than the

out of a pack of cigarettes.

The thing about that got me is that you couldn't even bend it. You couldn't

embed it.

Even with a sledgehammer, it would bounce off of it.

Marcel was ordered to immediately transport the strange wreckage to Fort

Army Airfield.

There, Marcel was met by the commanding general who told him to keep silent in

the face of what was becoming...

A media frenzy. They had a whole flock of microphones there. They wanted some

comments from me, but I wasn't that good, but they didn't do that.

Marcel was instead ordered to pose with wood, foil, and rubber debris from a

conventional weather balloon.

All I could do is keep my mouth shut.

And General Ramey is the one who told the newspapers what it was and to forget

about it.

It was nothing more than an observation balloon, of course, which we both knew

differently.

Colonel Thomas DuBose, who was also ordered to pose with the fake debris,

describes how an iron curtain of secrecy slammed down.

This is the highest priority you can accept, and you will say nothing.

More than top secret, as he said. Beyond that, this is the story we're going to

tell the public.

It was a cover story, the balloon part of it.

In order, we don't have any more inquiries about what we picked up on the

desert. Congressman Schiff, what got you interested in this subject per se?

I started receiving letters a little over two years ago from constituents.

stating that they believed the government was covering up what happened

Roswell. Many of them clearly believed that it was, in fact, an

crash. The weather balloon story never made sense because it was clearly, and

undisputed in my mind, extra military attention to this matter, from extra

security around the crash scene to special handling of whatever the debris

That could fit a classified project. It doesn't fit a weather balloon.

In September 1994, the Air Force issued its response.

The Roswell Report.

Case closed.

The Air Force claimed it was a secret project of weather balloons hung with

kites and microphones to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.

Please roll the video.

There's the famous box kite that became the famous flying disc.

The weather balloons that were on the...

On the balloon train.

Same rubber balloon, same foil box kite as the original cover story.

Only many of them strung together with microphones dangling beneath.

That's the tinfoil paper, rubber, and sticks that they recovered in the desert

near New Mexico in 1947.

The Air Force, nearly 50 years later, was basically telling the same tale.

that the top security personnel of the world's only atomic bombing wing really

had mistaken this rubber, wood, and tinfoil for a crashed flying saucer.

Being an intelligence officer, I was familiar with just about all materials

in aircraft and in our air travel.

This was nothing like that.

It was not anything from this earth that I'm quite sure of.

My suspicion...

is that the Roswell incident did happen and something maybe not from our

universe went down there.

And we should allow the American people to make a judgment on what that might

have been by disclosing. I mean, this is probably the most blatant case of

overreaction to what is national security.

The public has a right to know.

Rockefeller put together a briefing document intended for world leaders with

sobering observation.

It is conceivable that even the president himself is not fully briefed

matters classified as above top secret.

I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that

reveal things. And if there were.

They were concealed from me, too. I wouldn't be the first president that

underlings have lied to or that career bureaucrats have waited out.

But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere hiding these

secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me.

And I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did try to find out.

That was a beautiful one. Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who had grown

around Roswell, was an aerospace insider with deep Pentagon connections.

He became convinced there were UFO secrets concealed from normal government

channels.

Well, if the accounts are to be believed, yes, there have been ET

There have been crashed craft.

There have been...

material and bodies recovered, and there is some group of people somewhere

that may or may not be associated with government at this point, but

certainly were at one time, that have this knowledge.

No one has proven there's nothing to it.

No one's had the opportunity to prove there's something to it. And that's what

did. In 2007,

the most powerful man in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, persuaded

colleagues, Senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye, to secretly allocate

millions in Defense Department funds to investigate UFOs.

The covert program operated from the tail end of the Bush presidency through

Obama administration and into Donald Trump's first year in office.

In December of 2017, the lid blew off.

At long last, the government was admitting a modern -day program to

UFOs and released startling official evidence, including videotapes from

the cockpits of military aircraft.

One of the key authors of the Times story was investigative journalist and

-selling author Leslie Kane.

She went to Washington to meet with Luis Elizondo.

who had just resigned from his position as head of the secret Pentagon UFO

program.

