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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 light
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 US 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 airbase 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 object

making a rapid descent
right across their flight path.

My God, look at that thing.

And I opened it up to
max continuous power,

we're clipping right along
at over 300 miles an hour,

right on the treetops...

I'm right on the
tail of this thing.

But as we got close, I said,
"It doesn't have a tail.

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 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,
sun-ish 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 phenomena.

Ironically,
a little over a decade later,

Col. William T. Coleman became
public spokesman for Project Blue Book.

Probably what we saw may
have been from somewhere else.

Look,
the Air Forces are very deadly,

being when it comes to
intercepting an unknown.

If it proves hostile,

we're gonna 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 of 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 firsthand account,

and give you the same,
on what happened.

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

I thought, "Well,
maybe something's wrong in my eyes."

They seemed 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 citing.

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

where he was handed
what he was told

were authentic
photos of a similar craft.

"At the request
of Lt. Col. Donald Springer,

commanding officer of the
Fourth Air Force Intelligence,

I was given the above
prints a4s a courtesy

for the assistance he had
given military intelligence."

The photo was taken in Arizona

just two weeks after
his own encounter.

They said that my father,
his sighting of flying saucers,

got more attentionthan
the ending of World War II.

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

Mm-hm.

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 discs maneuvered in
formation for a full 45minutes.

And from there it just exploded.

The first few days
in July of 1947

had a very 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
with their own eyes.

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

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

And Air Force fliers
told of chasing them,

or something, all over the sky.

The Air Force call 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,
"The phenomenon reported is something real

and not visionary
or fictitious."

It described metallic discs
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 evidence.

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,
it 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.

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

except every once in a
while one of them goes, zip!

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

There are 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 we 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 own mysterious mission.

Commercial pilots William
Nash and William Fortenberry,

former Navy aviators with
thousands of hours of flight experience,

saw eight huge discs
fly in a stack formation

over Chesapeake Bay, Virginia,

just a stone's throw from Washington,
DC.

When they came out over
the blackness of the bay,

they were distinct
six red coins.

When they got closer,
we could see that you're...

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 a
complete reversal or a 90-degree turn

12,000 miles an hour or greater

without making the
occupants juice on the wall.

That 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
stuff having become public knowledge.

You just knew that they
were not from this planet.

The next weekend,
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 Bolling Air Force bases

confirmed the objects as they
danced through restricted airspace.

The 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 thatthe
Air Force could do about it.

F-94
interceptors were scrambled.

Pentagon press liaison Al Chop
was in the radar room that night.

We could see the planes
coming in on this radar scope

and the minute we saw
the beginning of these guys,

the UFOs disappeared.
They just left.

Obviously, whatever these
things were had intelligence,

enough to get out of the area
when we 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 three or 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 "they can't talk them down."

I'm not gonna tell an Air Force pilot
to fire at the damn thing or anything.

But I didn't say anything.
Nobody said anything.

And then all of a sudden,
the 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,
Gen. Roger Ramey,

Air Force director of
operations at the Pentagon.

Capt. Edward Ruppelt
of Project Blue Book,

the Air Force's official
UFO investigations arm,

and director of Air Force intelligence,
Gen. John Samford.

Since 1947, we have received and
analyzed between one and 2,000 reports

that have come to us
from all kinds of sources.

Of this great mass of reports,
we have been able,

adequately,
to explain the great bulk of them.

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

that have been made by credible
observersof 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,
Samford suggested a 50-50 chance

it could have been radar waves
bouncing off temperature inversions.

The point that Samford
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
extraterrestrial contact.

Robert L. Farnsworth, President
of the United States Rocket Society,

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

He says this might alienate humankind
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 US
Defense installations.

I would dare say,
if anything happened

we thought was a threat
to our national security,

somebody out there,
one of the services, would respond to it.

Remember,
this is the height of the Cold War.

Okay, there are bombers on both
sides loaded with nuclear bombs.

Dr. Jacque Vallee was the
inspiration for the French UFO researcher

in Steven Spielberg's Close
Encounters of the Third Kind.

Have you recently
had a close encounter?

In real life,
Dr. Vallee 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 thatthe
UFO phenomenon may represent

an even greater reality.

