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In the 21st century,

UFOs have gone
from fringe science

to mainstream obsession.

With the interest from
so many agencies including NASA,

everybody's getting into
the game of understanding UFOs.

A new generation of researchers

is employing technology
so advanced

it can unlock clues
invisible to the human eye.

We have physical
scientific evidence

of these phenomena existing
with real scientific equipment.

And unidentified flying objects
have even captured the attention

of experts at the highest
levels of government.

The Pentagon is now
seriously investigating

the extraterrestrial question.

Is humankind
now closer than ever

to understanding
the strange events

that are happening in our skies?

- We have a lot more information.
- We have a lot of cases.

We have stories of people
who've interacted with them.

It's an exciting time.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

June 5, 2023.

The news website The Debrief

reports that former intelligence
official David Grusch

has given Congress
classified information

about deeply covert
military programs

that possess craft
of non-human origin.

The sensational report
captures the attention

of people at the highest levels
of government.

By law, we're required
to take that seriously.

The Inspector General
has referred it to the committee

as an urgent concern
and one with some credibility

to it, so we'll do our job.

David Grusch is just
the latest in a number

of high-level
whistleblowers who have

come forward in recent years
with claims that

the U.S. government knows much
more about the UFO phenomenon

than they have disclosed
to the public.

I think this new report is
interesting because it continues

to show that we really
have to talk about this.

Now, I suspect that there's
an undercurrent of "we'd really

rather not talk about it,"

but there are people
within the military

who really wouldn't mind
talking about this a little more

because they're curious, too.

Now, on the official end,
at least,

you can report these things

without fear of retribution,
and that wasn't always the case.

For the first time in history,
members of Congress,

senators, and even
former presidents

are openly talking
about the possibility

of an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.

This paradigm shift
has emboldened whistleblowers

like David Grusch
to come forward

with extraordinary claims

and represents a major turning
point in the hunt for UFOs.

What makes the modern hunt
for UFOs different

than what we've seen in the past

is the fact that
it's becoming legitimized.

We have recent revelations
from the U.S. military

talking about sightings
that they've recorded

and have finally released
under some pressure.

All these people
are gonna come together

to learn how to study UFOs,

UAPs as we now call them,
which is a brilliant idea.

The Pentagon has been incredibly

opened-minded suddenly
to admit yes,

we've investigated UFOs.

But that is only half
of the story

because we know that
they've been investigating

UFOs even earlier,

starting in the '40s and '50s.

In 1947,

Air Force General
Nathan Twining,

head of the Air
Technical Service Command,

established a program
known as Project Sign

to collect and evaluate
information

about reported UFO sightings.

Project Sign was a short-lived
endeavor, about a year or so,

and it was during that time
that there was the reported

"estimate of the situation,"

that said that this is
a bonified phenomena

and we need to study it.

Following on the heels of
Project Sign was Project Grudge,

aptly named,

which took
a very dismissive tone

to the phenomena and concluded
there is nothing here.

At the conclusion
of Project Grudge in 1952,

the military created
Project Blue Book.

The program continued
to collect and evaluate

UFO data, but now
in a more public fashion.

Project Blue Book
was largely not interested

in whether
there was a phenomena,

but more in controlling
the public narrative.

Project Blue Book really
wasn't an open conversation.

It was the Air Force looking
through the stuff saying,

"No, no, no, no, no,
swamp gas, weather balloons,

atmospheric effects, what have
you, hyster... mass hysteria."

They're putting out
a report and saying,

"Nothing to see here,
move along."

Between 1947 and 1969,

investigators working
on Projects Sign, Grudge,

and Blue Book
collectively reviewed

over 12,000 sightings worldwide.

However, on December 17, 1969,

Air Force officials announced
that they had concluded

their inquiries
into the UFO phenomena.

The government said,
"There's nothing to investigate,

but, by the way,
there's 701 unexplained cases."

So, they didn't explain why
they didn't explain those cases.

They just said, "Um, there's
nothing worth pursuing here."

When Project Blue Book

concluded with 701 UFO cases

left still unexplained,

UFO researchers were skeptical
about the government's claim

that they were no longer
interested in the phenomenon.

