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Is the U.S. government
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covering up the truth
about alien contact?
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And if so, why?
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The government seems to be
completely unaccountable
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to the American public.
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They rarely release anything
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that they know
or their findings.
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The fact
that the U.S. government has
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investigated thousands
and thousands of reports
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leads me to think
they know much more
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than they let us believe.
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Could the government
have a secret agenda,
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one known to only a select few,
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and perhaps dating back
hundreds of years?
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The government's
program continues
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to be deny, deny, deny.
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Sometimes,
government finds it helpful
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to sow seeds of disinformation
and misinformation
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to hide the facts
about these sorts of programs.
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Hillary Clinton
was basically saying,
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"You are going to give me
the information I need"
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to disclose
the extraterrestrial presence,
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"or I'm gonna fire
every single one of you."
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People want to know
what the government knows,
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and they ought to know
what the government knows.
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On December 16th, 2017,
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The New York Times
ran an explosive story
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entitled "Glowing Auras
and 'Black Money':"
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The Pentagon's
Mysterious UFO Program."
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It was the first time
the American public learned
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of a top secret
U.S. government project,
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the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program,
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otherwise known as AATIP.
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The revelations
concerning the existence
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of the Pentagon's AATIP program
are extraordinary.
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It is the single
biggest ever news
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in the whole history
of the UFO phenomenon.
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It's not quite a spaceship
in a hangar smoking gun,
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but it's the closest
we've ever been.
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I assure you that nothing
like this has ever happened
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in the history of this issue.
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This is a milestone.
This is a watershed.
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The article reported
that the program had been run
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by a former Pentagon official
named Luis Elizondo,
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a senior career
intelligence officer
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with top security clearance and
with experience in everything
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from microbiology
and parasitology
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to the study
of global terrorism.
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It was Elizondo's job
to investigate reports
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of unidentified flying objects,
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and to measure what threat they
could pose to national security.
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AATIP received these cases
from various different channels.
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In some cases, reporting would
come up through Navy channels.
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In other cases, it would come up
through Air Force channels.
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In other cases,
it would come through
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the intelligence community,
and all roads led to our office,
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regarding the phenomena.
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Elizondo played a key role
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in the government's
top secret AATIP program
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prior to his leaving
the government in 2017.
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Among the reasons given for
his departure was the bitterness
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he felt that the research
he was conducting,
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and the conclusions that he and
his colleagues were reaching,
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were not being taken seriously
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by other agencies
within the government.
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Even Congress, to which
AATIP owed its funding,
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was hard-pressed to give
Elizondo so much as a hearing
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so that his findings could be
made part of the public record.
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Interestingly, just two months
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after Elizondo's exit
from the government,
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The New York Times
broke the major story,
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exposing the AATIP program
and many of the facts
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surrounding the government's
secret research
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into UFO activity.
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When I read in The New York
Times this front page story
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that the government was running
this semi-secret program
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to investigate, well,
aerial phenomena,
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which is kind of
a code word for UFOs,
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yeah, you know, I thought,
"My God, all these years,
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"you know, people who think
that we're being visited
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"were claiming that
the government was, in fact,
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"possessing some
secret knowledge about this.
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And, sure enough, they did have
this secret investigation."
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For Luis Elizondo,
The New York Times article
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served as a vindication
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for the years that his research
went unrecognized
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and his warnings unheeded.
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For if the UFO activity
being recorded was real,
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so, too, was the possibility
that it was being caused
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by technologies
that were not only unknown,
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but of extraterrestrial origin.
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Elizondo,
he resigned because he felt
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the government
considered this a joke.
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I think that the fact
that these folks are out there
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trying to get the answers
that we're all seeking,
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absolutely fantastic.
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And they're getting
to top government officials.
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And someday,
we're gonna get the answers
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from people like that...
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Not from government,
but from people like that.
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Luckily for Luis Elizondo,
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one of the people who took him
and his research seriously
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was musician and UFO researcher
Tom DeLonge.
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Tom DeLonge, who is most famous
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for his being the lead
in Blink-182.
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I've known Tom for a while,
and he spearheaded an initiative
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that's brought together a number
of scientists and others
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to both continue to study
the phenomena on the outside,
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in the private sector,
and to raise funds to do that.
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His enthusiasm, his passion
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has driven things forward.
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A lot of people were saying,
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"What does a rock star
know about all this?"
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Let's not forget that sometimes
even people in government
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and military and
the intelligence community
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get a little more starstruck
than they should by celebrities.
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Tom DeLonge was able to use this
to leverage, I guess, access
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where others had
tried and failed.
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In October 2017,
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Tom DeLonge announced
the creation
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of his To The Stars Academy
of Arts & Science,
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an organization devoted
to the study of UFOs
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and the possible existence
of extraterrestrial activity
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here on Earth.
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When Elizondo left the Pentagon,
he was determined
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to bring AATIP's years of
investigation out of the shadows
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by releasing several
of the videos he had collected.
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One of them featured
this incredible encounter,
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taken by a fighter jet
in Florida in 2015,
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now known as the Gimbal video.
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On December 18, 2017,
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DeLonge and Elizondo revealed
a second shocking video
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which was released through
The Washington Post.
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This UFO had been tracked
by the USS Princeton
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for several days
over the Pacific Ocean,
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approximately 100 miles
southwest of San Diego.
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On the screen, it also says
the speed of the F-18
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is 250 knots, roughly
about 280 miles per hour.
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This F-18 can't seem
to get any closer
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to this vehicle, whatever it is.
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Now, the F-18's one of
the highest technology
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fighter crafts on the planet.
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And it can't catch this thing?
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When it darts offscreen
to the left,
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it would be going
extremely fast.
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The g-forces would
turn a person inside it
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into, like, tapioca pudding.
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I mean, it would kill them.
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In March 2018,
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a third Pentagon video entitled
"Go Fast" was released,
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and featured yet another
unexplained aerial encounter.
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But perhaps
the most shocking information
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to come from Tom DeLonge
and his To The Stars Academy was
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Luis Elizondo's claim that
Bigelow Aerospace had modified
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its buildings for the storage
of strange metal alloys
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of unknown origin,
also known as metamaterials.
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Now, hold, stop the presses
right there.
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What are these metal alloys?
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Luis Elizondo has referred
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to these as "meta materials."
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The implication is that they're
not special magical elements,
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or anything,
but they do seem to be
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materials that
have been studied.
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According to Elizondo,
tests have been run.
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The answer has come back:
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whatever these things were,
they came from space.
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There was also indications
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that there were certain polymers
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that were discovered
at crash sites
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that were unexplained
and were reviewed.
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You know, for years and years,
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UFO researchers had talked about
crash retrievals of UFOs,
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or that elements
of these objects
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had been recovered
and were being studied.
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And skeptics would laugh
at these claims.
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You know, how ridiculous
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such conspiracy
paranoid fantasies were.
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Well, guess what.
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Now we have it confirmed.
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What are these materials?
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Are they of this Earth?
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Are they from an advanced
alien intelligence?
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Were these metals actually taken
from crashed UFOs?
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What are the sources
for these kinds of metals?
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These are the kind of questions
that we need to learn
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the answers to if we're gonna
get to the bottom
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of understanding what
the government knows about UFOs.
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Is it possible that
the U.S. military has recovered
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crashed extraterrestrial
spacecraft,
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and that wreckage
from these aircraft
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is currently being stored
and studied
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by a top-secret team
at Bigelow Aerospace?
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One of the really
interesting things about AATIP
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is how much information
hasn't been released.
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We hear things that are coming.
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There's this report
that was written
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that we're supposed to get
to see at some point.
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Haven't seen it yet.
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And then, are there more videos?
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We've seen, I think,
three videos come out
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that they've released.
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There has to be more.
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They were doing this for,
like, five years,
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or maybe even
a lot longer than that.
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I bet you there's a lot more.
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Other secret military programs
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have been going on
for many, many decades.
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And it's really just the tip
of the iceberg.
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Was the U.S.
government's AATIP program
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the only one to be investigating
extraterrestrial activity?
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And, if so, how was
it started, and why?
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And was the government
seriously concerned
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that such activity
was happening?
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Or was the bigger concern
that the public
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would find out about it?
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Washington, D.C., 2007.
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Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid of Nevada
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summons Senator Daniel Inouye
from Hawaii
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and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens
to a secure room
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in the Capitol Building
for a secret meeting.
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He convinces them
to lend their support
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to fund a project
researching UFO reports
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in the interest
of national security...
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The Advanced Aviation Threat
Identification Program,
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or AATIP.
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Senator Reid was successful
in getting money
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into the Defense Department
budget
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to create a small office
to look at
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what the government knew,
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and to study some more recent
incidents that had occurred,
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and to delve into
the background,
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and to try to explain
what pilots who had encountered
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strange aerial phenomena
couldn't explain.
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Without any public debate,
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$22 million is allocated
for AATIP
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from a black money budget
that few people know about
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or can monitor.
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Much of it,
I think, was classified.
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Much of it was unclassified,
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but I think people didn't know
about the program.
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I'm very glad that my friend
Harry Reid decided
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that he would pursue this
and sought money for it.
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Senator Stevens was genuinely
interested in the topic.
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But none of them
went out and discussed it.
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When later asked about
his support for the program,
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Senator Reid said that he was
inspired by his friend,
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retired former senator
and astronaut John Glenn.
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Glenn, the first American
astronaut to orbit the Earth,
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told Reid that he thought
that the federal government
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should be looking seriously
into UFOs.
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But there are some who believe
that Reid's support
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owes less to John Glenn
than to his friendship
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with one of the senator's
largest campaign contributors:
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Robert Bigelow, the founder
of Bigelow Aerospace.
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Robert Bigelow owned
a series of hotels,
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and he sold it
and made a lot of money.
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He decided then he wanted
to get into space exploration.
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He's fascinated by
extraterrestrials and UFOs.
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NASA was providing insight,
as opposed to oversight...
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Which is an important
distinction there...
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And his dear friend,
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada,
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was convinced by Robert Bigelow
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to get the government
to spend $22 million
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into this program
to investigate UFOs.
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It's not
a coincidence, to my mind,
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that he was involved in
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the Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program.
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He builds rockets and planes
and who knows what else,
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and he seems like
a perfectly logical person
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to have been the point man
in the private sector
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for using the information that
was gleaned from that project,
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whatever it was, and we don't
know what a lot of it was
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because it's classified.
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At the time,
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the fact that much
of AATIP's research was
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outsourced to Bigelow Aerospace
made perfect sense.
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First of all, the company
already had a staff
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of highly qualified
aerospace engineers.
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And, secondly, an outside
company could operate
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without the kind
of public scrutiny
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imposed on
a government-based agency.
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Bigelow could operate
in total secrecy.
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Private companies aren't held to
the Freedom of Information Act.
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Private companies can do
whatever they want to
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with their funding, and
you can't go then and fill out
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a Freedom of Information Act
request.
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That's a way to keep things
more secretive.
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But was the AATIP
program's need for secrecy
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merely designed
to keep its UFO findings
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independent of public scrutiny?
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Or was there
a greater interest in hiding
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not only what AATIP was finding,
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but also what those in charge
of the program were looking for?
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In May 2017,
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Robert Bigelow was the subject
of a profile
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on CBS's 60 Minutes.
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The piece was meant to focus
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on Bigelow's relationship
to NASA
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and his activities in creating
life-support habitats
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for future astronauts.
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During his interview,
Bigelow revealed to 60 Minutes
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that he was not only
an aerospace enthusiast,
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but a full-fledged believer
in extraterrestrials.
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Do you believe in aliens?
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I'm absolutely convinced.
That's all there is to it.
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Do you also believe
that UFOs have come to Earth?
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There has been and is
an existing presence...
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An E.T. presence.
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And I've spent millions
and millions.
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I've probably spent more
as an individual
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than anybody else
in the United States
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has ever spent on this subject.
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Is it risky for you to say,
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you know, in public
that you believe
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- in UFOs and aliens?
- I don't give a damn.
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- I don't care.
- You don't worry
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that some people will say,
"Did you hear that guy?
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He sounds like he's crazy."
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- I don't care.
- Why not?
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It's not gonna
make a difference.
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It's not gonna change reality
of what I know.
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Bob Bigelow said,
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"E.T.s are here.
They're right under your nose."
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And he uses the word "E.T."
He doesn't beat around the bush.
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Robert Bigelow became my hero.
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That "I don't give a damn"
really was for a lot of people.
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It was for every billionaire
space jockey out there,
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whether it's Elon Musk
or Branson or Bezos.
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But guess what.
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None of those people
have ever said to a reporter,
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"You know, I'm pretty sure
there's extraterrestrials here."
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Bigelow did.
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We must now go and ask the head
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of Bigelow Aerospace
what does he mean
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that aliens are
under everyone's noses.
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This story really is begging
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for somebody
to go to Robert Bigelow
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and say, "Can we now go
and see your warehouse?"
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What a fantastic next step
it would be for the world.
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Although funding
for the AATIP program
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was quietly ended in 2012,
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there are those who believe
that its focus on the study
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of recent UFO activity
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and on the study
of extraterrestrial life
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are still alive and well,
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although now further hidden
under a different agency name.
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When the Pentagon
grudgingly admitted
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the existence
of the AATIP program,
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they did a clever thing,
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and they said that the funding
had run out in 2012.
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The implication was
that the program was no more,
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but with my knowledge of the way
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in which these classified
sensitive programs are run,
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pulling the funding part
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is not the same
as terminating the project.
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But while some version
of the government's
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AATIP program may still be
operating in secret,
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the same cannot be said
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for some of the agency's
former employees.
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And there is one in particular
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who is not only open to the idea
that aliens do exist,
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he has made it his mission
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to communicate his findings
throughout the world.
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When The New York
Times story broke,
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revealing the existence
of the U.S. government's
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ultra top secret AATIP program,
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UFO experts
and ancient astronaut theorists
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had validation
for what they knew
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had been happening for decades:
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that the government has proof
of extraterrestrial visitation
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and that they have been
hiding it from the public.
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The investigations were denied
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during the time
of their happening.
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And it's really curious
that we're always told,
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"No, these programs
are not happening."
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And then, 20 years later, these
documents are being released
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to reveal the fact that
these investigations did happen.
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My initial reaction
to the information
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that was released
in December of 2017
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was that this has really been
going on for over 70 years.
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Although
the government's AATIP program
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was established in 2007,
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it was by no means
the first top secret program
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designed to investigate
UFO activity
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in the United States.
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The first was known simply
as Project Sign,
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and it was set up
within the U.S. Air Force
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to investigate
unexplained aerial phenomena,
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such as the event now known
as the Battle of Los Angeles.