I was invited to this meeting. They wanted me to meet Mr.

Elizondo to see what could happen.

Objects that are moving so fast, and yet we don't see an ionization trail in the

air, and you don't hear a sonic boom. How is that possible?

Elizondo's colleagues took her aside to reveal some extraordinary documentation

related to the program.

I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I mean the most important evidence

that was shared with me at the meeting regarding the phenomenon itself were the

videos.

I knew

this was breaking news for the front page of the New York Times.

My co -author Ralph Blumenthal and I set up a meeting with Mark Mazzetti and

said we have this explosive story.

Sat down with him in the New York office of the New York Times and we brought in

all the documents. These are the videos. Here's other documents that show the

existence of the program.

And here's what they've studied and here's what they've learned. And here's

letter from Harry Reid about the program.

Elizondo's colleague, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for

Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, managed to obtain the tapes from the

and chose the New York Times to break the story.

I received the videos, the now famous videos, in the Pentagon parking lot from

Defense Department official. I still have the originals in the packaging.

This is a case where somebody bent the rules a little bit.

And they did so for the larger good and we're absolutely all better off because

of it.

In the end, I have to say, I was still extraordinarily disappointed with the

York Times because they focused on this small AATIP program.

And the real story in my mind, at least, should have been these things are real.

They're here.

This is happening now.

One of the Pentagon cases reported by the New York Times was an encounter by

naval aircraft about 200 miles off the coast of San Diego, California.

5 ,500 people that were on the Nimitz in 2004 when this happened, and I

guarantee every single one of them knows that this event happened. That's a

whole air wing, that's Mount Fuji, that's Japan.

Commander David Fravor was leading a training exercise from the USS Nimitz

Carrier Strike Group.

when he was abruptly ordered to investigate an unknown target that had

on one of the ship's radar scopes.

We're going to suspend the training. We have real -world tasking. So we're like,

okay, cool.

He and another F -18 Super Hornet, each carrying two airmen, zoomed toward the

coordinates. My felt and my wizzo and the other pilot and the wizzo in the

seat of that airplane. So there's four of us.

When they arrived, they first saw what appeared to be a large object slightly

below the surface of the ocean with a strange oval -shaped craft darting

in the air just above it. If you picture a tic -tac that's about 40 feet long,

you know, round on both ends, no rivets, no metal, smooth white.

It was white. It was just smooth, no wings, no propulsion, no windows.

It didn't matter which way it was pointing because as it was moving over

water, it would go, you know, it never turned. It never changed its

axis. It went four half left, right. It was just doing this.

And I said, hey, I'm going to go check that out.

All of a sudden, you just see it turn its body and go, whoop, and start coming

up at you. You go, that was rather interesting.

We're just looking at it. We're doing this. We're looking at it.

We're looking at it. We're looking at it. We go around all the way around the

outside of the circle 180 degrees.

Well, I know where he's going, so I'll just go over there.

And this thing goes, and it's gone.

I mean, literally that fast.

Gone.

You can think about what we're saying like, holy shit, what the is that?

You know, and then there's a lot of, dude, what the?

Did you guys see that? Do you guys see it? And they're like, it's gone. We

see shit.

Nothing accelerates that fast. You're talking, you know, something that not

accelerated beyond anything that we had seen, but it just was, the

controller comes up and says, hey, you're not going to believe this, but

thing is back at your cat point.

meaning the object had instantly reappeared at the precise secret

the fleet's critical aerial defense zone.

It obviously had some awareness. It knew where we were going.

I'm going to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

I actually told my back's here. I said, I don't know about you, I'm pretty

weirded out.

More jets equipped with the Navy's most advanced radar visual tracking system

were scrambled, this time capturing the object on video.

First thing he gets is a little blip on the radar.

He puts his cursors over it, and he tries to grab a lock on it.

Basically, when you take a lock, you tell the radar, look at that location

stare at it and put all your energy on that point.

Well, as soon as it does it, the radar gets indications that it's being jammed

by the object it's trying to lock.

The infrared sees differing temperatures, so the tic -tac is

than the air around it.

It doesn't have to be by much, but it's going to appear white.

