NARRATOR: It is perhaps the greatest UFO secret
of the 20th century...
MAN: What the [bleep] is that? It's crazy.
NARRATOR: The reverse engineering of alien technology.
What happens next?
It would be back-engineered.
NARRATOR: Did the U.S. government have a covert program
to retrieve and study the wreckage of crashed UFOs?
People that worked at Dugway have seen weird stuff out there
and want to tell their story.
NARRATOR: Were these materials, in fact, extraterrestrial?
They could easily see that that was a flying saucer wreckage.
They knew it was outside of this world.
NARRATOR: And is this still going on today?
People know how to keep secrets.
HANSEN: Whoa! Whoa!
I'm Ben Hansen, a former federal agent.
My grandfather worked at a highly classified Air Force base
and convinced me we are not alone in the universe.
Then I had my own encounter that changed my life forever.
MARSH: Welcome to UFO country.
HANSEN: Now I've gained access to a top secret archive
from Project Blue Book...
This planet has been under surveillance for centuries.
HANSEN: ...containing reports of over 10,000 UFO sightings
investigated by the US government.
We could very well be standing on the exact place
where a UFO crashed.
My mission is to uncover the truth.
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HANSEN: In the past few months,
there's been some earth-shattering revelations
about the government's knowledge of UFOs,
and I think we could be on the verge of uncovering
some very big secrets.
NARRATOR: In April 2020, the Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. military
has been encountering unidentified flying objects
in our airspace.
[Bleep]
NARRATOR: These craft move in a manner that defies explanation,
demonstrating technology that is light-years beyond ours.
But according to an explosive report
recently published in The New York Times,
it's possible our government has a plan
to back-engineer this technology from recovered alien craft.
In the article, high-ranking members of the U.S. government
admit there was once a covert program that investigated and,
when possible, retrieved the crashed remains
of unidentified flying objects for study.
And it's still happening today.
Astrophysicist Eric W. Davis stated
he briefed the Department of Defense in March 2020
about the recovery of,
"off-world vehicles not made on this Earth."
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HANSEN: Over the past 75 years,
there have been numerous UFO crashes where witnesses claim
the government recovered the wreckage
and took it to an unknown destination.
But two stand head-and-shoulders above the rest --
Roswell, 1947, and Kecksburg, 1965.
If I could somehow determine
where the military is taking these UFOs,
that would go a long way in corroborating the Times article.
It could then, in turn, offer definitive proof of alien life.
So I'm on my way to meet someone I think can help me.
NARRATOR: Tom Carey is a former member of the Air Force
who has written numerous books on the Roswell crash of 1947.
He claims the military recovered a UFO
from both Roswell and Kecksburg,
then took them apart to learn how they worked
with the aim of recreating their technology.
According to Tom, this work has been happening
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for nearly 80 years.
HANSEN: When it comes to Kecksburg -- the same with Roswell --
when something like this happens, a crash retrieval,
where you have alien craft going to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base --
what happens at Wright-Patterson?
Anything like that would ultimately wind up
in the Foreign Technology Division.
So, that is the housing for receiving
either foreign Yes. or otherworldly objects.
Exactly.
What happens next?
It would be back-engineered.
Reverse engineering
goes all the way back to World War II.
So, they were already in the back-engineering business
by the time of the Roswell crash in 1947.
So, the foreign technology division,
their mission is to accept aircraft
that we've captured or found.
So, take what is already made,
figure out how it works, back-engineer,
and then use that technology, perhaps, for our own benefit.
And they do this with enemy planes
as well as alien spacecraft.
That's it, in a nutshell.
What types of technology do you think have been developed?
Oh, geez, we got transistors from Roswell, Kevlar, lasers,
and they had this so-called memory metal,
that you could wad it up in your hand
and put it over a flat surface
and it would just float out, unfurl itself,
and just go back to its original shape.
But the thing about it was,
you couldn't cut it, scratch it, burn it,
or permanently deform it in any way.
It was indestructible.
Wow. That's incredible.
We had a witness who was involved in that project,
and he said they're trying to back-engineer this memory metal,
which began -- get this -- in 1948.
[ Laughs ] Right after the Roswell crash.
There was nothing on memory-recovery metal
prior to 1948.