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What's called the Battle of I.A.
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is actually one of the earliest
unexplained UFO mysteries
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in modern... our modern era.
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Three months after Pearl Harbor,
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it took place on the early
morning of February 25, 1942.
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An unknown object appeared
over Los Angeles
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and anti-aircraft guns
opened fire on it.
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The anti-aircraft guns
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began barking during a blackout
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ordered by the IV Interceptor
Command at 2:25 a.m.
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1,430 artillery shells
were fired
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at several unknown objects.
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Many eyewitnesses
on the ground saw this.
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There was concern that the
Japanese were somehow involved,
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but there was no
Japanese aircraft carrier,
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no chance
that Japanese airplanes
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could have been
responsible for this.
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The Secretary of the Navy
said to the public,
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"It was just war nerves.
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There was nothing out there,
whatsoever."
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Although the U.S. Army Air Force
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officially dismissed
the objects seen in the sky
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as weather balloons,
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they failed to explain
why so many weather balloons
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would have been floating over
Los Angeles in the first place.
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In the years following
the Battle of Los Angeles,
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numerous other UFO sightings
were reported,
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including the one
widely referred to as
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"the Roswell incident,"
in which an unidentified object,
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referred to in the press
as a flying saucer,
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reportedly crashed on a ranch
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just outside the town
of Roswell, New Mexico,
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on July 4, 1947.
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Within 24 hours,
the story changed.
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And they said,
"We made a mistake.
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"It's not a flying disc.
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It's just debris
from a weather balloon."
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The Roswell incident was
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probably a major contributor
to the establishment
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of what became known
as Project Sign
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just a couple of months later.
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By the time Project Sign
was established in 1948,
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UFO sightings
had become so frequent,
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they could no longer
be ignored or dismissed.
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Given the fact that there was
a Cold War escalating
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between the United States
and the Soviet Union,
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concerns that UFOs
might be spy satellites
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or foreign-made weapons
gave some justification
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00:23:19,471 --> 00:23:22,563
to the increasing paranoia.
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Answers needed to be found.
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But just as the government's
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first official UFO program
was getting started,
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it was suddenly
and mysteriously shut down.
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There was a very big incident
during the summer of 1948,
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when a report went to
the Air Force Chief of Staff,
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General Hoyt Vandenberg,
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and it stated,
"This is real. They're here."
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And Vandenberg closed down
Project Sign.
448
00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:53,768
But why would
the Air Force Chief of Staff
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00:23:53,769 --> 00:23:57,779
shut down a program
designed to study UFOs
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just after being informed
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that UFOs were not only real
but of genuine concern?
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There seems to be
a pattern of suppression
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over the last 70 years when
it comes to the UFO subject.
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And all of these government
investigations into UFOs,
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where they look into it,
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then they say
there's nothing to it.
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00:24:17,371 --> 00:24:19,083
Then they look into it again,
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00:24:19,084 --> 00:24:21,090
then they're finding
that there is something to it.
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00:24:21,091 --> 00:24:23,012
But they don't want
to say what it is.
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For the next four years,
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UFO sightings continued
to be reported,
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so many, in fact,
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that the government could no
longer dismiss them as hoaxes,
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weather anomalies,
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or simply the product
of mass hysteria.
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By March 1952,
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a number of high-ranking
Air Force generals
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became so frustrated
with the military's
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00:24:49,435 --> 00:24:51,947
previous attempts
to properly investigate
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so-called flying saucers
that they launched a program
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that would be the most serious
and best-funded to date:
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Project Blue Book.
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Under the command of Air Force
Captain Edward Ruppelt,
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this new top secret agency
would take UFOs
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and their potential threat
to national security
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00:25:12,101 --> 00:25:13,776
very seriously.
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00:25:13,777 --> 00:25:18,299
Project Blue Book
produced a standard form
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for people who wanted
to report a UFO.
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What did it look like?
Was there a sound?
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They even had a chart
for people to calculate
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the angle of elevation.
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If UFOs are nothing
to worry about,
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why is the Air Force
requesting so much information
484
00:25:38,745 --> 00:25:42,077
about the true nature
of what the witnesses saw?
485
00:25:42,078 --> 00:25:45,245
In January 1953,
486
00:25:45,270 --> 00:25:48,240
after gathering hundreds
of reported sightings,
487
00:25:48,265 --> 00:25:50,607
photographs and interviews,
488
00:25:50,632 --> 00:25:54,437
Captain Ruppelt and astronomer
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
489
00:25:54,462 --> 00:25:57,518
prepared and presented
their best 23 cases
490
00:25:58,061 --> 00:26:00,860
to a CIA-formed panel
of scientists
491
00:26:00,885 --> 00:26:04,257
led by Dr. H.P. Robertson.
492
00:26:04,282 --> 00:26:06,331
The Robertson Panel concluded
493
00:26:06,356 --> 00:26:08,866
that the evidence
could all be dismissed
494
00:26:08,891 --> 00:26:10,730
as natural occurrences
495
00:26:10,755 --> 00:26:14,310
and was not worth the effort
of the government.
496
00:26:14,749 --> 00:26:17,436
And it was the Robertson Panel
which was the origin
497
00:26:17,461 --> 00:26:20,139
for a lot of the propaganda
that was put out in the media
498
00:26:20,509 --> 00:26:22,676
when it came to UFOs.
499
00:26:22,701 --> 00:26:24,624
They wanted to publicly
ridicule the subject,
500
00:26:24,649 --> 00:26:27,577
so that people wouldn't want
to be associated with it,
501
00:26:27,602 --> 00:26:29,902
basically killing
all the public interest
502
00:26:29,927 --> 00:26:32,562
in this field so they could
continue to research
503
00:26:32,587 --> 00:26:34,595
these exotic technologies
behind the scenes.
504
00:26:39,269 --> 00:26:44,379
In 1969, Project Blue Book
was finally shut down
505
00:26:44,404 --> 00:26:46,412
on the grounds
that there was no proof
506
00:26:46,437 --> 00:26:50,160
the unidentified objects posed
a national security threat
507
00:26:50,185 --> 00:26:53,293
or were of
extraterrestrial origin.
508
00:26:53,318 --> 00:26:56,330
But was that really
the end of the story
509
00:26:56,355 --> 00:26:59,116
or only the beginning?
510
00:27:01,131 --> 00:27:03,876
In February 2018,
511
00:27:03,901 --> 00:27:07,076
Nick Pope, the former
Director of Defence Security
512
00:27:07,101 --> 00:27:09,103
at the British
Ministry of Defence,
513
00:27:09,128 --> 00:27:13,560
traveled to Washington, D.C.,
to meet with Chase Kloetzke,
514
00:27:13,585 --> 00:27:16,513
a registered lobbyist
for UFO disclosure
515
00:27:16,538 --> 00:27:18,662
and a former program developer
516
00:27:18,687 --> 00:27:21,974
for the U.S.
Department of Defense.
517
00:27:21,975 --> 00:27:23,975
Chase Kloetzke has investigated
518
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,428
numerous U.S. government
secret studies into UFOs
519
00:27:27,453 --> 00:27:30,728
and has examined many
of the once-classified files
520
00:27:30,753 --> 00:27:33,135
pertaining to Project Blue Book.
521
00:27:33,689 --> 00:27:38,050
I've got this Project Blue Book
file from the FBI archives.
522
00:27:38,075 --> 00:27:41,315
And the first page I want
to really go over with you
523
00:27:41,340 --> 00:27:46,150
is this one that indeed reads
"UFO fact sheet."
524
00:27:46,175 --> 00:27:49,563
Okay, so this is basically
a summary of the position
525
00:27:49,588 --> 00:27:51,034
with regard
to Project Blue Book.
526
00:27:51,059 --> 00:27:53,375
- Right, the official statement.
- Okay.
527
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,073
And so, this says,
528
00:27:55,098 --> 00:27:57,817
"Since the termination
of Project Blue Book,
529
00:27:58,005 --> 00:28:00,816
"no evidence has been
presented to indicate
530
00:28:00,849 --> 00:28:03,001
"that further
investigation of UFOs
531
00:28:03,026 --> 00:28:04,616
by the Air Force is warranted."
532
00:28:04,733 --> 00:28:05,620
"Terminated."
533
00:28:05,645 --> 00:28:10,690
Well, was the program really
terminated? That's my question.
534
00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:14,187
Absolutely. And if it was,
what took its place?
535
00:28:14,212 --> 00:28:15,590
Well, yes, the Air Force
536
00:28:15,615 --> 00:28:17,951
isn't suddenly going to stop
being interested
537
00:28:17,976 --> 00:28:20,959
in uncorrelated targets
in its airspace.
538
00:28:20,984 --> 00:28:23,471
Right, absolutely.
And the second document,
539
00:28:23,496 --> 00:28:25,129
I really want you
to weigh in on.
540
00:28:25,154 --> 00:28:26,450
It doesn't make sense.
541
00:28:26,475 --> 00:28:30,472
Wow. 12,618 sightings.
542
00:28:30,497 --> 00:28:31,662
That's a lot.
543
00:28:31,687 --> 00:28:36,291
And 701 of them remained
completely unidentified.
544
00:28:36,316 --> 00:28:37,871
That's a staggering amount.
545
00:28:37,896 --> 00:28:41,487
These are the cases
that were properly investigated,
546
00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:45,272
interviewed witnesses,
radar tapes were looked at,
547
00:28:45,297 --> 00:28:47,807
and still no answers found.
548
00:28:48,989 --> 00:28:51,775
Wait a minute.
Here, look. Here it is.
549
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,016
At the end of the program,
the unknowns drop.
550
00:28:56,041 --> 00:29:00,692
They go from 32 to 19
to three and one.
551
00:29:00,717 --> 00:29:04,021
I smell a rat.
They've cooked the books.
552
00:29:04,853 --> 00:29:08,032
- They can't pull the plug on the program...
- Right.
553
00:29:08,033 --> 00:29:10,207
...if you've still got
a high number of unknowns.
554
00:29:10,208 --> 00:29:12,927
So they clearly
pushed those cases
555
00:29:12,928 --> 00:29:15,394
out of the unidentified column
556
00:29:15,395 --> 00:29:18,909
and into the cases that are
explained, at least publicly.
557
00:29:18,910 --> 00:29:21,001
This is their way out.
558
00:29:23,805 --> 00:29:26,817
Was Project Blue Book
officially shut down
559
00:29:26,818 --> 00:29:29,451
because it had simply found
no convincing evidence
560
00:29:29,452 --> 00:29:31,502
that UFOs were real?
561
00:29:31,503 --> 00:29:33,971
Or was it because the government
562
00:29:33,972 --> 00:29:36,189
had come to
the opposite conclusion,
563
00:29:36,190 --> 00:29:41,669
that not only were they real
but of extraterrestrial origin,
564
00:29:41,670 --> 00:29:45,727
a truth that could be
so potentially disturbing,
565
00:29:45,728 --> 00:29:49,702
it needed to be covered up
even deeper than before?
566
00:29:53,675 --> 00:29:55,765
As far as UFO researchers
567
00:29:55,766 --> 00:29:58,485
and ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
568
00:29:58,486 --> 00:30:01,790
proof that the U.S. government
has not only known
569
00:30:01,791 --> 00:30:04,634
about extraterrestrial activity
on our planet,
570
00:30:04,635 --> 00:30:07,814
but has been systematically
covering it up for decades,
571
00:30:07,815 --> 00:30:09,655
first came in the form
572
00:30:09,656 --> 00:30:12,877
of a single roll
of 35-millimeter film,
573
00:30:12,878 --> 00:30:15,722
anonymously sent
to a documentary filmmaker
574
00:30:15,723 --> 00:30:20,408
by the name of
Jaime Shandera in 1984.
575
00:30:21,623 --> 00:30:23,588
The film, when developed,
576
00:30:23,589 --> 00:30:25,931
showed images
of an eight-page memo
577
00:30:25,932 --> 00:30:28,650
allegedly written in 1952
578
00:30:28,651 --> 00:30:32,917
by the first director of
the CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter,
579
00:30:32,918 --> 00:30:36,139
to President-elect
Dwight Eisenhower.
580
00:30:36,140 --> 00:30:39,903
In it, Hillenkoetter
informs Eisenhower
581
00:30:39,904 --> 00:30:43,293
of the existence of a top secret
government think tank
582
00:30:43,294 --> 00:30:45,134
that was originally set up
583
00:30:45,135 --> 00:30:48,731
by President Harry S. Truman
in 1947.
584
00:30:48,732 --> 00:30:52,999
It was referred to
in the memo as MJ-12,
585
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,057
initials which stood for a far
more mysterious group of men
586
00:30:57,058 --> 00:30:59,861
known as the Majestic 12.
587
00:30:59,862 --> 00:31:02,664
The authorization
to establish MJ-12
588
00:31:02,665 --> 00:31:05,215
allegedly came from
President Harry Truman
589
00:31:05,216 --> 00:31:07,934
on September 24, 1947.
590
00:31:07,935 --> 00:31:13,080
This was actually one day
after the famous memo
591
00:31:13,081 --> 00:31:15,423
in which
General Nathan Twining wrote
592
00:31:15,424 --> 00:31:17,265
a three-page letter
about these flying saucers
593
00:31:17,266 --> 00:31:18,896
to another general,
594
00:31:18,897 --> 00:31:21,949
talking quite explicitly
about their characteristics,
595
00:31:21,950 --> 00:31:25,130
the fact that this was real,
not visionary or fictitious.
596
00:31:25,131 --> 00:31:29,482
No one anywhere,
outside of this group,
597
00:31:29,483 --> 00:31:32,870
is to know anything about UFOs,
598
00:31:32,871 --> 00:31:37,766
E.T.s, crash retrievals,
bodies, any of it.
599
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:42,534
That document identified
the 12 people
600
00:31:42,535 --> 00:31:45,043
who were MJ-1 through MJ-12.
601
00:31:45,044 --> 00:31:47,052
The first one, MJ-1,
602
00:31:47,053 --> 00:31:49,897
was Admiral Hillenkoetter
of the Navy.
603
00:31:49,898 --> 00:31:52,156
There were four military people,
604
00:31:52,157 --> 00:31:53,998
there were
four technical people,
605
00:31:53,999 --> 00:31:57,554
and then there were
just general government people.
606
00:31:57,555 --> 00:31:59,436
They were the kind of people
you'd expect
607
00:31:59,437 --> 00:32:02,491
to have been involved in
an important top secret program.