It's just driving straight at it.

It's just kind of hovering there.

And then it goes poof, and it takes off off the side.

I just don't know.

I doubt that we have developed that technology.

I interviewed three of the four aviators who were with Dave during that

encounter. And it was readily apparent to everyone involved that that vehicle

had what they call dominant battle space awareness.

It was in control of that engagement from the outset.

There was no question.

that it completely outmatched our frontline fighters.

I served on the Special Access Program Oversight Committee, so I had access to

all of the black programs in those days. We know perfectly well there's nothing

like that behind the scenes or even on the drawing boards.

Senator Harry Reid, who instigated the secret Pentagon UFO program...

confirmed what nuclear launch officers have been reporting for decades.

There's more than one up there.

UFOs have interfered with our country's most powerful weapons.

If they had been called upon by the president to launch, they couldn't have

it. Did you have anybody in the Defense Department, the Pentagon, pull you

aside, bend your ear and say...

Why are you doing this? They did everything they could to stop the

going forward. They gave the person that came to me initially such a bad time.

He's fortunate to have hung on to his job because people tried to get rid of

because they wanted nothing to do with this.

The Defense Intelligence Agency was one of the worst. They drug their feet, even

though there was one of their senior scientists thought they should look at

this. And remember, all we're saying.

Nobody has to agree that why it's there, but shouldn't we at least be spending

some money to study all these phenomenon?

Shouldn't we study the stuff?

The answer is yes.

And that's all this was about. And why the federal government all these years

has covered up, put brake pads on everything, stopped it.

I think it's very, very bad for our country.

I interviewed Gordon Cooper, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, back in the

Cooper said on camera that there was a landed UFO at circa 1957 at Edwards Air

Force Base. His camera crew captured the filming of this object, and he

presented this to the higher -ups, and eventually a courier jet came in from

Washington. He handed the footage over, which was good. He viewed it.

That's the last he saw of it. Exactly.

Did you know where that footage went of the flying saucer that landed on the...

I went to Washington. That's all that I know.

Did you ever keep in touch with anybody about it or discuss it? How would I keep

in touch with anybody about it?

There's no way within the military or within the government of keeping track

something that is classified.

Did you try to go after stuff like this?

We did.

It's there.

Are you saying that there's some evidence that still hasn't seen the

day?

I'm saying most of it hasn't seen the light of day.

Astronaut Cooper had spoken with the president at a cabinet meeting. He

this with Secretary Cohen.

And then Cohen's office called me and asked me to pursue this and chase it

The Air Force colonel that I spoke with got very frustrated, and when I asked

him what happened to all of these records, he said, well, that was all

up or thrown out to save space, something like that. That sounded

that's what he told me.

If there is some recovered debris, say, it is so deeply buried

and squirreled away that...

It's outside of those normal oversight processes, and that's where there's a

problem in this area.

Dr. Jacques Vallée has collected purported metal debris from UFO cases

far back as 1947 that experts are analyzing in a state -of -the -art

The breakthrough has come with the invention.

of a machine that enables us to look at the atomic structure.

And at that point, the atomic structure is impossible to fake.

This device is a multi -parameter ion beam imager.

Dr. Gary Nolan, a Stanford microbiologist, is using a revolutionary

-dimensional imaging device to analyze the samples right down to their

individual atoms.

When Dr.

Nolan placed some of the fragments in the vacuum chamber of his instrument, he

was astonished to find their composition was unlike any known metal. Just one

spot and the isotopic composition all the way across.

No matter where he looked in the sample's jumble of elements, whether

iron, nickel, or titanium, the ratio of isotopes didn't make any sense.

If you're talking about an advanced material from an advanced civilization,

you're talking about something that I'll just call it an ultramaterial, right?

It's something which has properties where somebody is putting it together,

again, at the atomic scale. So we're building our world with 80

elements. Somebody else is building the world with 253 different

isotopes.

I intend to use the information to try to build something, to try to understand

a physical principle that we don't know today.

This material was manufactured.

It's not natural.