Decades later, it came to light

that the U.S. government

was secretly investigating
UFOs once again.

In 2007, the Department
of Defense established

the Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program,

or AATIP,

a highly classified project

tasked with investigating
unidentified aerial phenomena.

AATIP was
officially acknowledged

by the Pentagon in 2017,

but soon after, it was
discovered that the government

had a second top secret
UFO program underway.

Since 2017, there's been
a lot more digging

and revelations
that have gone on.

It turns out the program
was actually called AAWSAP,

the Advanced Aerospace Weapon
System Application Program.

AAWSAP was the biggest
UFO program

in the history
of our government.

They had 50 full-time
investigators.

You think about
Project Blue Book,

they had a handful of people
working on it full-time.

50 full-time investigators

who traveled all over
the country, all over the world,

gathering information,

and they created the world's
largest UFO database.

200,000 cases.

And none of it
has been made public.

None of it has been released.

In 2020,

the U.S. government established
yet another program

within the Department of Defense

called the UAP Task Force.

Its mission was to
scientifically investigate

and analyze military encounters

with unidentified
aerial phenomena.

The chief scientist assigned
to the task force

was Dr. Travis Taylor,

who has worked on various
government and military projects

going back decades.

He was offered the position
while investigating

anomalous events
on Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.

After the first couple of weeks

that I had come out
to Skinwalker Ranch,

we made some measurements
that startled me.

I thought the measurements
looked real similar

to electronic warfare

or non-lethal
human weapons systems.

So I reported this, and I was
invited to the Pentagon

to give a presentation
on what I had seen.

The director of the UAP Task
Force came into the meeting

and invited me
to join the task force.

Dr. Taylor and his colleagues
at the UAP Task Force

analyzed 144 cases

documented by military personnel
around the world,

including photographic
and video evidence,

as well as scientific data
taken of the encounters.

On June 25, 2021,

their preliminary findings
were presented

to the Congressional
Intelligence

and Armed Services Committees.

Of those 144 cases,

only one of them we were able
to actually find

was of terrestrial origin.

It was something like
a high-altitude balloon

that was being used
for scientific, uh, equipment.

But 143 of the 144

was actually unexplainable
with the data that we had.

I get asked all the time,
"Tell us the things

that hasn't been released
to the public yet."

Well, I can't do that,
of course.

I-I signed
non-disclosure agreements.

And unless the government
releases it

as public information,
I can't talk about it.

Could the U.S. government's
UAP investigations

have discovered
important information

that is being intentionally
hidden from the public?

And, if so,

might we soon learn of
even more astounding evidence

that has yet to be revealed?

While the government still
operates largely in secrecy,

the hunt for UFOs
has now been taken up

by mainstream scientists
and academics,

and some of them are convinced

that we may already have proof

of an intelligent
alien civilization.

Ithaca, New York.

1960.

At Cornell University,

astronomer Frank Drake

launches the first search
for alien life

performed by
an academic institution.

Using a massive radio telescope,

Drake and his team
scan the cosmos

for evidence of radio signals

that could be coming from an
extraterrestrial civilization.

While the Cornell program

ultimately found
nothing of interest,

it paved the way
for similar scientific efforts.

The most prominent
is the SETI Institute,

which stands for the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

The kind of experiment
that we do at the SETI Institute

is a listening experiment.

The idea is fairly
straightforward.

We're gonna aim some antennas
in the direction

of that little star over there,
which is not too far away,

and might have some planets,
and you know, tune as much

of the radio dials as we can
to see if we pick up a signal.

You have to look at a lot
of stars in order to catch one

that happens to be broadcasting
into space now.

So, that's basically
the strategy.

You're just trying
to find something

that indicates there's
somebody up there

at least as clever as we are.

SETI astronomers have been
listening to the cosmos

since 1984,

and in that time,
they have come across

some truly bizarre phenomena,

like an anomaly,
first detected in 2007,

known as an FRB,
or fast radio burst.

Fast radio bursts were found

by an astronomer
at West Virginia University,

and he found a signal

that only lasted
for a fraction of a second.

