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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,894 --> 00:00:03,410 NARRATOR: Classified military videos 2 00:00:03,504 --> 00:00:05,563 leaked to the public. 3 00:00:05,656 --> 00:00:07,248 JEREMY CORBELL: You can actually hear 4 00:00:07,342 --> 00:00:08,490 the shock and the awe 5 00:00:08,509 --> 00:00:10,843 as people saw this going into the water. 6 00:00:13,923 --> 00:00:18,017 NARRATOR: Top secret Pentagon projects suddenly exposed. 7 00:00:18,244 --> 00:00:19,426 It was huge. 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,169 It was a monumental sea change 9 00:00:21,189 --> 00:00:23,522 in the federal government's acknowledgment 10 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:26,692 of these aerial phenomena that are unexplained. 11 00:00:26,844 --> 00:00:28,419 NARRATOR: And a shocking admission 12 00:00:28,512 --> 00:00:32,590 about unidentified flying objects. 13 00:00:32,608 --> 00:00:35,017 STEVEN GREENSTREET: Our current science, our current tech 14 00:00:35,111 --> 00:00:36,610 can't understand some of these. 15 00:00:36,704 --> 00:00:38,854 The government said that. Wow. 16 00:00:38,948 --> 00:00:41,949 ANDRE CARSON: What is clear is that these sightings 17 00:00:42,101 --> 00:00:43,692 simply cannot be explained. 18 00:00:43,786 --> 00:00:46,528 So the question becomes "What are we dealing with?" 19 00:00:46,622 --> 00:00:49,715 NARRATOR: Are we on the brink of full government disclosure 20 00:00:49,867 --> 00:00:53,627 about the strange objects witnessed in our skies? 21 00:00:53,721 --> 00:00:57,131 And if so, will we soon discover 22 00:00:57,225 --> 00:01:01,894 that they are, in fact, of extraterrestrial origin? 23 00:01:02,121 --> 00:01:06,123 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Something is going on, and for the first time ever, 24 00:01:06,216 --> 00:01:08,067 the government admitted to this. 25 00:01:10,646 --> 00:01:12,738 NARRATOR: There is a doorway 26 00:01:12,890 --> 00:01:15,724 in the universe. 27 00:01:15,743 --> 00:01:18,536 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 28 00:01:20,306 --> 00:01:22,323 It demands we question everything 29 00:01:22,475 --> 00:01:24,658 we have ever been taught. 30 00:01:24,752 --> 00:01:28,979 The evidence is all around us. 31 00:01:28,998 --> 00:01:32,333 The future is right before our eyes. 32 00:01:32,427 --> 00:01:35,152 We are not alone. 33 00:01:35,171 --> 00:01:38,514 We have never been alone. 34 00:01:46,441 --> 00:01:50,184 NARRATOR: Washington, DC., the Oval Office, 35 00:01:50,278 --> 00:01:53,687 December 27, 2020. 36 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,840 All right, thank you all. 37 00:01:55,858 --> 00:01:58,692 NARRATOR: President Donald Trump signs a massive 38 00:01:58,845 --> 00:02:02,363 $2.3 trillion spending and relief package 39 00:02:02,515 --> 00:02:07,126 to stimulate economic recovery from the ravages of COVID-19. 40 00:02:07,277 --> 00:02:11,856 But the bill serves another, highly unexpected purpose, 41 00:02:11,949 --> 00:02:14,800 detailed in its "Committee Comments" section, 42 00:02:14,952 --> 00:02:18,379 beneath the heading "Advanced Aerial Threats." 43 00:02:18,473 --> 00:02:20,364 The stipulation mandates 44 00:02:20,457 --> 00:02:22,533 that the Director of National Intelligence 45 00:02:22,626 --> 00:02:26,053 work with the Secretary of Defense on a report 46 00:02:26,205 --> 00:02:28,314 revealing everything the government knows 47 00:02:28,541 --> 00:02:32,401 about "unidentified aerial phenomena," or U.A.P. 48 00:02:34,563 --> 00:02:36,155 Because of public pressure, public scrutiny, 49 00:02:36,382 --> 00:02:37,564 members of Congress, 50 00:02:37,658 --> 00:02:40,384 specifically on the Senate Intelligence Committee, 51 00:02:40,477 --> 00:02:43,645 inserted language that the government release 52 00:02:43,739 --> 00:02:47,391 a report to the public on UFOs. 53 00:02:47,410 --> 00:02:49,576 And they had 180 days to do it. 54 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:51,170 This was jaw-dropping. 55 00:02:52,990 --> 00:02:54,489 NICK POPE: And a lot of people said, "What, 56 00:02:54,509 --> 00:02:56,842 UFOs and COVID? What's going on?" 57 00:02:57,069 --> 00:03:00,070 The original requirement for a UFO report 58 00:03:00,164 --> 00:03:02,664 had come from the Senate Intelligence Committee, 59 00:03:02,683 --> 00:03:07,761 and they'd articulated it in the Intelligence Authorization Act 60 00:03:07,855 --> 00:03:09,671 for Fiscal Year 2021. 61 00:03:09,765 --> 00:03:10,764 But for a number of reasons, 62 00:03:10,858 --> 00:03:13,359 that bill wasn't going to get through. 63 00:03:13,510 --> 00:03:17,029 So, what they did is they attached 64 00:03:17,256 --> 00:03:19,606 that part of the bill to something they knew 65 00:03:19,759 --> 00:03:20,758 that would get through, 66 00:03:20,851 --> 00:03:23,119 and that was the COVID-19 relief bill. 67 00:03:24,521 --> 00:03:26,113 NARRATOR: To researchers of UFOs-- 68 00:03:26,207 --> 00:03:29,950 or U.A.P.s, as government agencies now call them-- 69 00:03:30,102 --> 00:03:32,527 it is a watershed moment. 70 00:03:32,547 --> 00:03:35,940 It is even applauded by many in Washington, 71 00:03:36,033 --> 00:03:38,959 who believe the Pentagon has been overly secretive 72 00:03:39,053 --> 00:03:41,536 about this phenomenon. 73 00:03:41,630 --> 00:03:43,797 CARSON: I'm comforted in knowing 74 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:45,950 that we have good folks in the intelligence community 75 00:03:45,968 --> 00:03:48,043 who are protecting our national security. 76 00:03:48,062 --> 00:03:51,789 At the same time, I think that not just the American people 77 00:03:51,807 --> 00:03:53,140 but the global community really want to know 78 00:03:53,234 --> 00:03:55,568 what's going on up in our skies. 79 00:03:59,131 --> 00:04:01,223 JOHN PODESTA: I was prompted to ask myself, 80 00:04:01,242 --> 00:04:03,150 "Where have you been?" 81 00:04:03,302 --> 00:04:07,154 Why did it take so much prodding by the public, 82 00:04:07,248 --> 00:04:09,898 by members of Congress, over decades, really, 83 00:04:09,917 --> 00:04:13,902 uh, before you took this threat seriously? 84 00:04:13,921 --> 00:04:16,497 RALPH BLUMENTHAL: There are people in the government 85 00:04:16,649 --> 00:04:20,818 who are very hostile to UFO information. 86 00:04:20,836 --> 00:04:23,670 The government had plenty of time and reason 87 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:26,657 to investigate these things, but only seriously 88 00:04:26,675 --> 00:04:31,512 started compiling data in 2019, which is totally insane. 89 00:04:31,606 --> 00:04:36,609 I mean, this information was available for decades before. 90 00:04:36,836 --> 00:04:40,112 POPE: The UFO community went into overdrive. 91 00:04:40,339 --> 00:04:44,191 Some of them were actively predicting disclosure. 92 00:04:44,285 --> 00:04:49,680 The mainstream media, as well, were fully engaged on this. 93 00:04:49,773 --> 00:04:53,792 And there was intense speculation. 94 00:04:53,944 --> 00:04:57,796 LINDA MOULTON HOWE: I remember, after Trump had signed 95 00:04:58,024 --> 00:05:01,634 the COVID relief bill, and I had to see it. 96 00:05:01,861 --> 00:05:04,803 So I called up somebody and I got a link, 97 00:05:04,955 --> 00:05:08,098 and I went and went down through all of that bill. 98 00:05:09,218 --> 00:05:11,035 And, of course, 99 00:05:11,053 --> 00:05:13,795 there was tremendous amounts of speculation. 100 00:05:13,889 --> 00:05:14,888 "Well, are they now going to tell us 101 00:05:14,982 --> 00:05:16,723 that we're not alone in the universe?" 102 00:05:16,876 --> 00:05:19,059 TSOUKALOS: The government of the United States 103 00:05:19,153 --> 00:05:22,804 is openly investigating UFOs. 104 00:05:22,898 --> 00:05:26,308 And I think that this speaks volumes 105 00:05:26,327 --> 00:05:29,620 how the paradigm has shifted. 