It's not natural to the materials that we have around us in the lab or on the

Earth. It does not mean that it was necessarily made someplace in outer

It just means that it was manufactured spatially.

for a particular purpose that we don't understand and we want to understand it

there

is an immense array of unanswered questions what we observe some of these

craft doing

Think about the possibilities, what we may discover technologically, how we

might solve the energy crisis, how we might raise our standards of living.

There is an urgent need, in my view, to get to the bottom of it. We don't know

the origin of these vehicles, nor do we understand the intent of whoever is

controlling them.

There are cases that seem to go beyond encounters with an advanced technology

contact with an engaged intelligence.

Papua New Guinea, June 1959.

An Australian missionary spots a large disc hovering just 200 feet off the

ground while standing with 38 other people.

This solid -looking object, and can you imagine?

what it's like to look up in the sky and see some figures up there.

All were amazed to see four small occupants dressed in what looked like

diving suits.

Figures walking about on top and not the slightest noise

whatsoever. And so we waved.

Wouldn't it be wonderful?

if we could get this object down onto the playing field.

And as we waved, wondering whether we'd get some recognition and whether perhaps

they would understand what we wanted, they waved back.

The encounter lasted several hours before the object abruptly departed.

There was this amazingly incredible speed that the whole craft...

disappeared to nothing across the bay in a matter of a second or so.

In 1994, three days of sightings across Zimbabwe culminated in what some

believe is the most significant close encounter in modern history.

Hundreds of people today phoned the ZBC and the BBC correspondent in Harare

saying they sighted an unidentifying flying object last night with some

eyewitness reports.

It almost seemed to be under the clouds. As it came past, I noticed there was no

noise, and that's when I thought, well, there's something very odd here.

It was quite amazing.

It was beautiful.

They are saying that Jesus is passing through Africa.

That's what they are saying.

We interviewed about 64 children in front of the camera.

UFO story, that happens.

Just say exactly what you want to say, okay.

Well, I was running and playing and then I saw this maroon color in the sky.

Why don't we follow it? We saw this like a silver thing down there. It was a

silver oval thing that flew past really slowly.

I saw the bigger one and the spaceship, like four or five of them. It was red,

green, and yellow.

It was this big ship. It had these lights, these patterns, and it flew.

I thought, no, it's not a UFO.

And then I looked carefully at it, and I thought, maybe.

Dozens of children said that one or more of the disk -shaped objects landed just

beyond the far edge of their playground.

The next thing they knew, something was standing next to it.

You saw him standing by the silver thing, and he had big eyes.

He had a big head and big black eyes and was dressed in a black bodysuit.

They were wearing pure black.

And I came down and I saw the funny man with his eyes here.

And I saw a spaceship and there were a few little ones around him.

How far away were you when you saw him?

Not very far. Not very far. About a metre away. A metre away. That close?

Yes.

And how big was the figure?

It was about as big as a grade six.

I believe that the children...

Did you see something?

I believed them, because normally children don't lie.

I've always taught my children seeing is believing.

Unfortunately, I didn't see, so... This

alleged encounter caught the attention of Pulitzer Prize

-winning Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack.

It seemed that he was looking at all of us. What did it feel like when he was

looking at you?

I felt scared.

It felt scary? What was scary about it?

Well, I felt scared because I've never seen such a person like that before.

And I saw this person, and it had big eyes.

That's all I saw about it, big eyes.

They had short legs and quite a long top, with a big head and eyes that are

bigger than ours.

How much bigger than ours?

Four or five times the size. Four or five times the size of ours.

So then I was looking at him, right? Then he was looking at me back.

I couldn't just keep on looking at him so I had to stop and I looked sideways.

But I was looking straight into his eyes.

Well, he never said anything.

Just that the face is the eye.

Maybe they're trying to communicate with us, show us something which we don't

know about.

I think they want people to know that we're

actually making harm on the world and we mustn't get too acknowledged.

We don't look after the planet.

All the trees will just go down and there will be no air and people will be

dying. Is this an idea?

You have had before, or did this idea come to you when you had this

When I had this experience.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the Ariel schoolchildren gathered from

the four corners of the world to talk to each other about the experience they

shared that September morning.

I remember.

One they all still struggle to understand.