Just like...
like that,

about the time it takes
your eye to blink, okay?

And it went from high frequency,
to lower frequency.

So, the question is:

All right, where are they
coming from, and what are they?

And if it's very far away...
as they turned out to be...

it's in somebody else's galaxy,

and we can pick it up
here on Earth,

it's got to be something
that's really powerful.

But we still don't know
what fast radio bursts are.

While researchers
continue to search

for the source
of the fast radio bursts,

another, perhaps
even more intriguing,

celestial phenomenon has been
observed in recent years,

interstellar objects,
meaning objects

from other star systems,
entering our solar system.

The first interstellar visitor
ever detected

was a strange, oblong object
called "'Oumuamua."

'Oumuamua was discovered
by a telescope in Hawaii

called Pan-STARRS

on October 19, 2017.

And the size
of 'Oumuamua was roughly

the size of a football field,

somewhere between
100 and 200 meters.

Astronomer Dr. Avi Loeb
of Harvard University

sent shockwaves through
the world of academia

when, shortly after
'Oumuamua was detected,

he made the extraordinary claim

that the interstellar object

may be some type of
extraterrestrial craft.

Avi Loeb did
a very detailed analysis

of 'Oumuamua and noted that

its acceleration after
it passed the sun was-was

beyond what you would get
from a gravitational boost.

So that was interesting

and difficult
immediately to explain.

Professor Loeb said
that 'Oumuamua behaved

artificially, unnaturally.

He pointed to multiple areas

like speed,
acceleration, trajectory,

where he said
this was artificial.

So, in every respect,

this thing raised
some big questions.

A lot of people
who would've disregarded

somebody else saying that

as being kind of wacky,

said, "You know,
this is the chairman"

"of the department at Harvard.
This is somebody we respect.

Maybe we got to have
this conversation."

So, I think Loeb was
very courageous to do that.

Only over the past five years,
the first interstellar objects

were discovered by astronomers,

and that's what brought me
to the subject,

and, hopefully,
within the coming decades,

we'll have some evidence
that tells us

whether 'Oumuamua was
from another civilization.

And the way to find out
is not to argue about it

philosophically, but rather
to look at the sky.

So, I established
the Galileo Project

in July 2021 to search

for objects that may
be artificial in origin,

from another civilization.

In 2021,

Professor Loeb
and his colleagues

raised nearly $2 million

and founded The Galileo Project,

the largest effort
to research UAPs

in the history
of the academic world.

Using a network of new
and existing telescopes,

as well as a variety
of sky-scanning technologies,

the Galileo Project aims
to systematically search

for possible
extraterrestrial objects

both in space and within
Earth's own atmosphere.

Within the Galileo Project,
we are planning

to design a space mission
when the next

unusual interstellar object,

like 'Oumuamua, shows up,

and we might send a probe

that will take
a close-up photograph of it.

An object like 'Oumuamua

could potentially be
of artificial origin

and indicate spacecraft
that were sent

by other civilizations.

That would have
huge implications

for the future of humanity.

Professor Loeb is hopeful
that the Galileo Project

will help pave the way
for other scientists to search

for evidence
of extraterrestrial life

without fear of ridicule
or repercussions.

It is for this reason
that he named his project

after the Italian
astronomer Galileo,

who was persecuted
in the 17th century

for daring to challenge

the established
scientific notions of the time.

So, the philosophers
during the days of Galileo

refused to look
through his telescope

when he was arguing
that the evidence he finds

implies that the Earth
moves around the sun.

They wanted to believe
that the Earth

is the center of the universe,

and so, they simply
avoided the data,

and they put him
in house arrest,

so that nobody
would listen to him.

So, of course,
if there is ridicule and stigma

and we don't want
to fund the searches,

then we will be exactly
in the same position as those

philosophers who refused to look
through Galileo's telescope.

If we are open-minded
and willing to consider

that possibility
that we are not alone,

and that we are not the smartest
kid on the cosmic block,

then we might find something.

While government UFO research
remains top secret,

data gathered
by the Galileo Project

will be open to the public,

with findings published
in peer-reviewed journals.