NARRATOR: Years later, after contracting work
to the metallurgical company Battelle,
the government announced a scientific breakthrough.
In 1962, they held a press conference
to announce the discovery of this new amalgam called nitinol
And what does Nitinol do?
Nitinol is like the memory metal.
It's the best we could do.
It's not as good as the original.
It's used medically in heart valves.
[ Thumping ]
It's also used in the space program.
[ Radio chatter ]
Wow.
What about types of aircraft
you think have been developed?
The idea of stealth came from nitinol.
They covered an aircraft in this memory metal,
and it didn't show up on radar.
The U2s, it was the first one,
and the SR-71 Blackbird Stealth.
NARRATOR: During World War II, the Air Force's best craft
was the heavy bomber biplane.
Not long after, the SR-71 Blackbird Stealth
was blasting through the skies.
And everyone else might just look at that
and say, "Well, that's American ingenuity."
NARRATOR: Many believe this unprecedented leap in aerospace technology
was a direct result of the military's efforts
in reverse-engineering alien technology.
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They still haven't figured out how the Roswell UFO flew.
Back in the 50s, they tried to create circular craft,
but it was unstable.
It's like a hovercraft, right? A hovercraft. Yes.
There's a lot of reports of a triangular-shaped craft.
I would say, if they're seen in Nevada,
that would be what they're working on now.
But if they're seen in Sheboygan, Wisconsin,
or Bugtussle, Tennessee, it's one of theirs.
Okay. So, it's possible
that a lot of this back-engineered stuff,
maybe we figured out little bits of it,
but that they -- the originators of it --
are still flying around as well.
Yes. Wow.
What about back-engineering?
Do you think that still happens at Wright-Patterson?
No, they're probably not going to Wright-Patterson.
It's a known quantity, now.
NARRATOR: Tom believes that due to leaks
exposing their reverse- engineering efforts,
the military relocated the program
away from Wright-Patterson.
The current location of the military's top-secret
reverse-engineering division is unknown.
But 50 years ago,
it was housed within Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
and Ben knows someone who worked at the base at the time --
the last surviving member of Project Blue Book,
operative Jennie Zeidman.
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Good morning. Hey.
Good morning, Ben.
Nice to see you both. Jennie, Mark.
I just met with Tom Carey,
who told me the military back-engineers alien craft
at Wright-Pat.
Jennie, do you know of any research
that was being conducted on UFOs during your time there?
Once a week or so,
a man would arrive at the observatory office...
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and he would be carrying the cases
that Hynek was supposed to solve.
And I assumed he was from Wright field,
but he was kind of mysterious.
NARRATOR: Jennie had never seen the man before,
so she asked Hynek whether he was Air Force.
And he told me,
"you're not working directly for the Air Force."
He said, "you're working for a contractor."
NARRATOR: For Jennie, the word "contractor" was a red flag.
Why was an outside organization brought in
to investigate the Kecksburg and Roswell UFOs?
Jennie was determined to find out the contractor's name.
Knowing that something was being kept a secret,
I immediately wanted to solve the problem.
NARRATOR: A few days later, the man showed up with new files.
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ZEIDMAN: And I did a double-take at his license plate.
There was Columbus City directory in those days --
you looked up the name, and it says "secretary."
So it says, like, where he works.
And I got out the directory -- Vern Elzy, Battelle.
Battelle is one of the premier
metallurgical research places on the planet.
Battelle is a private corporation Right.
and a government contractor. Right.
So, you think Battelle took
debris and material from Roswell and Kecksburg,
then figure out how this technology works
and develop it into some useful material for the military?
The evidence indicates very strongly that
Battelle analyzed Roswell artifacts.
If, as you're supposing, there were artifacts from Roswell
and they were sent to Battelle,
what do you think the next logical steps would be?
To back-engineering, from which NASA was born, so to speak.
NARRATOR: NASA was founded in 1958.
[ Radio chatter ]
Many ufologists contend the agency was born
out of what was learned from the UFO recovered at Roswell
just nine years earlier.
Battelle's presence at Wright-Patterson suggests
that the reverse-engineering of UFOs was happening there.
But where is the program today?
Is the military still back-engineering UFOs today?
I have no idea. No idea whatsoever.