You know that it's moving, but you... I stand by what I saw.

There was no reason for any of us to make that up.

I've not spoken to anybody about it.

Not because I'm not proud of it, but because I don't want the stigma.

So it's something that I've had to deal with.

for 19 and a half years.

I don't want to say I felt like I knew it, but I knew that I didn't have to be

afraid of it.

They took us back to the moment of contact. Exactly how I felt, exactly.

details still seared into memory.

I was with one of the other girls and saying to her, this is amazing.

We all were just stopped in our tracks.

A little man appeared.

On top of the actual craft.

And that moment for me was very distinct because I was like, that's not human.

I was just completely engulfed in these eyes. The eyes. And in that moment,

however long it was, because I have no idea of the time frame, it was

mesmerizing. There was no talking.

It's all just images in the head.

Telepathic communication.

They were trying to communicate, trying to tell us something. It was something

to do with the environment.

I kept getting these thoughts and ideas in my mind of technology.

Technology is not helping, technology is bad.

And we're going down a wrong path and we have to start recognising that what

we're doing is detrimental and we need to make changes.

And I don't know what to do with that or...

They were reaching out to us. It was as if they wanted us to go with them.

At that moment, that was kind of when I snapped right out of the trance.

As soon as I broke contact, all of those feelings, technology, the bad, the

horribleness that was happening and going around my body at the time went.

It's making me a bit anxious being back here. I can feel it right now.

I was scared.

They came running up here in such a panic, screaming, screaming, and the

can't make that up.

So I was there when they were interviewing them and saw the way they

was just a huge big mess and muddle up and just people everywhere.

Just ask them questions straight off without explaining to the children what

they were doing and why they were doing it. It was chaos.

in terms of the media frenzy that was going on and us being so young and not

even being allowed time to comprehend what we had seen.

Our teachers certainly didn't believe us. That was a big deal because we had

continue going to school there.

We went back one last time to the Ariel School to meet with Judy Bates, a

teacher at the time of the incident and now the headmistress.

something was weighing on her that she wanted to tell the children.

Yeah, I said I wanted to apologize. I should have taken more notice.

But I didn't. I was more concerned about me and not them and what was going on

in my own sort of experience.

And that's what, yeah.

And if you could summarize in just one sentence.

what took place September 1994 here at Ariel School, Rua Zimbabwe, what would

you say?

Aliens visited us.

And that's about it, yeah.

And that's why if you believe it, you believe it. If you don't, well...

We find ourselves confronted

with something that challenges our very understanding of reality.

We may be sharing this fragile blue -green oasis with an unknown other,

one with a mysterious relationship to humanity and its own interest in our

world.

And if you saw him again, what would you do?

I'll ask him what is he doing on earth and what does he want from us.

They were well -observed UFO cases, just like modern cases in the 18th century.

In the 17th century, there was science.

They were astronomers.

They had telescopes.

And they were very good observers, because their life depended on being

observers. And these observations come from all over the world.

They just have been forgotten.

I like to think of anomalies, mysteries as opportunities.

And we'll go after those mysteries, take the torch away from the campfire and

out of the cave into the darkness and make some amazing discoveries.

The UFO phenomenon, as studied by my colleagues and myself, bespeaks the

of some form of intelligence.

These objects gave the impression that they wanted to be seen.

With these enormous spotlights, there was no way that they were trying to

So why?

That is the main question. Why do these objects want to be seen?

Later on, I was so sorry that why I did not call on the

radio, ask them, who are you?

Please, make communication with us.

I figure if they're smart enough and capable enough to come into our airspace

with the technology that they have, if they wanted to do us in, they could have

done us in a long time ago. So I'm not fearful of this at all.

I think if we open up the world, it will greatly promote the development of the

world's scientific and technological system, and benefit human progress. This

a big thing.

It went like a bat out of hell. Jumped about 10 degrees to the right, just like

this. I've never seen anything go so fast in my life as that thing went.

Incredible speed disappeared to nothing.

And just went zoom straight up so fast.

It's like it had been shot out of a gun.

Wow. Now you see it, now you don't. It's just too... But it just was...