106 00:05:30,981 --> 00:05:32,831 NARRATOR: But how did the U.S. government 107 00:05:33,059 --> 00:05:36,502 go from decades of denying any interest in UFOs 108 00:05:36,729 --> 00:05:40,155 to passing a bipartisan bill demanding an official report 109 00:05:40,174 --> 00:05:43,175 on unidentified aerial phenomena? 110 00:05:43,327 --> 00:05:47,421 It's a sea change in policy with roots that trace back 111 00:05:47,573 --> 00:05:51,642 to a series of secret meetings more than two decades earlier. 112 00:05:53,521 --> 00:05:56,689 Las Vegas, 1995. 113 00:05:56,916 --> 00:06:00,250 Local TV news reporter George Knapp, 114 00:06:00,344 --> 00:06:02,436 famous in Nevada for his investigation 115 00:06:02,530 --> 00:06:06,681 of the top secret Air Force facility Area 51, 116 00:06:06,775 --> 00:06:10,018 has spent years discussing UFOs 117 00:06:10,037 --> 00:06:13,706 with Nevada's powerful senator Harry Reid. 118 00:06:13,933 --> 00:06:15,374 GEORGE KNAPP: Senator Reid has a lot of interest 119 00:06:15,601 --> 00:06:19,269 in national security issues, Nellis, Area 51. 120 00:06:19,288 --> 00:06:22,548 So I told him, "I think there's a legitimate issue here. 121 00:06:22,699 --> 00:06:24,366 This is real." 122 00:06:24,460 --> 00:06:26,201 And so we had a secret conversation 123 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:29,221 that lasted 30 years, about UFOs. 124 00:06:29,373 --> 00:06:33,951 NARRATOR: In 1995, Knapp invited Reid to attend a meeting 125 00:06:34,044 --> 00:06:37,121 hosted by another powerful Nevada resident 126 00:06:37,214 --> 00:06:39,064 with a longtime interest in the topic, 127 00:06:39,291 --> 00:06:44,052 hotel magnate and aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow. 128 00:06:44,146 --> 00:06:46,964 Bigelow had recently founded 129 00:06:46,982 --> 00:06:49,391 the National Institute for Discovery Science, 130 00:06:49,410 --> 00:06:52,152 a privately financed research organization 131 00:06:52,246 --> 00:06:57,157 created to investigate fringe science and UFO phenomenon. 132 00:06:57,251 --> 00:06:58,809 KNAPP: I told Reid, 133 00:06:58,902 --> 00:07:00,753 "I think you should go check this out." 134 00:07:00,980 --> 00:07:02,996 He goes to the next board meeting later in the year 135 00:07:03,090 --> 00:07:04,164 and is blown away. 136 00:07:04,316 --> 00:07:05,174 He's hooked. 137 00:07:06,669 --> 00:07:08,093 But the bond that he formed 138 00:07:08,245 --> 00:07:10,170 with Bigelow at that point 139 00:07:10,264 --> 00:07:13,824 became critical to everything that would unfold later. 140 00:07:13,842 --> 00:07:17,252 NARRATOR: In 2007, with Reid's help, 141 00:07:17,271 --> 00:07:21,756 Bigelow secured $22 million from the Department of Defense 142 00:07:21,776 --> 00:07:25,686 to fund the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program, 143 00:07:25,780 --> 00:07:29,173 or AATIP, an initiative that would investigate reports 144 00:07:29,191 --> 00:07:32,526 of "anomalous aerial vehicles." 145 00:07:32,620 --> 00:07:36,104 They managed to create this program in the Pentagon. 146 00:07:36,198 --> 00:07:37,698 Which was a classified program, 147 00:07:37,850 --> 00:07:40,367 a sort of black program, as they say. 148 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:43,704 And so, they were able to get the funds, 149 00:07:43,798 --> 00:07:47,040 the Pentagon was able to get up and running with that, 150 00:07:47,193 --> 00:07:49,134 and I think that was a game changer. 151 00:07:49,361 --> 00:07:52,638 NARRATOR: Pentagon officials select former U.S. Army 152 00:07:52,865 --> 00:07:55,699 Counterintelligence Special Agent Luis Elizondo 153 00:07:55,792 --> 00:07:58,644 to run the secret AATIP program. 154 00:07:58,871 --> 00:08:00,871 Lou Elizondo was put in charge that. 155 00:08:00,964 --> 00:08:03,040 He was overseeing this little group of people 156 00:08:03,133 --> 00:08:04,391 in different parts of the Pentagon. 157 00:08:04,485 --> 00:08:07,152 They would exchange information, 158 00:08:07,304 --> 00:08:10,397 do what they could and try to keep a very low profile. 159 00:08:10,491 --> 00:08:13,492 some people in the Pentagon knew what they were doing, 160 00:08:13,719 --> 00:08:15,143 but others did not. 161 00:08:15,237 --> 00:08:17,979 HOWE: Elizondo ran AATIP 162 00:08:18,073 --> 00:08:20,666 for those approximately seven years 163 00:08:20,893 --> 00:08:25,229 with funding from Senator Harry Reid in Nevada. 164 00:08:25,322 --> 00:08:28,990 And none of us knew anything about it. 165 00:08:29,084 --> 00:08:33,070 NARRATOR: As Elizondo delved into the government's secret files, 166 00:08:33,088 --> 00:08:36,014 he became convinced that UFOs could pose 167 00:08:36,166 --> 00:08:38,575 a major national security threat. 168 00:08:38,594 --> 00:08:41,503 But, to his growing frustration, he struggled 169 00:08:41,597 --> 00:08:44,022 to get anyone to listen to him. 170 00:08:44,250 --> 00:08:48,935 Lou figured out that forces within the Pentagon 171 00:08:49,029 --> 00:08:51,196 weren't taking this seriously, 172 00:08:51,423 --> 00:08:55,200 and were perhaps dismissing and covering up 173 00:08:55,427 --> 00:08:59,279 and suppressing UFO information for various reasons. 174 00:08:59,373 --> 00:09:02,207 And Lou couldn't stand 175 00:09:02,434 --> 00:09:04,785 the fact that, within the halls of the Pentagon, 176 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:06,712 it wasn't being taken seriously. 177 00:09:06,863 --> 00:09:10,440 NARRATOR: In October 2017, 178 00:09:10,534 --> 00:09:13,110 Luis Elizondo resigned from AATIP 179 00:09:13,128 --> 00:09:16,780 after Pentagon officials refused to present his findings 180 00:09:16,873 --> 00:09:19,466 to Defense Secretary James Mattis. 181 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:23,136 LUIS ELIZONDO: I-I've seen too much. I've talked to too many people. 182 00:09:23,289 --> 00:09:26,047 I have too many reports. I-I know it's real. 183 00:09:26,141 --> 00:09:27,215 I-I can't in good conscience 184 00:09:27,234 --> 00:09:29,459 just keep my head buried in the sand. 185 00:09:29,478 --> 00:09:32,629 I had to leave the very job that I love 186 00:09:32,648 --> 00:09:34,072 to get my point across. 187 00:09:34,224 --> 00:09:36,241 NARRATOR: Just as Elizondo 188 00:09:36,468 --> 00:09:38,635 was leaving his position at the Pentagon, 189 00:09:38,654 --> 00:09:42,915 Tom DeLonge, co-founder of the rock band Blink-182, 190 00:09:43,142 --> 00:09:46,234 was forming a group called To the Stars Academy 191 00:09:46,253 --> 00:09:48,069 to collect and study information 192 00:09:48,088 --> 00:09:50,997 on unidentified aerial phenomena. 193 00:09:51,091 --> 00:09:56,486 POPE: Tom DeLonge gathered around him an extraordinary team 194 00:09:56,580 --> 00:10:00,991 of insiders with backgrounds in the government, 195 00:10:01,084 --> 00:10:05,103 intelligence community, the aerospace community-- 196 00:10:05,255 --> 00:10:08,106 particularly cutting-edge technologies. 197 00:10:08,334 --> 00:10:12,169 RYAN SPRAGUE: Elizondo almost immediately went to work for Tom DeLonge, 198 00:10:12,262 --> 00:10:14,855 and his new company To the Stars, 199 00:10:14,949 --> 00:10:19,267 a company that was dedicated to working to try 200 00:10:19,286 --> 00:10:22,788 to uncover the answers about the UFO phenomena, 201 00:10:23,015 --> 00:10:26,274 which just seemed like a perfect stroke of luck. 202 00:10:26,368 --> 00:10:30,871 NARRATOR: With the addition of Elizondo, To The Stars Academy 203 00:10:31,023 --> 00:10:33,298 now had unprecedented access to government intel 204 00:10:33,450 --> 00:10:36,209 on unidentified aerial phenomena. 205 00:10:36,362 --> 00:10:40,639 And unbeknownst to Elizondo's former bosses in the military, 206 00:10:40,866 --> 00:10:43,976 he hadn't left government service empty-handed. 