The academic community's
growing interest

in unidentified aerial phenomena
marks a new age of UFO hunting.

An age that now includes
scientific studies

by the world's premier
space organization,

NASA.

French Guiana.
December 25, 2021.

We have liftoff. Décollage.

Liftoff from
a tropical rainforest

to the edge of time itself.

At the Guiana Space Centre,

NASA launches the most powerful
telescope ever constructed.

The James Webb Space Telescope

represents an ambitious
$10 billion effort by NASA

to see further than ever before

into the deepest parts
of the universe.

Nearly six months
into its mission, on July 11th,

James Webb delivers
its first incredible images

of previously unknown galaxies,
stars forming, and black holes.

To many, the early success
of this powerful tool

demonstrates new promise
that scientists may soon answer

an age-old question:
Are we alone in the universe?

We can now look into space
with more clarity

than in all of our
previous human history.

And with the new
James Webb Telescope,

some of those amazing images

that we've gotten from Hubble
20, 30 years ago,

now are even more rich,
more detailed, more amazing.

And with James Webb,
too, you know,

we will discover
more and more exoplanets.

And some of those exoplanets

may contain similar
intelligent life like on Earth.

Part of what
the Webb Space Telescope

is designed to do is to look

for planets that exist
in what's called

the-the habitable
or the Goldilocks zone.

So, they're the right distance
from that kind of star

to possibly be able
to support life.

Looking in the future,
ten, 20 years,

I think, and a lot of people

that are a lot smarter
than me think,

that we're probably
gonna have found something

we can classify
as extraterrestrial life.

Considering the amazing images

that the James Webb
Space Telescope has produced,

UFO hunters are asking,
what would we find

if NASA applied
their incredible technology

to search for evidence
of extraterrestrials

already visiting Earth?

The question
may soon be answered

because, on June 9, 2022,

one month before the release

of the first
Webb telescope images,

NASA officials announced
their plans to commission

an independent study on UAPs.

When you think of it,

NASA is the perfect organization
to conduct research.

They run the Space Station.

They have satellites
that probe deep into space.

They have
interstellar missions out there

in the far reaches
of the cosmos.

If they're coming
into our atmosphere

from-from deep outer space,

NASA would be the first one, uh,
to be able to detect that.

On May 31, 2023,

NASA held its first
public hearing

to discuss the agency's mission
in studying UAPs.

And it's now
our collective responsibility

to investigate these occurrences

with the rigorous scientific
scrutiny that they deserve.

It provides
an opportunity for us

to expand our understanding
of the world around us.

As an organization
dedicated to exploring

the unknown,
this work is in our DNA.

Could the unprecedented
efforts of NASA

to join the hunt for UFOs

ultimately provide
the tipping point

in finding evidence
of extraterrestrial life?

And is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest, that NASA

already possesses
strong evidence

that intelligent beings
exist beyond Earth?

NASA's experience with UFOs...

...dates right through

from the very first
Gemini missions,

all the way through
the Apollo missions,

all the way through
to the Moon landings,

we have encountered UFOs.

Former Apollo, uh, astronaut
Edgar Mitchel,

who I-I knew personally,

spoke openly about his knowledge

of not even just having seen
UFOs but alien bodies

and technology in the possession
of the United States government.

You had other NASA astronauts,
Gordon Cooper,

famously talked about UFOs
that he saw as a pilot.

You had James McDivitt,
a NASA astronaut,

and-and quite a few others
having seen UFOs.

There's the astonishing photo
of a triangular craft

taken in 1986
from the space shuttle.

And it, too, is a-a
bright daylight photograph,

and you can clearly see
this triangular craft

there outside the window
of the space shuttle.

Now, the image
is labeled "space debris."

So, that's-that's
the official view

on what this is, but this
is an interesting image.

Uh, it shows something
obviously quite structured,

and it is
unmistakably triangular.

There have been
multiple accounts

of strange things picked up
on NASA videos and photos.

They've got huge databases.

And one of the things
when NASA announced

that they were going to do
this study is, they said

"We are going
to be looking at data."