People know how to keep secrets.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Coming up...
HANSEN: Aliens. So, your father told you
that he saw alien bodies at Wright-Patterson,
Yes, aliens.
NARRATOR: And later...
HANSEN: Is it possible my own grandfather
was wrapped up in all of this
reverse-engineering and black project stuff?
♪♪
NARRATOR: Ben Hansen has uncovered
a top-secret division in the U.S. military
responsible for back-engineering
the crashed alien spacecrafts
recovered from Roswell and Kecksburg.
Jennie Zeidman confirmed it was housed
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
but its current location is unknown.
HANSEN: The leaps and bounds made in aviation
based off possible alien tech is remarkable.
I can't help but wonder what else
the military may have been developing.
NARRATOR: To find out, Ben has tracked down
the son of a key reverse engineer
who has been carrying a dark family secret for decades.
Mark. Ben Hansen, nice to see you.
Mark Magruder's father, Mack,
worked for the Air Force Special Projects Division.
Before he died in 1997,
he told his son everything he saw and did
as a back engineer working with alien craft.
HANSEN: Renowned World War II hero.
He's well-respected.
Mark, when did you first learn
about this other career life that your father had?
He ended up going to his grave with so much information.
And it turns out,
he was involved the whole time, on his death bed.
My dad said,
"I have carried this terrible secret all my life.
You have no idea what I've seen and done."
In 1947, my dad was invited to Wright-Patterson...
♪♪
and they went into the hangar,
♪♪
and inside the hangar, there was this material.
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It was so strong, but so lightweight.
You mean a kind of metal?
Yes. And they put two and two together,
and they knew there was the Roswell crash.
Wait, wait, wait.
NARRATOR: Jennie Zeidman claimed
a metallurgical company named Battelle
was interested in the Roswell UFO.
Could this be the material they were analyzing?
There's people that would say that this didn't happen,
and I've got the proof that it did.
I have the declassified Air War College study.
Mark, this is April, '48. So, this was just, let's see --
like, what, eight months after the Roswell crash?
Yes.
We have witnesses who saw the Kecksburg debris
being transported to Wright-Patterson,
but with your father's credentials,
and here, physical proof that your father was there...
This is huge.
It verifies that UFO crash material
was at Wright-Patterson from the Roswell debris.
Yeah. That's correct.
So, I can see this was classified at one time.
NARRATOR: The documents Mark inherited from his father
are a treasure trove of information
regarding the activity at Wright-Patterson.
Some are downright shocking.
Wait a second. What is --
"A lecture in room number one --
alien enemy control and related problems."
They labeled this in the agenda,
"Oh, we're gonna talk about alien control today."
And the fact that we can verify --
this is from a Freedom of Information request
directly from the DOD.
Mark, this is just incredible.
It's information that nobody really knew was out there,
and there's some interesting things that are revealed.
NARRATOR: After decades of silence,
Mack finally told his son what he witnessed
on that haunting trip to Wright-Patterson.
They went into the hangar, and inside the hangar was
all of the things that were definitely alien --
you know, not from this world.
What materials, exactly, did he see?
Well, they had really lightweight pieces of beams
that had what looked like hieroglyphics on them.
NARRATOR: The alien material and hieroglyphic etchings
are similar to those described
by the witnesses of the Kecksburg and Roswell crashes,
as well as by abductees
who claim they were taken aboard UFOs.
And your father had no doubt what he was being shown,
that everyone just took matter of fact
that this was extraterrestrial material.
They could easily see that that was a flying saucer wreckage.
Wow.
They knew it was outside of this world.
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Was there anything else that he saw there at the air base?
Well, along with the wreckage, there were bodies.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Mark's father claimed he saw several extraterrestrials.
They were small in stature.
They had long, skinny, little arms
with long, little fingers, not as many as we had.
Clearly, they were not from this world.
Aliens. So, your father told you
that he saw alien bodies at Wright-Patterson?
Yes, aliens.
NARRATOR: And one of them was alive.
[ Sighs ] Wow.
Eight months after Roswell,
they had a live extraterrestrial.
Yes.
What happened? I mean, is it still alive?
The CIA, they were doing all kinds of experiments on it.
♪♪
My dad could feel the stress that he was in.