207 00:10:44,203 --> 00:10:45,793 He brought with him 208 00:10:45,888 --> 00:10:49,898 extraordinary video evidence of UFOs. 209 00:11:00,977 --> 00:11:04,646 NARRATOR: After Luis Elizondo resigns from his position with AATIP 210 00:11:04,665 --> 00:11:06,999 and leaves the Pentagon, he shares 211 00:11:07,150 --> 00:11:10,335 three declassified videos recorded by Navy pilots 212 00:11:10,487 --> 00:11:13,839 with his new colleagues at To The Stars Academy. 213 00:11:15,992 --> 00:11:18,418 The first object, known as Tic Tac, 214 00:11:18,570 --> 00:11:22,756 was caught on radar in 2004 off the USS Nimitz 215 00:11:22,908 --> 00:11:25,684 at an altitude of 80,000 feet. 216 00:11:25,911 --> 00:11:29,746 As Navy F-18s approached the object, 217 00:11:29,765 --> 00:11:34,008 it descended to within one foot of the water in seconds. 218 00:11:34,028 --> 00:11:39,514 We don't have this capability of dropping 80,000 feet 219 00:11:39,533 --> 00:11:44,519 within a matter of seconds, hitting a velocity of Mach 20. 220 00:11:44,538 --> 00:11:49,433 So, we now know that there's some kind of propulsion system 221 00:11:49,451 --> 00:11:53,879 that exceeds the capability of our own rockets. 222 00:11:55,365 --> 00:11:57,958 NARRATOR: Naval aviator Lieutenant Chad Underwood 223 00:11:58,110 --> 00:12:00,444 was ordered to pursue the object 224 00:12:00,462 --> 00:12:02,704 in an F-18 equipped with a sophisticated 225 00:12:02,723 --> 00:12:04,222 FLIR video system. 226 00:12:04,450 --> 00:12:07,041 UNDERWOOD: The object looked featureless, 227 00:12:07,061 --> 00:12:10,136 and that's why I called it the Tic Tac. 228 00:12:10,289 --> 00:12:11,955 It looked like a Tic Tac. 229 00:12:11,974 --> 00:12:14,882 It had no wings, no method of propulsion 230 00:12:14,902 --> 00:12:17,127 and on your forward-looking infrared pod, 231 00:12:17,220 --> 00:12:19,237 all it is is tracking heat. 232 00:12:19,465 --> 00:12:22,649 So you would typically see engine exhaust 233 00:12:22,743 --> 00:12:25,151 coming out of one of the ends of the aircraft. 234 00:12:25,245 --> 00:12:27,304 Not seeing any of it. 235 00:12:27,322 --> 00:12:30,898 The object was changing altitude, air speed, 236 00:12:30,993 --> 00:12:35,420 things that my FLIR and my radar were having difficulty tracking. 237 00:12:35,647 --> 00:12:37,422 And then at the end of the encounter 238 00:12:37,574 --> 00:12:41,835 is when you see it dart off to my left on the FLIR pod, 239 00:12:41,987 --> 00:12:46,414 and that's when I was like, "Whoa. What just happened?" 240 00:12:46,433 --> 00:12:50,160 NARRATOR: The other two videos Elizondo brought to his colleagues 241 00:12:50,178 --> 00:12:53,497 at To the Stars Academy were equally groundbreaking. 242 00:12:53,515 --> 00:12:56,108 Known as "Gimbal" and "GoFast," 243 00:12:56,259 --> 00:12:58,668 both videos were taken by Navy jets 244 00:12:58,687 --> 00:13:03,857 from the USS Theodore Roosevelt near the Florida coast in 2015. 245 00:13:03,951 --> 00:13:07,786 All three videos show objects moving in ways 246 00:13:08,013 --> 00:13:11,123 that defy the known laws of physics. 247 00:13:13,685 --> 00:13:17,111 KAKU: These objects can zigzag effortlessly, 248 00:13:17,131 --> 00:13:19,781 defying the known laws of aerodynamics. 249 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,135 These objects can effortlessly accelerate 250 00:13:23,286 --> 00:13:25,303 up to 20 times the speed of sound. 251 00:13:25,531 --> 00:13:28,122 They have no visible means of propulsion. 252 00:13:28,216 --> 00:13:30,642 So what could it be? 253 00:13:30,869 --> 00:13:33,979 Well, the short answer is, we don't know. 254 00:13:34,130 --> 00:13:36,373 PODESTA: The phenomena had 255 00:13:36,391 --> 00:13:38,466 unusual flight characteristics, 256 00:13:38,485 --> 00:13:43,155 unusual vectors, speed, being able to hover and move. 257 00:13:46,552 --> 00:13:49,661 PODESTA: The fact that the Chinese or the Russians 258 00:13:49,813 --> 00:13:53,073 or anyone else would have that kind of capability 259 00:13:53,167 --> 00:13:57,227 and we wouldn't know about it is pretty slim. 260 00:13:57,245 --> 00:13:59,004 NARRATOR: As head of AATIP, 261 00:13:59,155 --> 00:14:02,323 Elizondo was able to have the videos declassified, 262 00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:04,509 but they had never been made public. 263 00:14:04,736 --> 00:14:07,087 His involvement in To the Stars Academy 264 00:14:07,239 --> 00:14:10,164 offered a new opportunity to share the remarkable information 265 00:14:10,258 --> 00:14:12,684 collected at the Pentagon. 266 00:14:13,837 --> 00:14:16,504 To The Stars-- their goal was 267 00:14:16,523 --> 00:14:18,356 that they were gonna crack it all open, 268 00:14:18,584 --> 00:14:21,342 and they were going to open up the truth 269 00:14:21,436 --> 00:14:23,695 that the government knows about 270 00:14:23,847 --> 00:14:25,847 these unidentified aerial phenomena 271 00:14:25,866 --> 00:14:29,851 that have a technology that does not exist 272 00:14:29,870 --> 00:14:32,370 in terms of human production. 273 00:14:32,522 --> 00:14:35,615 WILLIAM HENRY: To The Stars Academy, to their credit, 274 00:14:35,767 --> 00:14:38,376 brought Lou Elizondo together with Chris Mellon, 275 00:14:38,528 --> 00:14:43,106 Department of Defense official, Senate Intelligence insider. 276 00:14:43,199 --> 00:14:44,941 And then they go to The New York Times 277 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,127 with this blockbuster story 278 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:50,722 about the U.S. government's interest in investigating UFOs. 279 00:14:50,874 --> 00:14:53,708 NARRATOR: Chris Mellon arranged a meeting with Leslie Kean, 280 00:14:53,727 --> 00:14:56,061 a best-selling author who had spent years 281 00:14:56,212 --> 00:14:59,806 trying to draw mainstream media attention to UFOs. 282 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:03,476 Mellon and Elizondo revealed to Kean the existence 283 00:15:03,629 --> 00:15:05,887 of the secret AATIP program 284 00:15:05,906 --> 00:15:07,889 and promised her access to the videos 285 00:15:07,908 --> 00:15:11,801 if she could place the story with The New York Times. 286 00:15:11,820 --> 00:15:15,321 Leslie Kean is very well-connected, politically. 287 00:15:15,415 --> 00:15:18,658 Her uncle Thomas Kean was the former governor 288 00:15:18,810 --> 00:15:22,328 of New Jersey and headed up the 9/11 Commission. 289 00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:26,149 This gives you an idea of, uh, just how plugged in 290 00:15:26,242 --> 00:15:29,653 to the political network Leslie is. 291 00:15:29,671 --> 00:15:32,580 So when Leslie was contacted 292 00:15:32,599 --> 00:15:35,325 by Lou Elizondo and Chris Mellon, 293 00:15:35,343 --> 00:15:37,827 she then teamed up with Ralph Blumenthal, 294 00:15:37,921 --> 00:15:40,497 veteran New York Times reporter, 295 00:15:40,515 --> 00:15:43,441 and Helene Cooper, again from the Times. 296 00:15:43,593 --> 00:15:46,594 NARRATOR: Ralph Blumenthal came to know Leslie Kean 297 00:15:46,613 --> 00:15:49,355 while working on his book The Believer, a biography 298 00:15:49,508 --> 00:15:53,526 about alien abductions researcher Dr. John Mack. 299 00:15:53,679 --> 00:15:56,179 When he heard about the government's AATIP program, 300 00:15:56,198 --> 00:15:59,866 he was eager to help break the story. 301 00:16:00,018 --> 00:16:03,019 Well, it was clearly a great story for The New York Times. 302 00:16:03,112 --> 00:16:06,523 A-A secret Pentagon unit investigating UFOs 303 00:16:06,541 --> 00:16:09,634 after, uh, the government was supposed to be out 304 00:16:09,861 --> 00:16:12,212 of the UFO business, but of course, never really was. 305 00:16:12,306 --> 00:16:15,215 NARRATOR: Blumenthal pitched the story directly 306 00:16:15,309 --> 00:16:19,035 to the New York Times managing editor Dean Baquet. 