And people
were asking themselves,

"Well, what data
are they talking about?"

Well, the data they already have

and have been collecting
for decades.

Now that NASA is officially

investigating UFOs,

might we soon have
definitive evidence

that there is
an alien presence on Earth?

While the world's
premier space agency

may be better equipped
than anyone to uncover

the truth about
unidentified aerial phenomena,

some researchers believe
our greatest weapon

in the hunt for UFOs
is the smartphone,

carried by ordinary citizens
all over the world,

who are now capturing
high-definition footage

of events that defy
all conventional explanations.

In primitive rock art
throughout the world,

there are depictions of
what look like flying craft

and strange beings.

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

these images represent
the earliest documentation

of extraterrestrial encounters,

and they believe
the best UFO hunters

have always been
ordinary citizens

recording what they see
with their own eyes.

In the ancient
astronaut opinion,

those stories of UFOs today

are the same stories

that our ancestors in
the remote past also explored,

and their cell phone cameras

were the walls of caves,

and reliefs and carvings

in which they commemorated

those incredibly
significant events

that they were eyewitnesses to.

These things have been here
interacting with us forever.

On every continent,
in every culture,

throughout human history.

We call them by different names.

They appear in different guises.

We used to say
they were flying shields,

flying chariots.

Then they became flying
saucers, uh, ghost rockets.

UAP, UFO,

whatever term you want to use,

it's all the same phenomena.

In 1870, photographer
Howard Kimball

took the very first UFO photo,

which captured
a cylindrical object

above Mount Washington
in New Hampshire.

Since that time,
thousands of photos of UFOs

have been taken
all over the world

many of which
are grainy or blurry.

But now, thanks to
incredible advancements

in camera technology,

anyone with a smartphone

can capture
high-definition photos

and videos of anomalous
events in the sky.

Technology has changed so much

over the past 30, 40 years

that now it's possible
for regular Joe citizens

to be part of
this investigation.

We all have computer power
greater than the computers

that sent humans
to the Moon 50 years ago.

Couple this with the fact
that people know

UFOs are now being taken
seriously by the government,

and what we have

is an army
that has been mobilized.

An army of UFO hunters

armed with
cutting-edge technology.

The hunt is on.

A key player in
the modern-day hunt for UFOs

is documentary
filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.

Corbell has been successful

with acquiring
U.S. military videos of UAPs

and gaining permission
to share them with the public.

He is also helping
to disseminate

compelling footage
shot by civilians

using the power of social media.

I've been trying
to modernize my approach

in that I use social media

as a way to instantaneously
get information out

and obfuscate all
the channels of suppression

for this type of information.

So from Instagram
to Twitter to TikTok,

you name it,
all of these are social weapons

for us to get information
into each other's hands.

The modern hunt for UFOs
is now becoming proactive

rather than just reactive.

Social media

has been of great importance

to the modern-day
hunt for-for UAP.

Not only does it allow us to
connect directly with witnesses

and with journalists
who write articles,

and get them a bit more
educated on the issue,

engaging with various
figures on social media

means that we're asked to adhere

to a standard of evidence
that we weren't before.

Images captured
by smartphone technology

and the dissemination of them
on the Internet

have led to literally
millions of people

all around the world becoming
involved in the hunt for UFOs.

While smartphones
have made it possible

for anyone to record
high-definition footage

of strange events in the sky,

serious UFO hunters
are employing

multiple technologies
to separate

the extraordinary
from the mundane.

You have to really sort through

a lot of things and make sure

that what you're seeing
is truly a UFO.

There could be some
anomalies due to lighting.

There could be birds.

There could be other experiments

or different types
of technologies

going on in that area.

Sometimes, you have to have

advanced technology
to figure that out.

I took a trip to Mount Adams

about four years ago
on a retreat,

and the first night,
I was able to see 13 UFOs

that were moving around,
changing course and direction,

getting brighter
and also getting dimmer.

And some of them actually
even descended down

onto the mountain and then
went back up with lights on.

Now we had our
satellite tracking on,

our apps, we had
our ISS tracker on

to make sure we weren't
seeing anything

that was already up there.