NARRATOR: Mark goes on to tell Ben
that the experiments the military performed
on the captured alien were so extreme,
they eventually killed the extraterrestrial.
Killed?
Yes.
They thought that he was communicating
with his home base, and we couldn't allow that to happen.
It did bother him. You could see that.
You know, if I saw that,
I don't know that I would have the composure
to keep it together.
You're only one of probably a handful of people
in this country, maybe on the planet, that knows this.
♪♪
Do you know where the military's
reverse-engineering work is done today?
No.
Well, thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing
that part of your father's history with me.
You have a Air Force decorated officer,
World War II hero, very credible.
He wouldn't lie to his kids, especially, you know,
a couple years leading up to his death.
And he discloses to them
that he was part of the back-engineering that happened
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
He handled the debris. He saw alien bodies.
That's something you're never going to forget.
Imagine encountering an alien, and the tragedy of its death.
It's the stuff of science fiction,
but if this happened,
it's truly sad, and I'm just blown away.
We don't know much about research conducted
on extraterrestrial beings,
but we do know about reverse-engineering.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Coming up...
All of a sudden, there is this orange beam of light
HANSEN: Whoa!
At the very top, there is a cigar.
Like a cigar-shaped craft?
NARRATOR: Investigator Ben Hansen
has uncovered a top-secret government program
that allegedly recovers crashed alien craft,
and then back-engineers the technology.
♪♪
While the program's whereabouts are currently unknown,
Ben aims to uncover where it might reside today.
And he has a lead -- his own family.
So, I'm in Utah. I'm gonna interview my own dad.
My late grandfather, Merlin Hansen,
had a very interesting career.
I know he was an engineer for the Air Force,
but I'm not exactly sure what his role was.
He told my dad some things about being part of a secret group,
and my grandpa was pretty tight-lipped,
but my dad says that there's some things he told him
right before his passing that I need to hear.
So, I'm hoping he can shed some light on this
and we can kind of put the puzzle together.
Is it possible my own grandfather
was wrapped up in all of this
reverse-engineering and black project stuff?
NARRATOR: While Ben has long known of his grandfather's involvement
in secret military projects,
this is the first time he and his father will talk about it.
DAVID: Oh, my gosh. Hi.
Trouble!
Hey, buddy. How are you?
It's been awhile, man. [ Smooches ]
I just want to make sure that I get all the details.
I've only got bits and pieces of the story.
So, what exactly was his title?
He was an industrial engineer.
He was involved in logistics and communication systems,
and helping them troubleshoot unusual problems,
and special project work.
And later, we found out, cryogenics.
I know that when you were young,
he said that he was part of a special group.
What was that about?
He said, "Son, I've accepted an assignment with the government
and I'm not going to be accessible to the family,
but there'll be one phone number
that you will have to call and leave a message,
and I'll try to communicate when I can.
What was the first time you realized
that this assignment was taking place?
It started to unfold in '65.
Did he tell you where he was going?
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
NARRATOR: Ben's grandfather was
an industrial engineer and computer scientist
who was sent to Wright-Patterson
to install an early computing system.
Is it possible he saw the reverse engineering
of the Roswell and Kecksburg UFOs firsthand?
Could he have laid eyes
on the supposed extraterrestrial beings?
They've got letters here that I wrote to him,
and I put together a chronology
and confirmed dates that he was gone.
Here are letters to the motor lodge.
So, this is you writing him. Right?
I'd let him know how the family was, how Mom's health was.
I wasn't sure if Grandpa had actually told you
which specific times he was going to Wright-Patterson
or somewhere else, but here we have exact dates.
So, let's look at the timeline that you've put together.
♪♪
Wait a second.
December 9th and 10th of '65.
That weekend, are you sure about that?
Absolutely positive.
You know what happened December 9th of '65?
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania UFO crash.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Ben Hansen is investigating what happened to the debris
of the Roswell and Kecksburg UFOs after they crashed.
He is convinced that they were taken
to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and reverse-engineered.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
Turns out, Ben's very own grandfather was right there
after the Kecksburg crash of 1965.
So, Grandpa gets a call the night of the crash,
basically, and he's gone the next morning.
Gone the next morning. They came, picked him up.