608
00:32:02,492 --> 00:32:04,958
While the authenticity
609
00:32:04,959 --> 00:32:08,181
of the MJ-12 documents
is still being debated,
610
00:32:08,182 --> 00:32:10,146
what is known is that,
611
00:32:10,147 --> 00:32:14,664
in 1954, Eisenhower thought
enough of the UFO phenomenon
612
00:32:14,665 --> 00:32:19,350
to order that a new
secret military base be set up.
613
00:32:19,350 --> 00:32:24,371
Located 83 miles northwest
of Las Vegas, Nevada,
614
00:32:24,372 --> 00:32:27,049
Area 51 would later
become infamous
615
00:32:27,050 --> 00:32:31,316
as the most top secret
military base in the world.
616
00:32:31,317 --> 00:32:36,252
Area 51 is the secret base
of all secret bases.
617
00:32:36,253 --> 00:32:38,930
For a long time,
it was the place
618
00:32:38,931 --> 00:32:43,281
that we went to
to study foreign technology.
619
00:32:43,282 --> 00:32:46,168
During the 1970s and '80s,
620
00:32:46,169 --> 00:32:48,971
T.D. Barnes worked
at the secret base,
621
00:32:48,972 --> 00:32:51,984
reverse-engineering
captured enemy aircraft,
622
00:32:51,985 --> 00:32:54,326
like Russian MiG jets.
623
00:32:54,327 --> 00:32:56,838
What we considered
reverse-engineering was...
624
00:32:56,839 --> 00:33:00,100
was taking a plane or a radar,
625
00:33:00,101 --> 00:33:02,108
taking it apart,
looking at the electronics,
626
00:33:02,109 --> 00:33:03,698
how they built it.
627
00:33:03,699 --> 00:33:06,042
We were all bound
by security oaths.
628
00:33:06,043 --> 00:33:07,463
We could not talk.
629
00:33:07,464 --> 00:33:09,472
But is it possible that,
630
00:33:09,473 --> 00:33:11,271
in addition
to reverse-engineering
631
00:33:11,272 --> 00:33:13,069
foreign fighter jets,
632
00:33:13,070 --> 00:33:16,458
Area 51 employees
were also working on other,
633
00:33:16,459 --> 00:33:19,596
out-of-this-world technologies?
634
00:33:19,597 --> 00:33:22,692
To my mind, it's also
clear that the U.S. government
635
00:33:22,693 --> 00:33:26,458
has had crashed
extraterrestrial technology,
636
00:33:26,459 --> 00:33:29,469
and Area 51 would have been
the perfect place
637
00:33:29,470 --> 00:33:33,319
to reverse-engineer and test
that particular information.
638
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,704
In order
to insure that the activities
639
00:33:35,705 --> 00:33:39,635
at Area 51 and elsewhere were
kept hidden from the public,
640
00:33:39,636 --> 00:33:42,063
members of the military,
and even officers,
641
00:33:42,064 --> 00:33:44,573
were sworn to secrecy.
642
00:33:44,574 --> 00:33:48,421
But luckily for UFO researchers
and ancient astronaut theorists,
643
00:33:48,422 --> 00:33:52,229
not everyone involved
was willing to keep quiet.
644
00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:54,572
Some became whistleblowers,
645
00:33:54,573 --> 00:33:57,625
who risked everything from
public scorn to imprisonment,
646
00:33:57,626 --> 00:34:01,434
in order to let the public
learn the truth.
647
00:34:03,694 --> 00:34:05,701
Washington state.
648
00:34:05,702 --> 00:34:08,504
June 24, 1947.
649
00:34:09,801 --> 00:34:12,520
Aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold
650
00:34:12,521 --> 00:34:14,989
witnesses
nine fast-moving objects
651
00:34:14,990 --> 00:34:18,043
flying in tandem
near Mount Rainier.
652
00:34:18,044 --> 00:34:21,850
He times them as they fly
between two mountain peaks,
653
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:23,356
and calculates their speed
654
00:34:23,357 --> 00:34:27,749
to be between
1,200 and 1,700 miles per hour,
655
00:34:27,750 --> 00:34:30,760
at least
600 miles per hour faster
656
00:34:30,761 --> 00:34:34,903
than the fastest aircraft
in existence at the time.
657
00:34:34,904 --> 00:34:37,956
Kenneth Arnold is the guy
who actually is credited
658
00:34:37,957 --> 00:34:40,216
with coining the term
"flying saucer,"
659
00:34:40,217 --> 00:34:43,396
because what he saw
were objects that were flying
660
00:34:43,397 --> 00:34:45,613
at some distance
from his airplane
661
00:34:45,614 --> 00:34:48,710
that were sort of skipping
and jumping and wobbling
662
00:34:48,711 --> 00:34:51,303
and doing very, very unusual
high-speed maneuvers.
663
00:34:51,304 --> 00:34:54,023
So that's where the term
"flying saucer" came from.
664
00:34:54,024 --> 00:34:57,328
Although the U.S.
Air Force formally categorized
665
00:34:57,329 --> 00:35:00,381
Kenneth Arnold's experience
as a mirage,
666
00:35:00,382 --> 00:35:04,523
other reported sightings
were not so easily dismissed.
667
00:35:04,524 --> 00:35:08,080
The public was starting
to demand answers.
668
00:35:08,081 --> 00:35:10,381
Once the initial sighting
happened by Kenneth Arnold,
669
00:35:10,382 --> 00:35:13,561
and the Roswell incident
took place,
670
00:35:13,562 --> 00:35:17,285
there were sightings everywhere
around the United States.
671
00:35:17,286 --> 00:35:19,836
They were happening
all over the world.
672
00:35:22,095 --> 00:35:26,989
In 1949, retired Marine
Corps pilot-turned-writer
673
00:35:26,990 --> 00:35:30,965
Major Donald Keyhoe
was asked by True magazine
674
00:35:30,966 --> 00:35:34,478
to write an article
on these numerous sightings.
675
00:35:34,479 --> 00:35:36,990
Although Keyhoe was a skeptic,
676
00:35:36,991 --> 00:35:39,835
he spent the next eight months
conducting his own research
677
00:35:39,836 --> 00:35:42,261
by tapping into his contacts
in the Pentagon
678
00:35:42,262 --> 00:35:44,519
and the military.
679
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,030
Eventually,
he came to a conclusion
680
00:35:47,031 --> 00:35:49,708
he would have considered
unthinkable:
681
00:35:49,709 --> 00:35:52,888
flying saucers
were not only real,
682
00:35:52,889 --> 00:35:57,113
they were of
extraterrestrial origin.
683
00:35:57,114 --> 00:35:59,078
Major Keyhoe
684
00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:02,760
was one of the last real
military voices,
685
00:36:02,761 --> 00:36:05,271
from the time of
the Truman administration
686
00:36:05,272 --> 00:36:07,488
going into
the Eisenhower administration,
687
00:36:07,489 --> 00:36:12,928
who was honestly trying
to tell the truth.
688
00:36:12,929 --> 00:36:16,819
Keyhoe's article in
True magazine shook the nation.
689
00:36:16,820 --> 00:36:19,662
It was not only
a solid piece of journalism
690
00:36:19,663 --> 00:36:22,843
on the topic of UFOs,
691
00:36:22,844 --> 00:36:24,767
but served as
a stinging indictment
692
00:36:24,768 --> 00:36:27,695
of the U.S. military and
the government's determination
693
00:36:27,696 --> 00:36:30,666
to keep the public in the dark.
694
00:36:30,667 --> 00:36:34,725
That True magazine,
it was historic because
695
00:36:34,726 --> 00:36:37,108
it went to a heck
of a lot of people.
696
00:36:37,109 --> 00:36:39,578
Then, in 1958,
Keyhoe went on a program
697
00:36:39,579 --> 00:36:41,418
called the
Armstrong Circle Theatre,
698
00:36:41,419 --> 00:36:43,091
which was
a live television program.
699
00:36:43,093 --> 00:36:46,438
"The Enigma of the Skies"
700
00:36:46,439 --> 00:36:49,786
on the Armstrong Circle Theatre.
701
00:36:49,787 --> 00:36:53,300
Major, you've seen our report
on the Air Force conclusions
702
00:36:53,301 --> 00:36:55,602
dealing with the current
UFO sightings.
703
00:36:57,151 --> 00:36:58,906
Well, I was excited to hear that
704
00:36:58,907 --> 00:37:01,667
Keyhoe was going to
debate the Air Force.
705
00:37:01,668 --> 00:37:04,806
And now, Mr. Edwards, I would
like to make a disclosure,
706
00:37:04,807 --> 00:37:07,609
something which has never
been revealed to the public.
707
00:37:07,610 --> 00:37:10,872
Toward the end of the program,
he broke in and said,
708
00:37:10,873 --> 00:37:13,884
to the effect,
"I'm going to say something
709
00:37:13,885 --> 00:37:15,892
that the public
has never heard before."
710
00:37:15,893 --> 00:37:18,277
If the hearings are held,
open hearings,
711
00:37:18,278 --> 00:37:21,374
I feel it will prove beyond
doubt that flying saucers...
712
00:37:23,967 --> 00:37:27,606
At that point,
his sound was lost.
713
00:37:27,607 --> 00:37:32,795
What was Major Keyhoe saying,
and who cut him off?
714
00:37:34,846 --> 00:37:35,890
Thank you, Major Keyhoe.
715
00:37:35,891 --> 00:37:38,400
It was later discovered
716
00:37:38,401 --> 00:37:40,533
that Air Force officials
had been stationed
717
00:37:40,534 --> 00:37:43,212
in the control booth
during the broadcast.
718
00:37:43,213 --> 00:37:45,847
And there are many who still
believe that Keyhoe's audio
719
00:37:45,848 --> 00:37:49,654
was deliberately cut in order
to keep him from revealing
720
00:37:49,655 --> 00:37:53,380
top secret information
concerning the government's
721
00:37:53,381 --> 00:37:54,885
ongoing UFO investigations.
722
00:37:56,475 --> 00:37:58,609
The Air Force was lying.
723
00:38:00,534 --> 00:38:03,711
But why was the
Air Force so concerned about
724
00:38:03,712 --> 00:38:06,765
the American public hearing
Major Keyhoe's statement?
725
00:38:06,766 --> 00:38:10,489
What did they have to lose
if they were forced to admit
726
00:38:10,490 --> 00:38:14,380
their ongoing investigations
into UFOs?
727
00:38:14,381 --> 00:38:16,305
I wrote this down
because I think
728
00:38:16,306 --> 00:38:19,358
it's one of the most important
historic sentences,
729
00:38:19,359 --> 00:38:21,912
and it comes from Major Keyhoe.
730
00:38:21,913 --> 00:38:26,555
"For the past 175 years..."
731
00:38:26,556 --> 00:38:29,273
That would be 1772.
732
00:38:29,274 --> 00:38:32,872
That would be before the
founding of the United States.
733
00:38:32,874 --> 00:38:37,559
"...the planet Earth
has been under systematic,
734
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,408
"close-range examination by
735
00:38:41,409 --> 00:38:46,345
living observers
from another planet."
736
00:38:47,641 --> 00:38:50,277
This is nothing new.
737
00:38:50,278 --> 00:38:51,825
These cover-ups have happened
738
00:38:51,826 --> 00:38:54,125
for thousands and thousands
of years.
739
00:38:54,126 --> 00:38:57,348
Throughout ancient texts,
there are references
740
00:38:57,349 --> 00:39:00,987
to what I call
"misunderstood technology."
741
00:39:00,988 --> 00:39:03,496
In modern times,
742
00:39:03,497 --> 00:39:06,678
you'll hear stories
of UFOs and spacecraft,
743
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:09,353
because now we have the language
to talk about technology.
744
00:39:09,354 --> 00:39:12,282
Whereas in ancient times,
they didn't have any reference
745
00:39:12,283 --> 00:39:14,500
to that kind of technology.
746
00:39:14,501 --> 00:39:16,426
So they would have thought
this is something
747
00:39:16,427 --> 00:39:19,772
that's angelic or from
another dimension or god-like.
748
00:39:21,530 --> 00:39:25,252
The fact that the U.S.
government has investigated
749
00:39:25,253 --> 00:39:28,097
thousands and thousands
of reports
750
00:39:28,098 --> 00:39:31,026
leads me to think that
751
00:39:31,027 --> 00:39:36,090
they may know much more
than what they let us believe.
752
00:39:43,410 --> 00:39:46,087
Proof of
the U.S. government's complicity
753
00:39:46,088 --> 00:39:48,682
in covering up
extraterrestrial activity
754
00:39:48,683 --> 00:39:51,735
does not only come
in the form of leaked documents
755
00:39:51,736 --> 00:39:54,539
and the contents
of secret files.
756
00:39:54,540 --> 00:39:57,759
Sometimes the evidence comes
757
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,689
from credible
firsthand accounts,
758
00:40:00,690 --> 00:40:05,959
not from whistleblowers,
but from American astronauts.
759
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,475
Everything that NASA does
is supposedly aboveboard.
760
00:40:09,476 --> 00:40:12,779
Everything they do,
they should tell us about.
761
00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:15,122
We should know about
all of their launches
762
00:40:15,123 --> 00:40:18,720
and missions and who
all the astronauts are.
763
00:40:18,721 --> 00:40:22,067
They themselves are not sharing
all of the information.
764
00:40:22,068 --> 00:40:24,788
Most of it is being kept secret.
765
00:40:31,432 --> 00:40:34,317
The Baikonur Cosmodrome.
766
00:40:34,318 --> 00:40:38,081
April 12, 1961.
767
00:40:38,082 --> 00:40:42,183
The Vostok-1 rocket
achieves liftoff,
768
00:40:42,184 --> 00:40:45,361
and Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
769
00:40:45,362 --> 00:40:48,166
is heralded
as the first human in space.
770
00:40:49,463 --> 00:40:51,470
The event serves
as a wake-up call
771
00:40:51,471 --> 00:40:54,064
to the United States and NASA,
772
00:40:54,065 --> 00:40:58,247
whose Project Mercury program
would, over the next two years,
773
00:40:58,248 --> 00:41:01,259
launch six of its own astronauts
into space.
774
00:41:01,260 --> 00:41:03,269
The Space Race...
775
00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:06,155
To land a human being
on the Moon... was on,
776
00:41:06,156 --> 00:41:10,003
and mankind was now
a space-faring species.
777
00:41:10,004 --> 00:41:12,933
The achievement
of putting a man in space
778
00:41:12,934 --> 00:41:14,815
was almost a miracle.
779
00:41:14,816 --> 00:41:19,164
Nobody knows what they might see
or encounter out there,
780
00:41:19,165 --> 00:41:22,681
extraterrestrial spacecraft
or even E.T.s themselves.