Clearly, they were something
that is unidentified

and we can't really
figure out exactly what it is,

but it definitely was
an amazing phenomenon.

In addition to devices
that can detect airplanes,

satellites, and other
known objects in the sky,

there is another
powerful technology

now available to
anyone with a computer

or smartphone called MADAR,

which stands for

Multiple Anomaly Detection
and Automatic Recording.

In terms of having tools,
there's something

in the United States
called MADAR,

and this is about

70 to 100 different nodes
around the country.

You can put this and
attach it to your computer

where there's
detection instrumentation

that will detect changes

in electromagnetic
qualities in your area,

and other factors,

to detect various
types of anomalies

that could be, uh, UAP.

Could this new technological era

of the hunt for UFO evidence

finally lead to the answers
that humankind has been seeking

for thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest that perhaps

the most effective
of all UFO hunters

is a non-human intelligence.

In the 21st century,

UFO hunters are
armed with technology

that allows them to record
anomalies in the sky

with incredible clarity.

And today's technology
can also glean new information

from photographs
taken decades ago.

The northern highlands
of Costa Rica.

September 4, 1971.

Photographer Sergio Loaiza
is conducting an aerial survey

of Lake Cote for the
National Geographic Institute

using a special
map-making camera

that snaps photos
at 13-second intervals.

He's up in an airplane
about 10,000 feet.

He's taking photos of
a hydroelectric project,

and they're trying to calculate

the environmental
impact of this.

So, he's just taking
these ordinary photos,

gets back to the lab,

takes a look
at the contact sheets

and says, "What's that up
in the righthand corner there?"

It's this mysterious, circular,

shiny metallic craft.

Curiously, the object
does not appear

in either the previous
frame of film

or the one after.

Instantly, the National
Geographic Institute says,

"You can't talk about this,

and we're gonna
put a lid on this."

And they do for some time.

According to Loaiza,
he and his colleagues

were forbidden from
divulging any information

about the object
captured in the photograph,

which was estimated to
be 160 feet in diameter.

But in 1979,
the photograph was leaked

to the Argentine newspaper
La Nación

and analyzed by UFO researchers.

The photo

is studied later
by Jacques Vallée

and other UFO investigators,

and they realize this is
a tremendous photograph.

This photo has
been official declared

by Costa Rica as
an official UFO photo.

They don't know what it is
after years and years of study.

Many skeptics suggested
that the object

was likely some
kind of debris or smudge

that got on the film
during the development process.

But in 2021, Esteban Carranza,

a friend of the Loaiza family,

was able obtain
the original contact sheets

and have them scanned
using the latest

and most sophisticated
technology.

He gains access
to the original contact sheets

and sends them off
to a photographic lab,

and they do
a reproduction of the image

using the most
advanced technology

to bring it forward,
and they come up

with this 1.8 gigabyte
image of this craft.

The debris and smudges

that were visible in
the original photograph

are no longer present in
the new higher resolution image,

but the saucer-shaped
object remains

and is clearer than ever.

This higher definition scan
showed some new details.

These new details
help take a number

of prosaic explanations
off the table.

For example, it was said

that it could have been
a chip in the glass.

However, you can see
that that's not the case.

This photo, in and of itself,

in its original state,
was tremendous.

But now, with this incredible
leap in technology,

we're able to bring it to life
in an even greater way,

and it's just another example

of this great leap
that we're making now

in our understanding
of these UAPs.

Another way in which UFO hunters

are utilizing evidence
from the past is through

the advancements of
artificial intelligence, or AI.

In 2023,

New York-based Enigma Labs

launched a project to
crowdsource and quantify data

about UAPs with the help
of artificial intelligence,

and also compare it
with data going back

all the way to the 1940s.

Alejandro Rojas acts
as the company's head

of research and content.

I help with providing
background information

on UAPs and the history
of UAP research.

And then also to make sure

that when we are

sharing information
that it's very comprehensive.

So the articles,
for instance, we write

on historical cases are
going to have more information

than I think
you'll find anywhere else.