307 00:16:19,054 --> 00:16:23,130 And on December 16th, 2017, 308 00:16:23,150 --> 00:16:26,059 Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, 309 00:16:26,211 --> 00:16:28,469 and Helene Cooper's groundbreaking report 310 00:16:28,488 --> 00:16:31,639 about the Pentagon's mysterious UFO program 311 00:16:31,733 --> 00:16:36,069 made the front page of The New York Times online edition. 312 00:16:36,163 --> 00:16:38,722 BLUMENTHAL: We had it nailed down chapter and verse, 313 00:16:38,815 --> 00:16:40,056 the people involved it in on the... 314 00:16:40,075 --> 00:16:41,741 everything on the record, the documents, 315 00:16:41,893 --> 00:16:45,411 so this hit all the benchmarks. 316 00:16:45,564 --> 00:16:47,564 We had the Navy videos, 317 00:16:47,582 --> 00:16:50,567 which we were able to put on the Times website 318 00:16:50,585 --> 00:16:52,402 and they garnered more views 319 00:16:52,420 --> 00:16:54,254 than almost anything in Times history. 320 00:16:54,348 --> 00:16:56,497 DAVID CHILDRESS: This was a real turning point 321 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:57,832 in the United States, 322 00:16:57,851 --> 00:17:01,686 because The New York Times has always said that 323 00:17:01,913 --> 00:17:04,005 they are the guardians of the truth. 324 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:08,601 Suddenly, The New York Times is actually reporting on UFOs. 325 00:17:08,695 --> 00:17:13,198 This really shows that UFOs and the study of UFOs 326 00:17:13,349 --> 00:17:16,593 and the investigation has entered the mainstream. 327 00:17:16,686 --> 00:17:20,205 TSOUKALOS: All of a sudden, since 2017, 328 00:17:20,432 --> 00:17:24,859 these stories have become front-page news 329 00:17:24,878 --> 00:17:28,438 on worldwide newspapers. 330 00:17:28,456 --> 00:17:32,884 And it clearly shows that there was a type of a paradigm shift 331 00:17:33,111 --> 00:17:35,962 that's happened over the past 25 years. 332 00:17:36,114 --> 00:17:39,783 And for someone like me, it's-it's incredible. 333 00:17:39,801 --> 00:17:44,454 NARRATOR: Astonished by the AATIP revelations and leaked videos, 334 00:17:44,472 --> 00:17:46,623 Congress demanded briefings, 335 00:17:46,641 --> 00:17:50,794 forcing the intelligence communities to respond. 336 00:17:50,812 --> 00:17:52,145 KNAPP: Suddenly, 337 00:17:52,239 --> 00:17:55,407 UFO briefings become the hottest ticket on Capitol Hill. 338 00:17:55,558 --> 00:17:58,410 Briefings for the Armed Services Committee, 339 00:17:58,637 --> 00:18:00,728 the Intelligence Committee, everybody wants in. 340 00:18:00,822 --> 00:18:03,064 Congress takes it serious. 341 00:18:03,083 --> 00:18:06,067 The media give them political coverage 342 00:18:06,086 --> 00:18:07,493 by saying this is a legitimate story. 343 00:18:07,646 --> 00:18:11,164 So you have people like Marco Rubio and Senator Warner 344 00:18:11,316 --> 00:18:14,334 who can tell, uh, reporters, "Yeah, we're looking into this. 345 00:18:14,486 --> 00:18:16,002 This is a-a legitimate mystery." 346 00:18:16,096 --> 00:18:18,096 We have things flying over military installations, 347 00:18:18,247 --> 00:18:20,657 over military exercises, and other places, 348 00:18:20,750 --> 00:18:22,675 and we don't know what it is. 349 00:18:22,828 --> 00:18:26,104 If there are objects flying over military installations, 350 00:18:26,255 --> 00:18:28,514 that could pose a security threat. 351 00:18:28,608 --> 00:18:32,335 CARSON: I think we're gonna have more hearings. 352 00:18:32,428 --> 00:18:35,596 And I think that we're seeing we can 353 00:18:35,615 --> 00:18:38,783 have these conversations publicly, in a way 354 00:18:38,935 --> 00:18:42,103 that doesn't warrant mockery or scorn or ridicule. 355 00:18:42,122 --> 00:18:43,580 I think it's critically important. 356 00:18:45,274 --> 00:18:47,367 NARRATOR: After 70 years of taboo 357 00:18:47,461 --> 00:18:52,279 going back to the 1947 incident at Roswell, New Mexico, 358 00:18:52,374 --> 00:18:57,043 the study of UFOs had finally gained mainstream acceptance. 359 00:18:57,137 --> 00:19:01,973 But is the U.S. military ready to share all it knows? 360 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,385 Or are there still forces within the Pentagon 361 00:19:05,479 --> 00:19:08,813 that will go to any length to protect its secrets? 362 00:19:18,975 --> 00:19:21,976 NARRATOR: In the wake of the New York Times revelations 363 00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:25,146 about AATIP and the explosive Navy videos, 364 00:19:25,165 --> 00:19:28,224 the House and Senate Armed Services Committees 365 00:19:28,317 --> 00:19:30,076 begin interviewing Navy pilots 366 00:19:30,228 --> 00:19:32,578 who claim to have witnessed U.A.P.s 367 00:19:32,731 --> 00:19:34,672 while on training missions. 368 00:19:34,824 --> 00:19:36,582 KNAPP: It started with closed-door briefings 369 00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:38,510 of senior staff members. 370 00:19:38,737 --> 00:19:41,087 These pilots, David Fravor and Alex Dietrich, 371 00:19:41,239 --> 00:19:42,422 and, uh, people like that-- 372 00:19:42,516 --> 00:19:44,999 Chad Underwood, uh, Ryan Graves, 373 00:19:45,018 --> 00:19:46,592 start being led up to Capitol Hill. 374 00:19:46,686 --> 00:19:47,744 They tell their stories. 375 00:19:47,837 --> 00:19:49,336 This thing would go instantaneous 376 00:19:49,356 --> 00:19:50,671 from one way to another. 377 00:19:50,765 --> 00:19:52,339 And just rapidly accelerates 378 00:19:52,434 --> 00:19:54,083 beyond anything that I've ever seen. 379 00:19:54,177 --> 00:19:56,677 KNAPP: They are incredibly believable. 380 00:19:56,696 --> 00:20:00,273 They have gravitas. They're not UFO nuts. 381 00:20:00,425 --> 00:20:04,761 We were able to then visually pick up, uh, what we describe 382 00:20:04,854 --> 00:20:07,280 as a Tic Tac that was moving very fast. 383 00:20:07,432 --> 00:20:09,874 They're telling stories about encounters with strange craft 384 00:20:10,101 --> 00:20:12,377 that are way beyond any technology we have. 385 00:20:12,604 --> 00:20:15,271 We do workups along the, uh, Eastern Seaboard 386 00:20:15,290 --> 00:20:17,382 and these objects kind of came with us. 387 00:20:17,533 --> 00:20:19,609 The fact that he would just get himself on his wing tip 388 00:20:19,702 --> 00:20:22,554 with no turn isn't how aircraft work. 389 00:20:22,781 --> 00:20:24,538 KNAPP: The senior staff members are impressed. 390 00:20:24,558 --> 00:20:26,040 They tell the elected members of Congress. 391 00:20:26,059 --> 00:20:27,300 It changed everything. 392 00:20:27,452 --> 00:20:29,561 I never thought I would see it in my lifetime, 393 00:20:29,788 --> 00:20:31,396 and here it is, unfolding right before our eyes. 394 00:20:31,547 --> 00:20:33,047 Still unfolding. 395 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:35,233 RICHARD DOLAN: The Pentagon has had to respond. 396 00:20:35,384 --> 00:20:37,218 It might just be difficult 397 00:20:37,237 --> 00:20:39,645 for the Pentagon to completely do a blanket denial 398 00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:41,197 the way they used to. 399 00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:45,635 NARRATOR: In August 2020, 400 00:20:45,728 --> 00:20:48,154 in a rare instance of transparency, 401 00:20:48,248 --> 00:20:51,808 the U.S. Department of Defense announces that the work 402 00:20:51,901 --> 00:20:54,068 Luis Elizondo oversaw with AATIP-- 403 00:20:54,087 --> 00:20:57,088 analyzing and cataloging U.A.P.s-- 404 00:20:57,315 --> 00:21:01,484 is still being carried on under a new program 405 00:21:01,503 --> 00:21:05,338 called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. 