781
00:41:22,682 --> 00:41:23,893
Liftoff.
782
00:41:23,894 --> 00:41:25,316
Although the first five
783
00:41:25,317 --> 00:41:26,906
Mercury missions
go off without incident...
784
00:41:26,907 --> 00:41:29,457
Liftoff
30 minutes after the hour.
785
00:41:29,458 --> 00:41:31,927
...during
the sixth and final mission,
786
00:41:31,928 --> 00:41:36,110
astronaut Gordon Cooper reports
an unusual encounter.
787
00:41:36,111 --> 00:41:39,750
While aboard his spacecraft,
he reports
788
00:41:39,751 --> 00:41:43,431
a green glowing object
quickly approaching his capsule.
789
00:41:43,432 --> 00:41:47,155
The UFO is also picked up
by NASA's tracking station.
790
00:41:47,156 --> 00:41:50,796
But by the time
Cooper splashes down
791
00:41:50,797 --> 00:41:54,602
in the Pacific Ocean,
reporters are told
792
00:41:54,603 --> 00:41:58,493
that any questions about the
incident are strictly forbidden.
793
00:41:58,494 --> 00:42:02,844
There's no question that NASA
actually has protocols in place
794
00:42:02,845 --> 00:42:06,023
for how astronauts
should deal with
795
00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:08,951
and report or not report
anomalies.
796
00:42:08,952 --> 00:42:12,048
Now, over the years,
there have been astronauts
797
00:42:12,049 --> 00:42:13,931
that have kind of
broken those protocols.
798
00:42:13,932 --> 00:42:17,319
Gordon Cooper is one who talked
a lot about a UFO sighting
799
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,747
he had on a Mercury spacecraft.
800
00:42:19,748 --> 00:42:22,635
And that upset
quite a few people at NASA.
801
00:42:24,097 --> 00:42:27,276
In June 1965,
802
00:42:27,277 --> 00:42:30,121
two years after
Gordon Cooper's flight,
803
00:42:30,122 --> 00:42:33,845
Gemini 4 astronaut
James McDivitt
804
00:42:33,846 --> 00:42:36,230
reports seeing a metallic object
805
00:42:36,231 --> 00:42:39,703
flying in orbit
alongside his spacecraft.
806
00:42:39,704 --> 00:42:44,471
And, once again,
the event is quickly covered up.
807
00:42:44,472 --> 00:42:46,688
There have been many stories
over the years
808
00:42:46,689 --> 00:42:48,655
coming from astronauts
of various missions,
809
00:42:48,656 --> 00:42:50,748
from Mercury missions,
from the Apollo missions,
810
00:42:50,749 --> 00:42:53,759
and even from
the Soviet missions to space,
811
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,391
where astronauts
have come out and said
812
00:42:55,392 --> 00:42:57,483
that they have seen
these UFOs flying around,
813
00:42:57,484 --> 00:42:59,074
that they've been followed,
814
00:42:59,075 --> 00:43:00,748
that they've seen
unconventional aircraft
815
00:43:00,749 --> 00:43:02,336
on some of their missions.
816
00:43:02,337 --> 00:43:04,972
There's a story
that Buzz Aldrin tells
817
00:43:04,973 --> 00:43:07,691
about Apollo 11, where
the Apollo 11 spacecraft
818
00:43:07,692 --> 00:43:11,037
was followed for many,
many hours by an object
819
00:43:11,038 --> 00:43:13,382
that was so strange that
they actually reported on it
820
00:43:13,383 --> 00:43:15,139
through their private channels.
821
00:43:15,140 --> 00:43:18,527
I'm looking
out the window, and I see...
822
00:43:18,528 --> 00:43:20,618
What's that?
823
00:43:20,619 --> 00:43:25,012
There's an object that's moving
with respect to everything else.
824
00:43:25,013 --> 00:43:27,355
Geez. It's not supposed
to be doing that.
825
00:43:27,356 --> 00:43:29,031
Wonder how far away it is.
826
00:43:30,996 --> 00:43:34,468
If it's a long ways away,
it's going mighty fast.
827
00:43:34,469 --> 00:43:38,945
If it's not too far away, it,
uh, maybe isn't going very fast.
828
00:43:38,946 --> 00:43:41,873
Wonder what it is.
829
00:43:41,874 --> 00:43:43,839
"Hey, Neil. Look at this."
830
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,136
We look at it.
831
00:43:45,137 --> 00:43:47,190
God, what is that?
832
00:43:47,191 --> 00:43:51,757
Probably the, uh,
upper stage rocket.
833
00:43:51,758 --> 00:43:55,276
Yeah, but didn't we just watch
that thing carefully
834
00:43:55,277 --> 00:43:58,126
out in front of us,
out the window,
835
00:43:58,127 --> 00:44:01,645
light its engine and go...
836
00:44:01,646 --> 00:44:04,829
Well, I guess that's not what
we're looking at,
837
00:44:04,830 --> 00:44:06,506
'cause that's a long ways away.
838
00:44:06,507 --> 00:44:10,694
What's the odds
that it's some alien
839
00:44:10,695 --> 00:44:12,959
or Russian or something else?
840
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,232
But we were not about
to cancel the Moon mission
841
00:44:17,233 --> 00:44:20,375
and putt-putt over there
to find out which one it was.
842
00:44:21,884 --> 00:44:23,810
There's been many astronauts
843
00:44:23,811 --> 00:44:26,492
that have come forward
that have talked about this,
844
00:44:26,493 --> 00:44:29,550
so it seems like some of them
want to talk about it,
845
00:44:29,551 --> 00:44:32,398
and others are either afraid
to talk about it,
846
00:44:32,399 --> 00:44:34,577
or they've been silenced
for some reason.
847
00:44:34,578 --> 00:44:39,144
One person involved
with the early space program
848
00:44:39,145 --> 00:44:42,832
who did not remain silent
was JoAnn Donaldson,
849
00:44:42,833 --> 00:44:45,764
a young biomedical engineer
at NASA.
850
00:44:45,765 --> 00:44:51,715
In 1972, during the
Apollo 17 Moon mission,
851
00:44:51,716 --> 00:44:55,401
Donaldson's job was to monitor
the astronauts' vital signs
852
00:44:55,402 --> 00:44:59,465
and to observe their pre-flight
and post-flight recovery.
853
00:44:59,466 --> 00:45:02,901
Ron Evans was
in charge of the command module
854
00:45:02,902 --> 00:45:05,080
while Gene Cernan
and Harrison Schmitt
855
00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:07,092
were on the surface of the Moon.
856
00:45:07,093 --> 00:45:10,316
When the command module
would orbit the Moon,
857
00:45:10,317 --> 00:45:13,250
part of the orbit would take it
behind the Moon,
858
00:45:13,251 --> 00:45:17,315
what we call "loss of signal"
to Mission Control.
859
00:45:17,316 --> 00:45:21,379
Day two, Ron came out
from behind the Moon,
860
00:45:21,380 --> 00:45:24,480
reported in to Mission Control.
861
00:45:24,481 --> 00:45:27,118
And Gene comes up
on the comm link and says,
862
00:45:27,119 --> 00:45:30,848
"Hey, Ron, you're not lonely
up there without us are you?"
863
00:45:30,849 --> 00:45:34,828
And Ron reported back, says,
"Nope, I got company."
864
00:45:34,829 --> 00:45:37,342
Everybody was just
kind of taken aback.
865
00:45:37,343 --> 00:45:40,401
It was like, you know,
"company"?
866
00:45:40,402 --> 00:45:43,836
That itself implies
that there was something else
867
00:45:43,837 --> 00:45:45,848
up there with him.
868
00:45:45,849 --> 00:45:49,241
Well, Mission Control's
first reaction was,
869
00:45:49,242 --> 00:45:50,876
"Guys, are you joking?"
870
00:45:50,877 --> 00:45:53,766
And Ron says,
"No, this is not a joke.
871
00:45:53,767 --> 00:45:58,374
"There is an object flying
in formation with me,
872
00:45:58,375 --> 00:46:00,555
up here, circling the Moon."
873
00:46:00,556 --> 00:46:05,037
When Ron reported that the
object was leaving his orbit,
874
00:46:05,038 --> 00:46:08,137
he calculated that they had been
in formation with him
875
00:46:08,138 --> 00:46:10,023
for approximately five
876
00:46:10,024 --> 00:46:12,955
to five-and-a-half orbits
of the Moon.
877
00:46:12,956 --> 00:46:16,057
As far as
the public was concerned,
878
00:46:16,058 --> 00:46:18,905
nothing out of
the ordinary happened.
879
00:46:18,906 --> 00:46:21,922
At the exact moment
that astronaut Ron Evans
880
00:46:21,923 --> 00:46:24,144
reported he was not alone,
881
00:46:24,145 --> 00:46:29,005
NASA officials disconnected the
public feed for media outlets.
882
00:46:31,140 --> 00:46:33,193
The following day, NASA ordered
883
00:46:33,194 --> 00:46:36,838
a conference call for everyone
involved in the incident.
884
00:46:36,839 --> 00:46:39,562
We were all told
we're gonna continue on
885
00:46:39,563 --> 00:46:43,375
with the mission
as if nothing has happened,
886
00:46:43,376 --> 00:46:46,265
and do not discuss this anomaly
887
00:46:46,266 --> 00:46:50,915
with anyone outside
of your command.
888
00:46:50,916 --> 00:46:55,357
After the Apollo 17
crew splashed down
889
00:46:55,358 --> 00:46:59,715
in the Pacific Ocean,
JoAnn Donaldson examined Evans
890
00:46:59,716 --> 00:47:02,522
as part of the post-mission
recovery procedure.
891
00:47:02,523 --> 00:47:06,543
Ron was sitting up
on the side of his bunk.
892
00:47:06,544 --> 00:47:10,147
And he goes, "Well, I'm reliving"
893
00:47:10,148 --> 00:47:13,039
"what I saw while I was
in orbit around the Moon.
894
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,175
"I don't think
the Russians had launched
895
00:47:15,176 --> 00:47:17,438
"something this big in orbit.
896
00:47:17,439 --> 00:47:20,244
"I estimate this thing
was 40, 45 feet long.
897
00:47:20,245 --> 00:47:22,131
It was cigar shaped."
898
00:47:22,132 --> 00:47:24,478
Now, any cylindrical
object like that
899
00:47:24,479 --> 00:47:27,410
is not gonna be something
that we made. So what was it?
900
00:47:27,411 --> 00:47:30,552
Clearly it was not one of ours.
901
00:47:30,553 --> 00:47:32,229
We trust these astronauts
902
00:47:32,230 --> 00:47:34,407
to report back on what they see.
903
00:47:34,408 --> 00:47:35,664
They're essentially scientists
904
00:47:35,665 --> 00:47:37,088
that are exploring space
on our behalf.
905
00:47:37,089 --> 00:47:39,686
But a lot of people
are unaware of the fact
906
00:47:39,687 --> 00:47:42,410
that many of our astronauts
have spoken openly about UFOs.
907
00:47:42,411 --> 00:47:46,600
Many of them were fighter pilots
before they became astronauts,
908
00:47:46,601 --> 00:47:50,119
and they have seen
craft flying as pilots.
909
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,423
Could it be that they've been
pulled aside and told,
910
00:47:52,424 --> 00:47:55,356
"This is all you're allowed
to say and no more,"
911
00:47:55,357 --> 00:47:57,451
because NASA
is trying to silence
912
00:47:57,452 --> 00:47:59,337
these astronauts
from telling the truth?
913
00:48:02,857 --> 00:48:04,658
Another Apollo astronaut
914
00:48:04,659 --> 00:48:07,968
who openly admitted his belief
in extraterrestrial contact
915
00:48:07,969 --> 00:48:10,020
was Edgar Mitchell,
916
00:48:10,021 --> 00:48:12,786
the lunar module pilot
for Apollo 14.
917
00:48:12,787 --> 00:48:16,432
In his later years, he claimed
many of his colleagues
918
00:48:16,433 --> 00:48:19,069
had strange
paranormal experiences
919
00:48:19,070 --> 00:48:22,423
during their missions,
and frequently declared
920
00:48:22,424 --> 00:48:25,607
that most UFO phenomena
are directly connected
921
00:48:25,608 --> 00:48:28,581
to extraterrestrial activity.
922
00:48:28,582 --> 00:48:32,814
I have had no
firsthand personal experience,
923
00:48:32,815 --> 00:48:36,082
but all the evidence from
the research people that I know
924
00:48:36,083 --> 00:48:38,680
from both Europe
and the United States
925
00:48:38,681 --> 00:48:41,486
have investigated
all the sightings
926
00:48:41,487 --> 00:48:44,462
from dozens of years.
927
00:48:44,463 --> 00:48:46,935
And it's pretty sure
it's all true.
928
00:48:46,936 --> 00:48:52,882
I believe that the alien craft,
presuming they're reality...
929
00:48:52,883 --> 00:48:54,894
I think they are,
others think they are...
930
00:48:54,895 --> 00:48:57,072
Have been coming
for a long, long time.
931
00:48:57,073 --> 00:49:01,095
As the sixth person
to walk on the Moon,
932
00:49:01,096 --> 00:49:04,238
Mitchell's opinions concerning
UFOs and their connection
933
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,763
to extraterrestrial encounters
have been difficult to dismiss.
934
00:49:08,764 --> 00:49:10,858
But if otherworldly entities
935
00:49:10,859 --> 00:49:12,911
have been making contact
with us...
936
00:49:12,912 --> 00:49:17,184
Not only for decades
but for centuries...
937
00:49:17,185 --> 00:49:19,826
What is their goal?
938
00:49:22,748 --> 00:49:26,392
July 20, 1969.
939
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,096
Millions of people
around the world
940
00:49:33,097 --> 00:49:35,274
are glued to their televisions
941
00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:39,128
to watch one of the greatest
achievements in human history.
942
00:49:39,129 --> 00:49:41,643
Astronaut Neil Armstrong
943
00:49:41,644 --> 00:49:46,000
is about to become the first
Earth-born extraterrestrial
944
00:49:46,001 --> 00:49:49,354
by stepping foot
on the surface of the Moon.
945
00:49:55,974 --> 00:49:58,528
Although Richard Nixon
946
00:49:58,529 --> 00:50:00,623
is the current president
of the United States,
947
00:50:00,624 --> 00:50:02,886
most give credit to the man
948
00:50:02,887 --> 00:50:05,273
who held the office
six years earlier,
949
00:50:05,274 --> 00:50:08,291
John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
950
00:50:08,292 --> 00:50:13,109
Many years ago, the great
British explorer George Mallory,
951
00:50:13,110 --> 00:50:16,838
who was to die on Mount Everest,
952
00:50:16,839 --> 00:50:19,018
was asked why did he want
to climb it.