NARRATOR: Was Ben's own grandfather
part of the secret crash retrieval team?
What are the chances he gets an emergency call that night,
and leaves for several weeks
if it's not related to something this big?
It turns out many of these letters coincide
with the dates of famous UFO incidents.
February 21st of '64, the Socorro, New Mexico, landing.
March of '67, the Malmstrom UFO flyover in Montana.
March of '66, the Dexter, Michigan flap.
♪♪
Grandma was in the hospital.
Yes. At the time, the doctor said,
"You better get in touch with your dad."
So I called and left a message,
"Please get in touch with me."
So, what you're telling me is when your mom, grandma,
was at the point of death in March of '66,
that he couldn't even come home from what he was doing
to come back to his own wife.
Yeah.
You're talking about somebody who --
on paper, Grandpa is a technical engineer
who maintains the computer systems.
And so, what's happening in Wright-Patterson then,
is something so important that he can't even come back
to take care of Grandma, who's dying.
Yeah. He came home, and I pushed him on what was so important
and he avoided me.
That was it.
I knew that something else had been happening all along,
and I could never get him to talk to me about it
until the night of September 4th, 1996.
We're at the Salt Lake Regional Medical Center,
he's dying, and I'm the only one with him.
And then, out of nowhere -- I'm holding his hand,
and he said, "Dave, we're not alone. We're not alone."
And I knew what he was talking about.
I squeezed his hand and I said, "Thanks, Pop."
♪♪
NARRATOR: Towards the end of his career,
Merlin Hansen moved his family to Utah,
where he worked at another mysterious Air Force base.
He said, "I've got to go do some work
setting up a lab at Dugway."
Dugway Proving Grounds.
Are you sure of that? Absolutely sure.
He said to me one time,
"Don't you ever go out in the West Desert.
There's nothing in the West Desert
that you ever want to play with.
NARRATOR: Dugway Proving Ground
encompasses over 1,250 square miles
in the Great Salt Lake Desert.
The facility's stated purpose
is the engineering of chemical and biological weaponry,
but it's also home to the highest concentration
of UFO sightings in the western United States.
Countless witnesses claim that UFOs originate
from this secluded location in the West Desert.
Wow, this is amazing.
Was the Wright-Patterson reverse-engineering program
relocated to Dugway Proving Ground?
The base is visible from Ben's father's home.
And in 2015, he and Ben's youngest sister
saw something come from the base
that was so technologically advanced,
it did not appear of this world.
You can see Hill Air Force has got their beacon lit already.
♪♪
So you and Jenny, youngest sister, saw something.
August 2015, this one was.
We just had a rainstorm, and all of a sudden,
there is this orange beam of light
that is shooting up like this for almost 10 seconds.
Because of how far away that is,
it had to have been larger than two semis.
Her and I said, "Whoa, that couldn't be lightning."
You couldn't see the end of it. So, like a laser, would you say?
Like a laser. But before it stopped,
we noticed these blue dots 'round it,
looked like to us, that are dancing around the beam.
But they had to be pretty large, too.
And then, and all of a sudden, at the very top,
there is a -- it looks like a cigar.
Like a cigar-shaped object?
Object, clearly. And then, when the beam died,
they all went up into the cigar-shaped object,
and then disappeared.
Was this beam alien, man-made, or a combination of both?
I have to say, there's something extremely strange
going on over the West Desert,
and I can't help but think
that maybe Grandpa was part of all this.
I feel the same way, son.
♪♪
HANSEN: For decades, the Dugway Proving Grounds
has been a hot spot of activity
for UFO sightings and conspiracy theories.
In the past couple months,
there's been a lot of video and photo coming out of there
of what looks like exotic spacecraft.
But the question is,
are these UFOs evidence of extraterrestrials,
maybe, you know, monitoring the military base?
Are they a direct threat to us,
or is there really something else going on?
♪♪
NARRATOR: To uncover the secrets behind Dugway Proving Ground,
Ben is headed to meet an investigator
who has spent years compiling video evidence
and witness testimony of this base.
♪♪
HANSEN: I'm on my way to meet Dave Rosenfeld.
Dave and I go way back. I know him to be
a highly dedicated and knowledgeable ufologist,
and he's recently seen some strange activity around Dugway
that I can't wait to hear about.