406 00:21:05,432 --> 00:21:07,599 That same summer, 407 00:21:07,826 --> 00:21:10,268 Senator Marco Rubio's Intelligence Committee 408 00:21:10,495 --> 00:21:13,846 drafts legislation giving the Pentagon 180 days 409 00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:15,607 to publicly report 410 00:21:15,834 --> 00:21:19,335 what government agencies know about U.A.P.s. 411 00:21:19,428 --> 00:21:21,504 The Senate Intelligence Committee 412 00:21:21,523 --> 00:21:26,676 puts in a bill for 2021, "We want a report on U.A.P." 413 00:21:26,694 --> 00:21:29,454 And so, the whole, the whole momentum of this 414 00:21:29,681 --> 00:21:32,365 is this, is this theme of "We need to do something, 415 00:21:32,517 --> 00:21:34,441 we need to get serious about it." 416 00:21:34,536 --> 00:21:38,779 NARRATOR: The legislation is passed and signed by the president, 417 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:42,616 and the 180-day countdown begins. 418 00:21:42,636 --> 00:21:45,786 But curiously, even as this was happening, 419 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,289 top Pentagon officials were attacking 420 00:21:48,383 --> 00:21:50,383 Luis Elizondo's credibility, 421 00:21:50,477 --> 00:21:54,053 and claiming that he had nothing to do with AATIP. 422 00:21:54,147 --> 00:21:57,206 HENRY: The Pentagon had launched a smear campaign 423 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:00,652 against Elizondo, calling him crazy. 424 00:22:00,879 --> 00:22:05,565 On May 3rd, 2021, Lou Elizondo filed a 64-page complaint 425 00:22:05,717 --> 00:22:07,216 with the inspector general. 426 00:22:07,235 --> 00:22:11,070 These are, like, the top cops in the Department of Justice. 427 00:22:11,164 --> 00:22:13,406 ELIZONDO: There is still pockets of resistance in the Pentagon 428 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:15,482 that is trying to muzzle 429 00:22:15,502 --> 00:22:18,227 or, if you will, stifle this conversation. 430 00:22:18,321 --> 00:22:20,838 That must be corrected, and, yes, I'd love it 431 00:22:21,066 --> 00:22:23,232 if they also corrected the record about me, 432 00:22:23,251 --> 00:22:26,419 but that is less important than not fixing the record 433 00:22:26,513 --> 00:22:28,421 about this overall conversation. 434 00:22:28,573 --> 00:22:31,332 DOLAN: So now you have a movement 435 00:22:31,351 --> 00:22:33,017 after all these years to begin 436 00:22:33,244 --> 00:22:36,079 to crack that secrecy even by a little bit. 437 00:22:36,097 --> 00:22:39,599 You're clearly going to have a very powerful faction 438 00:22:39,693 --> 00:22:42,435 of individuals who are going to do everything possible 439 00:22:42,529 --> 00:22:44,420 to thwart that effort. 440 00:22:44,513 --> 00:22:46,680 And if that means smearing good people 441 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:50,517 with good reputations, well, so be it, this is war. 442 00:22:50,612 --> 00:22:54,947 NARRATOR: Researchers suggest efforts to deny whistleblower testimony 443 00:22:55,041 --> 00:23:00,211 about the existence of UFOs have persisted since World War II, 444 00:23:00,363 --> 00:23:04,440 citing government reactions to numerous bombshell revelations. 445 00:23:04,459 --> 00:23:08,202 HOWE: Whistleblowers, in many ways, 446 00:23:08,296 --> 00:23:12,115 are the most courageous heroes of the 20th to the 21st century 447 00:23:12,208 --> 00:23:15,709 because they were decent human beings 448 00:23:15,803 --> 00:23:19,472 who get hired to do science, 449 00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:24,293 and then what they find themselves in are straitjackets. 450 00:23:24,312 --> 00:23:27,221 Straitjackets of political policies, 451 00:23:27,315 --> 00:23:29,815 of Defense Department policies. 452 00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:34,804 Each of the different intel agencies and military groups, 453 00:23:34,897 --> 00:23:38,975 they want to control whatever is being let out. 454 00:23:39,068 --> 00:23:43,146 It's been going on since World War II to today. 455 00:23:43,164 --> 00:23:47,817 NARRATOR: In 1958, after conducting research on UFOs 456 00:23:47,910 --> 00:23:50,595 with the help of his contacts at the Pentagon, 457 00:23:50,746 --> 00:23:54,340 retired Marine Corps pilot Major Donald Keyhoe 458 00:23:54,492 --> 00:23:56,583 went on a live television program 459 00:23:56,678 --> 00:23:58,844 called The Armstrong Circle Theatre 460 00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:01,330 to report his conclusion 461 00:24:01,349 --> 00:24:05,092 that extraterrestrials were, in fact, visiting Earth. 462 00:24:05,111 --> 00:24:08,946 But mysteriously, just as he was about to make this point, 463 00:24:09,098 --> 00:24:11,949 the sound cut out. 464 00:24:12,177 --> 00:24:14,694 If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel 465 00:24:14,788 --> 00:24:17,455 it will prove beyond a doubt that the flying saucers are... 466 00:24:17,682 --> 00:24:19,457 (speaking inaudibly) 467 00:24:24,522 --> 00:24:29,133 NARRATOR: In 1989, when physicist Bob Lazar claimed 468 00:24:29,285 --> 00:24:30,468 that he was hired to reverse engineer 469 00:24:30,695 --> 00:24:32,361 an alien spacecraft 470 00:24:32,455 --> 00:24:36,048 at a top secret military base called Area 51, 471 00:24:36,142 --> 00:24:40,886 government officials denied that the base even existed at all, 472 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:45,466 a falsehood that would be exposed 14 years later. 473 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,302 CORBELL: You can hear Bob Lazar's story, 474 00:24:48,396 --> 00:24:50,971 and it sounds so outlandish. 475 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,658 Until you have people within the Pentagon saying, 476 00:24:53,885 --> 00:24:55,827 "We do have recovered materials and craft," 477 00:24:56,054 --> 00:24:58,888 and then you have to look back at Bob Lazar's story 478 00:24:58,981 --> 00:25:01,148 and you see he's telling you the truth. 479 00:25:01,242 --> 00:25:07,338 NARRATOR: In 1997, retired U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso 480 00:25:07,490 --> 00:25:11,083 published The Day After Roswell, in which he confirms 481 00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:13,177 that an extraterrestrial craft 482 00:25:13,329 --> 00:25:17,181 did indeed crash in the New Mexico desert. 483 00:25:17,333 --> 00:25:20,834 It was met with similar denials from the Pentagon. 484 00:25:20,854 --> 00:25:23,170 HOWE: Colonel Corso's entire book 485 00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:26,357 is about the physical evidence, where it went, 486 00:25:26,509 --> 00:25:31,754 the fact that there were, uh, policies of denial. 487 00:25:31,773 --> 00:25:34,681 All of it was off-limits. 488 00:25:34,776 --> 00:25:40,112 NARRATOR: When the Pentagon tries to discredit Elizondo in 2020, 489 00:25:40,265 --> 00:25:43,374 many fear it indicates business as usual, 490 00:25:43,526 --> 00:25:46,377 and that the government U.A.P. report will once again 491 00:25:46,529 --> 00:25:50,289 prove to be an effort to debunk rather than disclose. 492 00:25:50,441 --> 00:25:52,608 But to the surprise of many, 493 00:25:52,627 --> 00:25:54,886 the inspector general immediately agrees 494 00:25:55,113 --> 00:25:57,630 to investigate Elizondo's complaint. 495 00:25:57,782 --> 00:26:00,725 Ancient astronaut theorists are hopeful 496 00:26:00,952 --> 00:26:03,286 this could lead to an official reexamination 497 00:26:03,379 --> 00:26:05,712 of the high-profile UFO incidents 498 00:26:05,732 --> 00:26:08,900 that have been dismissed before. 499 00:26:09,127 --> 00:26:11,627 It's possible the inspector general could get in 500 00:26:11,646 --> 00:26:14,146 and find evidence about what happened with Roswell, 501 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,817 what happened with Major Keyhoe, what happened with Bob Lazar. 