Enigma Labs hopes

that by creating
a database of both

old and new evidence,

patterns will emerge that could

finally provide
real answers to explain

the strange events
that have been witnessed

in our skies
for thousands of years.

We're gathering
a lot of data to hopefully

have a bigger database
than anyone's had

out there about
cases throughout the world.

And then applying AI
to go through those cases

to scrub them
to find those good cases.

With this unprecedented effort

across all disciplines...

from academics,
government, and technology...

is humanity on the cusp

of discovering compelling
evidence that there is,

in fact, an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes.

Whoa, we got something!
We got something!

And point
to the discoveries being made

at the site
of the most intense UFO hunt

ever conducted,
Skinwalker Ranch.

- Do you see this?
- Yeah.

Here, on the 500-acre property

known as Skinwalker Ranch...

Everybody keep your eyes
peeled to the skies.

...a team of investigators
is conducting

the most sophisticated

and comprehensive UFO hunt

currently underway
anywhere on the planet.

Erik, we got something moving
right overhead of us right now.

- That's not a plane.
- I'm not seeing it.

It just sped up.
It just vanished.

Skinwalker Ranch is one

of the most anomalous areas
on this planet.

Here's what people have seen
in that ranch:

strange creatures suddenly
appearing out of nowhere...

UFOs, instruments don't work.

When it comes to Skinwalker,

you've actually had
some scientific research

and a lot of scientists

having their own encounters.

Since 2016,

investigators have been using

state-of-the-art
camera equipment,

ground-penetrating radar,

radiation detectors,
and a host of other

highly sophisticated equipment
in an effort

to meticulously study

and document anomalous
activity at the site.

We've made incredible progress

in documenting
the reality of the phenomena.

We are just getting started

in scratching the surface

of what we are really
dealing with.

That's significant.

In 2019,

Dr. Travis Taylor was asked

to join the team
at Skinwalker Ranch,

just before he was brought on

to the government's
UAP Task Force.

I was really excited
when Brandon Fugal

and his principal investigator,

Erik Bard invited me

to come out to Skinwalker Ranch

and join the investigation team.

- Hey, look! UAP right there!
- Yep.

Since I've been out there

at Skinwalker Ranch, I've seen
so many different things...

- Y'all see that?
- ...that before

I would've not really
believed they existed.

For UFO researchers,

the investigations
at Skinwalker Ranch

represent a promising new era...

- What are you seeing?
- A signal.

...one in which
a former investigator

for the federal government
and civilian researchers

can work together
in the search for answers.

What is that?

For me to be
doing the task force work

and the Skinwalker Ranch work,

I think we're in a new era

of understanding
the UAP-UFO phenomena.

It did come out of the mesa.

It came out of the mesa?

It came right out of the mesa.

Finally, there's
Congressional oversight

on UFO investigation programs.

And maybe one day we'll find,

if they are extraterrestrial
intelligence,

the public
will get to know that.

For the first time
in human history,

the search for evidence of
extraterrestrials visiting Earth

is the subject of
a collaborative worldwide effort

across the scientific
and intelligence communities.

20, 30 years ago
it would've been a dream

if I would've
opened the paper and I read

NASA is now studying UAPs,

and Harvard created
the Galileo Project,

and other universities
are following suit

by seriously investigating
the extraterrestrial question.

And so today here we are,
it is happening,

and so I am over the moon
that this is happening.

Look at that thing!

It's exciting as hell.

I never thought I would
live to see

this kind of a change.

Where it is acceptable

for mainstream media
to dig into it.

Where it's acceptable for
Congress to authorize a program,

to hold hearings

to dig into it
and demand information.

You know, in the end we have
a lot more information.

We have a lot of cases.

We really don't have
any solid answers.

I hope that in my lifetime
we'll have some.

Could humankind
finally be on the brink

of making
an incredible discovery?

Will irrefutable evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation

come from a new breed
of UFO hunters?

Like Harvard astronomers,

NASA scientists,

government researchers,

or even ordinary citizens?

Right there!

Perhaps now that
people from all walks of life

are investigating what's
happening in our skies,

we will uncover
an alien presence

that has been with us all along.