♪♪
Dave. Ben, how are you doing?
Good! Good to see you again.
Nice seeing you.
Kind of give me an overview of what's happening at Dugway.
I started getting a lot of correspondence
from military contractors and people that worked at Dugway
that have seen weird stuff out there,
and they want to tell their story.
You get enough of these people coming forward,
you start connecting some dots.
So, I've had a lot of people come forward
that have witnessed the triangular UFOs
that do impossible type of maneuvers --
from almost a dead stop to, you know, Mach 3 or something.
I mean, it was fast.
NARRATOR: Witnesses across the country
have been reporting black triangle sightings
since the 1980s.
They are described as large, silent objects
moving slowly at low altitudes, before blasting out of sight.
Could these triangles be aircraft reverse-engineered
from UFOs like the one recovered at Kecksburg?
Do we have things that defy gravity,
that can turn on a dime, that are silent,
that that people describe as, you know, UFOs?
I do believe we have this technology.
I do believe they're testing it.
Oh, wow.
But I think it's probably
back-engineered alien technology.
Are you serious?
Coming up... Dave reveals evidence he captured
of what he believes is a high-tech weapon
that is not of this world.
A beam of light shot out --
you could almost smell static electricity.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Investigator Ben Hansen is on the verge
of uncovering the government's reverse-engineering of UFOs.
His grandfather's records suggest the program was moved
from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to Dugway Proving Ground.
Now, he's meeting Dave Rosenfeld,
who has been documenting strange activity
around the base for years.
Dave was able to capture evidence that suggests
strange things are afoot at Dugway.
Do you have things that you have seen
that you probably think are extraterrestrial?
Yes, I do have some video I'd like to show you.
I would love to see it.
Some craft or some lights here that we witnessed.
It's up off the ground.
There's no noise. They're moving in different formations.
They make a line.
That's incredible. I can see those -- You see these --
The light shifting and moving, not like a flare.
It's not, like, appearing.
It's actually moving and changing position.
Yeah, there's multiple lights here.
And then you watch it kind of make a line
Uh-huh. and then kind of turn.
How odd.
But as strange as Dave's videos are,
His most compelling piece of evidence may be
some photographs he took while surveilling the base.
Back in May of '15,
I was with a girlfriend
and we were in an area we call UFO Camp.
This is on the south end of the range.
We were at this location, and then...
a beam of light shot out.
It was strange, because when we witnessed this,
we could almost smell, like, static electricity. Uh-huh.
♪♪
Well, you're pretty far away from it, too, aren't you?
Yes, we were miles away from it.
So, here's the first time it fired,
and then the second time it fired,
these blue lights came down.
[ Buzzing ]
and, like, surrounded this beam,
almost like they were watching.
What do you think it is, though?
Do you think this laser thing is ours?
I think this is some kind of offensive weapon.
This is going through the cloud and into space. Uh-huh.
And I think that's what got the attention of these visitors,
and they're coming in and watching our weaponry.
Wow. That's pretty amazing.
Could this incredible light be a weapon of mass destruction
back-engineered from alien technology?
And if so, what do they intend to do with it?
So, where was this? Where were you when you were filming it?
This is on the south end of the range.
I can show you the area.
Awesome. Can we go now?
Sure. You bet. Alright. Let's do it.
What Dave witnessed is unlike any technology
known to the public, and could be proof
that the military's reverse-engineering program
has moved to Dugway.
♪♪
Dave agrees to take Ben to the location
he filmed the light from,
and hopes they can find more evidence.
HANSEN: We've now turned off on the exit towards Dugway,
and there is a tension.
There's a level of anxiety that you can literally feel
as you're coming down this road.
NARRATOR: If any facility was capable
of reverse-engineering alien spacecraft,
it's Dugway Proving Ground.
During World War II, this mysterious base
conducted secret chemical weapons tests
and developed experimental aircraft.
[ Jet engine roars ]
It does remind me a lot of Area 51,
because if you get too close to Area 51
and you violated the boundary,
they'll turn you over to the sheriff to be arrested.
So, a little apprehension. We don't want to draw attention.
We just want to come by and see the lookout.