953
00:50:19,019 --> 00:50:21,363
He said, "Because it is there."
954
00:50:21,364 --> 00:50:24,548
Well, space is there,
and we're going to climb it.
955
00:50:24,549 --> 00:50:27,857
But even as Neil Armstrong
956
00:50:27,858 --> 00:50:30,079
and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin
957
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,550
were still engaged
on their historic mission,
958
00:50:32,551 --> 00:50:35,901
Nixon and the team
at NASA now faced
959
00:50:35,902 --> 00:50:40,091
an even more daunting challenge:
What to do next?
960
00:50:40,092 --> 00:50:42,271
The Moon mission had gripped
961
00:50:42,272 --> 00:50:45,287
the American consciousness
as nothing before,
962
00:50:45,288 --> 00:50:47,886
and even though
a number of return missions
963
00:50:47,887 --> 00:50:50,357
had been planned, there was
nothing on the launch pad
964
00:50:50,358 --> 00:50:52,913
that could top
landing a man on the Moon
965
00:50:52,914 --> 00:50:55,092
as either a national goal
966
00:50:55,093 --> 00:50:57,899
or effective
political propaganda.
967
00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:01,914
To this end, in 1972,
968
00:51:01,915 --> 00:51:04,925
as Nixon began planning
his reelection campaign,
969
00:51:04,926 --> 00:51:08,313
the space shuttle program
was announced.
970
00:51:08,314 --> 00:51:10,780
It was also
during this same time
971
00:51:10,781 --> 00:51:13,916
that the president's
chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman,
972
00:51:13,917 --> 00:51:16,804
proposed the creation
of a documentary film
973
00:51:16,805 --> 00:51:19,647
that would depict Nixon
as being fully committed
974
00:51:19,648 --> 00:51:21,321
to the development of a number
975
00:51:21,322 --> 00:51:23,997
of ambitious
science-based programs.
976
00:51:23,998 --> 00:51:27,008
To produce it, Haldeman turned
977
00:51:27,009 --> 00:51:30,230
to successful advertising
executive-turned-filmmaker
978
00:51:30,231 --> 00:51:32,989
Robert Emenegger.
979
00:51:32,990 --> 00:51:35,374
They knew that Bob
had made promotional films
980
00:51:35,375 --> 00:51:37,550
for the Department of Defense.
981
00:51:37,551 --> 00:51:40,269
So he was contacted and asked
982
00:51:40,270 --> 00:51:42,609
if he would come to a meeting
in Los Angeles
983
00:51:42,610 --> 00:51:44,616
with the Committee
to Re-Elect the President.
984
00:51:44,617 --> 00:51:48,381
And they said,
"We need a media consultant.
985
00:51:48,382 --> 00:51:50,431
"We'd like somebody
to come on board
986
00:51:50,432 --> 00:51:53,777
"and make a documentary
that would support Nixon,
987
00:51:53,778 --> 00:51:57,958
"a documentary about
some perhaps secret project
988
00:51:57,959 --> 00:52:00,802
"that the government's
been working on
989
00:52:00,803 --> 00:52:03,479
that can be released
or declassified."
990
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,990
Well, they run around
the country
991
00:52:05,991 --> 00:52:08,583
being shown all sorts
of secret projects.
992
00:52:08,584 --> 00:52:11,468
They went to Wright-Patterson,
and they were shown
993
00:52:11,469 --> 00:52:13,811
very classified
laser experiments.
994
00:52:13,812 --> 00:52:18,746
They were shown dolphins being
trained for demolition work.
995
00:52:18,747 --> 00:52:22,845
They were shown dogs being
trained for various tasks.
996
00:52:22,846 --> 00:52:26,524
Then they were taken
to Norton Air Force Base,
997
00:52:26,525 --> 00:52:30,249
which at that time housed
the Air Force film depository.
998
00:52:30,250 --> 00:52:33,594
Paul Shartle was the director
of the depository.
999
00:52:33,595 --> 00:52:37,859
They were taken into a building
where these films were kept.
1000
00:52:37,860 --> 00:52:41,080
They were taken into
what was known as a clean room,
1001
00:52:41,081 --> 00:52:44,050
meaning it was free
of any bugs, microphones,
1002
00:52:44,051 --> 00:52:46,600
video equipment, anything.
1003
00:52:46,601 --> 00:52:50,740
It was during his
meeting at Norton Air Force Base
1004
00:52:50,741 --> 00:52:54,340
that Robert Emenegger learned
that Paul Shartle had
1005
00:52:54,341 --> 00:52:57,559
a different agenda
from that of the president,
1006
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,818
and a different film
in mind than the one
1007
00:52:59,820 --> 00:53:03,373
that had been
initially proposed.
1008
00:53:03,374 --> 00:53:06,719
Shartle said,
"I'd like to ask you this:
1009
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:11,528
How would you like to make
a documentary on UFOs?"
1010
00:53:11,529 --> 00:53:13,286
And Bob Emenegger was stunned.
1011
00:53:13,287 --> 00:53:15,544
He told me at his home,
1012
00:53:15,545 --> 00:53:17,761
he said, "I didn't know
anything about UFOs."
1013
00:53:17,762 --> 00:53:19,183
"I was shocked.
1014
00:53:19,184 --> 00:53:22,528
"They said if we would make
the documentary,
1015
00:53:22,529 --> 00:53:27,422
"we would be given 600 feet
of 16-millimeter film
1016
00:53:27,423 --> 00:53:32,023
shot at Holloman Air Force Base
of a UFO landing there."
1017
00:53:32,024 --> 00:53:34,448
For Robert Emenegger,
1018
00:53:34,449 --> 00:53:37,292
it was an offer
too good to refuse.
1019
00:53:37,293 --> 00:53:39,009
Believing he had
the full support
1020
00:53:39,010 --> 00:53:41,392
of both the president
and the military,
1021
00:53:41,393 --> 00:53:43,357
he set about to make
the U.S. government's
1022
00:53:43,358 --> 00:53:47,039
first official film
on the subject of UFOs.
1023
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,923
He quickly recruited
Rod Serling,
1024
00:53:49,924 --> 00:53:53,855
Burgess Meredith and José Ferrer
to narrate the film,
1025
00:53:53,856 --> 00:53:57,913
and the final explosive scene
was to show actual footage
1026
00:53:57,914 --> 00:54:00,923
of an alien encounter.
1027
00:54:00,924 --> 00:54:02,890
But when it came time to receive
1028
00:54:02,891 --> 00:54:05,064
the incredible footage
he'd been promised,
1029
00:54:05,065 --> 00:54:08,619
Emenegger had the government's
once-open door
1030
00:54:08,620 --> 00:54:11,588
slammed in his face.
1031
00:54:11,589 --> 00:54:16,232
They had been promised
really dramatic footage,
1032
00:54:16,233 --> 00:54:20,037
said to be completely legit,
of a UFO landing
1033
00:54:20,038 --> 00:54:23,633
at Holloman Air Force Base,
in 1964,
1034
00:54:23,634 --> 00:54:25,391
which had alien beings come out,
1035
00:54:25,392 --> 00:54:27,859
like The Day the Earth
Stood Still, essentially.
1036
00:54:27,860 --> 00:54:31,624
Out came some kind of a ramp.
1037
00:54:31,625 --> 00:54:34,885
Our contingent of humans
walked up,
1038
00:54:34,886 --> 00:54:36,685
met these two EBENs,
1039
00:54:36,686 --> 00:54:39,402
"Extraterrestrial
Biological Entities."
1040
00:54:39,403 --> 00:54:45,091
And then in this doorway
was a being unlike the EBENs,
1041
00:54:45,092 --> 00:54:48,059
and that it was holding
a rod that had a spiral
1042
00:54:48,060 --> 00:54:51,448
that went around the rod,
and that this was used
1043
00:54:51,449 --> 00:54:54,334
to communicate with our team.
1044
00:54:54,335 --> 00:54:56,802
This was a film
1045
00:54:56,803 --> 00:54:59,143
that had four
different vantage points.
1046
00:54:59,144 --> 00:55:01,654
They were shooting one from
the air, three on the ground.
1047
00:55:01,655 --> 00:55:03,829
And the craft landed,
1048
00:55:03,830 --> 00:55:06,964
the aliens came out,
and they stored the craft.
1049
00:55:06,965 --> 00:55:08,721
All this was on film.
1050
00:55:08,722 --> 00:55:12,820
But on the day
Emenegger was to be given a copy
1051
00:55:12,821 --> 00:55:15,539
of the 16-millimeter footage
from the Air Force,
1052
00:55:15,540 --> 00:55:18,636
the filmmaker received
an unexpected phone call.
1053
00:55:20,643 --> 00:55:23,568
It is one of those
like out of a Hollywood feature.
1054
00:55:23,569 --> 00:55:27,752
It's supposed to be coming.
A courier is on the way.
1055
00:55:27,753 --> 00:55:30,471
They cannot believe it.
It's really gonna happen.
1056
00:55:30,472 --> 00:55:32,938
They're gonna see
all of this film.
1057
00:55:32,939 --> 00:55:35,280
And then another phone call:
1058
00:55:35,281 --> 00:55:38,418
"We're sorry, the approval
has been rescinded.
1059
00:55:38,419 --> 00:55:40,300
No film."
1060
00:55:40,301 --> 00:55:43,645
Colonel Coleman
from the Pentagon said,
1061
00:55:43,646 --> 00:55:45,277
"The timing isn't right.
1062
00:55:45,278 --> 00:55:48,163
We can't allow you
to use the film."
1063
00:55:48,164 --> 00:55:50,170
Bob Emenegger was crushed.
1064
00:55:50,171 --> 00:55:51,800
He said, "Why?"
1065
00:55:51,801 --> 00:55:55,022
And he found out that,
"Making a documentary
1066
00:55:55,023 --> 00:55:58,576
"exposing UFOs as being
extraterrestrial
1067
00:55:58,577 --> 00:56:02,885
would not help the president,
but conceivably could harm him."
1068
00:56:02,886 --> 00:56:05,728
Ultimately, Robert Emenegger
1069
00:56:05,729 --> 00:56:08,740
was forced to complete
his documentary
1070
00:56:08,741 --> 00:56:12,212
without the sensational footage
he had been promised.
1071
00:56:12,213 --> 00:56:13,593
It was a documentary called
1072
00:56:13,594 --> 00:56:15,599
Past, Present, and Future.
1073
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,774
And they also had a book
by the same name.
1074
00:56:17,775 --> 00:56:20,702
As written by Robert Emenegger,
1075
00:56:20,703 --> 00:56:23,756
and directed by Ray Rivas,
the documentary
1076
00:56:23,757 --> 00:56:26,976
proved to be both popular
and influential.
1077
00:56:26,977 --> 00:56:30,823
Even without the smoking gun
footage, it caused a sensation,
1078
00:56:30,824 --> 00:56:35,006
and was later credited
as one of the inspirations
1079
00:56:35,007 --> 00:56:38,520
behind Steven Spielberg's
1977 blockbuster
1080
00:56:38,521 --> 00:56:42,702
Close Encounters
of the Third Kind.
1081
00:56:42,703 --> 00:56:44,750
The Robert Emenegger
disclosure effort
1082
00:56:44,751 --> 00:56:46,591
is what I call it.
1083
00:56:46,592 --> 00:56:49,351
I said, "You know, that film,
Bob, that's very strange."
1084
00:56:49,352 --> 00:56:51,569
"You know, if it weren't
for the location,
1085
00:56:51,570 --> 00:56:53,242
that's Close Encounters
of the Third Kind."
1086
00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:55,877
And he said,
"What, I didn't tell you?"
1087
00:56:55,878 --> 00:56:58,136
And I said,
"You didn't tell me what?"
1088
00:56:58,137 --> 00:57:00,436
"I didn't tell you I gave a copy
to Steven Spielberg?"
1089
00:57:00,437 --> 00:57:02,737
And I said,
"No, you didn't tell me that."
1090
00:57:02,738 --> 00:57:05,915
So the documentary
was done in 1975.
1091
00:57:05,916 --> 00:57:07,964
Steven Spielberg's Close
Encounters of the Third Kind
1092
00:57:07,965 --> 00:57:10,809
came out in 1977.
1093
00:57:10,810 --> 00:57:13,319
And so, when you see Close
Encounters of the Third Kind,
1094
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,283
it's the Holloman
Air Force Base story,
1095
00:57:15,284 --> 00:57:16,998
just changed the location.
1096
00:57:16,999 --> 00:57:19,465
It's exactly what the story was.
1097
00:57:19,466 --> 00:57:22,855
While the alleged
alien UFO footage
1098
00:57:22,856 --> 00:57:25,823
from Holloman Air Force Base
has never surfaced,
1099
00:57:25,824 --> 00:57:29,546
many ancient astronaut theorists
believe it still exists,
1100
00:57:29,547 --> 00:57:32,055
under lock and key.
1101
00:57:32,056 --> 00:57:37,910
What I am really truly expecting
is that somewhere,
1102
00:57:37,911 --> 00:57:41,549
from 2018, going forward
in the next decade,
1103
00:57:41,550 --> 00:57:48,283
that finally all of that film
is going to be released,
1104
00:57:48,284 --> 00:57:52,799
and that we will finally
enter the true history.
1105
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,481
Did the U.S. Air Force
really have footage
1106
00:57:56,482 --> 00:57:58,949
of secret meetings between
government officials
1107
00:57:58,950 --> 00:58:01,542
and extraterrestrials?
1108
00:58:01,543 --> 00:58:05,934
And if so, where is it now?
1109
00:58:10,558 --> 00:58:12,502
Coming up... For decades,
American presidents
1110
00:58:12,674 --> 00:58:16,102
have officially denied that they
have received any information
1111
00:58:16,103 --> 00:58:19,113
that extraterrestrials
are visiting Earth.
1112
00:58:19,114 --> 00:58:22,710
But considering that the
U.S. government has conducted
1113
00:58:22,711 --> 00:58:26,391
at least four major
investigations into UFO activity
1114
00:58:26,392 --> 00:58:28,398
since the 1940s,
1115
00:58:28,399 --> 00:58:32,581
why has there been so much time
and taxpayer money devoted
1116
00:58:32,582 --> 00:58:34,171
to studying something
1117
00:58:34,172 --> 00:58:37,474
that the government claims
isn't happening?
1118
00:58:37,475 --> 00:58:40,486
We don't know
for an absolute fact
1119
00:58:40,487 --> 00:58:43,371
what kind of briefings
presidents actually receive,
1120
00:58:43,372 --> 00:58:46,801
when they come into office,
about extraterrestrials.