Vallee also consulted with scientific,
military and government officials,

including Project Blue Book's top
science adviser, 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
meteors and twinkling stars and planets.

The two scientists
became close colleagues,

with Hynek entrusting Vallee to
index the reams of Blue Book files

scattered throughout
Hynek's home.

It was there that Vallee made a
chance discovery of a letter so secret,

he had to appeal
to the chief counsel

of the Senate Defense
Appropriations Committee

to 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
physicistsand 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 Maj. Donald Keyhoe,

in his campaign to prove
that flying saucers exist.

My name is Mike Wallace.
The cigarette is Parliament.

Why would the United States
government withhold information

from United States
citizens? For what reason?

The Air Force 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 an
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 oval,
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. It'd
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 could see that
it was a round disc.

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

at the end 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 trees,

and then 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.

Don't remember
seeing any windows,

and it took off to about probably
four or five meters in the air,

and then turned on its side, and just
went... Straight up so fast,

that there's just nothing,
even nowadays, that could go that fast.

Shortly
after the object departed,

the authorities
converged on the school.

We had Army, Air Force,
policedown here cordoning off the area

to prevent any of us enteringthe
area or disturbing anything.

We got called to assembly.
The headmaster said,

"You have not seen this.
You do 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 he 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 staff

have remained
silent all these years.

There was a knock
on the door one night.

Two older men, one in uniform,

asked for my description
of what I had seen.

I was then told that I
hadn't seen anything,

that I'd made it all up,
possibly because I was drunk

and that they would have to report
that fact to the Education Department

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

that I would be prosecuted
underthe Official Secrets Act,

and I was told that there wasn'tanything
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 Balwyn

was taking photos in his mother's
garden when something caught his eye.

This tremendous flash of light,
and I looked up, and I saw this object...

I had a Polaroid camera. I pulled
this up and hit myself on the face.

And I took the picture. I've
got the photograph here.

This is the original Polaroid?

That's 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 this is when I
took the photograph,

and it had 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 away to the north,
very high speed.

Can you
describe the acceleration?

It was almost instantaneous. It's
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 also had a book which
had pictures of things in which...

They didn't leave it with me,
but I had a look through.

But 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 Levelland.

Sheriff Clem 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 Levelland, Texas

at the White Sands Proving Ground,
very close to the Trinity test site

where they first detonated
the first atomic bomb,

military personnel witnessed
a glowing egg-shaped object

that apparently landed.

This is Bill Haggert,

Public Information Officer of White
Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.

What they saw looked
like a landing and takeoff

of some controlled
object from outer space.

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 or 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 didn't
you take your gun out and shoot at it?"

They weren't
doing nothing to me.

It just took a little
while to get airborne,

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

And it was 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 in
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 two sets of footprints,
two sets of footprints.

Like so.

That was about the
approximate size of 'em.

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

Okay. That's about
the size of 'em.

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.
And how many were there?

Two footprints on one side
and two footprints on the other side.

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

I could see it and I
could feel that heat.

They told me that all over
the state they had been seen.

Some of those flying saucers,
whatever you call 'em.

They gave me a book on it,
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.

I mean, he was really pale.

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

He said,
"No. 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 everything. I said, "What's this?"

"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.

- Dear Mr. Zamora.
- Dear Mr. Zamora.

Sure,
I believe you saw an egg-shaped spacecraft

that had passengers
from off this earth.

I could go on for a
week telling you what I've seen.

A boy in our school
science fair had three pictures

that looked just like the
flying saucer you described.

As I have pictures of a
couple of egg-shaped shape ships taken...

- I read about you seeing a flying saucer.
- I'm a retired teacher.

Well,
you have a friend who believes you.

This saucer phenomenon
has changed my life and ideas.

August 17, 1960,
our Red Bluff officers

and dozens of
people saw a saucer.

Can you tell me how long it stayed
on Earth, and other things like that?

Then people
started making fun of him

that he had seen little
men from outer space

or this and that. A
whole bunch of dirty stuff.

Lot of people asked me, "Is
that the reason you quit the police force?"

No,
the reason I quit the police force

was because I was going and
doing a lot of publicity and stuff.