502 00:26:17,969 --> 00:26:20,394 All of these questions under oath 503 00:26:20,488 --> 00:26:22,246 would be asked of Pentagon officials, 504 00:26:22,398 --> 00:26:25,249 and the public would get to know about it as well. 505 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,478 NARRATOR: While the inspector general's investigation 506 00:26:29,497 --> 00:26:31,905 was just getting started, 507 00:26:31,925 --> 00:26:34,166 the release of the government's U.A.P. report 508 00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:35,927 was only a month away. 509 00:26:36,154 --> 00:26:39,413 And as the anticipation was growing, 510 00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:43,059 more explosive new evidence came to light. 511 00:26:53,521 --> 00:26:57,022 NARRATOR: With the government's much-anticipated report on UFOs 512 00:26:57,175 --> 00:27:01,435 only weeks away, veteran journalist George Knapp 513 00:27:01,529 --> 00:27:04,271 and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell 514 00:27:04,365 --> 00:27:06,365 drop yet another bombshell: 515 00:27:06,517 --> 00:27:10,035 new footage of U.S. encounters with U.A.P.s 516 00:27:10,188 --> 00:27:12,421 from Navy combat ships. 517 00:27:14,876 --> 00:27:17,951 SPRAGUE: These were leaked videos and photos 518 00:27:18,045 --> 00:27:21,806 from the actual Pentagon UFO task force. 519 00:27:22,033 --> 00:27:25,201 One of which showed a pyramid-shaped object 520 00:27:25,219 --> 00:27:29,630 floating above the USS Russell off the West Coast. 521 00:27:29,724 --> 00:27:31,540 And it wasn't just one pyramid. 522 00:27:31,559 --> 00:27:33,568 There were apparently swarms of these things. 523 00:27:35,380 --> 00:27:38,898 They were triangular, by angle of observation. 524 00:27:39,050 --> 00:27:43,977 But they were pyramid in shape, in reality. 525 00:27:43,997 --> 00:27:48,982 NARRATOR: Other leaked videos were recorded aboard the USS Omaha, 526 00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:52,561 part of the same strike group as the USS Russell. 527 00:27:52,655 --> 00:27:55,915 These included not only a smartphone recording 528 00:27:56,009 --> 00:27:58,992 but also thermal imaging footage 529 00:27:59,086 --> 00:28:01,512 and video of the objects caught on radar. 530 00:28:05,018 --> 00:28:07,092 You've got what's known as FLIR, 531 00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:09,520 that is, forward-looking infrared, or thermal signatures. 532 00:28:10,932 --> 00:28:12,932 You have radar data as well. 533 00:28:13,084 --> 00:28:16,435 And there was actually video that was shot by Navy personnel 534 00:28:16,587 --> 00:28:18,270 on the deck looking up at these objects. 535 00:28:18,423 --> 00:28:21,032 So you have three different types of things. 536 00:28:21,183 --> 00:28:24,535 NARRATOR: One video appeared to show a single round object 537 00:28:24,687 --> 00:28:27,538 flying above the water, then hovering, 538 00:28:27,690 --> 00:28:31,208 before making a controlled descent into the ocean. 539 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:32,693 CORBELL: You can actually hear 540 00:28:32,712 --> 00:28:36,121 in the CIC-- which is the Combat Information Center-- 541 00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:37,715 the shock and the awe... 542 00:28:40,127 --> 00:28:42,845 ...as people saw this vehicle going into the water. 543 00:28:47,393 --> 00:28:49,952 These objects can apparently fly through the atmosphere 544 00:28:49,971 --> 00:28:52,121 at velocities that exceed 545 00:28:52,139 --> 00:28:54,715 the known velocities of our projectiles. 546 00:28:54,809 --> 00:28:58,402 And they can go underwater, 547 00:28:58,554 --> 00:29:00,629 exceeding the pressure that would normally rupture 548 00:29:00,648 --> 00:29:03,407 the hull of a projectile. 549 00:29:03,634 --> 00:29:05,651 In other words, these objects have a capability 550 00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:09,896 exceeding that of ours because they can go to outer space, 551 00:29:09,916 --> 00:29:12,416 through the atmosphere and even the oceans. 552 00:29:14,829 --> 00:29:18,422 NARRATOR: Skeptics rushed to claim the videos were refracted light, 553 00:29:18,649 --> 00:29:23,486 or errant weather balloons or perhaps even fakes. 554 00:29:23,579 --> 00:29:26,005 But the debunkers were dealt a blow 555 00:29:26,157 --> 00:29:28,081 when the Pentagon quickly confirmed 556 00:29:28,175 --> 00:29:30,826 that the videos were authentic. 557 00:29:30,919 --> 00:29:33,920 KNAPP: In UFO world, everything's a conspiracy. 558 00:29:33,940 --> 00:29:36,440 So when we released these images, 559 00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:38,592 we're being fed disinformation by the government. 560 00:29:38,611 --> 00:29:39,760 That's the assumption. 561 00:29:39,854 --> 00:29:41,353 "These are phonies." 562 00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:43,339 The same kind of accusations that were leveled 563 00:29:43,432 --> 00:29:46,266 at the images released by Lou Elizondo, 564 00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:48,769 New York Times, back in 2017. 565 00:29:48,863 --> 00:29:50,771 Same kind of attacks 566 00:29:50,790 --> 00:29:53,290 from people who just don't want it to be true. 567 00:29:53,442 --> 00:29:55,459 They don't want there to be genuine unknowns. 568 00:29:55,611 --> 00:29:58,871 So we released them, got them verified. 569 00:29:59,023 --> 00:30:01,782 And damned if the Pentagon didn't come out and say "Yep, 570 00:30:01,801 --> 00:30:04,043 they're real, they're legit." 571 00:30:04,137 --> 00:30:08,139 POPE: One of the most fascinating aspects of all this 572 00:30:08,366 --> 00:30:11,534 was how quick the Department of Defense was 573 00:30:11,627 --> 00:30:14,703 to confirm the authenticity of this material. 574 00:30:14,797 --> 00:30:17,389 In the normal course of business, 575 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:21,710 the policy is to either debunk or refuse to comment at all. 576 00:30:21,729 --> 00:30:24,655 Which makes one wonder, is this material coming out 577 00:30:24,807 --> 00:30:27,716 with the tacit approval of someone in government, 578 00:30:27,735 --> 00:30:30,477 or at least a faction within government, 579 00:30:30,496 --> 00:30:33,164 the military, the intelligence community? 580 00:30:33,391 --> 00:30:37,668 SPRAGUE: The reaction was huge when it came to these. 581 00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:40,987 Mainstream media picked up on it almost immediately. 582 00:30:41,082 --> 00:30:43,340 And it became a sensation, 583 00:30:43,568 --> 00:30:46,585 all leading up to the countdown to this report. 584 00:30:46,679 --> 00:30:49,254 My personal intent 585 00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:53,075 was to stoke the fire, was to provide new data and evidence-- 586 00:30:53,168 --> 00:30:56,002 corroborative data and evidence-- 587 00:30:56,097 --> 00:30:59,582 that shows that we are being engaged 588 00:30:59,675 --> 00:31:02,918 by a technology of unknown origin, 589 00:31:03,011 --> 00:31:06,922 and behind that technology is an intelligence. 590 00:31:06,941 --> 00:31:09,608 Look, a little bit of pressure is not the worst thing 591 00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:12,519 if, uh, you want the U.S. government to come clean 592 00:31:12,538 --> 00:31:15,372 on a subject that it has lied about, you know, 593 00:31:15,524 --> 00:31:17,524 for more than 70, almost 80 years. 594 00:31:17,543 --> 00:31:20,436 NARRATOR: With the deadline now weeks away, 595 00:31:20,529 --> 00:31:23,547 the speculation reached a fever pitch. 596 00:31:23,774 --> 00:31:26,775 Would the final report be yet another cover-up, 597 00:31:26,869 --> 00:31:29,887 as many in the UFO community predicted? 598 00:31:30,114 --> 00:31:34,391 Or might it contain shocking revelations? 