♪♪
NARRATOR: Dave has led Ben 50 miles southwest of Tooele, Utah.
They are now on the south border of Dugway Proving Ground
and can legally be shot on sight if they cross on to the base.
BEN: This is pretty incredible. DAVE: Isn't it?
Yeah.
This is the exact location where we seen the beam test.
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Okay, so it happened directly over that. Yep.
Okay, right where that peak is?
It's directly over it. Same here.
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At the distance you're seeing it,
the diameter of that beam has got to be huge. It was huge.
I mean, this is incredible by itself, whatever it is,
but yet, we have these visitors.
Coming to watch this test.
Yeah.
And as soon as the test was over,
they flew up into space.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
This is not the only video captured here.
Dave has regularly captured evidence of UFOs
from this location.
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Ben brought his equipment,
hoping for a sighting of his own.
What better place than Dugway
to come do a sky watch with night vision equipment?
Being here is just really cool, and taking in the energy here.
You never know.
Might get lucky, see something I can't explain.
I've brought with me
the top-of-the-line military technology,
and night vision and thermal equipment.
When I go do these sky watches, I'm looking for certain things.
We're looking for objects in the sky
that are non-conventional.
And what I mean is, does it act and behave like an aircraft?
A satellite? Does it move erratically?
We might have a satellite. I'm guessing that's what it is.
It's in a straight line right now.
Does it hover? Does it make a sound?
Is it in an airspace that it shouldn't be?
Is it too low?
And I like to kind of, at that point,
bring out the different cameras, because you never know
which one is gonna pick up on that wavelength of light
that's going to record it best.
What I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna switch over
to color night vision. Here we go.
This camera would be able to see it in those different colors.
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Hey, we got something coming over the mountain right here.
Okay, it's a plane. [ Chuckles ]
Just kind of looks like a halo,
but you see there's flashing lights with it.
When I see something that I can't explain,
there's a pretty good chance that it's not conventional,
because I've seen all the other stuff.
I'm going to kick this over to black and white.
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We've got something heading directly for us.
Whoa! Whoa!
There's, like, four lights together in some formation.
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NARRATOR: Ben Hansen's investigation
of the government's reverse-engineering of UFOs
has led him to Dugway Proving Ground,
a mysterious military base in the Utah desert,
and he's just spotted unconventional craft
speeding through the skies.
Whoa! Whoa!
If I pan across here,
there's like four lights together in some formation.
It's completely gone.
Oh, that was weird. That was really weird.
So, as I'm panning across the mountaintop,
I see, like, four points of light,
and they're in a formation,
and they're cruising across the mountain ridge.
It caught me by surprise, and I legitimately was excited
until I tried moving the camera again
and saw that it did it again.
And I'm disappointed, because it was a lens flare of the camera.
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But that's why we do this.
You know, we need to make sure that what we're seeing
is truly unexplained.
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NARRATOR: Determined as ever, Ben spends the rest of the night
searching the skies above Dugway.
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HANSEN: That was weird.
NARRATOR: But despite a few close calls...
HANSEN: Oh, I hear something behind them.
Alright, over the top of the mountain...
Just had it, where'd it go?
NARRATOR: ...the Dugway airspace is quiet tonight.
HANSEN: It gets really quiet around here.
NARRATOR: As the sun rises, Ben decides to end his search.
HANSEN: Now, we may not have seen anything unexplained tonight,
but I do feel that we uncovered a lot of compelling evidence
over the course of this investigation.
I find it quite likely the government has
extraterrestrial spacecraft in their possession.
UFO crash material was at Wright-Patterson?
That's correct.
We have recorded testimony that places the Kecksburg Acorn
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
We have witnesses who were involved
in the reverse-engineering of memory metal.
They covered an aircraft in this memory metal,
and it didn't show up at all on radar.
We have a World War II hero who, on his deathbed,
told his son he saw not only
the debris from the Roswell crash,
but also a live alien.
They were doing all kinds of experiments on him,
and then killed it.
And we have photo evidence of what looks like
an alien weapon being tested at a U.S. military facility.
[ Buzzing ]
They pass it off as American ingenuity,
but there is a world of secrets
our government is keeping from us.
When are they finally going to tell us
the truth of what's in the skies?