I didn't wanna 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 Hynek'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.

Looked like a toy top
somewhat upside down.

So this is the diagram
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 groundif it was down.

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

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

I mean, it really did become bright,
and we could see it,

the outline of it, real good.

Blue Book's
Dr. Allen 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 an 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.

I'm saying that the two cases that I
investigated most deeply were most likely.

I said in a statement that I
couldn't prove it in a court of law.

No, that's not quite right.

I think that a person can be
pretty sure about something

without being ableto convict
somebody of a murder.

- Can you? Please.
- Yes, I do. Honestly, in this case.

Hynek's strained explanation,

which he later called
his greatest regret,

ignited a public furor.

Mr. Ford,
what about flying saucers?

You've had some in
Michigan in the past week.

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 "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-size 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 in the UFO field.

We have not been
hiding anything.

The investigations
have been made public.

The hearing this morningwas
public for just that reason.

There has never
been any evidence

presented to the
United States Air Force,

or discovered by the
United States Air Force,

which would indicate
that the UFO phenomena

represents any interplanetary
space vehicle of any kind.

Amid growing pressure,
the Air Force commissioned

an outside panel of scientists

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
people 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. 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 "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 confirming a number
as truly unexplainable.

Among them were the
famous McMinnville photos

taken on the Trent family farm,

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

As I looked up,
I saw two silvery objects

moving swiftly out
of the northwest.

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.

I was kind of woolly 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 have done,

and you find his percentage
ofunexplained is five to six times

larger than the 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 federal
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 the
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.

But it would never
get to the attention

of scientists really
examining the phenomena.

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. And
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 facilities.

Details did not come to
light until decades later

at the National Press Club in Washington,
DC.

Declassified US government
documents and witness testimony

from former or retired
US military personnel

confirmed, beyond any doubt,
the reality of ongoing UFO incursions

at nuclear weapon 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 this island.

I just said to myself,
"What if this thing beams us up

and takes us off to
some distant place

and never returned
to Earth again?"

I mean, this is going through my
head here while this thing's above me.

And then from this dead stop,
it shoots off to the east.

It's just like now you see it,
now you don't. It just...

The strike team that went out,
they saw something.

Lt. Salas was stationed

in his underground
launch control capsule

when he received a frantic call
from one of his topside guards.

Screaming into the phone,

saying they're looking
at a red glowing object

hovering just
above our front gate.

Our missiles began going intowhat'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 after the other.

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

let alone ten.

I was a top-secret
control officer

and I passed down 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 teams respond
to alarms from the missiles.

They were three
to five miles away.

And they said, "Sir,
for 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 Bentwater

as a deputy base commander.

At that time,
Bentwaters was one of the largest

tactical fighter
ranges 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,
Col. Halt received

an urgent visit from the
base security commander.

He was white as a sheet. He said,
"It's back."

I said, "What's back?" He said,
"The UFO."

I took several security
policemen with me.

I also had my small cassette recorder I
carried everywhere when I was on duty.

- What is it?
- We don't know, sir.

Yeah, it's a strange,
small red light.

And all the barnyard
animals have gotten quiet now.

Deathly calm.

This is weird.

One object approached
us at very high speed.

Here he comes from the
side. He's coming toward us now.

I'm observing what a beam
coming down to the ground.

This is unreal.

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, disappeared.

We stood there... Oh.

About that time,
we noticed the other object

to the south was
sending down beams.

About a mile,
mile and half awayover at Woodbridge Base,

When 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
great deal of concern.

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

saw an object and picked it up
on their bright 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,
then another dot, and it was gone.

A nd then it made an 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, like,
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 of speed.

Even more
alarming incidents took place

on both sides of the Cold War.

According to
once secret Soviet documents,

a UFO hovered over a Ukrainian
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

ceased 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 had 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.

We had UFOs in the air...

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

in charge 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.

"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 long-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
decades' worth of UFO files.

Gen. Igor Maltsev,

for seven years, commander of
the entire Soviet air defense 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 1991,
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 Vallee 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, you ready to take the oath?
- I am.

When a young,
open-minded president,

was sworn in,

one of America's most 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,

Laurance 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 to declassify.