599 00:31:45,980 --> 00:31:50,466 NARRATOR: The Pentagon's U.A.P. Task Force, along with the Office 600 00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:52,968 of the Director of National Intelligence, 601 00:31:52,987 --> 00:31:56,229 submits to Congress its long-awaited report. 602 00:31:56,323 --> 00:31:59,065 Entitled "Preliminary Assessment: 603 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,735 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," 604 00:32:01,754 --> 00:32:05,756 the simple nine-page report represents the most direct 605 00:32:05,908 --> 00:32:08,834 and substantive U.S. government account of U.A.P.s 606 00:32:08,928 --> 00:32:11,670 ever made public. 607 00:32:11,822 --> 00:32:16,082 The headline is that out of 144 reported encounters, 608 00:32:16,102 --> 00:32:21,605 only one UAP was identified as a large, deflating balloon. 609 00:32:21,757 --> 00:32:26,277 The other UAPs remain unexplained. 610 00:32:26,428 --> 00:32:28,779 I thought that report was tremendous. 611 00:32:28,931 --> 00:32:31,115 A tremendously important step forward. 612 00:32:31,342 --> 00:32:33,842 'Cause to me, it says two things: UFOs are real, 613 00:32:33,861 --> 00:32:35,619 and two, they're not ours. 614 00:32:35,771 --> 00:32:37,103 I thought it was an astonishing report. 615 00:32:37,123 --> 00:32:38,847 And it spoke volumes. 616 00:32:38,866 --> 00:32:42,534 We got 144 cases, we can't figure out 143 of them. 617 00:32:42,628 --> 00:32:44,353 It's monumental. 618 00:32:44,446 --> 00:32:46,021 I mean, it is a watershed moment. 619 00:32:46,114 --> 00:32:47,798 We're giving cover and relief for folks 620 00:32:48,025 --> 00:32:49,950 who are in the intelligence community now 621 00:32:49,969 --> 00:32:52,861 and work for our government and folks who have served 622 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,789 and pilots who can now talk about this thing. 623 00:32:55,808 --> 00:32:58,701 It's only a preliminary assessment. 624 00:32:58,719 --> 00:33:01,127 Some people in the UFO community were a bit disappointed 625 00:33:01,147 --> 00:33:03,889 because it wasn't disclosure. 626 00:33:04,041 --> 00:33:06,375 But what it did say was, I think, 627 00:33:06,393 --> 00:33:08,227 very encouraging and important. 628 00:33:08,379 --> 00:33:12,898 It essentially said that whatever UFOs are, 629 00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:18,495 some of these sightings demonstrate advanced technology, 630 00:33:18,647 --> 00:33:22,666 and this, in one sense, is a form of disclosure. 631 00:33:22,818 --> 00:33:26,003 It's certainly taking this further 632 00:33:26,230 --> 00:33:28,655 than it's ever been taken before within government. 633 00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,415 It's quite an admission. 634 00:33:30,568 --> 00:33:33,902 NARRATOR: Of the 144 reports 635 00:33:33,921 --> 00:33:36,421 that the U.A.P. Task Force reviewed, 636 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:42,669 the bulk of the sightings had occurred between 2019 and 2021, 637 00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:46,673 after the Navy reporting protocol was put into effect. 638 00:33:46,692 --> 00:33:51,754 But perhaps what is most compelling is the revelation 639 00:33:51,772 --> 00:33:53,847 that out of the 144 reported UAP sightings, 640 00:33:53,866 --> 00:33:56,775 only one sighting has been explained. 641 00:33:56,869 --> 00:34:00,279 Only one out of them has been shown to be spurious. 642 00:34:00,431 --> 00:34:04,708 That indicates to me that we're sitting on a gold mine, 643 00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:08,528 a gold mine of incidences that cannot be explained 644 00:34:08,622 --> 00:34:10,214 using the normal metrics. 645 00:34:12,885 --> 00:34:14,793 KAKU: We're talking about incidences 646 00:34:14,945 --> 00:34:17,946 that are beyond the stretch of our imagination, 647 00:34:17,965 --> 00:34:21,283 that indicate new laws of physics opening up. 648 00:34:21,302 --> 00:34:24,953 And we physicists are just dying to get access to it. 649 00:34:25,047 --> 00:34:27,064 NARRATOR: The report established 650 00:34:27,215 --> 00:34:29,474 five potential explanatory categories-- 651 00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:31,794 airborne clutter, 652 00:34:31,887 --> 00:34:33,904 natural atmospheric phenomena, 653 00:34:34,056 --> 00:34:38,467 U.S. government or American industry developmental programs, 654 00:34:38,485 --> 00:34:40,577 foreign adversary systems, 655 00:34:40,729 --> 00:34:43,322 and a category for U.A.P. reports 656 00:34:43,416 --> 00:34:48,994 that require additional analysis, simply called "Other." 657 00:34:49,146 --> 00:34:53,999 "Other" simply means beyond the known technologies of today, 658 00:34:54,151 --> 00:34:57,820 which could be extraterrestrial, or who knows? 659 00:34:57,838 --> 00:35:00,431 But I think the military is now admitting 660 00:35:00,582 --> 00:35:03,508 "other" could mean extraterrestrial. 661 00:35:03,602 --> 00:35:05,677 NARRATOR: Although the word "extraterrestrial" 662 00:35:05,771 --> 00:35:09,440 never appears in the report, many observers believe 663 00:35:09,667 --> 00:35:12,835 it contains one very profound statement. 664 00:35:12,853 --> 00:35:14,945 There's a bombshell quote in the report 665 00:35:15,097 --> 00:35:16,688 that a lot of people have missed, 666 00:35:16,841 --> 00:35:18,782 and it says, essentially, 667 00:35:19,009 --> 00:35:21,785 that we may have to fundamentally change 668 00:35:22,012 --> 00:35:24,179 our understanding of the laws of physics 669 00:35:24,198 --> 00:35:26,123 to figure out what's going on here. 670 00:35:26,274 --> 00:35:30,519 "We may require additional scientific knowledge 671 00:35:30,537 --> 00:35:32,871 "to successfully collect on, analyze 672 00:35:33,023 --> 00:35:34,523 "and characterize some of them. 673 00:35:34,541 --> 00:35:36,800 "Pending scientific advances 674 00:35:37,027 --> 00:35:39,803 that allowed us to better understand them." 675 00:35:39,955 --> 00:35:43,048 This is not a sci-fi novel, this is a government report. 676 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,478 That was the thing that most stuck out to me as jaw-dropping. 677 00:35:47,629 --> 00:35:49,221 "Our current science, our current tech 678 00:35:49,373 --> 00:35:50,964 can't understand some of these." 679 00:35:50,983 --> 00:35:53,392 The government said that. Wow. 680 00:35:53,544 --> 00:35:56,820 Additional scientific knowledge could mean knowledge 681 00:35:56,972 --> 00:35:59,731 beyond the known laws of physics. 682 00:35:59,884 --> 00:36:02,308 In other words, a technology 683 00:36:02,328 --> 00:36:05,721 thousands of years more advanced than ours. 684 00:36:05,814 --> 00:36:10,000 NARRATOR: The U.A.P. Report received mixed reactions from the public. 685 00:36:10,227 --> 00:36:13,412 Some were stunned by the government's admission 686 00:36:13,564 --> 00:36:16,415 that it couldn't explain so many of the unidentified objects 687 00:36:16,509 --> 00:36:18,417 seen in the sky, 688 00:36:18,511 --> 00:36:22,754 while others felt it contained nothing of substance. 689 00:36:22,907 --> 00:36:26,350 But for UFO investigators, the report represented 690 00:36:26,501 --> 00:36:29,502 validation that was long overdue. 691 00:36:29,522 --> 00:36:34,525 TSOUKALOS: The U.A.P. report that came out in June 2021 692 00:36:34,752 --> 00:36:38,754 was revolutionary for the world of UFOs, 693 00:36:38,772 --> 00:36:41,347 because for the first time 694 00:36:41,367 --> 00:36:44,184 in the history of the United States, 695 00:36:44,278 --> 00:36:48,038 the government of the United States has released a statement 696 00:36:48,265 --> 00:36:52,935 in which the whole UFO question is addressed. 