1121
00:58:46,802 --> 00:58:48,517
But we do have some indications
1122
00:58:48,518 --> 00:58:50,816
from some documents
that do exist,
1123
00:58:50,817 --> 00:58:54,497
one of them being the original
MJ-12 presidential briefing
1124
00:58:54,498 --> 00:58:56,212
for President Eisenhower,
1125
00:58:56,213 --> 00:58:58,847
telling him all about
the crash at Roswell.
1126
00:58:59,726 --> 00:59:03,279
On November 2, 2005,
1127
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,458
a document surfaced
that was allegedly a transcript
1128
00:59:06,459 --> 00:59:09,387
made from a recorded
presidential briefing
1129
00:59:09,388 --> 00:59:14,237
held at Camp David
in March of 1981.
1130
00:59:14,238 --> 00:59:18,336
Present were
President Ronald Reagan,
1131
00:59:18,337 --> 00:59:20,762
CIA director William Casey,
1132
00:59:20,763 --> 00:59:23,271
Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger,
1133
00:59:23,272 --> 00:59:27,997
and a mysterious person
known only as "The Caretaker."
1134
00:59:27,998 --> 00:59:31,260
According to the document,
during the meeting,
1135
00:59:31,261 --> 00:59:33,895
The Caretaker shared
evidence that aliens
1136
00:59:33,896 --> 00:59:37,702
have been visiting the Earth
for thousands of years,
1137
00:59:37,703 --> 00:59:41,046
and that modern American records
of such encounters
1138
00:59:41,047 --> 00:59:46,777
officially began in 1947,
following the Roswell incident.
1139
00:59:46,778 --> 00:59:48,911
Certainly,
if you look at Ronald Reagan,
1140
00:59:48,912 --> 00:59:51,712
he's somebody who brought up
aliens all the time.
1141
00:59:51,713 --> 00:59:54,598
To my mind,
what Reagan is communicating is,
1142
00:59:54,599 --> 00:59:57,778
"Yes, Roswell happened.
Yes, it is significant.
1143
00:59:57,779 --> 00:59:59,617
"Yes, there are aliens.
1144
00:59:59,618 --> 01:00:02,629
"And we'd better
get used to this idea
1145
01:00:02,630 --> 01:00:04,970
or figure out
how to deal with them."
1146
01:00:04,971 --> 01:00:08,317
I, William Jefferson Clinton...
1147
01:00:08,318 --> 01:00:10,157
But it was with the inauguration
1148
01:00:10,158 --> 01:00:14,172
of President Bill Clinton
in January 1993
1149
01:00:14,173 --> 01:00:16,514
that many UFO researchers
believed
1150
01:00:16,515 --> 01:00:20,823
they finally had an ally
in the White House.
1151
01:00:20,824 --> 01:00:25,213
If the United States Air Force
did recover alien bodies,
1152
01:00:25,214 --> 01:00:27,389
they didn't tell me
about it, either,
1153
01:00:27,390 --> 01:00:29,731
and I want to know.
1154
01:00:29,732 --> 01:00:33,411
So, when Bill Clinton
gets into office, he called in
1155
01:00:33,412 --> 01:00:35,294
his presidential aide
Webb Hubbell,
1156
01:00:35,295 --> 01:00:38,639
and the first two things that he
asked for after he was president
1157
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,696
was who killed JFK
and are there aliens.
1158
01:00:42,697 --> 01:00:46,711
Clinton knew that there was
something up about aliens
1159
01:00:46,712 --> 01:00:50,434
and UFOs that people
were not being told.
1160
01:00:50,435 --> 01:00:52,315
In his quest to shed light
1161
01:00:52,316 --> 01:00:54,994
on the government's
secret UFO investigations,
1162
01:00:54,995 --> 01:00:58,381
President Clinton found
an unlikely ally
1163
01:00:58,382 --> 01:01:02,020
in billionaire philanthropist
Laurance S. Rockefeller,
1164
01:01:02,021 --> 01:01:04,738
who used his influence
to push full disclosure
1165
01:01:04,739 --> 01:01:09,341
about possible extraterrestrial
activities on Earth.
1166
01:01:11,181 --> 01:01:13,396
The way it started was
Laurance Rockefeller,
1167
01:01:13,397 --> 01:01:16,199
who was one of the famous
Rockefeller brothers,
1168
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:20,715
had been shown a documentary
on Roswell
1169
01:01:20,716 --> 01:01:22,472
and was very interested.
1170
01:01:22,473 --> 01:01:24,145
So, the election was going on
at the time,
1171
01:01:24,146 --> 01:01:27,281
and he said, "Whether Ross Perot
wins or George Bush wins"
1172
01:01:27,282 --> 01:01:29,750
"or Bill Clinton wins,
I'm going to the White House
1173
01:01:29,751 --> 01:01:34,267
and I'm going to get them
to disclose the UFO story."
1174
01:01:34,268 --> 01:01:39,203
In 1993, Laurance
Rockefeller began inviting
1175
01:01:39,204 --> 01:01:41,502
a select group
of UFO researchers
1176
01:01:41,503 --> 01:01:43,636
and ancient astronaut theorists
1177
01:01:43,637 --> 01:01:46,021
to join him
for an important first meeting
1178
01:01:46,022 --> 01:01:51,040
of what would become known
as the Rockefeller Initiative.
1179
01:01:51,041 --> 01:01:54,889
In 1993,
I got a phone call saying,
1180
01:01:54,890 --> 01:01:57,859
"Linda, we'd like you to join
1181
01:01:57,860 --> 01:01:59,866
"a group of your peers
1182
01:01:59,867 --> 01:02:04,049
at Laurance Rockefeller's ranch
at Jackson Hole."
1183
01:02:04,050 --> 01:02:06,935
So, we met.
1184
01:02:06,936 --> 01:02:09,571
There were people
like Robert Bigelow,
1185
01:02:09,572 --> 01:02:12,248
now the head
of Bigelow Aerospace.
1186
01:02:12,249 --> 01:02:17,477
And there were others that were
authors and scientists.
1187
01:02:17,478 --> 01:02:19,902
One of the people
who helped edit the letter
1188
01:02:19,903 --> 01:02:22,497
on UFO disclosure to the
president of the United States
1189
01:02:22,498 --> 01:02:23,627
was Hillary Clinton.
1190
01:02:23,628 --> 01:02:27,306
She was the first lady
at the time.
1191
01:02:27,307 --> 01:02:29,983
Another person
close to Bill Clinton
1192
01:02:29,984 --> 01:02:33,749
who was an advocate for
government investigation of UFOs
1193
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:35,547
was John Podesta,
1194
01:02:35,548 --> 01:02:39,436
who served as the president's
assistant in 1993
1195
01:02:39,437 --> 01:02:45,126
and became his deputy chief
of staff in 1997.
1196
01:02:45,127 --> 01:02:49,099
I've had a long career,
trying to fight
1197
01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:52,278
against government secrecy
and create more openness.
1198
01:02:52,279 --> 01:02:54,622
Right after I left law school,
I started working on that
1199
01:02:54,623 --> 01:02:56,085
at the Department of Justice,
1200
01:02:56,086 --> 01:02:57,799
then at the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
1201
01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,599
And then when I worked
for President Clinton
1202
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,774
in the White House,
I was one of the people
1203
01:03:01,775 --> 01:03:03,615
spearheading an initiative,
1204
01:03:03,616 --> 01:03:06,501
to declassify
what turned out to be
1205
01:03:06,502 --> 01:03:08,592
over a billion pages
of documents
1206
01:03:08,593 --> 01:03:11,561
that were resident
at the National Archives.
1207
01:03:11,562 --> 01:03:13,194
In President Clinton's case,
1208
01:03:13,195 --> 01:03:15,368
I think he was interested
in the phenomena.
1209
01:03:15,369 --> 01:03:18,380
He had worked with his then
science advisor Jack Gibbons
1210
01:03:18,381 --> 01:03:21,182
to understand what was going on.
1211
01:03:21,183 --> 01:03:24,111
This correspondence
starts going back and forth
1212
01:03:24,112 --> 01:03:25,408
for three years.
1213
01:03:25,409 --> 01:03:27,583
Rockefeller is putting
immense pressure
1214
01:03:27,584 --> 01:03:29,717
on the White House to disclose.
1215
01:03:29,718 --> 01:03:32,268
Laurance Rockefeller requested
1216
01:03:32,269 --> 01:03:35,782
that the 1947 Roswell incident
be a starting point
1217
01:03:35,783 --> 01:03:37,914
in the government's disclosure.
1218
01:03:37,915 --> 01:03:40,341
They went out
and they reinvestigated Roswell.
1219
01:03:40,342 --> 01:03:41,972
It came back,
1220
01:03:41,973 --> 01:03:45,025
and Bill Clinton saw
the final report in 1995.
1221
01:03:45,026 --> 01:03:48,329
President Clinton's one of
1222
01:03:48,330 --> 01:03:50,673
the most curious people
I've ever met.
1223
01:03:50,674 --> 01:03:53,223
I think he wanted to know
what the Air Force knew,
1224
01:03:53,224 --> 01:03:55,526
and got a report back that,
in my view,
1225
01:03:55,527 --> 01:03:58,368
was a little bit unsatisfying.
1226
01:03:58,369 --> 01:04:00,419
He was furious,
from what I was told.
1227
01:04:00,420 --> 01:04:02,844
The Rockefeller Initiative
1228
01:04:02,845 --> 01:04:04,854
was hoping for a revelation,
1229
01:04:04,855 --> 01:04:07,738
but the U.S. Air Force
stuck to its position
1230
01:04:07,739 --> 01:04:12,926
that a crashed weather balloon
caused the Roswell incident.
1231
01:04:12,927 --> 01:04:15,729
Clinton goes
to Belfast, Northern Ireland,
1232
01:04:15,730 --> 01:04:17,819
in November of 1995.
1233
01:04:17,820 --> 01:04:19,494
He's lighting
the Christmas tree,
1234
01:04:19,495 --> 01:04:21,793
and that's when he gives
the famous speech.
1235
01:04:21,794 --> 01:04:24,513
He said he gets
a letter from Ryan,
1236
01:04:24,514 --> 01:04:26,980
which I tried to recover
in an FOIA.
1237
01:04:26,981 --> 01:04:30,412
There is no letter to Ryan.
I think they just made it up.
1238
01:04:30,413 --> 01:04:33,296
He said, "Ryan, if you're out
there in the audience tonight",
1239
01:04:33,297 --> 01:04:35,263
here's the answer
to your question."
1240
01:04:35,264 --> 01:04:36,685
No.
1241
01:04:36,686 --> 01:04:39,865
As far as I know,
an alien spacecraft
1242
01:04:39,866 --> 01:04:43,377
did not crash
in Roswell, New Mexico.
1243
01:04:43,378 --> 01:04:47,225
And, Ryan,
if the United States Air Force
1244
01:04:47,226 --> 01:04:49,862
did recover alien bodies,
1245
01:04:49,863 --> 01:04:54,379
they didn't tell me about it,
either, and I want to know.
1246
01:04:54,380 --> 01:04:58,687
That's why in 1997
the U.S. Air Force goes out
1247
01:04:58,688 --> 01:05:01,322
and does a second
Roswell report,
1248
01:05:01,323 --> 01:05:02,787
spends $20 million on it,
1249
01:05:02,788 --> 01:05:04,627
because the president
was furious.
1250
01:05:04,628 --> 01:05:07,345
According to the revised report,
1251
01:05:07,346 --> 01:05:10,943
the so-called alien bodies
that eyewitnesses claimed
1252
01:05:10,944 --> 01:05:13,076
they saw being pulled
from the wreckage
1253
01:05:13,077 --> 01:05:17,343
were dismissed as being nothing
more than crash test dummies
1254
01:05:17,344 --> 01:05:19,686
which had been tethered
to parachutes being used
1255
01:05:19,687 --> 01:05:22,530
in an otherwise
conventional test.
1256
01:05:22,531 --> 01:05:26,043
Dr. Gibbons pressed
first the Secretary of Defense
1257
01:05:26,044 --> 01:05:28,345
Les Aspen, and then
the Secretary of the Air Force,
1258
01:05:28,346 --> 01:05:31,565
to take this matter seriously,
to do a review.
1259
01:05:31,566 --> 01:05:33,573
The boxes were missing.
The documents were gone.
1260
01:05:33,574 --> 01:05:35,748
Nobody knew anything.
1261
01:05:35,749 --> 01:05:40,141
And, you know, the...
the trail kind of went cold.
1262
01:05:41,563 --> 01:05:43,779
In 1996,
1263
01:05:43,780 --> 01:05:47,461
the Rockefeller Initiative
was quietly closed,
1264
01:05:47,462 --> 01:05:49,091
and its participants...
1265
01:05:49,092 --> 01:05:50,932
Frustrated that forces
within the government
1266
01:05:50,933 --> 01:05:53,651
still refused
to reveal the truth...
1267
01:05:53,652 --> 01:05:57,877
Went away without the answers
they'd hoped for.
1268
01:05:57,878 --> 01:06:00,804
The Rockefeller Initiative is
considered by some researchers
1269
01:06:00,805 --> 01:06:04,275
to be the biggest
government UFO disclosure story
1270
01:06:04,276 --> 01:06:05,866
of all times.
1271
01:06:05,867 --> 01:06:08,041
The fact that it even existed,
1272
01:06:08,042 --> 01:06:10,759
that it was sanctioned
in any way by the government,
1273
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:12,893
that the report was accepted
1274
01:06:12,894 --> 01:06:14,900
by the White House
and people in the government,
1275
01:06:14,901 --> 01:06:17,243
I think is very,
very highly significant.
1276
01:06:17,244 --> 01:06:19,919
So it's kind of a very small
incremental step forward
1277
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:22,305
in the process of disclosure
1278
01:06:22,306 --> 01:06:25,734
and moving us
towards the ultimate answers
1279
01:06:25,735 --> 01:06:28,161
to the questions
that we're all asking.
1280
01:06:30,061 --> 01:06:33,740
Washington, D.C.
1281
01:06:33,741 --> 01:06:37,088
July 1996.
1282
01:06:37,089 --> 01:06:39,598
Political activist
Stephen Bassett
1283
01:06:39,599 --> 01:06:41,647
becomes the first registered
1284
01:06:41,648 --> 01:06:44,156
extraterrestrial life
and disclosure lobbyist
1285
01:06:44,157 --> 01:06:46,835
in the United States.