He chose the 1947
Roswell incident,

noting, "Many are convinced
that Roswell marks the beginning

of government
secrecy about UFO's".

Jack had actually
gone to the Air Force,

asked then-Secretary Widnall,

who was the Secretary
of the Air Force,

to take a look, particularly,

at the records around Roswell,
New Mexico.

"Dear Colonel Cavitt.

The General Accounting Office,
seeks to fully explain the claim

that the US government
recovered an alien spacecraft

near Roswell,
New 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.

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,
Maj. Jesse Marcel,

was dispatched to the
ranch to investigate.

Marcel and another officer

were the first military to
arrive at the crash site.

They came upon an expanse
of unrecognizable debris

strewn across an area

the size of a dozen
football fields.

We found a piece
of metal... Uh...

About a foot and
half to two feet wide.

The thing that got me is that

you couldn't even bend
it. You couldn't dent it.

Even a sledgehammer
would bounce off it.

Marcel
was ordered to immediately

transport the strange wreckage

to Fort Worth 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 at
liberty to 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 Gen. Ramey is the
one who told the newspapers

what it was and
to forget about it.

It was nothing more than a
weather observation balloon.

Of course,
we both knew differently.

Col. Thomas DuBose, who was also

ordered to pose
with the fake debris,

describes how an iron curtain
of secrecy slammed down.

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 believe the
government was covering up

what happened at Roswell.

Many of them clearly believed,

that it was, in fact,
an extraterrestrial 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 was.

That could fit a
classified project.

It doesn't fit a
weather balloon.

In September 1994,

the Air Force
issued its response.

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

hung with box kites
and microphones,

to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.

Please roll the video.

There's a famous box kite

that became the
famous flying disc.

Weather balloons that
were 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 tin foil 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 tin foil for a
crashed flying saucer.

Being an intelligence officer,

I was familiar with just
about all the materials used

in aircraft and/or air travel.

This is 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 a sobering observation.

It is conceivable that
even the President himself

is not fully briefed on 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 the career bureaucrats
have waited out.

But there may be some career
person sitting around somewhere

hiding these dark secrets,
even from elected presidents.

But if so,
they successfully eluded me.

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

Three feet for second contact.

That was a beautiful one.

Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell,

who had grown up 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 visitation.

There have been crashed craft.

There have beenmaterial
and bodies recovered...

and there is some group
of people somewhere

that may or may not be

associated with the
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 I did.

And every passing day...

In 2007,
the most powerful man in the Senate,

majority leader Harry Reid,

persuaded two 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 the 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 investigate UFOs

and released startling
official evidence,

including videotapes from
the cockpits of military aircraft.

One of the key authors
ofThe Times story

was investigative journalist

and best-selling
author Leslie Kean.

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?
Another one is...

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 importantevidence
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 studiedand
here's what they've learned.

And there's a 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 Pentagon,

and choseThe New York
Times to break the story.

I received the videos,

the now-famous videos,
in the Pentagon parking lot

from a 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 New 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 byThe New York Times,

was an encounter
by Naval aircraft,

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

Fifty-five hundred
people that were on

the Nimitzin 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 theUSS Nimitz
carrier strike group

when he was abruptly ordered
to investigate an unknown target

that had appeared on one
of the ship's radar scopes.

We're gonna 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.

It was myself and my WSO

and the other pilot and
the WSO in the back 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 around in
the air just above it.

If you picture a Tic Tac
that's about 40 feet long,

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 the water,

it never turned. It never
changed its longitudinal axis.

It went fore, aft, left,
right. It was just doing this.

And I said, "Hey,
I'm gonna go check that out."

All of a sudden, you just see
itturn its body and go...

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 go around.

All the way around the outside of a circle,
180 degrees.

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

This thing goes
"poof" 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?"

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 don't see shit."

Nothing accelerates
that fast. You're talking...

Something that
not only accelerated

beyond anything
that we had seen,

but it just was...

The controller
comes up and says,

"Hey,
you're not gonna believe this,

but that thing is back
at your CAD point."

Meaning the object
had instantly reappeared at the precise

secret coordinates
of the fleet's

critical aerial defense zone.