697 00:36:52,953 --> 00:36:57,940 And the bottom line is that the U.S. government knows 698 00:36:57,958 --> 00:37:00,884 what our adversaries are capable of. 699 00:37:01,111 --> 00:37:05,038 And in this report it says it's not them. 700 00:37:05,132 --> 00:37:08,300 HOWE: I have more hope. 701 00:37:08,452 --> 00:37:12,563 It doesn't change the dangerous relationship 702 00:37:12,790 --> 00:37:15,215 that I have with several whistleblowers 703 00:37:15,234 --> 00:37:20,128 who have, I am telling you, substantial information. 704 00:37:20,147 --> 00:37:23,815 Not about just one type of nonhuman. 705 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:26,410 There are a lot. 706 00:37:26,637 --> 00:37:29,321 That's the part that keeps astonishing me. 707 00:37:29,473 --> 00:37:32,474 NARRATOR: Now that the United States government has confirmed 708 00:37:32,493 --> 00:37:35,811 that there are, in fact, unidentified flying objects 709 00:37:35,904 --> 00:37:38,238 in our skies that top scientists 710 00:37:38,257 --> 00:37:41,074 and military personnel cannot explain, 711 00:37:41,093 --> 00:37:44,336 many are hopeful that these objects will soon be revealed 712 00:37:44,488 --> 00:37:47,322 to be of extraterrestrial origin. 713 00:37:47,341 --> 00:37:51,768 But if that happens, what comes next? 714 00:38:02,022 --> 00:38:05,357 NARRATOR: The publication of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena report, 715 00:38:05,509 --> 00:38:09,936 along with the declassified Navy videos, 716 00:38:09,955 --> 00:38:12,456 marks the largest public disclosure of the possible 717 00:38:12,607 --> 00:38:14,458 existence of extraterrestrials in U.S. history. 718 00:38:14,685 --> 00:38:19,037 In the wake of the report, politicians like Marco Rubio, 719 00:38:19,131 --> 00:38:21,298 Mark Warner, Adam Schiff 720 00:38:21,449 --> 00:38:23,025 and Andr� Carson 721 00:38:23,118 --> 00:38:27,287 have called for further funding and study. 722 00:38:27,306 --> 00:38:29,139 There's voluminous data available, 723 00:38:29,366 --> 00:38:32,050 but the report really just skimmed the surface. 724 00:38:32,144 --> 00:38:34,369 It just said, "We're gonna need more time to look into this." 725 00:38:34,462 --> 00:38:37,314 There's a history of this going back 726 00:38:37,541 --> 00:38:40,300 to the early years of the 20th century, at least. 727 00:38:40,394 --> 00:38:42,727 Not even talking about the sightings 728 00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:45,305 going back to the Bible. 729 00:38:45,324 --> 00:38:49,551 And literature of other cultures going back thousands of years, 730 00:38:49,570 --> 00:38:52,496 talking about unexplained things in the sky. 731 00:38:52,723 --> 00:38:54,981 But just in our era, 732 00:38:55,075 --> 00:38:56,983 there have been many documented accounts 733 00:38:57,002 --> 00:38:59,336 which they chose not to deal with, 734 00:38:59,487 --> 00:39:02,247 so they just took a very narrow slice of this. 735 00:39:02,399 --> 00:39:03,899 We don't want to trivialize this matter. 736 00:39:03,917 --> 00:39:06,251 We want to make sure we remove the stigma 737 00:39:06,345 --> 00:39:08,828 while engaging with some of our civilian organizations 738 00:39:08,922 --> 00:39:10,405 who are seeing these things. 739 00:39:10,424 --> 00:39:13,258 And working with the government in ensuring 740 00:39:13,410 --> 00:39:17,337 that if it is otherworldly, we will have 741 00:39:17,431 --> 00:39:21,266 internal controls in place to protect us, and to engage, 742 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,510 in the event that that happens, in a healthy and safe way. 743 00:39:24,605 --> 00:39:28,607 NARRATOR: The majority of unidentified aerial phenomena data 744 00:39:28,701 --> 00:39:30,033 came from the U.S. Navy. 745 00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:33,762 But efforts are underway 746 00:39:33,855 --> 00:39:35,931 to standardize incident reporting 747 00:39:35,949 --> 00:39:38,934 across all government services and agencies. 748 00:39:39,027 --> 00:39:42,120 The U.A.P. Task Force plans to expand 749 00:39:42,272 --> 00:39:44,881 to include the Air Force and the FAA, 750 00:39:45,109 --> 00:39:48,777 and use artificial intelligence to analyze new data. 751 00:39:48,795 --> 00:39:51,371 KAKU: We're talking about a standardization 752 00:39:51,390 --> 00:39:55,875 by which pilots are now gonna be opening up floodgates. 753 00:39:55,969 --> 00:39:59,304 Floodgates of these sightings are now gonna be analyzed 754 00:39:59,398 --> 00:40:02,641 by physicists and by scientists. 755 00:40:02,735 --> 00:40:04,884 And I think that is a sea change 756 00:40:04,978 --> 00:40:06,903 in the way we deal with these things. 757 00:40:07,055 --> 00:40:10,407 HOWE: Let's have a real congressional hearing. 758 00:40:10,634 --> 00:40:13,985 Let's hear from real physicists and real scientists. 759 00:40:14,138 --> 00:40:16,321 That's my personal dream. 760 00:40:16,415 --> 00:40:20,642 And I would like to be there in the congressional hearing, 761 00:40:20,661 --> 00:40:23,086 standing by with my evidentiary material 762 00:40:23,313 --> 00:40:26,256 as an investigative reporter, to contribute, 763 00:40:26,483 --> 00:40:29,167 and hoping that there would be so many others, 764 00:40:29,319 --> 00:40:31,911 and that we would finally, finally, 765 00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:34,931 in a government of, by and for the people, 766 00:40:35,159 --> 00:40:39,344 just finally have everybody tell the truth. 767 00:40:39,496 --> 00:40:41,438 TSOUKALOS: What's really fascinating 768 00:40:41,665 --> 00:40:44,833 is that in the 1960s, Erich von Daniken proposed 769 00:40:44,851 --> 00:40:47,002 in Chariots of the Gods? 770 00:40:47,095 --> 00:40:51,431 that aliens would show up when Earth civilization 771 00:40:51,450 --> 00:40:55,527 would reach a certain level of technology. 772 00:40:55,621 --> 00:40:59,030 And with everything that's going on right now, 773 00:40:59,124 --> 00:41:04,019 this may be the time when we will make contact. 774 00:41:04,112 --> 00:41:07,022 ERICH VON DANIKEN: Some thousands of years ago, 775 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,209 the extraterrestrials promised to return in a faraway future. 776 00:41:11,361 --> 00:41:15,880 And we have good reasons to believe that now they are back. 777 00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:20,885 More and more of these proven UFO cases appear to the public. 778 00:41:21,038 --> 00:41:23,313 Before, it was never shown to the public. 779 00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:27,892 We know we are not alone, we are under observation, 780 00:41:28,045 --> 00:41:29,878 and it must be extraterrestrials, 781 00:41:29,896 --> 00:41:32,489 because they show a technology which we do not have. 782 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,400 NARRATOR: Could the recent attention and reporting 783 00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,719 on unidentified flying objects 784 00:41:37,812 --> 00:41:40,146 signal that we are rapidly approaching 785 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:42,557 a far more profound disclosure? 786 00:41:42,576 --> 00:41:45,577 Will we soon discover, once and for all, 787 00:41:45,671 --> 00:41:47,337 that we are not alone? 788 00:41:49,233 --> 00:41:51,425 NARRATOR: And that we have never been alone? 789 00:41:53,587 --> 00:41:57,072 Perhaps the next disclosure will not be orchestrated 790 00:41:57,090 --> 00:42:00,242 by any government or military official, 791 00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:04,746 but by otherworldly visitors themselves. 792 00:42:04,839 --> 00:42:07,858 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS 793 00:42:07,908 --> 00:42:12,458 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 65264

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