1286
01:06:46,836 --> 01:06:50,013
For years,
he had been trying to organize
1287
01:06:50,014 --> 01:06:52,356
a hearing
with members of Congress
1288
01:06:52,357 --> 01:06:55,199
to present evidence
that the government was hiding
1289
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,588
important information
from its people.
1290
01:06:58,589 --> 01:07:03,105
The extraterrestrial presence,
if formally acknowledged,
1291
01:07:03,106 --> 01:07:06,076
could bring in an age of reform,
where the human race
1292
01:07:06,077 --> 01:07:07,707
could get its act together,
1293
01:07:07,708 --> 01:07:09,590
because we're
running out of time.
1294
01:07:09,591 --> 01:07:12,935
As I got into the issue,
1295
01:07:12,936 --> 01:07:16,325
what I learned is
just how dysfunctional
1296
01:07:16,326 --> 01:07:19,502
the United States government
had become.
1297
01:07:19,503 --> 01:07:22,095
It is the vast expanse
of secrecy
1298
01:07:22,096 --> 01:07:24,689
and abuse of secrecy in power
that is lying
1299
01:07:24,690 --> 01:07:27,994
at the base of a great deal
of our problems.
1300
01:07:27,995 --> 01:07:32,774
And so I had
one simple fundamental task:
1301
01:07:32,775 --> 01:07:35,039
formal acknowledgment of
the extraterrestrial presence,
1302
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:37,387
simple, clean and easy.
1303
01:07:37,388 --> 01:07:40,237
Gentlemen, if you
could stand and repeat after me?
1304
01:07:40,238 --> 01:07:45,480
On April 29, 2013,
Bassett organized
1305
01:07:45,481 --> 01:07:49,127
the Citizen Hearing on
Disclosure in Washington, D.C.
1306
01:07:49,128 --> 01:07:51,811
The objective was
to bring together
1307
01:07:51,812 --> 01:07:56,213
the most compelling evidence of
extraterrestrial visits to Earth
1308
01:07:56,214 --> 01:07:58,688
and convince former members
of Congress
1309
01:07:58,689 --> 01:08:00,407
to take immediate action.
1310
01:08:00,408 --> 01:08:03,551
I had wanted
to do it since 2001...
1311
01:08:03,552 --> 01:08:06,948
Bring in 42 witnesses,
from ten countries,
1312
01:08:06,949 --> 01:08:11,056
to testify in the main ballroom
of the National Press Club,
1313
01:08:11,057 --> 01:08:14,160
before six former members
of the Congress,
1314
01:08:14,161 --> 01:08:17,472
five congresspersons,
one senator.
1315
01:08:17,473 --> 01:08:21,832
And they testified
for 30 hours over five days.
1316
01:08:21,833 --> 01:08:24,014
It was an amazing event,
1317
01:08:24,015 --> 01:08:28,373
mostly because of the caliber of
witnesses that were brought in,
1318
01:08:28,375 --> 01:08:30,721
the investigators, researchers.
1319
01:08:30,722 --> 01:08:32,734
They don't want you
to know that.
1320
01:08:32,735 --> 01:08:35,040
Witnesses
included John Callahan,
1321
01:08:35,041 --> 01:08:36,549
former division chief
1322
01:08:36,550 --> 01:08:38,941
of the Accidents
and Investigations Branch
1323
01:08:38,942 --> 01:08:41,203
of the FAA,
1324
01:08:41,204 --> 01:08:44,642
the former Canadian Minister
of Defence, Paul Hellyer,
1325
01:08:44,643 --> 01:08:48,165
retired Air Force captain
Robert Salas,
1326
01:08:48,166 --> 01:08:51,518
and many others who had
conducted extensive research
1327
01:08:51,519 --> 01:08:53,364
into the UFO phenomenon.
1328
01:08:53,365 --> 01:08:56,382
We live in a cosmos
teeming with life.
1329
01:08:56,383 --> 01:08:58,689
The fact that
some other civilizations
1330
01:08:58,690 --> 01:09:00,743
are more advanced than we are
may be humbling,
1331
01:09:00,744 --> 01:09:04,349
but that could be a necessary
step in our survival.
1332
01:09:04,350 --> 01:09:07,830
People are so afraid
for their lives, their families,
1333
01:09:07,831 --> 01:09:11,855
because they have had to sign
nondisclosure agreements.
1334
01:09:11,856 --> 01:09:15,838
Witness from
the U.K., Nick Pope.
1335
01:09:15,839 --> 01:09:17,348
Thank you.
1336
01:09:17,349 --> 01:09:19,025
Um, you should all have
a printed-out copy
1337
01:09:19,026 --> 01:09:20,744
of my opening statement.
1338
01:09:20,745 --> 01:09:23,805
I was one of the
witnesses, and I have to say,
1339
01:09:23,806 --> 01:09:27,411
this was the nearest
that we've gotten since,
1340
01:09:27,412 --> 01:09:30,430
oh, way back to the '70s
and the '60s, even,
1341
01:09:30,431 --> 01:09:35,168
to proper congressional hearings
on the UFO mystery.
1342
01:09:35,169 --> 01:09:39,151
You did work for the Ministry
of Defence in the U.K.?
1343
01:09:39,152 --> 01:09:41,332
That's correct, sir, yes.
1344
01:09:41,333 --> 01:09:44,476
I was asked about my experience
1345
01:09:44,477 --> 01:09:47,830
within the British government's
UFO program,
1346
01:09:47,831 --> 01:09:50,389
and one of the U.K.'s
most high-profile cases,
1347
01:09:50,390 --> 01:09:52,903
the Rendlesham Forest incident.
1348
01:09:52,904 --> 01:09:56,175
In December 1980,
1349
01:09:56,176 --> 01:09:59,487
there were unexplained reports
of a glowing craft in the woods
1350
01:09:59,488 --> 01:10:03,009
of Royal Air Force Base,
Woodbridge.
1351
01:10:03,010 --> 01:10:07,664
Burn marks and broken branches
were later discovered.
1352
01:10:07,665 --> 01:10:11,479
Some have called this incident
"Britain's Roswell."
1353
01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:15,169
Even though I've left
government, I responded with,
1354
01:10:15,170 --> 01:10:18,229
"I can neither confirm
nor deny."
1355
01:10:18,230 --> 01:10:20,873
I don't think
the committee liked
1356
01:10:20,874 --> 01:10:23,723
my "neither confirm nor deny"
response,
1357
01:10:23,724 --> 01:10:26,113
and they pushed me
very hard on that.
1358
01:10:26,114 --> 01:10:28,629
Certainly, you've been involved
since you left.
1359
01:10:28,630 --> 01:10:30,306
Yes, sir, in a private capacity.
1360
01:10:30,307 --> 01:10:31,563
What's your opinion,
1361
01:10:31,564 --> 01:10:33,912
based on all that stuff
that you've had access to?
1362
01:10:33,913 --> 01:10:35,464
Is there an E.T. origin
1363
01:10:35,465 --> 01:10:40,075
to what's obvious sightings
of real UFOs?
1364
01:10:40,076 --> 01:10:42,548
It is a... a possibility.
1365
01:10:42,549 --> 01:10:45,233
You could tell by the faces,
1366
01:10:45,234 --> 01:10:48,251
they really weren't quite sure
what to think of this yet.
1367
01:10:48,252 --> 01:10:51,983
By Wednesday, we have them,
you know, standing up,
1368
01:10:51,984 --> 01:10:55,632
pointing fingers, saying,
"We need to open those files."
1369
01:10:55,633 --> 01:10:58,482
It drove things forward.
1370
01:10:58,483 --> 01:11:01,459
It took the UFO phenomenon
out of the fringe
1371
01:11:01,460 --> 01:11:03,178
and into the mainstream.
1372
01:11:03,179 --> 01:11:06,030
Thousands of people
watched it online.
1373
01:11:06,031 --> 01:11:07,874
We netcast it so that
1374
01:11:07,875 --> 01:11:09,889
members of Congress
and their staff
1375
01:11:09,890 --> 01:11:12,696
who were too timid
to come down and watch it there,
1376
01:11:12,697 --> 01:11:14,543
or members of the press
that were afraid
1377
01:11:14,544 --> 01:11:16,219
that they might be seen
watching it,
1378
01:11:16,220 --> 01:11:18,273
could watch it in the comfort
of their offices.
1379
01:11:18,274 --> 01:11:22,089
Sometime this year,
we may just enter a new world.
1380
01:11:22,090 --> 01:11:23,683
Thank you so much.
1381
01:11:23,684 --> 01:11:25,736
Based on the hearings,
1382
01:11:25,737 --> 01:11:28,504
four of the six
former members of Congress
1383
01:11:28,505 --> 01:11:31,523
pledged their support
to hold a world conference,
1384
01:11:31,524 --> 01:11:33,872
in conjunction
with the United Nations,
1385
01:11:33,873 --> 01:11:36,010
to address the disclosure
1386
01:11:36,011 --> 01:11:38,525
of all knowledge
of extraterrestrial contact
1387
01:11:38,526 --> 01:11:40,080
with this planet.
1388
01:11:41,587 --> 01:11:44,983
Then, on August 15, 2013,
1389
01:11:44,984 --> 01:11:48,589
less than four months after the
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure,
1390
01:11:48,590 --> 01:11:53,662
the United States government
made a shocking admission.
1391
01:11:53,663 --> 01:11:56,053
After decades
of denying its existence,
1392
01:11:56,054 --> 01:11:58,652
they finally admitted
that a secret base
1393
01:11:58,653 --> 01:12:02,217
known as Area 51 did exist.
1394
01:12:02,218 --> 01:12:05,319
Did the Citizen Hearing
on Disclosure
1395
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,464
force the U.S. government
to act?
1396
01:12:08,465 --> 01:12:10,308
While the government
acknowledged
1397
01:12:10,309 --> 01:12:14,710
the existence of Area 51,
it still has not been revealed
1398
01:12:14,711 --> 01:12:18,359
just what it is
currently being used for.
1399
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:19,995
And since that disclosure,
1400
01:12:19,996 --> 01:12:22,846
the perimeter around the base
has been extended
1401
01:12:22,847 --> 01:12:26,200
and security heightened.
1402
01:12:26,201 --> 01:12:29,721
Area 51 has to be
more secretive now,
1403
01:12:29,722 --> 01:12:32,238
because you got
so many other concerns.
1404
01:12:32,239 --> 01:12:35,299
We didn't have computers
to worry about, Internet,
1405
01:12:35,300 --> 01:12:37,858
all that sort of thing
that you've got today.
1406
01:12:37,859 --> 01:12:40,457
So it's a brand-new ball game
as far as security.
1407
01:12:40,458 --> 01:12:43,768
While many considered
the government's admission
1408
01:12:43,769 --> 01:12:47,333
of the existence of Area 51
to be a bombshell,
1409
01:12:47,334 --> 01:12:51,022
an even bigger disclosure
was still to come:
1410
01:12:51,023 --> 01:12:57,019
the declassification of millions
of top secret CIA documents.
1411
01:13:01,469 --> 01:13:03,146
Bethesda, Maryland.
1412
01:13:03,147 --> 01:13:06,039
November 2014.
1413
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:07,967
Stephen Bassett,
1414
01:13:07,968 --> 01:13:11,742
executive director
of the Paradigm Research Group,
1415
01:13:11,743 --> 01:13:16,228
launches an initiative directed
to influence Hillary Clinton.
1416
01:13:16,229 --> 01:13:19,121
Based on Clinton's work
with Laurance Rockefeller
1417
01:13:19,122 --> 01:13:21,175
in the 1990s,
1418
01:13:21,176 --> 01:13:23,691
Bassett believes
she could be an ally
1419
01:13:23,692 --> 01:13:28,386
in getting the government
to declassify its UFO files.
1420
01:13:28,387 --> 01:13:31,743
That political initiative
was begun
1421
01:13:31,744 --> 01:13:34,173
by sending a full copy
1422
01:13:34,174 --> 01:13:37,360
of the 30 hours of testimony
to every member of Congress,
1423
01:13:37,361 --> 01:13:41,638
addressing the Rockefeller
Initiative, naming names...
1424
01:13:41,639 --> 01:13:45,537
Secretary Clinton,
President Clinton, John Podesta,
1425
01:13:45,538 --> 01:13:47,256
George Stephanopoulos,
et cetera, et cetera.
1426
01:13:47,257 --> 01:13:50,862
That testimony created
a very significant dilemma
1427
01:13:50,863 --> 01:13:53,252
for the Clinton campaign team.
1428
01:13:53,253 --> 01:13:59,205
The political initiative forces
the Clinton campaign team,
1429
01:13:59,206 --> 01:14:01,806
which included Barack Obama...
He was on the team...
1430
01:14:01,807 --> 01:14:04,280
To speak to the issue.
1431
01:14:04,281 --> 01:14:08,515
Are we ready to go win
an election in November?
1432
01:14:10,151 --> 01:14:13,210
Clinton's campaign
chairman, John Podesta,
1433
01:14:13,211 --> 01:14:15,810
is well known
for his interest in UFO
1434
01:14:15,811 --> 01:14:21,177
and extraterrestrial encounters,
and according to him, so is she.
1435
01:14:22,940 --> 01:14:25,245
Secretary Clinton, likewise,
1436
01:14:25,246 --> 01:14:27,383
was also kind of interested
in the topic,
1437
01:14:27,384 --> 01:14:30,360
and during the course
of the campaign said
1438
01:14:30,361 --> 01:14:32,457
that, if elected,
she would have ordered
1439
01:14:32,458 --> 01:14:35,308
a more thorough
declassification review.
1440
01:14:35,309 --> 01:14:37,991
She was very open.
She did not skirt the issue.
1441
01:14:37,992 --> 01:14:39,669
She talked about it very openly.
1442
01:14:39,670 --> 01:14:43,023
Many believe
that had Clinton won,
1443
01:14:43,024 --> 01:14:44,910
there would have been
a seismic shift
1444
01:14:44,911 --> 01:14:47,803
from the government's
long-held policy of secrecy
1445
01:14:47,804 --> 01:14:53,924
concerning UFO investigations to
a new policy of full disclosure.
1446
01:14:53,925 --> 01:14:56,566
The system of regulation
1447
01:14:56,567 --> 01:15:00,674
that creates our secrecy
system... what's top secret,
1448
01:15:00,675 --> 01:15:03,779
what's confidential, these
lower levels of classification...
1449
01:15:03,780 --> 01:15:07,887
That's regulated and has been
since the Truman administration
1450
01:15:07,888 --> 01:15:10,235
by executive order
of the president.
1451
01:15:10,236 --> 01:15:15,476
The president sets forward the
general rules of classification.