It obviously had some awareness.

It knew where we were going.

It'll make the hair on the
back of your neck stand up.

I actually told my back seater,
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
systems 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,

and 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 hotter
than the air around it.

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

They're 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 battlespace
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.

UFOs have
interfered with our country's

most powerful weapons.

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 program
from going forward.

They gave the person that
came in initially such a bad time.

He's fortunate to
have hung on to his job

because people
tried to get rid of him,

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 why it's there.

But shouldn't we at least
be spending some money

to study all these phenomenon?

Shouldn't we study this
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 '90s.

Cooper said on camera

that there was a
landed UFO 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...

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 of
something that is classified.

Did you try
to go after stuff like this?

We did. We have. It's there.

Are you saying that there's
some evidence that's...

Still hasn't
seen the light of 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 raised this with
Secretary Cohen.

And then Cohen's office
called me and asked me

to pursue this
and chase it down.

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 cleaned up
or thrown out to save space,"

something like that.

It sounded ludicrous,
but 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 Vallee has collected

purported metal
debris from UFO cases

dating as far back as 1947

that experts are analyzing in
a state-of-the-art laboratory.

The breakthrough has come
with the invention of a machine

that enables usto look
at the atomic structure,

and at that point,

the atomic structure
is impossible to fake.

This device is a
multi-parameterion beam imager.

Dr. Garry Nolan,
a Stanford microbiologist,

is using a revolutionary
three-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 magnesium,
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 ultra-material,
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.

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 some place in outer space.

It just means that
it was manufactured

specially for a
particular purpose

that we don't understand,
and we want to understand it.

There is an immense
array of unanswered questions.

When 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,

to 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 black 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 hovercraft
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 BBC correspondent in Harare

saying they sighted an
unidentified flying object last night.

We have some eyewitness reports.

It almost seemed
to be under the cloud.

As it came past,
I noticed there's 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 colorin 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.

There 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
disc-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 it.

How far away
were you when you saw him?

Not very far. Not very
far. About a meter away.

- A meter away? That close?
- Yes.

And how big was the figure?

It was about as
big as a grade six.

Yeah, it's there!

I believe that the children
did see something.

I believe 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?

It felt scared.

It felt scary? What
was scary about it?

Well, 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.
- Mmm-hmm.

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?

And then I was looking at him,
right?

- Yes.
- Then he was looking at me back.

How can I 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.

It's just the face and the eyes.

Maybe they're trying
to communicate with us.

Show us something
which we don't know about.

I think they want... Um...

people to know that

we're actually making
harm on this world,

and we mustn't get
too technological.

We don't look after the planet.

All the trees will
be cut 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 experience?

- When I had this experience.
- Mmm-hmm.

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 something there...

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... The stigma.

So it's something that

I've had to deal with
for 19-and-a-half years.

I don't wanna say
I felt like I knew it,

- but I knew that I didn't have to be afraid of it.
- Yeah.

They took us
back to the moment of contact.

Exactly how I felt. Exactly...

The 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."

Well, I was just completely
engulfed in these eyes.

The eyes, and in that moment,
however long it was,

'cause I have no
idea of the time frame,

it was just mesmerizing.

There was no talking. Um...
It's all just images in the head.

Telepathic communication.

They were trying to communicate.

Trying to tell us something,

or 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 recognizing 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... Ah! Then we were here.

And a child can't make that up.

So I was
there when they were interviewing them

and saw the way they were.

It 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.

So, that was a big deal,

'cause we had to 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.

Well, that's what... Yeah.

And if you could
summarize in just one sentence

what took place September 1994

here at Ariel School,
Ruwa, Zimbabwe,

what would you say?

Aliens visited us.

And that's about it, yeah.

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 with us.

There were
well-observed UFO cases,

just like modern cases,
in the 18th century.

In the 17th century.

There was science.

There were astronomers,
they had telescopes,

and they were
very good observers

because their life depended
on being good 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 action 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 hide.

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.

Every once in a while one of them goes,
zip!

It went like a bat out of hell.

Jumped about ten 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. Wham!

Now you see it,
now you don't. It just...

But it just was, poof!

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