1452
01:15:15,477 --> 01:15:17,742
And some presidents
have been more forthcoming,
1453
01:15:17,743 --> 01:15:19,545
wanted less secrecy.
1454
01:15:19,546 --> 01:15:23,652
Some have tightened the reins
and wanted more secrecy.
1455
01:15:23,653 --> 01:15:24,785
It makes a difference.
1456
01:15:24,786 --> 01:15:27,553
The CIA and the Pentagon...
1457
01:15:27,554 --> 01:15:31,074
They were worried about Hillary
Clinton, Secretary Clinton,
1458
01:15:31,075 --> 01:15:33,758
all the statements she was
making, winning the presidency,
1459
01:15:33,759 --> 01:15:35,686
and going to the Pentagon
and basically saying,
1460
01:15:35,687 --> 01:15:37,784
"You are going to give me
the information I need
1461
01:15:37,785 --> 01:15:39,502
"to disclose
the extraterrestrial presence,
1462
01:15:39,503 --> 01:15:42,186
or I'm gonna fire
every single one of you."
1463
01:15:42,187 --> 01:15:47,511
As this year of 2016
went forward, we all expected
1464
01:15:47,512 --> 01:15:50,488
that this headline
that we've been waiting for
1465
01:15:50,489 --> 01:15:54,177
that is going
to break the protocol,
1466
01:15:54,178 --> 01:15:58,414
break the policy of denial,
was going to happen.
1467
01:15:58,415 --> 01:16:01,390
John Podesta was trying
to get ready
1468
01:16:01,391 --> 01:16:04,409
to open up that we're not alone
in the universe.
1469
01:16:04,410 --> 01:16:07,177
All of that crashed
1470
01:16:07,178 --> 01:16:11,621
when a different person became
President of the United States.
1471
01:16:11,622 --> 01:16:15,520
November 8, 2016,
1472
01:16:15,521 --> 01:16:19,336
Donald Trump was elected
as America's next president.
1473
01:16:19,337 --> 01:16:23,655
There would be no disclosure
of the secret UFO files.
1474
01:16:23,656 --> 01:16:28,855
I've had a number of
members of Congress,
1475
01:16:28,856 --> 01:16:32,124
members of the U.S. Senate
say to me, "Keep going at this."
1476
01:16:32,125 --> 01:16:35,060
I'm really interested in it, but
I can't say anything about it."
1477
01:16:35,061 --> 01:16:37,659
But as a longtime advisor
1478
01:16:37,660 --> 01:16:39,672
to President Barack Obama,
1479
01:16:39,673 --> 01:16:43,404
John Podesta still had an ally
in the White House,
1480
01:16:43,405 --> 01:16:46,926
one who would remain there
for another two months.
1481
01:16:50,784 --> 01:16:54,899
January 17, 2017.
1482
01:16:54,900 --> 01:16:57,879
In Barack Obama's
last days as president,
1483
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:00,734
the CIA posts on its website
1484
01:17:00,735 --> 01:17:04,514
nearly 13 million pages
of agency documents,
1485
01:17:04,515 --> 01:17:08,083
many of which pertain to UFOs.
1486
01:17:08,084 --> 01:17:13,079
It was a very, very big deal,
and people were excited.
1487
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:17,740
All of these things
were efforts, I believe,
1488
01:17:17,741 --> 01:17:20,301
to educate people and to move us
1489
01:17:20,302 --> 01:17:25,845
in a direction that we can
accept, as a society,
1490
01:17:25,846 --> 01:17:28,742
that extraterrestrials are here
1491
01:17:28,743 --> 01:17:32,480
and have been here
for thousands of years.
1492
01:17:35,335 --> 01:17:38,777
Investigator Chase
Kloetzke and author Nick Pope
1493
01:17:38,778 --> 01:17:40,918
have been searching for proof
1494
01:17:40,919 --> 01:17:43,353
that the U.S. government has
been hiding its interactions
1495
01:17:43,354 --> 01:17:45,327
with extraterrestrials.
1496
01:17:45,328 --> 01:17:48,560
Now they hope to find
new evidence among
1497
01:17:48,561 --> 01:17:52,340
the millions
of recently declassified pages.
1498
01:17:52,341 --> 01:17:54,019
Well, there's such a lot
to go through.
1499
01:17:54,020 --> 01:17:56,873
Exactly. It comes back
to the old saying,
1500
01:17:56,874 --> 01:18:00,108
the best place
to hide a book is in a library.
1501
01:18:00,109 --> 01:18:04,265
And there are all sorts of gems
in here, I'm sure,
1502
01:18:04,266 --> 01:18:06,112
but, um, how would we ever know?
1503
01:18:06,113 --> 01:18:08,547
We've got to go through it
literally page by page,
1504
01:18:08,548 --> 01:18:10,435
- line by line.
- Right.
1505
01:18:10,436 --> 01:18:13,250
So we're taking a look
at this report.
1506
01:18:13,449 --> 01:18:15,672
December 1960.
1507
01:18:15,673 --> 01:18:17,647
This has come from Detroit,
1508
01:18:17,648 --> 01:18:22,853
and it's a sighting of
unidentified objects in the sky.
1509
01:18:22,854 --> 01:18:26,044
"Like a disc," it says,
1510
01:18:26,045 --> 01:18:28,354
which again, is something
I'm sure you've come across
1511
01:18:28,355 --> 01:18:30,158
in-in various reports,
as have I.
1512
01:18:30,159 --> 01:18:31,628
Yes, many.
1513
01:18:31,629 --> 01:18:33,981
And yet,
it has these redactions on it.
1514
01:18:33,982 --> 01:18:36,122
And again,
the question arises: Why?
1515
01:18:36,123 --> 01:18:40,489
If this subject is so
unclassified and unimportant,
1516
01:18:40,490 --> 01:18:42,251
why all these redactions?
1517
01:18:42,252 --> 01:18:44,855
- And this next document.
- Oh, wow. That's crazy.
1518
01:18:44,856 --> 01:18:47,921
Right? Why even bother?
1519
01:18:47,922 --> 01:18:51,532
Only information is... the date.
1520
01:18:51,533 --> 01:18:53,925
13 million documents.
1521
01:18:53,926 --> 01:18:56,865
If there really was
a smoking gun in there,
1522
01:18:56,866 --> 01:18:59,343
it would be
almost impossible to find.
1523
01:19:02,870 --> 01:19:06,059
So far,
the CIA archive has revealed
1524
01:19:06,060 --> 01:19:08,159
thousands of reports
of sightings
1525
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,426
of unexplained aircraft.
1526
01:19:10,427 --> 01:19:13,871
One report said that,
of 1,500 official accounts
1527
01:19:13,872 --> 01:19:16,725
of UFOs since 1947,
1528
01:19:16,726 --> 01:19:21,344
an incredible 20%
remain unexplained.
1529
01:19:21,345 --> 01:19:25,249
But was the release
of the CIA online archive
1530
01:19:25,250 --> 01:19:30,833
another step towards disclosure
or a way to bury the truth?
1531
01:19:30,834 --> 01:19:34,360
When the Pentagon's
classified study into UFOs...
1532
01:19:34,361 --> 01:19:37,426
The Advanced Aerial Threat
Identification Program...
1533
01:19:37,427 --> 01:19:41,122
Was uncovered later in 2017,
1534
01:19:41,123 --> 01:19:43,303
journalists
and researchers rushed
1535
01:19:43,304 --> 01:19:46,747
to file Freedom of Information
Act requests.
1536
01:19:46,748 --> 01:19:51,409
Will these files finally explain
what the government knows?
1537
01:19:54,746 --> 01:19:57,854
11 months after
the CIA's archive
1538
01:19:57,855 --> 01:20:00,541
is released
to the public in 2017,
1539
01:20:00,542 --> 01:20:03,227
The New York Times story reveals
1540
01:20:03,228 --> 01:20:05,328
the Department of Defense's
1541
01:20:05,329 --> 01:20:09,275
or Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program.
1542
01:20:13,138 --> 01:20:14,944
As soon as the story breaks,
1543
01:20:14,945 --> 01:20:17,504
journalists and researchers
start filing
1544
01:20:17,505 --> 01:20:22,040
Freedom of Information Act
requests, known as FOIA.
1545
01:20:22,041 --> 01:20:28,966
There have now been 1,500 to
2,000 FOIAs on this program...
1546
01:20:28,967 --> 01:20:31,024
$22 million program...
1547
01:20:31,025 --> 01:20:32,998
And the government
at this point is saying,
1548
01:20:32,999 --> 01:20:34,384
"Program? What program?"
1549
01:20:34,385 --> 01:20:35,980
They're playing
the same old game.
1550
01:20:35,981 --> 01:20:37,490
"We didn't release those films."
1551
01:20:37,491 --> 01:20:39,003
But they're under
so much pressure.
1552
01:20:39,004 --> 01:20:41,522
If this keeps up for even
1553
01:20:41,523 --> 01:20:43,580
four, five or six more months,
1554
01:20:43,581 --> 01:20:48,240
I do not imagine how
disclosure can not take place.
1555
01:20:48,241 --> 01:20:51,809
Much of what was
undertaken and reviewed
1556
01:20:51,810 --> 01:20:54,160
still remains in the dark,
1557
01:20:54,161 --> 01:20:57,477
in classified form
at the Department of Defense.
1558
01:20:57,478 --> 01:21:00,166
I would hope that
they would declassify it
1559
01:21:00,167 --> 01:21:02,012
and release as much as possible.
1560
01:21:02,013 --> 01:21:04,280
- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.
1561
01:21:04,281 --> 01:21:07,218
When this story broke
in The New York Times...
1562
01:21:07,219 --> 01:21:09,150
- Jordan.
- ...guy by the name of
1563
01:21:09,151 --> 01:21:12,635
Jordan Fabian from The Hill...
he asks Sarah Sanders
1564
01:21:12,636 --> 01:21:14,903
the $64,000 question.
1565
01:21:14,904 --> 01:21:17,884
Does the president believe
in the existence of UFOs,
1566
01:21:17,885 --> 01:21:19,816
and would he be interested
1567
01:21:19,817 --> 01:21:21,328
in restoring funding
for that program?
1568
01:21:21,329 --> 01:21:23,384
Somehow that question
hasn't come up
1569
01:21:23,385 --> 01:21:26,533
in our back and forth over the
last couple days, but I will,
1570
01:21:26,534 --> 01:21:30,774
uh, check into that and be happy
to circle back. Jennifer?
1571
01:21:30,775 --> 01:21:33,756
As far as I know,
she has never come back around,
1572
01:21:33,757 --> 01:21:35,437
because you can't.
1573
01:21:35,438 --> 01:21:37,535
The president
has to stay out of it.
1574
01:21:37,536 --> 01:21:40,684
They want the community
to force the issue.
1575
01:21:40,685 --> 01:21:42,532
They want us to force the issue.
1576
01:21:42,533 --> 01:21:46,352
And that is why they moved it
to Bob Bigelow,
1577
01:21:46,353 --> 01:21:49,124
who's a contractor in Las Vegas.
1578
01:21:49,125 --> 01:21:52,231
It's private industry
that will do the disclosure.
1579
01:21:52,232 --> 01:21:54,624
History is
about to happen at a level
1580
01:21:54,625 --> 01:21:58,698
that's almost incalculable,
extraordinary, unprecedented.
1581
01:21:58,699 --> 01:22:02,477
It makes something like
the Roman Empire look trivial.
1582
01:22:02,478 --> 01:22:04,702
So, just think about that.
1583
01:22:04,703 --> 01:22:06,676
The announcement of
the extraterrestrial presence,
1584
01:22:06,677 --> 01:22:08,481
worldwide engagement,
1585
01:22:08,482 --> 01:22:11,588
open contacts
with multiple civilizations.
1586
01:22:11,589 --> 01:22:15,913
The revelations
about AATIP may be clues
1587
01:22:15,914 --> 01:22:18,097
that there's an agenda here.
1588
01:22:18,098 --> 01:22:21,708
This may be government trying
1589
01:22:21,709 --> 01:22:25,149
to slowly drip-feed this
information out to the public
1590
01:22:25,150 --> 01:22:29,055
in such a way that there
won't be out-and-out panic.
1591
01:22:29,056 --> 01:22:31,282
It may be a way
1592
01:22:31,283 --> 01:22:36,571
of slowly but surely
acclimatizing people
1593
01:22:36,572 --> 01:22:39,426
to the reality
of this phenomenon.
1594
01:22:39,427 --> 01:22:43,206
The fact that
The New York Times published
1595
01:22:43,207 --> 01:22:46,565
a Pentagon story
is extraordinary.
1596
01:22:46,566 --> 01:22:50,259
And nobody really cared, so,
1597
01:22:50,260 --> 01:22:55,298
to me, that means that
while we are all talking about
1598
01:22:55,299 --> 01:22:58,071
that we may be connected
to extraterrestrials,
1599
01:22:58,072 --> 01:23:01,094
that this knowledge
is within us.
1600
01:23:01,095 --> 01:23:05,544
It's hardwired, so that,
hey, if they're coming,
1601
01:23:05,545 --> 01:23:08,902
it won't be panic
because we come from them.
1602
01:23:08,903 --> 01:23:13,019
I do think that the world is
ready for this knowledge,
1603
01:23:13,020 --> 01:23:17,132
and I think that it would be
the most revolutionary story
1604
01:23:17,133 --> 01:23:19,485
in the history of mankind.
1605
01:23:22,466 --> 01:23:24,985
Has the time finally come
1606
01:23:24,986 --> 01:23:27,505
when not only
the United States government
1607
01:23:27,506 --> 01:23:32,334
but nations around the world
will reveal what UFO researchers
1608
01:23:32,335 --> 01:23:36,280
and ancient astronaut theorists
have long suspected:
1609
01:23:36,281 --> 01:23:39,387
that extraterrestrial visitation
of our planet
1610
01:23:39,388 --> 01:23:42,452
is not only real,
but has been happening
1611
01:23:42,453 --> 01:23:44,804
for thousands of years?
1612
01:23:44,805 --> 01:23:49,715
There are many who believe
the answer is a profound yes,
1613
01:23:49,716 --> 01:23:52,991
and that the truth will lead
to a greater understanding
1614
01:23:52,992 --> 01:23:58,197
not only of mankind's past,
but of its future,
1615
01:23:58,198 --> 01:24:01,305
a future that will see humans
1616
01:24:01,306 --> 01:24:04,455
as the torchbearers
of a new generation,
1617
01:24:04,456 --> 01:24:09,451
and as the extraterrestrial
visitors of planets and galaxies
1618
01:24:09,452 --> 01:24:11,970
far beyond our own.
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